The seven planetary chakra centres mapped to their Earth-grid sites and frequencies — Mt. Shasta (Root), Lake Titicaca (Sacral), Uluru (Solar Plexus), Glastonbury (Heart), Giza (Throat), Kuh-e Malek Siah (Third Eye) and Mt. Kailash (Crown).

The Laboratory does not draw borders between them — every site pulls on every point at once. It measures the great-circle distance from your coordinates to each of the seven and gives the nearer sites the heavier vote, and the order of the list is the ladder itself: first site to Root, seventh to Crown. Which chakra “wins” where you stand is simply a question of which anchors sit closest. The “How it works” panel above walks through the full arithmetic, including what it can and cannot tell you.

The map is younger than it looks. Chakras themselves come from Indian tantra — the Sanskrit word means “wheel” — and the familiar seven-rung ladder from root to crown was fixed by medieval tantric texts and reached English readers in 1919 through John Woodroffe’s translation work. Projecting those seven centres onto the planet itself is a late twentieth-century move: the best-known Earth-chakra list is usually credited to Robert Coon in the 1980s, and different authors have published different lists since. There is no single agreed map. The third-eye centre wanders the most from author to author — some even treat it as deliberately mobile, migrating across the globe with the ages. This site’s list seats it at Kuh-e Malek Siah, the peak where Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan meet; why the list settles it there is a question the corpus leaves open.

The sites, though, are far older than the map. Mt. Kailash is holy in four traditions at once — Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Bon — and by long custom has never been climbed. Uluru has been sacred to the Aṉangu people for thousands of years. Glastonbury is woven into the Avalon legends, and the Giza plateau holds the last surviving wonder of the ancient world. The modern list works on the imagination precisely because it strings together places human beings already held holy long before anyone called them chakras.

Two older ideas feed the picture. One is ley lines: in the 1920s the English antiquarian Alfred Watkins noticed that ancient British sites often sit in straight rows and proposed they marked prehistoric pathways; writers in the 1960s re-read those alignments as channels of earth-energy, a close cousin of the “dragon veins” of Chinese feng shui. The other is the old teaching that the small body mirrors the great one — in Kabbalah it appears as Adam Kadmon, the cosmic human whose limbs are the worlds, and the Vedic hymns tell of the cosmos formed from the body of a primal person. An Earth with chakras is that teaching run at planetary scale.

Read honestly: no instrument detects chakra energy at these places, and the numbers on this page follow from a chosen list of anchors, not from anything measured in the ground. What is real, and richly documented, is the human history of pilgrimage and devotion at every one of these sites. Treat the Laboratory as interpretation — a map of tradition, not of geology.