The Mystery of Life Energy

H₂0 is water, right? Well, that depends. I’ll explain what I mean, and why it’s important, by way of a metaphor provided by Mother Nature. We’ve all seen majestic photos of waterfalls that freeze up in the winter, even ones as big as Niagara. Something similar caught my eye the other day, on a much smaller scale, but one that allowed me to see a fascinating correspondence to the world of energy medicine. A small drainage culvert near our home began to freeze up over several recent days of single-digit temperatures. The end result looked like this:

But what was even more interesting than this visual was the audio – hearing the water rushing behind the ice curtain, as in this video:

And this natural phenomenon is an exact parallel to the various energy bodies we are thought to possess. To those readers whose pre-ordered books haven’t arrived yet, one key idea is that our physical body is only the densest of several energy sheaths that are layered over our physical body. In order of decreasing density, they are the energy sheath (the vital body), the emotional sheath (the astral body), the mental sheath, and the Higher Self or Soul. All are manifestations of energy, but each at different degrees or frequencies. In other words, the physical body is a condensation of the energy body.

Which is where the metaphor lies: H₂0 isn’t always water, because it depends on the temperature, the level of thermal energy. At room temperature, it’s water; when it boils, it’s steam, and when it freezes, it’s ice. Same substance but a totally different appearance, depending on its level of thermal energy. The different forms of H₂0 can co-exist, though, as this video shows – an outer casing of solid ice, behind which flows current of liquid water. Ideally, I’d have a photo that also shows a cloud of mist covering the waterfall –  all 3 forms co-existing at once, with the mist representing the biofield or aura – but that set of weather circumstances hasn’t happened yet.

The frozen waterfall is a lot like our bodies, then: a mostly-liquid, partly-solid visible form, through which course invisible currents of acupuncture energy. Just because we can’t see the meridians doesn’t mean they don’t co-exist, along with the physical body. And we “hear” the meridians as the subtle psychophysiological sensations we notice at moments of peak emotion, when energy flow is strong enough to be perceived – when we can see and hear the flowing water behind the frozen exterior. H20 is multidimensional, and so are we.

Book link: Chapter 4, page 108