About Energy
Article by Dr. Uri
Kenig
The Universe
Looking up in the sky at night, every night,
for years, for decades, for millennia, we
see the same patterns of stars, changing
according to the seasons’ alternations, but
keeping all along the same order. It all
seems set in a stationary position, lacking
movement but it is not so. There is a
constant movement taking place all along,
influencing and determining our lives. Let us view some
data:
• The Moon is circulating around its own
axis at a speed of ~13 Miles per Hour (MPH)
(~21 Kilometers per Hour [KPH]), while
circulating the Earth in a speed of ~1,900
MPH (~3,000 KPH).
• The Earth is circulating around its own
axis at a speed of ~1,100 MPH (~1,800 KPH),
while circulating the Sun in a speed of
~67,000 MPH (~107,200 KPH).
• The Solar System is circulating within its
own galaxy, The Milky Way, at a speed of
~560,000 MPH (~900,000 KPH).
• The Milky Way is circulating around Local
Group of Galaxies (whose distance from
The Milky Way galaxy ranges from 30 light
years to hundreds of light years) at a speed
of ~1,100,000 MPH (~1,800,000 KPH).
Can you imagine what kind of speeds are we
talking about? The amazing thing is that
these speeds, all proportions of distances
and positions between Earth and its Moon,
the Sun, the other planets in the solar
system, and the location within our own
Milky Way galaxy, all of these have been
kept accurately all along. Everything is
constantly moving in a coordinated manner,
like an endless dance with countless
partners, keeping all along the same
celestial stability and order. This is
really amazing. What is the power that holds
it altogether?
This picture of the universe has been
accurately reflected in each of the living
species on earth. For example, all humans
are built and constructed almost identically
across geography and race. In the human body
the location of organs and tissues are the
same, the physiology is the same. From the
moment of fertilization, all new cells know
exactly where to go and what is their role
in the emerging body-mind. The relationship
between the organs and tissues are being
kept the same, even though every cell in the
body keeps changing once a year. The person
looks like a steady object but even when he
stands still or is asleep, there is a
constant inner movement in the tissues and
the organs. The heart is constantly beating,
the lungs ceaselessly pumping air, the blood
keeps flowing, the muscles are tensing and
relaxing, the nervous system is regularly
firing electrical pulses, the brain is
incessantly processing thoughts, feelings
and images and every cell in the body is
continuously vibrating in a specific
pre-determined pace. There is a constant
dynamic movement all along, yet, everything
is at the same place, keeps same distances
and proportions, in an amazing celestial
order. The same question should be asked
again: what is the power that holds it all
together?
Energy’s Continuous
Flow
For the entire history of mankind, people
have been trying to explain this force. The physicists
explain it as gravity while religions endow
it to spiritual explanations of higher
powers. I will not get into this debate that
goes along with the old issue of evolution
vs. creation. These debates try to make
sense of our life phenomena through
presentation of explanations. For the
purpose of understanding the issues of
energy, I will not try to explain these
phenomena, but rather, I will observe it the
way it is manifested. I would name this
absolute power as energy. It is steadily
flowing throughout every manifestation of
life and inanimate objects. It flows through
all the living creatures, between them
through the geography of the planets,
through the solar system, through all
galaxies, through the entire universe.
The energy is being manifested in different
ways: fire, air blow, heat, cold, water,
gases, weather conditions, explosions,
radiation, electricity, radio waves,
electromagnetism, gravity, light spectrum,
plant growth, vibrations of the living
creatures, thoughts, feelings and more ways
of energy manifestations.
This celestial order is being maintained because
all objects have each a specific energetic
identification code; each object radiates a
unique energy pattern that might be
similar to those emitted by other objects,
but is not identical to the energy
emitted by any other object. Each object is
simultaneously playing a double role: being
a transmitter and being a receiver at the
same time; it is functioning like a
broadcast unit, which is ceaselessly sending
its specific energetic code, and it is
functioning like an antenna, which
ceaselessly keeps receiving multitude of
specific energetic codes from all objects
around it, in close and/or far proximities.
This is how energy is flowing from one
particle to another, from one object to
another, as tiny as a molecule and as
gigantic
as a planet. The object can be tangible like
furniture, liquid, plant, body-limb, organ,
an organ cell and many more. The object can
be non-tangible like gas, radiation, radio
waves, thoughts, feelings, ideas and many
more.
Energy Velocity in
Relation to Body-Mind
Albert Einstein surprised the world in 1905
when he presented his theory of relativity.
He showed how mass and energy are the same
substance but with different manifestations.
He determined that the ultimate speed in the
universe is the speed of light (~188,000
miles per second; ~300,000 kilometers per
second; ~675,000,000 MPH; ~1,080,000,000 KPH).
So the speed of the energy that holds it all
together is the speed of light or maybe even
faster.
In order to try to comprehend the speed
of the energy that holds the entire
universe, let’s bear these simple facts in
mind:
• A car engine rotates tens of times per
second in order to propel a ~2000 pound car
at a speed of up to ~140 miles per hour.
• A jet engine rotates thousands
of times per second in order to lift in the
air a weight of several tens of tons and is flying
at an average speed of ~500 miles per hour.
• There are no technical and/or scientific
means to measure the speed of vibrations of
the living cell; it might be millions of
vibrations per second.
• Try to imagine how many vibrations
per second should the engine that energizes
the universe, run? At what kind of speed
does
this energy need to flow in order to maintain and
hold the entire universe hanging there in
space?
This fast energy is the glue that connects
all phenomena in the universe; giving us the
impression that all is stationary while in
reality it is all in constant movement, an
extremely fast one. When all particles are
connected together by the energy, the
universe becomes one, one complete unit that
contains it all. So when we talk about body
or mind we are talking about the same thing;
one is the reflection of the other and there
are no boundaries where the mind ends and
the body starts, or boundaries where the
body ends and the mind starts.
Energy and the five
senses
Throughout the history of mankind, humans
have learned to master their
environment to a large extent. They have
learned to utilize
different aspects of energy, from the
discovery of fire in the ancient days, through the
invention of steam engines to more complex
forms of engines; from the discovery of
electricity, electromagnetism, radio waves,
until today’s advanced world of airplanes,
computers, space travel, satellites
broadcast, cellular telephones, and
technology that makes
day-to-day life more comfortable.
Humans have taken these aspects of energy
for granted. Yesterday’s invention amazed
them but today they are already used
to it, waiting for the next new surprise.
People have been focusing on the phenomena
captured by their five senses and naturally
have ignored whatever is beyond the range of
their senses (e.g. ultra violet and infra
red rays). As we know, energy has been
manifested in so many ways. Our five senses
help us to be oriented through our
environment. We see objects; we hear, smell,
taste and touch them. We are able instantly
to distinguish among all their forms; the
tangible solids and liquids that we can
smell and hear, and for
the most part we ignore all other forms that
cannot be perceived with our five senses.
Our technology has helped us detect many
other energy manifestations that are out of
our range, but it did not help us a bit to
improve our ability to grasp phenomena
beyond our five senses.
Cellular telephones are a must in our modern
life and since this instrument is doing its
job, only few would bother to wonder how the
voice travels to this gadget, what the
voices are made of and how a picture travels through air into the cellular
phone screen.
Energy and Research
History
So while the majority of people have been
busy with their routine life, relying mainly
on the world as it is captured by their five
senses, there have always been groups of
people that could not rest and accept
as a total truth what is perceived through
the five senses.
This group is called researchers. We have
heard about their findings along the history
of mankind. Seven thousand years ago the
Chinese found the energy of life which they
named Chi, and developed the system of
Acupuncture. There are the Greek
philosophers and scientists that found more
than three thousand years ago some basic
truths about our life energy and how to
incorporate it to the medical field. One
prominent name is Sir Isaac Newton who made
a falling apple famous and those parts of
his mathematical formula are still
valid today. The list is long, but I would like to
focus only on a few researchers in order to
get the flavor of how advanced is the
research of different aspects of energy, and
how energy therapy could emerge through
these important findings.
Plants Research
A book by the name The Secret Life
of Plants was published in the
early 1970’s. The authors contended that
plants hold certain consciousness in a form
of unique energy, which is unlike the
regular consciousness of humans. They
reported about numerous experiments made by
researchers across the globe indicating that
plants radiate unique energy as a
communication mechanism with their
environment.
Marcel Vogel, a notorious expert on crystal
healing energy, decided to experiment with
plants energy. He reported that plants can
get “hurt” by human thoughts and bad
intentions, or can “feel” thrilled and alive
in the presence of people's good intentions. When people
intentionally gave affection and attention
to detached leaves that were put on a glass
plate, these leaves remained alive green and
fresh for days. At the same time similar
detached leaves that were put in glass
plates in the same room but did not get any
attention died very soon after the
experiment started.
In another set of experiments during the
late 1960’s, the world-renowned expert on
Lie Detector machines,
Cleve Backster, used a Lie Detector machine,
like the one used by police,
to measure the subtle electrical energy
discharged by plants. The Lie Detector
machine is an electronic device that is
reactive to very low electrical currents.
Sets of wires connected to the machine are
attached to the surface of leaves or
plants with electrodes. The machine is also
connected to a metal needle with ink in it,
and whenever the machine senses an
electrical charge, it moves the needle
across a roll of paper to create a specific
pattern of drawing.
Cleve Backster found that the intensity of
the energy discharged from the surface of
leaves differed from plant to plant and at
times, even differed from one leaf to
another, belonging to the same plant. In
order to check how systemic the phenomena he
had measured were, he experimented with
different kinds of intentions in his mind as:
* Intention to love the plant.
* Intention to tear it apart.
* Intention to keep the leaf intact while
maintaining a fake thought that he is going
to tear it up.
* Intention to tear it apart while
maintaining a fake thought that he is going
to keep the leaf intact
The leaves always reacted in distress to the
bad intentions by discharging significant
subtle energy and stayed with low discharge
when there was no real threat. When he
focused his attention to love and admire the
beauty of the leaf, a smooth and large
electrical discharge showed on the drawing
pattern.
Marcel Vogel replicated Cleve Backster's
findings. He found out that there were
researchers that could not replicate the
results of these experiments while other
researchers could. He concluded that when a
researcher gave mechanistic attention and
not genuine affection from the heart, the
plants knew the difference, thus did not
respond to the mechanistic researcher.
Researchers that did not really believe in
this “crazy” stuff and kept an inner
attitude of disrespect towards the entire
experimentation process, even though they
were doing all the procedures right, had not
achieved any results and the drawing were
sporadic and held no patterns in them.
These findings and many others alike, hold
in them the essence of the secret of healing; the
inner intentions of the therapist as well as
the intentions of the client are the key for
successful healing. These intentions are the
channel that connects the total energy of
the universe to the self-healing mechanism
residing in any human being. In my years as
a therapist and as a teacher these findings
of Marcel Vogel were confirmed in my
experience time and time again. A correct
therapeutic procedure done by a therapist
that in his heart does not feel the truth of
energy therapy premises will yield no
therapeutic results.
Gary Schwartz, a professor of Psychology in
the University of Arizona, wanted to follow
the findings reported in The Secret Life of
Plants from a different angle. He decided to
explore in 2003 whether plants hold energy.
He built a sophisticated camera device to
take pictures in a completely darkened room.
Leaves were placed in the dark room for
hours prior to their pictures being taken,
in order to settle down in the darkness.
Then the camera’s shutter was opened for
hours and could collect in this pitch-black
environment pictures of the energy that the
plants emitted in a form of light. This
light was seen at the margins of the leaf
and along all the net of fibers that was
laid along the leaf. In another experiment,
leaves were torn apart, and then were laid
on a glass plate. The pictures that were
produced later showed that the torn edges
radiated with a stronger light than the
natural edges. Gary Schwartz could show
through these experiments two findings:
1. All organic forms of life constantly emit
energy.
2. When an organic form of energy gets
wounded (torn leave), it redirects its
energy towards the injured site (like the
immune system activity in humans) in
order to promote healing.
Research in Energy Therapy
Different forms of magnet therapy may go
back to one hundred thousand years ago. Ancient
cultures would use kinds of magnets and
amber to promote healing. In modern days we
are witnessing numerous energy healing
methods like Reiki, Touch for Health,
polarity therapy, tapping therapy and more.
I would like to review a few aspects of
energy therapy and research.
In 1773, Anton Mesmer started passing
magnets next to his clients’ bodies; this
created in them strong sensations like
energy flowing through them. He later on
found he could create the same results
without magnets, using only his hands. He
published his book Memoir on the Discovery
of Animal Magnetism in 1779 in which he
reported about the numerous experiments and
findings he had with this therapy.
Spanning two hundred years, from the early
1700’s to the early 1900’s, electrotherapy
was widespread and multiple devices were
invented for the purpose of this therapy.
One could find a variety of electrotherapy
devices in the Sears Roebuck catalog in
1902. These therapies were highly popular
and claimed to create all kinds of healing
results. The lack of real medical
standardization brought the federal
government in USA to intervene, and
eventually all electrotherapy devices
were rendered illegal and ceased to exist for
many years. It is only during recent years
that there is a reemergence of therapy with
electrical devices.
One prominent researcher was Harold Burr, an
anatomy professor at Yale University from
1933 to 1973. He, like many other scientists
at his time, was intrigued by trying to
discover the “blueprint” of the living cell,
how it receives the “commands” to
become this organ or another and the body is
evolved. He was sure that a multitude of
energy fields is controlling our life, and
standard devices can measure these energy
fields. He was sure that since energy fields
control every aspect of our body, any
activity in the body, as health or disease,
could be detected. In the mid thirties he
tested these ideas on two frontiers:
• He reported about findings that a woman’s
ovulation could be detected by an electrical
device that can measure the subtle energy
discharges from the reproductive system. The
device measures the increasing electrical
discharge from day to day prior to
ovulation; once the ovulation is over, the
measured electrical current drops
dramatically.
• He reported measuring cancerous processes
in different locations in the body that held
different and unique electrical fields. He
used special standardized devices to detect
them.
Although in the mid thirties his experiments could
not be replicated, in the last few
years, new paradigms and better technology
could prove his ideas have validity.
In another experiment, Gary Schwartz took
two groups of Reiki therapists and asked
them to administer a Reiki therapy session
to E-coli bacteria. He placed the culture of
bacteria in glass plates. The therapists had
to place their hands close to the e-coli
plates, without any physical contact with
the bacteria and/or the plate itself, and/or
any contact with their colleagues, all the
while trying to project positive energy over
the bacteria. He instructed the Reiki
therapists to focus their attention on
keeping the bacteria healthy and alive.
Prior to the experiment and at the end of
the experiment, all therapists filled in
questionnaires about their self-esteem. The
findings of the experiment were astonishing:
• Approximately 60% of the overall plates
with cultures of bacteria had much more
bacteria in them; they had proliferated
during the course of the 45 minutes of the
Reiki session.
• In the other 40% of the overall plates
with cultures of bacteria, the number of
e-coli decreased significantly, or remained
the same.
• In the group that increased the number of
e-coli, approximately 50% of them felt
better about themselves, as it was reflected
through the results of the questionnaires.
The other 50% of the therapists in this
group did not have any significant change in
the way they felt about themselves.
• In the group that reduced the e-coli
bacteria, approximately 60% of them felt
worse about themselves as it was reflected
through the results of the questionnaires.
The other 40% of the therapists in this
group did not have any significant change in
the way they felt about themselves.
Isn’t it amazing? Someone is treating
bacteria with energy (has no idea what
the result is because the results can be measured
only by powerful microscope after the end of
the session) and feeling good or bad about
himself, corresponding to the increase or
decrease in the number of the bacteria. This
is the power of the energy of the mind over
living matter.
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