Even though I am an energy worker and teach intuition, I am a skeptic at heart. (Really, I am!) So, when a young man at the Lincoln Sudbury High School told me he was skeptical about energy work, I invited him to look at it from a more scientific viewpoint.
I asked him if he had a mobile phone. He did. I asked him if it had WiFi on it. It didn’t, (he’s a bit Old School in a young body!) but he acknowledged the existence of WiFi and how data in the form of electromagnetic waves can be transmitted from one device to another. I said that’s all energy work is. The energy I use is light on that same spectrum, and I am effectively the antennae that picks it up and transmits it to another person. Then he asked me a question.
I asked him if he had a mobile phone. He did. I asked him if it had WiFi on it. It didn’t, (he’s a bit Old School in a young body!) but he acknowledged the existence of WiFi and how data in the form of electromagnetic waves can be transmitted from one device to another. I said that’s all energy work is. The energy I use is light on that same spectrum, and I am effectively the antennae that picks it up and transmits it to another person. Then he asked me a question.
“But how does light heal?”
That stopped me cold. I didn’t have an answer for him. I did invite him to experience it (I was offering free mini treatments so it wasn’t going to cost him anything but his time), but he declined.
Obviously not an empiricist, but he did have an excellent question.
This made me very curious. My forays into the realm of energy and healing, starting with acupuncture, have all been experiential rather than intellectual. In fact, I had to suspend A LOT of disbelief to get me to go to the acupuncturist the first time. It was more of a case of desperation than anything else. I had tried everything that conventional medicine had to offer with no success, so I was willing to try anything. (Although that seemed like child’s play next to what it took me to go see a psychic for the first time!)
So I know that it works, but I’m not sure how or why it works.
In the spirit of truly trying to understand how the universe ticks, I am going to see if I can answer that young man’s question. I feel that it will take me down a massive rabbit hole, but what the heck! Isn’t that what true scientific enquiry is about? To push the boundaries of what we think we know? To explore things we don’t understand? To not ignore any information or observation because we don’t “believe” it could be possible based on our current knowledge?
My methods in this exploration are going to mirror my “push the boundaries” attitude. The scientific method has been used (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) since the 1600’s. While I have great respect for it, and will be using it, I’m not going to be limited by it. Heresy, I know, but I feel that if you are doing anything, in this case using a method, simply because that is the way it is done and is the only “acceptable” way, then you aren’t truly practicing science, you are practicing dogma. If part of this method is about integrating and correcting previous knowledge, shouldn’t that also pertain to the method itself? A bit paradoxical, but I prefer to be guided by the spirit as well as the letter of this particular law.
So I invite all “skeptics”, “believers”, and the plain curious to consider and comment on my explorations and research. Please make any corrections or suggestions about any avenues of enquiry that I have touched on, or have not seen. There is SO much information out there, I’m bound to miss something.
But, above all, take the information I present in the manner in which I give it: a quest for expansion, enlightenment and connection. I’m not interested in who or what is “right” or “wrong”. Discussion and dialog is what I am after.
So stay tuned....
PS. If there are any smarty pants out there who actually have an answer to this question, please let me know! It will save me a lot of time :)
