Indian holistic science follows the logic that we are a part of our Cosmos, and thus the percentage composition of the essential natural elements within an ideal healthy human body “must” be similar to the original composition of the elements in our earth! To linear science this is nonsense - to holistic science it should appear obvious. Most of our scientific norms are based on linear logic which imply by reflex, design and learning that any further study must usually be based on a closer specific enquiry. The word detail is synonymous with "close". Modern science – rarely takes a step backwards to get a (w) holistic view. While human acceptance is quite involuntary and natural - scientific chronology cannot seem to find the common ground.

Modern medical education and scientific research of the human body has meant a ‘closer study’ of its parts as components with greater study of "each in isolation" ( defining the word specialization). While the direction of scientific study is generated mainly by mental temper ; the method of study is dependant on the "study tools" that we have. Modern science focused on tools that enabled a closer inspection or study and these, constantly improved. The functioning of the body has thus been very well explained with the individual parts operating in tandem as a linear machine. The existence and management of rapid change within the human body however is controlled by our “immunity"; whose working is “chaotic” and not easily explained by linear logic.

We thus see the sharp rise in immunity-linked disease, and these being increasingly classified as "life-threatening" despite the greater and very detailed (down to the cellular and genetic level) knowledge we have of each “body” part and its working.

Holistic science would thus “anticipate” that as the earth’s composition changes with environment depletion (a conversion in form and content) the human body must also suffer or benefit accordingly.

Modern science developed hybrid seeds, increased output, created life extending health care and provides us with disease fighting products. We have improved our intake and diet. As a result, we now live longer, have become bigger, heavier, smarter all linear developments and benefits during an era where the results were always expected to be sequential and cumulative.

All inputs however must reach a point of “Relative Saturation” - beyond which the benefits from the inputs give an output far below earlier norms. The focus of Health Management has in the linear era been successfully based on “external” intake of nutrition and the battle with the “external” causes of disease.

In this Non Linear Era we now require to internalize and anticipate the changes that are taking place “within” the body.

It is relevant to hypothesize that the continued linear benefits to our health thought - would have been forthcoming so long as nature had more to give and was sustainable. The linear benefits have continued till the "critical point" where our consumption was lower than Nature's ability to renew itself so as to retain its basic elemental content!".

We are now however at the point where society CONSUMES MORE than nature can renew and thus the ecosystem is unable to sustain itself. Pollution and Depletion as a result of over exploitation of natural resources, have changed the basic composition of our immediate “cosmos” - and therefore the human body has to react to this new incompatibility. Though the human body has no doubt started to adapt - this change and cannot be studied based on current linear scientific logic. Modern medicine (dependant on economics) is based on the post-disease system of study. The Non Linear era requires systems that reveal “pre-occurrence” so as to enable preventive inputs.

Waiting for the occurrence of disease before our reaction will create chaos. This “chaos” unfortunately may not offer us the - management options discussed earlier. We cannot increase “mass” as one of our solutions. There is not much more of “Nature's Elements” left to exploit. We must therefore change our “INPUTS” to save our “cosmos” not merely in environmental terms but directly integrated our “our health”.

The new diseases of the modern era are indicative of this change as more seem to occur from the failing of our immunity system. This shows that the problem is a “fundamental” one - a universal one. Non Linear logic can say that a specific “change in our environment” would create disharmony within the body even beyond its natural flexibility and adaptabilities. The human body would ultimately evolve itself to “change” and so as to live amidst increasing levels of pollution, chemical contamination and carbon dioxide - but that will require a few millenniums.

Non Linear Thinking permits the medical community to approach disease management and control in a different way. Questions within NLT cannot be easily accepted by modern science because NLT requires diminished credibility to the past! Perhaps the approach needs to be as science seems to accepting what they refer to as "evidence-based medicine or learning". Holistic sciences have to be approached on the same basis.

So, are we being attacked by “new viruses” or is the human body itself changing (weakening) so as to permit newer viruses to emerge?
Do new viruses evolve because of their strength or our weakness?
Is a new virus NEW or is it the OLD virus that has now evolved because its HOST is weaker and changed?

The first linear improvements within healthcare increased the capability of the human body to “take more” variation; because of better nutrition, knowledge of vitamins, and ability to fight bacteria. This now seems to have reached its relative saturation.

The frequent breakdown of “immunity” systems is indicative of the bodies internal inability and its struggle to cope. Medical science now needs to study the additional possibility where the “Changed body or Lower immunity” is resulting in renewed mutation of bacteria and virus - or permitting the erstwhile dormant ones to emerge as an apparently “new” ones!.

These “changes” may not only be attributable to then new viruses, our drugs, or the body in isolation. These changes may in fact be “created” because of the imbalances and deficiencies in our soil which gives us our food. The body receives its nourishment and energy from the food that is ingested - but its immunity is replenished from the rare constituents of the specific soil within our traditional geography. Today we grow food on a top soil that is no longer “original” in content and eat food grown in distant lands. What is the effect from the ingestion of a food that would normally not be available within our geography or in the current season?? To Non Linear Thinking this would reveal that there must be a good natural reason why a certain food did not grow at a time of the year? Most likely, it grew in a geography and at a time of the year because it was therapeutically beneficial to the life forms in that geography and region.

The logic of “wanting proof” - provides an excuse to science to ignore the impending consequences. Our inability to alter our mindset to research simple logic will damage the “existing” economic activity that could be threatened - post occurrence. But we also must be sympathetic and understand that since economics is the driver of values WHO would fund a research that would actually imply a REDUCTION in economic activity??? Linear logic would not justify this thought process.

It is a paradox to talk of managing the future within linear logic. Our focus on today's self to be based on the past - dulls our ability to even study the future as a visible end.

A consumer survey would perhaps reveal a comfortable acceptance that our body and our healthcare relationship with the earth / cosmos is logical and obvious in hindsight - But not scientifically proven!

Can we actually wait for scientific proof to accept the visual and apparent fact after an irreversible point?

Differentiating Health & Immunity!

The writer is familiar as a non-technical participant in recurring research and study of the “immune system” being undertaken by an Ayurvedic Cancer research trust. Their holistic logic is extended to say that it is the “metals” in the human body that are the fundamental controllers of the immunity system. This science is described as a specific part of 'AYURVEDA' - the Rasayan Shastra or the science of Metals.

As in the Earth, the percentages of metals are minute and the range is varied. While their 'elemental forms' are varied, their presence in small quantities make it extremely difficult to trace, qualify or quantify the low, “incalculable” percentage to the total Earth's mass!

Our increase in intake of protein, vitamins, carbohydrate and fat levels have provided us an extended linear growth and positive development till the 'point'. This is proven by the documented damage the “excesses” are able to create beyond the levels of relative saturation (chaos).

The good management of health should have thus automatically given us a better control to manage immunity, it has not ! The increase in immunity linked disease means that the linear connection between good health and immunity - have started to become non linear.

We are aware that chemicals, pollution, diet imbalances, and stress are contributing to our immunity disorders. On the common low end we have Asthma, Arthritis - extending to the more uncommon life threatening ones such as Multiple Sclerosis, Cancer etc. These ailments are caused within the body - and not due to an external invader. Immunity is “self-created”.

Linear medical sciences study disease as caused by external factors. They have a specific disadvantage studying disease linked to the immunity system as a Non Linear phenomena when the body is invoking a self destruct activity. Though chemical processing, fertilized soils, genetically altered hybrid seeds, factory based protein production have provided us MORE linear availability through output - the scientifically enhanced products are now devoid of the natural, critical metals, minerals, which were absorbed by the agro plants growing on the “natural soil”. Natural Soil being defined as soil content of that geography that would match the original composition of a normal human of local descent. Even animals grazing and feeding on natural fodder would have metabolized and absorbed these minerals. Their meat or milk subsequently ingested would provide the supplement needed by the body - to maintain its immunity balance and resistance.

Replenishing the body with rare metals externally or artificially is considered technologically complex and unsafe to be injected in its natural form.

According to Rasayan, a cleansing' process to make these heavy metals non-toxic is available through repeated cycles of heating mixing and grinding; and with each cycle being repeated 50’s and 100’s of times to prepare the raw material. The final product could then be used for oral formulations which the human body can easily absorb and metabolize.

It is detailed in traditional Rasayan processing and therapy that it requires 1 to 3 years of processing for most of the metal based “ingredients” using man-made methods to be transformed into a non-toxic state that can be metabolized by the digestive system Obviously the methods are slow and manual, but the “time” required for processing, heating, is specific and would not change drastically, even with automat.

The repeated processes do not confirm to our current scientific norms, as the same process done upto a 100 times loses its linear logic. But these products are not used for linear ailments and thus their logic and link still remains unacceptable to modern science.

This traditional science seems to use what we consider “chaotic” processes to develop products needed for complex medical treatment, and for health disorders that are Non Linear.

Today these complex sciences have almost vanished as traditional processors cannot afford the true gestation for correct processing required for effective metal based therapies. Though a research based trust has been formed with a view to provide maximum scientific creditability and logic to the end action of the medicine - when produced correctly as per the system; the time required to “document” this process would itself go far beyond 10 to 15 years - to evaluate the logic as per modern norms.

A “life-saving” science that was written and documented 4000 years ago is itself a neglected rarity. There is little return for traditional holistic medicine manufacturers practitioners in treating general and linear ailments, promising sex potions, than to provide life saving drugs because the evaluation systems are based on modern science; which cannot accept this complexity. What is erroneously referred to as alternative medicine; the impetus comes from the natural consumer demand for herbal and natural products. Science has done very little to promote natural usage.

For serious and life threatening disorders these sciences remains - a last resort. This will change - but based on change that will be initiated by the consumer and because of the patient benefits ; not because of Linear research systems within modern science.

Traditional science believed that “metals” were a part of the genetic gift to commence a healthy life, and the correct “diet” guaranteed the continuous supplement and replenishment based on natural depletion. (aging).

A non-technical “Paradox Evaluation” (a sort of evidence-based learning) would reveal that almost every natural product had a darker color when it was natural and wild. The brown/yellow content has been lost as the product has been synthesized or artificially produced was this “darkness” the based on the natural mineral content within the soil and absorbed by plants as a natural process of metabolizing of the elements? Are the “natural dark” contents the equivalent form of “Beta-Carotene type of substances”?

Milk, Wheat, Eggs, Meats, Grain, all seem to have lost their mineral color as their natural production has been manipulated. We are now at a point - where “white” has become the look that the consumer expects and perceives to be a sign of purity! We would perhaps need “media” help to make us change the perception of “white” being representative of natural and pure. It must be now be explained and seen that white should signify “devoid” of health or value. Traditionally, persons whose diet has been based on natural and wild (in this case, village or tribal) produce have had a better immunity even if they have “poorer health”. The deterioration in health has been due to the shortage of “natural” produce and their economic inability to afford purchase of food for a balanced diet. While they have however a lower incidence of immunity linked disorders, but more health problems because of their deficient intake and poverty.

Health and Immunity should thus be seen as TWO separate parts of an integral whole; Health being the linear and Immunity the Non Linear component! Both requiring a different approach but for the same benefit and body.

We need to ask Non Linear questions?
Could there be a link between a good immunity (metals) and a strong mind or will?
Does exercise “strengthen” the immunity system or just the body?
Could stress deplete metal content or does a depleted metal balance make people more vulnerable to stress?
Could the “Magnetic forces” or the Universe have a defined though varied effect on the health and the mind because of the metals within the body?

We know that “Radiation” is a key factor that destroys Immunity. The link between Immunity disorders and the radiation created by the "magnetic field" created by High Voltage Electricity lines is a subject of great controversy. Could Astrology be linked to this logic? These are non-sensual questions based on Linear logic - but perhaps linked to us through “a science which we currently call chaos”.

The logic is as non linear as the very common experience of “cold water” bathing which seems to strengthen the immunity system against recurrence of the “common cold”.

IMMUNITY is either basic or genetic and therefore believed that it could not be easily supplemented as that is for enhancement of Health. But it is clear that immunity can be lost due to an extreme reaction, to radiation, pollution, chemicals, mental “shock”, stress or gradually eroded by all of these - and naturally by age. So it is further surmised that if 2/3 generations of the modern human does not receive naturally grown food as a “supplement” than the adequate “natural gene gift" would naturally weaken the immunity gradually and of the subsequent generation.

In the Non Linear era immunity linked disorders preoccupy our medical community and these disorders are seen to be appearing “earlier” in the newer generations. Since health management and its management is sequential ; our science is totally suited to manage and improve our health. The dramatic change in the physical form of humans in a relatively “short” time provides us the conclusive evidence, that man and science have a strong control and knowledge on human health. Health can be created, imbibed, lost and regained. Immunity once lost - is difficult to replenish. This is based on our “current” level of knowledge.

“Immunity” could thus be outside the “realm” of sequential scientific logic. Non Linear Thinking and chaology will help - and would perhaps require the acceptance of old documentation of “holistic” science and medicine. Science itself has shown that “chaos” can be reinterpreted to reveal a logical pattern, if the reference is changed from Micro-study (going closer) to a Macro/Holistic view (stepping back).

Modern science had first chosen the preferred route of “micro” study. The progress along this route has been accelerated based on the availability of a continuously increasing computing power and ability towards micro-study and miniaturization. Micro science and Electronics are the tools that seem to give us the confident feeling that “we will know” more and more as we go closer to the point of origin. The huge array of computers that have continuously calculated and ultimately intend to make a full map of the DNA of most life forms is a fantastic mega project and in the correct direction. The time estimate of mapping would be in years . While this will give us critical information to positively increase our linear “know-how” of the human body - the know - why will perhaps require a different route!

So while today we believe with good reason that there is more detail about the body INSIDE the micro unit and within the internal environment - traditional sciences had found logic to believe that similar link existed externally (also in great detail) between the body and all that was connected to it on the outside -leading them into the cosmos and finally to the mind.

It is unfortunate that this was viewed as esoteric and linked to religious beliefs. The acceptance of traditional science poses a problem, because of the differing methodology not only in the method of study BUT the of documentation itself. We require to see that the divide is essentially created because of the use of a different investigative process that seems to separate the scientific direction. Further the documentation was linked to Religion and prose perhaps because the 'documenting and learned literate' was also close to local religion. (Study was almost always funded by religious order because they were the economic controller.) Though both used different tools we require the maturity to note that the perceived opposite views are of the same picture -and hence perceived opposite views are of the same picture - and hence not ALTERNATE but COMPLIMENTARY or at the very least ADJUVANT!

Modern science perhaps commenced their direction with the "magnifying glass and the microscope as their triggers" to reveal an increasing MICRO view that provided them more and more details. Tradition sciences (old holistic systems) used a MACRO process of stepping back which revealed to them that every part is infact an integrated part of a continually larger and larger subsequent whole!

Unfortunately, for most of us that neither can use their own logic and tools to evaluate the other!

Non Linear Thinking would surmise that even for “macro” based study the relative saturation must have come at some point in the ancient times - and therefore their growth reduced. Their science thus was hidden in History and forgotten by the modern human whose new spirit of enquiry was commenced on the “micro” route of scientific development.

The fact that the documentation of holistic medicine as seen in Ayurveda seemed to indicate a fairly complete knowledge of the human body and its ailments. The writing is extremely detailed and does not indicate the unknown areas. This is perhaps proof that they had achieved their relative saturation. What was developed and known upto that point was written down as a know - how and as a how - to manual to be merely followed. Development therefore must have been slow because the treatments were kept static for long periods. Traditional science would have at that point thus started to concentrate more on applications (treatment) than new development. They obviously “erred” in their reduced enthusiasm and level of enquiry because at some point the greater discoveries of micro science gave an increased impetus to scientific minds to shift their vision from macro to micro study.

Non Linear Thinking therefore must make us logically accept that there is a stage of relative saturation that will have to slow down the micro-study approach as we can see the indicators. The costs of research itself limits the number and hence the returns have a will continue to diminish. Getting to this point of relative saturation is however critical to medical science as the benefits based on these huge (though narrow) investments are beyond valuation. We live longer today because of the benefits that have accrued through this investment. Our socio-economic progress has afforded our technological linear growth through our improved health.

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Gene Therapy

We should also remain confident that micro sciences will continue to yield some promise; though at higher costs and therefore will yield limited benefit for the majority because of huge research costs. (Most of South Asia would be outside the benefit range.) Gene replacement and therapy promise to be the “sureshot” winner of the near future. Almost the entire medical community is sure that it will provide the key treatment for sufferers of serious ailments.

We will however see that the FIRST new break-through and treatments will come about from the major directional changes that will be made within these NEW Linear systems by replacing the thrust of medical science from attack on disease to correction and prevention - Replacement of the defective gene and/or by blocking the advent of disease, by interception of the instruction or restricting the growth rather than by attacking the disease itself.

Paradoxically, however this directional change is a strong indicator of the need to start the process of integration of both sciences.

Non Linear Thinking and feedback should also tell us that disease (virus) itself as an organism could increase through its own intelligence, developing its ability to circumvent our efforts. The “chaology” of the changing constituents within our body and our reduced immunity could create new ways to malfunction because the body itself will have new deficiencies and vulnerability. This will continue and coincide with the increasing depletion and change in the form and content of our earth. Our body must change and be effected accordingly. Should we wait for linear logic to acquire the tools to prove this?

We are thus already on the edge of admitting “chaology” into the main stream because it is confronting us at every point of relative saturation in technology, economics and human values.

Modern Science now accepts vaccination because it works and has great revenue potential despite being a preventive - and though its benefits are clear its working within the immunity systems is not. We will accept that a "defective gene can be identified and hence should be changed” as defective genes can be replaced by technological advancement.
But why did the Gene change? - It is a question that would continue to remain unanswered for a longer period.

Non Linear Thinking would surmise that while we will identify that 99% plus of all genes are common to human and the animal kingdom - the final gene pool that separates the human from the animal kingdom would be created by INDIVIDUALS BASED ON "their current thoughts and current environment and thus external to the body. These 'self-created' genes are the ones that create the final control on our “longevity".

In “Quantum Healing”, Deepak Chopra uses the science of Quantum Physics to explains that on a “molecular level” our bodies are made of 99.999% empty space and thus he considers life to be a form of “energy” consisting of “thoughts”.

Would the analyses of this “empty space” within our molecule finally link the TWO sciences of “MICRO” study and “MACRO” study - to reveal the real and tangible connection between the cosmos and the body through the “mind”?

FINALLY, ALL STUDY OF NATURE WILL ALMOST ALWAYS TAKE US BACK TO THE FUTURE BUT THROUGH A DIFFERENT ROUTE OR PROCESS !!

Non Linear Thinking will always help us use our 'old resources' in a new way to yield a new direction. . . changed inputs to once again get better output from the same resource. ( see "What is NLT?" & "Edicts of NLT" )