Energy: Medicine of the Present

Once upon a time, we all believed that the earth was stationery, and the sun moved around the earth. In the 1500s, Copernicus discovered that the sun was stationery and the earth moved around the sun. He was burned as a heretic.

Around 1687, Sir Isaac Newton formed a mechanistic view of the universe and believed that matter was the lowest common denominator and we based medical science around seeing ourselves as solid objects. This definition was held by Sir Isaac Newton and his colleagues in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Newtonian physics was extended in the 19th century to describe a universe composed of fundamental building blocks called atoms. Newtonian mechanics successfully described the motion of the planets, mechanical machines, and fluids in continuous motion. Newtonian laws of motion were seen as the basic laws of nature, and Newtonian mechanics was considered to be the ultimate theory of natural phenomena. Everything could be described objectively. Energy-matter interactions, such as a radio playing music in response to invisible radio waves were not yet invented. Much of our daily lives still run on Newtonian mechanics. Except for the electrical systems, our homes are largely Newtonian. We experience our bodies in a mechanical way. We define most of our experience in terms of absolute, three dimensional space and linear time.

In the early nineteenth century, new physical phenomena were discovered that could not be described by Newtonian physics. The discovery and investigation of electromagnetic phenomena led to the concept of a field. A field was defined as a condition in space which has the potential of producing a force. Each charge creates a “disturbance” or a “condition” in the space around it, so that the other charge, when it is present, feels a force. Thus the concept of a universe filled with fields that create forces that interact with each other was born.

In 1905 Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity and shattered all the principal concepts of the Newtonian world view. An important consequence of Einstein’s relativity is the realization that matter and energy are interchangeable. Mass is nothing but a form of energy. Matter is simply slowed down or crystallized energy. Our bodies are energy.

Our old world of solid objects and the deterministic laws of nature are now dissolved into a world of wave-like patterns of interconnections. The whole universe appears as a dynamic web of inseparable energy patterns.

While our thinking is still Newtonian, discoveries have moved on. In 1964 physicist J.S. Bell published a mathematical proof called Bell’s theorem that mathematically supports the concept that subatomic “particles” are connected in some way that transcends space and time, so that anything that happens to one particle affects other particles. This effect is immediate and does not need “time’ to be transmitted. In Bell’s theorem, effects can be “superluminal,” or faster than the speed of light. Bell’s theorem has now been supported by experimentation. We are now talking about a phenomenon that stands outside Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Quantum physics presented us with a holographic universe. In 1971 Dennis Gabor received a Nobel Prize for constructing the first hologram. In a hologram, every piece contains the information of the whole. Dr. Karl Pribram, a renowned brain researcher, has accumulated evidence over a decade that the brain’s deep structure is essentially holographic.

And most recently Fritz-Albert Popp, Ph.D. has identified biophotons, biologically generated packets of light which are found in every cell. These biophotons may be part of a light based communication system that relays important biological information between adjacent or nearby cells within the body. Given that the cells of our bodies communicate using light, it seems plausible that human beings could be strongly affected by light.

In his book Healthy Medicine, Robert Zieve, MD writes that scientists are now telling us that our DNA communicates by light photons, and our bodies are really energy resonators. Our cell membranes are not just biochemistry and physiology, but are also a symphony of sounds that inform nerves and connective tissue of our bodies. Because we are 60 to 70 percent water, this works like a giant liquid crystal.

This water forms a liquid crystal net within us that holds the body together. Depending upon how the water molecules in our body are clustered determines how healthy we can be. Water in clean springs in nature has a low number of molecules clustered together. So this type of water, when ingested, can much more easily pass through the cell membranes and enter our cells, thereby helping the intracellular energy factories function at a higher level. Tap water, on the other hand, is highly clustered water. So anything we can do, whether it be: taking good water; to working with sound, color, or magnetics; that helps our bodies to restructure water; will enhance our healing process.

We need to think more in terms of the effects of energy and less in the narrow, restrictive biochemical model that is predominant primarily on a pharmaceutical drug level, but also on a nutritional supplement level. The more we, practitioners and patients, can work on the level of energy medicine and energy psychology, the more we can influence our metabolism, our absorption and utilization of nutrients, and help in our process of detoxification and rebuilding.

At this time, early in the 21st century, many energy medicine therapies are being practiced across the country.