By Barbara Ann Brennan. Click on image to buy.
Hands Of Light, by Barbara Ann Brennan.
Dr. Barbara Ann Brennan. Click on image to enter her website.
Dr. Barbara Ann Brennan is a physicist who worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. As well as having a Master’s Degree in Atmospheric Physics, a B.S. in Physics,Dr. Brennan also has a Doctorate of Philosophy, a Doctorate of Theology and she is a graduate of the Institute of Core Energetics and a Senior Pathwork® Helper. She describes herself as a healer, therapist and scientist and has researched the Human Energy Field for more than 30 years.
This is the first book by Dr. Brennan, which explains all about the human energy field. Dr. Brennan works with auras and energy patterns as well as spirituality.
At first, it was a bit wacky for me, to be honest. It was a bit far out there. But fascinating none the less. I love her because she’s a scientist, and so although she is dealing with in depth spiritual concepts she manages to explain things in a fairly matter of fact way.
The more I read it, the more I suspended my scepticism and the more open I became to her teachings, the more my mind was blown away.
Dr. Brennan believes “In this universe, all things are interconncted, corresponding to a holistic experience of reality.” However she says, “More than we want to admit we are products of our western scientific heritage. How we learned to think and many of our self-definitions are based on the same scientific models used by physicists to describe the physical universe.”
The following notes are my rough notes, cribbed from her review of the history and development of key scientific concepts.
“ Newtonian Physics
Until eastern religions began to have a deeper impact on our thinking much of our thinking (subconscious) was evolved from Newtonian physics,17thc and early 18th c. The concept that we are solid objects. In the 19th c . This definition of the universe was extended to describe a universe composed of like the earth travelling around the sun.
These laws were seen as the basic laws of nature.
They successfully described the motions of the planets, mechanical machines and atoms. These atoms were thought of as composed of solid objects – a nucleus of protons and neutrons with electrons revolving around the nucleus much fluids in continuous motion.
This view is very comforting to those of us who wish to see the world as solid and largely unchanging. Much of our daily lives is still run on Newtonian mechanics. We see our bodies in a mechanical way. We define most of our experiences in terms of absolute, three dimensional space and linear time.
We all have clocks – we use them to define linear time.
Field Theory
In the early 19th c new physical phenomena were discovered that could not be described by Newtonian physics. The discovery and investigation of electromagnetic phenomena led to the concept of a field. A field was described as a condition in space which has the potential of producing a field.
The old Newtonian thinking interpretated the interaction between positively and negatively charged particles like protons and neutrons simply by saying the two particles attract each other.
However Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell used the field theory saying each charge creates a “disturbance” or a “condition” in the space around it so the other charge, when it is present feels a force.
This is why we sense another – mothers know when their children are in trouble no matter where they are. We know who is on the phone before they speak.
Most of us are just beginning to get our heads round the concept that we are composed of fields. We sense another in the room before we see them.
This is field interaction. We speak of good or bad vibes, sending energy to others or reading another’s thoughts. We immediately know if we like someone or dislike someone.
Relativity
In 1905 Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity and shattered all the principal concepts of the Newtonian world view.
According to relativity theory space is not three dimensional and time is not a separate entity. Both are intimately connected and form a four dimensional continuum, “space-time”.
Thus we cannot talk about time without space and vice-versa. Furthermore there is no universal flow of time – i.e. time is not linear nor is it absolute. Time is relative. That is two observers will order events differently and can even order them reversely i.e. A sees 1 before 2 and B sees 2 before 1
Therefore all measurements involving space and time lose their absolute significance. Both time and space become merely elements to describe phenomena.
Time and space are so basic to descriptions of natural phenomenon and ourselves their modification entails a modification of the whole framework we use to describe nature and ourselves.
We have not yet integrated this part of Einstein’s relativity into our thinking.
We are still working by Newtonian time concepts and using this to invalidate our experience.
For instance we have all had instances of time speeding up or slowing down or we have all lost track of time. We have all met friends we haven’t seen for years and found its as if we saw them yesterday.
Einstein’s space-time continuum states the apparent linearity of events depends on the observer.
We are all too ready to accept past lives as literal physical lives that happened long ago in a physical setting like this one.
Our past lives may be happening right now in a different space-time continuum.
Similarly we may be living our future lives here and now.
As we live our life now it becomes more likely we are re-writing our personal history both past and future.
Another important consequence of Einstein’s relativity is the realisation that matter and energy are interchangeable. Mass is nothing but a form of energy.
Our physical bodies are nothing but energy.
Paradox
In the 1920’s physics moved into the strange and unexpected reality of the subatomic world. Every time physicists asked nature a question in an experiment nature answered with a paradox. The more they tried to clarify the situation the stronger the paradoxes became.
Finally physicists realised that paradox is part of the intrinsic nature of the subatomic world upon which all of our physical reality exists.
For example one can set up an experiment that proves light is a particle. A small change in this experiment will prove that light is a wave. Therefore to describe the phenomenon of light both the concept of a wave and a particle must be used. Thus, we now move into a universe based on the concept of both/and.
On the personal level as we move more into the world of modern psychology and spiritual development we find the old forms of either/or also dissolving into the form of both/and. We are no longer bad or good. We no longer only hate someone or love someone. Within us we find much broader abilities. We can feel both love and hate and all emotions in between, for the same person. We act responsibly. We find the old dualism of God/Devil dissolving into a whole in which we find the Goddess/God within merging with the God/Goddess without. Anything evil is not the opposite of Goddess/God but resistance to the God/Goddess force. All is composed of the same energy.
Beyond Dualism – The Hologram
The whole universe now appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns. The universe is thus defined as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way.
If the universe is indeed composed of such a web there is (logically) no such thing as a part. Thus we are not separated parts of a whole – we are a Whole.
Recently, physicist Dr David Bohm said in this book The Implicate Order that primary physical laws cannot be discovered by a science that attempts to break the world into parts. He has written of an “implicate enfolded order”
Which exists in an unmanifested state and is the foundation upon which all manifest reality rests.
He calls this manifest reality “the explicate unfolded order”
“parts are seen to be in immediate connection, in which their dynamical relationships depend in an irreducible way on the state of the whole system…thus, one is led to a new notion of unbroken wholeness which denies the classical idea of analysability of the world into separately and independently existent parts”
Dr. Bohm states that the holographic view of the universe is a jumping off place to begin to understand the implicate enfolded and explicate unfolded orders. The hologram concept states that every piece is an exact representation of the whole and can be used to reconstruct the entire hologram.
Dr Karl Pribram, a renowned brain researcher, has accumulated evidence over a decade that the brain’s deep structure is essentially holographic. ..the brain structures sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch holographically. The information is distributed throughout the system so each fragment can produce the information of the whole. Dr Pribram uses the holographic model to describe not only the brain but the universe as well.
He states the brain employs a holographic process to abstract from a holographic domain that transcends time and space. Para-psychologists might transmit telepathy, psychokinesis and healing.
From the point of view of the holographic universe, these events emerge from frequencies that transcend time and space, they don’t have to be transmitted. They are potentially simultaneous and everywhere.
All experience is interconnected. Therefore if we become aware of this and allow that interconnectedness into our cognitive process we can become aware of all events independent of all time.
Superluminal Connectedness
Scientists are now finding evidence for a universal immediate connectedness within a framework of science, both mathematically and experimentally.
In 1964 physicist JS Bell published a mathematical proof called Bell’s theorem.
Bell’s theorem mathematically supports the concept that subatomic “particles” are connected in some way that transcends space and time, so anything that happens to one particle affects other particles. This effect is immediate and does not need “time” to be transmitted.
Einstein’s theory of relativity stated that it is impossible for a particle to travel faster than the speed of light. Bell’s theorem has now been supported by experimentation. We are now talking about a phenomenon that stands outside Einstein’s theory of relativity. We are going beyond the wave/particle duality.
If physicists learn how this instantaneous connectedness works we could conceivably learn to be consciously aware of our instantaneous connections with the world and each other.
This would obviously drastically change how we interact with each other.
This instantaneous connection may provide us with the ability to read each other’s minds whenever we want to. We could know what is going on in each
Other and understand each other deeply.
We also see more clearly how our thoughts, feelings (energy fields) and actions affect the world much more deeply than we previously thought.
Morphogenetic Fields
Rupert Sheldrake in his book, A New Science of Life, proposes all systems are regulated not only by known energy and material factors but also by invisible organising fields. These fields are causative because they serve as blueprints for form and behaviour. These fields have no energy in the sense of the world because their effect reaches across the time and space barriers normally applied to energy. That is, their effect is just as strong at a distance as it is at close range.
According to this hypothesis whenever one member of a species learns a new behaviour the causative field for the species is changed, however slightly.
If the behaviour is repeated for long enough the its morphic resonance affects the entire species. Sheldrake called this invisible matrix a morphongenetic field from morph “form” and genesis “coming into being”
The action of this field involves ‘action at a distance’ in both space and time.
This means morphic fields can propagate across space and time and that past events could influence other events everywhere else.
An example of this is shown by Lyall Watson in his book “lifetide: The Biology of Consciousness” in which he describes what is now popularly called the Hundredth Monkey Principle. Watson found after a group of monkeys learned a new behaviour suddenly other monkeys on other islands with possible normal means of communication learned that behaviour too.
Dr David Bohm in the journal of Revisions states the same thing is true for quantum physics. He says the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment showed that there would be nonlocal connections, or subtle connections of distant particles. So there would be a wholeness about the system such that the formative field could not be attributed to one particle alone. It could only be attributed to the whole. Thus something happening to distant particles can affect the formative field of other particles.
In the same article Robert Sheldrake concludes:
“So the creative process which gives rise to new thought, through which new wholes are realised is similar in that sense to the creative reality which gives rise to new wholeness in the evolutionary process. The creative process could be seen as a successive development of more complex and higher-level wholes through previously separate things being connected together”
Multi-Dimensional Reality
Jack Safratti, another physicist, suggest in Psychoenergetic Systems that the way superluminal connectedness can exist is through a higher plane of reality. He suggests things are more connected or events more correlated on a plane of reality above ours and that things in that plane are connected through an even higher plane. Thus by reaching to a higher plane we may be able to understand how instantaneous connectedness works.” pages 21-28
I’m working extensively from this book.
♥Ali.
