These days the word quantum seems to be everywhere, at least that seems to be the case in my universe. Especially as I have just finished reading the Quantum Doctor by Amit Goswami. To understand what a Quantum doctor might be let me explain first some traditional healing approaches. The major approach to healing in our western world is called allopathic medicine. It is based on the premise that disease is due to external bacteria and viruses or a mechanical malfunction of an internal organ of the physical body. A treatment is done by addressing the symptoms of the disease until they disappear. All of the treatments are applied external in form of pills, drugs, radiation and other techniques. Than we have eastern medicine which includes acupuncture, ayurveda, chinese herbs and many other more spiritual healing methods. These healing techniques have a different approach as they address the mind, the soul and other energy regions of the body. Another very interesting approach is homeopathy. The basic idea behind this technique is that like cures like and less is more. In a high potency of homeopathic remedy you wont find a single atom of the original formula anymore, the potency is greatly diluted. From a strict point of western science there is nothing in the substance anymore. However, homeopathy works in many cases, so there must be something that acts as a healing agent which is non physical. The strangest of all healing techniques is the placebo effect. A patient is given a new medication that the doctor subscribes as a cure for the patients disease. In many cases the patient is cured by just believing in the healing power of the new medication. However, from the experience we also know that there is no formula whatsoever that applies to every disease the same way. In some cases an operation helps, sometimes not. Sometimes acupuncture helps, sometimes not. Also if you talk to a doctor each one seems to have their own concept about healing. Some people go as far to think that all diseases are created ultimately from the mind and from the consciousness behind it. Thus consciousness of course is also responsible for the healing. Just tell this to someone who is in pain and cannot think about anything else besides the pain. Is there a Difference between Disease and Illness? Disease could be described as a malfunction of the organism that can be diagnosed by machines & tests. Illness is more subjective, more the inner feeling of the malfunctioning. That means disease belongs to the physical body as it is external. Illness is internal and therefore tells us something about the malfunction of the correlated subtle body. What happens on a Quantum Level When We Get Sick? Amit Goswami says consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness. When consciousness converts these possibilities in a collapse event of actual experience, some of the possibilities are collapsed as physical and some as mental. The events collapse of the waves of possibility are the result of conscious choice, downward causation. For this no mathematics exists, no algorithms. The choice of downward causation is free, unpredictable. This leads us more to the understanding that we need to look at different levels of our being to find the origin of the disturbance that later manifests into a disease or illness. So where does the Quantum doctor come in? A quantum doctor would investigate the patient to understand on which level the disturbance manifests. Amit Goswami devides consciousness into five levels: - Physical
- Vital
- Mental
- Supra-mental Intellect
- Bliss (Limitless) We need to look at all these levels to get a better picture. If for example someone had a car accident and broke a leg, that person needs to be treated on a physical level first. You simply need to take care of the bone and bring it back to the original position where it can heal and grow back together. However, this may not be the end of the story. Investigating this person may reveal some hidden surprises. It could be that this person is not satisfied with a relationship, and anger & frustration has lead to aggressive driving. This would correspond to the vital level. It maybe the case that this person has negative thoughts about themselves. For example life is boring, I am boring, I am worthless. Could that lead to an accident? You bet, and here we are talking about the mental level. We also experience that a disease may originate from one level and than spread to other levels. It works in both directions, from the physical up-wards over the vital to the mental level and down-wards from the limitless bliss level over the mental and vital to the physical level. One more important thing that Amit Goswami points out. The concept of unconscious is important for the subject of health and healing in connection with psychosomatic disease. We suppress the memories of certain traumatic experiences so deep that consciousness seldom collapse them, delegating them to what is called unconscious processing. The memories of these experiences are processed by producing somatic effects of disease, but we are not aware of them, because we never collapse these memories in our conscious thoughts. Quantum healing even works with prayer as it is nonlocal and takes place outside space & time. But to explain this you better get a hold of Amit Goswamis book 'Quantum Doctor'. |
