The impact of the Newtonian world-view has been immense. Our scientific model of the psyche has no place for the soul; there is nothing before birth and nothing after death. Everything has to be understood as arising from within this temporary, physical existence, with the human self the only source of consciousness. The physicalist view of the world started with Rene Descartes and Isaac Newton 300 years ago. Descartes established the golden rule for empirical science, that nothing would be held to be true unless it could be proved to be true, and Newton laid the foundation of a mechanical universe in which time is absolute and space is structured according to the laws of motion. From this time, the split between religion and science began to widen. The Church could no longer claim to understand how the universe worked, and the spiritual and physical worlds drifted apart. We are all separate beings, bounded by the envelopes of our skin and moving around in a fixed, impersonal, three-dimentional universe utterly indifferent to our comings and goings. Yet, Newtonian science was first knocked off its perch 70 years ago. With the birth of quantum mechanics, the view that our physical world is solid, fixed and independent of mind was shown to be untenable. The fundamental process of nature lies outside space-time but generates events that can be located in space-time. The quantum realm and the physical universe, which arises out of it, is all one undivided, unitary whole. It is our conscious participation that brings the physical world into being. Each one of us is self-aware since we are connected with the total field of consciousness. We have to take care not to mistake the part for the whole.

Einstein taught us that matter and energy are essentially interchangeable and their transformations are eternally continuous. All matter is energy. It is all made up of oscillating, vibrating, swirling bits of energy of different sizes and speeds. The chair your sitting in is made up of energy, as are your clothes. We are energy beings. Matter and energy are indestructible and persistent and infinitely divisible. As we look into the atom, we find that the smallness of matter/energy is as eternal as the vastness of the universe. There is no lower limit to the quantity of action that is necessary to effect any change. In other words, a minute amount of energy may be as effective in bringing about a change as is a large amount of energy. In all of us there is the visible and the invisible, tangible and intangible. We all have muscles, bones, fat, and blood. We have eyes and ears and noses. But also we have emotions, intellect, and spirit. We have an invisible nature that defies chemical compositions and that allows us understanding of more than just physical creation. This invisible nature is dominant over the physical, and that which disrupts the invisible nature, the mind, and the emotions must ultimately also disrupts the physical body. There is a kind of music, an almost audible hum that permeates all of creation. Each part of creation, each creature, each plant, even each of the basic elements of creation, is a part of that symphony.

All creation is one, just as each of us is one whole being, body, mind, and spirit. All creation shares the basic spark of life. The world, and everything natural to it, is alive. The life spark is infinitely creative and ever changing, and it is through this spark of life that we are able to heal ourselves. As all creation is alive, all creation is self-healing, and by making proper use of the life energy of other parts of creation, as animal, plant or mineral, we can use that spark to empower our own healing energies. The material organism, without the vital force, is capable of no sensation, no function, no self-preservation; it derives all sensation and performs all functions of life solely by means of the vital principle, which animates the material organism in health and in disease. Every healing system contains a concept parallel to vital force. Whatever it is called, there is a flow of energy that pours through us all, that allows the flesh and bones, from which we are created, to get up and move around. When that force leaves our body, the flesh first becomes rigid and then begins to rot. This vital force represents the energy that maintains life. It is considered to be a force that is unique within each individual, with each system manipulating and mutating the force with its own peculiar qualities. The vital force must be considered as an energy flow that is different from any other chemical or physical phenomenon within the individual being. Therefore, it is neither soul nor immune system; it is a unique flow that sustains, heals, develops, and learns. This vital force is the connection between our invisible and visible selves. It is the conduit of the energy and all eternity within our mortal bodies. The spirit in each of us is perfect and will always be so. Nothing can destroy the perfection of spirit within each of us. But the vital force as the connection between the eternal and the temporal, not only is vulnerable to ailments and attacks of all sorts, but also is the seat of creation for all forms of disease.

Modern science often reduces us to being mere machines, made of many parts that can be manipulated or removed or replaced like parts of a car. But there is an invisible being driving that vehicle, and if that being is in a state of disruption, the vehicle is bound to run off the road and crash. All healing must take place on the level of vital force if healing is to take place at all. By treating only symptoms and looking only to the physical body in terms of treatment, we can never bring about a true healing. If we refuse to look to the vital force and to the invisible nature, we spend our lives chasing ailments one after another, as the weakest links in our system break down and more and more serious illnesses set in. But if we clear the block in the vital force with an energetic approach, we work on a more profound energetic level, one treating the underlying cause rather than symptoms. When we accept that illness begins in our invisible nature, then we can quickly move to the next step. The universe is a wonderfully crafted spiral that is eternal in its vastness and its smallness. As we are spiritual beings, energy beings, science has taught us that we are eternal in our natures. If we accept Einstein's insights, then we begin to see the allopathic tradition of medicine as out-dated, mired in a universe made up of only what we can see, taste, smell, touch, and hear. But, energetic medicine shows us an energy universe, one that is alive and harmonious in creation.

These thousands-of-years-old philosophies have yet to be proved scientifically because of the limitations of science, not because they are not true. If we accept the principle of vital force, then we must look elsewhere for our healing, not to flesh and bones, blood and lymph, but to our eternal selves--our spirits. There is much more to health than cholesterol counts or blood pressure. Health is the psychological adjustment to the extraordinary experience of living life in its fullest expression. As the Greek philosopher Herophilus put it approximately 300 B.C.: "When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth becomes useless, and reason is powerless." Health is not an end but a means to fulfill the purpose of life itself. The question of why we live is more important than how we live. And why we seek health is of greater significance than particular practices and potions. Recently, health has been narrowly defined as "the absence of disease," and health practices focus on "preventing" heart attacks, "avoiding" cancer, or "coping" with stress. Today national surveys indicate that health is the number-one concern both in the U.S. and internationally. But if our striving for health mainly involves an endless succession of aerobic workouts, a boringly regimented diet, or an outrageous investment in cosmetic surgeries, then our misguided preoccupation with health is literally worse than disease. The selfish preoccupation with personal attractiveness and the outward appearance of vitality has replaced our disregard for the health consequences of our lifestyles. Questions raised in the name of health are synonymous with those eternal issues driving the world's great spiritual quests for meaning. Personal health practices, a sense of meaningful purpose, and effective techniques for achieving physical, mental, and emotional equilibrium, throughout the ebbs and flows of life, play a major role in both inner fulfillment and professional success, enabling humans the capacity to grow, face new challenges with conviction, and learn from any situation.

Health is an ever-evolving process, and there is even a healthy way to be ill and a good way to die. Health is not superficial or one-dimensional, but an integration of body, mind, spirit, and environment. Health is an attitude or orientation, comprising our basic values and beliefs about ourselves, and the world around us. It is an inner quality that gives rise to particular health practices, but cannot, in itself, be reduced to those practices. There is no lifestyle--no matter how disciplined--that guarantees freedom from disease and disability or ensures longevity. Some people do everything right and die young, while others break all the rules and get away with it. To truly grasp the deepest meaning of health, it is necessary to broaden its definition beyond the physical. Optimal health requires an integration of physical, mental, spiritual, and environmental well-being. Health must be recognized as an ongoing process of self-discovery, manifesting a positive influence on the world around us. It is a means to living a successful and satisfying life. In 300 B.C. the Greeks referred to health as the physics, or the "healing force within." Our current term health is derived from the Old English hale, meaning "whole." Where did our culture go wrong? How have we lost that fundamental essence of health--the concept of the body, mind, spirit, and nature as inextricably bound and functioning in concert as a whole? Only recently have we begun to rediscover the truth behind this perennial wisdom. Good health allows us to enjoy our families, participate in our communities, and live to know our grandchildren, while providing us with the opportunity to contribute to our time in history. It allows us to find personal fulfillment, to enjoy our sexuality, to be creative and productive, but it does not confer these things upon us. While it permits us to seek a satisfying and complete life, it is not a substitute for one. We must be careful not to expect too much from diets, exercising, or the "right" cholesterol level, because we cannot control our genetic, predetermined propensity to disease or alter our biological destiny with oat-bran or an exercise regimen. Jogging, Stairmasters, aerobics classes, meditation, and diets are not the answer.

They only relieve the symptoms: stress, anxiety, and poor physical condition. They do nothing to effect change or to alleviate the causes of our problems. All the energy we exert in the name of health and the glorification of the self is diverting and sapping us of the energy we need to come to terms with what our real problems are. These things can’t be fixed unless people think more about other people and less about themselves. A new model of health must supersede the superficial outward appearance of health or fixation on any single influence such as cholesterol levels or minutes of exercise per week. Individual efforts are necessary but insufficient for optimal health. We must lay the foundation for a model of health that incorporates both individual and collective influences. This sense of optimal health is a personal and societal responsibility. We must expand our vision and understanding of the "reality" that we create with our interpretation of our sensory input, and the influences that shape the structure and function of our bodies. When Magellan's expedition first landed at Tierra del Fuego, the Fuegans, who for centuries had been isolated with their canoe culture, were unable to see the ships, which were anchored in the bay. They were so far beyond their reality that, despite their bulk, the horizon continued unbroken: the ships were invisible. The Fuegans described how the shaman had first brought to the villagers' attention that the strangers had arrived in something, something which, preposterous beyond belief, could actually be seen if one looked carefully.

We ask how could they not see the ships--they were so obvious, so "real"--yet others would ask why we cannot see things just as obviously real. Everything we see, even in the physical world, involves a not-seeing of something else. We know that perception, whether visual or cerebral, involves the filtering out of thousands of competing stimuli to retain that which has "meaning." Whereas seeing is conditioned by "meaning," meaning itself depends on a tacit, pre-established frame of reference, an adopted blueprint of possibility, into which the seen things must fit. We must have a blueprint, a "paint-by-numbers" canvas, or else we would have no framework for meaning and could see nothing at all--or else everything together, like white light before it is separated into colors by a prism. But for most of us, and particularly as cultural groups, our blueprint is fixed, has no un-numbered spaces for possible unimaginable colors, and is not flexible, as is the eye, to alter focus and see anew. The focal depths which condition what we see as real are, like the Fuegans, shaped largely by our culture and its myths, and are usually as far from our minds as the microscope is to the person looking through it. Thus, myth and legend, assumed by rationalists to be false history, are a very real part of our perception, and condition the ceiling of our capacity to know--for meaning is not in the dry facts of an event alone, but in the deep layers beneath the phenomenal world. The secrets of these timeless layers are trapped in the crystalline languages of myth and legend.

In all cultures, today as in the past, we are confronted by myth, though it constantly changes its continuance as we ourselves change, like our reflection in a mirror. Like the pre-determined blueprints which condition our vision, myths may either reveal visions beyond our wildest imaginings or else, if they have outlived their time, restrain us from moving into new areas of knowledge. Our inherited myth, which has supported the growth of science, is that the world is out there and we are in here, trying to see more of it. We think that to see reality as it is can only be done rationally, and homo sapiens is he who knows--knows how objective and realistic he has become by scorning the childish comfort of the subjective world, that slippery slope to self-delusion. Things are not as they appear--since they appear only as we expect to see them. This framework of expectation is the substance of myth; and releasing ourselves from obsolete myths opens us, in turn, to broader, more vital and more useful ones. The rationalist myth in which we find ourselves stuck has already outlived its time, and is due to be sloughed off like an old skin. Although it appears unchanging, the body is actually in a constant state of flux and regeneration. This is strikingly illustrated in the case of people with multiple personalities. It is not unusual for different personalities within the same body to exhibit dramatically different physical symptoms, including scars, burn marks, cysts, left- and right-handedness, brainwaves, allergies, lifestyles, memories, and even eye pressure and corneal curvature. Frequently, a medical condition possessed by one personality will mysteriously vanish when another personality takes over.

By changing personalites, a multiple who is drunk can instantly become sober. There are cases of women who have two or three menstrual periods each month because each of their subpersonalities has its own cycle. The voice pattern of each of a multiple’s personalities is different, a feat that requires such a deep physiological change that even the most accomplished actor cannot alter his voice enough to disguise the voice pattern. One personaliy can be an insulin-dependent diabetic and when a new personality appears, the body becomes non-diabetic. There are accounts of epilepsy coming and going and even tumors can appear and disappear. Visual acuity can differ, and some multiples have to carry two or three different pairs of eyeglasses to accommodate their alternating personalities. One personality can be color blind and another not, and even eye color can change. It goes against everything we think we know about the human body, which we believe is relatively fixed and solid, dense material--our physical structure is supposed to change only incrementally at best. But we know that each breath brings 1022 ( 10 with 22 zeros) new atoms of matter into our body and with each exhalation, we breath out 1022 atoms of material that was only moments before part of the different tissues and organs of our body.

The atoms that comprise the material world that we perceive are 99.999999999999% empty space. Only one trillionth of one-percent of an atom contains something, which is itself only oscillating, vibrating patterns of energy, that our senses resonate with and we interpret as solid matter. This corresponds exactly to the distribution of planets and stars in relation to free space in the universe. These atoms are structured into orderly patterns of the seven crystals that comprise the material world by a morphogenic field that determines the form and function of the atoms. This field is influenced by our thoughts, attitudes, emotions, and beliefs. But we are only vaguely aware of ourselves based on input data we receive from our physical senses, which we give meaning to in our minds. We are now realizing that we are only immediately aware of our sense data, and the real object, if there is one, is not immediately known to us, but must be an inference. Sense-data cannot be the surfaces of physical objects, since they are merely a series of atomic particles.

Color, smell, and sound are not inherent in physical things, but in us. Color is perceived via retinal cells, which have specific coded photoreceptors, and because it is along these lines that the impulses reach the brain, the illusion of color explodes in the mind. Color appears in the picture as an experience deriving from specifically coded patterns in the brain. There is no color in the outside world. There is no word for blue in ancient Greek to suggest that the Greeks saw blue only as a different shading of green, and not as a separate color in itself. Very few animals see colors at all--a sudden evolutionary leap in man's early history suddenly revealed a world of shadows lambent with color--the process of evolution appears to involve becoming aware of a wider spectrum of energy pulses. Colorblind people are not blind to color, but merely see them differently; they less easily project into the colored world the assumptions that are held by color seeing people. The military forces of most nations use them to detect camouflage. The quality of light changes from second to second throughout the twenty-four hours of the day. Similarly, the human body, in texture, color, and weight, is constantly changing--with every breath, meal and thought. All perception relies on fluid symbols of equivalence, rather than exactitude, and we take what we see as symbols onto which we project what we already anticipate in our heads. It is when our projection apparatus is caught off guard that we occasionally, for instance, see a stranger reflected in a window before realizing with a shock that it is ourselves—then, what we think we look like, quickly forms in the glass.

Our inquiry into the outside world is thus never pure, but always mixed with what we think ourselves to be. In science--ostensibly the most objective of pursuits--we readily see how the images in our own minds are projected outside us. Scientific discovery is the projection into matter of the exploration of the human mind; and all our worlds are lived within us, illusions of lesser or greater power, maintained by the weight of corporate belief, but are seen as out there. What is real is what we make real, even the color of the sky or the shape of a tree. When a myth is shared by a large number of people it acquires not only as great a power as objectivity has over us, but becomes reality itself, even producing tangible objects. Physiological as well as emotional limits are extended once we know they are sanctioned by possibility. The thresholds of excitement, the limits of resistance are different in each culture. The impossible efforts, the unbearable pains are less individual functions than criteria sanctioned by collective approval or disapproval. Mount Everest, once the mountaineer's impossibility, is now booked up by expeditions with the Nepalese Government. Barely an Olympic mile is run any more in over four minutes. The unthinkable just decades ago, in the form of a color TV set, are now glowing in most living rooms. Myths, although irreplaceable tools for forging new horizons, have built-in obsolescence. We change our reality according to our capacity to see afresh. We now know that the stuff that our bodies are made of are really not solid and dense as the interpretation of our sense data suggests.

We create graven images—either of Gods or Protons as symbols that are merely fluid and expendable tools, which in no way accurately represent reality. With the realization that the abstractions of science are purely symbolic but may give birth to real and everyday objects, comes the reverse image that the world of everyday objects is no less symbolic, and for its perception and meaning relies again on abstractions. Einstein commented that the highest edifices of scientific thought have been purchased at the price of emptiness of content. The atom is as porous as the solar system, and if we eliminated all the space in a man's body, and collected all the protons and electrons into one mass, he would be reduced to a speck the size of a mustard seed. Yet these particles, which constitute what we call mass, have no coherence relative to space, only to each other; their unity overleaps space. The only constant in our physical as well as psychic universe is movement--movement in emptiness. All the phenomena of nature, its laws and systems, are relative only to one another--not to space. We may know one wavelength's proportion to another, but not its absolute length. Motion has no frame: it is cradled in the void, which makes all motion possible. What is, is but a movement in what is not. The distinction between subjective appearance and an objective reality hidden behind it calls for deepened insight and heightened consciousness. We are beings of energy. When we think of our anatomy, we ordinarily think of our bones, muscles, organs, and other physical tissues. However, we also have an energetic anatomy, composed of multiple, interacting energy fields that envelope and penetrate our physical body, govern its functioning, and extend out into the world around us. This serves as a vehicle for circulating vital energies that enliven and animate us.

The earth has an energetic anatomy, similar to our own, which influences our own energy field. The entire earth and biosphere in which we live is one gigantic living organism, with its own metabolic and energetic qualities. Energy centers, energy channels, and energy fields emanating from the earth--as well as from plants and animals--are in many ways analogous to our own. By understanding the energetic life of this whole system, of which we are a part, we can learn to live in harmony and balance. Energy of different frequencies coexist within the same space without destructive interaction. We are constantly bombarded by radio, TV, and cell phone broadcasts, to name a few, which pass through our houses and bodies. This electromagnetic energy is invisible to our eyes and ears because it exists at a threshold of energy beyond the energetic sensitivity of our physical organs of perception. When we turn on the TV set, we do not see Channel 10's image mixed with Channel 13's. Because the energies are of slightly different frequencies, they can exist within the same space, without interfering with each other. It is only because of the interjection of our TV set, as an extension of our senses, that we can even tell that these energies are present. Our relationships with others is shaped by the interactions of our energies.

Our relationships are based on more than just psychology and family history. The energetic states that we bring to one another can introduce profoundly influential dynamics. Simply by touching another person, we influence what happens in their energy field. We can come to understand the impact of our own energy on others, and theirs on us, so as to relate with great clarity and effectiveness. Through the simple act of breathing, we traverse the boundary between the physical and the spiritual, every moment. There is no life activity more important than the simple act of breathing, it is our most immediate and intimate connection to the life force in every moment of our lives. It is a direct link to many expressions of subtle energy and spiritual attunement and a doorway to profound states of harmony and peace. We are each capable of sustaining and cultivating our vital energy. Our vital energy has a metabolism that we can come to understand and work with. Through attending to the nourishment we take into our bodies, our patterns of rest and activity, and our practice of disciplines of energy cultivation, we can learn to become the stewards of our vital energy. Healing abilities are present within us all--we have been unknowingly using them throughout our lives.

The solid nature of physical matter is but an illusion of the senses. The physical body has both particle- and wave-like properties which are themselves but points of frozen light. The light-like properties of matter confer unique frequency characteristics to our physical and etheric bodies. Our physical systems are continuous with higher energy systems, which play an integral part in the total functioning of human beings. The physical system, far from being a closed system, is only one of several systems which are in dynamic equilibrium. These systems are physically superimposed upon one another in the very same space. These higher energy systems are actually composed of matter with different frequency characteristics than that of the physical body. The spatial organization of growth from embryogenesis through adulthood is guided by a holographic energy-field template known as the etheric body. There is an information flow, through the meridans to the DNA control centers of the cells, providing additional modulation of the embryologic developmental process. The higher energy bodies are unseen only because the technologies which render these energies visible to the naked eye are still mostly in the developmental stages.

The world of radio and x-ray astronomy was also an unseen universe until the appropriate technologies could be developed to extend our senses in those energetic directions. The physical body is so energetically connected and dependent upon the etheric body for cellular guidance that the physical body cannot exist without the etheric body. If the etheric body becomes distorted, physical disease soon follows. Many illnesses begin first in the etheric body and are then later manifested in the physical body as organ pathology. The matter of which the etheric body is composed is called etheric matter or subtle matter. It is the substance of which our higher energetic bodies are composed. Subtle matter is used as a general term referring to types of matter associated with our unseen, higher energetic counterparts. The energetic matrix of the etheric body, or holographic energy-field template, contains structural data that encodes information about the morphology and function of the organism. It is superimposed upon the structure of the physical framework. The etheric body is a body which looks similar to the physical body, over which it is superimposed. Within the etheric energetic map is carried information that guides the cellular growth of the physical structural body. It carries the spatial information on how the developing fetus is to unfold in utero, and also the structural data for growth and repair of the adult organism, should damage or disease occur.

It is the template of the salamander limb which allows a new foot to grow if the present one is severed. This energetic structure works in concert with the cellular genetic mechanisms that molecular biology has elaborated upon over the last several decades of medical research. There are specific channels of energy exchange which allow the flow of energetic information to move from one system to another. One system which has been explored only recently by Western scientists is the acupuncture meridian system. The acupuncture points on the human body are points along an unseen energy highway system that runs deeply throughout the tissues of the body. Through these meridians passes an invisible nutritive energy known to the Chinese as Ch'i. The Ch'i energy enters the body through the acupuncture points and flows to deeper organ structures, bringing life-giving nourishment of a subtle energetic nature. These meridians are formed earlier in embryongenesis than the arteries, veins, and lymphatic vessels. Acupuncture meridians also play an important role in both replication and differentiation of all cells in the body.

This directional energy field cooperates with and provides spatial orientation to the rapidly dividing and migrating cells of the newly forming embryo. In plant seedlings, the contour of the electrical field surrounding the new sprouts follows the shape of an adult plant. When the flow of energy to the organs becomes blocked or imbalanced, dysfunction of the organ system will occur. The meridian system not only is interlinked within itself, but appears to interconnect with all cell nuclei of the tissues. Kirlian photographic studies also confirm that acupuncture points have distinct electrographic characteristics. The meridian changes reflect dysfunction that has already occurred at an etheric level. These changes gradually filter down to the level of the physical, via the acupuncture meridian system. The integrity and energy balance of the acupuncture meridian system is crucial to the maintenance and health of the organism. This can be easily accessed noninvasively by Kinesiologic inquiry.

Most of us equate symptoms with disease. If you ask someone to give an example of a symptom, they are likely to say "sore throat" or "headache" or "fever." But symptoms are a more profound phenomenon than this and are the most important tools we have in guiding our healing process. We all are experiencing symptoms at all times. We communicate our likes and dislikes in many ways other than verbally. There is not one single moment in our lives when we do not have some sort of symptoms group manifesting. Symptoms are the ways the vital force manifests itself within our beings at all times. Symptoms can be sensations of pain--the sore throat or headache. But they can also be benign--how thirsty we are, and for what kind of beverage; our sleep positions; our sex drives; the high- and low-energy times of day. None of these involve pain or disease directly, yet these symptoms are as profound as any sensation of pain. Most of us think that there is some distinct boundary within us that is either "well" or "sick," as if some switch were thrown or some line were crossed. And, at times, particularly with acute illnesses, this line seems almost tangible.

We have all experienced a moment in which we knew that we were "coming down with something." But, with the more profound and chronic conditions, this line becomes harder to sense. How many cancer cells, for instance, need be present before the patient has cancer? How many headaches does one need to have in a year before the headaches are to be considered chronic? Most of us feel that we are well unless at the present moment we are beset with pain. This simplistic notion guides most of what we think about health and healing. How many of us go through life day after day with chronic conditions, having had a pain for so long that it no longer even is considered a sign of illness? Illness and good health are more intricately involved than we would like them to be. It is our own unwillingness to look at ourselves and to become familiar with the ways we tell ourselves that all is or is not well within, that allow us to go to a healthcare practitioner thinking that we are totally well and learn that we harbor a critical condition.

We need to begin to look at ourselves and to listen to the warnings that are coming from within. We also need to come to understand that, as unique beings, we are unique to such an extent that even our vital force, our connection to spirit, is unique within each of us--there is no rule book of how we can and should function. Instead, we can write our own rulebook, for each of us is the true expert on his own state of being. But, too many of us simply do not pay attention to ourselves--do not listen to the wisdom within. This whole idea of uniqueness can be difficult for us to grasp. We have all our lives been told that we are, in terms of health care, unique beings to the extent that we take the amount of cold and cough medicine that is appropriate for our body weight or age. So we don't stop to consider that we are truly unique beings, whole universes unto ourselves. And we miss the point that the methods that might be curative for a set of illness symptoms for you might cause me harm or do nothing at all. In short, in the field of allopathic medicine in which we were raised, if we have a cold, we should all take the same medicine for it, varying only the amount taken by the individual patient.

No matter how science tries to divide us into parts, we are, by nature, indivisible. As body, mind, and spirit, we are one being. If we have a set of symptoms, that might seem unrelated, these must be interrelated; a unique and whole being is experiencing them. To consider it coincidence that these symptoms are all happening at once, or, worse, to treat these symptoms individually, is to court disaster. Only by respecting the wholeness of each unique being can we treat that being in a truly healing manner, focusing not on the individual symptom, but on bringing harmony to that whole unique being. We must consider the patient not the cure. We must treat the person who has the symptoms of illness and not the illness itself. Treating the illness alone suggests that we are not whole beings, and paradoxically that it is possible to subdivide ourselves and to promote total health by dealing with a specific system or organ. It denies the context of our illness. Instead, we have been told that some separate, exterior villainous microbe got to us and attacked us like Russians invading Hungary. A cold, then, is not a manifestation of a germ, but rather the manifestation of what our body is doing to the biological terrain, that is playing host to microorganisms present within it. To treat the whole is to move a living creature from one state of being to another. In improving the whole, we create circumstances that allow for health, rather than creating the illusion of health through the suppression of pain. To treat each person as a unique individual is to place the healing process within his own unique context instead of demanding that each sick person fit into one general pattern.

The spirit within us is perfect and cannot fall ill. It is only in those moments in life in which we are divided from the spirit that we can become ill in our bodies or minds. Illness is a sign that the vital force is intact and is attempting to push whatever is blocking the self from the spirit out of the body. This push to remove the block may become stuck within the system in the body, the mind, or both. And these sets of painful symptoms that we consider illness are therefore actually positive signs that a healing is possible or has already begun. As we do our symptoms, we must place our illnesses within the context of our lives, respecting that our selves contain all states of being that are at once unique and whole. Physicians call this the "wisdom of the body," the vital force within us, within the context of any illness, removing a deeper block that has manifested on the energy level within our body.

Health is freedom from pain in the physical body, having attained a state of well being; freedom from passion on the emotional level, having as a result a dynamic state of serenity and calm; and freedom from selfishness in the mental sphere, having as a result total unification with Truth. We can simply redefine health as freedom. When we are in a state of total health, we are totally free, not needing to have our lives defined or held in check in any way by symptoms that pain or trouble us. A person in this state of freedom will, therefore, have symptoms of health--a hearty appetite, a generous and loving nature, and so forth. Further, a person in this state of freedom will also be in tune with the spirit within. What blocks this state of perfect freedom, then, and causes illness to set in? All these blocks must take place on the dynamic level before they can manifest on the physical. Only the vital force, thus deranged, can furnish the organism its abnormal sensations and set up the irregular processes we call disease; for, as a power invisible in itself and only known by its effects on the organism, its derangement only makes itself known by the manifestations of disease in the sensations and functions of those parts of the organism exposed to the--that is, by symptoms, and in no other way can it make itself known.

Illness, then, begins in the realm of impulse, of thought. To find the meaning of our illnesses, we often have to do no more than to look at our motivations. The person who is motivated by anger, who is fueled by it and feels empowered by it, incurs the illnesses of anger. The person who chooses the victim role chooses also the illnesses of the victim. The person who insists that he is motivated solely by love and peace and yet is still overwhelmed by illness and pain would do well to look into his own denial. Finding what motivates us as individuals is difficult, and most often it is a discovery that comes in the process of healing rather than at its outset. To the extend that an individual is limited in his/her exercise of creativity (acts and functions that promote for the individual, and others, continuous and unconditional happiness), to that degree s/he is ill. Our hierarchy of illness is an illusion. In our society, we put a good deal of effort in judging just who is sickest, who has fallen victim to the worse disease. The concept of being a victim of disease is also illusionary. We're, instead, victims of ourselves. When we name diseases, they become a fear word, one that predisposes the patient to "act out" a disease drama. For the average physician, the diagnosis leads to a systematized form of treatment that, to those understanding the principles of wholeness, is invalid. Naming the disease only leads the patient to identify with the specifics of that disease and further graft it onto his/herself and not work to release it. We are victims of our natures and of ourselves and not of our circumstances or microorganisms.

In Wholographic Healing, we look at the symptoms that are troubling, and put them in the context of all the other, more benign symptoms that are also present. This complete picture is called the totality of symptoms, which represent the patient's true state of being and is a road map for planning an appropriate path to follow in the selection of remedies. This totality of symptoms helps us accept our symptoms as the expression of the vital force in our lives and bodies. It allows us to be relieved that our symptoms are ourselves, an expression of self, and not some invader of our space. When science, particularly medical science, began to make a solid effort to eliminate the spiritual component from the equation, when the rationalists tried to reduce every emotion to a mix of chemicals within our system, the potential for healing left the field of medicine. It was replaced with the desire for cure. This desire was based on the notion that we humans had the power to remove disease, a power that has again and again been shown illusionary. It is time for us to stop worshiping science and begin again to worship our creator. We must put Spirit at the center of healing and, therefore, at the center of our medical science, if healing is ever to take place. And it is time for us to put aside the paternalistic and flawed notion of curing if we are to be healed. Let's return science to being a tool, a method by which we might test our universe and stop making it an end itself. Often the information that we intuit, that we receive without external validation or provable source, is the most powerful.

Science says that we use only 10% of our brain. What it should say is that science can account for only 10% of what the brain is doing. It certainly can be doing a good many things that the scientists cannot measure. We need to seek the eternal principles of life and of healing and not the ever-changing details specific to the scientific dogma of the moment. Yesterday's scientific heresy is today's scientific truth. We must get away from our whole medical model, which replaced the spiritual blended notion of mystic and healer with the military medical warrior of the surgeon general. If we put our time and attention into what can strengthen our healing response, we get better results than we do with declaring war on symptoms. The tactics we use to make the world safe for democracy do not make it safe from cancer. It is time for the surgeon general to be replaced with a shaman!

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