My sense of what the person-at-the-reunion was talking about (having chatted with them a bit, although not sure I understand their position well enough to speak for them) was a model where Chakras roughly correspond to "application of Gendlin's Focusing, directed to particular areas of the body, turns out to yield different information." i.e. a thing that I've heard reported by several LessWrongers is that focusing directed at your stomach tends to give a set of information about what your subconscious is thinking/feeling/interested-in, than focusing other areas of your body, or without any directed attention at all. I've heard a couple people make the broader, somewhat stronger claim that each of the body-areas associated with a chakra tend to have consistent effects across people when used as introspection targets. This doesn't seem particularly mysterious to me, although it seems reasonable to be escalatingly skeptical of: * "introspecting with a focus on particular body parts yields different information about what's going on with you subconsciously than generic introspection" * "one particular body part tends to be particular useful for this" * "seven body parts tend to be particularly useful for this in a way that corresponds to traditional chakras, and there's a model of how those areas relate with particular introspective techniques that tend to cause particular effects, across people"