We are traveling back towards Montana on a clear breezy day that is quite cool for mid July. The day started out cloudy as we left Inwood, but it was clear by the time we reached Sioux Falls.
I was thinking this morning about how people always talk about “seeing “ auras. I suppose they are fantastic with their varied colors and shifting patterns. Perhaps I will be able to see them someday. I have seen my own crown chakra, or at least felt sure that I perceived it. I don’t remember whether I have seen anyone else’s crown chakra - I think not. Perceiving the crown chakra is seeing a strong iridescent blue that isn’t like anything else I know. I haven’t perceived this for quite a while though, but I haven’t been tuned into looking for it either. This I saw with inner vision though, not with physical outer vision.
I am more interested in the concept of sensing energy fields rather than physically seeing them. I think this is what we do when we feel a certain way when we are around different people. Pending on who we are and who they are these sensations vary in intensity. We may feel extremely comfortable with one person or extremely agitated around another. Some people seem to agitate others for no discernable reason, or at least no reason that can be accounted for by their actions.
We conceive of ourselves as purely solid or physical. In reality we are swirling energy from the ground up. Atoms combine to form molecules and eventually assemble all the formations to make what we are. – energy arrangements that have this form and texture when perceived on a certain level. On another level, the purely energy level, we could pass right through each other and perhaps not notice a thing, or certainly not notice the body forms we perceive now. This may not be news to anyone reading this, but we usually avoid thinking about it even though we may know.
This makes it more comprehensible that we are each surrounded by an energy field that is discernable to others on some level whether they are consciously aware of it or not. In fact it would be more remarkable that we would not be surrounded by such a field than that we are. These energy fields have been photographed in fact, so there is objective proof of their presence. Even the night photography that senses temperature gradations relates to an outpouring of energy and temperature is certainly part of this field.
Those practicing the healing art, raki, sooth the energy fields of their clients without physically touching the body. This reputedly rebalances the energy field and thus alleviates suffering and promotes physical and psychological healing.
When we are attuned to it we can be aware of someone next to us without physically seeing them or even be aware of someone in the next room. We often sense when someone is staring at us, responding with the sudden need to look back. People newly blind however can self-consciously feel that everyone in the room is staring at them when no one is. Either they become more aware of communal energy in a crowd of people and therefore sense others are staring, or they are overcome by pure self-consciousness. I think the former option deserves considerable attention rather than assuming the latter.
I think we tend to think of everything in almost purely visual terms because of the dominant position we have given that sense. Feeling is third in our usual hierarchy, next to hearing that in turn follows vision. We certainly could benefit from becoming more conscious of energy fields as we work and play together. All of us who have performed a play or opera night after night are aware of the combined energy of audience and performing ensemble that makes each event unique in its own way. Everything will seem difficult for all involved on some nights, while on other nights all the energy will flow together for a superb performance. Audiences will audibly respond differently at different points also, somehow triggered as a group. Comedies are particularly suitable for noticing this interaction as they demand audience response, but the intensity between audience and performers can vary considerably in more serious works.
Any charismatic speaker or politician senses the energy in an audience and uses it to his or her advantage. This is also basic to acting and to performance of any type. You have to get a sense of having the group with you and for knowing exactly what to do to encourage this to happen. It is all instinctive and there is nothing objective upon which to base your assessment of what you need to do. You just feel it. Feeling is a different and very powerful way of knowing that few of us use to full potential.
The other thing I thought about was that any of us could probably ask the type of passage from this world that we want if we simply concentrate on it and believe its possibility. We consider ourselves victims of circumstance and we therefore accept the hap-hazard appearance of whatever affliction will bring down the curtain. By designing it, we may avoid the hap-hazard occurrence and encourage something closer to what we would like if not exactly that. I would at least like to behave as though this idea is possible. We can certainly do more by thinking we have some influence over our environment than by behaving as though we have none. It is certain too that this approach can have value in all areas of our lives, not the least of which is simply how we react to events we encounter. We can at least control our reactions.
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