Implicate Aromatology

The Ontological Use of Essential Oils

A Guide to Working With Essential Oils, Emotion, Perception and The Human Energy Field

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow, our life is the creation of our mind”

Buddha

 “The known is finite, the unknown is infinite, intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of explicability.  Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land”

Introduction 

Over a decade ago it became apparent to us that there was a need for a scientifically sustainable explanation of both the nature and usage of essential oils. Analysis of essential oils, with respect to their chemistry, was finding favour amongst those most deeply involved with their study and our knowledge of their structure and composition was expanding all the time. However, it seemed that the more we knew about each finite detail of their chemistry, the less we really knew about their very essence, about how, in fact, they instigated change. In addition, we were acutely aware of the parallels exhibited by the human condition - the more science and medicine isolated and analysed the minutiae of bio-chemical processes, the less we really understood about our human selves and the origins of health and disease. It soon became apparent that the answers were not to be found in the mechanistic, reductionist approach of Newtonian mechanical principles, but rather at the forefront of science in the ‘Quantum Universe’ - the world of sub-atomic physics and chaos theory. The deeper we delved into quantum and field theories the clearer it became - it was here that we had to look, not only for an explanation of our interaction with essential oils, but for the very nature and origins of both health and disease and perhaps even reality itself. 

It is from this perspective that we have explored the ontological use of essential oils. This new field of enquiry with respect to essential oils, which we have called Implicate Aromatology, does not represent a therapy (defined as a remedial treatment directly influencing physiological processes,) but rather a shift in consciousness, in awareness and experience. We are not concerned with producing physiological changes in the body in an attempt to regain our health, but rather in creating change in the subtle fields which constitute the framework around which we shape our health and happiness or disease and sorrow. Rather than utilising therapeutic agents in an increasingly futile quest for well-being through physical intervention, essential oils represent the perfect tools with which  to explore the frequency domain of awareness and ‘consciousness’ where we create and shape our everyday lives and, most importantly, our health status.