Human Energies

[Mundane]

Human Energies
Is there more than one window to the soul?

Recently I have noticed a massive change in my perception of life and spirituality. This could be a direct effect of me coming of age or due to the fact that I am now quite resolute in how I want to live my life. In all this I have noticed a strange, but not entirely ethereal, response to unexplained "energies". I have noticed that I can somehow decipher people in different ways based not only on their outward behavior but somehow from another perspective. With this insight I have noticed I am able to reason with people more. I am capable of being slightly more objective in my reasoning of most things.

The problem here is that I feel this is just a sign of maturity. However, it has awakened in me an interest to uncover how people feel about the possibility of human energies, and how the average human being can perceive of them and interpret them. The discussion here is not entirely based on my specific experience and whether or not it's valid, I merely used that as a segue into the topic at hand.

First, I'll describe what I mean by energies. Many people have heard of the energy of chi, and how the body is enveloped in the energy force - our aura. So by energies I mean an intangible element of the human psyche that reveals, in some manner, psychological and emotional information about the person.

Second, I'd like to present a variety of questions to narrow the scope of the discussion:
• Do humans possess an energy force, separate or related to the force known as chi, that gives off psychological and emotional information to those who A.)are somehow able to perceive them or B.)choose to perceive them?
• Can these energies be perceived as objective truths or are they, as most things in life, perceived subjectively and taken in different context from individual to individual? For example, if Person A's energy put off the signal of the anger he truly felt, would Person B feel it as anger? Would Person C perceive it as anger as well, or as something entirely separate?
• Considering the average human mind, can one who can perceive these signals make conscious decisions based upon them?
• Do these energies exist from within the human body? If so, where do they originate? Or do they exist on some other medium, such as the collective unconscious?
• Could a person, who is consciously aware of his/her own energies, influence their signals directly?

I understand some of this is kind of strange, but I feel that the point is valid and leaves for an interesting conversation. I want to leave it open to many interpretations. I'm not a knowledgeable person when it comes to religious ideals on such energies, so I'd be glad to get some input on them from anyone who practices an "energy observant" religion or knows of one.

Thanks for your interest. Have fun!

 

[Vadon]

These are all my personal opinions, but let's give you some answers to your questions, eh?

1. No. People don't have some sort of aura or energy that exists, rather those things that your perceive(their emotions and psychological state), are just observations you make based upon a person. People have different mannerisms and physical symptoms according to their feelings and psychological state. Wide eyes, shortness of breath, twitching, higher pitch, and looking around wildly are all things that happen when a person is afraid. A person who figures that out isn't getting it from their 'aura,' they're just observant and know how to read those images.

2. Subjective interpretations. Not much else to say here because I already reject the 'aura' concept.

3. Sure. If you see someone sitting in a corner, avoiding eye-contact with everyone who passes, they sigh fairly often, and there's a frown on their face, you can make a conscious decision to go to that person and react to their feelings.

4. I don't believe in the energies, so I wouldn't know where they originate from.

5. People can learn how to control their emotions and throw people for a loop if they want. For example, there are quite a few entertainers who are utterly terrified of public speaking/performing. Yet they suck it up and no one would be the wiser.

I think this is an interesting subject, I just don't believe in it.

 

[QuantumMindGames]

here comes the psychobabble barely anyone believes, but there's a lot of things unexplainable without it...


despite how this post is probably going to be responded to, I'll say it anyways:

i believe humans have an innate natural ability for telepathy. Do some research into this, it's more than crazy babble and it can explain some things.

For one, here's a bit of a breakdown of the science behind it, or what science has been able to explain with tangible proof, telepathy is not reading other peoples minds, it's sending your thoughts, as well as emotions, in the form of vibrations (or whatever you want to call it, for the skeptics) which is picked up in a cranial cavity called the Pineal Gland, front of the forehead. Also called the third eye. The pineal gland interprets vibrations, to put it simply.

So if they are sending their thoughts and emotions, mostly this is completely unintentional, then there is a possibility that you can 'pick up' a small amount of this, and think what they think and feel what they feel. researchers for this stuff say this goes on all the time, but we think it as if it is our own thought, so a lot of times there's no way to tell thoughts apart.


This explains mother's intuition, how they just feel that their child is feeling something, regardless of their location. and the strange feeling some people get that something is about to happen, as a direct result of other people's actions. It's also supposedly stronger between direct family members than strangers. As well, it's been said that some people are better at receiving, and some are better at sending.

All in all, skeptical, flat-out-deny it, or fully-accept it, it's up to you.


But more than likely I say this has something to do with what you are talking about.

As for the 'aura's thing... no, there are no colors or anything, maybe people pick up other people's emotions better than others, honestly I dont know.


But before anybody decides to flat out deny this, please - do a little bit of research, you'd be surprised how many people say this is a definite possibility.

 

[Mundane]

I like your approach to it, Quantum. I feel that however you want to explain it is up to you, but there is definately something more at work than just physical signs. Even such phenomena as twins feeling each others pain, or really close friends ending each others sentences can possibly play a role in these energies, vibrations, etc.

 

[Holk]

Read some Jung. His theories on synchronicity and the collective unconscious are interesting. Doesn't really apply to sensing "human energies", but does attempt to explain dreams through archetypes, and connect the psyche of varying human beings.