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The War Is “In Here”

The intellect refuses to believe that everything is happening inside one mind-body reality; it creates the fiction that the sick body is somewhere else, anywhere else but in the same situation itself.
According to Ayurveda, the conflict us being wades “in here,” contrary to the germ theory of disease, which tries to tell us that the war was started “out there” by invaders of every kind–bacteria, viruses, carcinogens, etc.–which are lying in wait to attack us.
Yet, healthy people live amid these dangers quite safely. Only when the immune system collapses, as in the case of AIDS, do we realize that our skin, lungs, mucous linings, intestines, and many other organs have learned to coexist with outside organisms in a delicate balance. The pneumonia that an AIDS patient typically catches is caused by a variety of Pneumocystis that is present in everybody’s lungs all the time. The AIDS virus activates such disease from the inside by demolishing one part of the immune system (the helper T-cells), thus breaking apart the network of information that holds us together.
In fact, we are this network, which projects itself into the world as our bodies, thoughts, emotions, and actions. Nor does the network stop with us. The simplistic idea that germs are our deadly enemy is a half-truth, because germs are part of the network, too. The whole living world is bound up in DNA, which has evolved along one channel as bacteria, along another as plants and animals, and along still another as man.
The environment “out there” cooperates with the one “in here” like two polarities, in one sense totally opposed but in another totally complementary. If you look at reality from the viewpoint of all DNA, not just ours, then there is an entire global information network that has to be kept alive and healthy.
Adapted from Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, by Deepak Chopra (Bantam Books, 1990).
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add your comment »For me, this is all irrelevant. WHY? Very simple. It is because I have thre ability to transmute all or most of what I consume into a form that I can use. Of course, some things are a bit more difficult to transmute so I generally try to avoid those things. But Refined sugar??? HEY MAN, that's pure energy. I don't waste my time with breakfast. When I get up from the bed in the morning I grab a heavily sugared cup of coffee and a couple of cigarettes and I'm good to go for most of the day. My being is fueled on caffine and nicotine and I get a lot of work done during the coucrse of a day. "AND", I feel great at the end of a day. So great in fact that I can stay up most of the night studying and learning about new things that I might discover during the day. I get so excited some times that I could explode and my body goes right along with me on my many journeys into the unknown realms of the life around me. My relationship with life is symbiotic not parasitic. I have a pact with all of the various forms that live in my environment. "Lets work together cooperatively and we can all prosper". Amazingly, most forms are wiling to go along with my idea. The ones who don't or won't--- Well, lets just say that they get the short end of the stick which is too bad for them. Alas!
I'm not manic, I just have a lot of energy and it's got to go somewhere. So I chose to invest my time in creative endeavours. I make all sorts of things from gardens to trinkets to amuse children and adults
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POOR PITIFUL LACKING IN SOUL PONTIFICATING DEEPAK
Each check out the sight to see where Deepak gets his insights, it was once said that if the blind lead the blind both fall into the ditch.
Ayurveda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
Thus why does CARE 2 seem to preference him to take the lead on claiming his own peculiar spirituality known in the ravaged with more causes of injustice INDIA?
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People ARE responsible for what they choose to put into their bodies. No one says you HAVE to buy those foods that have all those additives and/or chemicals. There is organic foods at the stores, farmers markets or grow your own etc. I also agree that spiritually if you are not "balanced" and living according to the bible that that also can affect your health.
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What a fantasy!!! What about the people, and Richard, companies are people - who murder other people? If Deepak is right then something is greatly amiss with the "network." According to God, we are not all of the same network. But Deepak would rather forget about God and what God says.
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Richard: the point is not of blame but imbalance. On the Quantum level the boundaries between what we consider ourselves and "other" blur. Those boundaries exist to allow the illusion of time space and separateness, to advance the dance and allow life dramas to unfold. When the consciousness of space between atoms and stars is being discussed in physics labs why insist on old linear diagrams that limit the quantum consciousness we are evolving. The cannibalistic,might I say cancerous, behavior of various groups of our species only illustrates the truth Dr.Chopra extends that there is an interaction between our emotional and mental states and our physical impact on our shared physical environment. All living components of our reality ,virus to human, are interrelated expressions of the "all that is" and its unending dance.Destructive behavior, on the part of some elements of the whole that we are, is an obvious part of the growth experiment and needs no comment. Dr. Chopra's discussion of the interrelatedness of D.N.A. strands is important in the understanding of the great self we share, as conscious co-creators, and healing the damaged self-cannibalizing parts of our self be it our bodies,societies, environments. Taking power to heal, our selves society and bio-sphere, is not about blaming the victim but claiming power in those wounded areas; by awareness of our co-creativity with the entirety of the whole.
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Richard R., on a scale of 1 meaning the lowest, and 10 meaning the highest, I give you a 10.
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That is a nice thought in theory, that does not address the problem of food additives and carcinogens that were chemicall altered to have a desired effect on the body as in the case of keeping people enslaved in addiction to certain foods because sugar and other additives that were not meant to be altered have been so that food companies can continue to make their money off of people by addicting them to their foods. Although your theory is correct Deepak that does not even come close to the truth about what is causing Cancer and that is the excess of food additives and unnatural substances added to our food chain by large companies. Put the blame where it is due Deepak not on the people themselves and their bodies or "Perception" but on companies that spend trillions a year figuring out new ways to manipulate nature for its' own ends at the cost of innocent people who have been uneducated about these matters, I am disappointed you would not bring this up Deepak you should know better being a doctor.
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