Good medicine begins with staying tuned into your own inner life. Today's physical science of medicine deals with only one aspect of the human being, the physical body. While in reality human beings have four bodies which house the totality of our "being". It is often difficult to try to convey to a modern physician what it is that ails one. The reason it can be difficult is that when we begin to ail our complaint does not have its origin at the physical level. At times one feels unheard and only later, often too late, what you "sensed" was wrong in the beginning, was only found later when it progressed to the physical level. The good doctor only understands the physical. By the time a physical illness manifests itself and is recognized by a physician, it is late in the game. Physical science does not study therefore does not understand the total nature of the human being.
In Western societies the majority of people are not taught about the totality of our human nature. In fact the greatest damage has been done by dividing up the human being into categories, not unlike a business.
Human beings are four fold in nature. We have a mineral/physical body just as we find in nature a mineral kingdom. We have a fluid/etheric body just as we find in nature a water and plant kingdom. We have an air/soul body just as we find in nature the animal kingdom and finally we have a warmth/spirit body or Ego which we find in the spirit kingdom beyond the earth. This is what makes the human being both of nature and of higher worlds and what is the "being" of our humaness. This is important to inner reflect upon and to observe about and within oneself.
You and I carry the key to good medicine. You know more about you than someone who isn't you, such as a scientist. To give oneself over to another because one is estranged from oneself is egotistical and in itself undermines our own good medicine.
The fluid/etheric body carries our memory thinking and our nutrition healing forces. What we find in the plant kingdom is transformed within us as life when we eat. Without nutrition we die. But we are not "what we eat." If we take directly from nature without transforming it by our etheric body, soul and spirit it is poison. It will kill us. What is in nature is poison to us if not transformed. When we transform then take up the the forces within the plant only then can it give us life. It is the forces of water, air, warmth and mineral which sustains our total being, our temple.
The soul body is the home of our passions, feelings, thoughts, imaginations and inspirations. Animals are sensing-feeling beings like ourselves and are manifestations or pictures in the outer world of our feelings and passions.
The Twelve Human Senses
The twelve human senses are important to inner reflect upon. At one time man knew of these senses but as we became more intellectual, living in abstractions to convey information, we lost touch with the thing itself from which we created those very abstractions and concepts, our source.
These senses are key to knowing our own nature and deepening our sense of ourselves and others. Five senses have been the main focus of both education and the physical sciences. In the physical sciences the "self" is the one variable that is always left out of study. It prides itself on objectivity. However, it is impossible to leave the human being out of the equation and it becomes obvious when what is being studied, e.g. atoms, which don't really exist, are actually aspects that come out of oneself. All knowledge comes out of oneself first such is the basis of geometry and number for example.
Education and the physical sciences in dilletante fashion only acknowledge five senses because they have a physical observable basis; nose, eyes, ears, skin, tongue. The twelve human senses are; Ego (of the other not oneself), Thought, Word/Speech, Hearing, Warmth, Sight, Taste, Smell, Balance, Movement, Life, Touch.
The sense of Life is an important one to acknowledge. This is a sense whereby the human being senses when something is not well within him/herself. It is a more unconscious sense until it is moving toward unhealth or death then we become conscious that something doesn't feel right or normal. For we as human beings exist between life and death forces. Medical color charts are accurate to show blue and red blood since it is our very breath that is of our air/soul body which makes "used blue blood" into "unused red blood." This is one clear example of our having life and death within us. For this is fact.
Concentration exercises upon these twelve senses and four bodies greatly enhances our sense of being and deepens our relationship to the self, the world and others.
We can divide the twelve senses into two groups which reflect how a society and culture bases its approach to life. Western culture has it's basis in "law" and therefore emerges out of the study of physical nature where the "law of necessity" derives and is of a lower aspect of man. Emphasis is on the Senses of Taste, Smell, Balance, Movement, Life and Touch.
Eastern culture and society has it's basis in "belief knowledge" and therefore emerges out of the study of the soul and spirit and man's relationship to the greater world of earth and the totality of the universe. The emphasis is on the Senses of Ego, Thought, Word, Sound, Warmth, and Sight. Warmth is the sense we ascribe to the feeling of Love.
There are so many things within us of which we "know" but must make conscious in order to further evolve as human beings. We no longer live in the age of Intellectual Soul where abstract theory has been idolized. Humankind now lives in the age of Consciousness Soul. Knowing and concentrating on our own being will deepen and then blossom into other worlds to explore and therefore evolve our Consciousness. It is our own journey and we must live it by becoming conscious beings.
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