ABSTRACT
The meaning of the term subtle as in energy medicine is not quite the same as that of the adjective weak as used in physics. Both describe events that are difcult to explain. In one sense, weak effects can be subsumed under the more general heading of subtle energies. In another meaning, they are different, although with some overlap. One view holds that weak interactions result in effects that are not easily explained, whereas subtle effects can go unnoticed, or be quietly active. Certainly, this use of the term subtle ts Ross Adey’s description1 of interactions between cells as “whispering together.” In Adey’s work, one nds an attempt to explain things in established scientic ways, in terms of as-yet undiscovered science. He devoted much effort to arguing that these whispers were transmitted by soliton waves, low-energy frictionless signals that, even today, are at the forefront of theoretical physics.
