Excerpt from Conscious Medicine by Gill Edwards
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Conscious-Medicine-Creating-Well-Being-Universe/dp/0749941987
"It's easy to forget that science simply offers a story about reality, rather than the object truth. Just as religion was once taken to be the whole truth, scientist and doctors have become the new priests of our age, whose opinions are often taken for factual and accurate, But our ever-changing science is just a story - and stories are not true or false...
The Cartesian-Newtonian world view is based upon materialism. This is, it sees the world as real and solid, and assumes that the physical world is all there is. In this clockwork universe, everything is made up of separate objects that can bump up against each other like billiard balls, but which have no real connection. What really matters in this world view is the solid stuff - the "matter" - and everything is explained at that level.
To the materialist, the body is a machine - and consciousness is a mere epiphenomenon, and after-effect. Mind somehow emerged from the primordial broth and random genetic mutations, presumably because it has some advantage in survival terms as animals slowly evolved from the plant kingdom...
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the materialist assumes that the mind cannot effect matter, that consciousness cannot affect anything at a distance, and that mind and matter are fundamentally different 'stuff.' If you see through these blinkered eyes, then drugs and surgery do make sense as an approach to health care. If the body is sick, you correct it on the physical level, since the physical level is all there is. You ignore the mind because it is pretty much irrelevant to the physical body.
Back in the 1920's, quantum physics began to reveal a very different world from that inhabited by the materialist: a world in which mystics, ghosts, telepathy and distant healing could coexist happily alongside computers, jet planes and MRI scans. In the bazaar world of quantum physics, we can move backwards and forwards in time, communication can occur instantaneously across vast distances between 'entangled' partials and light can be a wave or a particle, depending on who is observing it.
What is more, as physicists looked at tinier and tinier particles of what makes up our physical reality, they concluded that there simply isn't any solid stuff. There is only energy, or in quantum physics terms, 'waves of probability.' and what is it that decides which of the many probable realities comes into existence, so that it appears real and solid? Consciousness. The new physics tells us that consciousness determines whether the light behaves as a wave or as a particle, or whether this event or that event occurs. If we take that a step further, it is consciousness that decides whether the knee is painfully swollen or healthy, or whether this tumour is 'here or not here.'
The new physics tells us that energy-consciousness, rather than 'solid stuff,' is the basic building block of physical reality. In other words, this is a psycho-energetic universe. Far from being the misty irrelevancy that materialists would have us believe, consciousness is at the heart of the emerging new science. It is not a mere ghost in the machine, but the creative source of everything.
The well-known physicist David Bohm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm) offered a model of the universe that is starkly different from Newton's lonely clockwork universe. Bohm viewed the universe as an undivided wholeness, like a hologram that is forever flowing in motion - a remarkably similar vision to that of Hinduism, Buddhism or shamanism. In his view, everything in the universe was interconnected. He wrote about the 'implict order' - the unseen dimensions or reality - and how this unfolds into the physical universe."
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Conscious-Medicine-Creating-Well-Being-Universe/dp/0749941987
"It's easy to forget that science simply offers a story about reality, rather than the object truth. Just as religion was once taken to be the whole truth, scientist and doctors have become the new priests of our age, whose opinions are often taken for factual and accurate, But our ever-changing science is just a story - and stories are not true or false...
The Cartesian-Newtonian world view is based upon materialism. This is, it sees the world as real and solid, and assumes that the physical world is all there is. In this clockwork universe, everything is made up of separate objects that can bump up against each other like billiard balls, but which have no real connection. What really matters in this world view is the solid stuff - the "matter" - and everything is explained at that level.
To the materialist, the body is a machine - and consciousness is a mere epiphenomenon, and after-effect. Mind somehow emerged from the primordial broth and random genetic mutations, presumably because it has some advantage in survival terms as animals slowly evolved from the plant kingdom...
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the materialist assumes that the mind cannot effect matter, that consciousness cannot affect anything at a distance, and that mind and matter are fundamentally different 'stuff.' If you see through these blinkered eyes, then drugs and surgery do make sense as an approach to health care. If the body is sick, you correct it on the physical level, since the physical level is all there is. You ignore the mind because it is pretty much irrelevant to the physical body.
Back in the 1920's, quantum physics began to reveal a very different world from that inhabited by the materialist: a world in which mystics, ghosts, telepathy and distant healing could coexist happily alongside computers, jet planes and MRI scans. In the bazaar world of quantum physics, we can move backwards and forwards in time, communication can occur instantaneously across vast distances between 'entangled' partials and light can be a wave or a particle, depending on who is observing it.
What is more, as physicists looked at tinier and tinier particles of what makes up our physical reality, they concluded that there simply isn't any solid stuff. There is only energy, or in quantum physics terms, 'waves of probability.' and what is it that decides which of the many probable realities comes into existence, so that it appears real and solid? Consciousness. The new physics tells us that consciousness determines whether the light behaves as a wave or as a particle, or whether this event or that event occurs. If we take that a step further, it is consciousness that decides whether the knee is painfully swollen or healthy, or whether this tumour is 'here or not here.'
The new physics tells us that energy-consciousness, rather than 'solid stuff,' is the basic building block of physical reality. In other words, this is a psycho-energetic universe. Far from being the misty irrelevancy that materialists would have us believe, consciousness is at the heart of the emerging new science. It is not a mere ghost in the machine, but the creative source of everything.
The well-known physicist David Bohm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm) offered a model of the universe that is starkly different from Newton's lonely clockwork universe. Bohm viewed the universe as an undivided wholeness, like a hologram that is forever flowing in motion - a remarkably similar vision to that of Hinduism, Buddhism or shamanism. In his view, everything in the universe was interconnected. He wrote about the 'implict order' - the unseen dimensions or reality - and how this unfolds into the physical universe."
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