Yoga as a Regeneration Tool
- Nikita Ierisov
- Dec 2
- 27 min read
I want to start this article with words of J-E Berendt from his book "NadaBrahma":"
For a long time, Western rationalists smiled at the notion that the sound of single word, a single syllable should have a formative, shaping, creative power. The smile seems to have faded from their faces, however: more people meditate today in the West than in the East. Here too, millions of people have experienced the power of mantra in themselves and in others. And above all, modern science has made physical, physiological and psychological finding that verify the strength immanent in mantras.
Mantras consist of vibrations. Our nerves, our ganglia, and our cells are vibrate. The law of resonance teaches us: Anything that vibrates reacts to vibrations, even (as recent discoveries have shown) to the most minute vibrations, and to those that only a few years ago could not be measured - brainwaves, for instance - and hence logically to vibrations that have yet to become measurable. Considering the fact that scientists have been discovering new waves and rays for a century and a half, we must conclude that new waves and rays and vibrations will continue to be discovered; in fact, any discovery of a new kind of vibration is evidence that countless others await discovery as well.Only the rationalist sees things differently: Unconvinced, in each generation, he believes himself to be in possession of the last and final word; and he simply cannot see that his sons and successors will have a different "last" and even more "final" word, which in turn will be surpassed or disproved by their sons and successors. That is one of the most absurd aspects of the behaviour of Western science: for centuries it has patted itself on the back every twenty or thirty years for having reached the pinnacle of scientific inquiry and in this arrogant pose has passed its findings on to its students and successors."
Vilayat Inayat Khan: "In the Mantram practices one actually kneads the very flesh of our body with sound. The delicate cells of these elaborate bundles of nerve fibers that are the plexi or ganglia... are subjected to consistent hammering... There is a kind of seizure of the flesh by the vibrations of sound."
I explore the subject of the healing power of the sound in my book, "Dao of the Heart", which you can start reading here.
A paradigm is a core worldview - a mental framework that shapes how we interpret reality, what we believe is possible, and how we make decisions. It’s like the operating system of the mind.We rarely notice our paradigms because we live inside them. They determine what feels “normal,” “true,” or “obvious.” When paradigm is formed, it's very hard to shift it.But we are living in wonderful times, when the Western Science experiences paradigm transformations.
New Paradigm of Energy
In India, yogic sages described ten forms of prana; in China, Daoists identified thirty-two forms of Chi. Other seers have perceived even more. To a modern Western scientific mind, such claims may seem exaggerated, especially since current biology recognizes only two main types of internal energy: chemical energy carried through the blood, and electrical energy transmitted through the nervous system.
Because these two systems are so well-proven, many have tried to equate nadis with nerves or meridians with blood vessels. But these parallels fall apart quickly. The prana–nadi and Chi-meridian models point to entirely different kinds of communication - not limited to chemistry or electricity.
In short: our bodies transmit information through more than just blood and nerve impulses.
James Oschman, in his book Energy Medicine: the Scientific Basis, notes that the earliest known use of electricity in medicine was around 2750 B.C.E., when electric eels were used to shock ill people back into health. It was the Greek Thales who discovered static electricity around 400 B.C.E. The use of magnets in healing may be even older than electrical treatments. The ancient Egyptians and Chinese used magnetite (also known as lodestone) to heal the sick.F.A. Mesmer (1734 - 1815), the famous Austrian physician, was a pioneer in Western research involving energetic principles. He conducted many experiments and public demonstrations of the phenomenon called "animal magnetism." Mesmer believed he could harness a universal magnetic power and direct it with his hands to heal people. He had many successes, especially with cases of hysteria, but his ideas were not accepted by conventional physicians and eventually local medical establishment pressured him to leave Vienna. Mesmer was confronted with similar attitudes when, after he moved to Paris, the Parisian medical community appointed a commission to investigate his practices. The commission had to admit Mesmer's methods worked, but they refused to accept his explanation of animal magnetism and chose not to attribute his successes to any known scientific principles. Originally called mesmerism, his methods later became know as hypnosis.
The nineteenth century witnessed an explosion of electrical healing devices. At that time, electricity was a newly emerging concept for the general public, inspiring the same kind of excitement that computers would generate a century later. Many believed this cutting-edge force could explain - and even fix - almost anything.
But the craze opened the door to widespread fraud. As with any new trend, there were many entrepreneurs eager to cash in on the public’s interest. Genuine scientific inquiry was drowned out by exaggerated promises and “miracle” cures. In the end, far more people were harmed than helped by this unregulated, Wild West era of experimental medicine.
In the early twentieth century, governments began regulating and tightening control over medical practice. Individuals could no longer simply declare themselves healers, and many therapeutic approaches were no longer recognized. Medical schools adopted a standardized curriculum - and within this new framework, electromagnetic healing found no place. Scientific research narrowed into two main avenues: the study of the nervous system and its electrical signaling, and the study of the body’s chemical processes and the drugs designed to influence them.
Economics is a constant force in human affairs, and whenever a profitable opportunity appears, people inevitably pursue it. The rise of the chemical model of the body created exactly such an opening. Throughout the twentieth century, our knowledge of the body’s chemical processes expanded dramatically, enabling scientists to discover or design new drugs that could prevent or treat numerous diseases. Pharmaceutical companies, seeing the potential, invested heavily in this line of research. Before long, nearly all medical research focused on chemistry. Studies of the nervous system were supported mainly by government or private institutions, while investigations into alternative healing modalities were almost entirely absent.
Paradigms take hold when the majority becomes convinced that their current understanding is the only valid one, and once formed, they are notoriously difficult to shift. After decades of success with the chemical model of the body, it gradually became accepted as the sole legitimate path in medicine. The role of a doctor was defined by this framework: identify the illness, determine its chemical cause, and prescribe a chemical remedy. Most of the time this approach delivered results, and when it failed, the assumption was not that the paradigm was flawed, but that our knowledge within it was incomplete - so the answer was always more research.
Not every health issue can be resolved within the dominant medical paradigm. Many patients who found no relief through conventional Western medicine ended up going from one doctor to another, only to receive the same results - unsurprising, given that each doctor was operating from the same framework. When one physician’s approach failed, it was likely that all others would as well. This led some people to explore entirely different paradigms of healing. Although many Western practitioners still regard these alternative modalities with thinly veiled skepticism, not everyone dismisses them. A small number of scientists and doctors began to pose an important question: what if Eastern methods actually do work - and if so, how do they work? The possibilities that emerged from this inquiry are fascinating.
What is becoming increasingly evident is that the Eastern models of prana and nadis, or chi and meridians, are far less subjective or imaginary than once assumed. Growing research now shows measurable, physical phenomena that lend real support to these ancient theories.
Health, at its root, means wholeness, and healing is the process of restoring that wholeness when it breaks down. The body is astonishingly capable of maintaining this balance, despite countless ways things could go wrong. To stay healthy, the body must constantly communicate and move energy within itself - much like a city that needs power and information flow to function. Illness arises when these communication or transport systems fail. What happens with a city during black-out ? When the power is down, transportation is shut down, communication ceases, and the city stops functioning.
The first multicellular organisms communicated through simple chemical exchanges, passing substances directly from one cell to another. Over time, specialized channels developed to move these materials more efficiently - over greater distances, at higher speeds, and with greater reliability. These early conduits eventually evolved into the circulatory system we know as the bloodstream.
The nervous system also evolved in the similar way. On the surface of all matter lie atoms and their electrons, and some of these electrons can be easily knocked loose by sunlight, friction, chemical reactions, or nearby electrical activity. When an atom loses one or more electrons, it becomes an ion. That ion can then pull an electron from a neighboring atom, becoming neutral again - but the neighbor is now ionized and repeats the process. This chain reaction creates a wave of electrical energy, a phenomenon the nervous system evolved to utilize. Yet there is no reason to assume nature stopped with this mechanism. Numerous other forms of energy and information transfer exist - electromagnetic, photonic, infrared, microwave, gravitational, and more - many of which we already harness in our technologies.
Today, a new paradigm is emerging in Western science that expands beyond purely chemical and electrical models, supported by modern instruments capable of detecting subtle energies in the body. This opens the door to exploring broader forms of biocommunication, beginning with the study of bioelectricity.
Do you know that crystals can generate energy when deformed ?
This is phenomenon called piezoelectricity, discovered by Sir David Brewster.
Bioelectromagnetics
Do you remember this children’s shoes which light-up as the child walks or runs. With no batteries inside, the glowing LEDs are powered by the pressure generated at each step - a practical example of piezoelectricity at work.
Piezoelectricity is the ability of certain crystals to generate an electric charge when they are compressed, stretched, twisted, or vibrated. The word comes from Greek piezein - “to press”.How it actually works? Many crystals (like quartz) have internal atomic structures arranged in non-symmetrical lattices, when mechanical pressure is applied, the positive and negative charges inside the lattice shift. This creates a tiny electrical voltage on the crystal’s surface.
This beautiful ability of the crystal is utilised across many fields: microphones and guitar pick-ups, mobile telephone sensors, sonars and piezo-lighters.
A crystal is made of molecules arranged in a repeating, orderly pattern.For example, table salt forms a neat cube-like structure of sodium and chlorine atoms.Diamonds are built from carbon atoms arranged in tightly connected, pyramid-shaped patterns.What is often overlooked is that tissues in our body are also aligned in structured, repeating patterns. The molecules of our muscles, bones, eyes, cell membranes, collagen, elastin, even our DNA all have crystal-like structure.
James Oschman, in his scientific research into energy medicine, states that the living tissues of our bodies are best described as liquid crystals.Liquid crystals, as he explains, are “materials that are intermediate between solids and liquids and display properties of both.” He goes on to explain that virtually the whole body is composed of materials arranged in a liquid crystal form and cites several studies confirming this model.
Every our movement, every our breath creates a tiny electric currents, because our tissues are deformed slightly. On the contrary, the presence of even small electrical potentials creates a small amount of movement or deformation in our tissues.These piezoelectric currents are extremely small when compared to the electrical signals in our nerves. Neurons work with voltages in the millivolt range, but the piezoelectric charges we’re talking about are thousands of times weaker, only microvolts. For years, this subtle energy was simply invisible - our tools weren’t sensitive enough, and even when they became so, no one was paying attention.
Electricity comes from the movement of electrons. Since electrons sit on the outer edge of the atom and are very light, they can travel freely. A tiny flow of electrons can send detailed information, while a strong flow can deliver large amounts of power. Our society uses electrons in both of these ways every day. We can think that so small electrical currents can have no effect on us.Consider this example. You can't start your car engine in the middle of nowhere. Your battery is down. You take your cellphone with chip inside, which requires very tiny amount of power to run - milliwatts. You call a road assistance or your friends to explain you have to use jump-start cables to start again your car's engine. The power required to start engine is thousand of watts, but with this tiny current of milliwatts which runs your cellphone - the information flow would be impossible and the engine start could not be facilitated.
If we view the body as a liquid-crystal system, and recognize that even small movements generate tiny electric fields and currents, then we can begin to build scientific models of information and energy flow that go beyond the usual chemical or nerve-based pathways. From this perspective, practices that physically engage the body- like yoga, sound-healing, or massage - could influence how the body functions, and in turn, support overall health.
Every electron and proton carries an electric charge, which means each one generates an electric field around itself. This field acts as a kind of force - similar to gravity, which we experience constantly - yet far more powerful. In fact, electrical forces are immensely stronger than gravitational ones. Only we can notice gravity because the Earth is so huge.
Electrons are never completely still. Even inside atoms, they are constantly moving, and their motion creates tiny magnetic fields. In most materials these fields point in random directions and cancel each other out, so we don’t notice them. But in certain cases the magnetic poles of many atoms align, and their fields add together - this is how familiar permanent magnets are formed.
A moving electron always produces a magnetic field. In an electromagnet, this field exists only when electric current flows. When current passes through a wire, a circular magnetic field forms around it, and reversing the current reverses the direction of the field.
Because a moving electron produces both electric and magnetic effects, it’s more accurate to see these as two parts of one unified phenomenon: the electromagnetic field.
Electromagnetic fields occur naturally and can also be created by human-made devices. Earth itself has a large magnetic field, while events like lightning generate brief but very strong electromagnetic pulses. Everyday objects - power lines, electrical wiring, fridge magnets, and speakers-also produce magnetic fields. These household fields are generally stronger than Earth’s field, though far less widespread and pervasive.
Our heart runs on electrical signals, and because of this it also generates a magnetic field. This field is extremely small - about a million times weaker than Earth’s magnetic field - yet it can change from one person to another and even from moment to moment in the same individual. Despite its faint strength, the heart’s electromagnetic field is easily measurable. An electrocardiogram (ECG) records the heart’s electrical activity from various points on the body.
The heart produces the strongest electromagnetic field in the human body, but it isn’t the only one. The brain also creates electrical signals and therefore has its own magnetic field. The brain’s field is roughly a thousand times weaker than the heart’s, which is why scientists detected it much later.
As we’ve seen, any moving electron produces an electromagnetic field. What about
piezoelectric fields ? Although these fields are extremely small, they can be measured as well. Their detection became possible with the invention of a device called a SQUID, developed by David Cohen and John Zimmerman in the early 1970s. SQUIDs enable magnetometers to pick up very weak electromagnetic fields. Using this technology, Zimmerman and later researchers were able to detect slight increases in the electromagnetic fields around the hands of therapeutic-touch practitioners. The study of these subtle biological fields is known as bioelectromagnetism.
SQUID is the most sensitive magnetic detector on Earth. It can detect magnetic fields as small as a few femtotesla (10⁻¹⁵ T) - billions of times weaker than the magnetic field of Earth. It detects brain waves, bone electrical currents, fascia currents, piezo-electrical signals from biological tissues and emissions around the hands.It uses superconducting loops cooled to very low temperatures. Superconductivity allows electrons to flow with zero electrical resistance. When a tiny magnetic field passes through the loop, interference patterns shift - these shifts can be measured with astonishing precision.
Zimmerman showed that: Healers do not just imagine energy - their bodies emit measurable, frequency-sweeping magnetic fields during the act of healing.
In 1992 more detailed study on "Qi Emission" was led by Dr. Koichi Seto in Japan.Main finding of this research was that qigong practitioners emitted measurable biomagnetic fields from their hands - far stronger than those of non-practitioners. The emitted fields were detected 2-4 centimeters away from the hands, which is extremely difficult unless the field is unusually strong. These emissions occurred during intentional qi projection, meditation, and healing states.
The researchers used: SQUID magnetometers (same as Zimmerman) and additional shielding to remove environmental noise. Their labs were extremely well-shielded - Japan was pioneering SQUID use in the 80s–90s.
Qigong practitioners generated strong, rhythmic magnetic fields with the frequencies ranged from: 0.3 Hz → 30 Hz and centred around 7-8 Hz. These match exactly brainwave delta and theta rhythms, the frequencies known to stimulate tissue healing, Earth's Schumann resonance range (≈7.83 Hz)
The fields appeared only during concentration. When the practitioner wasn’t consciously doing qigong, the magnetic fields dropped back to normal baseline. The signals were biological, not mechanical artifacts. The team ruled out: muscle movement, blood flow, environmental noise, equipment artifacts. This is very important scientifically.
The study tested several qigong masters. They all produced magnetic pulses significantly above background level.
The qigong masters produced 100 to 1000 times stronger than typical biomagnetic signals measured in non-practitioners, far above the noise floor and only during intentional emission. This is why the study became famous.
Our blood is mostly water with a lot of salts and minerals dissolved within it. It turns out that water saturated like this turns out to be excellent conductor for electricity. It is not surprising that an ECG will pick up signals from the heart throughout the body. It was suggested that these heart-generated signals may play a role in communication throughout the system. So far, conventional medicine has focused mainly on using the body’s electrical fields for diagnostic purposes and has not developed therapeutic methods based on them. In contrast, some alternative and complementary practitioners have explored ways to work with these fields therapeutically.
Until now we’ve focused on how a moving electron creates a magnetic field. But the opposite is also true: a changing magnetic field can produce an electric current. This principle underlies electric generators- a rotating magnet inside a coil of wire generates electricity. The reverse process forms the basis of electric motors: when current flows through the coil, it causes the magnet to turn. Just as our bodies generate their own magnetic fields, they can also be influenced by external magnetic fields.
Since the early 1800s, researchers have explored whether magnetic fields might have therapeutic effects. Much of that work paused as modern medicine became standardized, but interest has grown again in recent decades. Some newer studies have revisited earlier ideas and found that magnetic fields may have useful applications in specific clinical situations. One such approach is known as pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF).
A commonly cited example involves cases where a broken bone does not heal properly - a condition called non-union. In some patients, a fracture can remain unhealed for many years because the body’s usual repair signals are not reaching the affected tissue. In these cases, doctors may prescribe a medical device that produces a controlled, pulsing magnetic field. The device is worn around the fracture for eight-ten hours a day. Clinical tests have shown that even for broken bones that have remained unhealed for forty years, the bones can be repaired with this technique.
In many of these devices, the magnetic pulses are set around seven hertz - a frequency sometimes referred to in research as a “frequency window of specificity” (FWS). In 1995, Sisken and Walker reported that different tissues may respond to different frequency windows:
2 Hz - Nerve Regeneration
7 Hz - Bone Growth
10 Hz - Ligament Repair
15 - 20 Hz - Skin Repair
25 - 50 Hz - Assistance with nerve growth
It matches the brain-wave rhythms that are emitted during meditative states, such as:
Delta (0.5 - 4 Hz)- Deep and Dreamless Sleep: It is a realm of your unconscious mind. Conscious awareness is fully detached. We generate delta waves in deep sleep and very deep transcendental meditation.
Theta (4 Hz - 7.5 Hz) - Vivid Dreams -REM Sleep: Insight. Highly creative zone that invites vivd visualisations and profound insights. Potential for spiritual experiences and sense of connectedness. Reached through deep meditation, light sleep and "flow" activities.
Alpha (7.5 Hz - 14 Hz) - Relaxation - Intuition - Creativity: A meditative state in which memory, learning, visualisation and concentration are heightened. Awareness expands. Creativity increases. A sense of peace and well-being in the present moment.
Blood vessels carry chemical energy in the form of molecules throughout the body, while nerves transmit electrical energy. But what carries the electromagnetic energies we’ve been discussing? In truth, electrical and magnetic fields don’t require physical pathways at all-they can move through space itself. The challenge is that these fields weaken with distance, and some can even be shielded. Over very small regions, the fields may be strong enough to transmit energy or information, but over larger distances the body must rely on a different mechanism.
Electrical fields follow the movement of electrical currents. As we’ve seen, nerves are not the only electrical conductors in the body. An ECG, for example, detects heart signals from points far from the chest. This works because the circulatory system also conducts electrical information. This means the blood network may serve as a channel not only for chemical energy, but for electromagnetic energy as well. Interestingly, Daoist traditions long ago described the blood as a pathway of Chi. If Chi is more than chemical energy, perhaps they were perceiving this flow of electromagnetic information through the vessels. Or perhaps our understanding of Chi should expand to include several forms of energy-chemical, electrical, and electromagnetic.
But does it end there? The circulatory system doesn’t directly reach every part of the body. What about inside each cell? How is information transmitted into the cell’s interior? To answer that, we need to explore the evolving scientific models of how cells function.
In most textbooks that describe cell anatomy, you’ll find a familiar diagram: a detailed illustration of the structures inside the cell. Detailed, yes - but still incomplete. The interior of the cell is usually shown as a watery medium, a kind of “soup” in which all the organelles float. In this common model, chemicals enter through the permeable cell membrane and then wander through the soup until they randomly encounter the structure or receptor they’re meant to interact with. Communication in this framework depends on chance - molecules drifting aimlessly until they collide with their target.
It’s a model that feels unsatisfying, especially since many cellular processes occur far faster than random movement should allow. As James Oschman points out, the “random soup” explanation simply doesn’t account for the speed and precision we observe in living cells. Clearly, something is missing.
So what is missing ? Bernie Clark has a wonderful book, which is the best on this subject - YinSights.
We see the same gap when we look at the anatomical diagrams in most biology books. They show the circulatory system with great detail, or isolate the skeletal, muscular, or nervous systems - but they rarely show the material that holds all these systems together. What’s missing is the connective tissue. This connective network links the circulatory system to the nervous system, to the muscles, and to virtually every other structure. It is everywhere, and as we’ve seen, it’s composed of collagen, elastin, and other components arranged in crystalline matrices.
These matrices form piezoelectric structures capable of generating and conducting the electrical energies.
Newer models of cell anatomy make it clear that a cell is far more than a simple bag of fluid. Inside the cell - just as outside - there is structure and organization. As the illustration shows, the cell’s interior is filled with fibers, filaments, and tubular frameworks. Together, these elements form the cytoskeleton or cytoplasmic matrix, which functions much like our body’s own skeleton: it gives the cell shape, stability, and support.
But the cytoskeleton does more than hold the cell together. It also serves as a network of pathways along which information can travel. Instead of imagining molecules drifting aimlessly through a “soup” in hopes of colliding with the right receptor, we now understand that enzymes and other proteins positioned along the cytoskeleton can guide chemical messages directly to their destinations.
A closer look reveals something even more remarkable: many of these cytoskeletal filaments extend beyond the cell membrane. These connecting structures, called integrins, link the inside of the cell to the extracellular matrix outside. Since the extracellular matrix forms a continuous network throughout the entire body, each cell is indirectly connected to every other cell. With this interconnected matrix and the fluid ground substance that permeates it, we find that no part of the body is isolated - every region is linked to every other.
Same like in our society with billions of people every human being is connected with every over by at most five connections, with billions of cells in our body there are almost an infinite number of ways how they can connect between each other.
When Western scientists first examined Eastern descriptions of meridians and nadis, they returned to their dissection tables looking for physical channels-tubes or pathways resembling nerves or blood vessels. In doing so, they routinely removed and discarded the connective tissues, assuming they were inert and unimportant. By overlooking these tissues, they looked right past the very structures they hoped to find. Naturally, when no obvious channels appeared, they concluded that meridians did not exist. Ironically, the “missing” pathways were in the material they had thrown away-the connective tissue matrix and the water-rich fibers of the ground substance, where subtle energies actually move.
Ancient sages spoke of seventy-two thousand nadis. Others claimed three hundred thousand, or even three hundred and sixty thousand. And technically, they were all “wrong.” The real number of connections within the human body-linking billions of cells through the connective tissue matrix-is essentially beyond calculation. Some estimates suggest more than a billion trillion interconnections, and even that may be conservative. These countless pathways form the true network of nadis and meridians described in traditional systems: conduits for prana, Chi, and subtle information flow.
We can hardly fault the early masters for miscounting; they navigated the body with lanterns, not lasers. What mattered was not the exact number, but the insight itself-that the body is woven together by an immense, continuous network of energetic pathways.
Up to this point, we’ve focused mainly on how information might move through the body via piezoelectrically generated signals and the electromagnetic energies that travel through the crystalline lattice of our connective tissues. The ancient sages underestimated the sheer number of channels - but what about their descriptions of ten types of prana or thirty-two varieties of Chi? Were those also exaggerations?
For a deeper exploration, the curious reader can again turn to the work of James Oschman. We have only scratched the surface of the research he presents on electromagnetism. His investigations extend much further - into gravitational signaling, infrared communication, photonic and microwave interactions, and numerous other forms of energy that appear to play roles in the body’s information systems. It seems entirely plausible that, across hundreds of millions of years of evolution, life has learned to adapt to - and make use of - every energetic resource that nature provides.
When we include these additional forms of communication alongside the chemical, electrical, and magnetic energies already discussed, the total easily surpasses the lists preserved in traditional texts. Rather than seeing the ancient Indian and Daoist yogis as embellishing the truth, we might instead conclude that they were, in fact, describing only a fraction of what is actually happening within us.
Electrical activity in the body, beyond that which is found flowing through the nerves, has been found to be responsible for many of the body’s functions, like regenerating bone tissues for example. Stress when we walk create a necessary electrical charge for our bone cells to be formed. And that is why astronauts are losing their bone tissues, which was researched many times by NASA and ESA.
Earth as our True Body
What about energy that we use to power our homes, cars and appliances ? It is also electrical energy, the same which runs through our body and the Earth itself.Vedic teachings say that the Earth is our true body. What can it possibly mean ?
According to Vedic view the Universe a is an endless cycle: Creation, Maintenance and Annihilation. Then another Big Bang and the cycle begins again ad infinitum.
Quantum Theoretical physics show that electrons are truly immortal, because by their structure they resemble tiny black holes, where time and space behave differently.
Jean-Émile Charon says that electrons are carriers of the "spirit" itself, because electrons are older then neutron starts. We are made of this electrons. And electron "remembers." Electron which was part of the living organism: tree, human, tiger is different from that of the "dead" matter. They have different "structure" - different spins, so they don't communicate, don't resonate and thus don't merge. So most likely we are made of the same electrons that Pythagoras, Marcus Aurelius, Laozi, Tesla, and Abhinavagupta once had.
Nothing cease to exist according to Taoist worldview - it is a rather the dance of primordial energy chi which takes countless forms and transforms from one state into another.
In Hinduism this primordial energy is called prana and revered as sentient Goddess Shakti which takes multiple forms and manifestations. It animates and pervade everything, there is no a such space where she could not go.
In fact Nicola Tesla, who invented XX century said energy could be extracted from ether.
At that time people thought that he was crazy, although they had to admit that he was a genius so they pardoned him for this thought.
If we would think about Shakti: ether is described as her first manifestation, from where all other gross elements are formed such as fire, water, air and earth.
So what Tesla was saying that energy is everywhere, which in fact is true.
If nothing cease to exist then by theory of re-incarnation we come back to the same place here over and over again.
In many Indigenous cultures of North America, Earth stewardship is the understanding that humans are not owners of the land - we are caretakers of it.
The Earth does not belong to us. We belong to the Earth.
Life is viewed as a web - touch one part, and the whole vibrates. This mirrors modern ecological science.
One of the most famous concepts:
Before making any major decision, consider its impact on the next seven generations.
In many tribes: You never take more than the land can regenerate. You offer gratitude - songs, prayers, ceremonies. You “pay back” through conservation, respect, and balance. This is ecological reciprocity, not ownership. Animals, plants, and landscapes are understood as knowledge holders. Each species carries teaching. Humans are students in the school of Earth.
Regenerative agriculture is emerging from this ancient wisdom. Today, many conservationists and climate scientists are learning from Indigenous ecological knowledge.
Today modern humans often suppress or over-control emotions.Animals symbolize emotions in their pure form:
fear → survival
anger → boundary
desire → life force
joy → play
sadness → release
Animals show these energies honestly, without shame. Carl Jung said emotions are instinctual energies.
Different animals represent different instincts:
Wolf → social belonging, loyalty, intuition
Bear → strength, retreat, protection
Eagle → vision, perspective
Snake → renewal, life force
Horse → life energy, freedom
Deer → sensitivity, gentleness
For Jungian psychologists animals teach us how to reconnect with all lost parts of ourselves.
Animals help with this by grounding us in the body, reconnecting us to nature, and opening intuition and creativity.
If we come here to learn, to how we could learn if animals would cease to exist? Imagine something that evolution has shaped over millions of years suddenly ceasing to exist. In fact, only about 3–4% of humpback whales remain compared to their pre-whaling numbers.
With this shortened vision our civilisation now made itself an enemy of every living being.
Or ancient wisdom once lost now is gradually coming back ?
The drying of the Saraswati river was seen by the Vedic seers as humanity’s departure from harmony with nature. Saraswati is also a Goddess of Knowledge and Arts, her main symbol is Flow. Maybe it was departure of once Holistic Worldview to Compartmentalised and Rational as well.
It is not what the rational is better or worse, it's about the the emphasis that this is the only way of thinking. In fact, there is not only an linear Aristotelian logic, but many others like yin-yang or paradox logic.
Regenerative Civilisation
So what we can learn from the Nature ?
Movement and Circulation is the ultimate principle of Nature.
We have learned that we can recycle our garbage, but only 7% of garbage is being recycled globally. We can go beyond recycle - to not create waste in the first place.
Our civilisation is still dependent on the fossil-fuels. On what means the extraction of fossil fuels ? Destroying the ecosystems and pollution of atmosphere during all the life-cycles.
Oil is the blood of the Earth and we are not giving enough time for her to recover.
Beyond that Oil is the finite resource, and we by the nature of our primate ancestors are used to compete for resources. Take a look on the all major conflict we have even now.
The concept of petro-aggression is coined by political scientist Jeff Colgan, who analyzed dozens of cases of conflict involving oil-exporting states.
Oil-rich states are more likely to behave aggressively in foreign policy - initiating conflicts, taking hostile actions, or acting coercively - because oil wealth gives them money, confidence, and insulation from economic consequences.
Energy what we use in our daily lives mostly comes from one common source, which has very destructive source.
Can we design it differently ? Yes, we can. In fact, this is actually what Tesla was trying to say one hundred years ago.
Ether is the source of manifestation of other four elements.
Imagine civilisation powered by elements: Solar, Wind, Tides and heat from the core of the Earth. Civilisation, where we don't need to compete for the resources, because renewable resources are in abundance everythere. We don't need to destroy ecosystems, which serve as habitats for thousands of living organisms. And we don't need to pollute them ever, because everything is cycled. Same like in nature.
Think of Hydrogen (H2). Molecule which is part of water (H2O). It is a natural element, which is in abundance everywhere, because Earth is by 70% consists of water, same like our body.
It turns out that hydrogen is energy carrier of Solar, Wind and other renewables, like a battery, but a molecule. It can be burned like a fuel in fuel cell, or in engine as liquid hydrogen or ammonia and leaving as traces only vapours of water. It is used now in cars, trucks, buses and even ships.
Countries like Japan, Canada, Australia, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, Chile, Namibia are buidling mega-projects and pioneering the hydrogen economy with major-projects and I want to share some the most inspiring examples of fully off-grid centres and communities.
Regenerative Communities
Geothermal energy was used for thousand years by Native Tribes of Northern America. Archaeological evidence points to human habitation in the Banff area for more than ten thousand years, and the hot springs were certainly known to, and utilized by, the region’s indigenous peoples.
The Banff Hot Springs represent the most famous example of direct-use geothermal energy in Alberta’s history. In essence, hot springs are pools created by geothermally heated groundwater from deep within the Earth’s crust. The process begins when water seeps from the surface into holes and fissures in the rocks surrounding the hot springs. The water becomes saturated with minerals such as sulfur, and as it descends deeper into the ground, it gets progressively hotter due to the Earth’s internal temperature. Eventually, the heated water reaches a crack or fissure in the rock leading to the surface and is pushed upwards by the pressure of the descending water behind it. It then bubbles to the surface as a mineral-rich hot spring.
Iceland is also known for it's use of geothermal energy. 90% of Icelandic homes are heated with geothermal energy and 30% of all electricity comes from geothermal plants. The rest of energy comes mostly from hydropower, making Iceland almost 100% renewable.
Blue Lagoon uses geothermal seawater for it's spa treatment. This water first generates renewable electricity for community via local power plant, and then water itself sinks back into the subterranean aquifers from which it came, reentering the geothermal ecocycle.
On top is the iconic image of Sundhnúkur/ Fagradalsfjall volcanic system (2021–2024), which repeatedly sent lava toward infrastructure. In the background, multiple white steam plumes rise from the Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant, which supplies renewable electricity to community. This steam is not smoke - it’s geothermal steam vented from turbines and hot-water processing units. The milky-blue pools form naturally when mineral-rich geothermal water from the power plant flows into lava fields.
When magma rises toward the surface, Iceland’s emergency agency evacuates people long before lava arrives. Iceland’s warning systems are among the best in the world.
Iceland builds massive earthen walls, called lava barriers, which are made from local rock and 6-10m high. They strong enough to hold or change the flow direction and last long enough for lava to cool.
Ko Jik - Solar Island in Thailand
Koh Jik is a small island in Thailad (Chantaburi Province). Koh Jik was once a remote island with no stable central electricity grid. Many households used oil-lamps or relied on private diesel generators (small or shared) for limited hours. Over recent years, the community - supported by renewable-energy initiatives - shifted toward solar power. According to reporting, Koh Jik is now “nearly 100% solar powered,” with solar panels supplying electricity for the island - making it one of the most sustainable island-communities in the region. This transition replaced or greatly reduced diesel-generator usage, lowering pollution, noise, and dependence on imported fuel.
Tokelau - The World’s First 100% Solar-Powered Nation
Tokelau is a tiny, remote Polynesian territory of New Zealand, located far out in the Pacific Ocean between Samoa and Hawaii. It consists of three coral atolls - Fakaofo, Nukunonu, and Atafu - with a total population of around 1,500 people.
What makes it extraordinary is that Tokelau became the first country on Earth to run almost entirely on solar energy, turning itself into a global symbol of regenerative living and climate resilience.Before 2012, Tokelau was fully dependent on imported diesel, which was expensive to ship and polluted fragile coral ecosystems. Ships with diesel arrived only few times a year, which created fuel shortages.
Then Tokelau did something historic: They installed: 4,000+ solar panels, 1,300+ deep-cycle batteries and microgrid systems centered on each atoll. This shifted Tokelau to over 90–100% solar power, depending on season and cloud cover.
It became the first nation to function almost entirely on renewable energy.
Another example is Rau Kūmara Solar Farm - New Zealand’s first community-owned solar farm. Small town of Ōtaki was turned into a hub for clean, local energy and sustainable technologies.
It’s a rare real-world example of a community-driven transition to clean energy and sustainability, showing that you don’t need megaprojects to make real ecological, social, and economic impact - small towns can transform. It shows the idea of regenerative living from energy production to waste reduction, from sustainable transport to housing improvements to biodiversity.
Hydrogen Villages: The Future of Regenerative Communities
In the dry plains of the Namib Desert, the Daures Hydrogen Village shows how clean energy can support real life on the ground. Powered by sun and wind, the village produces green hydrogen and turns it into green fertiliser, which in turn helps grow vegetables in a place where farming was almost impossible. It’s a simple but powerful idea: using renewable energy to create food, jobs, and local development, all in one integrated system. Daures is becoming a model for how communities can use hydrogen not just for export, but to build self-reliant, sustainable living in regions shaped by harsh climates.
NEOM is world largest Hydrogen - Regenerative Oasis. Project is being developed in the province of Tabuk, on the Red Sea in north-west Saudi Arabia. NEOM envisions itself not just as “renewable + hydrogen,” but as a circular economy: waste is designed, nature preservation, rewilding, sustainable water/energy usage, and low-carbon footprints for buildings and cities. As part of that, NEOM aims to preserve much of its natural land: large coastal areas, deserts, mountains - and to integrate ecological restoration (flora/fauna, natural habitats) - turning what once was desert or degraded land into more sustainable, livable ecosystems.In other words: the hydrogen plant is only one pillar; the larger vision is to create a “regenerative oasis” - a living city/region that works with nature rather than against it.
(c) Nikita Ierisov - Philosopher
Keeper of Dharma Station,
Vancouver Island, Canada
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