Spiritual medicine has been an important component of traditional societies since ancient times. Because the concepts of this form of medicine don’t fit easily into western biomedicine’s paradigms, its efficacy and potential has been discounted and dismissed. But as more westerners are clamoring for meaning, in their lives and in their medicine, spiritual medicine is being paid closer attention. Furthermore, other branches of the sciences have … [Read more...]
Archives for 2001
Shamanism, Mysticism and Quantum Borders of Reality
Introduction
Not too long ago, I had a dream in which I was in a large Victorian mansion that had many floors and many rooms on each of the floors. I was running from floor to floor, going in and out of the rooms. I then passed a room that was on a landing, next to a flight of stairs. This room was padlocked, chained to let out any intruders. A voice then said to me, “This room contains the secrets of your psyche. No one is allowed to enter, … [Read more...]
Healing Self, Transforming Self, Transforming Society
In quantum theory, it has been shown that an entity is both particle-like and wave-like at the same time, and spreads out across the universe in infinite positions. The best way to conceive of this is to take a pluralistic perspective, to embrace the broadest approach possible: what can be called the integral view.
Integral means to integrate, to bring together, to join, to link, and to embrace (Wilber, 2000a, p. 2). If we adopt … [Read more...]