Western vs Alternative Medicine and Holistic Healing

1st in the Human Energy Field series

By and large the human mind takes the approach of an ostrich concerning the energy that it doesn’t perceive… If it can’t be perceived, then it’s not important. Electromagnetic energy was certainly important 500 years ago. After all, there was sunlight and heat, but people really didn’t frame their thoughts about it in energetic terms. After all, at one time the sun was thought of as a God instead of energy. But in the last hundred years or so, we’ve built a lot of machines that extend our ability to perceive energies that were previosly invisible. Now we can use infrared pictures, ultraviolet pictures, radio waves, and lots of other tools to show energy that many people believed just didn’t exist… so we’ve become accustomed to electromagnetic and other forms of energy… at least the forms that we can manipulate and measure.

 

But people remain skeptical about energy that they can’t perceive either directly or through electronic instruments. And it’s kind of funny because many people remain skeptics even when the new technologies give us the ability to see things that we didn’t see before… Like the energy fields of people who have passed on and the human bio-energetic aura. For a lot of people this new ability to perceive human bio-energy is still pretty far out there, so let’s bring it closer by taking a minute to talk about energy from a physics point of view.

 

 

 

I believe that most people think of physics from a Newtonian point of view. That’s the viewpoint taught at the high school level and it’s the viewpoint visible to our ordinary senses. Issac Newton gave us what might be called the marble theory of physics. Objects and planets are thought of as being like marbles in the three dimensional playing field of space… and they move around when acted on by forces like gravity.

 

 

 

As knowledge of atoms emerged, the marble theory of planets naturally brought about the marble of theory of atoms. I’m sure everyone is familiar with the basic idea of electrons orbiting a central nucleus made up of protons and neutrons.

 

 

 

But all that took a dramatic turn in the early 1900’s… and particularly around 1920 when Erwin Shcrodinger introduced the idea that the microscopic atomic marbles could also be mathematically represented as waves and Albert Einstein showed the relationship between matter and energy in the famous equation E=MC2. This was a huge shift from a static marble view to a vibrational, possibility view… and today modern string theory investigates vibrational properties and energetic interactions of the most subtle multi-dimensional sub-atomic building blocks of existence.

 

 

 

Now take a second a think about what this means. The view of the world that modern physics has is that at the most fundamental level, existence consists of subtle vibrational and energetic interactions among multi-dimensional constituents. Those constituents form denser constituents known as quarks. Quarks form denser sub-atomic particles. They, in turn, form denser electrons, protons, and neutrons. They, in turn, form denser atoms. They, in turn, form denser molecules… and they, in turn, form cars, TVs, rocks, water, fish, animals… and people. And that means that human beings consist of denser and denser forms of energy manifesting from subtle multi-dimensional, constantly interacting, vibrational constituents that contain power and more importantly, vibrational properties, or information… we’re really fields of energy interacting with other fields of energy. That’s what a totally scientific, materialistic physics point of view tells us.

 

But what physics can’t tell us yet is how those ultra-tiny vibrating strings figure out how to become atoms, molecules, rocks, and people…

 

 

 

The really amazing thing is that the view of the human body being built from subtle energetic constituents that become denser has been has been known for thousands of years and is depicted in artifacts from the time of the pharaohs and even earlier. In fact, it’s the basis of ancient forms of healing, yoga, and martial arts.

 

 

 

In Chinese medicine the building block energy of the universe is known as Qi. It goes by other names like Ki, Prana, and Manna in other cultures… But despite the different names, the energetic structures and functions in the body are extremely similar from one culture to another. And in the next podcast we’ll discuss the manifestation of this Qi in human beings.