13 Jan Reality or illusion? Understanding Bioenergy through the Egely Wheel
At the beginning of the third millennium, energy has become a defining factor in multiple areas, but while the world economy’s problems revolve around traditional energy production, the frontier sciences exploring anomalies in theoretical physics and biology are attempting to scientifically grasp and describe a concept that is not so new: bioenergy.
Bio and energy. The compound word formed from these could well be called life energy – vis vitalis – yet the indefiniteness of these concepts and their philosophically confusing content do not bring us closer to a more precise definition of bioenergy.
Tracing the Roots of Bioenergy: Vis Vitalis
The resurgence of naturopathy in Hungary during the 1980s and 1990s brought widespread recognition to this scientifically hypothesized phenomenon, linking it to theories of aura and chakras known for thousands of years, primarily from Eastern philosophies and healing methods. But what do we really know about bioenergy in the scientific sense of the word?
Let’s start by saying:, not much. The effects associated with this concept are famously similar to parapsychological phenomena for the fact that their physical carriers are unknown. Bioenergy, although not belonging to the strictly scientific research areas of parapsychology, can still be considered a psi-phenomenon in the definitive sense that it involves interactions between a living being and its environment, which are not mediated by known physical carriers. Naturally, if the existence of a phenomenon cannot be interpreted by today’s physics, it does not preclude the possibility of its existence, because if it cannot be explained otherwise and has objectively measurable effects, it must be accepted as a fact.
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Treatment Methods: Harmonizing Aura and Chakras
Before focusing on the possible measurement methods of bioenergy, let’s examine a few naturopathic treatment methods based on the theory of bioenergy. Most of the long-standing alternative medical practices hold that the state of the human body is determined by invisible flows of energy, in which internal bioenergetic processes play as important a role as the connections binding the body to so-called cosmic or universal energy.
According to theories of chakras and aura, our bodies are enveloped in layers of aura, which become less “physical” and contain fewer “material and subtle material” components as they move away from the body, making the outer layers almost entirely composed of “information“.
Bioenergetic treatments aim to influence the operation of aura layers and chakras, harmonizing and adjusting the “energetic relationships“. A common method involves the transfer of bioenergy, which healers accomplish using either their own energy or cosmic energy. The bioenergetic state of a patient is mostly assessed using dowsing tools, though some healers can “see” the aura or sense it in other ways.
Revealing the Invisible: Dowsing vs. Kirlian Technique
However, dowsing measurements – pendulum dowsing, rod dowsing, etc. – on the one hand, rarely provide consistent diagnoses under scientific conditions. On the other hand, it is theoretically conceivable that such situations may activate Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP), which has been proven more convincingly in experiments. This ESP manifests and is indirectly represented through the symbols of the bioenergy concept system. There is a clear scientific demand to compare bioenergetic processes with the simplest theoretical model that can unequivocally prove their effect. More visible and thought-provoking results have been obtained with aura photography as opposed to “subjective” dowsing methods.
Using the so-called Kirlian technique, which involves photography in a high-frequency field – for example, photographing a leaf – a coronal discharge can be observed around the contours of the leaf. While this aura-like light phenomenon may seem like evidence to many, the real mystery is not this. If the photograph is repeated after removing a part of the leaf – even a significant part – the original contour of the leaf is outlined by the rays of the coronal discharge in the photograph taken shortly thereafter. This suggests the existence of some kind of slowly degrading informational effect around the leaf that influences the photograph. Allegedly, in the former Soviet Union, there were photographs made where the aura around living beings appeared like a giant soap bubble, but due to their notoriously secretive approach, internationally accessible scientific references are not available on this subject.
Exploring Psychokinesis in Bioenergy Research
In the context of bioenergy measurements, the name of dr. George Egely, a research engineer, is indispensable. He is one of the first in Hungary to start researching and categorizing parapsychological phenomena, originally developed his water-stirring experiment in the 1980s, which later led to the development of what is known as the life energy or bioenergy measuring device, known as the Egely Wheel.
The essential lessons from these scientifically documented and methodically conducted water-stirring experiments can be summarized as follows. If the subject places their hand next to the water in a flat, round glass dish (Petri dish), the water gradually starts to rotate. The speed and consistency of this rotation depend greatly on the individual’s mental state, a characteristic also noted in psychokinesis phenomena. Of course, we cannot speak of psi-phenomena or bioenergy until known physical interactions are ruled out from the experiment’s mechanism. The criticisms of the later-marketed disc-shaped life energy meter, it is about the above-mentioned Egely Wheel, could be valid for both cases. Therefore, it is important to first examine the validity of these objections.
In the case of non-contact water or disc rotation, the remaining significant physical effect could be air movement caused by the heat of the palm. However, several observations seem to contradict this as the determining factor. Early water-stirring experiments revealed – detectable by the flow of dyed electrolytes placed in the Petri dishes – that the water does not rotate due to surface or peripheral forces but through uniform mass acceleration. Moreover, the changes in rotation speed recorded by the Egely Wheel, the computerized vitality meter show accelerations and decelerations that are difficult to explain by sudden temperature changes in the hand, considering the maximum temperature limits achievable in the palm’s tissues and their thermal inertia.
Bioenergy: A Phenomenon Close to the Body
As mentioned, dr. Egely’s early experiments revealed that this mysterious effect can be influenced by significant constitutional and psychological factors. Unlike classical psychokinesis, it is strongly dependent on distance, suggesting the existence of an energy field close to the body. An interesting and experimentally testable concordance might be found with traditional bioenergy theories, which suggest an association of different parts of the body with different mental states.
According to Eastern chakra systems, there are seven energy connection points on the human body, ranging from instinctual properties at the base to the expressly spiritual crown chakra at the top of the head. In our case, the traditional functioning of the third chakra, which also has “solar plexus” extensions in the palm apart from its stomach-area center, represents the same communicative, extroverted “fire” force that characterizes the participants in the experiments who are capable of intense rotation through their palms. However, these results are currently based more on intuitive assumptions.
Analyzing Life Energy: Computerized Methods
Since 1995, disc-shaped life energy meters have been used with computerized data recording, allowing for precise tracking and recording of rotational speed changes during experiments. Since the experiments were almost always conducted with measurements taken simultaneously beside both hands of the subject, it soon became apparent that there is a kind of dominance difference between the hands, varying from person to person. This asymmetry measured in such a way suggests the determination of this mysterious energy by the brain hemispheres. Let’s now look at a few typical measurement methods and results, and consider what else might influence the rotation of the Egely Wheels.
In the most frequently conducted experiment type, the subjects’ quantifiable psychological characteristics, health status, social relations, and current mental, emotional, and physical states were recorded before the measurement. Then, several measurements were performed, firstly in a spontaneous manner without any instruction – in this case, the subject received no feedback about the current rotation speed. Then, measurements were encouraged with audio feedback aiming to achieve higher and more uniform rotation speeds. Lastly, a relaxation measurement typically followed, where the effects of other relaxation tools were registered simultaneously with the rotation of the discs, for example, along with skin resistance measurements.
The graphs revealed that some subjects achieved lower rotation speeds in spontaneous measurements and higher speeds in the inspired ones, or vice versa, where the call to action seemed to block them. This likely points to internal or external control. However, the relaxation measurement led to a decrease and equalization in rotation speeds for almost everyone. Including the fact that high rotation speeds can be associated with outgoing, energetic states and personality types, it appears that life energy measurement indeed measures some kind of “inner” energy. Nevertheless, it remains to be seen how much this can be tied to the subject’s health condition and how this measurement method corresponds to previously mentioned naturopathic assessments.
The Egely Wheel: Exploring Unknown Energy Mechanisms
First and foremost, it must be clarified that even if the Egely Wheel truly measures bioenergy, it likely captures only a certain part of this specially structured energy system, as per traditions. Therefore, there could be additional “energetic” processes that are not detectable with this instrument. Measurements have been conducted on elderly individuals in deteriorated physical states, as well as on seriously ill patients. Interestingly, the occasional high rotational speeds observed in these cases were more influenced by the subjects’ mental state and expressive spiritual creativity rather than their physical condition.
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Prior observations made by dr. George Egely and his research team have indicated that these energies, while operating individually, can also converge, thereby enhancing their collective efficacy and action. On one occasion, using the so-called remote-measurement Egely Wheel, they managed to measure an impulse likely triggered by the unintended cathartic mood of a small group. Although reproducing such spontaneous effects in a laboratory is challenging, their significance could be immense, especially considering that the instrument was several meters away from the group at the time, making any discussion about the heat of the palm irrelevant.
So, what are the main methods we can rely on for the objective measurement of life energy? I believe that universally applicable, instrumentally feasible measurement techniques are still in need of development. The experiments conducted with the disc-shaped life energy meter might represent just a segment of the potential measurement directions, and the observed changes are more likely due to psychological rather than physical effects. It is also conceivable that the auric and chakra traditions might not become fully visible instrumentally, yet the opportunity remains to measure these effects using various blind and double-blind tests. Indeed, in these mysterious mechanisms, the psi-effects of consciousness on reality may merge and manifest in multiple ways, but mapping the unknown has always been, and remains, one of the greatest challenges for humanity, especially for researchers in the epochal science of parapsychology.
