I just came across this post, and I think it nicely captures both the scientific and spiritual perspectives on energy. It’s a bit long, but I’m sure you can handle it:-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Spirituality and science, two things that spend most of their time arguing with each other when they’re actually trying to explain the same stuff from different angles. i’m deep into psychology and neuroscience as you all know by now. that’s obvious from everything I write. What usually catches people off guard is when i tell them i’m equally deep into spirituality. i’m not religious in the traditional sense. but i find it genuinely fascinating and i take practical wisdom from every holy text i’ve read. the bible, the quran, the bhagavad gita, the tao te ching. those books are loaded with psychological and philosophical insight that holds up regardless of whether you share the theology. the wisdom is real. you’d be a fool to dismiss it just because of the packaging. but the thing people really don’t expect from me is this. i fully believe in energies. chakras. auras. life force. qi. prana. the breath of life. the idea that the human body carries and projects something beyond what’s visible. and i know how that sounds coming from someone who talks about prefrontal cortex function and dopamine receptor sensitivity for fun. here’s the thing though. when you actually look at the science, the gap between what spirituality calls energy and what physics calls energy is a lot smaller than most people think. your body produces and uses energy constantly through adenosine triphosphate. ATP is the cellular currency that drives every biological process you have. your heart generates an electromagnetic field measurable several feet outside your body. your nervous system operates through electrical signals and neurons create measurable electromagnetic fields. you radiate approximately 145 watts of heat and infrared radiation continuously.