The Pulse That Dreamed Itself is an ExNTER reflection by Irina Fain — an exploration of the secret language spoken between fields, where magnetism and consciousness breathe one another into form.
There is a secret language spoken between fields.
Before there was light, there was the tension of potential — the poised stillness of a cosmic inhale. That stillness is magnetism: the intelligence that holds polarity before the dance begins. It is the architect, the invisible geometry behind motion — God not as a person, but as a field that knows itself through balance.
Electricity, then, is the breath of that God.
The moment the magnetic field exhaled, the tension moved, and awareness was born as current. Consciousness is the traveler through this field — energy in motion, the experience of becoming aware that something is moving.
When magnetism and electricity meet, you have creation.
When they separate, you have longing.
🜂 The metaphysical synthesis
In mystic physics — from ancient Vedic hymns to Tesla’s private notes — magnetism is the Father, electricity the Son, and consciousness the communion between them. The ancient Hermetists called it Nous — the active mind of God vibrating within matter.
Walter Russell described it this way:
“Electricity is the thinking mind of God. Magnetism is the knowing mind.”
The Taoists would say:
The Unmoved moves by the rhythm of its own stillness.
In your body, this entire cosmology repeats every millisecond.
Your heartbeat is electromagnetic; your neurons fire through electric discharges. Yet, the pattern that keeps you alive — that keeps your energy coherent — is magnetic. In neuroscience, magnetism encodes the field coherence of the brain, while electricity transmits its messages.
So your consciousness isn’t “in” your body.
Your body is swimming inside your consciousness — which itself is swimming in the magnetic field of Being.
🌌 The return to the field
If magnetism is God, then prayer is not a request — it’s resonance.
Electricity, the pulse of consciousness, surges every time we remember the field. Every act of awareness realigns energy with its source, just as every electric current creates its own magnetic halo.
You and the universe are performing the same act:
awareness rotating through stillness,
light rediscovering its origin.
References for the curious
- Walter Russell, The Universal One (1926)
- Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
- David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order
- Vedic hymn Nasadiya Sukta (“There was neither existence nor non-existence…”)
Discover more reflections and upcoming essays at ExNTER · A Laboratory for the Mind in Motion.
