My brilliant Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner friend David had a very nice comment on my piece No Bulk which I wanted to excerpt here:
I love the philosophical implications of modern physics, but to me, it always seems a little far away from my reality when it is evoked on galactic or subatomic scales of existence. I mean to a fly water tension is a greater force than gravity which is far from my experience and flies are the size of solar systems to atoms, let alone an electron or a quark. It’s just sooo…. far away.
I’m a little more comfortable in the organic world of biochemistry and even there the world is disintegrating from form into information. If one takes the modern view of the body as a system that is continually rebuilding itself then chronic disease can only be understood as misinformation repeating itself over and over in the newly rebuilt system that is the body.
According to Bruce Lipton, i.e. Biology of Belief and other writings, biological information is not some predestined DNA code of conduct, but the expression of that code which can be strongly influenced by the human mind.
What prevents us from living in a (healthy) reality that conforms in every way to our personal vision? It is our beliefs that prevent us, of course, and if we can change our beliefs we can act like the alchemist in Ted Chiang’s “The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate” and “search for tiny pores in the skin of reality, like the holes that worms bore into wood, and upon finding one he was able to expand and strech it the way a glassblower turns a dolop of molten glass into a long-necked pipe…”
The story mentioned, by the way, is exceptionally beautiful, especially when read aloud amongst friends during a drive to Baja.
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