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 machines that extend our ability to perceive energies that were previously 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. We've become accustomed to electromagnetic and other forms of energy… at least the forms that we can manipulate and measure. People still remain skeptical about energy that they can't perceive either directly or indirectly through electronic instruments. It's curious 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 died and the human aura.



The scientific conundrum

Most people think of science and 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. Isaac 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. 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. Everyone who took high school chemistry or physics is familiar with the idea of electrons orbiting a central nucleus made up of protons and neutrons. However, that is not the real picture that emerges from the most advanced scientific researchers.

Physics took a dramatic turn in the early 1900's. Around 1920 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. Since that time physics has been searching for the essential building blocks of the universe and for a single theory that unifies all the forces. Today modern string theory looks very promising for resolving both areas of inquiry. This theory investigates the vibrational properties and energetic interactions of the most subtle multi-dimensional sub-atomic building blocks of existence. In a nutshell, it reduces both matter and energy to incomprehensibly small vibrating entities called strings.

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 like everything, 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. That means that humans are really fields of energy interacting with other fields of energy. That's the totally scientific, materialistic physics point of view. That is a radical departure from the notion that we are a solid blob of protoplasm that is completely separate from other blobs or protoplasm. What physics can't tell us yet is how those ultra-tiny vibrating strings figure out how to become atoms, molecules, rocks, and people. That is still the realm of philosophy, religion, and metaphysics.

The human energy field

Now consider the human energy field promoted by energy medicine and metaphysics. Many people regard this as unscientific mumbo jumbo. Now that seems to be far from the truth. The amazing thing is that the view of the human body as being built from subtle energetic constituents that become denser has been has been widespread for thousands of years and is depicted in artifacts from the time of the pharaohs and even earlier. It is the basis of ancient forms of healing, yoga, and martial arts. In Traditional 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. Yet despite the different names, the energetic structures and functions in the body are extremely similar from one culture to another.

The ancient forms of healing and their modern forms teach that there is a natural harmonious balance within individual human beings and between human beings and the universe. Each human is naturally in a state of resonance with the surrounding world. In modern science, resonance is a state where two forces act on each other to produce a stronger resulting force. For example, two resonating sounds produce a louder sound. Conversely, two dissonant sounds produce a weaker sound. Just like that, when the human body is dissonant with the world around it sickness arises. Chinese Medicine describes this as a weakness in the defensive energy or Wei Qi. That weakness allows the energy of sicknesses to vibrate into the body causing illness and the formation of viruses and bacteria.

This is beginning to sound alike

The deeper scientific research goes, the more it sounds like metaphysics. Of course, the two don't sound identical because metaphysics and science has to different vocabularies. However, the ideas of subtle vibrations becoming denser to form ordinary matter and the ideas of subtle energy and denser matter interacting in resonant and dissonant patterns is uncannily similar in both disciplines. Modern physics seems to be leading us back to the knowledge of the ancients. Everything turns in a full circle.