The body exists because of forces beyond our control. We think we are these bodies because they demand so much attention and maintenance, just as we think we are our minds that continually cycle through thoughts. Yet the body, mind, and all that is physical, are manifestations of forces of energy that are far beyond our control.
Medical science seeks to understand how to keep this body healthy and alive through external means of control. But it is clueless about our Eternal Soul because Soul cannot be tested under laboratory conditions. Yet its laws follow universal patterns that are beyond the physical and cross over into the metaphysical.
The body, while alive, is performing innumerable tasks far beyond our sanction. Circulating our blood, producing hormones, digesting food, eliminating toxins, are just a few of these activities. All of them are beyond our conscious will. They are manifestations of the Divine Intelligence of the Universe that medical science sometimes reveals to us through observation and study. Physicians can give advice about how to feed ourselves and keep ourselves safe. They can put things back into place or remove them.
But that is only one part of the system. The healing process is completely beyond their control, just as is the weather and the tides. Doctors can help the natural processes take place but healing depends on how we care for own bodies. If we think the doctor will heal us after years of abusing ourselves, it is like believers who think they can present themselves at confession and that will take care of all of the mess they made.
Seeing how little control we have as ego-driven entities deepens as life goes on. We see how limited the effect of medicine is on overall peace and joy—both qualities of the soul. It may diminish suffering short term, but long-term it is a failure. The force that drives us to discover universal laws, also drove us to discover medical practices that are in keeping with these laws. But because they are only focused on the body, which goes away, they are not based on the Spirit, which is eternal.
When I was a young mother I saw many of the universal spiritual laws demonstrating themselves through my body. Breast-feeding a baby is a great example of The Law of Supply and Demand. The babies demanded what they needed through their own instincts and each time my body produced the right amount of milk. The babies grew healthy and strong for six months on breast milk alone before I added other items to their menu.
The Law of Supply and Demand is an economic law and also a tenet of Medicine. Looking at it spiritually, this taught me to actively seek my soul. Our soul, the non-dying, universal aspect of us. is already attuned to universal laws. And in this way the eternal Universe reveals itself to us.
It took effort to birth the babies, showing me, once again, the participatory effort that the spiritual life also demands. I learned that if I want a lifeline to the Spirit, I must show up and meet the universe at least half-way. Just as a doctor can tell a patient to stop smoking but the patient actually has to put down the cigarette.
So we must meet the universe at least half way, yet still understand that universal laws are beyond our control. Before they appeared, the babies were growing within me, through no effort of my own. I had nothing to do with what sperm met what egg or any of the developmental markers in fetuses. All I had to do was participate by feeding myself and care for this gift—the body, the great teacher of spiritual laws. Part of taking care was check-ups with a wise doctor, who did the least amoung of interference possible.
Correctly practiced medicine shows we participate in life but we do not direct it. In spiritual life, the more spiritually aware we become, the more miraculous it all becomes to us. The physical body, with its attendant mind, is a beautiful illustration of a larger pattern. But it is also a painful experience, if that is who we think we are. It is always demanding something during our waking hours. These demands can blind us to our own spiritual connection to the powerful forces of energy and information that are the core of spiritual life.
When the body dies, it is a husk that demonstrates laws of entropy and decay, both of which are important parts of the dance of physical life. But these laws are about physics, chemistry, and biology—which are the concerns of medical science. Medical science grew from our soul’s yearning for release from suffering. Whether it has accomplished this task is another issue. It is a small segment of human endeavor to control and understand the physical world.
My independent study of medicine led me to appreciate the universal spiritual laws even more. They shine through every artistic and scientific endeaver. The soul’s yearning to find itself. When Medicine steps in to artificially circumvent the laws of nature, it usually fails. When it becomes a system of control based on financial greed, it certainly has missed its original intent. But in its purest form, it is a beautiful source of wisdom that leads to spiritual discovery.
Medical science seeks to understand how to keep this body healthy and alive through external means of control. But it is clueless about our Eternal Soul because Soul cannot be tested under laboratory conditions. Yet its laws follow universal patterns that are beyond the physical and cross over into the metaphysical.
The body, while alive, is performing innumerable tasks far beyond our sanction. Circulating our blood, producing hormones, digesting food, eliminating toxins, are just a few of these activities. All of them are beyond our conscious will. They are manifestations of the Divine Intelligence of the Universe that medical science sometimes reveals to us through observation and study. Physicians can give advice about how to feed ourselves and keep ourselves safe. They can put things back into place or remove them.
But that is only one part of the system. The healing process is completely beyond their control, just as is the weather and the tides. Doctors can help the natural processes take place but healing depends on how we care for own bodies. If we think the doctor will heal us after years of abusing ourselves, it is like believers who think they can present themselves at confession and that will take care of all of the mess they made.
Seeing how little control we have as ego-driven entities deepens as life goes on. We see how limited the effect of medicine is on overall peace and joy—both qualities of the soul. It may diminish suffering short term, but long-term it is a failure. The force that drives us to discover universal laws, also drove us to discover medical practices that are in keeping with these laws. But because they are only focused on the body, which goes away, they are not based on the Spirit, which is eternal.
When I was a young mother I saw many of the universal spiritual laws demonstrating themselves through my body. Breast-feeding a baby is a great example of The Law of Supply and Demand. The babies demanded what they needed through their own instincts and each time my body produced the right amount of milk. The babies grew healthy and strong for six months on breast milk alone before I added other items to their menu.
The Law of Supply and Demand is an economic law and also a tenet of Medicine. Looking at it spiritually, this taught me to actively seek my soul. Our soul, the non-dying, universal aspect of us. is already attuned to universal laws. And in this way the eternal Universe reveals itself to us.
It took effort to birth the babies, showing me, once again, the participatory effort that the spiritual life also demands. I learned that if I want a lifeline to the Spirit, I must show up and meet the universe at least half-way. Just as a doctor can tell a patient to stop smoking but the patient actually has to put down the cigarette.
So we must meet the universe at least half way, yet still understand that universal laws are beyond our control. Before they appeared, the babies were growing within me, through no effort of my own. I had nothing to do with what sperm met what egg or any of the developmental markers in fetuses. All I had to do was participate by feeding myself and care for this gift—the body, the great teacher of spiritual laws. Part of taking care was check-ups with a wise doctor, who did the least amoung of interference possible.
Correctly practiced medicine shows we participate in life but we do not direct it. In spiritual life, the more spiritually aware we become, the more miraculous it all becomes to us. The physical body, with its attendant mind, is a beautiful illustration of a larger pattern. But it is also a painful experience, if that is who we think we are. It is always demanding something during our waking hours. These demands can blind us to our own spiritual connection to the powerful forces of energy and information that are the core of spiritual life.
When the body dies, it is a husk that demonstrates laws of entropy and decay, both of which are important parts of the dance of physical life. But these laws are about physics, chemistry, and biology—which are the concerns of medical science. Medical science grew from our soul’s yearning for release from suffering. Whether it has accomplished this task is another issue. It is a small segment of human endeavor to control and understand the physical world.
My independent study of medicine led me to appreciate the universal spiritual laws even more. They shine through every artistic and scientific endeaver. The soul’s yearning to find itself. When Medicine steps in to artificially circumvent the laws of nature, it usually fails. When it becomes a system of control based on financial greed, it certainly has missed its original intent. But in its purest form, it is a beautiful source of wisdom that leads to spiritual discovery.
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