FEATURE

Can we comprehend much more than we can grasp?

Prof. B. M. Hegde,
hegdebm@gmail.com

Science should try and understand Nature. That is the main purpose of science. Technology, on the other hand is for making money. It has brought lots of personal comforts to mankind. Therefore, it is venerated by all. Unfortunately, technology is pushing science beyond its calling of understanding nature to trying to teach nature a lesson or two to get the industry make a faster buck! In this bargain many scientists are being pushed to make science bend to the wishes of the vested interests, engineered by the greedy industry, unbeknownst to the scientists. A few scientists also join hands with the industry in their clandestine designs. This today is the bane of science. Basic science has changed a lot and has almost come closer to spirituality and eastern philosophy but the technocrats are resisting that wisdom to come to common knowledge.

Our dilemma today is due to the confusion of having the 19th century science, 20th century technology and, 21stcentury wisdom to grapple with. Western science minus quantum physics is dead science. This is glaring in biology. The new evolutionary biology has thrown new light on evolution sans the time honoured Darwin-Mendel conundrum. This world which had been in existence for four billion years had the first two billion with germs running the show all by themselves. They made even their initial mistakes and learnt their lessons. They then mutated to live in harmony and invented chlorophyll for energy. They further went in for compassion by donating their individual DNAs to form the first nucleated cell. Doesn’t this sound like Indian philosophy of “paropakaararthamidamshareeram?” (we live for others) That nucleated cell (zygote) is our origin. Human biology (physiology) is a closed system in systems biology. The zygote goes on dividing to make eventually what you and I are. We are not organs separately put together to make a whole. It is the whole which has divided to become a bigger whole. Therefore we have a large baggage of our ancestors, the germs, with us. In fact, we are outnumbered by them 1:10. Finally human body is a happy colony of 120 trillion human cells and ten times that number of germ cells.

Energy being the same as matter the human body becomes an illusion of the human mind. It is natural that one cannot touch or feel the mind but you can make out its effects. It is the consciousness which has no particle shape but has only a wave existence and is found all over the body and outside of it also. It is in fact the canvas on which our emotions and thoughts are flashed. The human body can change from particle to wave and back almost 1024 (Planck's constant) times here in a second. Just as an atom has the blueprint of a molecule in it, the human wave form has the blue print of its particle form as well. In short, all living things are interconnected-not just human beings alone. This can be made use of in quantum healing where self healing is achieved by making the wave forms to change the particle form as and when needed. We have the power to heal ourselves in the unlikely event of our falling ill?

This was my research interest for the last five years and I am happy to state that I have found encouraging results. I am yet to publish these data but the results were so compelling that I have started using the method on willing patients with their informed consent. At times I try it on myself. I did not regret it so far. Theoretically anything from common cold to cancer could be helped, but this needs the active participation of the patient in a tranquil state of mind, say meditating. Since is world is incredibly interactive and coherent at all levels it is unlikely that the individual consciousness units are distinct from the universal consciousness. Consciousness is fundamental part of all existence. David Bohm and others have clearly shown that in physics and mathematics there is good evidence for a deeper organising and informing wave function. As Hans Peter Duerr put it "matter is not made out of matter" but only of energy.

Unfortunately, western medicine is still neck deep in Newtonian 19th century physics of deterministic predictability. That is where we are able to comprehend only what we see or feel but not what we do not see. Our five senses are the only source of our information. Out there is this vast sea of quantum wisdom that can not be grasped using the linear mathematics of Newtonian physics. Our medical training has not changed while science has changed completely since 1925 when Werner Heisenberg propounded the Uncertainty principle. 21st century is the century of new biology where consciousness rules the roost. All matter is derived from consciousness. Today we can comprehend much more than what we can grasp with out five senses. Let us make use of that new knowledge to help the suffering humanity. That will, of course, change the course of modern medical practice. The medical technocrats and the trillion dollar drug lobby may not be so upbeat about this new found wisdom in medicine as it does not bring them greater joy materially. Materialistic science of medicine should give place to the new Reality. The caption of this paper is taken from one of Hans Peter' s writings in quantum physics.