Principles of Psychological Practices and Their Effects on the Energy Field of the Mind

as all carbon gas compounds do, by inhalation. But, actually, the displacement of oxygen also robs the body of Prana, the vital life force of Nature, without which the Soul energies, as Mind, cannot operate in the body. That is why the sensory functions and perceptions go first into oblivion, then the motor functions, and, if prolonged too long, the vital functions suffer. If the carbon concentration becomes too great, the vital functions cease and the connecting link of the "Silver Cord" is broken with the body.

The final actions of all phenomena are terminated in the Energy Field, regardless of what external type of trauma or inhibition causes the break in the circuit of the Mind Energy with the body.

All pain is a break in this vital Energy Current. All pleasure is a free, full flow of it.

Death by electrocution is far from being painless, as we imagine. Electrical workmen, who have been almost killed by contacts with live wires, report otherwise. One engineer told me that a few seconds of this agony was too painful to be described - it was as if the nerves were all afire and the energy was being pulled out by the roots. This is a typical description of the forceful withdrawal or interruption of the Soul's energy, operating in the body as Mind energy over the field of Prana.

Prana is the link and medium between the Mind and the body, just as the Mind is the link and medium between the Soul and matter, even as oxygen is the chemical conveyor for Prana. Fine energies blend into the grosser chemistry in their own patterns of electronic attraction and repulsion. When either the vital current or the chemical medium is destroyed, life ceases to operate in that form.

'Prana', the vital energy is also the One River flowing out of Eden. This one river splits into four rivers of energy like the substance of the elements called the 'tattwas' [tattvas] of Fire, Air, Water and Earth. The latter are the fields and oval areas with their organs of function in the body, like the plates in an electric battery through which the currents flow. Since we have no English names for these four vital currents, none of the foreign terms are given here so as to avoid confusion.