LIFE-FORCE ENERGY: � the Sacred Root of Place, Architecture, and Community

LIFE-FORCE ENERGY: The Sacred Root Of Place, Architecture, And Community

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14 BUILDING WITH THE BREATH OF LIFE CHAPTER ONE – ENTERING THE UNIVERSE OF CHI 15

our perception, experience, and living. It is a vision of the rhythmic iteration of Elàn Vital Early Europe1 El, Manna Israel1 In moresound, of song, thanof complex vibration, 65 harmonics cultures, and overtones that give rise to Ether Early Europe6 Yesod Jewish Kabbalah 2 1, 6 1 and maintain all the complex interfolding structure of the universe. Illiaster 1500’s Europe11 Baraka Moroccan , Persian , Facultas Formatrix Galen2 , Johannes Kepler2 Sufi2 Wodan German2 Shiimti Sumerian9 worldwide,Virtually every culture other than our own has experienced and incorpo- Dynamis Greek1, 5 rated an understanding of this breath of life into all aspects of their lives. Ours alone Entelecheia Greek (from Aristotle)2, 5 seems to have lost this understanding. Chi, prana, kundalini, ki, vis medicatrix naturae, life-force energy (Formative Cause) PACIFIC mana . . . the names are as many as the cultures that have known it, yet the consis- Pneuma Greek (from Galen)1 2 tency and accuracy of the descriptions and practices related to this phenomenon (Numia, Mumia) Labuni Gelaria (N. Guinea) 12 is core to all aspects of life. Telesma Greek (from Hermes Tane Hawaii are awesome. The personal experience of this breath of life through yoga, tai chi, 1 Trismegistus)2 Kerei Indonesia qi-gong, martial arts, meditation, or spontaneous occurrence is acknowledged by 2 Vis Medicatrix Naturae Greek (from Anut Kusaie increasing numbers of people in our own culture. We are experiencing it today 2 Hippocrates)1 Andriamanitra Malagasy (Philippines) with the same consistency and replicability as in past cultures. 2 Nous Greek (from Plato)2 Atua Maoris 13 Vital Fluid Medival Alchemists1 Aka Mauli 2 Numen Roman1 Kasinge, Kalit Palau 1 Spirare Roman12 Huna Polynesian Mana Polynesian / Hawaiian1, 2 Ani, Han Ponape2 MID-EAST Tondi Sumatra1, Bataks2 Napishtu Akkadian9 Yaris Tobi2 LIFE-FORCE ENERGY Anima Mundi Avicenna 2 (Arabic) Miwi Yaralde of the Lower Ka, Hike, Ankh Egyptian1 Murray10 IN WORLD CULTURES Ruach Hebrews2

NAME CULTURE / NATION /PERSON

1. Dr. Clyde W. Ford, WHERE HEALING WATERS MEET, 1980. 8. Robert Voeks, SACRED LEAVES OF CANDOMBLÉ, 1997. AFRICA AMERICA (S.) 2. John White & Stanley Krippner, FUTURE SCIENCE, 1977. 9. Zacheria Sitchen, THE TWELFTH PLANET, 1991. 12 Ntoro Ashanti Axé Candomblé8 3. Barbara Brennan, HANDS OF LIGHT, 1987. 10. A.P Elkin, ABORIGINAL MEN OF HIGH DEGREE, 1946. Ntu Bantu12 Huaca Incan, Peruvian2 4. Richard Katz, quoted in KUNDALINI EXPERIENCE, Lee Sannella, 1992. 11. Barbara Brennan, LIGHT EMERGING, 1993. Mulungu Central African Itz, K’awil, Ch’ul, Maya7 5. Vinton McCabe, LET LIKE CURE LIKE, 1997. 12. William Collinge, SUBTLE ENERGIES, 1998. 6. Paul Devereux, PLACES OF POWER, 1990. 13. Hank Welsselman, MEDICINEMAKER, 1998. 2 12 Yaos, Ghana Ch’ulel 7. David Freidel, Linda Schele & Joy Parker, MAYA COSMOS, 1993. 14. Helen Berliner, ENLIGHTENED BY DESIGN, 1999. Mungo Central Africa,1 Gana Incan12 Sudanese2 Elima Congo1, 2 Njom Ekoi2 18th - 20th CENTURY RESEARCHERS M-Fields Ayik Elgonyi2 ASIA (morphogenetic fields) Rupert Sheldrake1 2 1 1 Wong Gold Coast Ch’i, Qi China Anamorphosis Ludwig von Magnetic Fluid Anton Mesmer 2 1 2 Megbe Ituri Pygmies, Ki, Reiki Japan Bertalanffy2 Magnetoelectricity William T. Tiller 12 4, 1 2 Hiru Pygmies Kundalini, Prana Hindu Astral Light H.P. Blavatsky2 Negative Entropy Erwin Schroedinger 4, 2 2 2 N/um, Rlun Kalahari Bushman Kundalini, Prana Khmer Biomagnetism George De la Warr2 Noetic Energy Charles Muses 2 2 Ngai Masai Badi, Mana Malaya Bioplasma V.S. Grischenko2 Od, Odyllic, Odic Force Karl von 2 2 Ori Yoruba1 Eckankar Pali Elan Vital Henri Bergson2,5 Reichenbach 14 1 Lungta Tibetan Eloptic Energy Thomas Galen Orgone Energy Wilhelm Reich 1 2 Tinh Vietnam Hieronymus2 Primary Perception Cleve Backster 2 AMERICA (N.) Etheric Force Radiesthists2 Psi Faculty J.B. Rhine 2 Psi Plasma Andrija Puharich2 Manitou Algonquin1, 2 Etheric Formative Forces Rudolf Steiner Psionics John W. Campbell2 Dige Apache1 Gestaltung Johann Wolfgang von AUSTRALIA 2 Psychotronic Energy Robert Pavlita2 Hullo Chickasaw1 2, 2, 6 Goethe Arunquiltha, Churinga,Aborigines 2 Synchronicity Carl Gustav Jung2 Maxpe Crow1 Integrative Tendency Arthur Koestler Kurunba 1 Synergy Abraham Maslow2 Ton Dakota12 2 Kirlian Energy Czech Zogo Torres Strait Tribes 1 Unitary Principle in Sila Inuit2 L-Fields (life fields) Harold Saxon Burr Nature L.L. Whyte2 Orenda, Oki Iroquois,1, 2 Huron12 Lebenskraft, Vital Force, Samuel Hahnemann Universal Energy Field Barbara Brennan3 Digin Navaho1 Dynamis (Homeopathy)5 2 Universal Intelligence Chiropractic1 Wakonda Omaha, Sioux1, 2 EUROPE Libido Sigmund Freud 2 Will to live Western Medicine1 Po-Wa-Ha Pueblo6 Holy Spirit Christians2 Life Force Luigi Galvani Wakan Sioux1, 2 Wouivre, Nwyure Druid6 Nimbuses or halos occur in sacred art of all cultures.

Life-force energy is the same, from culture to culture Cultural practices depend on qi energy Places of power are tied to qi energy. All cultures work with life- force energy in the earth.

All are linked in the web of energy and unitary consciousness. These “energy-balls” are eternal, form the “Akashic Record” energy grid, and grow with all the energy put into them over time.

In Africa, even the life-force energy of the forests is acknowledged and honored. Traditional sacred shrine structures in Nigeria are also life-force energy empowered. Tai Ji master Chungliang Al Huang told me about a blind person walking into a show of his calligraphy in Switzerland.

The blind man traced the calligraphy.

PERFECTLY, stroke by stroke, with his hand . . . . following the qi energy radiating from the paper.

Working with life-force energy has been CORE to place-design in traditional cultures. The magnetic ﬁeld in the earth’s crust varies. Its intensity is inﬂuenced by emissions from our star, by discontinuities in the earth’s crust, and by other active agents. A variety of tools have been used to sense and alter “earth- energies” or “qi” in a place. KIYOMIZU TEMPLE

Japanese temple records indicate that dowsing was used to locate temples on powerful nodes of existing earth-energy. Kiyomizu’s immense substructure was needed to locate the altar exactly on an powerful energy spot. Creating and walking a labyrinth can increase and focus energy in a location.

Ocean tides, interestingly, quickly spread out and nullify such concentrations! Once it has been walked, crossing the lines of a labyrinth holding dowsing rods, will leave NO doubt about its curious ability to concentrate energy! Dowsers have located buried ancient sites, and shown how ritual use of a cathedral generates energy concentrations in chapels, at altars, and ritual walking paths. At a SPIRIT OF PLACE CONFERENCE in 1993, a physics professor gave a presentation on his use of aerial remote sensing. He had correlated magnetic anomalies in the earth with the location of Indian Mounds in Wisconsin. As he showed maps of the mounds and the alignment of magnetic anomalies with them, one of the Native Americans in the audience suddenly rose to his feet and stormed out the door. A few minutes later, he quietly returned to the room and asked if he could speak. He apologized for his obvious upset, and said, “You mentioned one really big anomaly where no known mounds were located, which you hadn't had time to investigate yet. Well, that is our tribe's most secret and most holy place, of which no one else knows!“

Rocks with aligned crystals, such as columnar basalt and granite batholiths have high concentration and coherence of energy. Egyptians used granite for column bases, thresholds to sacred spaces, and inner shrines, because of this energy concentration. It is so strong that dust-covered granite rocks from old temples can be unerringly identiﬁed just by touch! MACHU PICCHU is located on a huge granite batholith, between two parallel fault lines, where geologic pressures create piezo-electric currents, increasing energy concentrations. The masonry constructions around the ITI WANTANA support and give access to its location at the top of one of the big shards of granite. THE SLIDE, at Machu Picchu . . . . a “curious” architectural feature?, Here it is, from afar: And from closer in, THE SLIDE is actually the top of one of the huge granitic shards that accumulate qi energy.

Some would call it a psychic telephone booth. Not just in rocks, CRYSTALS focus and amplify energy. Salt crystals can open a person into connection with the Sacred Realms. Many monasteries take advantage of this gift. CENOTES

The energy concentrations of CENOTES come from many sources – geological, ritual use, and the otherworldly experiences of hearing them “breathe” Earth-crust fracturing from meteoric impact underlies the cenote: SERPENT MOUND, in Ohio, is a place of amazing energy. All the trees and vegetation around it are different from the surrounding lands. It has graviticGravitic anomoliesAnomolies: And, what do you know . . . .

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. . . . it is also the site of a meteor impact, causing different rocks, and thus soils, to be exposed than surrounding areas. Classical Chinese FENG-SHUI is a layered wholeness of energetic design intention. It has a geophysical basis, ecological wisdom, political insight - all within an eternal perspective on our nature and that of all Creation. KHMER WATER TEMPLES The spring snow melt in the Himalayas causes the Mekong River to ﬂood the Tonle Sap into a lake which provided irrigation water to the entire Khmer world. That system dwarfed even the monuments and shrines of Angkor. In the center of Angkor is the Bayon, where connection with the energy realms occurred most strongly. Memorials such as Angkor Wat connected with past leaders in the energy realms. The baray reservoirs initiated distribution of water outward. One of the faces of the BAYON at Angkor – eyes half- closed in meditation, connecting inner and outer worlds, the manifest and unmanifest realms. Irrigation, transportation, and life-force energy moved throughout the Khmer world through canals governed by shrines at every gate. The SEVEN-HEADED NAGA (seven chakras) was a central theme for movement of energy throughout the country and connection with the sacred realms. EGYPT

When we think ofW EGYPT, we think of pyramids and giant temples. But work with life-force energy is core to all that exists there. Yes, even the giant statues and temples are energized. The temple of Abu Simbul, relocated when the Aswan Dam was built, was oriented so at sunrise on the Pharaoh’s birth/ordination date, the sun would shine on statues deep in the heart of the temple. Astrology?

Strong intention?

Many elements were involved, but it IS incredibly powerful to experience! CANOPIC JARS holding the organs of now-mummified deceased rulers show hands creating visible protective energy-fields around the organs. A typical coronation scene. Note that the crown, not the king, is being invested with energy. Whoever wears it then becomes intermediary between the Heavens and the Earth. The ancestry of the TEMPLE OF HORUS AT EDFU is inscribed into the temple walls. Not to brag, but to link to the energy-balls of those earlier temples. MUMMIFICATION permitted bodily remains to be energized as a particularly powerful portal to the King in the Spirit World. The HEALING SANITORIUM at Dendera contained a sacred spring and multiple chapels. Each chapel contained an energized and inscribed statue, over which water was poured, then used to heal a sick person. Similar to homotropics today. Stones from older temples, on top of footings of mud bricks from the nurturing Nile River that supported Egypt, were incorporated into temple construction to bring their energy into the new project. THE TEMPLE OF HATHOR AT DENDERA is an interesting example of multiple aspects of energy use in design. Spaces in the temple become smaller and darker as the bright material world is left behind and the inner sacred world is entered. The innermost chapel of Hathor is surrounded by chapels dedicated to other Egyptian Netters – IN RELATION TO HATHOR. Thus, THEIR energy was added to HER energy, just as the yearly ritual processional cycle from temple to temple along the Nile linked them all together energetically. Inside the thick walls of the temple are multiple levels of hidden crypts. Some contained sacred ritual objects. Others, accessed by pivoting stone facing- rock, were used for initiation of those connected with the temple. Cross-section through the TEMPLE OF HATHOR at Dendera, showing location of the hidden wall crypts. INTENTION The massive temenos wall of the Temple of Hathor enclosed a sacred space almost 1000' square. The wall was thirty to fifty feet thick, up to eighty feet high, and contained upwards to five million cubic feet of material! The walls were mud bricks made by hand out of deposits from the yearly floods of the Nile. The power of intention such walls convey, even today, is immense. In many cultures, sacred medicines such as mushrooms and ayahuasca were used for individual or communal access to the wisdom of the plants and the energy realms. The Kalahari Bushmen trance-dance to open N’um or qi energy channels to the ancestors, to travel to other villages, or for healing. CONNECTION WITH THE ENERGY OF PLACE IN PUEBLO COMMUNITIES: "As children we were taught that we existed as pressure point activators for the sacred sites within the village. Every twenty feet or so were consecrated points on the ground which carried special blessings. These shrines were buried in the ground and were only visible to the inner eye. As we walked through the village, we pushed them into aliveness with our bodies' pressure on them. . . . The holy shrines were placed there because the vibrational essence of those holy sites would enhance the psyche of community and of each individual within the community. . . . The energy was always shifting, was always different. The resonating vibrations in the sacred sites were always changing so that the people in the village were always alive with energy. These sacred spaces, generating life sustaining powers, maintained our integrity as a group, orienting each individual toward the community's highest ideals.” – Joseph Rael , BEING AND VIBRATION Preparation for a dance at Acoma Pueblo HAWAIIAN HEIAU, birthing places, and connection lines between sacred places, are infused with high energy and ability to connect to the Spirit Realms.

ENERGIZED SPIRIT STONES at the heiau are not always in prominent locations. Archeologists, unaware of their nature, have mixed them with random stones to mark edges of trails, etc.

For wild in-depth stories, read Hank Wesselman’s books. With LSD, printed photographs of natural places transform into holographic 3-D images. With dance, drumming, song, sleep deprivation, and psychoactive substances, both MAYAN individuals and large groups went into altered states that allowed personal transformation and communication with the Otherworld.

For the Maya, the most important interactions are not between people and objects, but among the innate souls of persons and material objects. Ch'ulel, itz, or k'awil – all refer in different ways to chi. They called their kings ch'ul ahaw, or "lords of the life-force." Ritual centers were rebuilt when a ruler died or astrology changed. In JAPANESE SHINTO SHRINES, continuous cycles of ritual, from tree planting to harvest to tool sharpening to consecration and deconsecration of the structures every 20 years embodies immense power in the structures. THE SHRINES are untouched once consecrated, then rebuilt on an adjacent site after 20 years. Reusable timbers from Ise and Izumo are given to smaller shrines throughout the country, spreading their immense energy. THE KAMI or Earth Spirits of Japan still make their yearly visit to Izumo Shrine, as documented by this remote dowsing experiment in 1998.

ENERGIZED STATUES, sacred places, and other objects are common in many cultures, following similar processes to achieve. This isn’t a statue of Pharaoh Khafre with a bird head-dress. It is a statue of HORUS . . . . protecting and channeling wisdom through the pharaoh to his people. And in Cambodia, energized statues are used to give connection to the Spirit World. Ritual entry to some clan houses in the Paciﬁc Northwest occurred through the beak of Raven.

Inside, life was energetically connected with the forces of the Spirit World. Posts holding the roof beams in clan houses were energized to connect to the clan’s protective and guiding totem spirits. HINDU TEMPLES used geometry for energy empowerment in their temples in several ways:

• Intention of honoring the mathematical and geometric interconnectivity and interaction of natural systems.

• Speciﬁc geometry that empowers harmonic transfer of energy within physical, biologic, and psychic systems.

• Geometry demonstrating connectivity back into unity from the diversity of manifested form. Tantric sculptors at the CAVE TEMPLES OF ELLORA in India used geometry along with many other tools to give immense power to the sculptures. This sculpture of SHIVA NATARAJ at Ellora gave me a mind- boggling introduction to life-force energy and design by jumping off the wall into 3-D in front of me 46 years ago. NOTES ON OUR PLASMA UNIVERSE

Findings from our space program are showing our universe to be formed from electromagnetic plasma, rather than inert matter. The core role of life-force energy in our universe is emerging today through a revolution in our understanding of physics unexpectedly coming together from space explorations. Those plasmas occur because of energy intensity, not temperature – from immense ﬂows of energy, whose source is unknow. Our sun is a transformer, not source, of energy. The ﬂows of energy in these plasmas are IMMENSE . . . .

but their source remains “Torus-forms” are widely shown “unknown”. in mythology of different cultures. DNA, the caduceus, all reﬂect the form of a magnetic plasma torus. Planets and comets show effects of massive energy discharges between celestial objects.

A new understanding of the energetic interaction of celestial objects is emerging and transforming our knowledge of “history”. Anthony Peratt, of Jet Propulsion Laboratories, has tracked location and orientation Virtually identical rock art matching plasma forms – has of thousands been found in dozens of cultures of IDENTICAL around the globe – statistically petroglyphs improbable unless something around the world. amazing had occurred, probably in the sky, which was seen planet-wide. SOMETHING amazing occurred in the skies! These petroglyphs match the forms of “She Who high-energy Watches” – another torus- plasma formed torus ﬂows. rock art found around the world. Geological and mythological evidence indicates a planet-wide cataclysm occurring about 10,000 years ago, with phenomena that appear to be linked with violent electrical discharge between the earth and a close-passing heavenly body. Visit SOME RESULTS OF SUCH A CATACLYSM: “Thunderbolts.info” • Disruption of integral consciousness • Religions (Gods are angry) for more • Strong leaders / power structures • Focus on material realm / “computer peripherals” information. • Language and literacy • Experience of “hell”, memory of “heaven”

It appears that all this energy may be emerging into our “material” universe from the realms of qi energy. This presentation, my hotlinked ACS7 paper, and ACS6 materials are available on my website: