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In 1868, a hunter from Santander, Spain, accidentally stumbled upon a large cave containing an assemblage of remarkable prehistoric drawings, surmised to be from the Aurignacian civilization, dating back around 700,000 years, to the Middle Paleolithic Era. Many anthropologists believe that these mystical cave murals, with their earthly and surrealistic depictions, represent the earliest evidence of an awareness of life energy.

Our ancient ancestors had an abiding respect and understanding of life energy. Ancient cave wall ruins in India, Egypt, Peru, Europe, and the Yucatán reveal graphic depictions of the human aura. Wherever displayed, the human aura remains a historical constant, an affirmation that energy is indeed at the very core of life.

There are more than 150 words from virtually every language and culture referencing the concept of life energy. According to Hindu tradition, this manifestation of life energy is called Prana. The word
Prana
combines the Sanskrit
Pra
(life) and
Na
(to breathe). Thus, Prana may be translated as “life breath.” Ancient Yogic philosophy maintains that Prana radiates as an auric life force from within and around the physical body, reflecting the state of health. The aura is also believed to represent a person's magnetic power of attraction. According to Vedic tradition, this power and magnetism from one's life-force aura may be transmitted to others for the purposes of healing.

The concept of life energy is evident in all ancient cultures. The Egyptians referred to this energy as
Ka,
the Tibetans called it
La
;  the ancient Hebrews used the term
Ruah
. Ancient American Indian tribes also developed a language to facilitate the concept of life energy. The Lakota Sioux of the western plains referred to life energy as
Woniya Wakan,
or “Holy Air.” The Cree people of the woodlands and plains of the United States and Canada called it
Oenikika,
or “Breath of Life.”

Native South American tribes were no different from their Native North American brothers. They too understood and revered the concept of life energy. The Mayans called it
Ik,
which translates as “Breath of Life,” while the Aztecs spoke of
Tona,
“Vital Heat.”

The Polynesians referred to the great energy as Manna. In Hawaii, indigenous healers still embrace the concept that Manna gives life. It has been a long-held, sacred tradition of Hawaiians to train their shamans and medicine men (kahunas) to cultivate and transmit the Manna life energy to those most in need of healing. In accordance with ancient kahuna belief, the subconscious mind attempts to channel life force to the “will” for purposes of ego gratification, whereas the higher mind seeks to direct the force for the higher good of spiritual transformation and healing. This is similar to the ancient teachings of Chinese
Fang-Chung-Shu
(bedroom arts)
and Hindu Kundalini Yoga that a libidinal life energy—Shakti in Hindu philosophy—lies dormant in the sexual organs. This powerful sexual energy can be directed upward to fuel the higher centers of awareness through the practice of Kundalini Yoga. Once mastered, the discipline ascends one's life force beyond the ego, to the spirit.

The Kung San of the African Kalahari Desert refer to life energy as
Num
. They believe that Num is stored both in the lower abdomen and at the base of the spine, and that the best way to circulate the life-giving Num to the body, mind, and spirit is to make it “boil,” by way of ceremonial dance. Once “boiled” and circulated, Num is believed to imbue the body with vibrant health, the mind with emotional balance, and the spirit with consummate wisdom.

As a lifelong student of natural healing, I was always drawn to the idea of tracing the origins of disease back as far as they could go. Therefore it was a natural transition for me to accept the theory that life begins at the subtlest energetic level. When I initiated my work some years later, I began an immediate search for some kind of model “whole-istic” system of medicine that was energy-based. Though I discovered that there were many, there was one in particular that attracted my attention.

I learned that when Chinese medicine refers to “ch'i,” it is referring simply to the agent that gives life to all living things, and is perhaps the most fundamentally important word in the Chinese language. The Chinese believe that ch'i animates and permeates the universe and gives breath to life. In terms of human health, ch'i is the life energy that enables blood to circulate, glands to secrete, and metabolism to function. The only reason the human heart beats is that ch'i dwells within the body. Once devoid of ch'i, the body is but an empty shell. This is central to the concept of Chinese energy healing—we can either choose to cultivate an abundance of life energy or we can carelessly allow our life energy to slip away.

VIBRATION: THE DANCE OF THE GREAT FORCE

An abundance of life energy makes for a healthy living being. Healthy living beings reflect vitality. Vitality is represented by movement. When we speak in energy terms we must think of vitality and movement as possessing vibration. The difference between life and death is vibration. The difference between levels of vitality is vibration.

Everything is energy, and energy is always moving. The fundamental movement of energy is called vibration. Vibration is an oscillatory response that reflects greater and lesser degrees of energy in action. At the subatomic level, beyond the illusion of matter, nothing rests. Particles, atoms, molecules, and cells continuously vibrate at an infinite variety of ever-changing frequencies. Therefore, everything appearing to be standing still is in fact constantly vibrating. You and I are vibrating right now!

The concept of vibration has special significance in virtually every aspect of life, especially health and healing. For most of us, the notion of health and medicine remains purely a material proposition. Medical orthodoxy may employ energy-based technologies like magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound, but when it comes to translating the results, it's all mechanical. The patient is seen as a mass of material biology, and the solution is either a surgeon's blade or a pill. So what about energy and vibration? Beyond MRIs and ultrasound machines, can we actually come to better understand energy vibration in ways that enable us to kill viruses, heal disease, and improve our health?

In the early twentieth century, bioelectric researcher Georges Lakhovsky was among the first to theorize that all cells vibrate, exhibiting all the properties required of an oscillator: inductance, capacitance, and resistance. Lakhovsky postulated that all living cells were both transmitters and receivers of high-frequency
oscillations. He further theorized that all living cells vibrate at different frequencies and surmised that viruses oscillate at different frequencies than healthy human cells. When the virus attacks the healthy cell, the cell can't defend itself from the more powerful viral vibration. If the amplitude, or energy potential, of the healthy cell becomes compromised, and that of the virus becomes stronger, more severe illness will result. By returning a specific cell to its homeostasis frequency, Lakhovsky thought that one could both antagonize the frequency of disease and restore the healthy cell to balance.

Following the work of Lakhovsky, American inventor Dr. Royal Raymond Rife spent three decades studying specific vibrational “kill” frequencies of hundreds of microorganisms. As far back as 1920, Rife theorized that disease-causing microorganisms vibrated at specific oscillation rates, and that if these were better understood, they might be safely eliminated by an opposing rate of vibration.

With his expertise in optics, Rife developed microscopes with resolutions up to 17,000 times in diameter compared to the standard 2,500. With the aid of his high-powered microscopes, Rife methodically observed and cataloged the results, as he exposed pathogenic microorganisms to coordinated resonance from electronic frequencies. During his thirty years of vibrational research, Rife established what he called the Mortal Oscillatory Rate (MOR) for hundreds of disease-causing pathogens.

In his work, Rife confirmed thousands of living vibrational frequencies. He determined that the average frequency of a healthy human body was between 62 and 72 Hz and that when the frequency drops below this average, it signifies a compromised immune system. He established that the human brain frequency ranges between 4 and 30 Hz, and the human heart between 67 and 70 MHz. Rife further discovered that colds and flu begin at 57–60 MHz,
Candida
fungal overgrowth at 55 MHz, Epstein-Barr virus at 52 MHz, cancer at 42 MHz, and death at 25 MHz. Rife also noted that fresh organic foods vibrated at an average of 20–30 Hz,
higher than processed and/or dried foods, and that essential oils can register as high as 320 Hz. He claimed that therapeutic-grade essential oils have the highest frequency of any natural substance known to man.

Rife meticulously mapped out a living mosaic of energy vibration, but he was simply too far ahead of his time to be appreciated for his contribution. By determining the vibration rate of cancer cells and further claiming that he'd successfully killed cancer cells, both his unfortunate timing and his cancer cure claims made him a political enemy of the healing establishment. For decades, the orthodoxy castigated and ridiculed Rife as a charlatan. As is often the case, the more time goes by, the more a man's genius is understood enough to be appreciated. Not surprisingly, the scientific community managed to come full circle, right back to where Rife's work left off.

On January 18, 1941, a University of Pennsylvania study appeared in the
Journal of General Physiology
that bore a striking resemblance to the research that Rife had done a decade earlier. This particular study, entitled “The Effect of Sonic Vibrations on Phage, Phage Precursor, and the Bacterial Substrate,” studied the effects of oscillated sonic and ultrasonic vibrations on vaccinia viruses and 
Staphylococcus
bacterial substrates. The intention was to rupture and inactivate viral and bacterial cells with quartz crystal–generated vibrations set at frequencies between 8,900 and 9,300 cycles per second. The study did note vibrational disruption and deactivation of pathogens.

More recently, in September 2009, researchers at MIT measured the varied frequencies at which healthy human red blood cells and infectious malaria cells vibrate. This research supported Rife's contention that cells have electrochemical as well as biological activity within, producing nanoscale vibrational frequencies. This research represents a kind of “Rife-like” game changer. In a world where mutated and engineered germs are about to make
current material medicines outdated and ineffective, vibrational medicine may be the medicine of a future that has already arrived.

In 2012, researchers at Arizona State University mathematically determined the frequencies at which viruses could be energetically shaken to death. Viruses have a capsid shield that insulates and protects them. These researchers have discovered that by aggressively vibrating a virus, they can break down its protective shield and the virus can be easily killed.

Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles recently discovered that even baker's yeast cells vibrate—at a rate of 1,000 times per second. The researchers noted that their motions were too fast to be captured on video but once converted to sound waves they were found to generate what scientists referred to as a high-pitched scream recorded at two octaves above true middle C.

This research presents us with an entirely different way of viewing life, disease, and medicine. Everything is energy, energy vibrates, and all energy vibrates at its own unique frequency. We in the West are at last poised to master this reality that transcends matter. Unlike disease, humans have the power to willfully transmit vibration—vibration that antagonizes disease.

THOUGHT VIBRATION: THE DANCING MIND

Everything vibrates. Every particle, atom, molecule, and cell within us vibrates. The vibrational centers of our being are our mind and brain. The brain is made up of around 100 billion neurons with trillions of synaptic connections. Each signal is capable of up to 1,000 signals per second, producing an average of 300–3,000 thoughts per minute. Neurons fire at approximately 250 miles per hour as they transmit thought impulses. When the synaptic charge reaches its receptor, it triggers cascades of neurochemicals. Once this synaptic response is completed, physical causality manifests in the form of thought. Beyond this physical, quantifiable reality, things
get small, very small. Thoughts are smaller than 100 nanometers (one billionth of a meter) long. This characterizes thought as occurring at the quantum level. Thoughts have been described by quantum theorists as microbursts that generate electromagnetic fields of energy that vibrate to cognizance, and pass like collapsing waves. Beyond these physical and quantum levels, the causal nature of thought is indeterminable. Beyond the causal curtain, there is a higher power that is the source of vibration.

Scientists can now read a person's thoughts with the aid of an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) machine. They've found that when a subject views common images his brain produces identifiable vibrational patterns. Moreover, vibrations triggered from deep emotional states and higher creative ideas have their own distinctive vibrational identity. Beyond the realm of the physical and the quantum causality, higher thought—such as compassion and love—produces a much higher vibration, capable of producing “peak experiences,” or transpersonal states.