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Intelligence
and Life
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In the book "Intelligence
and Life" by Fred Hoyle, it is hypothesised
that life was brought to this earth by bacteria
from outer space, and that our planet was
an 'assembly station' for life. The scientific
view of the origin of life is that it arose
spontaneously on earth, because it is postulated
that when you stir up simple, non-organic
molecules, with almost any form of intense
energy, the molecules will reassemble themselves
back into amino acids, which are the essential
building blocks of proteins.
This is of course faulty
reasoning. No one has shown that the correct
arrangements of amino acids, like the ordering
of enzymes, can be produced by this method.
Life itself, cannot exist without the metabolic
processes catalysed by enzymes. There are
some 2,000 enzymes, and their structures are
the same across the whole of the living world,
whether it be a bacteria or a man. The chance
of finding an individual enzyme from stringing
together amino acid beads at random is impossible.
It is row after row of zeros
. up to
40,000 zeros!
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Fred Hoyle states that life
cannot have arisen by chance, and that the
chemical reactions catalysed by the 2,000
enzymes are fundamental to the basic chemistry
of the carbon atom itself. He asks us to look
at sugars, the main energy source of life.
These are built up from the two most common
molecules, hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Thus,
the enzymes we use to unlock the energy content
of sugars are engaged in processes which are
central to the chemical content of the whole
universe.
He then goes on to question
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection,
stating that many of today's extraordinary
structures and behaviour sequences would have
been at best useless, or at worst, dangerous,
in their early stages. He then looks at the
concept of punctuated equilibrium in the evolutionary
process of evolution by jumps. This entails
abrupt changes in organisms followed by long
periods of stability. Fred Hoyle thinks that
this particular theory or concept is accounted
for by the arrival of genes from outer space,
but I feel, personally that there is more
to all this than such a naïve explanation.
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The Biomedical
Model-The Dualism of Mind and Body
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Let us now look at another
concept, the dualist concept of conventional
medicine that the mind and the body are separate
and that the disease process is something
which the individual has no control over.
What happens if we completely
change the concept of conventional medicine,
and look at the person as an integrated unit
of mind and body. Look for example at the
theory of Michael Odent, who sees the brain,
the endocrine system and the immune system
as being an integrated unit. This kind of
unit is what he calls a 'primal adaptive system'
and has, as he states, a lot in common with
the traditional, oriental theories regarding
the circulation of energy. There is evidence
that that the primal adaptive system is found
very early on in the individual's life, for
example, even at the embryonic stage of development.
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Barker`s Hypothesis
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Barker et al 9. Barker,
D.J.P.: Foetal Infant Origins Of Adult Diseases,
BMJ Publishing Group, London, 1994.10. Barker,
D.J.P.: Mothers, babies and diseases in later
life, BMJ Publishing Group, London, 1994.
showed that the high cardiovascular mortality
in the socio-economically deprived areas of
the UK (Scotland, Wales) was closely associated
with high infant mortality in these areas.
High infant mortality was related to poor
intra-uterine growth and low birth-weight,
possibly as a result of maternal malnutrition.
A series of studies
by Barker's group showed an association of
adult diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemias
and abnormal coagulation profile with low
birth-weight. These associations of birth-weight
with cardiovascular risk were independent
of lifestyle factors and adult obesity. Further
studies showed that low birth-weight is associated
with insulin resistance in adult life. The
concept of in utero 'metabolic programming'
was thus established.
Barker proposed that adult
diabetes and insulin resistance syndrome are
related to a 'thrifty phenotype' (low birth-weight).
In this scheme, lifestyle factors take a backseat,
and early life environment rather than genetics
is believed to have caused the present day
epidemic of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Accordingly, it might be possible to curtail
the epidemic in future generations by improving
mothers' nutrition. The implications of these
findings for a developing country such as
India, where over a third of newborns have
low birth-weight, are enormous.
In ancient China,
embryonic education was widely practised.
It was called 'Tai Kyo' and its basic principle
was that only a happy and healthy mother could
have a happy and healthy baby.
The Human Being and the
Natural Environment
Looking at this concept
from a wider vantage point, one may also say
that the 'diseases of civilisation' are due
to a disruption or weakness of the channels
and circulation of energy. This weakness is
due to the Human Being`s lack of connection
with the universe and universal intelligence.
I use this concept of intelligence, because
I think that infinite intelligence is all
around us. It is not just limited to the individual,
but is in fact, a matrix or a field, something
that Robert Sheldrake speaks of in his concept
of 'morphogenic fields'.
Cogent examples of this
inextricable relationship between Hu-man and
his environment appear in the article, "The
Health Implications, effects and causes of
the depletion of the Ozone Layer" (Australian
Medicine, Vol. 1), ----for example more skin
cancer from increased ultraviolet light, deaths
from malnutrition and starvation through droughts
and flooding, death from exposure to extremes
of climate and spread of vector borne diseases,
more water associated illness due to the reduction
of the quality and quantity of water, more
accidental deaths due to the breakdown of
roads, poorer medical care due to reduced
financial resources, more respiratory disease
due to air pollution, death from heat exhaustion
and more violent crime due to prolonged hot
spells.
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A Biological
Process Implicit in the Universe
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We are all microcosms of
the macrocosm of the universe. The rhythms
and harmonics inherent in our physiology mirror
the rhythmic processes of the seasons, the
phases of the moon and sun and the ebb and
flow of tides. Our palpable feel of energy
in our bodies reflect the currents, motions
and process inherent in the universe. This
understanding has now been taken up in greater
detail in the practice and use of bioresonance
for treatment in medicine.
"A model of "healing
energy" to explain a wide range of biofield
phenomena has evolved. The energy matrix is
able to sense the internal and external environment,
process information and integrate functions
throughout the body. When the communication
system becomes disordered or unbalanced, the
flow of information is slowed, and healing
is compromised. External 'healing' energy
can reopen the communication channels and
thereby facilitate tissue repair and replacement.
Of particular benefit is the ability to increase
immunity and the stress response and decrease
autonomic hyperactivity (Miles and True, 2003).
Oschman (2002a) also suggests that practices
such as mediation, yoga and Qigong bring about
an ordering of the tissue structure such that
they become more capable of emitting strong,
coherent signals. This is effectively self-healing
by energy work."
Biofield Medicine - History,
Philosophy and Modern Day Applications ©
Dr Paul Stevens 2003
With respect to the
evolving, self-regulating ecosystem of Gaia,there
is a little known speciality of process physics
which works in a similar way to the Gaia hypothesis
and uses the same basic conception of systems,
process and feedback ( self referential noise
) to show that the systemic processes seen
in the living systems on Planet Earth can
also be extrapolated to the Universe itself.
To recover the essence
of physics and peel away the complex maths
a basic equation is discovered which islike
a neural network inspired by the structure
of our brains. The information is internally
meaningful to the system.
It is a whole complex
flux of process. The structure is not a classical
structure and it is called quantum foam. It
is actually what the nature of space is. It
is a consequence of a neural network type
behaviour. From the quantum foam behaviour
the properties, thenature of matter and atomscan
be deciphered. There are certain patterns
which have topological defects. When space
started forming as three dimensional foam
it apparently developed faults in it. These
faults or defects are called matter. There
are two types of defects - anti matter and
ordinary matter. Matter is actually trapped
information in the system and the system cannot
get rid of matter. ( personal Communication
Prof Reg Cahill -Head of Dept Quantum Physics
University NSW )
Heraclitus was one
of the first physicists who discovered that
process was the key to reality. He had the
conception that all is flux. This is also
called a Heraclidian process system. Buddha
was contemporary with Heraclitus. The resulting
combination of Buddhist logic with Heraclidian
thought occurred in the 6-7 century AD,. IN
that time Tien Tai the exponent of the Lotus
Sutra realised that the energy is kinetic.
It is not static even though logic is static.
Logic imagines a reality stabilised in concepts
of names. They realised that reality was a
process. The ultimate aim of Buddhist logic
Tien Tai claimed was to explain the relationship
between a moving reality and the static constructions
of logic which is what process physics is.
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Conclusions
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Could it be that the Entity
or REALITY from which all living organisms
arise is part of a biological process not
only in the biosphere of planet Earth but
implicit in the Universe itself? Human beings,
being a form of sentient life with a vastly
complex neocortex embody this intelligence
to a higher degree in terms of self reflective
consciousness than other living organisms
on the Planet.. It is in the inter-linkage
and the inextricable relationship of this
biological process or intelligence in the
myriad forms of biodiversity in the biosphere
that allows everything to maintain itself
at the expense of everything else in reciprocal
maintenance.
The Europeans, looked
upon religion as having a culmination within
their own sphere of civilisation , in Renaissance
thought with its emphasis on the significance
of the individual. However with the influence
of the Philosophy of Descartes people began
to see the human being as a machine, with
mind as somewhat separate and not involved
in the whole process of life-(.Deus ex machina)
Thus Science became an objective study of
Nature divorced from the subjective nature
of the Human Psyche.
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Ancient Archeology
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The power of place has always
been significant in the grounding, sensing
and expression of energies. In fact the popular
art of feng shui is based on this concept.
The great sacred sites on our planet have
energy fields which are often healing or spiritually
enlightening. To forget our connection with
the earth and nature is to forget the nature
of our very selves. As energetic beings we
are inextricably connected with the energy
in our environment.
"The energy transference
at the power places goes both ways; earth
to human and human to earth. The wondrously
magical living earth gives us tiny human beings
subtle infusions of high octane soul food
and as pilgrims we give the earth a sort of
planetary acupuncture in return."
The Power of Place Pilgrimage
and the Allure of Sacred Sites by Martin Gray
However, if we look at ancient
archaeology, the bomb which rocked the foundation
of orthodox archaeology was written by Alexander
Thom, a Scotsman, formerly of Oxford University,
who after attending and studying stone circles
and megalithic relics all over England, wrote
a book entitled "Megalithic sites in
Britain' . Healso wrote articles for journals
of learned societies. Thom claimed that stone
circles and related monuments in Britain were
the products of a construction programme which
reached its climax in about 1850 B.C. They
were all meticulously designed according to
a unified standard or cannon of geometry that
appeared to be closely related to that which
was taught by the school of Pythagoras more
than a thousand years later. They were planned
to emphasise integral numbers evidently with
a symbolic or magical significance. Their
positioning and orientation were determined
by astronomical considerations and in some
cases, the construction lines defining the
geometry of the circles` plans were also sighting
lines for the sun, the moon and the stars.
He also found that the significant sun and
moon alignment at Stonehenge pointed to a
succession of other ancient sites over distances
of many miles and with stretches of ancient
track in between. Stonehenge was no longer
an isolated monument but the centre of a vast
system of astronomically placed stations extending
far across the Wessex landscape.
In 1971, the official archaeological
attitude to prehistoric astronomy as expressed
in antiquity, was to accept its existence
in principle, while ignoring most of the historical
implications. Obviously the implications are
extremely disturbing to modern archaeologists
because what is displayed is a knowledge of
mathematics and its applications, hardly inferior,
if at all, to that of Egypt of about the same
date, or that of Mesopotamia considerably
later. It is obviously very clear that there
is a vast network of intelligence produced
by previous civilisations on this planet which
knows of the existence of 'infinite intelligence'
and the inextricable relationship between
Hu-man and his environment.
The work of Schwaller de
Lubicz is also worth while considering. After
two years of study on site at the temple of
Luxor, he was able to prove that all that
was accepted as dogma concerning Egypt and
ancient civilisation in general, was wrong,
or at least, hopelessly inadequate. Schwaller
de Lubicz's work overthrows or undermines
every currently cherished belief regarding
Hu-man's history and the evolution of civilisation.
Egyptian science, medicine, mathematics, and
astronomy were all of an exponentially higher
order of refinement and sophistication than
modern scholars will acknowledge and the whole
of the civilisation was based on the complete
and precise understanding of the 'universal
law' or 'infinite intelligence', which manifested
itself in a consistent, coherent and interrelated
system that fused science, art and religion
into a single organic unity.
The sphinx of ancient Egypt
is a remarkable structure. It may well have
come
from a previous civilisation, an earlier and
higher civilisation, like that of Atlantis..
The average building blocks used in the great
pyramid weighed 2 ½ tons, whereas many
of the blocks used in building the sphinx
temple weighed 50 tons or more. The highly
acclaimed flowering of Greece, 2,000 years
after Egypt, pales into insignificance in
the face of a civilisation which supposedly
started with a crude Neolithic base, but in
a matter of only a few centuries, produced
a system of hieroglyphics, the most sophisticated
calendar system ever developed, an effective
mathematics, a refined medicine, a total mastery
of arts and crafts and the capacity to construct
the largest and most accomplished stone buildings
ever built by man.
Another interesting point
to consider is that there is convincing evidence
that the sphinx is eroded by water and that
this water must have been at least 10,000
B.C. which was the last time that the great
flooding of the Nile took place. Egyptian
chronological tables have been found in the
course of excavation which date the founding
of Egypt much earlier than the dynastic record.
Although there are inconsistencies, there
is a broad agreement in that the various sources
postulate a long period during which Egypt
was ruled by the Neters and then another almost
equally long period during which it was ruled
by the Shmsu Hor (The Companions of Horus).
The earliest calculations would then place
the founding of Egypt between 23,000 B.C.
and 30,000 B.C.
The pyramids and the sphinx
have been mentioned because of evidence from
NASA space photography which shows that life
may have existed on Mars before some kind
of annihilation or nuclear winter. One of
the Mariner 9 Fly-by photographs of Elysium
quadrangle located in the north east quadrant
of Mars showed regularly arrayed pyramidal
formations. Other unique formations were discovered
by the Viking Orbiter Satellite when it observed
the area known as Cydonia in the North West
quadrant of Mars. One of the pyramids in the
Cydonia region is aligned to a maximum incident
radiation on the sunrise at the winter solstice.
Many of the artifacts on both the Elysium
and Cydonian regions seem to lie on the shores
of an ancient sea. Many have argued that these
pyramids are simply the result of supersonic
winds. However, these structures are not simple
breakages from a long chain of surface fractures
but are separate free standing structures
with unique angles, which show, for example,
in the Cydonia pyramid formations, the precision
of the remarkable Alpha angle, 16.36 degrees,
which is the exact same angle as that found
on the pyramid of Giza in Egypt.
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All of this information
adds up to a terrible enigma. Is our conception
of evolution wrong? Were there, in fact, previous
civilisations, and was their knowledge of
life and the way in which they dealt with
reality, different from the way we deal with
and see reality and life? What was the purpose
of their religion? How were they able to construct
such huge structures and why were these structures
in perfect astronomical alignment? Why is
the pyramid structure used, and why is it
so common, being found in such diverse places
as Egypt, Brazil, Japan, Australia and Mars?
Hidden in these lost civilisations
is there not perhaps a key to the enigma of
life
and also a key to our origins?
A world society that can
build pyramids all over the globe must have
been technologically advanced, to say the
least, and the ancient stone sites throughout
the United Kingdom, Ireland and parts of Europe,
must have been built by a race of man which
was much more advanced, technologically, than
we give him credit for. Why is the emphasis
on structure and astronomical alignment? Does
it have anything to do with the relationship
between Hu-man and his/her environment, or
Hu-man and the fertility of the land, or Hu-man
and his/her deep psychic connection with the
cosmos itself?
Once we start to delve into
these concepts, we find ourselves looking
at consciousness and consciousness is something
which is very difficult to understand or express
in a strictly materialistic or objective way,
because it is such a subjective field of study..
On one hand we have the personal revelation
of an individual, and on the other we have
the dogma of institutionalised religion.
How can we find the truth
behind the façade? And yet, truth has
always been expressed in great literature,
great art, great music, and also in great
religion. This truth has always pointed towards
the god-like potential of man. The truth is
found within and not without. It is this truth
which is so evanescent and fleeting that has
always been so hard to grasp, and it is this
essential truth that surely is the motivating
force behind humankind's creativity and a
ceaseless search for perfection and achievement.
It seems that this body
of ancient proof is saying that we should
not be too arrogant in our approach to contemporary
science and society, but that we should in
fact draw on the past in order to grow and
learn new ways of being, seeing and living.
In The Discoveries of
Art in Arthur Koestler's 'Janus : A
Summing Up', the author talks about the
expression 'reculer pour mieux sauter' where
a temporary regression to more primitive and
uninhibited levels of ideation is followed
by a creative, forward leap. Koestler says
that disintegration, reintegration,
dissociation and bissociation reflect the
same pattern. He sees this drawback to leap;
playing not only a crucial role in mental
creativity, but also in the creative evolution
of higher life forms.
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The Intuitive
Leap
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An intuitive leap which
creates a new theory or a new form of art
is an indefinable form of beauty. Koestler
remarks that the greatest living English physicist,
Paul Dirac went even further with his famous
pronouncement that it is far more important
to have beauty in one's equations than to
have them fit experiments. He quotes from
Keat's Ode on a Grecian Urn :
"Beauty is truth, truth
beauty." That is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know".
Koestler's Evolution
by Domain Shift then points out that the
human adult resembles the embryo of an ape
rather than an adult ape, quoting Bolk's pioneering
work. Bolk says that in both the Simian embryo,
and the human adult, the ratio of the weight
of the brain to total body weight is disproportionately
high. Other embryonic or foetalised characteristics
in adult man are also mentioned, such as the
absence of brow bridges, the scantiness and
later appearance of body hair, pallor of the
skin, retarded growth of the teeth and a number
of other features. Koestler says that the
missing link between ape and man will probably
never be found, because it was an embryo.
Koestler is of the opinion
that paedomorphosis or juvenilization appear
to play an important part in the grand strategy
of evolution. Perhaps what we are seeing here
is evolution by a domain shift rather than
an incremental shift.
Tagore in 'The Crescent
Moon' writes, "I wish I could travel
by the road that crosses babies' minds and
out beyond all bounds, where messengers run
errands for no cause between kingdoms of kings
of no history; where reason makes kites of
her laws and flies them, and truth sets fact
free from its fetters". In The Child
Angel, he says, "let them see your face,
my child, and thus know the meaning of all
things. Let them love you, and thus love each
other. Come and take your seat in the bosom
of the limitless, my child, at sunrise, open
and raise your heart like a blossoming flower,
and at sunset, bend your head, and in silence,
complete the worship of the day."
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Creativity
in Evolution, and Thought on the Golden Age
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Is there a connection between
the child in Hu-man, creativity, and the myth
of the Golden Age which is ever inherent in
the mythology of humankind?
In the Psychology of
the Trickster Figure by Jung, Jung states
that when a primitive or barbarous consciousness
forms a picture of itself on a much earlier
level of development and continues to do so
for hundreds and even thousands of years,
undeterred by the contamination of his archaic
qualities, with differentiated highly developed
mental products, then the causal explanation
is that the older the archaic qualities are,
the more conservative and pertinacious their
behaviour. He sees the motif of the trickster
figure archetype as being an example of this,
and agrees with Rodin that the history of
civilisation is largely on account of the
attempts of man to forget his transformation
from an animal into a human being.
In this respect, the Golden
Age looks like some kind of delusion, developed
to enable man to forget his humble origins.
However, is this the case? Are we not stumbling
up the wrong path in this quest for truth?
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Extending Life
Span
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According to The Yellow
Emperor's Handbook, which was written
thousands of years before the birth of Christ,
the original date being lost in antiquity
:
"In ancient times,
when the Yellow Emperor was born, he was endowed
with divine talents. While yet in early infancy,
he could speak. While still
very young, he was quick at apprehension and
very penetrating. When he
was grown up, he was sincere and comprehending.
When he became
perfect, he ascended to heaven." (Book
I, Treatise on the Natural Truth In
Ancient Times')
In Maximum Lifespan,
by Roy Walford, M.D., we are told that :
"Now in 1982, I believe
that gerontologists are not far from achieving
substantial prolongation of human lifespan.
Indeed, it seems fairly certain
that maximum lifespan could already be prolonged
up to 130-140 years
by the exercising of very stringent measures."
Even more outrageous is
a statement by Leonard Orr in his book The
Common Sense of Physical Immortality where
he says "that the basic idea of physical
immortality is that you can take personal
responsibility for the destiny of your physical
body. Immortalists reject the idea that death
is inevitable and say that death is controlled
by individual consciousness. They affirm the
idea that the human body is able to last as
long as the rest of the physical universe".
Are these ideas just rationalisations
to reduce the fear of death and bad memories
by an animal which is different from other
animals by reason of its large brain, or is
there some truth in these concepts?
Is the history of Hu-man
a history of evolution and growth in terms
of a more refined society and civilisation,
or has there been a Golden Age in the past?
Similarly, to what extent
can the mind of Hu-man influence the body
and prevent illness and even prevent ageing?
The conventional and scientific
thought is having to give way to more creative
solutions to problems, because, life on the
planet itself is threatened with annihilation
from several sources including nuclear war
,overpopulation and ecological disaster.
Some would say that this
kind of predicament leads to people looking
into the past as a way out of present apprehensions.
On the other hand, looking into the past may
give the opportunity to find new ways of sustainable
survival in the future. In his Metamorphosis,
the Roman poet Ovid, said the first age was
golden. In it "faith and righteousness
were cherished by men of their own free will,
without judges or laws. Penalties and fears
there were none, nor were threatening words
inscribed in unchanging bonds. Without the
use of soldiers, the people, in safety enjoyed
their sweet repose".
In the Mahabaharata
written in the Hindu-Brahamanic period, says
that the Krita Yuga or Golden Age was so named
because there was but one religion, and all
men were saintly. Therefore they were not
required to perform religious ceremonies.
Holiness never grew less and the people did
not decrease. The Kita Yuga was without disease,
there was no lessening with the years. There
was no hatred or vanity or evil thought whatsoever.
No sorrow, no fear. Being all like gods, they
ascended to the sky and returned at will.
Self subdued, and free from envy, they beheld
the gods and the mighty prophets and had a
clear perception of all duties. They lived
for a thousand years."
Chuang-Tzu belongs to a
period three or four centuries before Christ.
He was a disciple of Lao Tzu. In his writings
on the universe, he says, "In the Golden
Age, good men were not appreciated, ability
was not conspicuous, rulers were mere beacons,
while the people were as free as the wild
deer. They were upright without being conscious
of duty to their neighbours. They loved one
another without being conscious of charity.
They were true without being conscious of
loyalty. They were honest without being conscious
of good faith. They acted freely in all things
without recognising obligations to anyone.
Thus their deeds left no trace, their affairs
were not handed down to posterity."
Perhaps as human beings,
in our contemporary society, we have forgotten
our origins and the basic essence of our nature,
which is truth, integrity, constructiveness,
creativity and love.
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In his book Primal Health,
Michael Oden invokes a new theory of what
he calls 'primal health'. He challenges all
our modern assumptions and preoccupations
about the nature of health. Primal health
stems from that critical and crucial time
of our life, which is in the womb, around
birth and around breast feeding. It is then
that the immune system, the hormonal system
and the primitive brain are formed and reach
maturity and that our biological computers
are programmed for life. Everything that happens
at this time has an influence on our basic
state of health. Thereafter, Oden states,
we can only cultivate it as a gardener tends
his garden. The point that he is making, is
that the whole body is an integrated unit
- the brain, the hypothalamus, the endocrine
system and the immune system and that the
brain itself has a profound effect on the
immune system and the endocrine system. Oden
sees the diseases of Western society, depression,
alcoholism, cardiovascular disease, schizophrenia,
obesity, rheumatism, allergies, auto-immune
disease, viral diseases and cancers as all
being a symptom of the weakness of disturbance
of the primal adaptive system. He sees:
a connection between the
primal adaptive system, its integration and
the
unblocking the channels of energy that are
described in ancient Chinese medicine.
Anything that reminds people
as a bodily memory in the helplessness, hopelessness
and inhibition of action caused by birth trauma
raises a stress reaction which can create
depression of the immune system and further
illness in adulthood.
In particular, he sees the
helplessness and hopelessness and inhibition
of action caused by the birth trauma as being
related to future illness as seen in the catastrophic
situation in the primal status of the baby
where there is inhibition in the production
of prostaglandin's, particularly prostaglandins
I, and an excessive production of cortisone
caused by the fight of flight reaction which
releases cortisone from the adrenal glands..
It is the inflammatory prostaglandins that
he sees as being largely responsible for the
diseases of Western civilisation.
A catastrophic situation
at birth may be due to birth trauma caused
by difficult prolonged labour, the cord around
the neck, forceps delivery, Caesarian delivery,
separation from mother at birth, lack of closeness
with mother, early cessation of breast feeding,
violent or uncaring words, inability to express
love or affection towards the baby.
Of course this early birth
trauma can relate to cataclysmic responses
in the collective unconscious of humankind.
Velikovsky talks about deep seated memories
in humanity of cataclysmic effects occurring
on the planet, such as gigantic earthquakes,
disturbance of climate where the earth itself
changed and created millions upon millions
of human deaths. At the same time birth trauma
and the experience of life is intimately related
to death and if one is to accept the theory
of reincarnation, birth trauma may well relate
to the method of previous death in a previous
life.
One of the greatest challenges
to obtaining enlightenment is to overcome
these sufferings of life and death.
In On Attaining Buddhahood-
Issho Jobutsu Sho -Nichiren Daishonin says
If you wish to free yourself
from the sufferings of birth and death you
have endured through eternity and attain supreme
enlightenment in this lifetime, you must awaken
to the mystic truth which has always been
within your life.
We are aware of how human
beings can cure themselves of incurable illness
through the ability to work with their consciousness.
People who have overcome severe illnesses
and have cured themselves seem to have an
aspect of divinity about them.
In bio feedback experiments,
the individual who in deep meditation develops
bliss and happiness within themselves seems
to have a profound effect in creating deep
relaxation as expressed in all physiological
variables being measured.
It is obvious that someone
who has cured themselves of cancer has modified
the genetic structure of their body.
The theories of Kleinian
psychoanalysis, the work on rebirthing by
Leonard Orr and Sondra Ray, the work of primal
therapy all see the earliest experiences in
a human being's life as being the most significant.
The work of Michael Odent adds a physical
basis to these concepts.
In his book, The Unborn
Child, Roy Ridgway, states that in the
womb, the child plays the dominant role in
the partnership. He quotes proof that individual
sounds and words are registered in the womb
and that auditory preferences after birth
are influenced by what is heard prenatally.
He also quotes the work of two Boston University
doctors William Condon and Louis Sander, who
used computer studies of new born babies to
find that each infant had a complete and individual
repertoire of body movements that synchronised
with speech. They concluded that the matching
of movement to words must have started in
the womb.
The work that is done under the heading of
the "Metamorphic Technique" and
the work of Dr Gerald Jampolski in attitudinal
healing, both deal with the life force inherent
in the child and developing embryo. Both,
in my opinion, work on the concept of "reculer
pour mieux sauter", going back not only
into the depths of consciousness, but into
the earliest experiences of development in
the foetus. It would seem that in attitudinal
healing and The 'Metamorphic Technique', the
life force itself can catalyse a change that
will lead to a "rebirth" of the
individual following often shocking trauma
- either pre conceptual ( previous life )
pre-natal, or subsequent trauma.
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The Role of Faith
and Belief
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However the so called creation
of the miraculous in the physical world, should
be looked on with practicality and pragmatism.
Dr Herbert Benson founding President of the
Mind/Body Medical Institute and the Mind/Body
Medical Institute and Associate Professor
of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. says
the Brain is hard wired for faith. He says
Faith is also seen in action every time a
patient swallows an antibiotic as he says
30% to 40% of the response is due to the placebo
effect.
The epidemic of degenerative
disease and depression in the World I believe
means we need to look at the role of faith
and belief in curing illness and the effect
our thoughts and modus vivendi have on our
immune systems. In the US there are said to
be 50 million cultural creatives who are looking
at new ways of thinking , and doing to create
a more sustainable world environmentally and
through consciousness change which they call
paradigm shift ( change in the way we construct
reality) People are talking about Critical
Mass Change and people all over the Planet
are now seeking spiritual change within themselves.
In order to express themselves in a more complete
and whole way they hope that when a critical
number is reached on the planet we may become
more cooperative and less destructive.
With this respect as a race,
en masse, human beings are now seeking for
the Golden Age within themselves for they
are seeking for that unity in mind, body,
spirit and nature that is their birthright
and prerogative.
To go on a quest, to have
a mission larger than our individual families,
to improve our society in which we live in,
to search for meaning within ourselves, to
work at our human potential, to search for
spiritual paths that suit us, to express our
deepest selves and to seek for the meaning
in our dreams and our behaviour is the quantum
leap we all need to make if we are to create
a transformed Global Society.
When we begin to work on
ourselves then the early experiences that
we had that
upset our psycho neuro immunology are corrected
and as a result of this our immune system,
endocrine system and neurological system begin
to function as was their birthright and thus
we reprogram our biological computers by getting
back to primal health of the child within.
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