As we continue to reread Sea of Miracles together, I’ve been thinking about the strange intersections in my life, the unexpected places where one kind of knowing meets another. And how, at the point of convergence, something new is revealed, a third connection.
In this chapter, for example, my earlier work as a systems analyst intersects with a more recent mystical understanding, and out of that overlap comes a realization: a glimpse into how transmission actually works.
This is the part of the book where I was trying to explain that angels don’t just appear with wings and shining faces. They arrive as frequencies. As waves. As patterns of light and meaning that ripple through everything. I couldn’t quite explain how it worked back then—but I could see it. I could feel it.
What mattered to me then—and I think it still comes through in this chapter—is this: once you learn to recognize the shape of that communication, once you feel the resonance, you’re in it. You’re connected. You’re part of the field.
This chapter is where I began to understand that. You can find all the chapters in the Index. To receive these posts by email, subscribe. (free)
Chapter 8: Light, Love, Life Energy
The angels showed me: You live in a dynamic, living Sea of Miracles — an interconnected universe composed of love and light.
We are just beginning to understand how the world is made. Breakthroughs in science have shown that at the atomic level, the same energy that flows through the cells and tissues of your body also moves through the world around you.
We now know that the same essential force that burns in the sun also pulses in the tiny heart of a bird. The energy that stirs in a daffodil bulb beneath the snow is the same energy alive in me—and in you.
What’s even more extraordinary is that we are beginning to discover this same energy may also give rise to your consciousness—and perhaps even to the living, flowing presence we call the divine.
As mystics learn to describe their experiences in the language of science, and scientists grow more able to measure subtle energetic phenomena, the evidence is building for what spiritual traditions have long taught: consciousness moves through and across matter.
In other words, matter is infused with awareness. Thought can shape reality. And that means experiences like divine guidance, intuition, and prayer may not be wishful thinking—but real, measurable forces in a participatory, conscious universe.
One thing is certain: we live in an interconnected universe. One universe—a single, oceanic sea of energy.
It’s this energy I’d like to talk about with you now.
Traditional Chinese Medicine calls this universal, animating energy Qi or Chi. Practitioners of TCM have worked with it for thousands of years—to balance, strengthen, and heal the body.
Ayurvedic medicine and Hindu tradition call it Prana—the life-sustaining force that pervades all living beings and the universe itself. But the concept of animating energy is not exclusive to Eastern traditions. In Christianity, it is known as Christ Consciousness, as Light, as the Holy Spirit. In Jewish mystical texts, it appears as Shekinah—the divine Spirit manifesting as a guiding, indwelling presence.
Across all mystical traditions, this universal energy is described as light, as love, as the animating force of life itself.
This energy is:
Pure, whole, and essential. It is love at its fullest, inspiration at its clearest—life force, bursting toward expression. As the angels showed me: “The animating force of all things is love—and one day, your scientists will prove this.” This energy is the white light of All That Is / God; it is the most powerful force in the Universe and, at the same time, the most gentle and loving.
Intelligent. This intelligence animates our bodies, holds our furniture together, germinates the plants in our gardens. Even the air, which seems empty, is a sea of intelligent, interactive, living energy. Buddhists and yoga teachers often refer to this as awareness—a kind of spacious, intelligent presence.
Running through the body along a system of channels known as meridians in Chinese Medicine, and nadis in Ayurveda—ebbing and flowing with the general health and vitality of the body.
Running through the Earth along powerful streams of energy often called ley lines. Sensitive to this, our ancestors built some of the world’s most revered and beautiful sacred sites and cathedrals at points where this energy was especially potent. (You can learn more by searching for “Ouivre” or “ley lines.”)
This light–love–life energy is in all things and can take any form.
As Albert Einstein explained1, “Everything is energy, and that's all there is to it.” In our material world, the objects we see and touch—as well as the Earth beneath our feet, the buildings we inhabit, and all the plants and animals—are composed, at their most essential level, of energy.
This light–love–life energy organizes itself into form by flowing into patterns.
These patterns, or fields, weave together to form every object in our physical world. In fact, according to the angels, even the very ground on which you walk is made of love.
These fields are like blueprints—energetic DNA. The pattern (or field) of a rose tells the light–love–life energy how to take the form we recognize as rose. Just as the pattern called star directs the flow of this energy into that shape. These patterns carry both consciousness and intelligence.
Some of these fields form your body. Some form the plants in your garden. And some of these fields form the angels. Taken together, all of these fields—all of this flowing energy—forms a vast web of interconnection: an enormous everything that includes every object, liquid, gas, idea, dream—even our thoughts. Everything that has ever existed.
Buddhists refer to this interconnected universe as Indra’s Net. It is imagined as a cosmic web, studded with glittering jewels or pearls. Each gem is tied to every other, and every jewel reflects every other jewel, so that everything that exists contains and includes everything else. For all is one.
Now imagine this: through every strand and jewel of our interconnected universe, the light–love–life energy is flowing. Like the invisible energy we tap into with our cell phones—or like “The Force” in Star Wars—this energy is an everywhere-field, accessible to anyone who has the tools to use it.
Yes, yes — this is all very interesting, but what does it have to do with angels?
Everything. Angels are energetic beings, literally composed of divine light. This light is the same energy that animates the body, the same love that fills the heart, the same energy that inspires the mind. Like everything else in the universe, the angels are made of light, love, life energy.
Grace Note: A Way of Thinking About Resonance
Just before coming to work at the DMA office, I worked as a Telecommunications Specialist / Systems Support Analyst for Wang Labs, a pioneer in the office automation industry. It was my job to teach clients—many of them bankers, insurance brokers, and lawyers in Lower Manhattan —how to use the strange new personal computer systems that were beginning to appear on their desks.
This was back before cell phones, before email, before the internet. I still remember the awe with which we watched a demonstration of the Qwix—one of the first fax machines.
Until then, if we wanted to send a document to another office, we had to put it in an envelope and mail it - or call a messenger service to pick it up from our office and hand deliver it. Now, we were translating that same document into pulses of energy—first sound, and later, light—and transmitting it across vast distances in seconds. It felt like magic. Something right out of Star Trek.
During my systems training, I learned that in all data communication, it was essential to establish a protocol—a shared frequency and language—before any data could be transmitted. There had to be resonance.
We sent out a “handshake”: a series of beeps and blips that the receiving system could recognize, interpret, and respond to. If you’ve ever called someone and been greeted by their fax machine’s high-pitched beeping, you’ve heard this for yourself. The machine is asking: What protocol is this? What language are you speaking? It’s trying to establish a connection.
When we open our connection with the angels—and with God—we are doing something very similar. We send out a prayer. It is received, interpreted, and answered in a protocol tailored to resonate with our particular system: a language of signs, symbols, intuitive blips and bleeps.
This is how divine communication works: through resonance. Just as data cannot be transmitted without a shared frequency, love and guidance arrive only when there is a point of meeting. A shared tone. A wavelength you are ready to receive.
And if we don’t receive the message the first time, another is sent. Then another. Again and again, until contact is made.
The angels showed me:
You are never disconnected from us. The Sea of Miracles surrounds, holds, and cradles you—it flows to you and through you. All that you are, and all that you do, is an expression of this flowing sea of light, love, life energy.
Reading this chapter today, I’m struck by this: though our technology evolves, our urge to connect, to converse, remains unchanged. What I observed back then is still true now: the connection is never broken. Always, just beneath the surface of things, the angels are present— willing, waiting.
They will speak to us in whatever language we’re able to understand. They will keep sending their messages, again and again, until something in us clicks, and we realize: Oh. There you are.
When that happens, it feels like a miracle. Because it is.
But also . . . it isn’t. Or rather, it’s a different kind of miracle. The kind that is as natural as breathing. The miracle, I suppose, is happening inside of us: the miracle of becoming aware. Of recognizing the connection. Of entering the conversation, consciously, at last, with an angel.
With love and all the blessings flowing to you, Amy xxoo
