Christians call it a spiritual attack. New age spirituality calls it being in low frequency, or a Dark Night of the Soul. Psychology says it’s clinical depression. Philosophers call it an existential crisis somewhere in the dread of being alive.

Christians believe a person is under demonic influence. New agers say, “your chakras are imbalanced.” Psychology throws you a few labels: narcissistic traits, psychopathy, trauma response, and philosophers shrug and call it a phenomenon of interpretive relativity.

Christians call it following God’s word. New agers call it alignment, living from the heart. Psychology says, “you’re healed.” Philosophy says you’ve mastered life.

Same thing. Different words. Everyone describing the same human experience with the vocabulary that matches their level of consciousness.

You don’t have to believe in the word “chakra”. You can go full science mode if you want, and still, the fact that we don’t yet have tools sensitive enough to measure every internal process doesn’t mean the connection isn’t there.

The Bible doesn’t use the word “chakra,” obviously. But it points to the same principle: energy, life force, breath, flowing through what it calls the temple of the Holy Spirit.

ROOT – groundedness and faith (“planted by streams of water”)

SACRAL – creativity and life (“rivers of living water will flow from within”)

SOLAR PLEXUS – strength and will (“the joy of the Lord is my strength”)

HEART – love and purity (“guard your heart, for everything flows from it”)

THROAT – truth and expression (“life and death are in the power of the tongue”)

THIRD EYE – spiritual vision (“the eye is the lamp of the body”)

CROWN – divine connection (“be transformed by the renewing of your mind”)

Modern psychology would translate it as: you’ve healed your childhood trauma, stopped projecting your wounds onto others, and maybe still take some pills, just in case.

Plato said the soul has three parts: reason, spirit, and appetite and virtue is when they’re balanced under wisdom. That’s basically the philosophical version of balanced chakras. Aristotle called the psyche the animating principle of life, same thing as the “breath of God” or “life force energy.” The Stoics talked about Logos: divine reason or order running through everything. Living “according to nature” meant aligning your inner being with that cosmic order. Basically: walking in the Spirit, but make it Greco-Roman.

What if we stopped fighting over semantics and accepted that everyone’s been describing the same thing all along? Whether you call it energy, spirit, psyche, chi, or grace, it’s the same current. Maybe the point isn’t choosing the right label. Maybe it’s purifying the noise within, accepting there is a creator behind all this, living in alignment, surrender, and acceptance, no matter which dictionary you use.