Light, What Matters
Despite the best efforts of Dr Paul Eck, much of the scientific understanding of human biophysics, anatomy and physiology that Mineral Balancing was founded on has been largely based upon the science of classical physics, and equilibrium thermodynamics.
I would like to keep his discoveries of Mineral Balancing Science up to date and build upon these foundations. To do so, I have been trying to include the scientific revolutions that have come about in regard to quantum physics, quantum-mechanical experiments, and the non-equilibrium thermodynamics (Bischof 2003). These discoveries allow us to develop a Mineral Balancing program that is both holistic, and integrative. This enables mineral balancing practitioners to collaborate with other healing modalities and to uncover a multidimensional understanding of the pathophysiology of disease and how we can work together to correct it (Drouin 2019).
A Brief History of Light
In the 19th century, science was revolutionised with the Corpuscularian worldview of Newtonian Physics. Many scientists were convinced that the Universe was a mechanical system that functioned much like that of Rube Goldberg’s imaginary contraptions.
Conflicts arose when the phenomenon of light exposed the limitations of classical physics. One perspective was Sir Isaac Newton's Corpuscular Theory of Light, which states that light is made up of particles called corpuscles which emit in every direction from a source.
Contrary to this, was Christiaan Huygens’ Wave Theory of Light, which suggests that light is a wave propagating in the ether (Chen 1998, Houstoun 1915).
The new science of Quantum Physics (QP) offers a solution to the Wave vs Particle conundrum. Light is made up of photons which exhibit both wave and particle characteristics. This concept was first put forth by Louis de Broglie. He called the wave characteristics of matter, matter waves. Wave-particle duality has been proven experimentally for elementary particles, atoms and even some molecules, with an exception for macroscopic particles (Greiner 2001).
According to Einstein, light exhibits complementarity. “It seems as though we must use sometimes the one theory and sometimes the other, while at times we may use either. We are faced with a new kind of difficulty. We have two contradictory pictures of reality; separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do” (Einstein 1938). Since there is some fundamental truth to QP, the opposite Newtonian Physics, must also contain fundamental truths (Wilber 1993).
According to classical physics, solid matter is made up of elements that are formed in a manner which is either crystalline or amorphous. Crystalline solids are arranged in an orderly way, while amorphous solids are solid particles that have no orderly pattern or shape. What this infers is that the formation of matter is an important distinguishing feature. Nevertheless, whether a solid is crystalline or amorphous in nature, matter is information. When molecular units are highly ordered and occupy a fixed position they are crystalline solids, this is precisely what solid matter is (Lower 2009-2017). Matter is a crystallized form of light (Bohm 1980, Drouin 2019).
Since the development of QP, some may say that rather than light being made up of matter, the exact opposite is true, matter is made of light. However, because of wave-particle duality, it's also just as true to say that matter is made up of waves. The results vary, depending on what you are measuring. This is due to the complementarity principle. As far as we know, it is impossible to measure both of these properties of light simultaneously (Baggot 2011).
Consciousness, Light and Integrative Mineral Balancing
“Living organisms can somehow reach down to the quantum domain and utilise its strange properties in order to operate the extraordinary machinery within living cells”
On the Integrative Mineral Balancing Program, we percieve the human organism as having at least four distinct domains, or bodies (Physical, Vital, Mental, Supramental and Consciousness). The physical body is a crystallised form of light, and since all matter is light, minerals are colour compounds. Mineral Balancing is thus a form of colour therapy (chromotherapy). While the vital body of the human organism is the wave aspect of light. Our conscious mind (our mental domain) interacts with the dualistic nature of light. This is how we can influence our mental capacity through mineral balancing, and vice versa. These various modes of the multidimensional human interact with one another through the medium of consciousness. The incorporation of the five domains of the human organism are a critical component to be integrated into mineral balancing so that a truly holistic perspective can be achieved and remain scientific.
While QP provides critical answers throughout history in regard to light, there is still much to be learned as or understanding develops. One thing is for sure, the more we deconstruct matter into its primary particles, the more prevalent it becomes that something always remains. Whether it is a potentiality, or an eventuality (Schnorrenberger, 2014).
This is what Dr Amit Goswami means when he says, “Consciousness is the ground of all being” (Goswami 1989, 1990, 1993) or Max Planck when he said “I regard matter as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness”. To these brilliant minds, consciousness is both, the field and the knower of the field and for this reason, I see why Einstein concluded that “for the rest of my life I want to reflect on what light is” (Curtis 2004).
Future of Integrative Mineral Balancing
Some concepts that can be anticipated for the Integrative Mineral Balancing include but are not limited to:
The body as a living whole, an open system with nested hierarchies with non-local components.
The interconnectedness between organisms and the environment.
The role of internal and external community in health and disease.
Self-regulation and self-organisation.
Symbiosis and the human as a supraorganism (Dominguez-Bello 2019).
Consciousness as the ground of all being (Goswami 1989, 1990, 1993)
The integration of the multidimensional aspects of the human that go beyond the mechanistic viewpoint such as the system of the 5 bodies (Klinghardt 2005, Drouin 2015)
A deeper understanding of the classical (corpuscular or particle) and non-classical (quantum or wave) aspects of our biology and how they are entangled (Drouin 2019).
Biophotonic (Devaraj 1997) and biophononic (Nahas 2016) body.
Nonlocal and Local vital body.
Physical meridians (bonghan) and nonlocal meridians.
Vital life force.
Morphogenetic and Scalar fields (Drouin 2019).
Vital biorhythms.
Oxidation and its relationship with biophotons (Avijgan 2013, Rubik 2009, Beloussov 1997)
Incorporation of the five elements at the cellular level (Chung 2017)
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