2007-02-28 04:23:41 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And harmonic waves, vibrations, fields of consciousness, etc.
2007-02-28 04:26:57 · update #1
There are energy fields, but I was speaking in new-age terms.
2007-02-28 04:27:27 · update #2
Crystals do store energy, that is a fact. But I doubt it is enough energy to help anyone. I think they are nice-looking jewelry so why not wear them. I have a beautiful necklace of snowflake obsidian that I wear on occasion.
2007-02-28 04:33:31 · answer #1 · answered by Lekatt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there absolutely and provably is. Check out Kirlian photography.
If you are referring to an energy field which is not scientifically measurable, then it is only a matter of time until it is. Then science will have shanghai'd it out of the arms of spirituality, as science can be shown to have usually done historically. At one time, scientists considered the the electrical field surrounding a person to be the ramblings of religious nutcases too.
Science always tries to defeat religion in this way by trying to encompass new information into it's own methodology. Unsurprising really, as religion does exactly the same thing. Whoever it was that once said 'science is the new religion' was absolutely spot-on.
2007-02-28 04:43:52 · answer #2 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weeeeeellllllllll... there IS... but not in the sense they mean it.
Unless they're chaos mages, then in the exact sense that quantum physics means it they accept the existence of an energy field, even though they know it's bogus to think magick can affect it, but that strangely it works for them anyways despite it.
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Does Chaos Magick count as 'new-age'? Am I a "new ager" then?
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Darminator: Yes, there's an energy field produced in Kirlian Photography. It's placed there by the two high voltage plates (you do remember that it requires an extremely powerful electromagnetic field), and the patterns formed on the photo paper are results of capacitance discharges where the hand / foot / leaf / drop of orange juice / what-have-you has altered the capacitance field between the two plates.
Kirlian Photography doesn't show a pre-existing energy field, it creates one and takes images of the variations in that created field by another object.
2007-02-28 04:30:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Primarily I think it's man's tendecy to try to 'make magic' to control their lives when essentially we control so little. We laugh at native tribes magic spells, but then we cross our fingers, wear lucky socks, don't step on a crack.
It's an attractive theory, that stones from the earth emit energy that can heal or cure. It's a heck of a lot cheaper than doctors, and it puts the healing in the person's own hands. I'd sure like to believe that was true...then my pocketbook would be fuller, and I'd feel safe knowing this or that crystal would protect me in life.
Unfortunately as you already know, it's a trap to think this way...to risk your health or trust in other ways on something like this, in the end, is foolhardy.
2007-02-28 04:30:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I grew up around crystals and crystal mines and never felt an "energy field". In fact there were so many of them, they were more of a nuisance. But those mining the crystals sure made good money off of people like that.
2007-02-28 04:29:39 · answer #5 · answered by lawnmoweromomma 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do various cross-wearing old-agers think there is a "God"?
Jan (below): how do you fail to see that it is no more ridiculous to believe in a shiny cross than a shiny stone? Read your own post again and substitute "Christianity" for any comments about shiny things...
Your analysis is about on the level of the fabled potted plant of which you speak...
2007-02-28 04:28:33 · answer #6 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Aren't there energy fields?
Oh, okay. Like chi or something... okay. Well, I'm not totally opposed to that idea, though I couldn't tell you why... I've never really thought about it.
2007-02-28 04:26:55 · answer #7 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they feel the energy field, they are in tune with such things.
2007-02-28 04:32:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are folks who will sway whatever way the wind blows. Anything at all - a shiny stone, a deck of goofy cards, someone with some "new way" to be spiritual. There is no new way to be spiritual. They are so deceived, that even satan has no need for them. They are as useful as a potted plant.
2007-02-28 04:28:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
They stuck knives into power sockets as children.
2007-02-28 04:27:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋