Speak a few words. Did you know that through a special process called cymatics, your words, when vibrated onto a special sounding plate, can take geometric form? they might appear as mosaics or mandalas, triangles or pentagrams.
These are only two examples of the types of proofs and processes involved in the study of the human energy system. We are made of energy. Everything in the world is made of energy, which can be defined most simply as "information that vibrates" This energy -- this manna of life -- may express itself as patterns, sound, skin, thought, or even morning coffee, but it is all energy. We can not see the subtler patterns of skin or the shape of our words, but they are there nonetheless. So it is with certain layers of the body and the world. Even though they are imperceptible to the five senses, they do exist.
We can not talk about subtle energies without also examining physical or gross energies. The subtle can not be separated from the physical any more than coffee can be pulled out of water and remain drinkable. Part of the proof that subtle energies exist, in fact, lies in the validation of physical energies.
What is subtle energy?
Thousands of years ago, our ancestors saw energy in ways that have been dismissed in recent times. They did not use special microscopes, spectrometers, or other tools in their investigations, as we currently do. Instead, they employed their inner senses.
Subtle energy is simply energy that cannot be accurately measured using current scientific methods. It is not supernatural, paranormal, or scary -- it is just energy. It obeys some -- but not all -- of the same laws as does physical matter, its counterpart. Subtle energies operate on a different plane or continuum than do physical energy.
Physical energy manifests in the positive timespace frame, is electrical in nature, and has positive mass. It travels slower than the speed of light and gives rise to gravity. This means that you can see it. Subtle energy, however, occupies the next timespace frame (or other timespace frames), manifests in the negative timespace frame and has negative mass. It is magnetic in nature and travels faster than the speed of light, It gives rise to what some call levitational force, This means that you can`t see it -- but can not its seemingly paranormal effects.
One reason that it is difficult to fully comprehend or explain subtle energies is that science still does not really understand energy -- even in the classical sense.
Toward A Definition Of Energy
In textbooks, energy is usually defined as the source of power that can be used to accomplish work or a goal, or to create an effect. Scientific research has proven that everything energetic contains information: data that tells an atom whether it should occupy a kidney or outer space. Physical energy is structured by operating orders that instruct coffee, for example, to remain in the cup instead of flying through the cosmos.
Besides "being informed" energy also vibrates. Science -- the classical textbook kind -- has verified that everything in the universe vibrates. Furthermore, everything vibrates at its own unique speed. A brain cell moves differently than does a hair cell. Like-minded organisms vibrate in similar ways, but each individual unit differs slightly from its sibling group.
Vibration is produced in the form of amplitude and frequency: oscillations that generate more energy. These oscillations carry information that can be stored or applied. The information (as well as the vibrating oscillations) can also change depending on the nature of a particular interaction. All of life is made of information and vibration.
Energetics is the study of the components, principles and applications of energy. Scientists are constantly changing their views about energetics, because the laws that apply macroscopically do not always work microscopically.
For example, according to classical physics, energy, which has mass (and therefore wight), cannot move faster than the speed of light. Perhaps we have not broken the classical laws here, but we have certainly stretched them.
In classical physics, a particle, which is a point of mass, can only exist in one place at time. In quantum physics, a subatomic particle actually has to be in two places at once. And some of these places might be other worlds. These kinds of rules, which are revealed through quantum physics, are closer to those that explain subtle energy. They imply that though subtle energies and their structures cannot be seen, the can be shown to exist.
The truth is that we know subtle energies exist because, we can perceive their effects. Historically, the forms of energy behind traditional science and medicine were subtle. We could not see microorganisms before the invention of the microscope -- but they killed people anyway. The pursuit might accomplish yet another goal: combining Western and eastern philosophies.
Marriage Of West And East
Many books about energy anatomy emphasize the differences between Western and Eastern medicine. There are many terms for each protocol. Western medicine is also called allopathic or traditional care. It relies heavily on empirical scientific concepts, assessing symptoms for underlying causes, and alleviating these symptoms with tested and verifiable methods, such as prescription drugs, surgery, or devices.
Eastern medicine is often labeled alternative, complementary, or natural care. It is a holistic approach, treating body, mind and soul, and addresses underlying causes rather than just symptoms. Toward this end, treatment might focus on physical healing, but also emotional, mental and spiritual concerns. Energetic medicine, one of the labels for working with the subtle energy system, is often placed in this category.
Integrative medicine combines Western and Eastern modalities. A newly coined term for this unifying thought is nonlocal medicine, which asserts that the basis of physical reality does not lie within the physical universe, but rather, in the subtle planes and energies than run through everything. This philosophy universalizes medicine -- and should, as all medical systems are actually energetic in nature.
There is not and has never been a true division between Western and Eastern thought. Asian and Hindu cultures (along with dozens of others around the world) performed brain surgery at least four thousand years ago. A crude version of brain surgery, called trepanation, existed almost ten thousand years ago in areas now considered devoted to Eastern medicine. Nearly three thousand years ago, the Egyptians, Chinese and Central American Indians used mold as a progenitor to antibiotics of today.
Western medicine actually stems from the animism of shamanism. Shamans are "priest-healers" While they employ protocol now associated with Western medicine, such as the use of herbs and plants, they also use spiritual guides and ritual to journey through the cosmos for purposes of healing, The integrative ideas of shamanism buttress modern medicine, psychology, psychiatry, explorations into consciousness, and even some quantum physics theories.
Energy medicine, and the rigors of energy anatomy, do not "belong" to West or East. They can not, Because everything is energy, all medicines are energetic. The only reason that energy work typically falls into the "Eastern" category is that we have not compared them correctly.
For example, Western anatomy relies on charts that say, "The liver is there". Cut into the body, and the liver is there. The East might track the liver through charts locating liver energy in a toe. Both are true: the physical liver does lie under the ribcage, and its subtle energies do flow into the toe.
These two modalities are actually one and the same. As energy expert and author James Oschman, PhD, writes "any intervention in a living system involves the study and applications of the body`s relationship to electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields, as well as light, sound, and other forms of energy. The body produces these energies and also responds to them in their natural and artificial (human-generated) states. The terms energy medicine, energetic healing, biofield healing, bioenergetic healing, chakra healing, aura healing, energy work, meridian-based healing, energy anatomy, vibrational medicine, subtle energy healing, and dozens of other similar labels simply refer to practices relating to a certain vibrational or frequency-based level of energy.
As Dr Oschman points out, allopathic or traditional medical care is an energy based practice, contrary to popular opinion. Most of us have experienced (or know someone who has experienced) the benefits of X-rays, MRIs, electrocardiograms, and other testing devices. These practices all employ energy and make energetic changes in the body. Surgery can be seen as an energetic maneuver in that tearing tissue disturbs the body`s vibrational field. Adding a device like a pacemaker provides new information to aid in heart function, assuring that it vibrates correctly instead of "skipping beats" Even prescription drugs work energetically, altering vibrations through chemical information that instructs cellular behavior.The world might now be ready to completely link all medicines together under the umbrella of "energy"--yet.
Measurable And Subtle Energies:
Worlds Known, Worlds To Explore
Again, there are two basic types of energies: physical and subtle. The scientific terms for these are veritable, or measurable and putative, or immeasurable. Many subtle structures are measurable, or at least observable, but the research demonstrating this has not penetrated mainstream newspapers (or medical schools) yet. Throughout this book, you will find research documenting the existence of the various subtle energy structures. Some of this research was "lost" and is now "found" having been buried in the annals of time by accident or lack of public interest. More frequently, authorities who thought it challenging repressed the data. The core evidence for subtle energies in general includes the following:
-Use of various magnetic devices, such as the superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) for perceiving electromagnetic energy beyond the bounds of the body.
-A process that embeds a human intention onto a simple electrical device, thus showing the effects of thought on physicality.
-Various experiments using inorganic, organic and living materials that reveal a unique, secondary level of physical reality affected by human intention.
-Measurement of the meridian and chakra systems, reprentative subtle channels, and energy bodies, revealing that they operate at higher levels of electromagnetism than the rest of the body.
-Experimentation that shows that the human biofield operates at a unique level of physical reality.
-The determination of L-fields and T-fields, or electrical life and thought fields, which organize subtle energies.
-Research by scientists including Dr Bjorn Nordenstrom that shows that where there is a flow of ions there are also electromagnetic fields at 90 degrees to this flow. Dr Nordenstrom`s research has determined a secondary electrical system in the body, which explains the in-body presence of the meridian channels and the complex nature of the human energy field.
Why are we unable to see these subtle fields? Human senses operate within a narrow range on the electromagnteic spectrum, the measurable band of energy that produces various types of light. Our eyes can only detect radiation, the term for the noticable energy emitted by substances, in the range of 380 to 780 nanometers. That visible light. Infrared light, which we cannot see, has a wavelength of 1,000 nanometers, and far-ultraviolet operates at 200 nanometers. We cannot see what we are not physically capable of seeing -- nor trained to see. If subtle energies actually do occupy a negative time-space continuum, move faster than the speed of light, and have no mass, we can determine that we do not currently have the equipment needed to measure them. This does not mean that what is invisible does not exist.
From: The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy
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