Definition of the Term ‘Holism’
in due consideration of the naturopathic paradigm and its effects on the macrocosm
The paradigm of orthodox medicine orientates itself by symptoms, whereas the paradigm of naturopathy searches for the real and hidden causes.
The rule-of-thumb that applies here is:
Causes of chronic diseases are mostly not to be found where the symptoms emerge.
This rule-of-thumb however definitely contravenes the linear and symptom orientated way of thinking of orthodox medicine, which is very often expressed in scientific reports. A kind of medicine, which is tellingly called ‘orthodox’ and which way of thinking is starkly contrasting the cross-linked thinking in all levels of being in naturopathy.
It is a fact, that energy controls matter and thus spirit rules matter. It is decisive that the actual causative level of matter – energy – though testified by quantum physics remains unperceived by orthodox medicine, and is still not accepted by all disciplines of orthodox medicine. Holism therefore has to be regarded as regulator in its spiritual and energetic definition. In consequence, orthodox medicine cleaving to and persisting in its materialistic, parallel, linear way of thinking can only recognise and treat symptoms according to its paradigm without establishing any kind of reference to ‘holism’.
However, as a result naturopathy cannot be defined by only administering naturopathic medication or applying naturopathic methods. To a greater degree, naturopathy depends on the holistic way of thinking. Admittedly, this way of thinking poses a problem to many naturopathic therapist, as our materialistic, picture-like “western thinking” is an obstacle to the complexity and unity of the naturopathic paradigm body, mind and soul.
In consequence, this also means that mere administration of naturopathic medication, as it is very often publicised in reference books of naturopathic pharmaceutical companies ordered by indication, as well as schematically settings of acupuncture needles according to a recipe book, as it is often trained at western acupuncture institutes, and finally applications of naturopathic devices i. e. bioresonance devices according to symptoms of an illness, are equivalent to practised orthodox medicine, as these procedures correspond to the symptom orientated, linear and materialistic way of thinking.
To put it another way: The principle of western, linear, materialistic thinking is comparable with a line:
= A – B – C – D – E
(A influences B, B influences C, C influences D and so forth as in a chain reaction)
The principle of cross-linked thinking however is a cycle, which is implemented in the five-element theory:
The naturopathic paradigm of the unity of body, mind and soul, diagrammed by Thomas Dittrich, Frankfurt, see below, however is beyond the scope of this subject matter. Its demand is to regard all 4 levels and therefore
- the spiritual/mental/psychic level,
- the bio-energetic/bio-physical level
- the bio-chemical level,
- and the bio-mechanical level
in their complexity for one thing and in their single individuality for the other thing.
Copyright: Thomas Dittrich, Frankfurt
Furthermore, what has to be regarded as well are the spiritual/mental/psychic relations of the life-fields, the thought fields, the memory fields, the centrality of information in due consideration of conservation of values and individual belief systems, control mechanisms and cross connections of the macrocosm to the microcosm and vice versa, the rhythmic processes of the chronobiology regarding the life’s rhythm – year’s rhythm – day’s rhythm; the biocybernetic circuits with their psychosomatic and somatopsychic references; the allocative functions of the central regulation both neural, hormonal and humoral; the symbiotic structures of gut symbiosis, blood symbiosis, cellsymbiosis etc.; the communicative mechanisms of the cells with each other; the functions of the Pischinger system; the chakras; life force “qi” and the allocative functions of the meridian system within the five-element theory.
Additional factors are influences of perception, constitution, psychosocial aspects, focal references (odontogenic, otogenic, tonsilogenic, and sinusidal) as well as influences of radiation from natural and unnatural electro-physical fields as electro smog, earth and satellite radiation and many more.
Furthermore, two essential basic laws always have to be considered for the understanding of energetic processes of the universe and of the single individual in its position to the macrocosm:
First basic law:
All things are oscillating. All things work in everything and affect everything.
for everything has the very same origin.
Everything arises from the same source – this statement is valid both in religion and in science and is therefore an essential and decisive similarity. In religion, in the beginning was the ‘Word’, in science it was the ‘Big Bang’, thus everything arises from the same source.
This is how we proceed from the monism of singularity to dualism and further on to pluralism.
Singularity, monism (monotheism)
Dualism
Communication
Cooperation / Symbiosis (Pluralism)
Survival / Evolution
The explanatory models are basically fed by insights of quantum physics. The human body, flora, fauna as well as the world of minerals, all of them consist seemingly only of matter. Things that we feel, taste, see and / or hear consist seemingly only of matter.
What we call “matter” is actually nothing else but concentrated energy. Human beings, the microcosm, are able to directly influence their environment, the macrocosm, due to their capability to think and make decisions – both for good and for bad purposes. After all, all of us are subject to those dependencies that universe, the macrocosm, is reacting on at last.
The regularity “all things work in everything and affect everything” seems to be a very chaotic system. However, this chaos is subject to a very profound and superior logic that was already realised by the ancient Egyptians and that especially influenced the Far Eastern mindset. Thus, the nature of life on earth is transformation, movement, oscillation, rhythm. This biorhythm corresponds to the universe’s principle of arrangement and therefore to our life.
Therefore, there is no stagnation in life, no stasis. Even modern genetic research has to realize that genes do change during life because of outside psychical as well as physical influences.
The 2nd essential basic law:
The law of polarity, dualism.
With it is the fact that life always occurs in polarity. The Chinese people expressed this kind of polarity with the forces of yin and yang, i.e. Mother Earth Yin and Father Heaven Yang.
The ancient symbol is the Chinese monad, which is the simplest but also most complex allegory for earthly life on all levels:
Chinese monade
This polarity can be found in the macrocosm, e.g. reflected by the relations between South Pole to North Pole, day to night, winter to summer as well as in the microcosm of human beings, reflected by the relations between life to death, man to woman, father to mother, sympathetic nervous system to parasympathetic nervous system, melatonin to serotonin, insulin to glucagon, and even in polarities itself like the opposing regulation of a too high or too low level of cortisone.
Biorhythm of life with its small (e.g. organ clock) and large periods of life (e.g. year’s rhythm) is the great, cosmic, universal principle of arrangement in which even the smallest bit is pooled and interrelated to each other. Only that way we will get back to a balanced rhythm of regulative functions in the here and now.
Only that way we will be successful to break up inflexible forces and track the process of becoming ill back to the time when this process was not chronic but acute or sub-acute.
In other words, the decisive therapeutic approach is to bring all basic strains back in the here and now to cope with the past.
It is the aim to change chronic, inflexible, static conditions like diseases into acute, vividly, swinging rhythmically in life individuals – no matter if humans, animals, or plants – to actually bring them back on the way of recovery.
The two energetically radiant forces – yin and yang – flow through everything and own within themselves, within their polarity, all necessary building forces that are able to retransform the consciousness – the psychic and physical one – the materialistic and immaterial one – from the spiritual/mental/psychic level down to the bio-energetic/bio-physical -bio-mechanical – bio-chemical level – into an individual personality and structure of the living.
The aim of the naturopathic paradigm of body, soul, and mind may seem to be unachievable at first; however, the creation’s principle of arrangement can easily be identified and used on condition of a truly holistic, cross-linked approach. Only the holistic approach that contains the complexity of all levels corresponds to the fantastic plan of creation.
Author: Martin Keymer
