Being healthy requires conscious com­mu­nic­a­tion, Part 1: We think the world

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This article addresses a subject that generally receives far too little attention today, both in university medicine and in empirical medicine: the role of consciousness in health and illness. That I, as a dentist, write about consciousness and a spiritual philosophy of being ill is understandable only in terms of my holistic perspective. From that perspective, I practise a form of dentistry that is not merely part of medicine but additionally derives its self-understanding from knowledge of the indivisible, that is, individual unity of all existence — oneness. Even within dentistry, we as patients are human beings embedded in a greater whole. That is why I also speak of dentistry of destiny (Rossaint). Against the background of bioenergetic regulatory methods, phenomenological or dental physioenergetics — pPE or ZÄPE, Rossaint — as medical-kinesiological systems of holistic medicine and dentistry can comprehend the human being holistically from within a specialist field. Their basis and background is the view of the human being as a spiritual being currently having a bodily experience, rather than a clod of earth that has a spiritual experience only occasionally. To put it another way:

It is impossible for any of us not to be spiritual.

This perspective, as is customary in the Philosophia perennis or Hermetic philosophy,

allows illness and health to be considered and understood within a broader framework, since, alongside functional aspects, particular consideration is given to aspects of content and quality. Pain and suffering show the extent to which one is resisting an impending change in life. For pain is not merely the tissue's hungry cry for flowing energy (Voll), but above all a cry for more change and flow in life (Rossaint): a life flowing from the inside to the outside, from the inside in the sense of creativity to the outside in the sense of expression. One can also say: from the field of consciousness to form and shape. And how is this achieved? By honouring life through honouring the Self. If one honours life in this way, life will honour one (Roads).

The Self is “our identity as an eternal part of God” (Risi). We find it neither in the body alone nor in the brain alone. “It is simultaneously everywhere in the body and simultaneously nowhere. It is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere — all at the same time.” It is “the field of one's own potential” (D. Chopra), or, in the language of physics, the quantum field with all its possibilities. By regarding all life around us as an aspect of ourselves and treating it accordingly, we live wholeness and thereby dissolve the illusion of separation between “action and being” that characterises our “consensus reality”. We must know that we are quantum beings, that is, beings of light; that we are consciousness expressing itself through a body, rather than bodies that possess consciousness. In other words, consciousness attracts a physical form for the Self through which the Self can express itself, and that expression in turn is consciousness (M. Roads). One can also say: our body is not a physical machine that has learned to think; rather, “we are impulses of intelligence, thoughts that have learned to form a physical body” (D. Chopra). In this sense there can be no unconscious, only a subconscious, as Krishnamurti already knew, just as there is no non-life. That is why it is so important to observe one's thoughts. Of the approximately 60,000 thoughts we have daily, only 5% belong to today; 95% are identical to yesterday's and prevent us from being in the here and now. This also means that we are at the mercy of conditioned memories, which we link with current stimuli, repeatedly producing the same reactions based on our experiences. Neurophysiologically, the so-called mirror neurons are responsible: they ensure that experiences a person has had activate an entire sequence within an action programme, even when only part of the experience is encountered.

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Based on lectures at the IKC Conference 2006 in Kirchzarten and the Medical Week 2007 in Baden-Baden.

Dr. med. dent. Alexander Rossaint has worked with biological medicine and dentistry since 1972. He expanded his knowledge through intensive further training, including focal and regulatory research, geobiology, biological medicine, electroacupuncture according to Voll, Kirlian photography, and bioelectric diagnosis and therapy. Since 1974 he has given courses and lectures on holistic dentistry, and since 1983 on medical kinesiology and physioenergetics. In 2000 he developed the RFR, Rossaint Frequency Resonator, for non-contact resonance testing.

If we now look more closely at the present age, we experience a level of change, upheaval and reform activity previously unknown on this scale.

What was modern yesterday is already out today. What is still unimaginable today is already reality tomorrow. Continuity has almost become a foreign word; sudden interruptions of continuity are the rule. There is disorientation, and values are depolarised. Networking in every sphere is in vogue. Computers dominate our everyday lives. Endless channels of communication are open to anyone interested; external communication flourishes. People speak of so-called postmodernity. Yet this is merely an empty phrase, coined out of our supposedly enlightened age's ignorance of spiritual connections. It does not explain why all this is so, because a purely rational worldview has not yet found a common denominator. Contact: Von Coels Str. 230, D-52080 Aachen; dr@rossaint.de, www.rossaint.de. “Our nervous system serves only one purpose: the repetition and reinforcement of what ... has become our belief system” (D. Chopra). We thus remain victims of our memories unless we restructure these old patterns, observe our thoughts and refocus them. For our thoughts are our focus; our mind knows only what we focus on. It does not know the difference between what is good for us and what is not; it does not know the difference between what we want and what we do not want, or between what we have and what we do not have (M. Roads). And what do most people do? They focus on what they do not have, on their problems, their illnesses and their memories of yesterday, instead of focusing on their blessings, their health and solutions, and trusting the Self. Yet this common denominator does exist, if one would take the trouble to think in larger dimensions or, from today's prevailing perspective, to look at so-called

Refocusing our thoughts leads us out of old memories. But only when we enter the gap between thoughts, the silence between them, do we find this Self as the “thinker behind the thoughts” (Chopra). There we find the unity mentioned at the beginning — in our culture, one can also say God — not as abstract energy, but as individual, indivisible wholeness. Thus everyone lives in their own universe, a universe they have created themselves and which is arranged to support our views and points of focus; and then we are surprised when we are ill. Every day we nourish our shadow self instead of living our light self and focusing on it, so that we can love ourselves, be healthy and happy, and create peace within ourselves. (Fig. 1)

non-scientific worldviews, such as Hermetic philosophy or astrology, which are in principle just as scientific but “are guided by quite different principles from our modern natural science” (Wichmann, 2004), namely analogical thinking, which involves “not irrationality, but a different kind of rationality” (Gloy, 1998).

The Age of Aquarius. If, alongside the quantity of time, one also includes its quality, visible phenomena show that, astrologically speaking, we are currently, within the so-called Great Year or Platonic Year, in the aeon or world month of Aquarius: a cycle lasting 2,160 years within the 25,920 years of the Platonic Year, in which all the above-mentioned properties are found as qualitative characteristics. These also give us hope that, through the creativity acquired in the process, we can overcome the fear-producing negative programming that still prevails. According to the principle of correspondence in Hermetic philosophy, “as above, so below” or “as within, so without”, this means that the characteristics found externally are also present within us, in our inner being — indeed, they must be

What we have within ourselves, we find reflected outside; that is, our inner affinity determines what we experience externally as a mirror. If we want to be healthy, we must activate, put into practice and experience the characteristics mentioned above within our overall situation. It is not without reason that we call our brain our computer and our nerves our communication pathways. Neural networking is currently experiencing renewed research interest — see mirror neurons — just as we are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of networking within our body.

Opportunity: transformation. Owing to the “Aquarian relationship” with the nervous system, one also finds an increase, in a pathological sense, in nervous diseases, neuroses and psychoses. The opportunity for transformation in the Age of Aquarius lies in consciously living the above-mentioned characteristics by overcoming dualism, becoming aware of the indivisible unity of all existence — developing unity consciousness — and recognising: 1. that we have never fallen out of unity, since it is just as individual, indivisible, as we ourselves are. Viewing everything from the perspective of unity — individual oneness, implicate order, divine matrix — and living accordingly allows us to see through the polarities of apparent separation from everything that give rise to the struggle for survival. The holographic character of our universe, confirmed by quantum physics, shows not only that everything is connected with everything else, but that everything in its interconnectedness exists precisely because of us. As creators, we act creatively within our own creation. 2. that wanting to become healthy is an illusion, since we already are, and need only become aware of it by changing our focus. Instead of wanting to become healthy — when is that supposed to be: tomorrow, next week, in a month, a year, the next lifetime, in ten lifetimes? — one need only live in the assumption that one is already entirely whole and healthy. This means simply perceiving oneself as though healing has already taken place. For if we work towards a goal instead of thinking and feeling from within it, we embark on a never-ending journey with an open-ended destination.

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Medicine and consciousness. 3. that wanting to become enlightened is likewise an illusion — it gives one a certain discipline and hope — since we are already perfect as we are. We are already the optimum; we can merely decide whether or not to become conscious of this by developing awareness. 4. that one learns to let go of old thought patterns and to accept and put into practice the “concept of effortlessness” (Martina) in dealing with problems, instead of healing our past through penance and pain as during the previous 2,160 years of the Age of Pisces.

Networking. Just as external networking is realised through the Internet, internal networking operates not only anatomically through the brain, nerves and extracellular matrix, according to Pischinger and Heine, but also functionally through the energy system. Through medical kinesiology, we therefore have the opportunity to make this internal networking visible; one could also say to make the body's wisdom, the higher Self, inner intelligence or inner consciousness visible, and consciously communicate with it. While the complex processes operate physiologically through mirror neurons and the well-functioning communication basis of cytokines, which are also influenced by psychological factors — psychoneuroimmunology — in energetic networking through the meridian and chakra system, that is, actually through the body's energy field, informational content becomes more important. Here processes of the soul take the lead and qualitative characteristics set the tone. In Hermetic thought, however, energy is equated with life, spirit and individual God, and information with consciousness and soul. One can also say:

Life is qualified, individual, ensouled energy. Information in its original sense also means a “bringing into form”, that which gives reality form and shape. According to Aristotle, this formative principle of reality is a function of the soul. In this sense, processes of consciousness, and above all the subconscious, can also be understood in quantum-philosophical terms: psychological events, highly energised because they remain unresolved, exist in a quantised state, that is, they are a reality beyond space and time so long as they are not observed and measured, yet they press, as it were, for a “measurement”.

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With our medical-kinesiological test questions, we can now switch these quantised events back into reality through conscious resonance and thereby work on them. In practice, however, this means that the resonance networks found (Rossaint) must not be interpreted too narrowly or superficially, but must be related to the informational content behind them in order to reach a solution.

Spirituality. “That which holds matter together at its innermost core, shapes it and gives it soul is the ‘soul’, that is, consciousness, and furthermore the non-material individual (= atomos atma)” (Risi), which is indivisible and imperishable, as the very word in-dividual says. This individuality, spiritual reality, “shapes material relativity” (A. Risi), not the other way round. In this sense, spiritual always means “non-material, individual, divine, and is that which gives matter soul” (Risi). “In reality, everything is individual and full of consciousness” (Risi). Matter too is ensouled, “infinitely changeable” energy, which in turn is always an expression of consciousness, so that matter is never independent of or separate from consciousness either.

“Spirituality is not the absence of matter, but the creative, divine manifestation within matter” (R. Martina).

“Perennial philosophy; philosophy with regard to the fundamental truths it contains, valid everywhere and at all times” (Duden). As you know, Hermetic philosophy is based on the seven principles listed here: 1. Mentalism 2. Correspondence 3. Vibration 4. Polarity 5. Rhythm 6. Cause and effect 7. Gender. In the light of all these considerations, the human being, and illness along with them, are not chance events and cannot be explained in purely biological-materialistic or purely quantum-physical terms. Rather, they obey spiritual laws recorded in the Akashic records — in the language of quantum philosophy, the vacuum or the space of charges and mind — whose effects we experience in reality every day without always understanding them. For this, the great pool of the subconscious — the seat of inner wisdom, but also of everything that prevents us from living in the here and now — requires diagnostic methods that take the above-mentioned background knowledge into account and thus make the governing principles visible in relation to symptoms. At the same time, within the organism as a system they must take account of quantum-physical findings that view information as coded energy patterns, which in turn are “mind-compatible” and contain “sense and meaning” (Warnke, GZM 4/2001, pp. 12–17).

The article will be continued in CO’MED. A spiritual philosophy must therefore be individual, that is, indivisible, and include the divine. In this sense, “the key to true reality is spiritual individuality” (Risi).

Philosophia perennis — Hermetic philosophy. This characterises Hermetic philosophy or Philosophia perennis when interpreted in an individual-theistic, that is, theistic-spiritual way, meaning that everything is simultaneously one and different. Spiritual theism is defined here as a worldview based on recognition of God's absolute, all-encompassing individuality, God being more than merely energy. It thereby differs from holistic monism, which views deistic unity as an abstract-spiritual unity of energy — Sanskrit: Brahman. As a reminder, Philosophia perennis means:

References: at the end of the second part.