Anatomy of the Spirit

Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing presents Caroline Myss's model of the human energy system as a map of how inner life and the body interrelate. Its central claim, condensed in the phrase "your biography becomes your biology," is that emotional and spiritual wounds lodge in specific energy centres and eventually surface as physical illness.

The framework synthesises three traditions, the Hindu chakras, the Christian sacraments, and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, into a single scheme of seven centres of spiritual and physical power. From this Myss develops the figure of the medical intuitive, who reads a person's condition from their energy, presenting personal history and unresolved emotion as forces that shape health.

The proposed mechanism, readable energy centres in which life history is stored and from which disease arises, has no accepted scientific basis. The book's lasting influence lies rather in popularising energy anatomy for a mass Western audience as a vivid language of mind-body causation.