Energy is a metaphysical concept that is given different names based on culture.
In Feng Shui, the word for energy is Chi. In other cultures, they use the words ki, prana, aura, etc.
Chi, also known as energy, is known as the life force that inhabits and flows in all things.
Wrapping Your Head Around “Energy”
Personally, I struggled to understand the abstract concept of “energy”. Because energy, in the spiritual sense, is not a physical reality but an abstract reality.
The following are examples that helped me realize that there is an “energetic” reality:
- Atoms are a theory that can be considered a scientific fact because it is observable. There aren’t really physical little orbs, but the scientific theory works and makes sense.
- The Law of Gravity is an example of a hypostasis, not a hypothesis. It is simply regarded as a part of our reality—
- The same way the chakra system is simply taken as a reality in the eastern world—
- Or that our brain tells us that it holds our minds despite the neural system traveling across our entire bodies
Just because you can’t see “energies” or “auras” physically doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
When you feel called from within to take action, does this psychic reality not exist? It exists as a psychical fact. It’s real.
Energies and auras are real the same way your internal struggles and pain are real. Just because you don’t see it, doesn’t mean it is a fiction.
(It’s also why you can’t explain away pain.)
Feng Shui helps us become more aware of the energetic realities in our living spaces—
You may not see it, but you can feel it.
And if you struggle to feel it now, you can at least see the effect it has.
Think of energies and auras like the wind—it’s elusive to the eye but you can see the effect it has on the things it touches.
This is also why liars and manipulators invite negative energies. They speak lies and summon the Spirit of Deception to wreak havoc. You see this by the negative impact it has on others.
What is Spiritual Energy?
Remember that Chi, or Prana, or Energy, is in all things. Not only living beings, but also nature, such as mountains, streams, rocks, plants, etc.
The earliest religious beliefs stem from this belief that everything is connected by this energy.
Believe it or not, this includes modern things like: chairs, tables, tv’s, cars, and so on.
How would these modern items also have spiritual energy?
Let me break it down for you.
Understand that Spirituality can be defined as “your relationship with Reality”.
The more aware or conscious you become of the World, the Truth, Reality, Life—the more spiritual you are. Because you are seeing things as they truly are.
But to do this, you need to be mature.
To be mature, you need to mend your psyche from the traumas that keep you from seeing an objective reality.
This is why Psychology and Spirituality are two sides of the same coin. Because everything in here is also out there.
When your psychology, or psyche, is distorted by your traumas and ego, you can’t see Reality for what it is. Instead you are living in a “bad dream”.
Remember the following:
Perception is not Reality.
Reality is Reality.
A lie is not the Truth.
The Truth is the Truth.
Your ego development, aka spiritual development, determines how much Truth you can handle.
Now to be fair, everyone has an ego, so you can only capture glimpses of Reality at a time, before you sink back to the fabrication.
Now let me remind you that Spirituality is your relationship with Reality.
Everything has Spiritual Energy, but you can’t tap into all of it all the time.
How do you tap into the spiritual energy of something?
You make it relevant to your life.
When something is relevant to your ego (aka your mind), you are able to recognize its spiritual energy.
This is your sixth sense in action—in other words, this is your intuition, your meaning-maker. The thing that gives you higher sentience than animals and inanimate objects
The meaning-maker that is your intuition, is what makes the connection between you and the world around you.
If your goal is to lose weight and build muscle, you become more conscious and aware when there is exercise equipment nearby.
If your goal is to improve your living space or “clean your room (kermit voice)”, Feng Shui is a tool that helps you become more conscious and have a “higher awareness” of the energetic realities in your surroundings.
Again, everything has spiritual energy. Anything you recognize in your awareness is something you have tapped into. Because Spirituality is your relationship with Reality.
This is why meditation is so big in “awakening”. Because you are taking a break from all of your goals and being present in Life (Truth), not your mind (the ego, the lie, the fabrication).
When you are fully present and command your mind to go away, Everything in your perception becomes relevant because your mind isn’t grasping at your personal egoic reality.
This is also known as “the kingdom of heaven”.
Meanwhile, the suffering you endure for not yet reaching what your mind (ego) desires is known as “hell”.
This is why you only get glimpses of Reality, or “the kingdom of heaven”, at a time.
When you mend your psyche enough, you can “deliver yourself” as needed.
To conclude my very convoluted explanation, I want to point out that “God” or “Reality” encapsulates “lies”, “devilry”, “narratives”, and “ego”. These things are all within Reality.
We need these stories to give our lives meaning because a healthy human animal is one that lives a meaningful life. Meanwhile an unhealthy human animal is out to prove to itself and others that life is meaningless; due to traumatization and ostracization which leads to murder-suicide.
Thanks for reading my personal understanding and philosophy on life and spirituality. This is just scratching the surface of my years of research on psycho-spirituality.
– Rich
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