Reykjavík Grapevine - 28.08.2009, Síða 12

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The Reykjavík Grapevine
Issue 13 — 2009
MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS – EDDAS AND SAGAS
The Ancient Vellums on Display
ICELAND :: FILM – Berlin – Copenhagen – Reykjavík
Icelandic Filmmaking 1904-2008
A LOOK INTO NATURE
The Story of the Icelandic Museum of Natural History
EXHIBITIONS - GUIDED TOURS
CAFETERIA - CULTURE SHOP
The Culture House – Þjóðmenningarhúsið
National Centre for Cultural Heritage
Hverfi sgata 15 · 101 Reykjavík (City Centre)
Tel: 545 1400 · www.thjodmenning.is
Open daily between 11 am and 5 pm
Free guided tour of THE MEDIEVAL MANU-
SCRIPTS exhibition Mon and Fri at 3:30 pm.
A word of warning: This one could end
up being a real mind-bender. Hold on to
your seats.
First, to put things into crystal clear
perspective, here are a few significant
facts:
1) The Milky Way galaxy holds
something to the tune of 100 billion stars
2) There are probably around 100 billion
galaxies in the observable Universe
3) Guess how many planets there might
actually be?
How could there bloody well not be life
out there?
One thing we do know is that energy is
absolutely everywhere, and every darned
thing is here because of energy. What
we don’t know exactly is where the stuff
comes from originally, and, in many
cases, where precisely it goes; what we do
know is that it’s always present, constantly
reinventing itself. This may be one of
the very fundamentals of the Universe.
Unless there’s something were entirely
missing which is, of course, entirely
possible.
Kristbjörg Elín Kristmundsdóttir is an
alternative chemist. I call her a modern
day alchemist; she says she taps the purest
form of emotional energy from flowers
which she then goes on to provide, diluted
in crystal clear Icelandic water, to her
clients. She’s quite cryptic as to how she
procures these healing forces:
‘Ah, that’s a secret. No, seriously, I
have a special method for each plant, but it
depends on many factors: the Sun, water,
the Moon, a little bit of my own special…’
Alchemy? Magic? Energy-harnessing
device based on some cryptic Da Vinci
code?
In contemporary physics, energy is
a measured quantity that describes the
amount of work that can be performed
by a force. According to the Law of
Conservation of Energy, energy can
neither be produced nor destroyed, only
transformed. And, total energy always
remains the same. So, the energy which
existed at the very beginning of the
Universe is still the same amount it
always was—it may have transmuted, but
it’s still here seething in all its wondrous
quarks and sparks—everywhere: in
flowers, humans too.
And, remember: every living
organism here on Earth relies on some
external source of energy, even those
weird tube worms down near those
geothermal vents. The Sun, ultimate
life-giver, starts a whole shebang chain-
of-events; plants gobble pure sunlight—
possibly the closest thing to pure energy
around—producing our own life-giving
oxygen. Unseen, but truly felt. Breathe in,
breathe out.
And although Kristbjörg doesn’t
really reveal anything, I do a bit of soul-
searching-earth-digging myself, and
find a little old man who worked in the
original Bach flower essences factory
(yes, factory) in ‘ye olde’ England.
Edward Bach, medical-professional-
turned-holistic-pioneer, invented the
whole flower essence thing in the early
1900s. He never touched the flowers,
simply collected the morning dew that lay
shimmering opalescent on their petals.
Bach believed that early morning sunlight
transferred the healing power of the plant
into the dew water. He only used one drop
mixed in with litres of tap water to create
his famous elixirs. I’m assuming that
Kristbjörg’s process is not dissimilar.
But can it really be as simple as all
that? No bat’s wings? No cauldron?
Guðbjörg Sveinsdóttir, the clairvoyant,
says, ‘All disease begins on an emotional
level. We create weaknesses in our
systems because we are not in tune with
our chakras [our energies]. Create a stable
flow of energy, through meditation,
through connection to your emotional-
self, and disease is much less likely to
rear its ugly head.’ Being one with the
Universe is what it’s all about.
Even modern medical science,
although extremely wary of holistic
practices, acknowledges the power of
positive thinking. Even if it’s just placebo
effect, it has been known to miraculously
cure cancers and other deathly diseases.
‘It’s all in vibration, like a grand
symphony. Everything in the Universe
is vibrating energy. Healthy life is about
being in synch with the primal energy
source,’ says Kristbjörg.
So maybe, just maybe, energy is not only
about creating the ideal conditions for
basic life, the speed of light, and a Weight
Watcher’s diet; perchance energy is also
about creativity, some form of Cosmic
will or divine force; about the Universe’s
ultimate drive towards complexity. Here’s
an idea: Perhaps the energy itself is the
communicator of the Universe’s innate
intelligence?
Then, is there a message hidden in
all that energy? And what about that dew
water?
Yokohama’s Emoto Masaru talks to
water. He claims that emotions directed
at water will result in representative
images in the water when frozen: The
word ‘beauty’ creates stunning water
crystals; the word ‘evil’ creates gnarled,
troll-troglodyte crystalline lumps. And of
course Kristbjörg knows Emoto, this is all
a small circle; in fact, shortly, Emoto will
be conducting his experiments with her
own flower essences.
And then, coming back to the big
picture, there’s the ever-evasive Dark
Matter.
Recently cosmologists report that the
Universe consists of more of what they
call ‘Dark Matter’ than anything else.
Thus far, Dark Matter cannot be seen,
only inferred by its gravitational pull. It
is, for all intents and purposes, entirely
invisible.
While trying to unravel the underlying
mechanism of the Cosmos, why gravity is
present everywhere and planetary systems
cluster rather than shoot off into space,
Dark Matter was discovered, er, inferred.
Some speculate Dark Matter may be the
reason why Einstein never got beyond his
Theory of Relativity and managed to close
in on his ever-elusive Unified Theory of
Everything.
So, next time you snigger at an
Aunt who says she has just had tea with
Huldufólk, or scoffed at a Granny who
knitted a sweater for her favourite elf,
remember: not even Stephen Hawking
knows what that ominous Dark Matter
is... yet. Perhaps it’s right there, in the dark
of the unseen Dark Matter where all those
invisible folks are hiding – energetically?
The message I infer from all of this
is: Where there’s energy, life is bound
to arise, and where there’s life, sooner
or later intelligence will evolve, and
communicate. Stay in tune with it, and
the Cosmos is your own bloody oyster.
For those of you who would like to
send fan or hate mail to Marc, or might
be willing to share their own ethereal
experiences, please feel free to drop him
a line at: mysticmarc@gmail.com.
Radio To The Other Side
In search of the Real McCoy
Words
Marc Vincenz
Marc Vincenz keeps delving into Transcendental Iceland
Next time, I go in search of a real down and dirty exorcism with ectoplasm and spitting demons—you know just like that 1975
movie with Max von Sydow. Wish me luck and hope that Bónus is not sold out of garlic again—oh no, that’s vampires.
Transcendental Iceland | Part 6: Dark Matters and All That Bloomin’ Energy
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