The Third Insight - "Awareness of Energy"

The Third Insight brings a transformed understanding of the physical universe. Humans would discover a new energy, which formed the basis of and radiated outward from all things, including ourselves.

The whole of Einstein’s life’s work was to show that what we perceive as hard matter is mostly empty space with a pattern of energy running through it. This includes ourselves. The basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation in a way that defies our old mechanistic model of the universe – as though our expectation itself causes our energy to flow out into the world and affect other energy systems, which is exactly what the Third Insight would lead us to believe.

The manuscript said the human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty. The perception of beauty is a kind of barometer telling each of us how close we are to actually perceiving the energy. This is clear because once you observe this energy, you realise it’s on the same continuum as beauty. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of colour. It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive. When we focus on an object, you can see its unique beauty. It is as though first you see the objects, then you see their uniqueness and presence and then it happens, something gets amplified in the pure beauty of their physical expression, at which time you can see the energy field of that object. One can see an energy field around a person too.

Do we know to what extent does the physical universe as a whole – since it is made up of the same basic energy – respond to our expectations? To what extent do our expectations create all the things that happen to us? Think of the events in your life. The old Newtonian idea is that everything happens by chance; that one can make good decisions and be prepared, but that every event has its own line of causation independent of our attitude.

After the recent discoveries of modern physics, we may legitimately ask if the universe is more dynamic than that. Perhaps the universe runs mechanistically as a basic operation, but then also subtly responds to the mental energy, we project out into it. Why not? If we can make a plant grow faster (which is a proven experiment) by concentrating our energy on that plant, maybe we can make certain events come faster – or slower, depending on how we think.

The Third Insight elaborates on the nature of beauty, describing this perception as the one through which humans would eventually learn to observe energy fields. Once this occurred, then our understanding of the physical universe would quickly transform.