Biophysics - Week Three

Would you support the development of a “bionic” person?

• I have mixed feelings about this.  I speak as a person with no physical disabilities so I don't fully understand what it is like.  Bionic technology used in prosthetics provides invaluable motor function for the physically challenged and enables them to be more independent.  However, politically it can have some serious consequences.  It would change the world of professional sports and could create a new type of discrimination for persons with bionic development.  Perhaps the most unsettling aspect would be its effect on the military.  Soldiers could then be modified into war cyborgs, further weaponizing human beings.  How it would affect someone's health and wellbeing is also interesting.  For example, how would bionic lungs affect the Metal element function in a human being?  How would Chinese medicine have to evolve to these changes?

Would your opinion be any different if this were for a military purpose?

• Like I mentioned before,  bionic development used for military purpose provides no benefits.  I would be more supportive of its usage for prosthetics but not for war.  For example,  if we engineer soldiers to become more powerful weapons, the development other more superior weapons would increase quickly.

Biophysics - Week Two

Acupuncture as effective energy medicine

• When I explain it to my clients, I like to describe acupuncture through how it works on the nervous system.  First it activates the parasympathetic nervous system to activate its healing state.  The needle makes a tiny incision in the body in order to bring attention to and prioritize a specific healing response.  The nervous system is always bombarded with all sort of sensory messages which makes it difficult for the body to prioritize healing.  Acupuncture gives VIP access by bumping whatever ailment needing treatment to the front of the line.

Conclusions on Kirlian photography

• I think it serves a valuable function and in the very least a curiosity to our electromagnetic field that we project.  It can invite an internal dialogue with oneself to ponder what is happening internally and how that influences our external projection.  Seeing auric colors in a photograph can help make that truth more tangible.

Human intent as it affects health

• One of my Daoist teachers once said, "there is no such thing as incurable disease, just incurable people."  Health should be defined not just by the length of life but by the quality of it.  For example, if an elderly man is living until 90 years old, yet he lives a sedentary life mostly isolated with a depressive mood, most would not consider him "healthy" per say..but on the other hand, a woman with breast cancer who transforms her lifestyle and diet resolves her relationships by letting go of grudges.  She then starts to live life fully now that she realizes how impermanent it is.  Once she accepts death she can truly start living.