The Architecture of Health, Part Three

A few years ago, I asked a well known healer from the Philippines if he enjoyed working in the U.S. He said yes, but said it was harder work and the results were not as remarkable as in his own country. I asked why and he replied, “For miracles to occur physically, there must be a culture of belief, in my country there is very strong conviction and experience of miracles. In your country there is, more commonly, weak hope.”

Since science is part of what helps us create a culture of belief, today we’re continuing with our look into “the body infinite” by considering a little more science that lays the foundation for how miracles of healing might be possible.

Foundation for Miracles

Many doctors and scientists have studied the ability of thought to bring about healing. One, psychologist Jeanne Achterberg, while head of research and rehabilitation science at the University of Texas Health Science Center, helped validate this and develop imagery healing techniques widely used in medicine and with athletes.

Using a group of college students, Achterberg taught them to image a white cell known as a neutrophil. She trained a second group of the students to visualize another type of white cell, the T-cell. Each group showed significant increase in the number of the white cells that they imaged but no increase in the white cells they did not image. In her fascinating book Imagery in Healing, Achterberg describes many cases of belief, thought, or visualization being the factors in seemingly miraculous healing.

Dr. O. Carl Simonton uses such techniques with patients. While a radiation oncologist and medical director of the Cancer Counseling and Research Center in Dallas, Texas, he suggested to a patient that he could influence his own disease. The patient was a sixty-one-year-old man with throat cancer so advanced that he was extremely weak and could barely swallow or even breathe. He had only a 5 percent chance of surviving. Simonton taught the man very specific visualization and relaxation techniques that he combined with conventional therapy.

The results were so dramatic, the recovery so remarkable that Simonton and his colleagues taught their mental imaging techniques to 159 cancer patients considered incurable. Four years later 14 of those terminal patients were disease free and 17 had stabilized. In another 12 their cancers were continuing to regress. All together, an astonishing 63 of these patients were still alive.

Shamanism and similar mysterious areas of research have gained in significance because they postulate new ideas about mind and spirit. They speak of things like vastly expanding the realm of consciousness…the belief, the knowledge, and even the experience that our physical world of the senses is a mere illusion, a world of shadows, and that the three-dimensional tool we call our body serves only as a container or dwelling place for something infinitely greater and more comprehensive than that body and which constitutes the matrix of real life. — Holger Kalweit

The Terms of Renewal

The body is a swirling vortex of highly refined energies such as atoms, electrons, and neutrons that are shifting and changing in every moment. And it is always new; masterfully renewing itself regularly. Dr. Paul C. Aebersold of the Oak Ridge Atomic Research Center has become convinced by his study of radioisotope tracings that nearly 98 percent of the atoms in the human body are replaced continually. A liver completely renews itself in less than six weeks; the stomach’s lining is replaced every five days. Even the bones, he says, “are quite dynamic,” continually re-forming. Donald Hatch Andrews, who is professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, estimates that one’s physical body completely renews itself every five years, down to the very last atom.

The body, then, is constantly new. It is continually in movement to renew itself. This being the case, why would the stomach lining — while renewing itself — re-create an ulcer again and again every five days? Why doesn’t it slough the ulcer with the old tissue and create a healthy lining?

1. The body has its own memory and consciousness in the cells.
2. The body is amazingly responsive to our thoughts.
3. Our thoughts move quickly on flashes of light, but the body, being far denser matter than thought, can be slower to respond, and may need persistent thought to affect it.

It is well understood in sports medicine that the body memorizes movements and trauma, among other things. It is now widely accepted that it is the body that holds such memory. This understanding about body memory explains my father’s experience that his amputated leg was still there. The phantom limb phenomenon explains sensations of some amputees that missing limbs are still present. “Such individuals often feel eerily realistic cramps, pains, and tinglings in these phantom appendages, but it may be they are experiencing the holographic memory of the limb that is still recorded in the wave patterns in their brain.”

Much of what I’ve shared today is familiar to you already in one form or another, but putting it together in this series for us to read and experience together, it gathers our collective thoughts, longings and beliefs about the great potential for healing found in so-called miracles and makes something greater of them as we each add our own advancements of thought process to our dialogue here. In doing this, we create an elevated shared dialogue that is a co-creative communication. From here, many of us will take this into practice and beyond that into full application and healing.

We are not simply separate and isolated individuals reading this article at random and unconnected times and locations. We are a group action also, one that is advancing the realms of the possible into the newly possible. Thanks for lending yourself to that wonderful and important endeavor.

Next week, I’ll continue the series by adding consciousness to science so we can shatter the glass ceiling of limitation around how our body restores itself. See you there, and know I’m sending energy and blessings for all the levels of healing currently in progress in us, and our world, right now.

Much love,
Ma HuLiLi

PS This article is excerpted, in part, from my book The Architecture of All Abundance.