Making the invisible visible: the mind’s broadcasting station
The Solar Orbiter (SolO), launched on February 10, 2020. European Space Agency. Acknowledgement: Work performed by ATG medialab under contract for ESA, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
The main hall at Gresham College in London, where the Royal Society met, was packed on March 27, 1800. Nineteen years earlier, Sir William Hershel had discovered a new planet, which he named George's Star (Georgium Sidus) to honour King George. Eventually, it was renamed Uranus. It was the first new planet discovered since antiquity. It earned Hershel the title and the appointment as Royal Astronomer, with an annual salary of £200, allowing this very talented musician and composer to dedicate all his time to astronomy. No surprise then that his appearance on a beautiful spring day drew crowds to find out what he was about to present.
Sir William Hershel. Image: American Scientist
Sir Hershel spent much of his time after the discovery of Uranus observing the Sun through the telescope he had constructed. Of course, one can imagine how dangerous it is to look at the bright star through the lens, which will magnify the effect. He took precautions, adding smoked glass to block the impact. During his observations, he noticed changes in the amount of heat generated by the sunray after it passed through a prism, creating a spectrum. With a thermometer, he recorded differences in the temperature within the visible rainbow caused by the sunlight. The orange and red lights were warmer, while the blue and violet lights showed no change. So the heat kept rising as he moved his measuring device from the left (blue) to the right (red), and then something surprising happened. The temperature kept rising, but there was no visible light to measure it by. There was something in the darkness beyond the red end of the spectrum. He found the invisible light. In a split second, he realized that there is much more beyond the visible. The term infrared is Latin for "below"; however, it did not enter the scientific vocabulary until 1880. Hershel called this "a radiant heat" - something we all experience sitting by the fire that warms our hands and faces. Modern spectrometers, although far more sophisticated, use the same principle. Rather than a single formal lecture, Hershel's presentation took the form of a written paper read before the Society and later published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The paper was titled something close to "Investigation of the Powers of the prismatic Colours to heat and illuminate Objects." It was one of several on the same theme. Herschel later extracted and bound them under the collective heading "The Discovery of Infra‑Red Rays."
In design, there is the term "white space." In print, it is the area "with no pictures, illustrations or printed text." In business, "White space is dedicated time when you take a mental pause from work and other commitments to let the mind travel in whatever direction it sees fit." Almost like magic, something empty can increase comprehension by up to 20%. That is not bad for non-existing elements.
The most intriguing aspect of Hershel's discovery was the profound impact of the invisible. In fact, we are constantly submerged in electromagnetic radiation. The fact that I can't see the waves doesn't mean they do not surround me. For example, when I studied architecture, there was a workshop I vividly remember. The presenter asked us to hold a drafting triangle between our left and right hands, with the triangle forming a vertically oriented sail with the top facing forward. Now, stroll along, concentrating on it. After a few meters, the triangle will turn as if hitting an invisible wall - the "Swiss or Hartmann's grid" represents the natural radiation passing over the Earth. So, despite being hidden, it exists. In mid-latitudes, the lines are parallel with a distance of 2.5m East-West and 2m North-South. The intensity of the Hartmann lines increases during the night. Therefore, the effects on human health occur mainly during sleep. It is a fun experiment to do - finding the invisible.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) at age 34. Copyrights: Napoleon Sarony - postcard Tesla Museum
Nicola Tesla, in a lecture to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers delivered in 1890, said that the human body is a transmitter and receiver of electromagnetic vibrations. Every emotion, every mental state of the body sends a measurable signal to the surrounding energy field. The mind is a broadcasting station. Everything in the physical universe is vibration. The difference between a rock and your favourite rock music is not a category but a rate. Similarly, thoughts belong to the same continuum - they carry a frequency, but we don't yet have instruments to measure them. Fear, anger, depression, and anxiety produce a vibrational signal. An intention to release a negative emotion is yet another signal. When two systems (practitioner and client) vibrate at the same rate, energy flows between them with no resistance. Like a tuning fork or a guitar string, once plucked, it will instantly make all other guitars resonate. A thought held with enough clarity, intention, and love becomes a frequency. That frequency interacts with the field around you, while a practitioner holds the image of releasing a trapped emotion, perfectly centred, knowing it is already done. Not wishful thinking, but an inner state of certainty that connection and release are real. That inner state is not a wish directed at reality - the inner state IS THE REALITY.
When we ask if it is okay to test or connect with a client, we are turning the imaginary dial, tuning into the client's energy field. Everyone has an energetic signature - like an “IP address.” Once the connection is established, confirmed by a muscle test (actually, it can be done without muscle testing), both "systems" become entangled—a term used in quantum physics—with the practitioner's subconscious mind temporarily stepping back for the duration of the session, so all the changes to the energy field introduced through the Governing Meridian (a key energetic pathway in Traditional Chinese Medicine that runs along the spine from the tailbone around the top of the head, to the upper lip) on the practioner's body are instantly occuring on the client's side, even if both "systems" are thousand of kilometers away. Magic? No, not really. It's quantum physics, but I admit - it does feel like it's from another world. A world, entirely constructed from constantly vibrating and interwoven energy fields, creating an amazing network of relationships, dependencies and connections—a world where everyone and everything is associated to an unimaginable extent.
