Wednesday 31 July 2013

The energy of healing



We are taking a different view of ‘nothing’ these days.  Not so many decades ago, a black hole would have been considered ‘nothing’.  Now it is a fascinating field of research for astrophysicists.  A few years back, an atom was considered to be the smallest unit of substance; now it is known  that at the heart of an atom[1]  is space – or nothing.

Is there really nothing there?  If you don’t know anything about modern electronics you would assume that electromagnetic waves were nothing, and ask, like Joanna Lumley is obliged to say in a recent ad for ‘on demand TV’, “How does all that stuff get into my computer?”  In fact when you think about it, computers function on nothing, ie on zeroes.  Apparently, to the ancient Greeks and Romans, zero did not exist; yet modern mathematics and computer science is based entirely on the presumptive existence of nought or zero.

If there is an energy in all these ‘nothings’ why is it difficult to believe in a system of medication or healing that purportedly contains ‘nothing’?  I refer of course to homeopathy and its relation, the Dr Bach remedies.  We are such avid believers of everything we read in the press or on the internet that it is only too easy to find these safe and harmless medicines branded as placebo.  Leaving aside the question of ‘Does a placebo have energy?’ – which it surely must, as any substance, pharmaceutical or otherwise can have a placebo effect – why do we assume that because there is ‘nothing’ in these remedies, that they can’t have an impact on the human psyche and therefore its outer layer, the body?  If a human body consists of atoms and sub-atomic particles, and if the heart of an atom is ‘nothing’ or energy, why is it difficult to believe that the energy in the remedies speaks to the energy  in the human atom?

We are beginning to understand more and more that energy, while it may be intangible and not measurable in many of its forms, is all that there is:  it is the cause and foundation of everything known and unknown.  We are not as stupid as Joanna Lumley’s scriptwriters would have us believe.  Sixty plus years ago we might have asked ‘how does all that get inside a computer?’, but our generation takes that sort of ‘magic’ for granted.

The next step forward for the human race must be to accept, even if we don’t fully understand, that energy rules our entire existence.  We can’t always ‘see’ it or quantify it at this stage, but it will surely happen in the future.  There is a branch of medicine now called psycho-neuro immunology – it’s where your emotions or mental reactions to aspects of your life cause ill-health.  In other words, your mental or emotional energy is adversely affected or not vibrating at an optimum level.  What we need to rectify that, is a system which addresses the resultant dis-ease, not at the physical level but at the energy level.  A system that cures bad energy with good energy. And lo, homeopathy was discovered 200+ years ago, ready for the day when we could accept that only energy can restore energy!

 
 

For more information on the Dr Bach remedies, see  www.bachcentre.com

 

 




[1] This is not an essay on physics – I understand there are smaller units such as quarks, for those who study these things. 

Wednesday 17 July 2013

Ethical dilemmas

      

Haven’t we all watched houses being built on a flood plain and wondered at the cupidity of the developers? 

It is clearly down to greed, indifference to those who will suffer when the floods come, poor research or even the unfailing human ability to hope that the worst will never happen and everything will continue to be fine.

In our position as detached observers, we see the planning application going through – more stupidity or worse on the part of the local council, in order to fulfil its housing quota, plus any benefits that accrue to it – and then the houses being built, which of course brings work to tradesmen and solicitors (so that’s all good then); and finally we see hopeful, happy, relieved families move into their proudest possession.

Then the inevitable happens and the beautiful new homes, someone’s pride and joy, are flooded.  The developers, council, builders and peripheral artisans are not affected.  The only people adversely affected are those who in all innocence bought the house of their dreams.

But don’t we all build our lives on ‘quicksand’ at some stage, or in some aspect or another?  When I first saw the film, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’, I thought it was about the Meryl Streep character being such a poisonous witch, the eponymous devil.  But on the second viewing I realised the truth: people sell their souls to get what they want in life; or what at that point in time they think is the most desirable thing to have.  The would-be journalist in the film, played by Ann Hathaway, eventually pulled back in time, but not before she had committed terrible errors of moral judgement to achieve what she thought was desirable.

Most people probably think they do not sell out to the devil.  But greed, lust, envy and the rest of the 7 deadly sins are in fact all ethical choices we have failed to make correctly.

I had a dream the other night in which I sneered at the stupidity of a supermarket locating its store so close to the sea that the first high tide started to swamp it.  When I woke I realised this was an allegory, a message for me about an aspect of my life.  I am not interested in owning a Prada outfit or a brand new home on a flood plain, and I don’t think I’m greedy; but perhaps we all need to look at our lives sometimes and wonder if we’re really living life as ethically as we had always thought.

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For further reading: “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new millennium” by the Dalai Lama.