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Site Introduction (May 2008): Despite several thousand years of failure to correctly understand physical reality (hence the current postmodern view that this is impossible) it is actually very simple to work out how matter exists and moves about in Space. We just had to take Science (Occam's Razor / Simplicity) and Metaphysics (Dynamic Unity of Reality) seriously and thus describe reality from only one substance existing, as Leibniz wrote; Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. When we deduce this most Simple Science Theory of Reality we find that there is only one possible solution: Space must be the substance which exists and matter is formed from waves in Space. i.e. While there are many minds and material things, they all exist in one common Space (just look around you and think about it). We can then show that the Wave Structure of Matter is the correct solution as it deduces the fundamentals of Physics & Philosophy perfectly (there are no opinions).
I realise that there are a lot of 'crackpot' theories about truth and reality on the internet, but this solution is the most simple one and it is obvious once known (though it takes time for our minds to adjust to new knowledge).
In hindsight the error was obvious - to try and describe an interconnected reality from the foundation of many discrete and separate things, matter 'particles', which then required forces / fields to connect them in space and time. This was always just a mathematical solution which never explained how matter was connected across the universe.

For those who are religious / spiritual, Space is really just another word for God (Brahman, Tao, Spirit, Energy, Light). What is certain is that discrete and separate 'particles' do not exist - we are all connected to this space that we all commonly experience. This underlying unity of reality (God) is central to all major world religions, thus their common moral foundation of 'Do unto others as to thyself' as the other is part of the self (we are all one with god / physical reality). Clearly there is still much to explain about our minds, our human emotions and moral / spiritual sense. This is no doubt the future of theology and our understanding of 'God', to explore the properties of this Space we all find ourselves existing in.

Please help our world (human society / life on earth) by sharing this knowledge.
Clearly our world is in great trouble, heading rapidly towards self destruction due to human overpopulation and the resultant destruction of Nature, climate change and the pollution of air, land and water (over 80,000 man made chemicals contaminating everything we consume).
The best solution to these problems is to found our societies on truth and reality rather than past myths and customs (which invariably cause harm, our past and present global conflicts confirm this).
I am not naive to the difficulties that humanity faces. But history shows that truth eventually triumphs, that there are enough sensible logical people in the world who appreciate the importance of truth. We are listed as one of the Top Philosophy Websites on the Internet with around 500,000 page views each week, and rank in the top 20 in Google for many academic search terms - so we just need a bit of help to get in the top five (our aim). Given the Censorship in Physics / Philosophy of Science Journals (founded on the standard model / particle physics) the internet is clearly the best way to get new knowledge visible to the world. A world now in great need of wisdom from truth and reality.
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Hell is Truth Seen Too Late. (Thomas Hobbes)

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Evolutionary Philosophy of Healing

Understanding our Evolution from Nature for better Mental Health, Mens-Womens Health
Truth Reality of Alternative Medicine - Meditation, Yoga, Chakras, Spirituality, Pranic Healing

Alternative Medicine owes a lot to Eastern Philosophy and their correct realisation of the interconnection of all things. Thus the body and mind are intimately interconnected, not only to one another but also to the cosmos and nature from which we evolved. This correct understanding of what we are as humans is central to understanding how we should live wisely to be healthy (Know Thyself Heal Thyself).

We hope you enjoy reading the following articles and think about your subtle connection to the cosmos from the scientific foundation of the Wave Structure of Matter!

Karene Howie & Geoff Haselhurst


Alternative Medicine / Evolution Articles

Brain Study Shows How Emotions Affect Immunity

Sad, fearful and angry thoughts can weaken the body's protective immune system and make it more vulnerable to disease, according to a brain scanner study published today.

Researchers have long known that a link exists between psychological states and immune response, notably between depression and vulnerability to a wide range of diseases. However, the mechanism behind this link is poorly understood. Now a direct connection between brain activity and immune function has been demonstrated in an experiment by a team at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A paper by the team in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today pinpoints one of the mechanisms underlying the link, revealing it to lie in the brain's prefrontal cortex. This region has long been associated with emotions, as well as planning and awareness. Dr Richard Davidson and colleagues asked 52 female subjects to recount either the best or worst times of their lives by thinking and then writing about these subjects. As the subjects wrote, the researchers measured physiological indicators of emotional reactions and used electroencephalograph recordings to measure electrical activity in the brain. Each participant was then given a flu shot, and flu antibody levels were measured at intervals in the six months afterwards. Those subjects who exhibited more intense negative emotions while recounting negative experiences produced a weaker response to the vaccine, suggesting they had impaired immunity. While earlier studies had linked emotional and physical health, as well as brain activity and emotion, Dr Davidson said none had established a direct link between brain activity and immune function.

Brain Study Shows How Emotions Affect Immunity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/09/02/wmind02.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/09/02/ixworld.html
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor, The Telegraph, UK


Nesse & Williams - Evolution and Healing

Our bodies were designed over the course of millions of years for lives spent in small tribes hunting and gathering on the plains of Africa. Natural selection has not had time to revise our bodies, nor minds, for coping with fatty diets, cars, drugs, most of city living. From this mixmatch between our design and our environment arises much, perhaps most, preventable modern disease. The current epidemics of heart disease and breast cancer are tragic examples.

The SIDS rate is especially high, as much as ten times higher, in those cultures in which babies sleep apart from their parents instead of in the same bed. In a series of experiments that simultaneously measured the movements and brain waves of sleeping mothers and their babies, James McKenna, (an anthropologist), found substantial relationships between the sleep cycles of mothers and babies who sleep together. ..The tendencies that make some infants vulnerable to SIDS may have been far less dangerous in a natural environment, where mothers usually sleep with their newborns. (Nesse, Williams, Evolution and Healing 1995. )


Mental Health

Toxic Culture USA

A series of groundbreaking studies point to a growing toxicity in American culture. They may help to explain the skyrocketing use of legal and illegal psychoactive drugs, our growing problems with obesity and psychosomatic illness and the general sense of cynicism that is enveloping our culture.

A recent World Health Organization (WHO) study revealed that the incidence of schizophrenia has increased 45 percent in developing nations since 1985. By far the hardest hit have been women. A separate WHO study of 14 countries showed women have twice the rate of depression as men. In Santiago, Chile, the rate was five times as high for women. (Chinese women, a previous study found, had nine times the rate of neurosis and depressive neurosis as men, and 75 percent more schizophrenia.

The WHO findings reinforce what Myrna Weissman and colleagues reported in a 1992 JAMA report on depression. In most of the countries they studied, people born since 1950 are at a much higher risk for depression than those born earlier. What makes the WHO studies so remarkable, though, is that they focus on developing nations such as India and Egypt, whose populations have seen dramatic improvements in medicine and infrastructure.

This appears as puzzling, at first glance, as the Vega studies on Mexican immigrants. But closer scrutiny solves the mystery. The very changes that have brought improved health and infrastructure in these countries have also led to significant disruptions in cultural practices, social routines, and traditional roles in work and family. To paraphrase David Byrne, These people got what they wanted, but lost what they had.

When we look closely at patterns of mental disorders around the world, one thing becomes clear: rising wealth does not improve mental health. In fact, globalization seems to leave mental degradation in its wake. Canadian psychologist Bruce Alexander has come to the same conclusion.

"Because [our] western free-market society proves the model for globalization," he says, "mass addiction is being globalized, along with the English language, the Internet, and Mickey Mouse."

If the mental environment is so toxic, why aren't we all sick? For the same reason we're not all suffering from colds or the flu. People differ biologically and developmentally in their vulnerabilities - which may explain why, in the calculus of a society's mental health, the impact of toxic culture tends to get overlooked. Mental disorders are considered the problems of individuals. But let's be clear: the crisis in mental health that we face is a crisis of ecology and culture, not one of brains, biochemistry, and medicine.

The WHO predicts that depression will become one of the most common disabling disorders in the world by 2020, second only to heart disease (it has already reached the number one spot for women). Pretty soon, Mexicans and other immigrants won't have to come to North America to be exposed to toxic culture, USA. It will come to them. Culture is, after all, America's greatest export.

As discussed in Adbusters #36, this study shows the negative impact that the American way of life can have on one's psychological well being. Examining the prevalence of psychological disorders in Mexican-Americans, Vega and colleagues found that the longer Mexican immigrants lived in the US, the greater their likelihood of experiencing psychological problems. After 13 years, whatever cultural protection a Mexican heritage could offer had worn off, with Mexican immigrants approaching the same incidence of depression, anxiety, and drug problems as those in the US population generally. In some cases the effect was quite dramatic. The lifetime prevalence of any disorder was 18 percent for Mexican immigrants with less than 13 years in the US, 32 percent for those with more than 13 years, and 49 percent for Mexican-Americans born in the US. Also, Mexican men born in the US were five times as likely to experience a "major depressive episode" as were Mexican men who had recently immigrated. Similarly, for women, drug misuse was seven times greater for those Mexican women born in the US.


The Changing Rate of Major Depression

This is the most intensive study of the changing rates of depression ever conducted, looking at 39,000 people across nine epidemiological surveys. Myrna Weissman and the Cross-National Collaborative Group found that depression is being experienced more often in the US and elsewhere; depression is being experienced at younger ages; episodes are becoming more severe; and episodes are more frequent throughout individuals' lifetimes. The rate of depression has doubled in the US since WWII, with each generation showing greater rates of the depression than the last. Before 1905, about one percent of Americans experienced depression by age 75. By 1950, six percent experienced depression by age 24.

(The Cross-National Collaborative Group, JAMA, vol. 268, 1992)


Melancholy Nation

This article provides an example of how the popular press responds to the idea that depression is on the rise-by advocating that people take more, or stronger, drugs. In the discussion of "treatment-resistant depression," the article states: "All but lost in the clamor are some dispiriting facts: Prozac has not turned out to be a magic bullet against depression, and the problem is now worse than ever. In fact, many who study depression say that we are entering an 'Age of Melancholy,' where people are getting depressed at younger and younger ages, with episodes that are severe and frequent."

Melancholy Nation
http://www.usnews.com - Joannie M. Schrof & Stacey Schultz, US News and World Report, March 8, 1999



Health - Medicine - Alternative Healing
Know Thyself - Heal Thyself

Summary: Though it may sound radical, it is actually very obvious that good health requires good knowledge of what we really are as 'humans' existing in the universe and thus how we have evolved to live. It is now clear to me that all matter (including humans) exists as very complexly evolved universal structures of spherically vibrating space (not discrete and separate particles). I know that this will seem strange to most people at first simply because it is new to you. But this is what it means to be 'Human' and explains how we exist as matter in Space, how we are interconnected not only to the ecology of Nature on Earth but to all matter in the observable Universe (as the true foundation for ecology of life on Earth). This knowledge helps us to correctly understand how we have evolved to live with (and consume) other life on Earth. This understanding of our interconnection with the universe is necessary for our continuing health and survival.

Health: Alternative Medicine Healing - Evolution and Healing. Understanding our Evolution and Connection to Nature (from which we evolved) for better Human Health. Mental Health (Meditation, Yoga) - Men's / Women's Health - Pranic Healing, etc.

Health: Drugs, Drug Abuse and Addiction - Philosophy of Drugs - Experimentation, Enlightenment (Truth, Reality) Treatment of Drug Addiction. An essay by Timothy Leary. Information on Amphetamines, Speed, Cannabis, Marijuana, Cocaine, Ecstasy, MDMA, Heroin, LSD, Mescaline, Magic Mushrooms, Psilocybin.

Health: Holistic Medicine Healing - Know Thyself - Heal Thyself. On Humans as Wave Structures of our Finite Spherical Observable Universe within One Infinite Space as the Metaphysical Foundation of Holism and Holistic Healing.

Homeopathy / Homeopathic Remedies - Homeopathy from the Greek words homoios (similar) and pathos (suffering) aims to treat "like with like." The term "homeopathy" was coined by the German physician Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). Homeopathic treatment involves giving a patient with symptoms of illness extremely small doses of substances that produce the same symptoms in healthy people when given in larger doses. A homeopathic remedy is prepared by diluting the substance in a series of steps. Many homeopathic remedies are so highly diluted that no molecules of the original substance are likely to remain. Homeopathy asserts that the remedy will retain a memory of the diluted substance and the therapeutic potency of a remedy can be increased by serial dilution combined with succussion, or vigorous shaking.
We do not know if Homeopathy works or not - we think clinical trials are the best method of determining efficacy of this treatment. The point we wish to make is that matter resonates with other matter causing subtle changes in wave patterns. Thus it is quite reasonable that water can retain memory of molecules within the water, even after those molecules are removed. The reference to the 'spiritual / mystical' aspects of homeopathy is probably more to do with lack of knowledge of the wave structure of matter, thus they give these names to things that they do not understand (based upon current discrete 'particle' conceptions of matter).

Health: Nutrition Information - We evolved to consume Plants and Animals from Nature - Organic Biodiversity not Monoculture / Agriculture / Genetically Modified Food.

Health: Organic Gardening & Farming Vs. Agriculture & Genetically Modified Food (GMO) - Humans evolved to consume Plants and Animals from Nature i.e. Biodiversity & Organic Gardening, Not Monoculture / Agriculture. Philosophy teaches us the importance of the Middle Way, of moderation and harmony. Thus the current over consumption of the western world in the food we eat and the nature we use to produce this food is ultimately damaging our health and the health of the planet upon which we depend. Philosophy also teaches us that to be wise we must know the truth and this truth comes from understanding reality (what we are and how we evolved to exist). This understanding of the reality of how matter exists and its interconnection has become profoundly important with the genetic modification of food. For the first time in the evolution of life on earth conscious forces are directing the genetic evolution of life (G.M.) rather than the natural forces of Darwinian Evolution. Due to the complexity and interconnection of matter in the universe and life on earth, this artificial manipulation of genetic structure poses great risk to nature and the future survival of humanity.

Health: Positive Parenting - On Evolution and Raising Children - Philosophy of Parenting - Tips and Issues for Single Parents and Families.

Vibrational Medicine and Healing - A very good interview of Dr Richard Gerber on Vibrational Medicine and Alternative Healing / Health.
"Richard Gerber, MD, is the author of the 1988 book, Vibrational Medicine: New Choices for Healing Ourselves, a publication that has been reviewed as 'landmark' and 'encyclopedic', and in many ways bridges the gap between science and esoteric healing. Vibrational Medicine cites hundreds of scientific studies that support the energy model of health and healing and presents the theoretical foundation for such therapies as homeopathy and acupuncture."

Yoga Meditation New Age Spirituality - Yoga is a broad holistic practice which is beneficial to both physical and mental health through yoga poses (asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama) and meditation (dhyana). Quotes on Yoga by Patanjali and Iyengar and a list of some of the health benefits of yoga. On the Wave Structure of Matter in Space (i.e. Akasa Prana), its relationship to the concept of Yoga (union) and our connection to the universe.
I (Karene) have been practicing hatha yoga for some years now and I have just recently discovered Chi Kung (an ancient Chinese martial art). I feel the benefits of both practices upon my life, body and mind.


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Albert Einstein Biography and Pictures: Young Albert Einstein (patent clerk)"When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. ... Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning. ... The particle can only appear as a limited region in space in which the field strength or the energy density are particularly high. ...
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. ...
Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)

Our world is in great trouble due to human behaviour founded on myths and customs that are causing the destruction of Nature and climate change. We can now deduce the most simple science theory of reality - the wave structure of matter in space. By understanding how we and everything around us are interconnected in Space we can then deduce solutions to the fundamental problems of human knowledge in physics, philosophy, metaphysics, theology, education, health, evolution and ecology, politics and society.
This is the profound new way of thinking that Einstein realised, that we exist as spatially extended structures of the universe - the discrete and separate body an illusion. This simply confirms the intuitions of the ancient philosophers and mystics.
Given the current censorship in physics / philosophy of science journals (based on the standard model of particle physics / big bang cosmology) the internet is the best hope for getting new knowledge known to the world. But that depends on you, the people who care about science and society, realise the importance of truth and reality.
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