The Unruly Body (Slight Return)

On chakras, heart attacks, and sharpening the wild mind

The end of Akira confused me, speaking of unruly bodies and wild minds, when Tetsuo lost control of both and seemed to balloon up to a giant mass of flesh and fat that, if I recall, suffocated his friend. Neo Tokyo was eventually destroyed; this, after the military failed to control Tetsuo’s supernatural abilities, thereby his wrath and telekinetic violence inaugurated the apocalypse. I am told I should read the manga if I wish to get a firm grasp on the plot; if I read anything, likely it will be Wikipedia, the true source of all things wonderful and splendid and dubious.

Furthermore, in the matter of unruly bodies, I have read quite a bit on chakras. I wish to understand the ways in which our bodies align with our minds to bring us forward to something new and immaterial, that might explain things science refuses or is ill-equipped to address. I read up on the crown chakra, the root chakra, the heart chakra, and the throat chakra; there are at least three more, but I suspect there are billions through our bodies, like little unseen galaxies connected by tunnels or networks of light beams threading points of massive amounts of energy stored within us.

I think this is grand. I cannot contain my excitement. For various reasons, I have accepted the…