| Long before physicists stumbled onto invisible 'dark | | | | another. "People on the astral plane," according to |
| matter and energy', metaphysicists had been | | | | him, "can and do pass through one another |
| experimenting and observing them using the sensory | | | | constantly, and through fixed astral objects." When |
| systems of their higher energy bodies. They generally | | | | passing through another subtle astral body for a |
| called it 'subtle matter and energy' but it went by | | | | short time, the two astral bodies are not appreciably |
| different names in different places; the most popular | | | | affected. However, if the interpenetration lasts for |
| being 'qi', 'prana' and 'kundalini'. 'Qi' is a general term for | | | | some time, Leadbeater says that they do affect one |
| 'energy' in Mandarin; 'prana' and 'kundalini' are terms | | | | another "as far as the rates of vibration [i.e. |
| that have similar meanings in Hindu metaphysics. This | | | | frequencies] are concerned." |
| invisible energy has not only been observed by those | | | | This is not surprising, as (according to plasma |
| in the East, it has also been studied in the West. In | | | | metaphysics) subtle bodies are electromagnetic |
| the West the term 'L' energy is sometimes used. | | | | bodies. Hence, when two subtle bodies pass through |
| This 'L' energy or 'life energy' has the same general | | | | each other slowly there would be electromagnetic |
| meaning as qi and prana. Science has been unable to | | | | effects - such as changes in frequencies and |
| measure qi, prana, kundalini or L-energy directly - just | | | | distribution of charges over the subtle body. David |
| as it finds it difficult to measure dark matter or | | | | Spergel of Princeton University, commenting on the |
| energy directly. | | | | findings by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, is of the |
| Is dark matter the same as subtle matter? | | | | view that "the findings do not rule out interactions, |
| Obviously both dark matter and subtle matter are | | | | other than gravitational effects, among dark matter |
| invisible to most of us who use the sensory systems | | | | particles." Hence bodies composed of dark matter |
| of our physical-biomolecular body almost exclusively | | | | particles can interact with one another |
| during this lifetime. However, convince yourself that | | | | electromagnetically. The ability of subtle bodies to |
| they are the same by comparing a sample of | | | | pass through other subtle bodies and objects betrays |
| properties of dark matter with subtle matter, below. | | | | the fact that they are composed of low-density dark |
| (The list is not exhaustive. More and more | | | | matter. |
| correlations are cropping-up as we study the subject | | | | 6. Dark/Subtle Matter is of Low Density |
| in greater detail.) | | | | According to scientists, the average dark matter |
| 1. There is Mutual Affinity between Dark/Subtle and | | | | density in the Solar System is much lower (a trillion |
| Ordinary Matter | | | | trillion times lower) than that of rocks, water and |
| According to science reporter Robert Britt, studies | | | | other substances typically found on Earth. |
| show that on large cosmic scales dark matter and | | | | Out-of-body researcher, Robert Monroe, observes |
| ordinary matter in galaxies trace out the same | | | | that the 'Second Body' can penetrate walls and |
| shapes and structures. "They become sculpted into | | | | concludes that, "Anything that can interpenetrate a |
| nearly identical sheets and filaments, with vast | | | | wall must have very little density." Metaphysicist |
| expanses of near-nothingness in between." According | | | | Leadbeater observed (around 1910) that astral |
| to metaphysicist Charles Leadbeater there is an | | | | matter is only relatively solid. Almost a century ago |
| affinity between "astral" matter (a form of subtle | | | | he said, "The particles in the densest astral matter |
| matter) and physical matter He says that astral | | | | are further apart, relative to their size, than even |
| matter is attracted to physical matter and moulds | | | | gaseous particles. Hence, it is easier for two of the |
| into its shape as the physical-biomolecular body | | | | densest astral bodies to pass through each other |
| grows. Astral matter follows its every change, 99% | | | | than it would be for the lightest gas to diffuse itself |
| of which is compressed within the periphery of the | | | | in the air." In other words, astral bodies are |
| physical-biomolecular body. Conversely, there are also | | | | composed of "collisionless" dark matter. |
| observations which confirm that ordinary matter falls | | | | 7. Dark/Subtle Matter rapidly increases in Density |
| under dark matter's influence. There is, in fact, a | | | | towards the Center |
| mutual affinity between dark/subtle matter and | | | | A study using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey provides |
| ordinary matter. | | | | the most direct evidence yet that galaxies reside at |
| 2. Dark/Subtle Matter provides the Invisible | | | | the centre of giant, dark matter concentrations that |
| Scaffolding, Mould or Template for Ordinary Matter | | | | may be 50 times larger than the visible galaxy itself! |
| Physicist Chung Pei-Ma, an associate professor of | | | | The 'lambda cold dark matter' model is a popular |
| astronomy at UC Berkeley, concludes that "the ghost | | | | scientific model that predicts that dark matter rapidly |
| universe of dark matter is a template for the visible | | | | increases in density towards the centre of a galaxy. |
| universe". According to Richard Massey, a dark | | | | Astrophysicists modeling the motion of dark matter |
| matter researcher at the California Institute of | | | | say that each clump had a density that peaked in the |
| Technology, dark matter condensed first. The gravity | | | | centre and fell-off toward the edges in the exact |
| of dark matter then pulled ordinary matter into it. | | | | same way, independent of its size. Observations with |
| "The normal matter flows gravitationally into this sort | | | | the Chandra X-ray Observatory support the cold |
| of dark matter scaffolding," Massey says "and is | | | | dark matter model. To test the model, researchers |
| constructed within that into the galaxy and the stars | | | | used Chandra's sharp optics to measure the |
| we see today." According to scientists, dark matter | | | | temperature and intensity of the hot, X-ray-emitting |
| and its gravity shaped bright matter in a manner | | | | gas in a galaxy cluster some 4 billion light-years from |
| similar to how the texture of the ground shapes | | | | Earth. The data obtained by John S Arabadjis and |
| puddles of rainwater. This basically means dark | | | | Mark W Bautz of the Massachusetts Institute of |
| matter acts as a mould for ordinary matter to | | | | Technology, along with Gordon P Garmire of |
| accumulate and be shaped. Dark matter has been | | | | Pennsylvania State University in State College, found |
| regarded by scientists as something that gives | | | | that the density is greater the closer it is to the |
| structure to ordinary matter. This means it allows | | | | centre of the cluster. |
| ordinary matter to maintain its form. | | | | Leadbeater reported in 1910 that the densest |
| Barbara Brennan, former NASA engineer and now | | | | aggregation of subtle astral matter is within the |
| world-renowned energy healer, says that the "human | | | | periphery of the physical body of a man. Similarly, he |
| energy field" has an organizing effect on matter and | | | | said, in the case of the Earth, the greater part of its |
| builds forms; any changes in the material world are | | | | astral matter is gathered together within the limits of |
| preceded by a change in this field. Metaphysicists, | | | | its ordinarily visible physical sphere. The density profile |
| such as Brennan, have been insisting for years that | | | | of subtle astral matter is consistent with the density |
| these invisible fields form the templates for the | | | | profile of dark matter observed by the Chandra |
| formation of the biomolecular body. Metaphysicist | | | | X-Ray Observatory. |
| Leonard Ravitz says that the invisible electric fields | | | | 8. Dark/Subtle Matter is "Weakly Interacting" |
| serve as an electronic matrix to keep the corporeal | | | | Physicists say dark matter 'interacts weakly' with |
| form in shape. In other words they provide the | | | | ordinarily visible matter. They could well have said |
| structure to our physical-biomolecular body to | | | | that there are 'subtle interactions' between dark and |
| maintain its form. | | | | ordinarily visible matter. The term 'subtle' used by |
| Brennan observes through her "higher sense | | | | metaphysicists is not much different in meaning from |
| perception" that an "energy field matrix" in the shape | | | | 'weakly interacting' used by physicists to describe the |
| of a leaf is projected by a plant prior to the growth | | | | nature of interactions between ordinary and dark |
| of a leaf, and then the leaf grows into that already | | | | matter. |
| existing form. In other words, the energy field acts | | | | 9. Dark/Subtle Matter is Composed of High Energy |
| as a mould for the growth of the visible leaf. In | | | | Particles |
| Raymond Burr's experiments with plant seedlings, he | | | | Dark matter particles include supersymmetric objects |
| discovered electrical fields which resembled the | | | | and particles. According to scientists, these are higher |
| eventual adult plant. He also discovered that | | | | mass-higher energy particles that have not been |
| salamanders possessed an energy field shaped like an | | | | detected by our current low energy particle |
| adult salamander, and that this blueprint even existed | | | | accelerators because of their high energies. |
| in an unfertilized egg. Young salamanders were | | | | Subtle matter (in traditional metaphysical theories) is |
| surrounded by an electrical field of the same size as | | | | considered to be made up of highly energetic |
| an adult salamander. He also found that electrical | | | | particles which generally becomes visible (as objects) |
| fields surrounding sprouts did not correspond to the | | | | after some training in meditation or similar exercises. |
| form of the seeds but to the form of the grown | | | | In Hindu metaphysics, we find references to not only |
| plant. According to Leadbeater, the (invisible) "etheric | | | | the "anu" (i.e. standard physical particles) but |
| double" is actually built in advance of the human | | | | "param-anu" (which are super-physical particles). |
| fetus. "Clairvoyants sometimes see this doll-like little | | | | Valerie Hunt, Professor Emeritus at UCLA and |
| figure hovering about, and afterwards within the | | | | internationally recognized authority in the area of |
| body of the mother", he says. | | | | energy field medicine, says that "even ancient Hindu |
| 3. Dark/Subtle Matter generates Superficial Forms | | | | literature asserts that the energy body possesses a |
| Physicists Chung-Pei Ma and Edmund Bertschinger of | | | | higher vibration [or frequency] than normal |
| the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | | | | matter-energy." Modern 'seers' were unanimous in |
| say, based on computer models of how dark matter | | | | their opinion that subtle bodies consist of "as yet |
| would move under the force of gravity, that dark | | | | undiscovered higher frequency matter and energy" |
| matter should form smaller clumps that look | | | | and have mass - long before any widespread |
| superficially like the galaxies and globular clusters we | | | | awareness of dark matter or supersymmetry |
| see in our luminous (ordinarily visible) universe. | | | | theories. |
| Metaphysicists, such as Leadbeater, say that the | | | | 10. Dark/Subtle Matter forms Webs |
| etheric and astral bodies look superficially like the | | | | According to Britt, scientific studies show that both |
| biomolecular body but they operate differently, being | | | | ordinary and dark matter work in concert to build a |
| based on electromagnetic rather than largely | | | | web of filaments in space, with dense junctions |
| biochemical processes as in the biomolecular body. | | | | where galaxies cluster together. The resulting |
| 4. Dark/Subtle Matter Astronomical Objects | | | | structures, he says, look something like spider webs. |
| Outnumber Ordinary Objects | | | | In 1904 metaphysicist Annie Besant reported that, |
| Ma and Bertschinger of MIT say that computer | | | | "During human antenatal life a single thread weaves a |
| simulations of the evolution of dark matter predict | | | | network, a shimmering web of inconceivable fineness |
| far more clumps of dark matter than ordinarily visible | | | | and delicate beauty, with minute meshes. Within the |
| luminous matter in a specified region. According to | | | | meshes of this web the coarser particles of the |
| Ma, "Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has about a dozen | | | | bodies are built together." The Chinese acupuncture |
| satellites, but in simulations we see thousands of | | | | map of meridians in the physical-etheric body also |
| satellites of dark matter." | | | | resembles a web of energy. According to Brennan, |
| Mystic Paramahansa Yogananda said in 1946 that | | | | the physical-etheric body is "like a sparkling web of |
| "just as many physical suns and stars roam in space, | | | | light beams". To a clairvoyant, "the etheric body |
| so there are also countless astral suns and moons." In | | | | consists of a definite structure of lines of force and |
| 1957 metaphysicist Norman Pearson noted that so | | | | sparks of bluish white light move along these lines" |
| far (in Science) we have only considered physical | | | | she says. This web has been discussed in more detail |
| planets; but there are also planets composed of | | | | in the author's article Acupuncture Meridians and the |
| 'super-physical' matter. In fact, he says, "The | | | | Cosmic Spider Web. |
| super-physical planets form the greater part of the | | | | 11. Dark/Subtle Matter is Subject to Gravity |
| planetary population of the Solar System." | | | | "Thanks to a new analysis by physicists at Caltech |
| 5. Dark/Subtle Matter Particles Can Pass through You | | | | and the University of Toronto, we can expect that |
| Compare the description of dark matter particles, | | | | lumps of dark matter gravitationally attract each |
| called WIMPs, by a physicist with the globules of | | | | other in just the same way that lumps of normal |
| L-energy, described by metaphysicist Paul Pearsall: | | | | matter (like you and the Earth, for instance) attract |
| "If there are as many WIMPs [i.e. dark matter | | | | each other." - Science Daily, October 2006 |
| particles] as would be required to explain the motions | | | | "Astral matter [i.e. dark matter] gravitates towards |
| of galaxies, large numbers are whizzing through the | | | | the center of the Earth, just as physical matter |
| room you are sitting in, and through your own body, | | | | does." - Charles Leadbeater, Metaphysicist, 1910 |
| without you noticing" - John Gribbin, Physicist. | | | | According to Brennan 'aura' appears to have weight. |
| "It [i.e. globules of subtle L-energy] passes unchanged | | | | Monroe believes that the 'Second Body' has weight |
| through any known substance and nothing shields or | | | | and is subject to the gravitational force. (Weight is, |
| deflects it" - Paul Pearsall, Metaphysicist | | | | of course, an effect of the gravitational force.) It |
| "We don't know what the remaining 90% of matter | | | | appears that what was discovered by Science in |
| is, but this 'dark matter' differs from ordinary matter | | | | 2006 was observed by Leadbeater almost a century |
| in being able to pass right through both ordinary | | | | ago and also by many other experimental |
| matter and other dark matter, just like ghosts are | | | | metaphysicists. |
| supposed to pass through stone walls." - Theoretical | | | | Conclusion |
| Astrophysics Group, University of Oxford | | | | There is only one inescapable conclusion: The dark |
| Ron Cowen says, "Evidence indicates that when | | | | matter and energy of physicists is the subtle matter |
| speeding fragments of dark matter meet, they don't | | | | and energy of metaphysicists. Sooner or later qi, |
| collide as other matter do but pass right through | | | | prana and kundalini must be accounted for by Science |
| each other, ghostlike." Observations by the Chandra | | | | under dark matter and energy - after all they are, by |
| X-Ray Observatory suggest that if dark matter | | | | definition, dark matter and energy. It is also important |
| particles do collide, they do so relatively weakly. In | | | | to note that the metaphysical evidence strongly |
| other words, they will not be appreciably affected on | | | | suggests that certain people can see this dark |
| collision. | | | | matter (using the sensory-cognitive systems of their |
| Leadbeater noted (almost a century ago) that subtle | | | | higher energy subtle bodies) which is ordinarily invisible |
| astral bodies can and do constantly interpenetrate | | | | to most of us. |
| one another fully, without in the least injuring one | | | | |