The Human Energy Field
in Relation to Science, Consciousness, and Health by Gloria Alvino
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HUMAN ENERGY FIELD (HEF) -- SCIENTIFIC
THEORIES
Introduction
We are products of our western scientific heritage.
This has hindered our growth into full awareness that
we are much more than we seem. Now, as science expands
into new theories, there will be the discovery of new
phenomena. We may not be able to explain the phenomena
with the existing theories. New theories must be postulated
to cover all of the knowledge. New experiments must
be designed and performed until we get agreement between
experimentation and new mathematical proof. Then the
new theories may be accepted as physical laws. When
we finally incorporate these new laws into our daily
life, we will begin to see ourselves differently.
Much is changing in the science of physics, with publications
of Bohm, Gabor, Pribram, Bell, Bohr, Sheldrake, Watson,
Sarfatti, Briggs, Wilber, Peat, Prigogine, Stengers,
Rothenberg, Loye, Capra, Engler, Eccles, Acterberg,
etc. adding to our information and inspiration. Newtonian
physics encouraged science to focus on the study of
the physical world. Now, as theories have developed
on relativity, the electromagnetic theory, the particle
theory, and quantum physics, we can better see the connection
between scientific, objective descriptions of our world,
and the world of subjective human experience. The present scientific view of reality currently
supports the idea that we are composed of energy fields,
and presents a holographic view of the universe. In
this universe all things are interconnected. Still, we continually tend to depict the
universe as a huge mechanical system, running according
to Newton's laws of motion. These laws held firm the
ideas of absolute time and space. Everything could be
described objectively. Even though Newton doubted his
original theory before his death, the Newtonian laws
ruled our thinking from the late 17th through the 18th,
and the 19th century. Much of our basic lives is still
managed by this outmoded system of thought. Everything
is still quite linear. But now, approaching the turn
of the century, is science ready to embrace new perspectives,
theories, and realities?
Field Theory
The study of the human energy field (HEF) owes a debt
of gratitude to Luigi Galvani, an Italian physiologist
whose experiments in the 1700's led to the discovery
that electricity may result from chemical action. This
marked the first time science recognized that electricity
might exist as waves capable of traveling over distances.
Before this discovery, only static electricity was recognized
and described.
In the early 1800's, Michael Faraday and James Clerk
Maxwell proposed a new type of physical electromagnetic
phenomena that could not be described by Newtonian physics.
This lead to the concept of a field, which was described
as a condition in space that has the potential of producing
a force. Each charge creates a disturbance or a condition
around it, so that the other charge, if present, feels
the force. Thus their Field Theory; the concept of a
universe filled with fields that create forces that
interact with one another.
Relativistic Theory
In 1905, Albert Einstein shattered the Newtonian world
view. Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity says that
space and time form a fourth dimensional continuum,
space-time." Also, his theory holds that time is
relative; not linear, and not absolute. Two observers
will order events differently in time if they are moving
at different velocities in relation to the observed
events. All measurements of time and space lose their
absolute significance. Both now become elements to help
describe a phenomenon. It is time to stop dismissing all experience
which is outside our old Newtonian way of thinking.
We must broaden our framework of reality.
Other cultures have already done so. Native American
culture did not use clocks. They divided time into the
Now, and All Other Time. The Aborigines of Australia
also have two kinds of time: the Passing Time and the
Great Time. The Great Time has sequence, but cannot
be dated. Like them, we need to stop using the absolute
parameters.
Quantum Theory
In 1920, physicists asked nature a question, and nature
answered with a paradox. Physicists somehow knew that
paradox is part of the intrinsic nature of the subatomic
world. So they set up an experiment which proves that
light is a particle. A small change in the experiment
then proved that light is a wave. We thus moved into
a universe based on the concept of both/and; rather
than the old idea of either/or.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Max Planck discovered
that the energy of heat radiation is not emitted continuously,
but in "energy packets", called quanta. These
light quanta are accepted as being particles. A particle
is an energy packet. On the subatomic level, matter
in nature is mutable. On this subatomic level, matter
does not exist absolutely. Rather it shows tendencies
to exist.
Physicists found that particles can simultaneously be
both waves and particles. In effect, they are saying
there is really no such thing as a thing. What they
used to call things, are really events or paths that
might become events. The universe is thus
defined as a world of wave-like patterns of interconnectedness,
a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns, a dynamic,
inseparable whole that always includes the observer.
We are not separated parts from the whole. We are the
whole.
Holographic Theory
The works of Pribram and Bohm combine to theorize that
,"Our brains mathematically construct
'concrete' reality by interpreting frequencies from
another dimension, a realm of meaningful, patterned
primary reality that transcends time and space. The
brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe."
(The Holographic Paradigm, by Ken Wilber 1982)
In his book, "The Implicate Order," Dr. David
Bohm says that primary physical laws cannot be discovered
by a science that attempts to break the world into parts.
He writes of what he calls an "implicate enfolded
order" which exists in an unmanifested state, and
is the foundation on which all manifest reality rests.
This manifest reality is "the explicate unfolded
order." Dr. Bohm suggests that the holographic
view of the universe is the beginning point of understanding
the implicate enfolded and the explicate unfolded orders.
The hologram concept holds that every piece, however
small, is an exact representation of the whole, and
can be used to reconstruct the whole.
In 1971, Dennis Gabor received the Nobel Peace Prize
for constructing the first hologram. It was a lens-less
photograph in which a wave field of light scattered
by an object was recorded as an interference pattern
on a plate. He placed a laser beam -- coherent light
-- on the hologram or photograph recording, and the
original wave pattern was regenerated in a three dimensional
image.
Dr. Karl Pribram, during the course of
ten years, showed that the human brain's deep structure
is holographic. The brain structures hearing, sight,
smell, and taste holographically. He demonstrated
this by the sophisticated analysis of temporal and spatial
frequencies. Pribram states that the net result of the
activities of the brain transcends time and space. Karl
Pribram's studies encompass the full spectrum of human
consciousness. He proposes that the brain may depend
on interactions at the junctions of the synapses or
junctions between cells via a network of fine fibers
on the axon branches. Nerve impulses manifest in slow
waves. Information in the brain may be distributed as
a hologram. This work can have profound effects on our
scientific attitudes and our personal lives.
Wilber says,"For several years, those interested
in human consciousness have been speaking wistfully
of the 'emerging paradigm'", an integral theory
that would catch all the wonderful wildlife of science
and spirit. Here, at last , is a theory that marries
biology to physics in an open system: the paradoxical
borderless paradigm that our schizophrenic science has
been crying for. It is appropriate that this radical,
satisfying paradigm has emerged from Pribram, a brain
researcher-neurosurgeon who was a friend of the Western
Zen teacher Alan Watts, and Bohm, a theoretical physicist,
and the close friend of Krishnamurti and former associate
of Einstein." (from "The Holographic Paradigm",
by Ken Wilber 1982)
Superluminal Theory
In 1964, J.S.Bell published Bell's Theorem, which mathematically
supports the concept that subatomic particles are connected
in some way that transcends time and space. Anything
that happens to one particle affects all other particles.
This effect is immediate or superluminal. Einstein said
that nothing travels faster than the speed of light.
However, Bell's superluminal theorem is supported by
experimentation. With Bell, we are now going beyond
Einstein and beyond the wave/particle theory. As
we learn how this instantaneous connectedness works,
we might learn to be consciously aware of our instantaneous
connection to one another and to the universe.
Rupert Sheldrake, in his theory of morphogenetic fields,
proposes that all systems are regulated not only by
known energy and material factors, but also by invisible
organizing fields. Whenever one member of a species
learns a new behavior, the causative field for that
species is changed. If that new behavior is repeated
long enough, its "morphic resonance" affects
the entire species.
Lyall Watson described this phenomenon in his description
of the Hundredth Monkey Principle.
Dr. David Bohm states that the same thing is true of
quantum physics. One subatomic particle affects all
subatomic particles
Jack Sarfatti says that the way superluminal connectedness
exists is through a higher plane of reality. By reaching
to a higher plane, we may be able to understand how
instantaneous connectedness works. Sarfatti used these
concepts to put forth his theory of multi-dimensional
reality.
Experimental Proof
There are many experiments, especially in the last ten
years in China, utilizing the special skills and powers
of accomplished masters of various types of qigong (or
qigung or chi gong, all pronounced chee gong ). The
Qi is the vital energy of the body, while gong means
the skill of moving this Qi and working with it. Practitioners
use mind control to move and control the Qi in order
not only to improve health and longevity, but to enhance
awareness, psychic powers, and spiritual development.
"Medical Applications of Qigong", by Kenneth
M. Sancier, Ph.D., appears in the 1996 edition of Alternative
Therapies. Also "The Effect of Qigong on Human
Body Functions" from the Fifth International Symposium
on Qigong, Shanghai, China;1994:179, by Sancier. Larry
Dossey, M.D. also documents nonlocal events in "The
Reach of The Mind, Healing Words: The Power of Prayer
and the Practice of Medicine."
The practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
is based on the premise that the Qi (ch'i, chi, or vital
energy) of the body must be strong and in balance in
order for the person to enjoy good health. During the
last ten years in China, there are hundreds of scientific
papers written on qigong in relation to its medical
applications. There are an additional 837 abstracts
published from international conferences on the subject.
More than half that number are available in English,
and thus accessible to Westerners.
Yan Xin, who is a physician of both Western and Traditional
Chinese Medicine, teaches his combination of the ancient
form of qigong -- with some changes -- to fill the needs
of modern civilization. This discipline is called Yan
Xin Qigong (YXQ). It is estimated that over 60,000 people
in China practice qigong daily to maintain their health
and achieve longevity. A growing number throughout the
world joins in this practice. Dr. Yan Xin has conducted
many scientific experiments in China. Emitting external
Qi, Dr. Yan Xin has caused measurable changes in the
properties of several types of living and non-living
materials. During the last ten years, he has conducted
experiments in three major categories based on experimental
methodology:
1. The investigation of the nature of externally emitted
Qi by the use of detectors and sensors of analytical
instruments.
2. The monitoring and measurement of changes in physiological
parameters and tissues of humans and other living organisms
during the emission of external Qi.
3. The monitoring and measurement of changes in physiological
parameters and tissues of humans and other living organisms
during the circulation of internal Qi.
4. The study of the effect on cancer cells and various
types of bacteria in vitro with the application of external
Qi.
Since experiments using humans are difficult to assess
because of the possibility of personal psychological
interference, experiments were performed using tap water,
normal saline solution (0.9%), glucose solution 50%,
and medemycine solution 1.5 mg/ml.
In these experiments, external Qi was directed
at the chosen samples at-ultra-long distances (over
1,000 kilometers). Results showed changes in the laser
Ramen spectra of the tap water, the saline solution,
the glucose solution, and the medemycine solution.
As published in "Laser Ramen Observation on Tap
Water, Saline, Glucose and Medemycine Solutions Under
the Influence of the External Qi of Qigong", a
paper published in the Ziran Zazhi (Nature Journal)
in Chinese, Vol.11, pp.567-571, 1988, the external Qi
of Yan Xin Qigong (YXQ) had exerted influence over the
structures of these solutions
From December, 1990, to June, 1991, new experiments
were performed investigating the effects of external
Qi on:
1. the radioactive decay rate of a radioactive element
2. the ultraviolet absorption of de-ionized water. The results demonstrated that the external
Qi emitted by Dr. Yan Xin (from the United States) could
cause an astonishing change in the radioactive decay
rate of the radioactive source 241 Am, and it significantly
affected de-ionized water and changed its ultraviolet
absorption spectrum.
The most extraordinary feature of this
experiment was that the external Qi was transmitted
from the qigong master in the United States to the laboratory
in Beijing -- a distance over 10,000 kilometers.
These positive results were published in a paper, "The
External Qi Experiments from the United States to Beijing
(China)" by Yan Xin in Zhongguo Qigong (China Qigong)
in Chinese, Vol.1, pp.4-6, 1993.
The study of traditional Chinese medicine centers on
the concept of the vital force or Qi as being not only
within the human body, but in all living things. This
Qi flows through the meridians of the human body to
exchange, via the acupuncture points, with the Qi in
the environment. Thus, the Qi of humans (the human energy
field or HEF), and all living things, the earth, and
the unified field are constantly exchanging.
HEF Scientific Theory -- Conclusion
Our Newtonian world of solid concrete objects is surrounded
and permeated by a fluid world of radiating energy.
It is constantly moving and changing; an ocean of dancing,
spinning, flashing particles of light, energy, and information.
Our linear way of thinking, seeing, and expressing,
needs to expand to accommodate this new reality. It
is time for a new paradigm, or model, of science, reality,
and consciousness. It is time to bridge the gaps between
science and alternate science, physics and metaphysics,
and the external scientific experiment and the inner
personal experience. This may well begin
with the unification of the concepts of mind, energy,
and consciousness. Using our minds to study
energy, we may simultaneously define consciousness as
one and the same.
Wholistic, or holistic, awareness remains beyond linear
time and three dimensional space, and therefore is not
easily recognized. We must practice this wholistic experience
in order to recognize it. Our language, and our old
ideas or paradigms, still limit our growth. Meditation
and many other practices, like YXQ, are ways of transcending
the limitations of the linear mind in order to experience
the multidimensionality of interconnectedness, and to
experience our oneness with the universal energy, the
unified field, or consciousness.
Copyright 1996, All Rights Reserved, Gloria Alvino,
HeartGlo@aol.com
About The Author:
Gloria Alvino, R.Ph., B.S. in Pharmacy, M.S. in Health
& Human Sciences, is founder & president of
Heart to Heart Associates, Inc. a charitable, educational,
non-profit organization. HTHA is dedicated through education
and the advocacy of research to help individuals improve
their health and quality of life.