Theory being a useful precedent for practice, could we say with Einstein, ‘God does not play dice’, as a way of saying, also, that the natural world as expressed by physical science is rational, non-random and never chaotic and philosophically-speaking therefore, perhaps its greatest discovery, arguably, greater even than many of its physical products such as cars or computers or rockets suggest. For surely we can expect to find the same qualities in the laws of the spirit or the metaphysical world which is, after all, the world in which we actually live and where we can expect to find the fundamental, enlightening laws to live by and to heal by.
I need your help though to tell me of experiences or knowledge which may add weight or detail to what is a provisional theory of conscious healing as a remedy - or how its application can be expanded (or the opposite - if that is what the evidence is telling us!)
So far it seems reasonable to assume that the ‘Know Thyself’ of classical wisdom was an inspired truth in the light of how conscious insight of one’s history may lead to permanent healing - not something readily accomplished (except in a crisis or accident) through surgery or by the ingestion of laboratory chemicals. Although, on reflection, in the form of herbs or mushrooms they may have their place – giving a singular insight rather than an addictive escape from reality - the opposite of what you might expect for a productive incarnation.
I’m not clear on the ideal remedy yet but, thanks to Dr Sarno, I believe we have a very promising indication. If he could permanently cure fibromyalgia, backache and related disorders such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or migraines by unearthing, with professional psychological aid, a particular emotion such as buried anger, why not apply the principle elsewhere?
There are probably many other mind-over-matter equations that have to be worked out that should usefully connect other disorders with their mental or emotional causes, but in general, while we wait for greater breadth and accuracy we can, with hope, experiment with some form of harmless, self-enquiry such as introspection or meditation etc. which seem to be central to the ancient ‘Know Thyself’ healing advice: a laboratory that is inward and readily available by comparison with medical science involving the near-eternal process of trying to understand the cellular or atomic detail of individual physiology or the hit-and-miss of chemical experimentation based on the germ theory rather than the more fundamental, prior, ‘terrain’ theory, for example.
Dr Sarno uses professional psychological subtleties to get his clients to discover the deeply hidden emotions, and reveals that there are different kinds of suppression: some deliberate, others not, the latter being even more difficult to unearth. Dr Weiss, in another enlightened approach, depends on shallow hypnosis to enable the client to reach awareness of the treasure that heals.
The subtleties of their psychological techniques are best understood by reading their book The Divided Mind or, in Weiss’s case, Through History into Healing. I ask of you, the reader, who else has demonstrated the practical interface of psychosomatism (mainly between physical pain and its psychological cause) so clearly and usefully?
I expect the book by Linda Howe Healing through the Akashic Records (which I haven’t read yet) could prove fruitful too. It is likely to show, yet again, that we need to explore the metaphysical world, the world of here-and-now-consciousness, with measuring tools that are different from those commonly used in the physical world of science. Indeed, is the word ‘science’ anymore the correct word to use in exploration of the metaphysical world?
In this discussion I am reminded of the Vedic gunas which can be viewed as an ancient, metaphysical equivalent of Einstein’s famous equation of the physical world, (e=mc2) where, metaphorically-speaking, Rajas (energy) and Tamas (inertia) are balanced by the divine constant, Sattva! and implying a sense of the kind of physics that might apply in the non-physical realms.
I’d love to hear your opinions.