Could we be more than bodies… are we other than physical form?
Walk with me, talk with me. Allow me to accompany you on a short journey on the path of a premise that is not so new in the thought system of the human collective. Is it time we opened our minds to the possibility of another way of thinking about what we actually are? Right now, when you contemplate the totality of your identity, do you see yourself as an amalgam of roles; a mother, a Christian, a CEO, a father or brother, an American, a visionary? When you think of your body, perhaps you think of fingers and toes, your heart and brain, maybe you even go as far as contemplating your biome- that living, breathing thing that is your terrestrial home. Trillions of cells, blood and bone, bacteria (both good and bad), pain, pleasure, senses, sickness and aging, birth and death. Is that what we are? Because that’s what and how most people identify themselves as/with, where the experience of being human is concerned. Take my hand 😉, let’s go beyond.
I’m suggesting something far more substantial, and certainly longer lasting, than the form you see in the mirror, than the roles you have assumed, or life experiences in which you have played a part. Something more than the genes, and propensity for dysfunction and diseases, you may believe have been passed down through your bloodline. Something other than a vessel or a temple, the way it has been described by certain theological or philosophical teachings, yet simpler to grasp if we are open to releasing patterns of thinking that have been ingrained in the collective consciousness for thousands of years. Step foot on the not-remotely-solid ground of the biofield. Not just more than the body, but rather other than the body. The National Institutes of Health defines the biofield as “a massless field, not necessarily electromagnetic, that surrounds and permeates living bodies and affects the body(1).” Keep in mind that the first law of thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Could it be possible that the biofield is giving rise to the body, versus being embedded within it or circulating around it? And if this is the case, is it possible that what you really are transcends time, space, and this world in general?
I invite you to relax into your true invulnerable being, and gently release any fear, or resistance associated with the idea that the you-who-you-really-are cannot be detected with any of your five senses. The concept can be strange to visualize, much less entertain, but once we allow the actual clinical research to enter our awareness, not only does it become difficult to deny the existence of the biofield, but experiencing its benefits by simply acknowledging the possibility of it, becomes effortless.
There are many resources to look to for proof of the biofield, from images captured through Kirlian Photography, like this example below, to studies and papers available at the National Library of Medicine’s Center for Biotechnology. This study seeks to provide a scientific foundation for understanding the complex homeodynamic regulation of living systems. The work of biofield researcher, Eileen McKusick, has even pioneered an energetic healing modality termed Biofield Tuning. By furthering scientific knowledge of the biofield we arrive at a better understanding of the foundation of physical and psychological well being. While the study and application of this phenomena is hardly new, (in fact, we’ve been at it for thousands of years) it is only in the last 50 years that the field acquired the term “energy medicine”. Incorporating the study of the biofield, and vibrational science in general, we are presented with yet another bridging of a gap, between the metaphysical and the rapidly developing field of electromedicine.
The biofield is more than simple electrical impulses or electromagnetic phenomena captured on film, or detectable by one’s “sixth sense”. It can also be regarded as a culmination of all the different forms of energy that give rise to the totality of the radiance, vitality, and animation we call life. It is an energy field that vibrates at various rates or frequencies, toggling from one to another, tens of thousands of times a day, radiating outwards in a toroidal-like shape by as much as eight feet. This toroidal field is best explained with an image, as seen above. With a donut-like shape, and if viewed from the top or bottom, or in cross-section, like a vortex. Looking at the overlap in this image, one begins to understand how this vortex of energy can interact, and react to emanations from other life forms, human, animal, and even plants.
Dr. Deepak Chopra, a proponent of the study of the biofield, also known as the “aura”, has high hopes that the future of biofield study will bring a better understanding of the influence cast by the energy field and how everyone’s fields interact with one another, essentially influencing the entire collective of humanity. This energy field is what gives the human body its designation of “alive”, distinguishing it from a corpse, which is simply a body absent of all detectable electrical activity.
We don’t have to go very far to realize examples of this energy field. The heart gives off very powerful electromagnetic pulses, evidenced by the jagged lines printed on the paper of the EKG machines we are all familiar with. The brain also produces charges and signals that can be manifested in a visual format via brain scans; there’s even evidence that each thought has its very own electromagnetic wave pattern. So I invite you to think about something beyond the crackling of human being-ness today, and consider the “aura” that Dr. Chopra mentioned. A field of energy, of all the energy that exists, a network of infinite interconnected paths of communication between all living things. Indian Yogi and Buddhists believe so strongly in this “inter-is-ness”, that they will harm no living thing. They believe that all sentient life, that is, organisms possessing the ability to have feelings, share the same fundamental consciousness (2).
This is where we make the leap of understanding that we are something much, much more than what we believe ourselves to be, or than we have been taught to think we are.
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Juliana Norris Monroe
1.Rubik B, Pavek R, Greene E, Laurence D, Ward R, Al E. Manual healing methods. In: Rubik B, et al., eds. Alternative medicine: expanding medical horizons: a report to the National Institutes of Health on alternative medical systems and practices in the United States (NIH Publication). Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office; 1995:113–57. [Google Scholar] [Ref list]
2.Sentience is the capacity to experience feelings and sensations, to have an effective consciousness, subjective states that have positive or negative valence. (Chandree, et al., 2004 from Neuroscience 2022)