The Mystery of Life Energy

In the last blog post, on the subtle energy aspects of sunshine, I wondered what the upcoming solar eclipse would reveal about solar prana, or subtle energy.  I can now report back with some findings, because my wife and I spent 9 hours on the road last Monday traveling to Northern Vermont and back, in order to see eclipse totality, and it was worth it. There were many levels of energetic significance – here are a few, ranging from the not-so-subtle to the subtle to the global:

Photons: From the perspective of standard solar energy – the photons emitted by the sun – the impact of the eclipse was pretty obvious. The skies got very dim during totality – not pitch black, more like late dusk. And then things brightened up very quickly when the first slivers of sunlight returned. To be quantitative about it, look at the printout of the electricity generated by our home’s solar panels on April 8 (we’re in the 95% totality zone). It’s pretty obvious that something happened between 2pm and 4pm!

Our home’s solar panel production on April 8

Prana: The nature of the sun’s subtle energy was the main focus in that last blog post (prana is the yogic term for subtle energy), and I can now say that something energetically significant happened – but I’m not sure what it signifies (if that makes any sense!). Those sparkly curlicues I described last week – the “vitality globules” – were present in abundance in the Vermont skies before the eclipse started. In fact, I’d never seen so many before, though I don’t know how to quantify this element. As the eclipse progressed to the half-way point and beyond, though, there was no noticeable decrease in the density of these globules. Only in the last moment or two leading to totality could I detect a fairly rapid decrease; and then during totality there were no flickers at all, near the sun or anywhere across the skies.

So what’s the lesson? It seems that photons and prana each ebbed and flowed in tandem, without any easy way to tease out the differences between these two aspects of light energy. Do the photons generate the prana that is dormant, or vice versa. Chicken or egg? My hunch is that the sunlight’s photons somehow activate the prana in the air, but then the dance of the globules goes quiescent whenever the sunlight fades (after sunset each night, or during eclipses). I’m not sure how to sort it out, though, so for now we’ll have to file it under “To be continued….”.

Global consciousness: My wife and I certainly weren’t the only ones driving along the road north from MA to totality in VT. Traffic was pretty bad, especially on the Interstates, so thank goodness for Rt. 7 and Rt. 2. The normal 6-hour round trip took us about 9 hours, with others reporting 12 hours or more on US 89 and 91.

(Note: a photo of that Vermont traffic jam has been removed, as per Associated Press’ licensing requirements). The caption was: We’re the blue hatchback just rounding the curve (not really, but that could easily have been us!)

Which means that many, many people were paying attention to the same thing at the same time. Which means that the Global Consciousness Project’s computer monitors should show something quite significant when they’ve analyzed all the data, which they are now in the process of doing. (A quick recap: Chapter 8 discussed the idea that computers equipped to spew out a sequence of random 1s and 0’s – random number generators – (RNGs) can be affected by human attention, and will produce less random sequences when strong attention and intention is focused on them. It’s literally mind over matter, but the original research was done at Princeton, so it’s probably legit (insert sarcasm emoji).  Here’s a 5-minute video demonstration of RNGs at Fenway Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilmWYW0F3nw

All of which leads to one prediction – the RNG monitoring stations located near eclipse tourist destinations will detect higher levels of coherence than those far away from the eclipse’s path. This will be due more to the effect of collective human attention than to any astrophysical impact that eclipses may have on human consciousness (and RNGs). It won’t be a full-impact globalevent, but should still register on the computers.

One person’s contribution: One of the most striking aspects of totality was how quickly the overall illumination level started to return to normal, as soon as the first slivers of sunlight emerged from the moon’s shadow. Even a tiny slice of visible sun brought the dusky skies up to the brightness level of a late afternoon – and there was still 99% yet to go before attaining full sunshine! So a little bit of sunlight goes a very long way.

And apart from demonstrating how powerful sunlight is, there is also some powerful symbolism here. As each person brightens their own biofield through increased awareness and subtle energy activation, the global “aura” of our collective human consciousness grows as well. Everything we do and say (and think) has positive ripple effects, just like those first slivers of post-totality sunlight. And hopefully enough of these slivers of awakening biofields will bring us out of the darkness that seems to be so widespread in our world today.

One slightly brighter biofield – mine!