Using Prana As The New Fossil Fuel

We assumed we found a sustainable, viable, and stable energy source in the earth, but as time ruthlessly trundles on—seemingly like a wild horse that never stops to smell the roses—it is becoming painfully obvious that this energy source is drying up, and so are the economies that depend upon it for sustenance. Because the earth is overpopulated, because the global market is like a restless superhighway that spreads out in all directions, and because the supply will never be able to satisfy the demand, we have reached a point in human history where the infrastructure that holds up all our cherished systems—sociopolitical, geoeconomical, or otherwise—is showing signs of imminent collapse. I say the panacea to this problem doesn’t come in the form of a conventional and logical substitution. In other words, replacing fossil fuel with a new abundant, practical, and malleable energy source would not be deftly ideal or ideally deft. This type of proposed solution would only cause more harm than good. What I propose is a postconventional and supralogical solution to the crisis that continually manifests itself in our lives*. I propose we use “Prana”.

Prana, an invisible energy source that is extra-corporeal, is not found in space and time, and it certainly doesn’t merely pool into deep pockets in the earth. At the same time, prana is not as elusive as one might suppose. It is a subtle spirit-fluid that envelops the very air we breathe. In the “Prana Pranayama Prana Vidya” by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati, prana is poignantly described as a “vital energy force, essence of life permeating the whole of creation, both the macrocosmos and microcosmos.” Based on that description, nothing is more abundant than prana. It is what organic and inorganic matter surreptitiously uses in order to live. It is freer than the oceans that are circumscribed by the shores. It is freer than the word that attempts to locate it in space and time.

One of the problems that obviously arises in my proposition is this: how do we take something that is indeterminate, unpredictable, and not bounded to the 3-D, and make it something that can be used ethically and wisely by our governments? Well, one of the solutions could come in the form of a “Prana Transubstantiation Device,” an apparatus that is able to make its subtle essence gross. The finer points involving this process would obviously be left up to people far more intelligent than me, but the apparatus could indeed be constructed with the technological know-how we currently have in our possession. All it takes is knowledge of our occult anatomy and the occult anatomy of the universe itself. This knowledge is indeed out there, and it has been studied over the course of millennia.

If inventing a “Prana Transubstantiation Device” seems like a queer and abstract idea too queer and abstract to really use, I would like to remind you that the Wright Brothers invented the prototype for the modern airplane by watching birds fly in the yonder. Correlatively, Tibetan lamas and Yogic sages invented their theories surrounding the usage of prana by simply watching their breath, and the way it interacted with the energy centers in the body. So what we have here is not an airy-fairy notion molded from wishful thinking and science fiction. We simply have the potential for an emergent and efficacious device based on the studies of spirit scientists who truly understand the meaning behind the word “empiricism”.

We have come to the point where we need to develop alternative energy devices that can harness the energy potential of alternative energy sources. In conjunction with this line of thinking, the governments that stockpile and exploit the energy sources we currently use need to grow up and move beyond their sectarian viewpoints. Fossil fuel is quickly becoming extinct, so the need for our technological know-how, our governmental structures, and our mystical insights to come together on this pressing issue is becoming all the more important as we face a future that may not be. We can surely avoid our own extinction if we learn how to balance these three elements.

*Here the terms “postconventional” and “supralogical” compliment one another, if indeed we’re looking for a solution to a burgeoning crisis that demands access to a cognitive level that lies beyond the reach of conventionality and logicality. The terms themselves should direct our attention to the future of the mind; a future that strangely shows up as a “yet-to-be-harvested potential” in the present.