Conventional medicine is still struggling to accept a simple notion well understood by alternative medicine- that there is a direct link between physical health and mental health. This should come as no surprise considering the fact conventional medicine focuses so narrowly on treating acute symptoms that it ignores the larger, more interconnected issues of wellness and health altogether. Medical doctors tend to focus solely on the ten inches of the human body that is their expertise, often ignoring the continuity between the rest of the patients body, their diet and lifestyle. Conventional medicine prescribes one set of drugs for mental problems and another set of drugs for physical problems, all the while refusing to entertain the notion stating the root causes of both may bare a more-than-passing resemblance to each other. It chooses to primarily recognize a bio-chemical paradigm for both mental and physical illness, when mountains of clinical data indicate that is just not the case.
What Makes Some Medicine “Alternative”
Assembling a definition of “Alternative Medicine” which encompasses the entirety of the discipline is difficult (if not impossible) as people use the term “Alternative Medicine” to describe any ...
One of the most remarkable movies to come out in recent years is “What the Bleep Do We Know”, commonly referred to simply as “What the Bleep.” The movie’s genre is a little hard to pin down as it combines a variety of different film-making styles to explore its central message of the connections between the material and immaterial worlds. Utilizing documentary footage, animation and a traditional film narrative, “What the Bleep” showcases how a host of exciting scientific and spiritual concepts relate to an individual’s life, including their overall wellness and health.
What the Bleep, in Brief
To summarize “What the Bleep” very briefly:
The movie centers on a photographer who finds running into a number of life experiences that begin to awaken her to metaphysical concepts such as the effect soul and mind power have on the world. The movie explores these ideas through an exploration of both individual and group consciousness. These metaphysical ideas are discussed through both spiritual concepts and cutting edge quantum physics, which validates its spiritual concepts through scientific experimentation and mathematics.
“What the Bleep” constantly draws connections between how material ...
One of the problems members of different spiritual traditions run into while attempting to communicate with each other is the fact they all use different words to explain the same basic principles. With a little research into different traditions it becomes clear that the only differences between one and the other is the words they use, the settings of the stories they tell, and the masks they throw over ultimate meaning to give it accessible shape and form. For example, let’s take a minute to consider the connections between Holy Spirit and Chi.
The Basics of Holy Spirit
If you know anything about Holy Spirit you know it as the third, and least mentioned, member of the trinity within the Christian tradition. According to the Christian understanding of the world the ultimate divine source is divided into the Father (God, Yahweh), the Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit. Together they are known as the Holy Trinity, and while this makes it sound like Christianity is more polytheistic than it claims, many Christians understand the Holy Trinity as simply describing 3 different ...
