Electronics Forum / Basics / January 2007

I beg to differ

Spark photography, as it was called back in the day. Is the way to
measure such energy. Or so call energy.

Apply a radio frequency to your hand, the body then re radiates and
modulates infared light which then exposes photographic film. There is
no doubt.

It was first made famous by a Russian named Kirlian. He used it on
plants, cut a leaf in half, with RF applied, and the whole leaf would
show up in the photograph. Now how could the exposed film show a whole
leaf when only half the leaf was photographed? Parlor trick? Not
hardly, It can be reproduced easily even time all the time, by anybody.

Now we have digital cameras, strength of the light and frequency of the
light could be a basis to measure such energy.

Don't listen to these idiots. The fact is that it is well documented that
these things exist and there explinations are based in science. That is,
cells do exhibit electrical characteristics long with some cell complexes
fundamentally use electricity to communicate.  This is not saying that chi
is real in the sense that its some special power or anything but that there
is a solid basis behind it but it is misinterpreted and hyped.  It is also
known that the meridians correspond to special biological functions. This
isn't a coincidence but is simply how the chinese have learned to map the
human anatomy.  Ofcoures this doesn't necessarily mean that sticking a
needle in your big toe will cause you to get an erection.

Essentially, I suppose the eastern view of this is pseudoscience with a
pinch of logic in it.  i.e., over thousands of years the chinese have
learned many things such as its no coincidence that when you chop someones
arm off that the die. The problem is that they come up with some explination
like "He died because he ate to much rice when the moon was green in the
year of the monkey" instead of the real culprit.  Ofcourse sometimes they
are closer to reality than at other times.  It might even be the cause that
some of there results are far ahead of modern western medicine.  Its not to
hard to conclude that if you eat this brownish root that looks like a potato
that your going to die if everyone that has eaten it before has died.

Even if the majority of this stuff is false it has shown just how powerful
the human body/mind is.  Mind over matter is no joke and dedicating your
life to being kicked in the balls and then going around the world and doing
demonstrations is just one benifit of chi.

Most of these things are hyped though and you'll find that any ordinary
person can do it with just a little practice.  Its nothing "special" and you
can call it some type of energy if you want but in reality its just
something that is extraordinary but entirely within the realm of the human
body/mind.  It's just not in the realmn of someone that sits on there a.s 
all day or doesn't have the proper mentality(if you think its going to hurt
then chances are it will).  If you think you have super human powers then
maybe you can take a kick to the nuts and not feel it. Someone that believes
in this stuff would say its chi when in reality its just that you put your
mind into a certain mode that can deal with it.

Also, many of the people believe this stuff and do develope some "powers"
that might seem extraordinary.  Its not from any real power ofcourse and can
be completely explained with science.  For example, one person might be able
to make there hand hotter than the other. This is not anything special as
people do it all the time. Whats "special" is that person has learned how to
control the ability which has probably come from much practice or a "glitch"
in the person's mental or physical makeup.

A good example is a savant. These people have amazing powers but its not
anything special. There just different from the average person. While it
might be statistically odd its nothing out of the realm of reality.

Now, if you see someone flying around without any help then you know
something up. If chi really existed then you would have seen this by now(the
chinese have had thousands of years to work on it).  Ultimately chi is just
a mixture of reality and fantasy and most of the time its fantasy.  This is
not to say its a bad thing. Even the placebo effect can be a cure.

The "tool" is your own felt-sense, but of course, when you do undeny it,
it can take some practice to distinguish other peoples' energy fields from
your own.

Good Luck!
Rich

Unfortunately, even that "instrument" doesn't seem to do much
under anything resembling controlled conditions - so why, exactly,
should we believe these "subtle flows of energy" actually exist?

Bob M.