SUBTLE ENERGY
ACTIONS AND
PHYSICAL DOMAIN CORRELATIONS
CONSCIOUSNESS,
INTENTIONALITY AND
SUBTLE ENERGIES
[Abridged]
William
A. Tiller,
Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Materials
Science
and Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, California
94305-2205
ABSTRACT
Results of three
uniquely different
experiments are provided, each providing robust correlates of subtle
energy
events manifesting in the physical band of reality. Taken together,
the experiments support the postulate that subtle energy signals not
directly
observable by physical means do create a transduced signal at the
magnetic
vector potential field level of the physical realms. Within the
concepts
of our standard electrodynamics, the transduction of the subtle energy
signals generates electric and magnetic signals that have observable
physical
effects. The experimental results are also suggestive that human
intention
when applied to unseen subtle domains is the effective driver of events
seen in the physical domain.
Introduction
Early in this century,
medicine saw
living organisms as operating via the following interaction/reaction
equation:
Function <->
Structure <->
Chemistry
In keeping with this
equation, human
health was thought to depend on the integrity of the body structure.
The
integrity of the body structure depended on a relatively stable state
of
equilibrium (i.e., homeostasis) between the different but
interdependent
structural parts. In turn, homeostasis depended on a host of organic
and
inorganic chemicals. Whenever the body didn't function properly,
structural
defects arising out of chemical imbalances were blamed.
*
To cure this problem and
restore the
needed homeostasis of the body, prescriptions were ordered involving
sophisticated
chemical complexes at increasingly larger dosages in order to trigger
the
body's defense and repair mechanisms. This approach led to what can be
called "chemical medicine" with its many strengths and weaknesses.
*
Later in the century,
neuropsychiatry
demonstrated that small electric currents between specific points in
the
brain gave rise to the same behavioral changes that were observed with
the ingestion of certain brain-stimulating chemicals. Other researchers
found that small electric currents can stimulate cells to regenerate,
tissue
to repair itself and fractures to heal. Although the use of x-rays and
diathermy have a long history in medicine, recent extensions to MRI
scans
all tend to indicate that the earlier three-part equation (shown above)
was incomplete.
*
In the light of the
electric current
effects, a four-part equation was presented, the fourth part involving
electric and magnetic fields:
E/M
Function <->
Structure <->
Chemistry <-> Fields
The body's electric and
magnetic
fields provide the necessary conditions for homeostasis at the chemical
level. Detection of imbalances at the electric/magnetic field levels
would
be an early warning factor of coming potential disruptions in the
chemical
homeostasis condition, and which, if unchecked, would eventually result
in repercussions at the body's functional level.
*
Research and study of
hypnosis and
hypnotic affects revealed that the human body can exhibit truly
remarkable
feats of strength and endurance - attesting to an important linkage of
body/mind, in which the mind can influence not only the body's
structure
and function, but also its chemistry and electric/magnetic fields.
*
Advancing research in
psychotherapy
revealed that certain chemical treatments induce specific mental states
- while certain mental treatments influence specific chemical
populations.
*
More recently, biofeedback
techniques
have shown that directed mind not only can control various autonomic
body
functions (such as skin temperature, pain, etc.) but can also repair
the
body.
*
Thus, a new five-part
equation became
necessary:
E/M
Function <->
Structure <->
Chemistry <-> Fields <-> Mind
*
Well-controlled, remote
influence
experiments with healers, and experiments with psychokinesis,
clairvoyance,
remote viewing, homeopathy and many other phenomena, indicate the
existence
of processes inadequately understood. The nature of these processes
extends
beyond conventional knowledge of the physical domains of nature, and
appear
to involve emotional, spiritual and other intangible qualities.
*
These qualities should also
enter an
extend form of the five-part equation presented above. However, since
we
presently do not have clear definitions of these different qualities,
they
might temporarily be put into the category of SUBTLE ENERGIES.
Preliminary
research data indicate that the subtle energies somehow influence the
electric
and/or magnetic fields of the body, and which influences have
demonstrable
effects on its structure, function, chemistry, and the mind. The SUBTLE
ENERGIES can include emotional, mental and spiritual qualities, but
appear
to operate in connection with physically intangible factors that can be
called ETHERIC.
*
These qualities should also
be entered
into the equation:
E/M Subtle
Function <->
Structure<->Chemistry<->Fields<->Energy
Fields
*
In conventional science,
four forces
are considered responsible for all observable phenomena in the universe:
The strong nuclear force;
The weak nuclear force;
The electromagnetic force:
and
The gravitational force.
These four forces
characterize the
purely physical domain very well. Thus, the "subtle energies"
referred
to above, and the subtle forces/effects they generate, are not
necessarily
weak - but rather constitute that large body of elusive energies and
forces
beyond the four accepted by today's physical science.
*
Let us now refer to three
very different
experiments to see how some of these unseen energies can produce strong
physical correlates under certain special conditions, so that
significant
manifestations are observable by our physical instrumentation.
Three Experiments In Which Subtle
Energy Activity
Was Observed
Experiment A: Some
Evidence of
Subtle Energies on Photographic Film
During the early 1970s,
a gentleman
named Stan came to see me about some photographs he had taken. At the
time,
his camera was a simple Kodak with a plastic lens, and the film was
Kodak
Kodacolor.
Strange lights and
illuminations
appeared on the photos. Stan indicated much the same thing happened
when
other people gave him their cameras to take pictures. He first thought
he was a camera klutz. But he eventually realized that the film
phenomena
correlated with special inner states he could sense and which he felt
"energized"
the camera. dak which processed the photographs. In addition to the
expected
physical scenes, remarkable optical effects were imprinted on the
photographs.
*
The special occasions when
the optical
effects were most probably to be obtained were (a) at spiritual rock
concerts;
(b) at religious shrines; and (c) at high-energy metaphysical lectures.
*
The special inner states
involved the
following physiological symptoms. Whenever he would sense a particular
feeling in his 7th cervical plus 4th thoracic vertebrae and snapped a
picture,
he would invariably find some anomaly present on the subsequent
photograph.
In addition to the expected physical scenes, remarkable optical effects
were imprinted on the photographs. His camera had been sent to Kodak
and
certified to be in good working order. The photographs were also sent
to
Kodak specialists to determine what kind of picture-taking error had
transpired.
....
*
Over a fifteen-year period,
out of
9,000 photographs taken 5,000 contained easily distinguishable
anomalies.
During all of this time, his only intention during the picture-taking
process
was "to reveal God's universe."
*
In a series of studies I
carried out
with this man, two cameras were utilized. One camera was sensitized by
the man, the other was not. Both were mounted on a single tripod with a
single shutter release. Standard Kodak color film and standard Kodak
processing
were used, and the man was never allowed to touch the film during
loading
or unloading.
*
Most photo pairs showed
very significant
differences. The photos from the sensitized camera would often show one
or more people in the frame as somewhat transparent over a portion of
their
body so that objects behind them could clearly been seen through the
transparent
(translucent) portion. However, the photos from the unsensitized camera
showed their bodies fully formed and opaque as one would expect. In
other
single camera experiments, the opaque lens cap was placed on the
sensitized
camera, but remarkably clear photographs THROUGH this opaque barrier
were
still obtained.
*
This man appeared to be
able to sensitize
any camera merely by keeping it close to his body for several days.
After he had fully
sensitized a
camera (or charged it up with his subtle energies), it could be passed
to someone else to take the pictures. Some anomalies would continue to
appear on the photographs for the next hour, after which time period no
further anomalies would appear.
*
Certain deductions can be
made from
this study.
(1) Some kind of
radiations exist
in nature that can travel through materials that are normally opaque to
visible light.
(2) Such radiations, which
may
be normally present in nature, can be imaged via the camera onto the
film
by some quality inherent in this man's energy field, and register an
imprint
at the physical level of the silver halide grains of the film.
(3) Some "energy soaking
time"
is needed for the camera to acquire this anomalous capacity after
placing
it in the special energy field of this man.
(4) This acquired anomalous
capacity
leaks away with a time constant of about l hour - unless continually
"pumped"
by the energy field of this particular man.
Experiment B:
Feedback of Biological
Radiation
Known in Asia since
ancient times,
acupuncture points have been used for treating bodily dysfunction.
Under
research, the points have been found to have electrical characteristics
that differ from the surrounding skin, even though no striking
histological
difference at the physical level has been detected. Variations in
mental
alertness are known to cause significant changes in the electrical
characteristics
of the skin points.
Some Soviet researchers
found that
mental concentration, or "directed-mind" techniques, can be used to
increase
the "effective" voltage difference between similar points on the left
and
right sides of the body - an "effective" increase, for example, being a
mind-directed shift from 50 milivolts to 500 milivolts.
*
With the help of two of my
Stanford
students during the mid-1970s, I designed and built a detector to
register
such mind-directed energy from the body. The detector included a pulse
counter that could measure energy shifts and which could be displayed
on
an oscilloscope.
*
The detector has a
sandwich-like form.
The "bread" of this sandwich is two parallel planar dielectric
surfaces.
The "meat" of the sandwich is a gas isolated between the two surfaces.
An external voltage, generated by a high voltage power supply, powers
the
device to a level BELOW the electrical breakdown voltage of the gas.
There
is thus no sustained discharge through the isolated gas, but small
microavalanches
of electrical charge form in it due to the ambient electric field.
These
small electrical charges can be thought of as micro lightening bolts.
By
adjusting the sensitivity of the pulse counter to NOT count the largest
microavalanches, a background or baseline profile of ZERO counts could
be selected. This reduced static capacitive effects.
With such a baseline, a
human's
intentionality effect on the functioning of the device could be
determined
via an increased number of counts during a five minute test period.
*
After showing that the
important human
interaction with the device were dynamic, mind-directed effects rather
than static capacitive effects, a variety of experiments were carried
out
to reveal key features of the dynamic effect. For example, in one kind
of experiment the subject stood or sat closer to the detector for a
five
minute period with the hands placed around but not touching the
detector,
and then mentally focused their intention on increasing the count rate.
The total counts for the period were then recorded and tabulated.
*
Over the three year period
between
1977 and 1979, several thousand different tests under a wide variety of
different conditions were conducted with several dozen different
subjects.
Some results were extremely revealing and encouraging [1].
*
On days when the device was
working
well, anyone could produce a positive result, young and old people,
students,
healers and nonhealers, etc. The results were analogous to
psychokinetic
influencing of the detector. But from a purely subjective viewpoint,
those
with an high ability to focus their attention produced an higher ratio
of success while those with only a small focusing ability produced a
lower
ratio. Also, subjects with previous experience using the device
generally
produced higher count rates than new subjects.
*
On some occasions, usually
lasting
for one to several days, no one was able to produce an enhanced count
rate,
and we were unable to determine why. No correlation was found with moon
phases, rain storms, etc. No consideration has as yet been given to
geomagnetic
field activity. On still other occasions, great effort was required to
produce enhanced count rates, and at these times some successful
subject
failed.
*
Extensive studies were
carried out
to determine if this human form of subtle energy could be shielded from
the device, or if an alternate inanimate energy source could also
trigger
it. The answer to both questions was essentially "No."
*
It is reasonable to
conclude from directed-intention
study that mental focusing and concentration, under certain conditions,
is an important subtle energy factor with regard to overall human
functioning.
This factor probably has far-reaching implications, and its existence
is
being confirmed by other researchers.
*
For example, in 1991
researcher H.
Motoyama reported in a significant experiment [2]. Two subjects, one
with
marked psychic ability, the other not psychic, were placed in separate
rooms shielded by concrete walls lined with lead.
*
The psychic concentrated on
the other
person while Motoyama monitored some of his body functions. Remarkable
changes were noted regarding pulse rate, blood flow, skin resistance
and
respiration during the concentration period of the psychic. Since the
two
rooms were well shielded against information transfer via physical
energies,
the effects on the biology of the second person appear to require some
non-physical energy involvement.
Experiment C: Large
Voltages
in the Body of an Exceptional Subject
The third experiment was
carried
out primarily by Elmer Green and his associates at the Menninger Clinic
and involved a simulated healing experiment using an accomplished
healer
in a specially designed "copper wall" environment [3, 4].
*
Wired up to a variety of
electro-physiological
instruments, the healer either stood or sat on a framework placed
within
four large, square copper walls. The framework was electrically
insulated.
The four copper walls were placed in front, behind, above and below the
healer, and the healer was centered inside. Each of the four walls was
attached to electrically isolated electrometers that simultaneously
recorded
any changes in voltages of the walls.
*
Likewise, the healer was
attached to
other measuring equipment, and an electrode on the healer's ear lobe
recorded
the time variation of her body voltage.
*
A number of affects were
noted as the
healer attempted to extend energy. Principally among these effects, it
was observed that instead of the usual 10-15 millivolt baseline (which
usually includes a 1 millibolt ripple), her body voltage often plunged
30 to 300 VOLTS, and then returned to baseline in 0.5 to 10 seconds.
This
large body voltage pulse was astonishing in that it was 100,000 times
the
normal, and, equally astonishing, smaller correlated pulses appeared on
each of the four copper walls.
*
Additionally, in a single
30 minute
healing session, the measuring equipment recorded FIFTEEN of these
anomalously
large pulses.
*
Based upon a theoretical
multidimensional
model, a working hypothesis that might help conceptualize the
extraordinary
voltage behavior of the healer's body is as follows:
(1) A subtle energy
pulse is emitted
from some unknown location of the body;
(2) The subtle energy
structure
of the body responsible for this pulse is somehow coupled to the
physical
body structure so that a transduced effect materializes at the physical
level. This effect extends outward from the body and is echoed in the
copper
walls as measured by the electrometers simultaneously recording any
voltage
changes in the walls.
(3) Since the pulses were
measured
on the healer's body and simultaneously on the copper walls, it is
necessary
to propose that a pulse of magnetic vector potential is generated from
this transduction. This pulse can be referred to as Pulse A.
(4) Within the physical
realities
of standard electrodynamics, Pulse A generates an electric field, now
referred
to as Field E. Field E is of a specific shape that grows to a maximum
extent,
then reverses itself, finally shrinking to zero.
(5) Such an electric field
effect
would cause the ions of the local body electrolyte to separate and
produce
an electric charge dipole. This first expands to a maximum extent and
then
collapses back to zero after a short time.
(6) It would be this charge
dipole
that creates the large voltage swing at the electrodes on the healer's
ear and upon the copper walls.
*
Based on the conceptual
picture emerging
from experiment outlined above, this author developed a quantitative
mathematical
model of the process apparently involved and compared it with the
experimental
data. It was found that of the fifteen extraordinary pulses, thirteen
of
them had the same origin in the healer's body - the lower abdomen and
the
frontal area of the body. This location is consistent with the "second
chakra" point known in acupuncture, and sometimes referred to as the
"Dan
Tien" or the "Hara" point.
*
The electric dipole length
(or pulse)
was predicted to be very large, extending from the ear (as the negative
charge end) to the feet (as the positive charge end). However, only a
very
small electric current flow was required for a very short time to
achieve
this result (pulse?).
*
As a result of this
important study,
it can be seen that the large electric voltage pulses appearing at the
physical level of the measuring devices are resulting from some kind of
correlation with the subtle energy level manifestations. The subtle
energy
level manifestations themselves are not directly observable, but they
set
into motion electric shifts that can be physically measured.
*
This author postulates that
a vector
potential exists between the subtle energies and the physical electric
energies, and that the vector is probably magnetic:
Subtle Energies
<-> Magnetic
vector <-> Electric Energies
The magnetic vector
potential plays
a special role in nature as the "bridging" element between the subtle
domains
and the physical domain. The existence of the magnetic vector potential
yields the successful quantitative connection in the physical domain of
the activity of the subtle energy pulses involved.
*
With regard to Experiment
B, it is
interesting to consider that if the human emits bursts of subtle energy
toward the gas discharge device, these will manifest at the physical
level
as bursts of A in the device. This then yields pulses of increased E in
the gas, and which will then drive subthreshold electron
microavalanches
so that they become large enough to register as superthreshold counts.
*
With regard to Experiment
A, it is
also interesting to consider that if the man's strong subtle energy
field
produced a patterned A distribution of appreciable magnitude, then the
time-variation of this would yield an E-distribution over the film. In
keeping with this, it is known in the photographic film industry that
electric
fields will produce silver halide grain development in the film - EVEN
IN THE ABSENCE OF VISIBLE LIGHT.
Tentative Conclusions
Based on a significant
amount of experimental
evidence emerging from numerous researchers, it appears that the
physical
domain is interconnected with a "subtle energy" domain. Although not
directly
measurable in physical terms, the actions of the subtle energies
produce
physical activity that is measurable in physical terms. For this
to
occur, it would seem that a "magnetic vector potential" of some kind
must
exist, via which the activity of the subtle energies is transduced into
measurable physical events.
*
A theoretical model can
thus be postulated,
showing that body functions may have two, not just one, "paths." The
first
path would consist of familiar physical conditions; the second path
would
consist of subtle energy conditions. Mind/consciousness would
appear
to have threshold connectivity between the two paths.
The theoretical equation
would
be something along the following lines:
[ Body
[ Direct Body Electric
[
Space/Time<->Physical<->Monopole.
. . .
[ Structure Chemistry
Fields .
[ . .
[ . .
[ . Body Higher Than
[ BODY Magnetic 4-D
[ FUNCTION Vector
<<-->>
Subtle Energy
[ . Potential Fields
[ . .
[ . Body .
[ Frequency Body Magnetic .
[ Domain
<->Etheric<->Monopole
. . . . .
[ Structure Chemistry Fields
*
It is important to
understand that
the fragmentary data described in this paper do not constitute
satisfactory
proof of the philosophical perspectives expressed by the various
equations.
Any individual piece of data is contestable for a variety of scientific
reasons. However, taken as a whole, the sum is compelling
circumstantial
evidence that nature does, indeed, function largely as indicated by the
equations. And each equation given in this paper is correct at some
level
of functioning.
*
The body of experimental
data regarding
the probable existence of "subtle energies" is growing more appreciable
as time moves on. The idea is taking shape that the four physical
forces,
correct within what they refer to, are not sufficient to explain all of
Nature's phenomena, especially regarding mind and consciousness.
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