Chakra, pronounced like Chuck the name, plus ru from “run”, means wheel. Cakras, as discuses, were also used as weapons, in my understanding.
For my own purposes, I deconstruct human social systems as consisting in endless little wheels, connecting to other wheels. Unlike cogs, though, these circulations are approximate, not mechanical. They are informed by the principles in the social systems being examined.
An idea, when it goes “out there”, influences the flow of activity, of thought, of motion. Ideas are very powerful. Look at all the hells Marx has enabled. Look at what the genius of our Founding Fathers has enabled.
To this notion I would juxtapose the notion of social “structures”, which subtract from the real world all motion, which is to say all reality and all humanity.
The paradigmatic example is that of class structure. What can one say about a class structure, as in the United States, in which the classes are fully permeable, and both elevation and demotion regular realities? You cannot say the inequality is “structural”, since with effort everything is possible.
Incompetence in thinking is the rule, not the exception, and most likely and common among those whose lives are supposedly dedicated to doing it well.