CHAPTER -7
Destiny Unfolded;
Destiny –Is it determined by heredity
Do your genes determine your entire
life?
Whenever you read stories about identical twins
separated at birth, they tend to follow the template set by the most remarkable
the two Jims. James Springer and James Lewis were separated as one-month-old, adopted by different
families and reunited at age 39. When University
of Minnesota psychologist, Thomas Bouched met them in 1979, he
found as a Washington Post article
put it, both had married and divorced a woman named Linda and remarried a Betty.
They shared interests in mechanical drawing and carpentry; their favorite school subjects had been math, their least favorite, spelling. They smoked
and drank the same amount and got headaches at the same time of day; the
similarities were uncanny. A great deal of who
they would turn out to be appears to have been written in their genes.
Other studies at the world’s leading Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research suggest that
many of our traits are more than 50% inherited, including obedience to
authority, vulnerability to stress, and risk-seeking. Researchers have even
suggested that when it comes to issues such as religion and politics, our
choices are much more determined by our genes than we think. Many find this
disturbing. The idea that unconscious
biological forces drive our beliefs and actions, would seem to pose a real
threat to our free will. We like to think that we make choices on the basis
of our own conscious deliberations. But isn’t all that thinking things over
irrelevant if our final decision was already written in our genetic code. And
doesn’t the whole edifice of personal responsibility collapse if we accept that
my genes made me do it ? To address
concerns, we first need to look a bit more closely at what the experience of identical twins (same zygotes) really
show. Professor Tim Spector has been
studying identical twins at King’s College London for more than
20 years. From the start of his research in the early 1990 s, it became evident
to Spector that identical twins were always more similar than brothers or sisters
or non-identical twins (separate zygotes). At the time, however,
social scientists hated the idea that genes were an important determinant of
who we were, particularly in those rather controversial areas like IQ, personality
and beliefs. As one of the many scientists who took the gene-centrist view of the universe for granted, Spector wanted to prove them wrong, and to prove that there is
nothing that’s not genetic to some extent. Today he looks back on this as part
of his overzealous genetic phase. It is perhaps understandable that Spector got caught up in gene mania. The launch in 1990 of the human genome project, which aimed to map
the complete sequence of human DNA, came at the beginning of a decade that
would mark the high point of optimism about how much our genes could tell us. Daniel Koshland, then editor of the
prestigious journal Science, captured
the mood when he wrote: “The benefits to science of the genome project are
clear. Illnesses such as manic depression,
Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, and heart diseases
are probably all mutagenic and even
more difficult to unravel than cystic
fibrosis. Yet these diseases are at
the root of many current societal problems. Genes would help us uncover the
secrets of all kinds of ills, from the psychological to the physical. Ten years
later, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were among the guests
gathered to celebrate the revelations of the first draft of the human book of life as Francis Collins,
the director of the human genome project put
it. We try to be cautious on days like this, said the ABC news anchor, but this map marks the beginning of an era of
discovery that will affect the lives of every human being, with implications
for science, history, business, ethics, religion, and, of course, medicine.
By that time, genes were no longer simply the
key to understanding health: they had become the skeleton key for unlocking
almost all the mysteries of human existence. For virtually every aspect of life-criminality,
fidelity, political persuasion, religious belief-someone would claim to find a
gene for it. In 2005 in Hall Country,
Georgia, Stephen Mobley tried to
avoid execution by claiming that his murder of a dominos pizza store manager was the result of a mutation in the
monoamine oxidise A (MAOA) gene. The judge turned down the appeal, saying that
the law was not ready to accept such evidence. The basic idea, however, that
the low-MAOA gene is a major contributing cause of violence has become widely
accepted, and it is now commonly called the warrior
gene. In recent years, however, faith in the explanatory power of genes has
waned. Today, few scientists believe that there is a simple gene for anything.
Almost all inherited features or traits are the products of complex
interactions of numerous genes. However, the fact that there is no one genetic
trigger has not by itself undermined the claim that many of our deepest
character traits, dispositions and even opinions are genetically determined.
(This worry is only slightly tempered by what we are learning about epigenetic, which shows how many
inherited traits only get switched on in
certain environments. The reason
this doesn’t remove all fears, is that most of this switching on and off occurs
very early in life-either in uterus
or in early childhood. What might reduce our alarm, however, is an
understanding of what genetic studies really show. The key concept here is of heritability. We are often told that
many traits are highly heritable: happiness, for instance, is around 50%
heritable. Such figures sound very high. But they do not mean what they appear
to mean to the statistically untrained eye. The common mistake people make is
to assume that if, for example, autism
is 90%heritable, then 90%of autistic people got the condition from their
parents. But heritability is not about chance or risk of passing it on, says Spector. It simply means how much of
the variation within a given population is down to genes. Crucially, this will
be different according to the environment of that population. Spector spells out what this means with
something such as IQ, which has a heritability of 70% on average. If you go to
the U.S, around Harvard, it’s above 90% why? Because people selected to go there
tend to come from middle-class families who have offered their children
excellent educational opportunities. Having all been given very similar
upbringings, almost all the remaining variation is down to genes. In contrast,
if you go to the Detroit suburbs,
where deprivation and drug addiction are common, the IQ heritability is close
to 0%, because the environment is having such a strong effect. In general, Spector believes, any change in
environment has a much greater effect on IQ than genes. As it does on almost
every human characteristic. That’s why if you want to predict whether someone
believes in God, it’s more useful to know that they live in Texas than what their genes are .Statistical illiteracy is not the
only reason why the importance of environmental factors is so often drowned
out. We tend to be mesmerized by the similarities between identical twins and notice the differences much less. When you look
at twins, says Spector, the one
thing that always seems to come out are the subconscious tricks, mannerisms,
postures, the way they laugh. They sit the same, cross their legs the same,
pick up cups of coffee the same, even if they hate each other or they’ve been
separated all their lives. It’s as though we cannot help thinking that such
things reflect deeper similarities even though they are actually the most
superficial features to compare. If you can stop yourself staring at the
similarities between twins, literally and metaphorically, and listen properly
to their stories, you can see how their differences are at least as telling as
their similarities. Far from proving that our genes determine our lives, these
stories show just the opposite.
When
Ann and Judy from Powys, mid-Wales were born in the 1940s,
they were the last thing their working-class family with five children needed.
So, identical or not, Ann and Judy were packed off to live with
different aunts. After three months, Judy
returned to her biological mother, as her aunt could not manage raising another
child. But for the childless 50 year-old couple who took on Ann (without ever formally adopting her), the late opportunity for
parenthood was a blessing and she stayed. Ann
and Judy, who are now well into
retirement, told their story in Ann’s
home in Crick Well on the edge of the Brecon
Beacons, over coffee and home-made welsh cakes. Their experience is a
valuable corrective for those who have been impressed by tales of how identical twins show that we are
basically nothing but the products of our genes. Although the girls grew up in
the same town, they ended up living in different areas and went to different
schools. The two households in which Ann
and Judy grew up were very different.
Judy’s father drove trains inside
the steelworks, and her mother, like most women at the time, did not have a
job. The family lived in a basic two-up, two down house with a toilet at the
bottom of the garden. Judy’s four elder
brothers were all out working by the time she was five and she was left with
her elder sister Yvonne. Ann was brought up in a newly built,
semi-detached house, with a toilet indoors. Her father was also a manual
labourer in the steelworks, but they were relatively well off, partly because
they hadn’t children but also because they were very careful with money. Ann recalled that the sugar bowl was
never filled so as not to encourage people to take too much. Where Judy told that- she was a street kid, always out, Ann said- she always had her
nose in a book because she was on her
own. And while Ann passed the
11-plus exam and got into the grammar school, Judy didn’t and ended up at the secondary modern. Although, aged
15, Judy was offered a place at a
grammar school, when she got there she found herself suddenly studying algebra
and geometry in a class where everyone else had already been doing it for three
years. Unsurprisingly she struggled.
After four months, Judy quit and
went to work in a furniture shop. Ann,
meanwhile, breezed through school, although she, too, left early because her
now 66-years-old-father was
retiring. I just felt that it wasn’t fair
for me to stay on at school when they were
on a pension, she said. At 16, Ann began her white-collar job in the
local council offices, not long after Judy
had started working on the shop floor.
Although the twin’s paths had diverged up to
this point, the next stage in the story is the moment where their stories
converge in an uncanny way. Less than six months into her job, Ann got pregnant and quit. Two months
later, Judy also got pregnant and
quit the nursing course she was enrolled in. Not only that, but both fathers,
turned out to be very violent. However, the differences in what happened next
are instructive. Ann didn’t stay
married for long. I left and went back
home, and they were very supportive when
they found out what was going on. Judy
in contrast stayed with her husband for 17 years. I did leave him, mind, but I kept going back I didn’t have the support,
I had three children by the time I was 21. Her mother was no help, my mother’s attitude was, you made your bed,
you lie on it, Judy explained. Ann understands Judy’s acquiescence perfectly, imagine being at home, with three
children, no qualifications, nothing on the horizon to see your life was going
to get better, which I did have. The two only really started a proper sibling
relationship after Ann read about
the Minnesota University research in the paper and wrote to the university about
her and sister, when they were 48; they traveled together to Minnesota to meet scientists there. Now
the twins are both retired. Judy
says, I think from where we started we’ve traveled the same distance.
But there were important differences in how
their lives went, and so too in the people they became. Most obviously, Ann has always had more money, but you
can also see the effects of their different backgrounds on their health. Judy had a hysterectomy, I haven’t says Ann.
Judy has got a problem with her kidneys I didn’t, Judy has got blood pressure,
I haven’t but she’s stronger than me.
They are also different in how they think and behave socially. Although their
political views are very similar, Judy
says- I’m a Christian, well, probably
agnostic, I think, whereas Ann is a
confirmed atheist. Ann also
thinks she’s much more diplomatic. Judy
is just rude. That’s probably the educational background coming through.
Interfering is too strong a word, but Judy
is more involved with her children and grandchildren in an advisory capacity, whereas
Ann wouldn’t do that, much of this,
they agree, is surely down to culture, with Ann being encouraged to adopt more genteel middle class ways. Ann
and Judy’s story illustrates that
our genes only set down what might be described as a field of possibilities.
These set limits on what we are to become-so whatever our upbringings, most of
us will tend towards introversion or extroversion, jollity or sobriety, facility
with words or numbers. But this is far from the claim, that we become what is
essentially written in our genes. Rather, various options are penciled in, and
our life experiences determine which get inked.
Tim
Spectres view that environment is almost always more
influential than genes is clear in the case of Ann and Judy, the
sisters shared the same genes but with a middle class background Ann did better at school, earned more
money and has enjoyed better health. Too much attention to genes blinds us to
the obvious truth that access to financial and educational resources remains
the most important determinant of how we fare in life. Although being more
middle class might improve your odds of success in life, other non genetic
factors play a huge role. Take the war babies Margaret and Eileen from
Preston, Lancashire; another set of identical twins who were brought up in
different families. Margaret’s
adoptive parents owned their own house. Eileen’s
toilet was at the bottom of the garden. And yet it was Margaret who flunked her 11-plus simply out of nerves, while Eileen cleared hers. Margaret’s adoptive mother was hard,
and when her daughter passed her 11 plus on the second attempt she said she
couldn’t go to the grammar school anyway because she had already bought the
uniform for the other school. As Margaret
says to Eileen now- your mom told you, you were loved and you
had to be adopted, my mom never said
that. I remember waking up when I was eight years old and thinking,
somebody had me and they did not want me. It’s horrifying, really traumatic for
an eight year old. Eileen agrees
that she came out better when it came to love and affection. My mother always
said Ellen (the twins birth mother) was
very good to give me to her. She always pointed that out, and they picked me
because they wanted me. I was secure despite the fact that I had to go and live
in this tatty bungalow. Another difference in how their lives have progressed
has been their choice of husbands. You
have been further afield than I have,
says Eileen to Margaret, and adding, I think she’s more or less finished her
bucket list. My husband won’t go he is
not interested in travel I’ve had to drag him out of the country.
Identical twins show us that in the nature versus-nurture debate, there is no
winner, and both have their role to play in shaping who we are. But
although we have reason to doubt that our genes determine our lives in some
absolute way, this does not solve a bigger worry about whether or not we have free will. Who we are appears to be a
product of both nature and nurture, in whatever proportion they contribute, and
nothing else. You are shaped by forces beyond yourself and don’t choose
what you become. And so when you go on to make the choices in life that really
matter, you do so on the basis of
beliefs, values and dispositions that you did not choose.
Although this may appear troubling, it is
hard to see how it could be any other way. For example, say you support a more
re distributive tax system, because you think that is fair. Where did that sense
of fairness come from? You may well have thought it through and come to a
conclusion. But what did you bring to that process? A combination of abilities
and dispositions that you were born with, and information and thinking skills
that you acquired. In other words, a
combination of hereditary factors and
environment. There is no third place for anything else to come from. You
are not responsible for how you emerged from the womb, nor for the world you
found yourself in. Once you became old enough and sufficiently self aware to
think for yourself, the key determinants in your personality and outlook were
already set. Yes, your views might be changed later in life by powerful
experiences or persuasive books. But again you do not choose for these things
to change you. The very way we speak about such experiences or persuasive
books. But again you do not choose for these things to change you. The very way
we speak about such experiences suggest this. This book changed my life we say, not I changed my life with this
book, acknowledging that having read it, we did not choose to be different,
we simply could never be the same again.
The literature on free will tends to focus on moments of choice; was I free at that
point to do other than what I did? When we ask this, it often seems to us that
only one option was viable. Sometimes this is because we think circumstances
constrain us. But perhaps a more fundamental
reason why at the moment of choice we cannot do otherwise is that we cannot be
other than who we are. The nature of the chooser is the key determinant at
the moment of choice,which comes first and what we do follows. To be considered
truly free, then, it would seem to be necessary for us to be in some sense
responsible for being the people we are, and that responsibility needs to go
all the way down: it has to be up to you and you alone what values and beliefs
you hold dear and act upon. If we are not responsible for who we are, how can
we be held responsible for what we do? But when we consider the dual roles of
nature and nurture, the values we hold and beliefs we assert do not appear to
be a matter of choice. We are formed by forces ultimately beyond our control.
This thought, once made explicit, leads many to the conclusion that free will and responsibility are
impossible. If you dig deep enough into what made us who we are, eventually you
come across some key formative factors that we did not control. And if they are
beyond our control, how can we be responsible for them?
Our genes shape us through the
characteristics we inherit from our ancestors. Yet we are not the slaves of our
genes. We all have free will that
enables us to go beyond our genetic trajectory. By nourishing the inherited
characteristics favorable for our growth and neglecting the unfavorable
inherited characteristics, we channelize the power of heredity in our personal development.
Common statements like -destiny is
against me or my destiny is rotten
suggest that destiny is some
incomprehensible force. However, our destiny
is the product of our own past deeds; it is the accumulated stockpile of our
past karmic reactions that unfolds itself under divine supervision, as the Bhagavad-Gita indicates. Thus, our destiny is what we have inherited from
ourselves, from our actions in this as well as previous lives. In one sense, destiny includes heredity; for
destiny determines the parents we get. But in this analysis, destiny refers to those events that
happen to us during the enormously liberating in two ways. Firstly, it frees us
to unleash the power of our own volition just as we have created our past destiny by our past choices, we can create our past destiny by our past
choice, we can create our future destiny by our present choices, secondly,
it frees us to see beyond the indifferent or even malevolent seeming workings of worldly events to the benevolent hand of
god. He is expertly orchestrating the unfolding of our destiny so as to facilitate our spiritual evolution. All that we
need to do is keep ourselves attuned to his will through scriptural study and God
centered meditation and participate in his plan for our evolution.
Divinity
is beyond our bodies and minds. We are our
core spiritual beings. The Bhagavad -Gita
indicates that we are all parts of God. We are all potentially divine-not that
we are God, but we are godly for that we are all parts of God. We are all
potentially divine-not that we are God, but we are godly in our essence. Just
as God is the greatest power in all of
creation, so is his inheritance to us the most potent of all our inheritances.
The spiritual core we inherit from him is inviolable, no matter what happens to
us and no matter even what we do. The Bhagavad-Gita
is emphatic that nothing absolutely
nothing can destroy the eternal soul. We repress our divine potentiality
when we live separate from God and let our material infatuations cover our
spiritual awareness. But we can express our divine potentiality by choosing to
live in honor of our divine, nature, by subordinating and harmonizing our
material obligations with our spiritual opportunities. This realignment of our
priorities becomes easier when we let Gods supreme power to empower us, by
investing adequate time. Thought and energy in developing our devotional
connection with God, we discover that we can be far better than what we had
ever thought we could be. We can become instruments for divine compassion,
channels by which Gods supreme power acts on the earth for our and every ones; well
being. When we relish God’s unlimited love by choosing to make him our first
love, then our love for others becomes purified and sublimated; we love them
not just for what they do for us, but for who they are, as human beings, as
souls, as precious parts of God. We become
inspired to use our talents and resources to their complete extent not for our
egoistic aggrandizement but as expressions of love, love for God and for all
his children, that is the fullest and the best way to live.
Genetics,
epigenetic and destiny;-
Bruce
Lipton, scientist, researcher, teacher, and author,
is driven by a passion to bring scientific evidence directly to the people. His
information could best assist: everyone. His journey of discovery began as a
cell biologist cloning stem cells to understand their control mechanism. This
research was undertaken while teaching cell anatomy to medical school students
at the University of Wisconsin.
Further research conducted at Stanford’s
School of Medicine revealed that genes were turned on and off, not by the
genes themselves, but through external, environmental stimuli. These radical
findings ran contrary to the long-held assumptions of genetic determinism and
became one of the early heralds of an emerging scientific understanding called epigenetic. Scientific theorems are slow
to evolve and these new concepts have not yet been fully integrated into the
mainstream of academia, partly due to the fact that the training of health professionals
is deeply vested by the pharmaceutical industry and the even greater promise of
lucrative gene therapies. Thus, valuable knowledge that reinforces our innate
ability to impact gene expression has not found its way into contemporary
medical textbooks or clinical practice. To make this evidence accessible to
everyone, Dr. Lipton made the
difficult decision to leave his financial and professional security and take
the road less traveled. He trusted that bringing such knowledge directly to
non-scientific audiences could greatly impact people’s lives, just as it had
transformed his own. Dr. Lipton was
asked to share his insights into how the science of epigenetic is an empowering model for life and creating our own
destinies. Here under given are some of his epigenetic
insights
1---When DNA was found to be the hereditary
material in the mid-20th century, the belief system of that time was
that our genes were like blueprints and that those blueprints self regulate and
lead to the assembly and function of the human being. This is the model of genetic determinism or control by genes;
and it has been thought for the last 100 years that life was controlled by
genetics. Epigenetic is a new model of gene expression; epi means above, so the literal translation of epigenetic control
reads, “controlled above the genes.”
2--- The differences between these two are
significant because this fundamental belief called genetic determinism
literally means that our lives, which
are defined as our physical, physiological and emotional behavioral traits, are controlled by the genetic code. This
kind of belief system provides a visual picture of people being victims; if the
genes control our life function then our lives are being controlled by things
outside of our ability to change them. This leads to victimization that the
illnesses and diseases that run in families are propagated through the passing
of genes associated with those attributes. Laboratory evidence shows this is
not true. When we buy into being a victim, we automatically buy into needing a
rescuer, meaning we accept that somebody else is going to save us from
ourselves. This is the unfortunate situation where the medical community has
inserted itself. Also, even though the genetic
determinism belief system has been revised over the past fifteen years, the
problem is that the revisions are being recognized only at the level of the
biomedical research scientists; these ideas are not making their way to the
public. In the meantime, the mass media continues to portray that one gene
controls this and second gene controls that. The medical industry wants to sell
genes , they want to sell gene cards: ‘buy a gene card and read your future,
‘when in actuality, that technology has no more scientific value, maybe even less
value, than going to a palm reader or an astrologer. In fact, advanced, ancient
systems of astrology are probably more accurate than gene reading cards. But,
epigenetic control reveals that environmental information alters the read out
of the genes without changing the underlying DNA sequence code. That is the
difference; from a single gene, epigenetic regulation can provide for 30
thousand different variations of expression.
3--- Scientists undertook the genome project, thinking they were going
to discover 150,000 genes because their model was based on genetic determinism that each gene controlled a character of the
human. Since proteins build our physical and behavioral traits and there were
over 150,000 known proteins, they expected to find 150,000 genes: one gene for each protein was their
model.Instead, they found only 23,000 genes. Since then, we have come to
understand that each gene can produce over 30,000 variations, to understand the
potential variations of genetic expression you could multiply each gene by
30,000 possibilities. Here a simple analogy; decades ago,television stations
used to broadcast a circular test pattern after regular programming had ended
for the day. Let’s say that our genes are like that test pattern that is being
broadcast. The model of epigenetic,
then, allows for control through all the dials and buttons on the television
set. I can turn the television on and off. I can raise volume. I can change the color, the tint, the contrast, the horizontal, the vertical. I can change
every one of those, yet in doing so, I did not change the original broadcast.
No, I only changed the readout of the broadcast, and those variations are
potentially unlimited. The distinction between what is controlled by our genes
and epigenetic selection is defined early in human development. Human
development is divided into two phases- the first is the embryo phase, followed by the fetal phase. The fetal phase recognize
when the embryo acquire human characteristics and looks like a human, it is
then called a fetus. The embryological stage extends from the
single fertilized egg cell through all the early little morphing and shape
changes until it reaches the fetal stage. Our genes are the fundamental programmers that take the fertilized egg to
the stage when the developing cells begin
to look like a human. By then, the gene program has laid out the human body
plan with two arms, two legs and nose, eyes ,etc. From the fetal stage on, the modifications
are now epigenetically controlled, meaning, they are influenced by the
environment. For example, once the human form is made then development could
become anything from big strong muscles and arms for fighting to a bigger brain
for thinking. Those decisions are made from the environmental information at the
time that the foetus is developing. Sperm and eggs are generic. They form a
human but they don’t determine if that human is going to be born in Bosnia or Zimbabwe or India. Each
of those environments requires a different physiology to survive in. For instance,
if survival is threatened, then the physiology of the body changes to create a
body that will withstand that threat. Information
from the environment is very critical in shaping the expression of the genes that have already directed the
construction of the human body.
4- -- The brain is a transducer device; it
reads environmental signals, interprets the signals and then regulates the
body’s chemistry that controls the genetic expression of the cells.
Interpretation by the mind is critical because the brain reads environmental
images but has no opinion as to what those images mean. The mind interprets the
environmental signals based upon our learning experiences, for examples, if as
children we learned that x is threatening, then whenever x comes into our
environment, the minds interpretation will stimulate the brain to release neuro chemicals that control cell behavior and gene activity to
coordinate a protection response. Firstly, the new knowledge of how perception
controls biology reveals that we are active participants in controlling the
character of our health and behavior. Our ability to consciously control our
perceptions and environment has a profound influence on our lives, versus the
old belief system where we are victims of forces outside our control. Secondly, when
we live in the here and now, present all the time, and actively exercise our
consciousness to run the show, we create the life we want. It becomes heaven on earth.
5--- When a chemical signal is sent to a
cell, it must first bind with a receptor molecule on the cell. The coupling of
chemicals is always associated with heat
of reaction, meaning heat is given off by the chemical bonding reaction.
Heat is disorganized or wasted energy. When a chemical is used as a signal, 98
% or more of the chemicals available energy is wasted is heat of reaction. On the other hand, electromagnetic vibration
energy can also be used to convey information to the cell. Vibration or frequency
signals are one hundred times more efficient than chemical signals because they
do not give off heat when bonding with a cells receptor. Energy signals are
ultra efficient; single photon of light can hit a receptor molecule in the cell
membranes and cause the cell to respond. Cells process both chemical and
energetic information. Survival is based
upon an organism’s ability to respond to environmental signals. This is the
physical foundation for the emerging field of energy medicine. Signal
receiving molecule (receptors) in the
cell membranes act as an information
processor. They are programmable and can read and write information the
same way that a computer reads and edits files. The cells behavior and gene
activity can be reprogrammed as fast as one can type on the keyboard. Is
spontaneous healing, the result of an in the moment reprogramming of the cells?
Absolutely, the cells can reprogram virtually instantaneously. In the culture
experiments, some of the changes can start to occur in half a second (500
millisecond). If I put 1000 cells in a culture dish and expose them to a
broadcast energy signal, 1000 cells will respond instantaneously. However, if
we expose them to a chemical signal, it will take longer for the chemical to
reach and bind to the cells, creating a lag phase between the stimulus and the
response. Is there standard acceptance in the medical profession that our cells
respond more efficiently to energy frequency than to chemistry?
Yes it is so as there is a common parallel in
regard to today’s world energy crisis. For instance, there are other ways of
creating energy that are more efficient and effective than burning fossil
fuels. The fact is that it is not in the interest of the fossil fuel industry
to recommend other technologies; this is the same situation in the medical
industry. Since energy medicine does not serve the financial interests of the
chemical selling pharmaceutical industry, conventional medicine has no interest
in endorsing energy healing modalities. Standard knowledge means it’s published
in the scientific journals. Accepted knowledge, means what scientists are
collectively thinking. Unfortunately, what is accepted as conventional thinking
and what has been published represent two different fields of awareness. Does
energy healing exist? Yes. Are there scientific papers to show that? The answer
is again yes. But if you go to the hospital and ask the doctor about energy healing his answer will be no.
It’s not encouraged by the pharmaceutical industry whose funding of research
and media campaigns reinforce the belief that genes control our lives, making
us victims in need of their rescuing. But there is still some hope, the more
people become aware and have the knowledge that they have the power to be
ultimately responsible for their lives; the easier it will be for all people to
become aware. As biologist Rupert
Sheldrakes, morphic field theory
suggests, the more this information is out in the field, the more it is
repeated, the more quickly it will become acceptable. Hope healing. People can change. Change is possible. It’s so
beautiful, so utterly simple and genius-it’s good.
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