Divination and Diagnosis

In every corner of the world there are cultures that believe they can "see" what is physically wrong with a person by examining something in the outer physical world that may or may not have any direct relationship to the person being diagnosed. In China, the ''something'' might be a pattern of tea leaves. In some Amazon tribes, the diviner diagnoses what is wrong by the way an egg appears after it has touched the diseased person.

In our modern world, we usually dismiss divination, including Tarot cards and ''psychic readings,'' as only so much superstition. We fail to understand how there can be any possible link between a divination tool and the person to whom it applies.

The medical community, of course, thinks this idea is totally outrageous, and long ago simply disregarded divination as a possibility.

Why do we want to talk about divination in this issue about alternative healing? Simply because the reality in which divination makes perfect sense is the reality in which alternative healing operates. Without this discussion, many alternative healing methods would seem as improbable as the magician pulling rabbits out of a hat.

The Physics of Interconnection

All things are intimately interconnected. The human body and the human spirit are not separate from the physical reality. Yet because of our duality consciousness, our way of perceiving reality, we experience life as though we are living inside of our bodies, with the outer world being separate from us. It almost seems as though what happens in the outer world has nothing to do with us unless it directly touches our lives.

The Hindus have known for many centuries that we are not separate from the outer world ... that what happens anywhere in Reality affects everything else in Reality. In India, this perception of separation is called maya - illusion.

Now, today, NASA has discovered through science that the Hindus have been right all along. According to Edgar Mitchell, the astronaut who landed on the moon,[*] NASA has finally discovered the Unified Field Theory - the Holy Grail that science has been seeking for many decades. The Unified Field Theory resolves the anomalies that seem to exist between the Special Theory of Relativity and the theories of Quantum Physics, creating a new Theory of Everything (affectionately known by physicists as a "TOE"). This Theory of Everything simply states that the outer reality is holographic in nature. With holograms, if you take a small piece of the picture, it will contain the image of the entire hologram. And if you take a piece of that piece, the new, smaller piece will still contain the whole picture.

To say that reality is a hologram means that if you take any piece of reality, however small, you will find in this piece the image of the entire Reality -- this universe and all possible universes. And if you break another piece off of this original piece, you will still see the entire Reality.

In other words, accordiing to Mitchell, NASA has found that any object in this reality contains the image of the entire Reality, including the complete star pattern of the heavens!

Everything is interconnected.

Further, Mitchell says, NASA has discovered that any object can be found not only where it is observed, but also "anywhere in time and space." Everything is located everywhere.

An ancient Chinese book, the I Ching or Book of Changes - a set of divinations written down over 5,000 years ago - says the same thing that NASA is just now discovering. According to the I Ching, all things are interconnected, and they move in predetermined cycles. The book carefully describes how random selection from a pile of 64 sticks, or the tossing of three coins, will enable the diviner to understand the state of affairs for whatever question he or she is thinking about.

Even more incredibly, the 64 changes and the 384 moving lines of the I Change have been shown to map the DNA molecule perfectly, proving that this ancient knowledge is based upon actual reality. The I Ching writings were not created at random.

So in these two instances - the modern world of NASA and the ancient world of China - we find total agreement that all things are intimately interconnected, and that what happens with anything in the reality effects everything else in the Reality. This fact is the basis of divination.

In another article is this issue, on the Aura Soma healing approach, a bottle containing two diverse liquids, one oil-based and the other water-based, are shaken. The way that the two liquids recombine after they have been shaken tells the healer what is wrong with the person to be healed.

Meditators, especially those who have been practicing for a period of years, often reach the place of simply perceiving the holographic nature of everyday reality. When this happens, no proof is required. It becomes clear through experience that the inner world of the human spirit - dreams, visions, feelings, emotions, thoughts, psychic impressions, and so on - and the outer world of the physical universe are a perfect mirror of each other. Almost any book on meditation discusses this revelation of Oneness that occurs to those who meditate long enough to achieve it.

So with this idea as our basis, we will now tell you the story of how one Amazon healer uses an egg to diagnose his patients. As you read this, simply realize that there may be more to some of these ancient systems of healing then meets the eye, and that we offer this knowledge as a possibility you may wish to explore.

* In his talk at the Prophets Conference in the Yucatan, Mexico, in September 1999.

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