Nutrition and Strings
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The reigning model of healing today can be described as a matter or molecular science for it is consumed with the measurement and observation of molecules either for diagnosis of disease or for nutrition. The matter field model of seeing our world came from Newtonian physics which saw our world as a well oiled machine, much as we view the human biology today
Biologic Energy Science
One hundred years ago Einstein with his famous equation E=mc2 stated that there was another dimension of life and that matter and energy were completely interchangeable. That what was matter was energy and what was energy was matter. With that simple but elegant observation of the world, Einstein’s theory catapulted the scientific world into new fields of science which led to such accomplishments as a moon landing and computers.
But our current biologic model and its healing tradition is still mired in 19th century thinking. And to view the mindbody as an energy field to complement the current matter science thinking seems like we would have to create an entirely new discipline.
Fortunately there are ancient energy science disciplines such as the Traditional Oriental Medicine and the Ayurvedic models that gift us what we currently need. With them we can integrate the matter and energy science healing disciplines that will morph into a complete system of healing that we very much need.
Where’s the Science?
The challenge for acceptance of such a radical view that the human biology is both an energy and matter field will come from many fronts but the fact is that the contemporary physics worldview fully supports this amalgamation of matter and energy.
Presently physics is attempting to unify all the energies of Nature through a theory of everything and for the last 20 years has been discussing a way to marry the particle or matter side of reality with the energy side. The best explanation is string theory, that is, at a subatomic level our world that we experience including our own physical mindbody is composed of 10 strings oscillating in dual dimensions.
The energy science of Ayurveda describes the universe as 10 pairs of opposites. These pairs of opposites such as hot/cold, heavy/light, subtle/gross, actually become the footprints of the energy world that we experience as the sensory biological world.
As a theory of everything, string theory merges us with Nature herself. Through these 10 pairs of opposites we can come to realize that we are linked to the foods that we use to nourish ourselves, that there is no difference between us and a piece of broccoli because we share the same qualities.
Nutrition as an Energy Science
The energy science concept of disease is different from the matter science view which labels problems. Cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and acid indigestion are labels we place on physiologic derangements that need to be fixed or corrected either by surgery or pharmaceutical manipulation.
The energy science view of disease sees these matter science disease labels as physiologic imbalance of specific energy patterns. So cancer is an imbalance in a particular organ where all three energy patterns that form the energy mindbody accumulate in excess. Over time an alteration of normal cellular architecture occurs that we come to recognize in its late stages as cancer. Late implies that it takes literally decades for a cancer to manifest ant that it started as a simple imbalance in the energy field.
So here is the link between what we eat and disease produced. Disease from an energy science view is an imbalance in qualities that are expressions of the biologic energy field. If we take in foods rich in the quality of hot by consuming tastes of sour and salty, then we experience heartburn or acid indigestion, a sign of too much of the hot quality.
The matter science nutritional information leads us to believe that the mindbody has become in some way short of a particular molecule and that by supplementation with the molecule we correct the inherent biochemical weakness and we will be healthier. There is no doubt some truth in this way of thinking but it obstructs us from having a deeper understanding of the mechanism of disease.
Energy Science Nutrition and Prevention
What the energy science is gifting us if we are willing to pay attention is a system of prevention. Currently we do not have a system of prevention; we have a early detection and treatment system of health. And it does heal a lot of people with serious disease.
But the reality is this. Disease begins at the first signs of imbalance, not when the blood sugar is sky high, the cancerous colonic polyp is found, or the high PSA leads to the diagnosis of prostate cancer.
When we begin to realize that foods are us and that they create physiologic imbalances due to our unconscious choices we have begun a journey to healing our mindbodies at a deeper level than can ever be reached by molecular supplementation.
And it is not an either or process here and inclusivity is the rule. The matter and energy sciences of healing both have great relevance for us as we go forward into the 21st century.
Conclusion
Through contemporary physics with its search for a unifying theory of everything through string theory, light is shed on the gift that the energy sciences of healing have always had to share with us. By understanding that qualities are the footprints of the subtle biologic energy field we can begin to understand not only the biological origins of disease but we can usher into our healing traditions a true system of disease prevention.
