I should note, there are some things which are called 'energy' that can be somewhat explained. For instance, chi use is often misunderstood. Doing qigong exercises, prana, or Taoist alchemy will cause your hands or other parts to grow hot. That's because these exercises give you more direct control over your blood circulation. If you increase the circulation to an area, it gets hot. That's one level. Tingling feelings are your nerves being stimulated, for whatever reason. Conscious control over the nervous system, tactile hallucination. Everyone creates an electromagnetic field which is sometimes seen as the aura. This can be felt, seen, and manipulated by generating nervous electrical current. Moving electrical current causes magnetic fields. Basic Physics E&M. That's another level.
All of these things are experienced as energy, but have tangible effects. Often, they are all called Chi  Often, they describe or effect blood circulation or nervious stimulation. Kundalini seems to affect hormonal releases, control over the endocrine system. A burst of seratonin or endorphine. There's yet another level.
And just for the record, I can do all of the above, which is why I can talk about it and say what I think they're actually doing. I've worked with them. Its all very neat stuff. It seems the point of a lot of eastern practices give you conscious control over things in your body you just shouldn't have control over normally. Its by no means easy, and I'm by no means a master of anything, but I've gotten enough of them to work to do some basic tricks with them and see what its about. Stuff like heating hands, heating someone else's limbs, shutting down my metabolism into a death trance until I'm ice cold, orgasming with about half of my body (still working with that one  ), sensing the location of someone's hands without sight or touch, that sort of thing.
The thing is, practicing any of the above requires one to visualize it as energy, as an abstract concept. How else to describe the sensation? My point here being, it seems a lot of it can be traced to measaurable physical effects. One often mistakes the effect with the energy itself. The tingle isn't the energy, but 'energy' is causing it, somewhere.
Now, triggering these effects in someone else, that by physics would require a transfer of energy in some level. So, there's something else going on that we can't yet measure. I've read some wacky Tesla derived theories about ambient fields and the like, subtle E&M, and there might be something to that. Perhaps "Earth energy" is the earth's ambient EM field. All I know there is that when I or someone else casts circle, it tingles. There's something there. I can throw it around, but can only guess about what it really is. If its not inside my body, its a little harder to get a reading on it.
Then there's the fun stuff, like psychic healing. Why is it if you push around the energy in someone's back, it causes them to release psychological tension and mental obsticals? Can psychic work be explained by transfer of data through connecting EM fields between nervous systems? Intranetworking neural nets? I'm not even going to touch sigel sorcery, there are enough theories on that in Carol's works alone.
Anyway, some fun ramblings on pet theories. I like to try to get at the science behind the magic. |
