DECODING THE HUMAN BODY-FIELD The New Science of Information as Medicine By Peter H. Fraser and Harry Massey with Joan Parisi Wilcox Introduction WHEN YOU THINK OF YOUR BODY, you probably think of the heft and substance of it –flesh, muscles, bone. When you think of illness and disease, you ask, “What is the matter with me?” –speaking quite literally in physical terms about the real matter of your body. Your knee or elbow aches. Your throat is sore. Your stomach is upset. Your head is throbbing. It’s counter intuitive to imagine your body at more discrete levels, such as at the levels of cells, molecules, or atoms. You are unlikely to hear a person with diabetes complain that “my beta cells are malfunctioning.” You get our point; it is almost impossible for us to view our bodies as vast networks of cells and molecules, much less as webs of interacting particles and waves. However, the beautiful mystery of nature is that at our most fundamental level, waves and particles are exactly what we are. In grasping this reality, our problems are ones of perception and scale, for in the course of our everyday lives it appears that particles and waves have no relevance to us. However, as quantum physics reveals, everything is connected—the world is a vast web of interconnected relationships. We compartmentalize ourselves at our own risk. For example, where once we thought the body was machine-like, regulating itself independently of the mind, research now has proved that thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and attitudes profoundly influence the functions of our cells, organs, and immune system—processes that are vital to our health and overall sense of wellness. Science has birthed a new mind-body medicine, and we can no longer deny that such immaterial aspects of ourselves as thoughts, beliefs, hopes, and desires can change the chemistry of our bodies. We can no longer afford to ignore the web of relationships that determine just about everything we are on a physical level. With this new frame of reference, we can begin to seek an even deeper understanding of our bodies and our health. We are motivated to find the mechanisms, processes, rules, and relationships that define and determine our state of being. Through the work of innovators such as Peter Fraser,” we can begin to peel back the different aspects of the body like layers of an onion, moving from the macro to the micro scales, and then even deeper to the subatomic scale. What we find is a radically different body at each level. The deeper we go, the less substance there is to the body. Tissues and organs give way to molecules and atoms, which, when you probe deeply into their nature, give way to fuzzy clouds of subatomic particles, some real and some virtual, with those virtual particles popping out of nothingness and returning there after only a whiff of existence. As we probe into the subatomic realm, we find that the brain, blood, and bone of the body give way to invisible forces, fields, and particles whose interactions underlie not only the human body but all of matter. Molecules give way to atoms that dissolve into subatomic particles so that our bodies are governed not only by the laws of everyday chemistry but also by the paradoxical principles of quantum electrodynamics. When we probe to these levels of the body, our practical questions take on seemingly metaphysical overtones. How does a thinking, feeling, creative, intelligent human being arise from the fog of quantum particles? Where is the boundary at which the deterministic laws of chemistry give way to the quirky, probabilistic laws of quantum physics? At what level of being does illness first gain its foothold—at the quantum level of electron and photons or only at the level of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and cells? Is there such a thing as “quantum health,” and if so, do we have any influence over it? Which mechanisms shift our bodies from health to illness and back toward health? These are among the myriad questions that are prompting researchers in biology and medicine to forge boldly forward, extending our understanding of how the body works and creating a new kind of health care in the process. CONTINUE READING http://www.consciouselfcare.com/decod...
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