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CHAPTER X THE PSYCHIC SENSE ORGANS We are now ready to pass to a more detailed consideration than that given in Chapter III of the special organs in the three vehicles51 of the personality which are essential to the development and use of psychic faculties. These organs are called force centres or chakrams. For detailed study of them and the forces by which they are made to function the reader is referred to the illustrated monograph upon the subject by C. W. Leadbeater. Chakram is a Sanskrit word which means a wheel, and is applied to the force centres in the human bodies, because, to clairvoyant sight, they have the appearance of spinning vortices. They are seven in number, have Eastern names, and are situated as follows: 1. Muladhara (sacral). 2. Svadhisthana (spleen). 3. Manipura (navel). 4. Anahita (cardiac). 5. Vishuddha (throat). 6. Ajna (pituitary body and pineal gland). 7. Brahmarandra (anterior fontanelle). When studying the diagrams which accompany this chapter it must be clearly understood that they are diagrammatic rather than exact pictorial representations of the super-physical sense organs which they portray.