Theory of EnergoInformatics

Topics

Energy · Mind and thoughts · Consciousness · Soul · Attention · Perception (Spirit) · Programs · Personality · Subconscious

Energy

Energy is everything we feel. Whoever understands this sentence – and by understanding I mean feeling – begins to grasp how powerful it is. It means that energy is available around us in unlimited amounts and that we may use it by feeling it.

What we can feel, we can influence, and therefore we can influence energy. EnergoInformatics uses its methods to make energy perceptible and therefore controllable. Anyone can learn to create an energy field or an energy flow, and everything needed for this has been available since birth and is used every day, usually without noticing how simple and powerful it is.

Energy consists of two components: a conscious and an unconscious component, or in other words a mental and an emotional component.

The mental component is easy to understand: it is information. Any energy can contain as much information as needed. Energy may be cold or warm, vibrating, dense, light, heavy, dynamic, pulsating, colourful, clear, crystalline and so on. It all depends on how we interpret the information carried by the energy.

Energy can also contain very complex information. A wish or an intention, for example, does not contain only a simple quality such as warm or cold, but can include a detailed description of the desired object and of the path toward the goal.

The second component of energy cannot really be understood through the intellect. It can be called force, life energy, life, or simply energy. Some experience it as love, joy or gratitude. Whatever word we choose, we will not fully capture the essence of this phenomenon, because the origin of the emotional component lies in the unconscious, far beyond what our limited consciousness can perceive.

The name EnergoInformatics comes from these two components: energy and information. By learning to work with information, one gains access to what, in this model, holds the world together at its deepest level.

Mind and thoughts

Analysing, remembering, describing and similar activities are functions of the brain. In a simplified image, the brain is the physical representation of consciousness in the body. This is also why we speak of our own consciousness: most people are so strongly identified with the brain that they assume consciousness must be a function of it.

Put simply, the brain works like a processor and constantly produces thoughts. Even when we think about nothing, we may still be thinking about how we are thinking about nothing.

For this reason, spiritual development through the mind alone is hardly possible. The mind constantly leads us back into thoughts, and thoughts create an interpretation – a distorted mirror of reality. Through the mind alone we therefore never perceive reality directly; we perceive a reflection of it.

Is the solution to live without the mind? If we did not live in this complex social reality, perhaps. But that would not be a human solution. In this ancient experiment called human life, we may try to unite the unconscious with the conscious.

At first glance one would say that thoughts are simply products of the activity of the nervous system.

Yet I remember a moment from childhood when I suddenly became aware of my thoughts. Before that moment I did not experience them in the same way. I was standing in the garden at home and noticed that I was repeating in my head something I already knew.

From then on the inner monologue became active and kept telling me what I already knew. I found it amusing and could not understand why I was doing something so pointless.

As I grew older I forgot this experience. Through meditation, where I learned to observe thoughts, I encountered it again and discovered the moment shortly before a thought is formed.

In that moment one already knows what one is about to think, and the thought itself suddenly seems unnecessary. The longer one remains there, the more one notices how much thought merely repeats what is already known. When the production of thoughts becomes quieter, analysis and understanding can become much faster.

If one observes the moment just before a thought appears, three kinds of thinking become visible.

Ordinary thoughts are mostly a monologue of the brain. The brain processes knowledge from consciousness and the subconscious and outputs it in the form of thoughts.

When one observes the formation of thoughts closely, very fast thoughts also become noticeable. They are so fast that they are perceived almost as direct knowing.

There is also very slow thinking. Slow thoughts combine emotions and thoughts and therefore become feelings. One no longer processes dry information only; one feels it. Feelings turn into other feelings until an understandable result emerges.

Slow thoughts are strongly charged with energy and therefore, in this theory, can have a powerful influence on our reality. This is why it matters whether such thinking is guided through the soul – through joy, love and gratitude – or through the mind and ego.

Consciousness

Consciousness is not, in the theory of EnergoInformatics, merely a function of the brain or nervous system. Consciousness can exist independently of the physical body. What we call our individual consciousness is part of a larger, global consciousness.

But what is consciousness?

Consciousness is a mechanism of opposites that is constantly in motion. It is a binary system in which every object has a counterpart. In this view, good never exists without evil, and every action within one pole also creates consequences within the other.

Dual systems can be found in many areas, from computer technology to physics. Duality is deeply integrated into our experience because it forms the basis of the reality we perceive.

Because consciousness is a mechanism, these opposites are constantly in movement, creating for us an illusion – something like a hologram that appears completely real.

As a thought experiment, imagine the nucleus of an atom as a basketball in a stadium, while the electrons, roughly the size of ping-pong balls in this image, move far outside the stadium at extremely high speed.

This picture illustrates how much of what we call matter consists of empty space. And precisely this apparent emptiness is the interesting part of the model.

Consciousness can therefore be seen as a mechanism that continuously creates reality through the movement of opposites. The illusion we call reality appears so real that we ignore the emptiness on which everything, including consciousness, rests.

Because the mind is itself part of consciousness and participates in creating this reality, it is very difficult to look behind the scenes using the mind alone.

What is behind this illusion? What is this emptiness?

This question leads directly to the next topic: the soul.

It is also important to note that the strength of consciousness depends on energy. When consciousness has access to a great deal of energy, it becomes stronger.

For most people, however, consciousness is strongly connected with the physical body. The body therefore becomes its main source of energy. Hunger, cold or pain can withdraw a great deal of energy from consciousness, making it weaker and more easily irritated.

Through the methods of EnergoInformatics, consciousness is intended to become less dependent on the physical body by gaining access to an additional source of energy.

Soul

If we imagine the soul as an ocean, consciousness would be like an oil film on the water. Without the ocean the film could not float, yet the oil lies so close to the water that we may mistake it for the ocean itself.

The oil also shimmers beautifully in the sun, making it difficult to notice the transparent water beneath it.

If we were to dive through the oil film and finally reach the water, we would discover the immense depth and clarity of the soul.

As with consciousness, it is difficult to say which part of the ocean belongs to our individual soul. It is like trying to distinguish one drop among infinitely many drops of the same ocean.

Where exactly does one drop end and the next begin?

And yet this drop exists and belongs to you. It is your soul, the one you were born with, while at the same time remaining connected with all other souls.

Through the methods of EnergoInformatics you learn to recognise your soul, if you have forgotten it. People who not only know their soul but enter into a dialogue with it learn to bring soul and consciousness into harmony.

Harmony is still too weak a word. The aim is to connect them so strongly that they begin to work together instead of, as so often happens, against one another.

But what is the soul itself?

The soul can be imagined as a kind of crystal or matrix. It is the underlying structure of everything that exists – the emptiness on which the mechanism called consciousness runs.

A two-dimensional image of this crystal or matrix can be found in the symbol known as the Flower of Life. In this theory, the Flower of Life represents a multidimensional matrix in a form that can be visualised more easily.

The soul is also, in this worldview, our way of feeling God or the Creator – whatever name we use for that which created our reality – and of coming into contact with it.

Attention

Attention is one of the most complex and at the same time most important tools of consciousness.

Its main function is to focus or defocus our energy and, in doing so, make the information contained in energy understandable.

Where attention goes, perception becomes stronger. When we direct attention to a particular part of the body, a thought, a feeling or an object, that area becomes clearer to consciousness.

Attention is therefore one of the basic tools through which we can learn to perceive and direct energy consciously.

Perception (Spirit)

Through EnergoInformatics methods one can enter so deeply into the present moment – into emptiness and silence – that something becomes perceptible which can be called Spirit or the ‘I’.

It is the focal point where sensory impressions and information converge and where meaning or significance arises.

When the activity of consciousness is strongly reduced and thoughts, emotions and feelings are released, one may find oneself at a point that is difficult to describe.

There seems to be nothing there, yet precisely there one can feel life in its fullness.

This point is not static. It can be directed through attention.

It can be moved not only within the body but, in this model, also beyond the body. It can feel as if one connects with wherever this point has moved and begins to understand what it has connected with.

The more dynamic this point becomes, the more creative a person can become, because they may perceive something that has never before belonged to their own stored experience.

The movement of Spirit also makes transpersonal experience possible in this theory. When one connects one’s own Spirit with that of another person, one may experience the other person as if from within, including emotions, thoughts and feelings.

Programs

EnergoInformatics provides methods through which a person can create an energetic program and integrate it into the subconscious.

For people who have forgotten how to formulate their own wishes and goals – and even more importantly how to reach them – energetic programs can be a way to relearn this.

As described earlier, energy consists of two components. The methods teach how to create an information carrier and store chosen information in this energetic carrier.

This energetic information carrier, for example in the form of an energy ball, is then integrated into the subconscious like a CD or disk and begins to trigger activities in consciousness that support movement toward the goal.

Once one learns to build one’s own programs, it also becomes easier to understand how programs were built that prevent progress toward a goal, such as procrastination, self-sabotage or devaluing one’s own results.

A program is not only a simple thought. It may consist of many interconnected pieces of information, emotions, sensations, images, memories and intentions.

The more complex such a program becomes, the more it can be viewed as a multidimensional energetic object that controls certain activities or processes within consciousness.

A large part of our programs is useful. They allow us to carry out everyday tasks without consciously controlling every individual detail.

Other programs can limit us. Such programs often arise unintentionally from experiences connected with strong emotions.

If they are repeatedly reinforced and transferred into the subconscious, they may eventually influence decisions, thoughts, emotions and actions automatically.

EnergoInformatics describes such limiting programs as blocks.

Understanding how programs are formed also opens the possibility of creating new programs consciously.

Personality

A human personality is far more complex than the operating system of a computer.

Even so, the comparison with an operating system can be useful for understanding how personality is structured.

Personality is a collection of programs stored mainly in consciousness and the subconscious.

These include not only simple habits, but also highly complex programs governing how we perceive ourselves, how we react to other people, which decisions we make, what we consider possible or impossible and how we respond to particular life situations.

These programs are interconnected and influence one another.

Some of them operate consciously. We know why we are doing something and can observe our decision.

A much larger part operates unconsciously.

We react automatically and later often explain these reactions with the sentence: ‘That is just who I am.’

From the perspective of EnergoInformatics, however, personality is not completely fixed.

A large part of what we call personality develops over the course of life. Experiences, decisions, upbringing, relationships and intense emotional events create programs that become increasingly interconnected.

This forms the individual structure of personality.

At birth, the soul brings certain starting values, for example talents, intuitive abilities and particular inclinations. Over the course of life, together with our decisions, experiences and programs, these become part of our personality.

When the programs of personality are in harmony with the soul, the whole system functions more harmoniously.

When programs arise that contradict our own soul, inner conflicts can develop.

The development of personality therefore does not mean creating a completely new personality, but becoming increasingly conscious of which programs belong to us and which are no longer needed.

Subconscious

The subconscious is the interface between the soul and consciousness.

Consciousness and soul are not strictly separated. They overlap. In EnergoInformatics, this intersection is called the subconscious.

The subconscious makes our soul individual enough for us to distinguish it from the other drops in the ocean.

In the image of a drop, it creates the surface tension through which an individual drop can form from the water.

At the same time, the subconscious greatly relieves consciousness by taking over tasks and carrying many of them out almost simultaneously.

Many programs of everyday life are stored in the subconscious.

At first we have to learn an activity consciously and focus on every individual step. Through repetition the process becomes easier until the subconscious takes over a large part of it.

This allows us to perform complex activities without thinking consciously about every step.

The same principle applies not only to useful programs.

Fears, habits, automatic reactions and blocks can also be stored in the subconscious.

The subconscious can therefore have a strong influence on our thoughts, feelings and behaviour even when we are not aware of that influence.

The subconscious can also be viewed as a virtual space between the conscious and the unconscious.

It contains both what we once learned consciously and later automated, and what slowly becomes accessible to consciousness from the unconscious.

The subconscious is therefore not merely a storage system.

It is a transition between consciousness and soul.