Let's play "what if" for a minute.

What if there was a way to get free energy to your home or business in such a way that no carbon footprint was created? Just what if it were possible to eliminate, as quickly as appropriate, all use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy and furnish power for every home and village on the planet with zero impact on the planet?

Just play along for a minute. What would happen? Could such a technology actually disrupt the $20 trillion energy business with a technology suite that nobody could put a meter on? Would the existing energy infrastructure, on the brink of collapse, find a way to prevent this from happening? Should the inventor(s) of this brilliant new theoretical energy source be allowed to bring his product to market? Or is the worldwide socio-economic impact of such a plan so disruptive that it ought not be allowed to see the light of day regardless of its potentially world-changing impact?

If Dr. Stephen Greer has his way, we may face that decision within the next 18 months. Greer, who is (in)famous for having brought the glare of publicity to bear on the UFO question by means of his highly successful Disclosure Project over the past few years, has just launched a new effort called The Orion Project. His goal is nothing less than to "inform, educate, and help supply all peoples of our planet with sustainable, non-polluting power."

Without going into details -- I encourage you to visit the Web site to read as much as you like -- Dr. Greer's first effort is to raise $3 million to put the first phase of this effort into place. He doesn't see this happening through the usual high-profile investment sources because they're all tied into the group he calls the "petro-elite." He's asking ordinary people to donate $30 or more to his 501c(3) non-profit foundation to fund this first research.

I don't know if any or all of what he says makes any sense. But I like his approach. I like his attitude. And I like his cause. $3 million is nothing. I'd like to see him have that chance. How about you?

Using a flavor of MRI and some sophisticated software, scientists have been able to read the minds of subjects, determining in advance their intentions. Subjects were asked to decide before being shown two numbers whether they would choose to add or subtract them. Using complex brain-mapping techniques and evolving algorithms, researchers achieved 70% accuracy, well outside the bounds of random chance.

For people like myself who are convinced of the reality of the Zero Point Field, this is not news, simply confirmation. Lynn McTaggart is in the process of preparing to conduct a massive online series of experiments in intentionality, a topic she discusses at length in her latest book, The Intention Experiment.

I am aware that this whole concept is debunked by scientific skeptics. I'm also aware that most of the major scientific revolutions that have taken place in the hundreds of years that science has been a field of human interest have initially experienced the same sort of skepticism. Being a student of spiritual energy and one who spends a lot of time thinking and reading about energy related topics, this one feels like a natural extension to me.

There is an increasing body of credible scientific evidence that we humans are beings of light. We not only need, absorb and use light for many of our bodily processes, we also emit light in the form of what are called biophotons. All living systems appear to do so.

While the output power of these light emissions is incredibly small, the fact of their existence is intriguing in and of itself. While mainstream biology scoffs at the idea that biophotonic emission could have any impact or effect on entities outside the body, experiment after experiment demonstrates that they do in fact have a noticeable and measurable effect. This has long fascinated me. In 1978, I wrote a poem called "Human Technology" in which I compared the human body to, among other things, antennas "sensitive to others and their all-important needs." And while I'd probably revise the latter part of that observation today, my sense of our antenna-like role in the multiverse is stronger and clearer now than it was then.

USA Today's Sunday magazine supplement ran a piece last weekend about healing with light. A number of well-known doctors are finding that aiming beams of fairly ordinary light at certain kinds of conditions and situations cures or acclerates their healing. Results have been demonstrated (though perhaps not yet scientifically proven) in cases of acne, Alzheimer's, wrinkles and viruses.

Given that we've known at least since the turn of the 20th Century that everything in the multiverse is energy, and that all energy vibrates, it comes as no real surprise to me that energy-based healing is becoming an important new frontier in medical and biological science. Perhaps the day will come -- though not likely in my lifetime or that of my children -- when drugs and surgery will be rare if not non-existent in the treatment of physical ailments, going the way of the leech and the pre-frontal lobotomy of past medical practice.