Why we walk clockwise around the shrine

Parikrama keeps the deity on your right and, more importantly, keeps it in view. Walking a circle around a fixed point is the oldest method we have for holding attention on something for several minutes without a screen.

The devotional explanation and the attentional one are not in competition. One says the centre is sacred; the other notes that a body walking a circle stops fidgeting.

Where the reasoning becomes shaky is in claims of magnetism and energy fields. We will not repeat those. The practice stands without them.