“Your skin does not separate you from the world. It’s a bridge through which the external world flows into you. And you flow into it.” – Alan Watts

We’ve been taught to distrust ourselves and the sensory information received through our biofield, which is simply the interpenetrating subtle electromagnetics of your body that is directly connected to your nervous system. What we are taught in institutional school systems is limited in explanations and yet there are so many more questions that require a challenge to the framework.

The primer to understanding subtle energy begins macroscopically.

Many have remarked the fact that we are essentially made up of the same subatomic material found in space…stardust. Seeing the fractal reality of macroscopic to microscopic space is a gentle reminder to wake up to Nature; all particles can vibrationally align into coherent patterns.

subtle energy unveiled

Subtle energy is elegantly simple and yet more complex than what all the instruments of science can detect or define.

“Physical energy manifests in the positive timespace frame, is electrical in nature, and has positive mass. It travels slower than the speed of light and gives rise to gravity. This means that you can see it. Subtle energy, however, occupies the next timespace frame (or other timespace frames), manifests in the negative timespace frame and has negative mass. It is magnetic in nature and travels faster than the speed of light. It gives rise to what some call levitational force. This means that you can’t see it- but can note its seemingly paranormal effects. “

The Science of Homeopathy George Vithoulkas

“Biofield science is an emerging field of study that aims to provide a scientific foundation for understanding the complex homeodynamic regulation of living systems. By furthering our scientific knowledge of the biofield, we arrive at a better understanding of the foundations of biology as well as the phenomena that have been described as “energy medicine.” Energy medicine, the application of extremely low-level signals to the body, including energy healer interventions and bio-electromagnetic device-based therapies, is incomprehensible from the dominant biomedical paradigm of “life as chemistry.” The biofield or biological field, a complex organizing energy field engaged in the generation, maintenance, and regulation of biological homeodynamics, is a useful concept that provides the rudiments of a scientific foundation for energy medicine and thereby advances the research and practice of it. An overview on the biofield is presented in this paper, with a focus on the history of the concept, related terminology, key scientific concepts, and the value of the biofield perspective for informing future research.”

Biofield Science and Healing: History, Terminology, and Concepts
Beverly Rubik, PhD, David Muehsam, PhD, Richard Hammerschlag, PhD, and Shamini Jain, PhD

Many words could be used to overcomplicate the mysteries of subtle energy, but I simmered it down to about three.

Diffuse magnetism and bioplasma.

Exploring into the properties, modes and structures of subtle energy requires one to lean in on the great revolutionary thinkers and scientists from ancient history to modern day that have been through incredible opposition to bring this knowledge forward. If one were to follow the thread of those who have been researching bioenergetics it would unravel a contextual story about the marvel of subtle electromagnetism, the universe and our body’s ability to heal.

This is an important point to pause and integrate.

Take a moment here, ask you self…what have you been taught about the human energy field?

For myself, growing up in a very astringent religious order, there was not a single conversation to define the experience of sensing subtle energy. In fact, I was told that opening myself up to feel into these energies was allowing evil to come into my mind. Talk about energenetic patterning!

Here is a short chronological list of historical references to a universal energy field and twentieth-century observers of the human energy field.

As you can see, there are various ways of describing the same thing. It’s easy to get lost in the definitions as this subject of subtle energy is interpreted through different lenses of time.

Biofield science is one of those areas of research that have been downplayed as pseudo-science and this is clearly because of the implications this kind of knowledge has for the healthcare industry. There is of course a rabbit hole to follow if you’re inclined to research.

Here is a segment from the working thesis of Biofield Tuning pioneered by Eileen Day Mckusick, thought leader in the field of health and human development. This article was the basis for her two books Tuning the Human Biofield and Electric Body – Electric Health

Read the whole article, it’s brilliant!

Exploring the Effects of Audible Sound On the Body and it’s Biofield

The Subtle Body
According to Rubik, the body produces acoustic signals and also potentially non-classical
fields. These non-Hertzian or longitudinal waves may emanate at right angles from the EM field produced by the body’s electrical system, and these waves may be carriers of energy and information (Rubik, 2002). Longitudinal waves are also called scalar waves, torsion waves, or potentials. They appear to be of a much higher frequency, and seem to underlie the traditional Maxwellian- Hertzian waves of the EM body.

When waves cancel each other, obeying the law that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed, they resolve back into the underlying, unifying field of potential, dissolving, as it were, into the zero point field or quantum vacuum. Indeed, in the minds of many mathematicians and scientists, the postulated ‘standing waves’ are conceived to be ‘progenitors’ of the transverse electromagnetic waves of Maxwellian physics, since it appears that interactions between pairs of potential, or standing, waves generate the Maxwellian propagating waves of our more tangible world. (Lockhart, 2010)

According to Swanson, corresponding to this biophoton field is a torsion field which is generated through the same processes that create biophotons. They carry much of the phase information of the biophoton field, but because they involve spin interactions, they are not absorbed as strongly by matter. As a result they are not contained inside the body, but radiate out and form a torsion field beyond the body. (Swanson, 2010)

So, what does that mean exactly? What are spin interactions? What is a torsion field?
While this is a question that we could spend a lot of time exploring, it is impossible to go into depth with it without committing many pages to it. In the simplest terms possible, a torsion field is created whenever a particle spins. Consider the statement, “whenever an electron wiggles, it produces a photon.” This spinning energy can either be right handed (clockwise) or left handed (counter-clockwise), with each direction acting on matter in different ways. Subtle energy, like electromagnetism, comes in two different polarities, positive and negative, and seems to exist as a sort of “higher harmonic” to electromagnetic energy, as it is present wherever electromagnetism is, yet it is fundamentally different from electromagnetism.

For example, the research of German chemist Baron Karl von Reichenbach (1788-1869)
into the nature of subtle or torsion energy, which he termed “od”, resulted in the following
awareness: When positive od is added to positive od, it results in a stronger concentration of positive od, with stronger effects. Likewise, when negative od is added to positive od, they tend to cancel. This additive nature of subtle energy leads to the use of the term “charge”. Subtle energy charge is NOT electrical charge. Electrical charge exerts a very strong force,
while subtle energy is usually much weaker. Electrical charge is conserved, which means
that its quantity remains the same, it may flow elsewhere, but it does not simply disappear. By contrast, subtle energy or od can decay over time and disappear. (Swanson, 2010)

Another way to look at this subtle energy is through the Chinese concepts of Yin and
Yang chi. Yin represents the feminine or negative aspect, Yang, the masculine or positive
aspect. Earlier, we mentioned the work of Russian scientist Inyushin, who observed that the
bioplasmic field around the body, which may be composed of free electrons, ions and protons, demonstrates a balance of both positive and negative particles. When the balance of this becomes unbalanced, illness can ensue. Chinese medicine sees this as in imbalance in Yin and Yang energies and seeks to restore that balance.

Other cultures also describe this subtle energy:
There are close to 50 cultures around the world that have been identified as understanding
the concept of 'life energy' in one form or another; e.g., Ki (Japanese), Chi (Chinese),
Prana (Sanskrit), Neyatoneyah (Lakota Sioux), Num (Kalahari Kung), Ruach or Roohah
(Hebrew), Rooh (Persian), Lung (Tibetan), and so forth. All of these cultures have their
energy healing modalities. Bioenergy healing is one such modality. Bioenergy healing (of
Eastern European origin) Chi Gong healing (Chinese), Sufi healing (Middle East, North
African and to some extent Asian origin), Prana Healing (India/South Asian),and so forth
are all broadly practiced modalities. (source unknown)

So subtle energetic action appears to involve a torsion force that travels in either a right
hand or left hand direction. Depending on the direction of the spin, the energy takes on either a negative or positive polarity. This spin is also ascribed to the concepts of entropy and negative entropy (or syntropy, the term I prefer, coined in 1974 by Hungarian physiologist Albert SzentGyörgyi, proposed to replace the term "negative entropy").

Another excellent resource on the complexities of subtle energy, is the book The Subtle Body- An Encyclopedia of your Energetic Anatomy by Cindy Dale. It is full of up-to-date information as well as an insightful collation of subtle energy knowledge throughout historical records from around the world.

There are three basic structures in energy anatomy. They all attract subtle energies from external sources and distribute them throughout the body. They transform subtle energies into physical energies and vice versa, before sending subtle energies back into the world. These subtle structures also create, underpin, and sustain their physical counterparts. In both worlds- subtle and physical- the three basic structures are fields, channels and bodies.

The Subtle Body – Cindy Dale

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It appears that everything is fundamentally energy frequency and vibration.

The more I read about plasma and aether, the more I am devoted to working with the subtle energies of not only my own biofield and that of my client’s, but that of my family, pets, plants, food, water, home and land. This knowledge can only be integrated if you are willing to be part of the experience.

Honestly, this exploration of biofield science and subtle electromagnetism has been so much fun! The possibilities for tuning into coherence are within every phase shift throughout the day.

Resources For Your Brain

Biofield Science – Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

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All of my blog posts are AI-Free. I actually enjoy the struggle and excitement of creating a blog post. They are 100% curiosity generated and organically soul grown articles. Yes, I spent countless hours reading, researching, dreaming and synthesizing in order to articulate this human spirit generated container for my thoughts. Enjoy…if you made it this deep into the chasm.

Shauna Mayfield

Biofield Tuning Practitioner

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