This second of the two excerpts from the book did not overtly tie into the concept of seeing ourselves as primarily energy-based beings, as being "spiritual". So, I will here propose the connection between the right brain and energy-based being.
Recall the song "Colors of the Wind" from the Disney animated film Pocahontas? This refers to the mind's capacity to crossover from one sense to another, a phenomena called synesthesia. Folks that have tried LSD have reported this phenomena.
The drug probably suppresses normal left brain functioning. The left brain operates under a narrower band of cortical stimulation, so it is sooner to be overloaded during a stressor (such as a toxicity or oxygen depravation) or during low levels of stimulation (such as sleep), thus tilting the mind toward the right brain which operates under a broader band of stimulation.
During very high or very low stimulation/stress levels, the left brain tends to cut out, allowing the right brain to have a "voice". In fact, this reminds me of how the Israelites were said to have walked into the fallen cities of Canaan of the Egyptian Empire. See: Slow Walls Tumbling, Slow Waters Engulfing
In both situations, a non-dominant entity finally "has its day". OK, but what does this have to do with energy awareness?
If the more poetic right brain can sense "the colors of the wind" (as I believe it can, without a hit of acid, in the practiced mind), then it knows the wind better than the left brain tends to know wind. The wind is a moving, dynamic, energy-like thing. The wind is one of the frequently used metaphors of spirit, and there is good reason to suspect that "spirit" and "energy" (as beginning to be understood in modern physics) are closely related. The song suggests (and I believe, correctly) that right brain-ish, poetic, thought is more intimate with the wave/energy properties of the human being and human mind.
As in the recent mind experiment in which I saw colors in my mind, the right brain can see the mind's own energy in terms of colors from the light spectrum. This also suggests an interface capability of the mind to other electromagnetic sources.
I once picked up on Becky's (my wife's) dream imagery while she was sleeping and I was intentionally meditating on being in her mind, or with her mind. When my report of what I "saw" happened to match her own account of what she had dreamed, we were astounded.
But this should not be too surprising when we consider that the physical aspect of mind is energy. The mind is a glob or stream of energy. So why would it not be able to act like a radio or transmitter? It's true nature is energy to start with.
Our culture has trained us to think like matter so much that it is hard to wrap our minds around the implications of mind-as-energy. That is why we are so surprised by parapsychological experiences such as mental telepathy, and that is probably why we have so few parapsychological experiences in the first place; we don't believe they exist (because they wouldn't exist in a matter-based reality).
If you want to interface with energy - to "see the colors of the wind" - then practice writing, reading, and thinking about poetry or things poetic (such as expansive philosophical thought). Otherwise, the only way to sense it is to wait until you are chemically altered. I say, "Why not take control of our own brain chemicals?"
And what are those brain chemicals (neurotransmitters)? They are liquid energy, or vessels/conveyers of energy. To learn to alter our own chemicals naturally, homeopathically, is to gain more mastery of this beautiful (colors of the wind sort of thing) device and entity called mind. A mind is a terrible thing not to see the colors of!
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