The highest task for health education in a society devoted to excellence is to discover and introduce into the cultural stream modes of living that will fully employ bodily energies in ways that are at the same time consonant with the ideals of reason, qualitative judgment, and ethical concern. (religion-online.org)
Evolutionarily, cortisol temporarily inhibited the immune system so all bodily energies could be directed towards the fight or flight response. (onnit.com)
Hollowell's association of the light in her paintings with orgasm, cited in the press release, evokes connections to earlier efforts to engineer bodily energy, such as Wilhelm Reich's orgone box, or to the proto - psychedelic technology of Beat poet Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, a rotating light box intended to generate transcendent, hypnotic states. (brooklynrail.org)