Medicine today is undergoing great challenges. It trembles at the idea of treating disease with unproven methods which are associated with superstition and magic, yet at the same time it must accept the success of many techniques which are not based on Western scientific foundations. An explanation arrives from the New Physics of Body Energetics. Now let's find out what this new physics is and who teaches it. *

* Citation from the magazine Dao Za Zhi # 18, Healing: a scientific process

Over the last few months, in light of legislative proposals at hand, considerable debate has been taking place on the topic of non-conventional medicine. On the one side stand those who propose to regularise a certain number, to turn them into the exclusive dominion of doctors. On the other hand are those who assert – and this represents a large number of scientists, among whom great names and Nobel Prize winners – that these therapies lack in “scientific” standing: in other words,are “unproven”.

This stance should be cause for reflection and taken into serious consideration. Not only due to its legitimacy – in that our whole Western world is based on the notion of scientific reasoning – but also because it conceals the true baseline problem which, in light of the superficial nature of the debate up until today, has not been even lightly broached: i.e., thatdoctors would appropriate themselves of the very unconventional medicines which have not yet been attributed a “scientific validity”, which seems to be quite contradictory. In other words: if unconventional medicine can be practiced solely by doctors and if doctors prescribe solely that which is scientifically proven, what possibilities could there be for the future existence of these alternative treatments ?

Proven truths ?

Hence there is a need to search for new explanations which go well beyond the ones generally offered by those who support alternative forms of treatment. The most standard explanation reads more or less like this: "It is true that we are unable to demonstrate our efficacy on the basis of the scientific method, however the treatment is proven through its direct practice. As demonstrated for example by the success of homeotherapy, ayurvedic medicine or acupuncture, which for years have been applied with good outcomes throughout the world. In the final analysis, it is not the scientific recognition or qualification of a treatment which should interest those who truly wish to heal, but rather its efficacy".

This is a correct and sensible, yet insufficient response. In that it does not satisfy those who, in opposition to "alternative" therapies, generally raise their shoulders and attribute the success behind these treatments to the well known "placebo effect". The response that many recoveries have taken place among "non-influentiable" subjects (such as newborns and even animals), is further rebuked by the lack of sufficient studies evidencing their net cause-effect, which is one of the basic elements of the scientific method. However at this point the debate becomes sterile, since the substantial problem is that the healing mechanism behind these forms of therapy (as we will soon see) is based on completely different criteria. It would seem therefore, that while on the one hand their efficacy does exist, on the other their scientific demonstrability remains impossible. So that the question of the credibility and the dignity of unconventional medicine still remains open.

The Physics of Body Energetics

Yet is it really true ? Are we really sure that we cannot search deeper into the study of the efficacy of the alternative therapies ? At play is not solely the recognition, or not, of many types of treatment, but the concept of healing itself. What is healing and what are the deepest mechanisms behind it ? Only when we are able to respond to this question, will we have also resolved the problem of offering an clear explanation for this or that kind of therapy. At which point, we will not only satisfy those who "want to know how it works", but we will also open up for ourselves new and unfathomable horizons, certainly rich in developments for both medicine and for overall human well-being.

This is the research field of the New Physics, also known as the Physics of Body Energetics. .This science specializes in the human body, although it could be said that it is as near to classical medicine as today's physics is near to that of Newton's. With respect to a mechanistic, technical view of the organism functioning (the human being as machine: perfect, yet still a machine), here we hypothesize the study of human beings from the prospect of energy, wherein pathologies are seen as a change or perturbation of this energy.

In effect, the foundations which explain how vibrational medicine works were first laid by Einstein's discoveries, and later from quantum physics, beginning with the idea that nothing is as it once was. From the famous equation E=mc2, we know that the difference between matter and energy is highly relative, in that they are reciprocally interchangeable. A photon, for example, can behave both as a wave and as a particle, as the case may be. In addition, every illusion on the solidity and the permanency of matter breaks down, if we think that 99% of every atom is pure emptiness and that 90% of all the matter which comprises our physical bodies today is different from how it was a year ago.

The 'intelligent' body

By widening our concept of matter, we have no choice but to admit that there may exist a principle of “intelligence”, a sort of program (the Dao Za Zhi. N.d.A.) – comparable to the software in a computer – which regulates individual dispositions and characteristics. In nature nothing occurs by chance: in the context of our bodies alone, infinite processes regulate the birth of new cells, the disappearance of old ones, the workings of every infinitesimal part of our organism. They supervise operations of extreme complexity which at the same time can be looked upon as part of the “ordinary administration”, for example the healing of a wound or the readjustment of a bone fracture. In the same manner, they can intervene in the spontaneous healing of grave illnesses: that is, those events – which are still a long way from finding a scientific explanation – in which the immune system is able to defend itself against a pathology (cancer or otherwise) which under normal conditions would be devastating. The English physicist D. Bohm hypothesized the existence of an “invisible field” which keeps reality together as a whole, a field which “possesses the property of knowing all that occurs everywhere, contemporaneously”. Who is or what is “that great director” behind every process, which we deem responsible for the principle of healing itself ? Given that it organizes and commands matter, evidently it is not matter. Its essence must be searched for well beyond the chemical-mechanical field, since it is more likely to be found by moving closer towards the field of energetic physics (…).

Barbara Gulminelli – Laura Gioli