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