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Aug. 12th, 2003 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johncomicafter my recent chakral experience i decided to read up a bit on the general area of "energy healing" or whatever you call it... found a reputable book, i'm goin' thru it... early on it gives some exercises for learning to detect your own energy field, things that you're supposed to be able to feel using your hands...
now note that the book didn't say what i would feel, so that you go into the test with no preconceptions or presuppositions... [at the end of the chapter it goes "so, did you feel something like this?", etc]... so, in the interest of open-minded inquiry, i tried these "aura tests" out...
they worked. all of 'em. i did them like twenty times or more.
i felt something as distinct and unignorable as when you're fulla static and then touch metal. no wishful-thinking, oh-i-think-i-caught-a-hint-of-something-there... it was more like bam... (albeit a very gentle quiet bam...)
i felt an interaction between my hands... at times like i could draw a line of energy on one palm by moving a fingertip from the other hand an inch or two away from it, sometimes the energy was so strong it almost hurt... other times it was more like a pressure between my palms, keeping them apart...
have any of you read or heard of a more normal scientific explanation for what goes on between your hands in such circumstances? cuz i don't wanna go off half-cocked [what man would? hur hur hur...] and then find out i was a doofus because it was only a "neural illusion" explained by the hypothalamus or somesuch...
the book says i was feeling my own aura. maybe somebody can suggest something else that i was feeling, something less cosmic...
all i know is i felt something. i did not imagine this....
now note that the book didn't say what i would feel, so that you go into the test with no preconceptions or presuppositions... [at the end of the chapter it goes "so, did you feel something like this?", etc]... so, in the interest of open-minded inquiry, i tried these "aura tests" out...
they worked. all of 'em. i did them like twenty times or more.
i felt something as distinct and unignorable as when you're fulla static and then touch metal. no wishful-thinking, oh-i-think-i-caught-a-hint-of-something-there... it was more like bam... (albeit a very gentle quiet bam...)
i felt an interaction between my hands... at times like i could draw a line of energy on one palm by moving a fingertip from the other hand an inch or two away from it, sometimes the energy was so strong it almost hurt... other times it was more like a pressure between my palms, keeping them apart...
have any of you read or heard of a more normal scientific explanation for what goes on between your hands in such circumstances? cuz i don't wanna go off half-cocked [what man would? hur hur hur...] and then find out i was a doofus because it was only a "neural illusion" explained by the hypothalamus or somesuch...
the book says i was feeling my own aura. maybe somebody can suggest something else that i was feeling, something less cosmic...
all i know is i felt something. i did not imagine this....
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Date: 2003-08-12 08:25 am (UTC)Oh, I meant to tell you, I decided to buy How We Choose To Be Happy. It came the end of last week! I only barely started to read it and then got distracted. But hopefully I'll get to read it all soon. Thanks for the recommendation. =)
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Date: 2003-08-12 09:20 am (UTC)