‘Everything in the Heavens is just through one unique Chi’    Zhuangzi

Please suspend judgement for a moment on what I am about to suggest; that it is my belief that much is missing from our scientific understanding of energy. Certainly the Unified Field Theory remains elusive to conventional science, but what of the energy that flows within living, conscious, nature? Is there a bond between electromagnetism and gravity, and whatever force powers life itself?

The ancient Chinese called the energy of living things, Chi. This is not the electricity that powers our muscles, organs, nerves and brain, although we are certainly electrical and magnetic. There is a more subtle energy within us but why do we understand it so little?

My suggestion is that Chi is always in constant motion and for that reason, hard to observe and measure. A propeller on an aeroplane becomes just a blur when it spins; it almost becomes invisible. Suppose then as a theory, that our chakras are always spinning. Perhaps the Hindus called them ‘wheels’ for this reason. To spin brings seperate elements together into one unity.

The analogy would be a child’s spinning top that when at rest has the full rainbow of colours visible. When it spins a rainblow of colours blurs into white.

If chakras spin, then it must be possible to increase their speed and balance. Imagine looking down through all the chakras in the body, perhaps in the body of a ballet dancer spinning on one foot. They would become a blur of white light.

Imagine also the feeling of being that ballet dancer. Because of the spinning motion, gravity has a reduced effect on a body. You have become a gyroscope. When spinning on an axis, a human body is generating and experiencing Chi, as well as centripedal force, and weighs less. Light has become a white blur to the human eye. The weight of the body is so reduced that the dancer can stand on just one toe, but only whilst spinning.

Consider a more extreme example. When a high level of Chi is achieved by mystics and adepts of various disciplines such as Yoga, the less effect gravity has on the body. Mystics such as Padre Pio and adepts from the East such as yogis, demonstrated levitation through their high level of Chi. Some even had to be held down to prevent them from floating.

Undertakers will tell you that a deceased body is heavier than a living body. Four men are needed to carry a corpse, while one person may lift and carry a living body. After death, Chi leaves.

‘Life is the gathering of Chi. When it disperses, we die.’          Zhuangzi

The most well known example of spinning for spiritual experiences, are the Whirling Dervishes. The dance represents the planets spinning and moving around the sun, the Sheikh. It raises the personal Chi of the dancers and induces ecstatic states of unity with the Divine.

Consider the same principles of nature at a different scale.

The weather patterns across the globe are vortexes of high and low air pressure. These spin constantly and the churning of the moisture and particles in the air creates static electricity.

Tall buildings on Earth, attract lightning and modern buildings are earthed for this reason but the ancients wished to direct high charges of electricity into and from their sacred buildings with associated Chi.

At the Great Pyramid of Cheops for instance, there are pavements of fulgurite, a rock created when sand is melted into glass by lightning.

The Ancient Egyptians were masters of Chi energy for it’s various benefits in sustaining mind and body, ritual and intitiation, communication, construction and fertility in fauna and flora. The scarab beetle is an intriguing choice of archetypal symbol until it is considered that it rolls spheres of dung, similar in essence to the movement of the sun and the solar system.

Many of the ancient buildings and cities were constructed so as to produce the best benefit from natural and artificial lines and confluences of Chi. The Chinese were adept at this and perhaps the name of their country contains a reference to this! Certainly their science of Feng Shui meaning Wind Water, was carried out with particular attention to the local environment, the earths magnetism and the planets and stars. Even in modern times, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank was placed and aligned according to the principles of Feng Shui, for prosperity in the exchange of money.

In all other parts of the world Chi is associated with the patterns of flow of underground water and aquifers. This affects every building however humble and is particularly relevant to sacred buildings. The effect of Chi a the high levels that these buildings generate, is to induce a feeling of Divine love and spiritual initiation in congregations. The coloured light and rituals were only ever distractions. More cosmic energies were at work. The clever use of natural light through alignment of windows and doors with solar solstices and equinoxes into sacred spaces is found even in the most ancient of constructions such as New Grange in Ireland and the Temples of Abu Simmel in Egypt.

Of course the energy of the Sun and the stars are vital to the welfare of life on Earth, and much has been written on their influence in the field of Astrology and Astronomy. The former includes the energetic effects of cyclic stellar gyrations, whilst the latter observes matter through the electromagnetic spectrum.

Nicola Tesla, the great prophet of electrical phenomena such as radio, maintained that electricity is a degraded form of Chi. As we understand there is an electro motive force associated with a wire carrying electrical current, it is possible that the currents of rivers and oceans attract Chi in a similar way? Is Chi transfered to humans from the landscape by induction? It is interesting that humans are attracted to such places for leisure and restoration. In the context of this essay, the generator uses this principle to convert a rotational force into electricity. Could not all spinning motion be generators of Chi in a similar way, even as we observe in the nucleus and spinning electrons of sub-atomic matter?

Could the ancients raise Chi in a huge stone block so as to make it levitate? If so, this would certainly explain how pyramids and megalithic sites like Stone Henge were constructed. There is a record of Tibetan Buddhists using sound from horns and chanting choirs to lift large stone blocks.

The fissures in the rocks beneath our feet naturally fill with flowing water. Where two such water courses cross, they create a vortex sometimes apparent as a spring. Wells are dug in such places. What is interesting is that such underground water creates Chi in a particular place. This was controlled in ancient times by the placing of massive stone – preferably containing high levels of mineral crystals. Different crystals give off electromagnetic waves at differing frequencies as in radio technology today. The pyramids of Giza were capped by a crystal above a gold pyramidion, according to John Michell in ‘The View Over Atlantis.

It is speculated that the anti-gravity effects of Chi could have been used to lift the massive stone blocks to build such structures as the pyramids.

If one examines the simplest principals in ‘anti gravity’ flying machines such as Schaubergers shown below, the vortex is fundamental to the effect that Earth’s gravity has on matter; gravity can be reduced to zero.

The scientist Wilhelm Reich designed a box to store Chi or, as he called the elusive energy, Orgone. The box was made of layers of organic and inorganic material. A person sitting in the box received a slow charge of orgone. Unlike heat, which goes from a high source to a lower place, orgone moves from a low source to a higher place in a manner that constantly builds up a charge and requiring a discharge.

Ancient structures such as cathedrals appear to have a knowledge of this. The spire in a cathedral concentrates orgone as it ascends up to the point of the spire where Chi is discharged into the atmosphere. The effect can be neutralised by earthing the energy with a copper strip connecting the top of the spire to the earth below.

The pyramids of Egypt and around the world functioned similarly using the principle of the ascending whilst narrowing geometry of a pyramid. The Chi was concentrated at one-third intervals of it’s height where in Giza the Cheops pyramid was constructed without a peak and pyramidion. This was to cap and retain Chi within the sacred chambers of the pyramid.

The King’s chamber is positioned and constructed geometrically as a double cube, so that the effect of a high exposure to Chi induced change in the brain of initiates. Kings, queens, priests and gnostic aspirants would have undergone this as a powerful spiritual initiation. Chi was clearly linked with the ultimate goal for ancient Egyptians, a prolonged and prosperous life outside of the deceased body.

Ultimately, everything is energy – even matter – and the understanding of the effects of all types of energy on human beings is as important as it is for a surfer to understand ocean waves.

Although it is easier to observe the inanimate, material, and stationary, the next step for science, in my view, is to observe the energetic effects of movement in the vast and tiny gyrations of life.

I nature the vast and flowing Chi…it is immense and powerful. When cultivated with integrity and without harm, it fills all space between Heaven and Earth’          

Mengzi