The chakra chart on your wall is younger than you think, and the question was never whether your crown is open.
The chakra chart on the wall is a modern composite. UNBOUND separates its layers: medieval tantras that counted five, six, nine or more centres as instructions for practice; Purnananda's text of 1577, whose lotuses are crimson, vermilion and the colour of rain cloud, not a rainbow; its English translation of 1919; Charles Leadbeater's turning vortices of 1927; and Newton's seven colours, laid on the centres in the 1970s.
In the system Rev Benton teaches, seven centres of the subtle body seat seven powers, from survival to spiritual understanding. He presents it as a spiritual science, not an anatomy lesson.
Two Western maps, a figure in a book by Gichtel, first issued in 1696, and the Golden Dawn's Tree of Life, are read as history, not as charts for the body. From them the film draws its argument: the goal was never to open the highest centre, but to bring all seven powers into balance. It ends with a seven-evening journal practice and a few minutes of attention carried from above the head down to the feet.
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