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If you say *everything* is energy it becomes meaningless, you may as well say everything is thwangdoodle of some type.
Not really, that's like saying that because we divide things into categories such as animal, vegetable, and mineral, then referring to animals as animals makes the term meaningless; we can further subdivide categories of animals into phylum, class, subclass, order, family, genus, species, binomial name, and common name, so that what starts off as being described as an animal ends up being a household cat, and hence much more descriptive.
By saying that all things are energy, I'm not saying that there is only one category of energy or that it cannot be further described into its component parts. Earlier I mentioned how heat can be termed Re Qi and electricity can be termed Dian Qi, and whilst I'm not familiar with the chinese translation for carrots or the sun, I am reasonbly confident that they too could be termed carrots Qi and sun Qi respectively.
You call the astral plane energy? Why not call it the astral plane? I'd be interested to hear how you see the differences between the mental and astral 'plane', as that's another term like energy that I come across regularly used in very vague ways.
Whilst I have a great deal of conscious sensory experience on the physical level, to the point where I can identify something as an animal and go so far as to identify it as a carnivorous feline, I don't have the same amount of conscious sensory experience on the astral level, to the point where the lines between the two fade into one another like red fades into yellow and yellow fades into orange. It's at this point where I am unable to subdivide energies into different categories with any deal of certainty that I simply acknowledge my deficiency and lump it all under the one term, similar to if I woke up in the middle of no-where and said I was on earth instead of being able to state what country or town I was in.
When dealing with energy at such a point, the only thing I am reasonably certain of is that the majority of it is on an astral level, however a great deal of input is on a physical as well as a mental level, and so don't strictly label it as astral just as I don't label it as being a specific level of the astral - I'm just not that experienced that I can honestly tell the difference.
For instance, I may be walking down the street and sense that someone is looking at me, and the first place I look to find them is right in their eyes; to me that occurs on an astral level as their astral energy encounters my own and I'm sensitive enough to pick up on it, kind of like noticing when a torch is shined on me. I say that I sensed their energy because I'm not 100% sure if it really was their astral energy or their mental energy, or a pure physical chance (that happens a lot), however I am confident enough to say that my reason for knowing they were looking at me had very little, if anything, to do with the physical level of things.
I don't think it is a time saving word, and as your audience I'm going to determine it's use as meaning 'thwangdoodle'.
For me it saves a great deal of time because normally I don't have to explain these things; most people have their own concept of energy or can understand its use, given the right context. If I were to use it in the context of "a lightbulb expends heat and light energy" than just about everyone would understand it as being the same thing, however if I said "that person has a nice energy about them" than some people would perceive it as being a reference to how I'm perceiving that person on a physical level, others may understand that I'm speaking of this as well as how I'm perceive them on an astral level, and others still may understand that it's both of these as well as the mental.
So yeah - when I use the term energy I'm basically saying "I don't know exactly what it is, if anything, but this is a convenient term for it, for now" just as a thawed out caveman might label a lightbulb as magic. |
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