1-2 Sex and the Soul: May 2006

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Quest for the Soul: The Aura and the Meridians

If you’ve ever studied Chinese medicine, acupuncture or Eastern Religions, chances are that you’ve encountered many references to the aura and the meridians. Western artists and religions represent the aura in paintings by the halo and generally depict it over the head of a person that Christians feel is a great person or saint. Actually, the aura (and thus the halo) is the soul, and since all living things have a soul, all living things (plants, animals, bacteria) have an aura (and thus a halo).

Western science obtained proof of the soul’s existence in the 1930s, but no correlation between the aura and the soul or between the aura and the discovery of the 1930s ever came about. This was due in part because science had no definition for the soul and in part, because science, including psychology (which means the knowledge or study of the soul) discounted the existence of the soul. There is no scientific definition for the soul and no criteria for the soul. Thus, science does not have data that can be definitively pointed to and allow one to say, “Aha! This fits the criteria or definition for the soul!”

Eastern religions, most notably Buddhism and Hinduism, place a great deal of emphasis on meditation and on the cakras. These cakras are points of focus within the body where an abstract form of energy called “prana” in India and “chi” in China is stored. The cakras appear to be associated with clusters of nerve cell bodies (called ganglia) of the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic ganglia are composed of seven anatomically complicated nerve clusters that lie outside of, but along the spinal cord. These ganglia, and indeed, the entire autonomic nervous system are associated with the unconscious mind. For those familiar with Freud’s concepts, let me point out that there is no such thing as an “unconscious mind” or “the unconscious.” The correct term is the subconscious mind. To correct Freud (for the readers) before going on, there are three types of mind: 1) The conscious mind, 2) the subconscious mind and 3) the super conscious mind referred to in the East and accidentally discovered by Western science in the 1920s. Each of these types of mind has various mental states. Freud’s “unconscious” is merely a state of the conscious mind, not a type of mind. Freud was very inconsistent in his use of the terms “subconscious” and “unconscious”, and that inconsistency was passed on to the rest of psychology. Often, he used the terms interchangeably. Today, about 100 years after Freud’s work made him a giant in psychology, that inconsistent use of these terms remains throughout psychology.

The subconscious mind is associated with and controls the autonomic nervous system. The entire mind, i.e., conscious, subconscious and super conscious, is part of the aura, and thus, part of the soul. Once science has a more firm foundation to define the soul and has established criteria for the soul, it will be able to measure and study the mind and the entire soul more readily, but today, since science does not believe in the soul’s existence (despite proving that it exists), further measurement and study of the soul is unlikely.

Chinese medicine says that acupuncture works because of energy changes that occur along the meridians of the aura. It is said that a form of energy called “chi” (or “ch’i”) in China and “prana” in Buddhism and Hinduism can be harnessed by the soul and flows through the meridians. When this happens, it can be measured, but since Western science has yet to recognize that it has already discovered the soul/aura, it cannot make any claims of measuring the energy that flows through the meridians, nor even confirm that the meridians exist.

Today, we are still a long way from realizing that we discovered the soul decades ago and reported it in our mainstream scientific literature, publications and research data. There is really no reason to debate the fact with skeptics. All we need to do is to pick up the research from decades ago and resume it. The resulting new data will speak for itself and confirm that science is studying the life force and the mind when it studies this force. Eventually, it will become apparent to all that this abstract but measurable force is the aura and thus, the soul. All we need to do now is delve further and deeper into research to collect new data.

Angaza