Contemporary Science recognizes that the components or building blocks of all forms and natural phenomena are energies. This scientific appreciation of our Universe is a fundamental premise upon which today’s body of knowledge is built.
Today, however, the understanding of Energy is limited to forms and phenomena in the material, physical world. Other less-tangible forms and phenomena like thought-forms, intuitions, feelings, aspirations, desires and emotions — though used by us in our everyday life and considered as the characteristic expressions of the human nature — are not regarded as distinctive energies. Instead, they are considered to be accidental, somewhat mysterious byproducts of biochemical reactions occurring in the human anatomy.
This exclusion of basic expressions of the human nature from the studies of Energy has led modern Science to speculate about the human psyche in ways that little correspond to the everyday inner and psychological experiences of human beings.
The Wisdom Teachings have always held the notion that there exists a World of Energies, not only responsible for the phenomena of the material physical universe, but also responsible for the many psychological expressions and subjective experiences of all beings.
This World of Energies comprises vast realms of existence beyond our familiar material world. Analogous to the physical world, these realms are made of energies also ruled by precise natural laws susceptible to scientific studies. Into this multidimensional world of energies, modern Physics is just entering with its studies on the quantum realms.
Scientific skepticism and the refusal to include subjective and psychological phenomena in the studies of Energy originated as a reaction to the superstitious, prejudiced and rhetorical views of the human being, the natural world and the realms of Spirit held by religionists and spiritually-oriented people during the past two thousand years.
This reaction qualified the birth of modern Science during the Renaissance and impressed a direction to it that still conditions the ways of thinking of many in the scientific community. Also this reaction has contributed to the still-influential views of a mechanistic and positivistic Science that sees the human being as a static, passive observer of the Universe and that considers as real only that which is detected by physical instruments.
The vastness of Reality can never be contained within the boundaries of the theories of any science — nor does any energy phenomena need to wait for a confirmation by human Science before it can be perceived and experienced by human beings.
Yet, the attitudes of contemporary Science are changing. A growing tendency is today seen among scholars, researchers and thinkers in all fields to consider human beings as active participants in the natural process of the Cosmos — even in the quantum realms!
Human beings fulfill the role of active participants in the natural process of the Cosmos when using their subjective faculties of Thinking and Feeling.
These human faculties generate dynamic energy forces with the power either to create with beauty and perfection or to destroy with ignorance.
These energy forces have powerful effects upon the fabric of Space and upon all kinds of forms.
These energy forces play, therefore, a dynamic role in the World of Energies — their energy characteristics can be studied scientifically, their laws can be identified, and their power can be tapped and handled with intelligence.
No present-day technology can yet detect the existence of the Soul, the energy body, the mental body or the sentient body of a human being as distinct energy forms; nor is it possible either to identify, directly, with apparatuses the energies of thoughts, intuitions, aspirations, feelings, emotions and desires. However, today it is possible to observe and study in various ways their effects upon the human physical body and the natural world (especially upon plants). For these studies, unprejudiced, open-minded and creative forms of observation are needed; in other words, a true scientific attitude is needed.