These and other invisible physical forces play crucial roles in our lives. And if it weren’t for science informing us of their influence, most of us would remain entirely unaware of their existence.

In the early years of science, for example, the scientific community could not directly detect or measure electromagnetism, yet science knew it existed because it could detect its effects on other objects. The same can be said of “subtle” energies. While it currently seems impossible to directly detect or measure subtle energy using conventional electromagnetic instruments, it is possible to detect and measure its effects on living organisms.

The emerging science of subtle energy reveals the existence of energies that exist beyond the four known forces of conventional science (the strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, electromagnetism and gravity). Some of these energies are faster than light and typically unable to be measured using electromagnetic instruments; hence the term “subtle energy”.

Although the emerging field of subtle energy research indicates that there are numerous varieties of subtle energy, each with unique associated qualities and effects, there is evidence that, in general, subtle energy is intimately related to consciousness. In fact, MIT-trained physicist Dr. Claude Swanson, in his wonderful book LIFE FORCE, The Scientific Basis, refers to the field of subtle energy research as “the natural bridge between the old physics and the new science of consciousness.”

Many of these subtle energies appear to have healing properties on the mental, physical and emotional levels.