Gloriana

From the quiet breath of ancient cultures to the frenetic hum of our digital present, it is all energy.

In the temples of old, as yogis sat in stillness, as monks counted the pulse of each exhale, they honoured the force that moves through matter. They spoke of prāṇa, the life-breath and of ākāśa, the space in which it dances.

They understood that energy is not just the sum of what we consume. It is a field we inhabit.

Fast-forward to today

Our economy is on a neverending search for ever more energy.

Fossil fuels, rare earths, algorithmic power… all wells are being tapped in the rush for growth, expansion, exploitation. We are pushing the planetary system past its homeostatic comfort zone.

The notion of “peak oil” is no longer fringe. It is part of our collective landscape. We have mined and drilled and burnt and built until the return diminishes. And our living ecosystem, Mother Gaia, who was once forgiving, is now nearing multiple tipping points.

Meanwhile, we too, are burning

Our lives are accelerated, caffeinated, overloaded. The conversation on social media is a jittery buzz. Quick takes, rapid-switch algorithms, incoming stitches. The attention economy is spinning so fast it can’t help but be headed for a collapse. This is the rule of energy.

The spark is everywhere, but the crash is waiting. Across all the cultures of the globe, people are reaching their burnout point. The energy we expend far outstrips the time, resources, and rest we can muster to replenish ourselves.

Let’s pause and draw a line from the big to the small.

On one hand, physics teaches us through Albert Einstein that matter is energy: E=mc². The atoms give way to waves, the solid dissolves into movement.

On the other hand, Hindu and Buddhist metaphysics invite us to see prāṇa and ākāśa: breath and space, energy and field, consciousness and memory. Where matter ends and mind begins is the frontier. The material and the subtle bleed into one another. Our lived wisdom becomes the recorder in the universal memory field.

And then there is mythos, where the story of the mother goddess, the perennial idea of “free energy,” life-force unbound, the sacred overflowing well. Across civilizations, the divine feminine guarded the springs of vitality, the wells of regeneration.

In the modern zeitgeist we chase “renewables” and “zero-point” imaginings. But still we forget the wisdom of flow. Of giving and receiving.

There are the hidden energy costs of AI. Walled server farms humming with millions of chips, rare earth minerals extracted and refined, energy pipelines pushing data as much as electrons.

There are the haves and the have-nots. Those that “have” are often the ones who have followed their small-minded understanding of Carpe Diem, to seize control of the rare earths to control the energy flows.

Those who hoard money stop the flow of energy. Those who share keep the flow alive.

Just as breath must flow, so must resources, so must attention, so must intention.

What is the energy of money? Is it accumulation, or is it circulation? Is it hoarding, or is it generosity? When we hold our wealth tight we stagnate the flow. When we open our hands we let community, kindness, connection, and creativity arise.

The balance of energy is not merely defined by what we produce and consume. It is also balanced by how we move it, and how we let it live among us.

And beneath all that, what about intuition? The quiet pulse beneath the roar of the world.

The ancient masters listened

They listened to the wind, to the breath, to the subtle field. Modern science listens to waves, particles, fields.

We too, can learn to listen to our inner field. The stillpoint in the storm. The clearing when the chatter ceases. The coherence that arises when breath meets body, mind meets matter, purpose meets flow.

When Stephen Colbert dropped a truth bomb on the billionaires, asking them to their faces WHY they are billionaires, and whether their wealth serves community or simply accumulates. Brave voices can serve up reminders that energy is both personal and systemic, intimate and global.

So, how are YOU feeling?

Will you care for your own energy? Will you pause your breath, recalibrate your field, listen to the subtle currents?

Will you reconnect with your community, your neighbours, your family, and your friends—so energy doesn’t just flow through you, but through the larger us?

Will you consider how your consumption, your sharing, your attention, your breath influences the larger ecosystem?

Will you shine? Will you seek for coherence? Can you find a way to evolve your connected, radiant energy? For the good of all of everything?

Allow yourself to expand. Let your energy meet the living field of the world. Let your rest replenish you, your flow renew the collective, your presence be medicine for the imbalance.

The tipping points are near. But so is the threshold of transformation.

Step across. It is time.