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We shall understand the power of the mind with an analogy of electricity and magnetic field. Tiny electrical currents run through the neurons* in your brain, just like the electricity that runs through the copper wire in the electrical cords powering your appliances. As a whole, the brain seethes with electrical activity. This produces an energy field around the brain. When you get an MRI or EEG, medical professionals can read the energy field of your brain. It’s a magnetic field in the case of an MRI, and it’s an electrical field in the case of an EEG. Electricity and magnetism are two sides of the same coin: electromagnetism.
There are many other forms of energy as well, and your brain and mind are constantly interacting with them. One of these is light. All living tissues emit photons or light particles, and the type and intensity of the photons they emit vary. Even individual cells emit photons. A healthy cell emits a steady stream, while a dying cell sprays out its photons all at once like the burst of radiation from a collapsing supernova.
Light, electricity, and magnetism create the energy fields used in biological signaling. Biologist James Oschman states, “Energy is the currency in which all transactions in nature are conducted” (Oschman, 2015).
*Neurons (also called neurones or nerve cells) are the fundamental units of the brain and nervous system, the cells responsible for receiving sensory input from the external world, for sending motor commands to our muscles, and for transforming and relaying the electrical signals at every step in between. More than that, their interactions define who we are as people. Having said that, our roughly 100 billion neurons do interact closely with other cell types. (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia)
The Antennae in Your Cells
Imagine two magnets. Sprinkle iron filings around them and you’ll see the lines of energy their fields produce. The copper cords powering your appliances and the neurons firing in your brain work the same way. They generate fields.
Now place a bigger magnet nearby. It will exert an influence on the iron filings, and the pattern of the whole energy field will change. Add an even bigger magnet and the field shifts again. Fields within fields produce complex patterns of energy.
The neurons in your brain act like those magnets. They generate fields. Those fields shape the matter around them, just the way the magnets cause the iron filings to form symmetrical patterns.
Bigger fields outside the body, such as the gravitational field of the Earth, act like the bigger magnets. They shift the pattern of your body’s fields. They act on your brain and your cells, while your body also exerts a tiny influence on those bigger fields. Our bodies are influencing these big fields while also being influenced by them.
Your body’s electromagnetic field extends about five yards or meters from your body. When you’re five meters away from another person, your field begins interacting with their field. The two of you might be saying nothing, yet your energy fields are shaping each other in an invisible dance of communication (Frey, 1993).
For decades, microtubules, with their rigid form, were assumed to be no more than structural elements of the cell. Just as your body has a skeleton that provides a rigid structure to which other structures of the body attach, microtubules are the girders and scaffolding of the cell. However, like antennae, microtubules are hollow. They are long cylinders. This property allows them to resonate, like a drum. And like antennae, their structure makes them capable of receiving signals from energy fields (Hameroff & Penrose, 1996). Microtubule signaling has been proposed as a method by which the body’s complex systems are coordinated among trillions of cells (Oschman, 2015).
Miraculous Case Study of Cardiac Patient
The fields of your body can interact with the fields of other people at great distances. A former cardiac patient named Richard Geggie told me this story during my research for a book called The Heart of Healing (Smith, 2004):
“In the early 1990s, I was in Toronto, Canada. I went to see my doctor because I felt tired and listless. He sent me to have an electrocardiogram. Later that day, when he got the results back, he told me that my heart was at serious risk. He told me to stay calm, not exert myself, keep nitroglycerine pills with me at all times, and to not go outside alone.
“The doctors administered several tests over the course of the following three days, and I failed them all because my arteries were severely clogged. They included an angiogram, another electrocardiogram, and a treadmill stress test. When I started the bicycle test, the clinic staff didn’t even let me finish. They stopped me partway. They were afraid I was going to die on the spot, my arteries were so clogged. As a high-risk patient, I was given an immediate appointment for heart bypass surgery.
“The day before the surgery, I woke up feeling much better. I went to the hospital and I was given an angiogram. This involved shooting dye into my arteries through an injection in my thigh. The surgeons wanted to discover the exact location of the blockages prior to the operation. I was prepared for surgery. My chest was shaved, and the doctors were about to mark my skin where they planned to make the incision.
“When the new angiograms came back from the lab, the doctor in charge looked at them. He became very upset. He said he had wasted his time. There were no blockages visible at all. He said he wished his own arteries looked as clear. He could not explain why all the other tests had shown such severe problems.
“I later discovered that my friend Lorin Smith [a Pomo Indian medicine man] in California, upon hearing of my heart trouble, had assembled a group of his students for a healing ceremony the day before the second angiogram. He covered one man with bay leaves and told him that his name was Richard Geggie. For the next hour, Lorin led the group in songs, prayers, and movement. The next day, I was healed.”
When I last followed up, 13 years later, Geggie was still in excellent health. The phenomenon of distant healing is well documented, with scores of studies showing its effects (Radin, Schlitz, & Baur, 2015).
Flow of Mind Consciousness
You can direct your consciousness of mind, the way Lorin Smith did toward Richard Geggie’s healing. Consciousness isn’t something that simply is; it’s something that can be controlled and pointed in the desired direction. When you direct your consciousness, you harness the power of your mind, activate the splendid machinery of your brain, and influence the environment around you (Chiesa, Calati, & Serretti, 2011).
You do that in visibly obvious ways, like deciding to plant a vegetable garden. After your mind makes the decision, you use your consciousness to direct the project. Your brain signals your body to drive your car to the local gardening store, where you buy fertilizer, tools, and seeds. You plant, water, and tend your garden, and a few months later, you have a crop. Your crop began in consciousness and ended in the material reality of a homegrown meal. A thought eventually produced a thing.
Take a look around you right now. The colors in the carpet began as a thought in someone’s mind. That person chose the particular shades and textures that wound up in the finished product. Someone else decided the dimensions of your cell phone and laptop computer. Every proportion in your home began as a thought in the consciousness of the builder. We use invisible fields such as cell signals, Bluetooth, and wireless networks every day. A wireless network uses a router to send a signal into the surrounding environment. In the presence of a receiver, such as your smartphone or laptop, information is exchanged. The field of energy created by the router makes communication possible between your laptop and every device accessible to the router.
Though the fields are invisible, they are efficient conductors of information. Even electricity can now be transmitted wirelessly from one device to another.
You also interact with your environment in invisible ways, through the energy fields in which you’re immersed. Through your brain, mind, and cells, your consciousness projects signals into the fields around you (Oschman, 2015).
Genius inventor Nikola Tesla is often quoted as saying, “If you wish to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”
When we originate an idea in consciousness, we send signals into the universal field. Transmission requires hardware, in the form of the brain, as well as software, in the form of the mind. Signals traveling through neural pathways create energy fields, and those fields change depending on the content of consciousness. Healing involves field effects, whether local or distant like shared in the above case study. (Excerpt is from ‘Mind to Matter’ by Dawson Church)
