What kind of immediate reactions, based on popular
contemporary “critical thought,” would there be to the description of subtle
conduits linking the Sun and the Earth and through which various qualities of
energy circulate?
There would be many reactions, certainly sarcastic and mocking, but all
variations on the same belief: “such a description is, unfortunately, to the
detriment of all, a new manifestation of a deranged conscience struck with grave
symptoms of irrationalism, an illness that even a strong reaction of rational
scientific reason could probably not cure.”
In the spiritual philosophical traditions of both the East and the West, there
are descriptions of “paths,” “energy channels,” “subtle links” that tie
everything that exists together; they form a sort of energy web made up of
mobile strands of energy, justifying the idea that all that exists is
interrelated, interdependent and in reciprocal interaction.
In the Eastern tradition, “siddhi” is the generic Sanskrit term used to
designate these “subtle channels,” including the energy that circulates through
them.
Recently, Themis, a fleet of five satellites that NASA is using to study a
phenomenon called the “auroral substorm,” revealed a “surprising” fact: the
existence of “magnetic ropes directly linking the Sun and the Earth.”
Dave Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center explains that “solar wind
particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and
auroras.”
So here, through a sort of effect that is in itself genuinely irrational, this
vision of “siddhis” as energy channels has just left the sick world of the
irrational and become “scientific,” entering into the normal, regular world of
the rational.
The spiritual heritage of humanity is full of very interesting visions; it would
be a shame to overlook them, at first because they are the products of
“pathological irrationality,” and then because they have become “scientifically
normal.”
Because in both cases, we would remain ignorant of the major teachings of the
spiritual heritage of our humanity.
