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In a “flash” of inspiration, or something, I realized the other day what it will take for healing to occur.

First, CHOICE.

Yeshua asked, “Do you want to be healed?”  Direct and to the point. To the heart.  No ifs, ands or buts.  No excuses.  In spite of all the excuses offered – no one here to help, too many get there first, etc. – these were discarded, ignored, and not allowed to enter the conversation.  It was simply a matter of Desire.  Want to.  He told the Canaanite woman, “You get what you want.”  We can choose to want healing or we can choose to live in excuses and blame, thereby wanting to stay unhealed – whatever that looks like.

In the final analysis, perhaps choice is the ONLY thing required for healing.

Second, SARNO

John E. Sarno, M.D. has written several books about and practiced a technique which gets you to admit that you have repressed rage which is expressed in your body in some form of dis-ease.  His rationale is that the mind is designed to keep emotional trauma at a manageable level and does so by subconsciously shunting the feelings into physical symptoms that may or may not have actual anatomical correlation.  On the surface this sounds pretty crazy.  The healing comes when you consciously break the shunting process and don’t allow the emotion to manifest in the body.  Instead, you deal with the emotion.  This is powerful and places the source of much if not most physical dis-ease squarely on the shoulders of emotion (where it belongs!)  The conscious effort required to use this technique takes us back to choice once again.

Third, GET NAKED

Naked, vulnerable, transparent, open, honest, real – all words that mean the same thing.  Naked carries the extra connotation of applying the concept to our physical body while the other words apply the concept to our emotion, attitude, and words and leave it at that.  However, unveiling the physical body requires a choice that is a bit more intense, in our culture at least, because we carry so much fear and inferiority and shame and disdain for the body.  We have let the sexualization of the body and the exploitation of that warp our thinking about the body, its worth and beauty, and we have decided that bodies are nasty and ugly.  However, to truly get to a place of openness, even with our body, requires that we release the protection, the fear, the failure, the excuses for being less than “perfect” and thus are open for healing.

So we again come back to choice.

Yeshua, I believe, somehow in asking questions of us and somehow in touching people as he healed them, takes us to the naked place within us where there is no longer any protection or any fear or any shame.  This was the Eden experience and to this he has provided the way of restoration if we will only so choose.

Let’s be healed!

Blessings,

Dr Jon

We did an exercise in Massage Therapy School where you sat in front of a fellow student and gazed deeply into each other’s eyes, just observing, tuned in.  You would then ask a question of the other and just listen, and watch.  You would then repeat the question, again only listening and gazing.  Finally you would repeat the question for the third time and again just listen and look into the eyes.  Upon completion, you would not comment on the other’s responses but only encourage them for allowing themselves to go deeply inside and sharing at that level.

Like many things in massage school and in the personal development world, I found that exercise challenging, frightening and yet very satisfying.

It was challenging because it was hard to sit and gaze into another’s “deepness” (the eyes are, truly, the windows to the soul) and not comment or judge or analyze (I like to do all those things, in case you haven’t figured that out about me).

It was frightening because I would make myself vulnerable, emotionally “naked”, possibly revealing thoughts, feelings, desires I had bottled up for years, not even sharing them or admitting them to myself.  And here I was, spilling them to a classmate “stranger”!

It was satisfying because this is exactly what we are on the planet to do and to be.  Father made us “naked and unashamed” to be totally and completely open with him, with ourselves and with each other, to share our deep thoughts and selves with each other in ways that would be healing and helpful for ourselves and each other.

Needless to say, the exercise brought significant insight and healing and a sense of accomplishment, but also a sense that getting this “naked” was good and healthy.

This idea of “nakedness” and healing is gaining momentum in our culture.

Recently Jay Leno interviewed Robin Williams about his latest movie, “Old Dogs,” and particularly about a scene where Mr. Williams gets nude.  He stated that the nudity was the best way to get the message across and just kind of happened when filming.  Unfortunately both he and Jay went on to make disparaging and comical remarks about nudity in general since our culture cannot handle nudity appropriately (just like I had difficulty getting “naked” with my thoughts and feelings in massage school).

Even more recently Conan O’Brien interviewed Deepak Chopra about his new book.  The whole interview was about Dr. Chopra’s ability to “read” the soul and mind of another, in this case Mr. O’Brien, and what he would recommend to bring healing.  The read on Mr. O’Brien was that he was egocentrical and of low self-esteem, needing to be pleasing to others.  Dr. Chopra’s remedy was for Mr. O’Brien to do his show naked, this removing the external need for approval and to find his approval within himself.  Again, the conversation soon equated “nude” with “sex”, a connection that our culture makes but need not since it is not necessarily connected.

[As an aside, "nude=sex" is like "snow=ski".  While skiing is done on snow, snow could also be the beauty of a mountain range in winter, sledding/sliding/snowboarding, a great way to make dessert, problems for cars without chains, the means to have a fun fight, the guts of a snowman, a ride in a sleigh, etc.  And skiing is also done on water and not just on snow.  We really need to grow up in our attitude about nudity

Back to the idea of getting open and honest with oneself, going deep within, and even perhaps getting physically nude to gain healing.  That exercise in massage school brought some healing to me.  It let me know that being open and honest, releasing old emotions and hurts, lancing an emotional “boil”, was a breath of fresh air.

The culture is beginning to figure out that taking physical clothes off can also be healing. 

There are accounts of sexually abused women who have extreme emotional issues regarding themselves and their bodies as a result, who, in a nurturing and nonsexual social nude environment, have found great healing when divesting themselves of their clothes.  It figuratively and literally allows them to regain the authority for themselves and the self esteem that was ripped from them.

Similarly, many men who have suffered with addictions to pornography and sex, when in a nurturing and nonsexual social nude environment in the company of women have found healing for their addiction.  Rather than objects of sex and control, women become real persons with real emotions and interact with these men with respect and honor.  The men, on the other hand, find themselves free to become real persons, honored and welcomed and not guilty sex perverts. 

Thought counterintuitive to our cultural training, the reality of these situations demands that we examine the possibility of offering afflicted ones, including ourselves, the option of getting spiritually, emotionally and even physically naked to help further their healing.  I have to wonder how much Tiger Woods could have found relief for his dis-ease and avoided his current socially unacceptable “nakedness”  if he had had the opportunity and encouragement to explore his deep self and needs in a healthy nude environment?

For years I have wanted to establish a residential center where people can come and find wholistic healing.  This vision has been posted on my (outdated) website, and would include food, diet instruction, assisting with and learning of gardening, supplements, counsel, massage and bodywork, and other medical helps as needed.  Now, with what I have experienced myself, and the acknowledgement of the healing power of getting truly and deeply open, it would include the encouragement to shed clothes as well as emotional and physical hurts, griefs and disappointments.

And why am I posting this, now, on my blog? Knowing that it is so countercultural and so counterintuitive? 

I honestly don’t know.  I guess it is part of my own growth as the Renegade Doc, part of my own healing, part of admitting my own passion to see people deeply and truly healed as they dare to look deeply within themselves and find the freedom and beauty and potential and healing that lies there, waiting to be brought forth.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

The physical world in which you move, the physical body in which you live, is “merely” an expression of a much deeper, grander, more powerful spiritual reality.  The physical planet on which we breathe is “meremly” the expression of the thought of God, Loving Father, who from his mind spoke into existence the amazing, perfectly coherent existence in which we share.Now I suggest that you can “dissect” this expression of life into at least three levels.  Excuse me for doing so, but this is the Western way of trying to understand things.  Hopefully at the end it will all fit back together.The first level is the obvious physical level.  This is the level at which we breathe, see with our physical eyes, hear with our physical ears, move our physical body, make a living, earn money, experience cuts and scrapes and cancers and diabetes and arthritis and so forth.  This is the bottom of the scale, the lowest vibration in the energy field.  This is where our daily life takes shape and all the cause and effect kinds of relationships “work” here.  The knife produces the cut; the motor vehicle out of control causes the fractured leg.  To compare it to the field of physics, this is where Newtonian physics takes place.   Everything is observable, testable, documentable, “scientific”.  It is easy and commom to put our trust in this level.

The second level is the less obvious but well known and somewhat understood emotional level.  This is where we feel, experience joy and sadness, elation and grief, laughter and depression.  This is where we are attracted to the job we like, the person we marry.  This is where we gain the energy to be loyal to a cause or person, to give ourselves over to protect our children, our family.  This is where we decide to spend the extra time in the pool to become the Olympic champion or take the extra batting practice or study for the extra degree to be more qualified as an accountant or physician.  The causes of the emotion are not so obvious, nor are the effects so predictable.  Where does the grief come from?  Was it from the death of your mother or the fight on the playground years ago?  Are you laughing at a joke that truly is funny or because that is your reaction to tragedy?  Why do you love your Harley but all of your siblings think that motorcycles are for fat guys with long hair and too many tatoos (and you are not fat, don’t have long hair or any tattoos)?  Yet every physical manifestation has a root at this level.  In our analogy this level is like the energy and activity of the atom that cannot be explained by Newtonian physics but depends on something more strange and less understandable like quantum physics.  At the same time it does not in any way make Newtonian physics wrong, just insufficient.  How can energy be both wave and particle at the same time?  How can energy have intelligence and know what it is going to do before it does it?  How can matter be composed mostly of non-matter?  Yet without this energy there is no physical existence.  Yet we do not easily trust this level.  Anything emotional is suspect and considered unreal and without merit.

The third level is even more obscure and even less understood.  This is the level of spirit.  This is where we experience the sense of “knowingness” where we just know. It may not make any logical sense whatsoever, it has little if anything to do with emotion though it will likely stimulate significant and deep emotion.  This is where Love and Fear reside.  This is where Loving Father exists and where he invites us to live with him.  This is where Jesus, Yeshua, also lived and what he manifested while on this planet.  He constantly was directing us to move into and live at this level.  He would do nothing (physical) unless he first saw his Father doing it (spirit).  He told us that we need to eat his flesh and drink his blood – wild, crazy, not understandable – to get to this level.  This is a transcendence beyond physical into spirit.  At this level he could walk on water, raise the dead, bring life to dying body parts (heal the sick) and control the weather.  At this level he could love without restraint the unlovely and he could die with the confidence that he would not stay dead.  In our analogy, this is like the subatomic level where it seems that all the simple rules of physics are superceded and there is a “deep magic”, as C.S. Lewis would call it, in control.  At this level all bets are off.  This is wild, nearly unrestrained, mostly unpredictable.  This is where energy is nearly limitless, where the amount of energy contained in the space as small as a mustard seed is enough to move mountains.  Nonetheless, this level is completely untrusted.  Though religions abound, they do so to try to bring this level into some understandable framework so that we can trust it.  Taken in its pure essence, however, this level is rarely followed without restraint.

With these levels of existence in mind and some of the implications, let’s consider in the next post what all of this has to do with healing.

Blessings,
Dr Jon

P.S. Are there more than three levels??  Could be.  Let’s be open to the possibility.  OR, are there really three levels?  Probably not, since we are whole, unified beings and a mix at the same time of all these.  Yet it may me helpful to look at them, especially when we discuss healing.

It has been my passion in life, though only recently recognized and articulated by me, to see people (and myself!) find real and deep healing for not only their physical, but also their emotional/spiritual dis-eases.  Yet I personally struggle with, and most if not all of my friends and clients struggle with, the seeming reality that we are not healed of our dis-eases.

Why not?

There seems to me to be a couple of reasons.

First, let’s talk about how life “works.” We are spirits living in a physical body, here to learn how to manifest what is truly real in the spirit world into this physical world.  As spirit we have all that we need and are complete, not dis-eased, living abundantly and powerfully.  (Though as a Jesus Follower I believe we lack one thing – the Life of and Personal Communion with God/Father.  That also is obtainable and the REAL purpose behind all the rest.)  As Dr. Robert Anthony points out,  though, there is a “lag,” fortunately, between the thought in spirit and its manifestation in physical.  If you could say “I have $100″ and $100 showed up to help you, you could also say “The boogie man is after me” and the boogie man  would show up to hurt you. So there are two “minds” at work to effect this lag.  Ideas, thoughts, wishes all happen in the BRAIN.  Emotion, feeling all happens in the HEART.  Ideas and thoughts have to get out of the brain and into the heart and emotion before any ACTUAL manifestation into the physical world can occur

Applying these concepts to healing, we must realize first and foremost that we are sick because we FEEL that we are.  For some reason (feeling unloved and needing to control things ourselves) we allow fear into our emotion and after the lag time it manifests as illness.

So why don’t we find healing?  I think one reason is because we do not go into the deep emotional places in our hearts to discover what emotions are causing the dis-ease.  Instead, we use our heads and our thinking (research, technology, diagnoses) to attempt to bring some change at the physical level.  We can do that to a point, but eventually the dis-ease returns because we don’t change the emotion.  The actual “healing” is the energy to change the emotion and only needs to be received and allowed to work.  But the receiving is actually very simple.  Like a radio receiver, we need only let the information come in and do what it does.  Instead, we want to change it, control it, make it look like something else we would rather have.  Or we are scared that changing our emotion at such a core level will change our life in a way that will be uncomfortable to us.  Healing being uncomfortable – that is an interesting thought!  But it happens all the time.

Another reason we don’t receive healing, I think, is because we truly don’t believe it can happen.  Like Peter walking on water, although he did it, his brain took over and he stopped believing – and he stopped water-walking as well.  We are the same.  Suppose I had a herniated disc, for example, and received healing to the point that the back and leg pain was gone and I was as good as a teenager.  Guaranteed on waking the next morning I would think – “I’m supposed to be in pain” and boom! the pain would be back.

Something about this existence here on the planet makes us want to live in our heads and not our hearts.  Let’s get back into our hearts.  Let’s receive and believe our healing.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

Autism is a disorder of epidemic proportions in our country today and takes its toll on families in serious ways.  There are various ideas about the causes of autism including genetic factors, environmental toxins (e.g., heavy metals in vaccines), poor nutrition and allergies to foods¹.  There is little evidence to point to any single factor and various interest groups either vehemently defend or deny their favorite cause depending on what best serves their interests. For example, parents who have noted ill effects from vaccines are quick to jump on this as a cause while medical and government groups, with their vested interest in vaccines, are quick to denounce this as a possibility.  In all likelihood, I doubt that any one cause will ever be determined; like most dis-eases, autism likely has multiple factors.  A quick search on the internet can generate a list of at least 25 factors that are potential causes².While the search for causes of autism continues, I would like to suggest that it is time to take a more wholistic approach, both to better understand autism and to offer more avenues for its treatment.

Psychiatrists, as outlined in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-IV³, use a multi-axis system to delineate how other aspects of a person’s life besides just their physical disorder affect their mental illness.  I suggest a similar multi-axis approach in the evaluation of autism (which could likely be used with efficacy in any and all dis-eases).

The axes I propose are not too complicated:

Spiritual
Mental
Emotional
Physical

Nor are the factors I am going to list by any means exhaustive.  Others are encouraged to add to and debate the various factors listed.  What I hope will happen is that interested parties, researchers, and parents begin to think more “globally,” more “whole body,” and thus give  those suffering from autism, both children and parents alike, not only hope but also other tools with which to find real healing.

Physical:

• Autoimmune disease directed toward brain cells, especially those responsible for cognitive and behavorial functions
• Allergy
  • to Foods, but not just wheat and gluten. Consider the other common allergens (egg, dairy, sugar, corn, yeast, chocolate) and anything that the individual may also be allergic to (determined by comprehensive laboratory testing). The “pollutants” in vaccines on which the vaccine is grown may be a culprit here.
  • to Chemicals, both in the environment (in foods, cosmetics, cleaning agents, etc.) and in medicines (again this may be the vaccine link
• Nutritional Disorders
  • Deficiencies of B Complex, Magnesium?
  • Deficiencies or dysfunction of Methyl donors?
  • Endocrine dysfunction? – thyroid, adrenal
• Leaky Gut Syndrome
• Neurodevelopment disorder either primary or as a result of allergy or toxic exposure
• Malabsorption not just in the gut but at the cellular level, perhaps of water molecules themselves which would result in a profound dehydration
• Toxins causing an electron utransferuncoupling metabolic dysfunction, not just an allergic response
  • Heavy Metals
  • Chemicals
  • Bacterial/Viral/Fungal (e.g., Candida) as a result of imbalance in the gut and nutritional state

Mental

“I’m somehow different than other kids.”
“I can’t…”

These ideas may come as a result of or result in such things as

• Cognitive disorders
• Echolalia, similar to stroke patients
• Visual disorders

Emotional

I am bad so I am unlovable.
I don’t love myself.
Other children, even my parents don’t love me.

Spiritual

Personal communication with some who spend their life looking at humans through of the “subtle” energy grid (“subtle” means hard to measure conventionally, not that it is weak or not present) has suggested that a main feature of autism is a significant, even overwhelming, FEAR of life due to stresses in the lives of parents during the pregnancy.  Fetuses certainly respond to music; it only makes sense that they would respond to trauma, fear in mother/parents, and abusive situations.  Any birth trauma above the “normal” could also be causative or additive.

Perhaps Autism as we know it is “merely” a fetal and early childhood form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Regardless of THE cause of autism, in the end it will likely be shown to be a combination of factors all interplaying to result in major dysfunction of mind, body and spirit.  By taking a wider, more wholistic view of causes a wider option of treatments and approaches becomes available.  These could include nutrition, detoxification, careful and measured chelation, various allergy therapies including those performed by Clinical Ecologists, counseling and energetic therapies including sound, color and homeopathy.  And don’t forget the parents as well; they need a similar spectrum of treatment to help them cope.  And both parents and affected children alike need LOTS of LOVE, the greatest Healer of all.

Blessings,

Dr Jon

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¹http://autism.about.com/od/whatisautism/p/autismcauses.htm
²http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_autism
³http://allpsych.com/disorders/dsm.html

33 years ago my soon to be wife, Susan, and I looked forward to life with excitement, anticipation and optimism.   She was completing nursing training with a BS in nursing.  I was completing a Master’s in Chemistry and about to begin Medical School.  Together we would be the perfect tool of Loving Father to bring health and hope to hurting people.

Enter life.

Medical school was depressing in every way, culminating in significant disappointment when realizing medical missions was mostly transference of American technological medicine on people who could not afford it.  Residency was a struggle though had its bright moments when able to help the “downtrodden” poor of Harrisburg, PA.   Life in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia was great but the practice was not so much about helping people get well as just maintaining the status quo.  Meanwhile, the lossin the womb by miscarriage of hard-to-conceive infants  took its toll.

One answer was to search for really helpful ways to assist people gain health and much in this area was discovered in the world of nutrition and natural care.  Unfortunately that isolated me in all ways from the medical community and I found the practice, the career and the ability to truly point people to health dying on the vine.

The organic farm after a few years also failed to produce results, aid for others or even more than a bare minimum of provision for self and family.

A providential move to St Louis rejuvenated the batteries at one level and though there was lots of helping of people going on, there was little about health or healing.  Massage training and practice offered hope once again as a practical means to truly unlock peoples’ hearts in a way that they could truly heal but for whatever reason, either lack of skill or interest, that option also soon withered.

So it would be easy to say that after 33 years I am the fool, and not just an April fool, either.  It would be easy to say I should have stayed in the practice and played the game, made my money, established the career, helped the few who might have been helped and quit dreaming.  Better yet, it would be easy to say I should have been the medical missionary and gone and given my time and energy to people somewhere who didn’t have what we have; could have looked really the great guy to have done that.

However, I continue to be more than an April’s fool for I still believe that there is real and deep healing to be had, healing that does not come out of a pill bottle or even some fancy procedure.  I believe that healing will come when we do the inner work necessary to get past the fear, the disappointment, the grief, the inadequacy we all carry and excuse in ourselves.  I believe that when we can get that naked with ourselves, and with others (confess your sins one to another and you will be healed – James, in the Bible) the expression of freedom and release that it brings will reflect in changed bodies, changed attitudes, changed actions and even changed resources.  I am still fool enough to believe that it will even work for myself as well.

I am still fool enough to believe that when Loving Father created us naked and unashamed and placed us in a Garden of pleasure, it was his intention that we live that way and live each day in close communication and intimate relationship with him.  I am still fool enough to believe that Jesus restored the means and power to live there once again and that Father waits for us to become that intimate with Him once again.  I am still fool enough to believe that loving people is what we are here to do, and not just tokenly with some program or good deed activity, but with our hearts, our lives, our time and our energy, meeting them where they hurt and need and being loved and healed ourselves in the process.

I am still fool enough to want only to be that kind of friend to Him and though all the disappointment and lack and frustration and grief in my own life has made it difficult to experience, my foolish self is holding out for the Garden experience in all its intimacy and fullness and abundance.

I am not just an April fool but a year-round fool for bigger and better.

Love & Blessings,
Dr Jon

There are changes coming in my extended family and hence in my own as well.  My 91 year old father-in-law, the family patriarch, has become seriously demented and has been difficult for my 90-year-old mother-in-law to care for over the last while.  Finally the children have stepped in and are seeing that they both get the care they need and deserve.  So today my wife and I went to visit and talk with staff at the nursing home where he will be living in early May and also to visit the residential center where she will be living.  For them it means the breaking up of home for the last time and living apart, the first time in nearly 67 years.

As I walked the halls of these nursing facilities, both of which are doing a fine job of attempting to care for our elderly loved ones, I had an interesting mix of emotion and revelation come, deep in my core.  It reminded me of my years living in the dorm at college:  hallways with doors to rooms and little else seen;  occasional lounge to sit and read a magazine or chat with fellow residents;  laundry facilities at one end with the sign to limit use to certain hours for the sake of your neighbors.

But the real kicker came with the revelation that this time graduation was not a leaving of these halls to go on to a hopefully full and productive life, but graduation from here was the end of that same life which was so looked forward to in the earlier experience.

Now, as a Jesus-follower, I know that going on from here is to a better place.  Nonetheless, it hit me right in the gut that…..

MOST OF US SPEND OUR TIME ON THE PLANET IN PREPARATION TO DIE AND NOT TO  BLOW THE SOCKS OFF OF LIFE!

It struck me that I have been guilty of exactly that.  I have spent my time, energy and focus being sure to ‘get it right’ and playing safe and, until fairly recently, not asking what I am here to do, what really floats my boat, what ‘makes me hum’ as I like to put it.

So the question gets personal: Why am I wasting my time doing a job that is not who I am, helping someone else make their money while not providing all that my family needs, not doing what Father put me on this planet to do,  not helping others in the way I know I could?

Time is short.  Time to start figuring it out.  Time to get out of “safe” and into “go”.

Then I come home and got into the last chapter of Bernie Siegel’s “Love, Medicine & Miracles” in which he talks about dying and completing unfinished tasks and living and choosing when our time here is done.  Wow.  He also makes the statement, taken from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, that decisions made by reason are made to satisfy others, decisions made by our intuition make us feel good even when they are thought to be crazy, and that when we become authentic we don’t care what others think of us anyway.

So it is crazy that from my background of medicine and massage therapy, with a strong conservative Christian belief system, that I now believe that my purpose here is to offer people a place to come where they can get totally – spiritually, emotionally and physically – naked as a way to quickly and profoundly HEAL.  It is even absurd for me to think that in doing so, all the walls that we put up over the years to protect ourselves from grief and pain and disappointment and abuse of all types and poor body image and low self-esteem will come down when people come to a safe, warm, nurturing environment and start peeling all the layers.  It is unimaginable that my Renegade mind thinks that God created us naked and unashamed for a reason – that we are our most real and most powerful selves when we are the most vulnerable and open and not ashamed to be who we are.  Satan and evil and disobedience may have messed it up but Jesus came and restored and opened the way back to communion with God and vulnerability and unashamedness.  It is crazy and absurd and unimaginable to think all that – except I know and have experienced the truth of it all.  Peeling all my many and high and well-protected layers has brought me life and health and healing, and has opened me up to myself and to my Loving Father God.

It is crazy because my friends and acquaintances will think I have become a dirty old man and the culture will think I am a sex fiend.  Neither of course is true; those attitudes are born from within those who think them and are a parroting of what they have been taught.  Becoming that open is about growing and healing; sex and evil and exploitation and lust are not even in the picture.  Nonetheless, it will be an uphill battle.  But that is OK; Growing and Healing is an uphill battle.

So, bottom line, when it is my turn to live in those sterile halls on that last stop before passing on to the other side, I want to be able to say that I gave it my all, took the risk, headed toward whom and what I was here to be and do.  I want to be a “liver”, not just a “dier”.

What do you need to risk?  Where do you need to get crazy?  Let’s go!

Love & Blessings,

Dr Jon
St Charles, MO

For many years scientists have been looking for the unifying “thing” or force that ties everything else up into one neat package.  When you study physics the same basic principles apply across the board but the energies all have different properties.  Gravity works on large bodies across space but doesn’t seem to work at the atomic and subatomic level; or it works so weakly that its effects are not measurable.  Electromagnetic energy behaves by similar equations but provides different effects.  Now I do not profess to have any significant understanding of all this (would have, perhaps, had I stayed on the original path but along the way got sidetracked [mainstreamed] into medicine), but having taught Physics to home-schoolers have learned that the Unified Theory has four basic energies:

• Gravity
• Electromagnetic Energy
• Weak nuclear forces
• Strong nuclear forces

These are arranged in general order from larger, Newtonian, more “understandable” to smaller, Quantam Physical, esoteric and hardly discernible or measurable though no less important and certainly necessary for existence.

The point of all this is not a treatise on the Unified Theory but to use that concept as an analogy for my own “Unified Theory” of Life.

To my thinking there are four basic “forces” that help explain our life on the planet, and beyond.

First, there is the concept that it is all about  MATH.  My boys read a book in school about a Mr. Bowditch who could navigate by the stars  and do lots of other things in his life because he realized things worked because of the basic principle that

It is all about MATH.

Many aspects of life can be so explained, including even music, for example.  Though we ascribe lots of emotion and “artsiness” to it, one can distill music down to mathematical runs and relationships.  A brilliant marketer, Steven Pierce, has discovered that the stock market operates on an underlying mathematical principle based on the Fibonacci sequence.  Shapes in nature can be described by this same mathematical sequence and architectural designs have been based on this.  One could spend a lifetime exploring and discovering the applications and uses of this in nature.

Second, it goes on from there when you realize that underlying the way things are shaped is the way they interact, so my next maxim is

It is all about Physics.

With Physics, both Newtonian and Quantum, you can take the mathematical relationships inherent in all things and begin to understand how they relate to each other, how they move and effect each other.  Again, many lifetimes have been and will continue to be spent exploring the wonder and amazement built into this aspect of life and living things.

Third, however, is a deeper, stronger level for without this next layer Physics has no meaning and no motion.  The next underlying principle is that

It is all about ENERGY.

Energy is what makes the shapes move and interact so Physics can come into play.  Energy is what powers the molecules  that move and combine in reactions that cause shapes and bodies to grow or deteriorate, substances to combine or come apart.  Energy is what causes life to continue.  But energy is above and beyond both math and physics.  It is harder to quantify and harder to understand.  It doesn’t obviously follow Newtonian or “scientific” principles (though it really does, but some of its scientific principles we have yet to understand so we think it doesn’t).  Energy is what makes Homeopathy work and some of the modalities uses in bodywork such as Reiki, CranioSacral, Pranic Healing and a host of others.  Energy can also be labeled at times “intuition” or “words of knowledge” or “spirit” depending on who is speaking and what vocabulary they are using.  Energy takes the form of  light or electromagnetic waves across awide spectrum to provide many different effects at many different levels.  We often in the Western world ignore, disdain and ridicule effects of energy when it is packaged in ways we do not easily understand.

Finally, there is a fourth underlying force that is above and beyond and greater than all the others, that is even more difficult to quantify or measure, yet is most basic to all of life and existence as we know it.  The fourth principle can be stated as:

It is all about LOVE.

Without Love, there would be no universe at all.  Without Love there would be no personal existence for any of us.  Without Love there would be no relationship.  Without Love there would be no Energy or Physics or Math.  Love is in all and surrounds all.  God is Love and in Love created the universe and planets and persons.  Jesus is Love expressed in a physical form and  by His  Love all things exist and are held together.  Love brings Healing and Peace and Blessing and Light and Purpose.  It is no wonder that Jesus, when asked to sum up life into its simplest aspect stated that first you are to Love God with all of your energy (heart), physics (soul) and body (math) then you are to love yourself and your neighbor equally as well.

It really is all about LOVE!

In summary then, here is my Unified Theory of Life:

• Math
• Physics
• Energy
• Love

Blessings,

Dr Jon

When it comes, it often may come looking differently than one might expect.

When it comes, it does so because the healed one is able to let go of the hopes and expectations and needs and just receive – the word spoken, the gesture given, the thought passed on, the touch that says “I care” – that thing which comes from deep within the heart of the “healer” that brings life to spirit.

When it comes, it is life and breath and sustenance and nurturing to a soul that has admitted its “dyingness”.

It comes from the Heart of Loving Father who shares His Life in us so we can share it with others.

And it comes with healing for the “healer” at the same time.

Amazing!

Blessings,

Dr Jon