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Back to the Forum Archives In my previous essay on self healing, I promised to discuss more about my theories on self healing. Before I do that, I have to review a recent medical advance. On our local TV news we noticed there is a new procedure for dealing with heart fibrillations. This is a new invasive surgery just developed that implants a device in the heart muscle. The data shows that it did stop the fibrillations in every case where it was applied. That is remarkable for any medical procedure. Even so, in my case I say, not yet thank you. One big factor for me is the procedure is invasive. I have had invasive procedures done several times to save my life or to make it worth living. I have never had a surgeon who would claim there was no risk involved. I'm sure the same is true of this procedure. Another big issue for me is the procedure is new. I know nothing of the long term effect of implanting this device in the heart muscle, nor do they. Now, in the cases treated so far there existed something like a medical emergency. In those cases I'm sure the procedure was justified. For my own case there are other avenues to explore short of invasive surgery. I would consider this new device to be a last resort in the case when my condition became life threatening. In the meantime I will follow my plan. As I said in my previous essay, I do not believe in magic or superstition. I do believe in spontaneous remission and self healing. There is plenty of evidence. It does happen and I think it behooves us to try to understand and explain it. After all, what are the alternative to trying to understand. We can pretend it does not happen as many of the lesser so called scientists do. We can ascribe it to the acts of some mythical character as so called religious people do. Then we have the fringe people who just believe it is a manifestation of some kind or personal power or magic. They believe they can invoke it through the practice of certain kinds of rituals including meditation. I choose to ignore the lesser scientists and engineers. They live in a very fragile world of rigid rules and procedures. They cannot admit to anything outside that world, lest it all come tumbling down on them. They are similar to religious people in that, but their choice of religion is a highly structured science. In that religion, like any other, there are rituals and procedures to be solemnly observed. I will ignore the religious explanations for the same reason. Ascribing the phenomena to a mythical character is not an answer. It is just another form of magic. It still begs the questions how and why. As to the fringe people, most of them I have known live an imaginary life on the fringe of society. They eschew participation and I find they have nothing better to offer in the way of alternatives. In fact, they have no special magical powers that I could discern. All of the ones I knew also lacked the discipline essential to self healing. They pretended to meditate and practice, but they were too lazy to really be effective. Most of them could not even maintain steady employment. For the most part, they simply and unabashedly freeloaded off of society. I conclude, those alternatives are all dead ends, so I will not go there. Hence, I am in a position where I find it logical to try to understand what goes on in self healing and spontaneous healing. I do not think any healing is really spontaneous. Whenever something happens, there must be a cause. To discover that cause is a worthy goal of investigation. As of yet, it is for me just an investigation. I have discovered nothing concrete enough to claim as scientific fact. However, I have developed some theories about the nature of life and how we can influence our health and the quality of our own life. The ideas I express here will require a more complete exposition in other essays at some later time. For now, I can be relatively brief. I will simply outline the theories that serve as a foundation for my practices. These theories are about something I call the life force and also about the nature of the universe. In this essay I will discuss the nature of the life force. A study of the history of the universe indicates that life first appeared on the earth in the Cambrian period of the Paleozoic Era about 3.5 billion years ago. We do not know how or why this happened. Since then, there has been a steady increase in the complexity of the life forms that evolved from that first life. Homo Sapiens are the current most complex product of this development. I must notice that we have two rather profound things happening. First, is the appearance of life out of nothing and second, is the steady evolution toward more complex and sophisticated living organisms. As I am prone to do, I must ask what caused this. It is not enough for me to say it just happened. That is the current position of our scientific community. They just don't know. Well, neither do I, but I must have a theory about it. Trying to understand is essential to my mental health. So let me develop my theory. I will keep in mind, and I hope you will too, that it is just a working theory. I do not claim this as fact. Our scientists have theorized an event they call the big bang wherein the universe was created. It was an explosion of some big wad of some kind of primeval stuff. Out of that explosion came a number of products. We got some things called matter-energy, gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force. Within this massive fireball, hydrogen and helium were also formed. Out of all of that, earth eventually evolved. Okay, we think of gravity as a kind of attraction between bodies which is related to the masses of the bodies and their relative proximity. It is a kind of force that we experience every day. Most of us don't understand at all the rest of that stuff, but we trust our scientists do. Fine, I have no problem with the theory of the big bang, but It does not explain one important thing. Whence came man? Therefore, I would add one item to the products of the big bang. I postulate that when the universe came into being another force was born which I choose to call the life force. Like gravity, this force permeates the universe. Also, like gravity, it had to wait until conditions were right before it could manifest. On earth, it found those conditions about 3.5 billion years ago and it caused the formation of life out of inanimate matter. Since then, It has continued to influence the evolution of life earth. This is a theory of mine. Notice, it does not explain how or why the life force was created out of the big bang. So what? If you look closely, the big bang theory does not really explain the how or why of any of the other products either. In fact, the king is naked. I submit, not knowing the first cause does not discredit the theory. If it did, we could have no science. It simply leaves us with some unknown stuff. Maybe we will find out someday. maybe not. For now, we can go ahead with what we have. The most important thing about a theory is it must account for all of the know data. I think this theory does that. There are several important events in man's history and all of them can be accounted for by this theory. First of course is the appearance of life itself. Another important event was the development of consciousness in man. Another was the evolution of homo sapiens from Australopithecines or Southern Apes. Then there was the remarkable flowering of culture in Greece where man first began to look to science rather than superstition for answers. All of these things fit well within the theoretical framework. Another very important thing is the theory should allow us to extrapolate from what we are to what may become. If the theory be true, we should be able to consider what will come next and what things are possible to us. I believe, based on what I have learned from others and from my own experience that self healing is one very likely possibility. It is a possibility that we are just beginning to explore. In my own practice, I have been successful in causing some changes in my physical condition. I know there are many who would pooh, pooh this as imaginary or coincidence. Okay if you so wish, but it will continue to experiment with it. As I said, this theoretical framework is the basis for my
practice in self healing, but there is a bit more too it. In
my next essay, I will discuss the other factors and ideas which
support my practice. I will also discuss more of the details
of the practice.
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