What is Esoteric Energy?

[thestrangescientist]

Often in occult and magickal practices, the concept of ‘energy’ is invoked, but not in the strict physical sense. In physics, we define energy as:

@Wikipedia

In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object.

However, there is another definition for energy in the esoteric sense. It is less well defined:

@Wikipedia

The term energy is used by writers and practitioners of various esoteric forms of spirituality and alternative medicine to refer to a variety of phenomena.

Really, though, it also fits the first definition, but refers specifically to metaphysical work. However, a reply on this forum got me thinking:

@anon47923162

Condensing too high a charge of energy in the heart or brain especially if it is death energy will quickly wear down the organ’s function and end you or any sap that was unlucky enough to have it done to them.

What exactly is esoteric energy that it can affect cells to the point of triggering death (presumably apoptosis)? I’m a biochem guy, so I’m curious about what people think. Does it have to do with quantum coherence, perhaps as hypothesized for microtubules by Dr. Stuart Hameroff?

@Wikipedia

Hameroff proposed that microtubules were suitable candidates for quantum processing. Microtubules are made up of tubulin protein subunits. The tubulin protein dimers of the microtubules have hydrophobic pockets that may contain delocalized π electrons. Tubulin has other, smaller non-polar regions, for example 8 tryptophans per tubulin, which contain π electron-rich indole rings distributed throughout tubulin with separations of roughly 2 nm. Hameroff claims that this is close enough for the tubulin π electrons to become quantum entangled. During entanglement, particle states become inseparably correlated.

Or is it something else entirely?

[anon47923162]

Linking this here as answer from other thread.

Death

I think energy in that sense is like any other form of energy but on a level of vibration we are not yet privy to in the scientific sense some of which may exist as a quality that effects denser energy that makes up matter. Think like this… Fire energy in terms of the element is really just the property of expansion and momentum which when applied physically causes molecules to vibrate and move faster producing heat. This expansion can be applied in different ways to say in healing break apart b…

[Ryce]

There are many different theories about this xD I like where you are going. Its fun to think about stuff like this.

In that effort, I think you might enjoy a book called The Magus of Java by Kosta Danaos. He is a scientist who met with an ‘immortal’ and began to study an internal martial art from this master. As a scientist writing the book he had some very interesting theories about the energy the immortal was talking about, theories about ‘yin and yang’.

I am not sure I believe the book to be fact, however I did enjoy reading it and I think it was a very interesting peek into what, cultivating large amounts of esoteric energy, might be able to do -and possibly why- through Kostas own musings and thoughts. Its a quick read too. I read it in a matter of days, but Im still going back through it highlighting the more particularly interesting passages xD

There are two appendixes in the back of the book that I really enjoyed.

I am not a scientist myself but theories are always fun to read about.