A Brief History of the Study of Energy

In our last blog post, we talked about archetypal blueprints that are defined by the kind energy that flows through all of us. We all have the instinctive ability to “read” the energy of another person’s archetypal blueprint and make unconscious judgments based on that read. But what exactly is this energy? And how can this knowledge be properly harnessed in the workplace? To find out, we need a history lesson on the study of energy!

In ancient India, “Prana” was considered a universal energy which exists in everything in the world. Prana can be translated as breath of life. The ancient Chinese used the word “chi” to describe the energy. Now what’s interesting about the Chinese version of energy is that it has polarity to it, a yin and a yang. Around 538 B.C., the Kabbalah called energy “Astral Light”. These Jewish scholars began noting light around bodies and objects. Artists continued that tradition by painting halos of light around people considered holy.

Around the 12th century, scientists found that each person’s energy impacted others. They noticed that before you could see or hear somebody, you could sense them, even whether you were going to like them or not. That was really the first study of the effect of the impact of energy on from one person to another. If you’re in a dark alley, you can sense something is coming towards you before you see it or hear it.

Then in the 1800’s and 1900’s, scientists began looking at mathematical equations because they couldn’t explain numerous theories of the laws of physics which were incomplete. They couldn’t explain this fluid flow, or the impact that fields were having on each other, or the effects that two different objects would have on each other. They couldn’t explain exactly why there was a mysterious, invisible impact between things. It wasn’t physical.

In the 1900’s, researchers started measuring this energy field with electromagnetics and what they called ODIC fields. They discovered how to measure the polarity in things that weren’t magnetic. An emission from a crystal, for example, would attract another crystal. That started a whole new train of thought in human evolution and human science about polarity and how it worked. More instruments were developed to measure energy, light waves, and other unseen particles. By 1911, the human energy field could be measured by radiation.

Have you ever thought about the “energy” of the universe and how you are a part of it? Can you see how an understanding of this energy can be incredibly useful in the world of business? Drop us a line and tell us what you think!