1 Background - a Review of the Current Literature For thousands of years, man believed in energetic and electrical qualities inherent in humans. Scientific investigations into the nature of this Electrical Man show clearly that something is going on beyond what Physics might predict. Man is surrounded, internally and externally with these electrical frequencies (energy) and he can learn to control them at volition, thereby achieving peak mental, physical, and spiritual status.

Measurable electrical energy has been observed to emit from the human body, and some have even learnt to alter these electrical frequencies at will. These individuals can influence events from a distance with energy (or signal) emitted from their hands. They can decide to be vibrant and full of energy that they change the atmosphere of a room when they walk in, or simply make you feel better being around them. We have also experienced the person who can light up the room, those who can darken the room with their emotions, and those who radiate joy, have positive energy, and glow with expectation.

Humans are an electrical reality, and so is life. To understand this concept, we venture into the universe, where everything is made of atoms and undoubtedly, atoms are made of vibrating frequencies of energy. According to Heistand and Coleman (1999): Heistand and Coleman (1999) write that the only way we can understand ourselves and the world we live in is to understand it from an energy and electrical perspective. Poole (1999) quotes the Shamans as having said that there is no such thing as a closed system. We are all connected to each other and to all sentient beings. Truly, this is one significant method with which we can fully understand the human body and the workings of the Almighty Allah (SWT), the Most High, and the Most Sublime. In their words: The following verse from Qur'an elucidates further the above concept: al-Khumeini remarks: Just for clarity, Muslims do not believe in Allah having a form, so this light (in the above verse) means that Allah manifests the heavens and the earth, and that the light that shines the whole of creation is the source of truth and guidance. It is there for every creation to perceive.

According to Schwartz and Russek (1999), everything in this universe is energy, and all energy communicates with all other energy. Everything we do, experience, feel and touch everything that everybody else does, has a solid impact on the frequencies of energy that are then released into the surrounding environment or the electrical universe. Apparently, material and non-material, living and the nonliving, all create patterns of information that radiate and remain forever in space.

All inanimate materials, trees, rocks, and living materials such as plants, also have electrical fields and energy because all are composed of particles, atoms and cells (Weston, 2000). The Qur'an has confirmed that every particle in the universe is living with energy and glorifies Allah (SWT). Allamah Taba Tabai (AR) writes that: In Tafsir Ayyashi, Abu Sabah has quoted Imam Sadiq, I asked him about the words: And he said: All this is based on a proven and measurable theory that an energy field surrounds each aspect of our bodies, the physical, emotional, and mental. These subtle (emotional and mental) bodies have a high rate of vibration so they cannot be seen with the physical eyes. However, they do manifest a reflection or summary of themselves that can be sensed, felt, seen, and even measured with scientific devices. There is also considerable evidence that such energy fields do communicate and react with other energy fields causing either a positive or a negative response.

Quantum Physics informs us that we are made mostly of space and waves of energy particles. Quantum Field Theory further states that there are fields of energy, which interact with each other and create particles with each interaction (Zukav, 1979). Such particles of energy can affect each other from great distances. Dr. Valorie Hunt (1989), a professor and researcher at UCLA has studied the human energy field for more than 20 years and her conclusion in her book, Infinite Mind, is as follows: As a result of my work, I can no longer consider the body as organic systems or tissues. The healthy body is a flowing, interactive electro dynamic energy field. The Prophet (S) of Islam, and the Infallible (AS) were most aware of such a concept. In this work, we provide theories, explanations and evidence from traditions and encounters that these most trustworthy creations of Allah (SWT), the Most High, the Most Sublime, did acknowledge the concept of conscious info-energy, with the ability to retain information, learn and respond, and considered this energy as intelligent. They even taught us ways to charge it, produce and maintain within ourselves the most free flowing energy and unadulterated information within these fields of energy.

The following traditions from the Aimmah suffice in explaining the nature of intelligence in the whole of creation. All of these concepts will be explored in details later.Commenting on Verse 44 of Chapter 17 from al-Qur'an, Allamah Taba Tabai writes: Ayisha has quoted the Messenger to have said, in al-Dur al-Manthur, One day the messenger came to me and asked me to wash the two blankets in the house and I said, I have washed them only yesterday. He said, I know that when the clothes are dirty, they stop praising their Lord.

The same book states that once the Messenger passed certain people who were riding their animals and he said, Ride them with ease and call them with love. Do not take them as your mounts because these animals are better than their riders for they always remember and praise their Lord.

It is reported in Kafi that once the messenger of God was giving his sermon in Madina. The pulpit was brought when the people increased. He went up the dais and then called out in a camel's voice so a camel came and paid his respect to him. It was like a small child that stops crying when it becomes familiar with a person. (This narration is similar to the ones mentioined later with the Aimmah (AS), for this behavior repeated itself in different manners in the sacred lives of the Aimmah (AS)

All these things are sign of praise and witness of God. He is the ultimate truth. The praise may be silent and discerned through its composition or verbal and can be heard professing the truth.

Brief History of Energy
As in many other areas of investigation, what researchers were absolutely certain about 20 years ago has changed dramatically. For example, in a few decades scientists have gone from a conviction that there is no such thing as energy around the human body, to an absolute certainty that it exists. Moreover, we have begun to understand the roles of energy in health and disease.

It has long been known that activities of cells and tissues generate electrical field that can be detected on the skin surface. Nevertheless, the laws of Physics demand that electrical currents generate a corresponding magnetic field in the surrounding space. Since these fields are too tiny to detect, biologists assumed they could have no physiological significance.

In the 1920's and 1930's, a distinguished researcher at Yale University School of Medicine, Harold Saxon Burr, suggested that diseases could be detected in the energy field of the body before physical symptoms appear. Soviet experimenters observed similar findings in relation to plants. Moreover, Burr was convinced that altering the energy fields could prevent diseases.

These concepts were ahead of their time, but are now being confirmed in medical research laboratories around the world. Scientists are using SQUID (Super- Conducting Quantum Interference Device) instruments to map the ways disease alters bio-magnetic fields around the body. Others are applying Pulsating Magnetic Field to stimulate healing (Blank, 1995). Again, sensitive individuals have been describing these phenomena for a long time, but there was no logical explanation of how it could happen.

In the early 1980's, Dr. John Zimmerman began a series of important studies on Therapeutic Touch, using a SQUID magnetometer at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine in Denver. Zimmerman discovered that a huge pulsating biomagnetic field emanated from the hands of a therapeutic touch practitioner. The frequency of the pulsation was reportedly not steady, but swept up and down, from 0.3 to 30 Hz (cycles per second), with most of the activity in the range of 7-8 Hz.

Confirmation of Zimmerman's findings came in 1992, when Seto and colleagues, in Japan, studied practitioners of various martial arts and other healing methods. The Qi (energy) emission from the hands was reportedly so strong that they could be detected with a simple magnetometer consisting of two coils, of 80,000 turns of wire. A similar finding was noted earlier by Hisamitsu et al. al. (1992).

Modern Science and Energy
During the early 70's, scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, using SQUID magnetometers, confirmed the heart studies, and detected minute electrical fields around the head that are produced by brain activities. Subsequently, it was discovered that all tissues and organs produce characteristic magnetic pulsation, which have come to be known as bio-magnetic field. Bio-magnetic recordings, called Magneto-Cardiograms and Magneto-Encephalograms respectively complement the traditional electrical recordings, the Electrocardiogram (ECG) and Electroencephalogram (EEG).

Remarkably, Italian scientists have found that living tissues have the same electronic circuitry that is used in the SQUID. This explains why the practiced energy therapist can detect the distorted energy field from damaged or diseased tissues. Medical devices such as the Infra Sonic device mentioned in later sections is being developed and emit signals in the same frequency range as those emitted from the hands of energy therapists and practitioners of the martial arts.

Boddington (1946) mentions a Harley Street Specialist who invented an apparatus based on a step-down transformer connected to electrical current with high voltage, low amperage, and a handle connecting to the transformer, completing the subject-earth circuit. The researcher would then approach the subject with an electrical bulb, and the closer the bulb was to the subject, the brighter it glowed. Some invisible emanation, the like of energy had to emanate from the subject's body. Kirlian Auric/Energy Photography was later introduced.

Science and Practical Nature of Energy
John and Eva Pierrakos (scientists and pioneers in bioenergetics) have developed a system of diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders based on visual and pendulum-derived observations of the human energy. The information from these observations combined with body psychotherapeutic methods eventually developed into Bioenergetics. This process called Core Energetics was delineated in a publication The Core Energetic Process, in 1977.

Richard Dobrin, John Pierrakos, and Barbara Brennan (1978) measured the light level of a wavelength of around 350 nanometers in a darkroom before, during, and after there were people in that room. Results showed a slight increase of light when people are in it. When someone feeling exhausted and full of despair was in the room, the light value actually fell. With a colorizer, they were able to show part of the energy on black and white television.

Hiroshi Motoyama measured low light levels coming from people who have practiced yoga for many years. He did this with a movie camera in a dark room. In addition, he studied the strength of a sender and receiver's energy meridian before and after treatment. Most of the time, the sender's energy level dipped and then rose again. Also, the energy at the heart of the sender or healer increased after treating a patient. Refer to his 1979 publication The Functional Relationship between Yoga Asanas and Acupuncture Meridians, for exercises that he has developed to impact on the human energy.

Valorie Hunt (1977) and colleagues at UCLA published a Study of Structural Neuromuscular Energy Field and Emotional Approaches, which was a study of the effects of stroking on the body and the psyche. She placed electrodes on the skin to record the low mV signals from the body during stroking sessions.

Rosalyn Bruyere (1977) observed the energy and recorded her observations of both the therapist (one who strokes) and the patient. Bruyere's observations were recorded on the same tape as the electronic data. She even described the color, size, and energy movements of the human energy field involved. Scientists then mathematically analyzed the wave patterns recorded by a Fourier analysis and a Sonogram Frequency Analysis. The waveforms and frequencies reported by Rosalyn Bruyere correlated specifically with the colors reported.

When Bruyere saw blue in the human energy at a specific location, the electronic measurements would always show the characteristic blue waveform and frequency in the same location. Hunt repeated this experiment with seven other readers of energy. Each of the seven also saw the energy colors that correlated with the same frequency wave patterns. In 1988, the results of their research showed these color and frequency correlation. Hunt comments in her work: Robert Becker of Upstate Medical School mapped a complex electrical field on the body that was shaped like the body and the central nervous system. He named this field The Direct Current Control System in his publication of the same name in 1962. He found that this field changes shape and strength with physiological and psychological changes.

Energy, Explained
Back in the 1100's, Liebault said that humans have an energy that can either react on someone else's energy, at a distance or close by. According to Liebault, a person can have either an unhealthy or a healthy effect on someone else just by being present. The energy of one person may be harmonious, or it maybe discordant with another; the energy may be nurturing, or it may be draining to the energy of another.

In the 1800's, Mesmer, the father of modern Hypnotism, suggested that a field similar to an electrical field might exist around the human body. Mesmer suggested that the power of this electrical field, which he believed behaved as a fluid, might also be able to exert influence on the field of another.

Further, Von Reichenbach also showed that with the odic (energy) force, like poles attract. In other words, like attracts like. In his work, Physico-physiological Researches on the Dynamics of Magnetism, Electricity, Heat, Light, Crystallization, and Chemism, in their Relation to Vital Force, printed in New York in 1851, Von Reichenbach showed that electropositive elements gave his subjects feelings of warmth, and produced unpleasant feelings. In the reverse, electronegative elements produced cool and agreeable feelings.

Von Reichenbach also found that the odic field could be conducted through a wire. It traveled slowly at 13 feet per second. This speed depended on the density of the wire rather than its conductivity. Von Reichenbach's experiments suggested that the energy field was energetic, like a light wave, and also particulate, like a fluid. Also, he showed the right side of the body as being a positive pole, and the left as negative. This agrees with the ancient Chinese principles of yin and yan.

According to scientists, the human energy can be seen as an energetic, multidimensional field that surrounds, penetrates, and forms the human body. It has rivers of energy called meridians that nourish every organ and cell in our bodies. These rivers are supplied by cone shaped vortexes of energy called chakras. These vortexes, in turn, collect energy from the surrounding environment that is all around us. When blocks accumulate in the field, a disruption in the flow of energy through the energy centers result. As we shall observe, it is these blocks that disrupt the harmony in the field and eventually are the cause of ailments, as well as, emotional and mental disorders in the physical body. Besides the blockage, this energy also stores the specific information related to the act, thought or disease and can have an impact.

Chakras can be further divided into seven major energy centers surrounding the body. The first is in the sexual organs at the base of the spine and is associated with reproduction and sexuality. The second is about two fingers down from the belly button and is associated with family and relationships. The third is the solar plexus and relates to ones identity and his or her definition of this world. The fourth is the heart chakra. The fifth is the throat chakra and is associated with communication and self-expression. Disharmonious energy is also released from here. The sixth is the third eye, which is the seat of individual consciousness. The final and seventh chakra is the seat of cosmic consciousness and located on the top of the head.

In the last 30 years or so, scientists have confirmed that unstable and disharmonic energy within us can and does result in significant physiological alterations. The medical community now accepts the infamous group of Healing Touch Practitioners and their treatment methods have undergone extensive scrutiny by the medical research scientists. At best, they could only be proven correct, and the reason why we see such health-care professionals in traditional healing centers, alternative medicine centers, surgical units, as well as recovery rooms. Extensive studies have reported the efficacy of such a treatment modality. Apparently, all of their treatment involves only balancing, charging and clearing the energy field, allowing the energy to move along open channels for increased well being. The process also allows entry of unadulterated information replacing the blocked and adulterated energy fields.

Undoubtedly, the human body has within, and surrounding it, an electrical network. When we experience health, silence and peace, this electrical network is balanced and fully charged. When something in one's life or environment threatens that balance, the electrical system responds by either short-circuiting or overloading. Unsteady nature in the electrical system immediately affects the human energy system. The body then goes into high gear in an effort to correct the unsteady nature of the energy fields, spiritually or physically. If the body does not succeed, that person will physically manifest the unbalance. Emotional reactions, thoughts, actions, and so forth, are all types of energy vibration.

Everything we transmit, every thought, word and deed is a frequency of energy that is released and attracted (Law of Conservation of Energy). This energy can also be converted into physical matter. Everything we do affect upon each other and on everything.

Schwartz and Russek (1999) make the following strong predictions in their book The Living Energy Universe, each one of which will explain further the statements made in the following pages. These two scientists are amongst the first to confirm scientifically statements made by al-Qur'an, the Prophet Muhammad (S) and the twelve Infallible, leaders of the Shiite faith, that the universe and all its contents, material and non-material alike, living and the non-living, are alive and conscious. Their stored info-energy (the surrounding electrical network) or memories remain available and will be accessed on the Day of Judgment. According to Schwartz and Russek (1999): Indeed, Allah (SWT) records all our actions and thoughts and is aware: The different forms taken on by our energy, good and bad deeds, are likewise imbued with stability and permanence. They are preserved in the archives of the universe as the determining factor in our ultimate fate, whether it be good or evil, eternal happiness or permanent torment. We are obliged to submit to the consequences of our deeds.

These scientific accomplishments are in themselves an indication of the reality of resurrection; they provide a method, which joined together with reflection, may permit us to understand resurrection and prove it scientifically.
(Lari (1993). Mahjubah - No. 112, September 1993)

In Chapter 83, Verses 7-9, Allah mentions Sijjin, a place in heaven that records the tiniest evil deeds of all men. Specific energy signatures released from our actions are thus a reality. The records of the righteous are recorded and preserved in Illiyun, a place in heaven. This citation is from the same Chapter, Verses 18-21. All this energy from our actions is transformed into physical reality and appears in a book recorded and preserved by the Almighty. al-Mahdi (AS) is also able to access all these energy signatures of his followers and react to them, and pray for our forgiveness.

As we shall note later, with the alliance of the Archangels, and with these specific info-energy signatures released from each individual, animal, or an object, al- Mahdi is also aware of all the queries and requests he gets on a daily basis, and at times, millions of requests are made in just a few seconds that happens in a large congregation. It is possible that these personal energy signatures (being intelligent) with specific information have the responsibility to reach the Guide in occultation and present themselves. This also explains how al-Mahdi is able to receive and reply millions of salutations sent to him on a daily basis. In brief, he would access these energies with specific information anytime they are performed and as they go to their destination - Sijjin or Illiyun, or at least he would be aware of them. All deeds, good and bad, are correctly preserved as in a secured record of documentary evidence (Mir Ahmed Ali 1988).

al-Majlisi (AR) writes that Imam Ali is reported to have said that the deeds of servants are presented to the Prophet (S) every Thursday. According to yet another narration, he said that every Thursday they are presented to the Prophet (S) as well as the Imams.

Similarly, it is reported that Imam al-Ridha (AS) was once requested by one of his near companions for praying for him and for his family members. The Imam told him: Then the Imam said:

Perhaps, you have not read the Holy verse: It is also reported that once Imam al-Sadiq (AS) addressed his companions:

Why are you making the Prophet (S) sorrowful? One from the audience asked, May I be sacrificed for you. How are we grieving the Prophet (S)? The Imam replied: On a separate note, it is said that even when there is a knife near a person's throat and he or she will be killed within a few seconds, he can call the living al-Mahdi and he will come for help. Clearly then, al-Mahdi is able to access such information and prayer at will and they reach him instantly. Such quickness is possible when it comes to prayer and info-energy released during such prayer. The information is intelligent and reaches the Infallible. This aspect will be explained in detail later.

Concerning the vast, hidden, future, present, past, extensive and unlimited knowledge of the Prophet and the Infallible, al-Khumeini (AR) quotes the following narration in his exposition to tradition number 32, The Indescribability of God, the Prophet, and the Imams, which appears in al-Tawhid Islamic Journal. al-Kulayni reports in Usul al-Kafi - Volume 1, Page 272, that one of the Infallible said: According to scholars, angels are pure intelligent energy and the reason why they have been given so many responsibilities in this universe and can fulfill them at ease. Some of these sacred beings are in existent only to serve the Infallible (AS) as is the case with Angel Fitrus (AS) and several others.

al-Sadiq continues: al-Khumeini writes: In addition, Allah (SWT) confirms in Qur'an that deeds and acts, as well as thoughts will assume a physical force, weight, or entity in the next world, so they can be weighted in the Scale. The deeds of unbelievers will also be in vain and Allah will assign to them no weight. Systemic Memory Process A good example to illustrate the point being made about energy having a reality and conscience is with tuning forks. We have two tuning forks (A and B) that are similar in shape, size, and constitution. If we strike one of them (A), the other one (B) will begin to vibrate as well. The physics term for this relationship is called Resonance. Unfortunately, Schwartz and Russek (1999) comment that Physics only explains the one-way relationship from A to B, and not vice versa, and most certainly not over and over again, affecting each other's responses.

When fork A is struck, the air begins to vibrate which travels to fork B. Since fork B is same as fork A, it responds to the vibrating energy coming from tuning fork A, and fork B begins to vibrate in synchrony with it. However, not only fork B is vibrating with fork A, the tuning fork A also has a chance to vibrate with B. In reality, if we change the movement in fork B, this change can also be seen in tuning fork A. This is very easy to verify scientifically if you measure the vibrations of tuning fork A and simultaneously measure the vibrations of tuning fork B.

The systemic memory process (Schwartz and Russek, 1999) explains that this energy relationship between tuning fork A and B is intelligent and learns from each other. The tuning forks become an A-B system that accrues integrative system memories. Logic tells us that this relationship is also happening within tuning forks A and B. This aspect is also easy to verify using modern recording, computer, and statistical analysis techniques. The systemic memory process further predicts that if and when tuning forks A and B are separated, fork A would remember resonating with fork B, and that there was memory involved. One reliable experiment will explain these concepts further, that energy and electrons do carry information and this can affect matter.

Schwartz and Russek (1999) quote the following experiment by Reid (1987), that he took one beaker containing the albumin-salt solution and another beaker containing a pure salt solution. He placed these two beakers inches apart. He then took a 1.5-volt battery, and connected it to gold wires, creating an electronic circuit between the two beakers. To complete the circuit, Reid placed a gold wire from the albumin-salt beaker into the pure salt beaker. What he predicted was that if electrons carried information, then as the electrons passed from the albuminsalt beaker, the information would travel through the pure salt solution with the albumin-salt solution. Since this was a continuous circuit, the current would circulate over and over, creating a dynamic systemic memory in the process. A and B, therefore, interact and share information and energy. This interaction occurs in the vacuum of space.

In brief, Reid (1987) expected the pure salt solution to look like the material of albumin-salt, even though there was no material albumin in the pure salt solution. Reid did report observing an albumin-salt crystal growth in the absence of any material albumin in the pure salt solution. The electrons thus carried information from A-B and vice versa, affecting matter in the process. This study was published in the Journal of Biological Physics back in 1987. Therefore, as energy and information become conscious and learning info-energy systems, they can function just as intelligent and informative (Weston, 1998).

The understanding is that the energy released into space has its own intelligence, memory, and identity, and extends further into space. This energy does not get destroyed. A good example given by Schwartz and Russek (1999) is that when you mix sugar in a glass of water, the sugar crystals dissolve and disappear, but they do not loose their identity. The sugar crystals not only exist, but they have evolved to include energy about water. Once you allow the water to evaporate, the sugar crystals re-appear. Further, according to the systemic memory process, the water that has evaporated includes the history of having shared space and time, and hence energy and information with the sugar. This notion is presented later again when Homeopathy is introduced, since homeopathic products contain 90- 95% water and sometimes, the original therapeutic ingredients cannot even be measured, and the final medicine is potent enough to affect one's physiology.

In brief, the human body is a flowing river of endless energy. The cells within are conscious and thinking. Immune cells, for example, make decisions to either kill or spare a bacteria or virus invading its territory. After the human body has recovered from a disease, B-cells produce memory cells that attack the diseasecausing organism if it invades again in the future. This second response is much quicker than the first, thus preventing symptoms of the disease from occurring. To make these kinds of decision requires thought and logic, and this makes cells, all billions and trillions of them, conscious and thoughtful.

The whole human body is a field of energy and information. For example, if a body encounters a bacterium, even though it has never encountered that specie before, the DNA remembers the first time human specie encountered that bacterium and the whole evolutionary history of humankind, and then makes the precise antidote for that bacterium. That is intelligence according to Deepak Chopra (1991).

Infinite correlation, according to Chopra (1991), is yet another great quality of the human body making the cells intelligent and conscious. Achieving many goals at the same time - fulfilling the digestion process, detoxification, making excretory products, fighting invaders, maintaining homeostasis and the circadian biological rhythm, and so forth, are all done by the human body and the cells at the same given time. For these actions to take place in harmony, there has to be learning and memory involved.

When there is a wound, blood rushes to the site and forms a clot, it has not traveled there at random. It actually knows where to go, which site, and what to do. Even though the blood may not be labeled as intelligent, there is no doubt intelligence is at work. Finally, the human body may be considered the most intelligent when it comes to taking care of itself. It produces diuretics, painkillers, tranquilizers, sleeping agents, antibiotics, and every other agent manufactured by drug companies, but the body makes them much better and at the right moment, in the right dosage and quantity, minimizing side effects.

Before an immune cell even secretes any anti-cancer agent, the immune system has to go through several intelligent and decision-making steps. The cells will detect a problem and identify it thoroughly. Then, using a class of message carriers called helper T-cells, the rest of the immune system are notified and activate itself to produce more natural killer cells. The enemy's identity is well memorized so the killer cells do not destroy healthy normal cells. The immune cells have to be intelligent and store memory to perform such acts.

In damaged nerves, the normal signal pattern is often changed or interrupted causing the nerve to fire spontaneously creating a pain message to the brain. These changed neural patterns are often memorized by individual nerves and continue firing in the memorized spontaneous pattern, even after the initial damage. This neurological pain may persist for years. If the nerves are taught the normal pattern of nerve conduction, they will memorize the normal pattern and not the previously memorized spontaneous pattern.

Many years of research by Dr. John A. Allocca, a Medical Research Scientist, resulted in a theoretical model of nerve conduction and the associated composite waveform (see Theoretical Analysis of Nerve Conduction and Rehabilitation, Allocca, J. A., American Journal of Electro Medicine, second-third quarter 1987). The composite waveform of the theoretical model was put into electronic circuitry and applied through the nerves from the surface of the skin. The results indicate that the nerves begin to follow and memorize the composite waveform instead of the memorized spontaneous patterns. This composite waveform activates and initiates the rehabilitation of damaged nerves, enhancing their ability to function normally.

Apparently, we see similar happenings in the universe whereby the moon and the sun follow a specific order set by the Almighty, and so do all the creation, including the tiniest of bacteria living miles under the sea. Memory Metal
In 1965, the Naval Ordnance Laboratory produced the first of a series of metal alloys of Nickel and Titanium. These alloys are called Nitinol, for Nickel Titanium Naval Ordnance Laboratory. Many of the alloys have a rather remarkable property; they remember their shape. This smart property is the result of the substance's ability to undergo a phase change - a kind of atomic ballet in which atoms in the solid subtly shift their positions in response to a stimulus, like a change in temperature or application of mechanical stress.

When doctors reconstruct shattered legs and arms, they normally use stainless steel wire to hold bones together. But the stainless steel does not always hold its shape, which means that the bones may move out of place and heal badly.

However, researchers at Ohio State University say Nitinol - a Nickel and Titanium alloy - has the potential to help broken bones heal faster - a metal alloy that can remember its shape. Used in the place of stainless steel the researchers found Nitinol held in position far better. The trick is to cool the Nitinol, then stretch it before wrapping it around the damaged bone section. When it heats up again, it tries to return to its original shape, and exerts a constant pressure while doing so - pushing pieces of broken bone together.

A simple demonstration involves bending a sample, then exposing it to a source of heat like hot air or hot water. The sample recovers its original shape as its temperature is raised above the temperature corresponding to the phase change. This temperature may be tuned by varying the ratio of nickel to titanium atoms in the solid by a few percent relative to a 1:1 ratio. Thus, the metal Nitinol can be trained to have a new shape.

Energy Interactions - A Brief Note on Shamanism and Sufism
The spiritual nature within humans is possible because of the existence of human energy fields in which their spiritual nature resides. This energy is able to influence all living organisms because all living and non-living organisms have energy fields. Schwartz and Russek (1999) remark: Research into the energy surrounding humans, plants and inanimate objects has found that the energy is not only informative and electromagnetic in nature, but interacts and affects each other. All living and non-living matter seem to be in constant communication with and affect each other, even down to the cellular level (Jablonski, 2000). Further, tiniest change in any system in the body affects all other systems of the body in the same manner (Bentov, 1988) and other systems nearby.

Physicists have established this and that these waves radiate out at the velocity of light into the farthest reaches of the cosmos and interact, and affect all other radiating waves. This interaction can be positive or negative. Whenever a disturbance in this energy drives it out of harmonious rhythm, this discordant pattern radiates outward and disturbs the surrounding energy. The 100th Monkey Principle mentioned below explains further this concept.

As is, the human body is also a receiver of energy, and therefore, life is filled with constant interactions. In Bentov's (1988) words, Life is constantly communicating and interacting with everything else in the universe on subtle or imperceptible energy levels. We also know that no energy is lost in a closed system.

As we noted earlier, the scholars Boirac and Liebeault in the early 12th century observed that humans have an energy that can cause an interaction between individuals at a distance. Remarkably, several scientists have reported such positive and negative interactions with machines they work with. Because illness, emotion, states of mind, thoughts, fatigue, all make their distinctive imprint on the human energy, such reports are considered highly reliable. Many later scientists and investigators into the human energy made similar conclusions.

In the early 19th century, the discovery and investigation of electrical phenomenon led to the concept of a field - condition in space, which has a potential of producing a force. Thus, the concept of a universe filled with fields that create forces, and that interact with each other was born (Brennan, 1987). Ultimately, there was a scientific framework that could explain our ability to affect each other at a distance.

The harmonious and disharmonious nature of the energy interactions say a lot about how we come to know and love a person we never met, sense anger in a friend before even the episode occurs, and so forth. Mothers often know when their children are in trouble, no matter where they are. An interesting study by Watson, in his book Life Tide: The Biology of Consciousness, in which he describes the popular Hundredth Monkey Principle, found that after a group of monkeys learned a new behavior, suddenly other monkeys on other islands with no possible normal means of communication learned that behavior, too. Undoubtedly, the information stored in the energy field, which was released into space, had to be the primary source of interaction in this instance. The Shiite 5th Leader al-Baqir (AS) says that Muslims are created out of the same nature, and when a serious accident occurs to one, someone else feels sorry in another land and place.

In relation to electrical currents flowing in living organisms, the implication is that they are producing magnetic fields that extend outside the body and can be influenced by external magnetic fields as well. Human energy intercommunication is therefore, a scientific fact.

Becker (1990) had postulated such a theory from his array of experiments back in the 60's, but the scientific community revoked him and concluded that such a device would never be made and that the strength of such fields would play no physiological significance. Such devices have not only been made and employed in scientific studies, the energy with its stored information has been concluded to be strong enough to influence the person himself, and people nearby - negatively or positively.

Ostrander and Schroeder (1970) quote Cleve Backster (1968) and Bacon (1969) to have good evidence to show there is a sort of primary perception inherent in all living things. For instance, when tiny shrimps are killed, there is a reaction in other living things, such as plants, in the surrounding area, and that not even lead shields can prevent such energy communication. They also recorded plants to show a measurable reaction on a lie detector when any living thing dies in their presence. Surprisingly, plants (and water, as mentioned later) seem to recognize their owners and respond to their thoughts and emotions. This interaction confirms the conscious and intelligent energy systems inherent in all things.

In Elixir of Love, Shaykh Rajab Ali says that plants are alive too and they talk: With regards to plants, Dr. H. Burr and F. Northrop (1939) at Yale University could measure the energy field of a plant seed and could tell how healthy the plant grown from that seed would be. Evidence that the human energy carries information for the growth, development, and repair of the physical body is existent in scientific literature. Weston (1998) quotes a medical doctor stating that human children under the age of ten can regenerate the severed tip of a finger if medically permitted to do so. He has cited over two hundred recent cases of such tissue regeneration.

This extends the implications of Burr's work with salamanders. Weston (1998) reports having observed tissue regeneration in humans, including the eye, ear, limb or even life itself in a person who is clinically dead.

Ramesh Couhan has screened twenty-five thousand women with bioelectrography points of the human energy field, and can now diagnose cancer and arthritis months before their physical appearance by identifying the unique energy signature of these two diseases (Weston, 1998). Couhan's data indicates that the illnesses reflected in energy fields normally take three to twelve months to affect body tissue. For example, once the arthritis energy signature is discovered, it may take six to twelve months before physical symptoms appear.

Weston (1998) quotes Nash, a renowned Neurologist: Brennan (1987) observed that when she dissected a plant, she suddenly noticed a disturbance in the energy surrounding the plant. The energy balanced after a minute or two, however, the plant's surrounding energy remained unsteady, with lower vibrations. Some damage in the electrical field was existent. The plant showed some definite signs of missing a part. Brennan even apologized to the plant!

According to the systemic memory process, the plant would remain with the infoenergy and memory of being dissected. Such findings have also been reported by Moss (1974). It is now clear why hunting or even uprooting trees and branches are forbidden acts during Hajj, inside the vicinity of Makkah, and the Ka'bah. Shariati (1965) in his book Hajj, The Pilgrimage summarizes the prohibitions as follows, all of which affect one and the environment at the energy level, directly or indirectly: Based on these communications, there is a very high possibility that one person can inadvertently transmit his feelings of emotions like anger, fear or violence to another person nearby, thus affecting his energy field. The effects may include pain and unpleasant bodily sensations. Some tests have even reported the intended subject to suffer for hours after the transmission of negative emotions. Remarkably, tests with positive emotions yielded a positive emotional reaction in the intended subject. EEG tests by Repetsky (1967) and Ryzl (1968) have further confirmed such events.

In another study, Serov and Troskin (1961) demonstrated that the number of white blood cells rose by fifteen hundred after they spontaneously and telepathically suggested positive emotions to subjects. After impressing negative emotion, the white cells decreased by sixteen hundred. Eminently, Figar (1959) found that intense mental anxiety in one man caused, at a distance, a slight change in blood volume in a resting person. He measured this with a Plethysmograph, a device like those in lie detectors. At Rosary Hill College in Buffalo, New York, Smith (1969) documented that such spontaneous and impulsive dissemination of emotions and unsteady energy may significantly alter an individual's enzyme activity as well.

Several other studies have documented such effects of impromptu influence on blood volume. To these scientists, mind does influence body, vice versa, and body may also influence body. When a person thinks, he radiates some form of energy and this energy has the ability to interact with the energy and information within the energy of persons nearby. Ostrander and Schroeder (1970) quote Dr. Jack Ward and Thomson, an inventor, to have been successful in scientifically recording the relationship between individuals' energy patterns as the group interacts.

Schwartz and Russek (1999) write: This means that information and energy may arrive much sooner than the physical system does. Communication made with people who are miles apart remains a scientific fact and many Prophets, Saints, and just regular people have been observed to perform such acts of communication. The communication the Prophet made to Ali during one of the battles and Ali reaching him that instant remains a historical fact. These events have also been recorded in history as a human possibility and will be explored later.

Schwartz and Russek (1999) write that all physical systems. create non-material conscious and intelligent info-energy systems, so the capacity for people to see without their eyes and hear without their ears is not nonsensical. The two scientists quote an incident where a surgical patient was able to describe his whole surgery and outcome while he was in anesthesia the whole time. It is highly probable that that person saw without his eyes, and heard without his ears, as his energy-self suspended itself on top of his body and viewed the whole procedure. Reading letters inscribed on paper with one's hand is also a fact and will be explored later in details. Bongard and Smirnov (1965) made this remarkable conclusion in their study of Rosa Kuleshova (who was blind): These incidents have been reported and well documented in scientific literature, and many of such scientific observations explain the rationale behind many Islamic rituals and practices. Closest to Muslims, Shamans believe that all inanimate objects, the whole of creation is living, conscious and can be contacted - whether the object is food, tree, animal, rock, animal, etc. Shamanism is, therefore, an ancient practice for accessing intuitive or spiritual realms for guidance and healing.

Shamanic practitioners are also reported to have such abilities to venture into space and make contact with any spirit they desire - the spirit of animals, the spirit of trees, etc. - and ask for assistance or more information. They even enter these spirits of birds and animals and travel with them and experience what the animals experience. Such incidents have been quoted in many books in particular, the book by Siegel (1994) titled The Eyes of The Jaguar.

Shamanic healers, for example, are reported to have access to all kinds of spirits when they are in what they call altered state of consciousness. They can make contacts with the spirit of an airplane, the spirit of trees, the spirit of a particular snake, and so forth, and either get information, ask for help or even convince them to help in the healing session.

In tribal culture, the Shaman is a person who can enter an ecstatic state of altered consciousness, and while in the state of altered consciousness or trance, he communicates with his guardian spirit who gives him information and/or power to heal the sick person. Usually the shaman who enters the trance is said to seek information from another reality. In fact, he who knows the archaic techniques of ecstasy is called a Shaman (Eliade, 1972).

Therefore, a Shaman is an indigenous healer who deliberately alters his consciousness in order to obtain knowledge and power from the world of the spirits in order to help and cure the members of his tribe (Krippner, 1990). The Cambridge Encyclopedia states that a Shaman is that person to whom special powers are attributed for communicating with the spirits and influence them dissociating his soul from his body. The spirits help him do his chores, which include discovering the cause of sickness, hunger and any disgrace, and prescribing an appropriate cure. They are found among the Siberians and other Asiatic people; his activity also evolves among many other religions and with other names. A modified state of consciousness is an essential medium for the development of the Shaman activity.

Islam has prohibited such kinds of practices for several reasons - one being that the person becomes intoxicated in this altered state of consciousness and loses his ability to judge. Harner (1997) writes that many students of Shamanic faith have the tendency of using mind-altering psychedelic and entheogen drugs to take them into this land of ecstasy. Siegel (1994) also writes in her book Eyes of The Jaguar that she had to drink a mind-altering drug cocktail to be able to experience such events. Islam has forbidden drugs, games of chance, and drinks containing alcohol that lead to intoxication.

Also, with the aid of rhythmic drumming and chanting, the shaman enters a very deep or ecstatic trance. This trance frees the shaman's consciousness from the body, allowing it to fly into the realms the spirits inhabit, and to experience these other worlds with all the senses of the ordinary physical realm. And, in those druginduced or just plain ecstasy states, there is a reduction of the capacity of selfcontrol by the subject. At the same time, his capacity of realizing the external is diminished. A good example is the state of trance found in Caribbean Vodoo. This is highly un-Islamic

Further, the possibility to get mislead by these spirits is large, since practitioners of the Shamanic faith depend entirely on spirits and follow their guidance - this is basic teaching in their faith. In the Shaman's world, heaven and the mountains represent the superior world, more intellectual and spiritual. According to Shamans, the unlimited spirits out there in the universe are more intelligent than they are and the spirits are always their teachers. In Islam, the knowledge of humans and spirits is firmly believed to be extremely limited compared to the knowledge of Allah and the Infallible, who have been blessed with the Hidden Knowledge as well.

Also, there is a possibility that the spirits will not leave the body of a human and he or she will become possessed. This possibility is high. Siegel (1994) experienced this and asked if the spirit of the serpent had not leaved her body, what would be the outcome? Her reply was that a Shaman has to be present during these exercises so they can overcome the spirits. However, there is still a chance of being possessed and re-possessed.

Sometimes, the Shamans may even force a particular event they would like to happen not appreciating the fact those other communities nearby might desire just the opposite. Sympathetic weather response has been reported - rain falling just because the small community members pray strongly for rain. The Guajiro of South America, for example, shoot arrows and firearms into clouds to pierce them and force the release of rain. Other tribes in South America shoot or brandish arrows at unwanted storms to frighten them away (Wilbert, 1996).

Deliberate attempts to evoke the pity of weather spirits are also employed. Among the North American Koyukon, it is advised that to pinch a female dog until she yelps can work to avert a storm. The Ayrnara and Quechua may beat their children or tie up large numbers of black sheep in a city plaza and starve them in hopes that their suffering will bring rain-the tears of the spirits of weather (Wilbert, 1996). Plutarch, a philosopher of ancient Greece, noted that heavy rains often fell on major battle sites once the fighting was over (Swan, 1992). All this is not only unwarranted, but also un-Islamic.

Shamans also put their faith in on spirits (and believe that spirits rely on them). Shamans have long acted on the principle that humans are part of the totality of nature, related to all other biological forms, and not superior to them (Harner, 1998). Muslims on the other hand rely mostly on prayer and asking Allah (SWT) and the Infallible for assistance, as their God-given knowledge supercedes all spirits, the whole of creation and the entire universe.

No spirit can beat that as all spirits are accountable and dependent on the orders of the Fourteen Infallible - the entire universe was created for their love. Those spirits that are unbelievers and are more willing to please humans or animals before their creator, they will most certainly be tried and they are the ones causing havoc in this world.

In any case, why get help from the servant (spirits) when the master (Allah, the Most High) and the Infallible, whom Allah made the whole of creation subservient to them), are available? This aspect will be explored in details in later sections.

The advice is to never get taken in by Shamans, much less by self-proclaimed spiritual leaders who cannot tell you truthfully, where they received the permission and training to perform these ceremonies. It is dangerous when these people attempt to perform these ceremonies and involve others who do not know any better. Native communities do not tolerate these people, and lately many of their medicine people have traveled off the reservation to put a stop to these charlatans. In fact, many Native Americans find the terms Shaman and Shamanism offensive.

Shamanism also leads to spirit possession and other forms of occult bondage. For example, in shamanistic healing the acquiring of true health demands both the practitioner and patient to be energized by his or her power animal, or spirit guide. Possession by one or more spirits for empowerment, enlightenment, personal health maintenance, and healing abilities is fundamental. Finally, temporary insanity, demon possession, and tremendous physical suffering are some of the other effects. Those treated with shamanistic techniques or methods may become converted to the occult.

Generally, Muslims are also against the Sufi faith, which embraces and incorporate some of the practices of Shamanism and their methods to reach ecstasy. Not only is the practice innovation, they fully withdraw from social and political activity. They may also use music or ingest plants that take them into the spiritual world. Muslim leaders like Imam al-Shafi and al-Hanbal ordered Muslims to avoid contact with Sufis or even read their books, or attend their gatherings. al-Shafi believes that if a person exercises Sufism (Tasawwafa) at the beginning of the day, he does not come at Dhuhr (afternoon) except an idiot. Nobody accompanied the Sufis forty days and had his brain return (never).

To sum up, the great scholars opposed the innovations that the Sufis have brought to Islam through their deviated spiritual approaches. Some great Sufis have even compared Allah, the Most High to sun and moon - a form of polytheism and this is forbidden in Islam as Allah is Perfect and far superior than His creations and above what our minds can contrive. He is the Ultimate.

Islam does strongly believe in life and consciousness in inanimate objects and that every-THING created has a living and conscious reality. However, a life of a Muslim is not dependent or governed by these ritualistic principles, whose approach and end product is always a question. And, the ability to fall into the realms of intoxication and dependency on such spirits, when they are simply a creation and not masters of this universe. Not only in Islam, even Christianity has spoken against such practices in that Shamanistic practices involve pagan methods and beliefs that are forbidden (Exodus - 20:5-4; Deuteronomy - 18:9-12).

It is reported that the sight of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (S) extended to the utmost bounds of the universe, earth and heavens, seas, mountains and deserts (al- Majlisi, 1627). It is possible he had access and control over all the spirits to every- THING that has been created and he chose to see and experience what he desired. It is reported that he even saw what happened in his back. The Infallible have been observed to possess the same qualities as a gift from Allah, the Most High. For sure, the Prophet did not take help or even request the spirits as all spirits are his servant, and so is all the creation including the angels, animals, trees, etc.

Irene Siegel (1997) reports that during her training with the Shamans she was able to meditate and see what was there on top of the mountain that she focused on. She was also able to enter the spirit of a cat and then walk with that animal and experience what that animal experienced. This happened several times with several animals including an eagle whom she flew with into the skies.

Recently, it was shown that deaf people undergo brain changes that allow them to perceive music in much the same way that hearing people do. The research suggested that this part of the brain is geared for processing sound-like sensations, and shows people born deaf can adept to hear what their fingers feel. Shibata (2001) pointed out that these findings are important because they suggest that tactile listening aids may better help deaf children understand speech and other sounds. These devices convert sound energy into vibrational energy, which deaf individuals can feel with their fingers.

Shiite Muslims use a similar approach on the 15th of Sha'ban, the birthday of the living Infallible in occultation, al-Mahdi (May Allah (SWT) hasten his reappearance). On this day, the followers of al-Mahdi (AS) write on a piece of paper their prayer and intentions with their fingers and place it in water or underground for the Imam to read and respond. It is now apparent that these thoughts (energy and specific info-energy) are readily available and al-Mahdi can pick them up accordingly, and one does not have to write the needs physically.

In one instance, the 11th Imam al-Askari (AS) was challenged and tested by a hostile man who wanted to prove or disprove the status of the infallible. He wrote to him a letter without using ink. If the Infallible (AS) could read and reply the letter, then and only then, would he accept him as the true representative of Allah (SWT). Apparently, he did as he said he would. After a while, al-Askari (AS) replied all his questions, and to his amazement, his shame and above all, his satisfaction. The man then accepted him (AS) as the leader of the time.

Ali (AS) says in one of his sermons: According to Becker (1990), the ethmoid sinus (located high up at the back of the nasal passage, just in front of the pituitary gland), and the pineal gland, which is part of the brain, may be the two main organs we need to look at when we discuss human energy interactions. These two magnetic organs have a way to respond to electrical fields produced by either machines, or humans, and the reactions may be positive or negative. In fact, chronic exposure to unsteady fields of energy and adulterated info-energy may result in significant abnormalities in physiology and function. Even though such kinds of physiological damage are constrained to electrical blankets, televisions and computers, the electrical damage from abnormal and unsteady energy emitted from unstable individuals can also be devastating.

Several studies have shown that electromagnetic fields, similar to overhead power lines can have a significant biological effect on human cells, an effect that could contribute to the complex cellular processes that leads to cancer, research at Michigan University shows. The work of James E. Trosko, a professor of Pediatrics and Human Development, and colleagues is published in the October 2000 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives. His study has contributed to what many others have shown that there is biological effect on the energy imparted by extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields on living systems.

Attributes of Energy
Schwartz and Russek (1999) write that energy is living and evolving; carrying different forms of vibrations, and does have an effect on the person in contact. This energy also grows with experience; meaning each time an object came into existence, it added its form information to the overall and universal, morphic field (Sheldrake, 1981). Sheldrake (1981) proposed that this information, and the alterations was stored everywhere, equally, and this storage transcended space and time. Therefore, besides the frequency and rates of vibration, energy morphology, energy history and experiences become factors as well.

An important attribute of energy is that it responds to ones thoughts and feelings. Energy will flow more strongly or be weakened in its action depending on the quality of ones thoughts and feelings. It is our negative thoughts and feelings that are the main cause of restriction in the flow of the energy. All negative and emotional thoughts and feelings will cause a disruption in the flow of energy. Therefore, the extent and strength of the energy varies considerably from person to person, depending on his state of health, mental and emotional state (Anderson, 1975).

This energy field around itself acts like a highly charged magnet or electrode. This force reflects its energy throughout the human body and becomes the driving life force behind all of its activities and processes. The life force not only energizes the body but also gives it its identity. You may therefore attract and transmit energy of various kinds into the environment and the universal energy field (the surrounding environment). Our thoughts, emotions and actions can be viewed as an energy discharge, radiating from a localized source into the universal field. Our personal energy or self, as well as everyone else's personal energy reside in and receive nourishment from this universal field. This energy also has stored experiences and memories; it has acquired intelligence.

The relationship between humans and the whole of creation, the entire contents of the universe may therefore extend beyond physical and material means. The idea of remembering universe forwarded by Schwartz and Russek (1999) is probable, and the fact that the earth is going to avenge for all the electromagnetic energy pollution, spiritual and energy toxins we release into the environment remains a possibility. The energy field of the earth is both influenced by and influences the state of human consciousness.

For centuries, the world has been imprinted with the energy patterns of negative thoughts and feelings, and adversely affected by pollution, environmental degradation, and poorly thought-out planning and construction. This has been observed that major energy lines cross at political headquarters, banks, military bases, power stations, television studios, post office towers, and other modern power centers (old centers include churches, temples, and castles). Where the energy of the earth's grid has become low, blocked, distorted, or heavy with discordant energy, physical manifestations such as seismic activity, barren land, illness, accident black spots, and social disharmony can result.

Islam has advised all Muslims to care the environment and this area will be explored. Clearly, our actions have a direct effect on the environment. Schwartz and Russek (1999) continue to write that the earth may be learning and remembering, and we may be making it sick. These may not be viewed as punishment or calamity from Allah, but a result of the actions of the very people living on this earth.

The conscious and intelligent info-energy constantly interacts with the energy of others and with stimuli in the environment. Everything that affects the body must first pass through this field. Some of the information contained in the field enters our awareness via our senses, thoughts, or intuition. Much of the information, however, remains hidden, affecting the choices we make and our physiology. Dr. Valerie Hunt (1977) recorded brain waves, blood pressure changes, galvanic skin responses, heartbeat, and muscle contractions of subjects while energy readers observed changes in the overall energy field. Hunt states that alterations occurred in the field before any changes in the other systems.

Undoubtedly, wherever thought goes, energy and life force follow. Many of us are aware of energy circuits in the form of emotional ties and bonding to other human beings and to pets. The thoughts that occupy one's mind indicate where energy is flowing. When thoughts contain an underlying fear of loss or over-identification with an object or person, energy is being lost. Being hooked on people or objects in a way that causes one to lose power means that energy circuits are so thoroughly connected to the target that they no longer have the use of their own reasoning ability.

Concepts in Islam For Muslims, Allah is the only One Who legislates every rule of their lives. Such a code of legislation regulates everyone's relationship with all others as well as with his or her lord and maker (al-Jibouri, 1987). No man-made law is acceptable since man is fallible and vulnerable.

Since Islam is a rational religion, we expect its beliefs and practices to have solid implications, logic and credible responses to all the queries on rites observed by Muslims on a daily basis. These may include prayer, fasting, eating only halal (Muslim-slaughtered) meat, avoiding gatherings that are un-Islamic, taking a shower after sex, and after urinating or passing-out fecal matter, general cleanliness when in contact with an impure element like blood, alcohol, etc, avoiding sins, good eating habits, and so forth.

The Islamic Laws are divided into several branches including the obligatory, the recommended, the forbidden, and the abominable. For example, the religion lists down more than forty major sins that its followers must avoid on a daily basis throughout their lives. These forbidden acts are listed in details in the book Understanding of Islamic Laws by Kamoonpuri (1998). He also lists down more than thirty disliked things in Islam.
Further, because these laws are divine in nature and directly from the Most High, the rationale behind them is irrefutable. One reason why other religions have failed miserably is because they follow man-made laws and everybody has his or her opinions. Islam is governed ONLY by Allah, through the Prophets and the Infallible (peace be on all of them).

Rites enjoy an important role in Islam. In al-Qur'an: According to al-Sadr in his article, A Study in the Philosophy of Islamic Rites: Husain Fadhlullah, the author of the book Fatima al-Ma'sumah, a Role Model for Men and Women writes in his book that the Prophet (S) asked his daughter Fatima al-Zahra to relieve her pains, sufferings and discomfort of this world by becoming busy with Islamic rites and values and propagating them to people. No doubt, such Islamic practices ordered by Allah, the Most High have a direct relationship with ones energy and strength, and this aspect will be dealt with in details later.

For instance, Muslims emphasize on cleanliness in all aspects of life, they are also advised to respect and revere the whole of creation including the tiniest animal or object, living or not, whether the object can sense discomfort and pain or not. Muslims are also advised to avoid urinating or defecating at just any place, hurt flies or insects, pluck a leaf from a tree for no reason, or even hit or move something with their legs, or disrespect any item of creation.

For Muslims, it is not desirable to stand for urinating, or facing the current of the wind. It is also abominable to sit on the roadside, in lanes, in front of the doors of the house or under the shade of the fruit-yielding trees. It is also not desirable to eat something in this condition or take more than usual time sitting there or to wash with the right hand. Unnecessary talking is also not desirable. It is abominable to urinate while standing, or on hard earth, or in the holes of the animals, or in the water (especially standing water).

Muslims will wash themselves when they are exposed to all unclean items including blood, alcohol, dirt, and so forth. It is in the nature of Muslims to stay away from drugs, alcohol, bars, pubs and places where dance and music is played and naked men and women can be observed. They also abstain from uprooting plants for no reason, throw away food or spill water deliberately, killing animals for pleasure, and everything else that disturbs nature and introduces some kind of pollution and dirt into the environment. The Muslim way of life is thus perfect for the whole world and its contents - the trees, the animals, the environment, the humans, and so forth. For all these have the ability to complain on the Day of Judgment.

Basis of this Work
The Greek writer Plutarch had expressed the notion that energy revealed the desires and vices of man through their levels of vibration and movements. Gina Allan, author of the best seller, Gifts of Spirit, believes that: With latest technology, this intelligent energy, which surrounds humans, animals, plants and all matter in electrical light energy, can be observed and have been photographed at a distance, revealing passionate reds, healing greens, sensitive blues, creative oranges, relaxing violets, and spiritual white (Lindgren, Madden and Dlitt, 2000).

The human energy is truly an effect, which is taking place with the mind, soul and spirit of the individual. The field is strongly a reflection of one's health, mental, emotional and spiritual state. When we change the generation of force radiation within us, it automatically changes the condition surrounding us. Thus, everyone has an energy that surrounds and inter-penetrates the physical body. Ravitz (1959), at William and Mary University showed that the human energy field fluctuates with a person's mental and psychological stability. As noted earlier, Becker (1979) was able to conclude similar findings in his experiments at Upstate Medical School, Syracuse, New York.

White and Krippner (1977) list the following properties of energy fields, all of which may apply, and are also vital to understanding the concepts introduced to this work: Facts The first and foremost belief in Muslims is that Allah is One and the final source of power, magnitude and destiny. He is the creator, Most High, and Most Sublime. He controls every-THING, as He is the creator. He has made the whole of creation living and conscious, under His command. As mentioned before and in later sections, He has blessed most of His powers to the Infallible. Whenever any- THING is invoked or asked to obey, Allah is the final Judge.

Mir Ahmed Ali (1988) comments the following in his discussion on Verse 4, Chapter 45 concerning the Unity of Allah, His Power and Creations:

As we have already noted, the systemic memory hypothesis forwarded by Schwartz and Russek (1999) inform us that all energy, in general, should always be construed as conscious and intelligent energy, because that energy has stored information, experiences and memory.

Further, the variations in the energy of a person according to shape and texture may be solid or brittle, thick or thin, luminous or dark, light or heavy. Fear, confusion, greed, envy, or doubt produces many times a brittle or broken energy. It is also possible to re-organize and heal blocked energy by prayer and meditation, being faithful, and having a positive outlook in life. One's energy may further be strengthened by exercise, pure thoughts, fresh air, and proper nutrition (Margo von Phul, 2000).

Bruce, Lindgren and Dlitt (2000) quote Ferguson (1996):

Pure and steady energy, favorable information within the energy fields is released from that person who is stable, fasting, in prayer and meditation, and performing virtuous deeds (Lindgren & Dlitt, 2000, Weston, 1998). According to scholars of Islam, these effects can be felt and experienced within the congregation, as the individual's energy resonates with the group's rate of vibration.

Such practices also serve as a medium to develop solid energy protective screens within the group so that the individuals can repel incoming energy that may be harmful to their physical and spiritual growth. The surrounding energy of this individual can thus obstruct and impede all adulterated energy from nearby sources.

Like the Prophet has said, Decorate your mosques with the remembrance of Ali - so invocations and supplications, reciting al-Qur'an, and performing virtuous acts within a room will create more balanced vibrations and coherent fields of energy in that room, and the reason why there should be a special room for prayer.

According to Weston (1998), the energy fields have the ability to bathe everyone in the room. It flows into the carpet, the walls, and furniture, leaving a residue of it present at all times. This sacred group energy field is filled with information, the information from the intent and content of your vocal prayers together.

Apparently, Islam has laid much emphasis on the practice of the perfect souls (Prophets and the Aimmah) and us humans repeating them in the same manner and in the same places. The contact these blessed souls made with these objects make these observances even more beneficial to humankind. For instance, the rituals for Hajj are exactly what Prophet Ibrahim (AS) and his son practiced, even praying where he prayed. It is said that his blessed and pure fields of energy will not leave those places and will forever help those individuals who happen to go for Hajj.

Another example involves many Prophets being commanded to visit and circumambulate the Ka'bah; performing seclusion from all worldly affairs, for Allah only in those mosques where the Prophet and the blessed Aimmah had performed their seclusion.

The opposite is the case with amoral person, deeply involved in crime and passion, only concerned with fulfilling lustful desires. He or she will produce and attract only precarious and dissonant energy, rather energy that is weak, blocked, not evenly distributed, and stagnant, creating massive electrical faults within the energy fields of that person. Such unfavorable energy, with corrupt information, abominable experiences and memory can distort one's perceptions and also dampen feelings and thoughts. The emotional body, therefore, contains the full spectrum of energy vibrations, extends outward beyond the etheric body, and is filled with mood swings, desires, fear, pain, joy, hate, love, anger and all of the other emotions. It is wild, chaotic when agitated and a calm, relaxed model of symmetry at other times.

Electrical current customarily flows from higher rate of vibration to a lower one - so if one's rate of vibration is low, unsteady and unstable, he will most certainly attract similar energy from nearby sources. The transference of energy works in a similar manner - like attracts like. However, if that individual happens to be within a congregation that is deeply involved in spiritual upliftment and performance of good, moral deeds, his energy will draw and attract only free flowing energy with higher vibrations and favorable information from the congregation. Further, because the energy discussed in these concepts is electrical and magnetic by nature, there is also frequency and strength of such fields - the stronger the emotion, the stronger and more reactive the energy; the longer the ritual, the stronger the fields of energy.

Electrical fields, conscious, learning and evolving energy do exist even in inanimate, non-living objects, human excretory products, and they also have a reaction on the human energy. Certain foods and drinks can also have highly unsteady electrical fields (info-energy with adulterated information and memory), and these can and do react on the person consuming that particular product (Chopra, 1991). Thoughts, actions, and even intentions may be placed in this category as well. One's state of mind is truly reflected in the electrical activity of the brain. This is because the brain of one person can impose its rhythm on the brain, body and soul of another. Spontaneous energy transference or influence is therefore, highly practical and scientifically proven.

Not only water has the ability to ground and eliminate the false charges in electrical faults, so do spiritual work, prayer and meditation (Weston, 1998). Also, when a person is disturbed, irritable and emotionally upset, his energy is instantly at fault, lowers its rate of vibration, and becomes weak. He will release into the atmosphere highly unstable electrical fields of energy and whoever nearby is in the same frequency (or at a lower frequency) will build up this highly unstable electrical network.

The only way to avoid such negative and harmful energy interactions is to have and maintain a solid energy protective screen within oneself that is of highest frequency and vibratory rate possible. This is why the Infallible have recommended to us that we should be the most knowledgeable in each and every field, and the most practical, so we maintain such a high level of frequency/vibration in our energy at all times.

Further, changes in the earth's electrical fields and energy caused by storms, earthquakes, and so forth, can also cause significant disturbances in the human energy and its rate of vibration. A weak person may allow such violent info-energy into his energy fields and make him weak.

Humans have been endowed with strong abilities to balance their energy and the information within this energy whenever they are forced into an environment filled with highly unfavorable and disharmonious energy sources. These individuals have this energy protective screen of higher frequency guarding them at all times. This person can always protect himself from damage from nearby faults and shortages in energy, and would not be lured into an unstable network of energy. Such persons are highly spiritual and disciplined, with good self-control skills. They do not even allow their thoughts to disturb the information within their conscious and learning energy system and its rate of vibration.