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There is much attention on balancing our polarities these days. What does this mean to you? How do you?

balance right and wrong? Surely not by doing a little of each. Does this make sense to you?: "The human body is subjected as well as the earth, and planets, and stars, to a double law; it attracts and repels, for it is saturated through with double magnetism, the influx of the astral light. Everything is double in nature; magnetism is positive and negative, active and passive, male and female. Night rests humanity from the day's activity, and restores the equilibrium of human as well as of cosmic nature. When the mesmerizer will have learned the grand secret of polarizing the action and endowing his fluid with a bisexual force he will have become the greatest magician living. Thus the astral light is androgyne, for equilibrium is the resultant of two opposing forces eternally reacting upon each other. The result of this is LIFE. When the two forces are expanded and remain so long inactive, as to equal one another and so come to a complete rest, the condition is DEATH. A human being can blow either a hot or a cold breath; and can absorb either cold or hot air. Every child knows how to regulate the temperature of his breath; but how to protect one's self from either hot or cold air, no physiologist has yet learned with certainty. The astral light alone, as the chief agent in magic, can discover to us all secrets of nature." The woman who wrote it was able to, with multiple witnesses present, pull a spoon into her hand from three rooms away.... I think she knew something about magnetism.

Public Comments

1. That is complete pseudoscientific nonsense. It doesn't mean anything. My first problem with this is that whoever wrote it knows nothing about magnetism. If they did, they'd know that there is nothing more active or passive about either pole of a magnet. Second, I'm insulted that it uses the word "thus" as though it had just completed a logical argument of some kind, when in fact nothing in this passage seems to follow from anything else. And then when it talks about life and death, it says that life is two forces opposing each other, while death it two forces equaling each other and canceling out? Guess what; both of those mean the same thing. And the writer doesn't explain what "astral light" has to do with anything. I guess it's left completely up to your imagination! ...I feel stupider just from thinking about this. And to the weirdo below me with symbols for a name: Just because something is from an old book or whatever doesn't mean it's worth knowing. Also, maybe you should try learning the definitions of scientific terms like "ether" and "magnetic force fluctuation" before you start forming crazy theories about them. And if she could really do such a thing with a spoon, then there ought to be a video of it happening. If there is no video, then the only conclusion to draw is that she wasn't able to reproduce the effect. And anything that can't be reproduced isn't a real phenomenon.
2. dont forget the last line of this passage which is of great importance. "The astral light is identical with the Hindu akasa, a word which we will now explain" from the article "AKASA. -- Literally the word means in Sanscrit sky, but in its mystic sense it signifies the invisible sky; or, as the Brahmans term it in the Soma-sacrifice (the Gyotishtoma Agnishtoma), the god Akasa, or god Sky. The language of the Vedas shows that the Hindus of fifty centuries ago ascribed to it the same properties as do the Thibetan lamas of the present day; that they regarded it as the source of life, the reservoir of all energy, and the propeller of every change of matter." This astral light may indeed be the ether as we know it. However we can also see this as possibly being the magnetic field. Astral light, as i interpret it, may be the aurora borealis which as we know now(previously thought to be sunlight) is cause by magnetic force fluctuation. http://geology.com/nasa/aurora/aurora-borealis-curtains-alaska.jpg