Overview
Our bodies have two ways by which all the parts are
connected and able to communicate between the separate parts. This allows for
cooperation between all the parts and facilitates the creation of a metasystem
in which the whole can be more than a mere sum of the parts.
The system that Western science usually assumes to be
primary for humans is the nervous system, including sensory mechanisms, the
nerves which connect those sensors with the brain, the brain itself, and the
nerves which then allow transmission of commands generated out to the muscles,
etc.. Also included are many feedback mechanisms, and other products of our
physical evolution.
There is another, often dismissed system, the direct
physical connections between body parts, and the actual physical energies and
waves which are a product of external and internal stimuli and movement. This
system might be described in terms of the flow of Chi, and only comes into play
when the energy blockages created by tense, locked areas are not present within
the body, which block the flow.
We may find it useful to discuss these
processes in terms of ‘Standing waves’, ‘Size and frequency of waves’, and ‘Chi
energy as a natural product of those factors’.
Treatise
There are two systems available within the human body that
can be used to coordinate the movement of all the parts into a unified whole
entity. Western science is very familiar with the nervous system, including the
sensory receptors, various connective nerves, the brain, (or CPU), and the
various connections to the musculature by which movement is effected. This
system works by means of chemical reactions between the various parts, which
take finite amounts of time for each reaction to complete, (see Science and
Sanity, Count A. Korzipski). At the junctures of each nerve ending, whether at
the dendrites/axions or within the brain, etc. This system, upon which our Western
understanding of the physics of the body depends, is limited to the speed of
these chemical reactions.
The direct physical connections between the various body
parts may also be utilized to conduct actual physical shock waves between the
parts. But for this system to be activated, a lack of energy blockages (created
by tension, locked muscles, etc.) is required. If my shoulder is tense, this
disconnects my arm from my spine, etc.. When, as by the practice of T’ai Chi, a
relaxed state characterized by a lack of these blockages is achieved, actual
physical waves may connect all parts of the body and all parts are directly
synchronized by this physical interaction between all of the parts.
A musician would not be able to play their instrument with
tense fingers. An Olympic swimmer would not be able to move efficiently through
the water with locked muscles. Similarly, the beneficial operation of such a
direct, immediate connection of all the parts, not limited by the relatively
slow speed of the chemical reactions upon which the nervous system depends, may
only operate when the body is in a relaxed, fluid, state, such as that
created by exercises such as T’ai Chi.
The water in the ocean moves only a few feet, but the
tsunami wave may carry immense energy thousands of miles.
Standing Waves
Each movement of T’ai Chi may be seen as a stretching which
may transform the body into a more fluid state within which actual physical
waves may travel. These waves of energy may coalesce into standing waves, the
frequency and related/associated wavelength being determined by the physical
size of the component parts and of the size of the entire body.
The scale of
the human body also allows for a close enough similarity of scale between
people to transfer this energy to others, facilitating healing, knowledge
transference, and so on. These standing waves connect all the parts and create
an environment within which extremely high levels of integration/cooperation is
facilitated.
This environment may then allow access to outside energies
with which it resonates. Through these real, physical processes an energy
source may be accessed by which the whole may seem to become much more than the
mere sum of the parts of which it is constructed.
Concepts such as Tesla’s free energy from space, miraculous
healing, and so on, might become explainable in the terms of Newtonian physics
through this mechanism of energy transference by resonance. This is no more
miraculous than the wireless charging of my electric toothbrush.
The Music of the
Spheres
and
Fluidity Within
In order to play the music flawlessly, a fluid state within
the practitioner would seem desirable. In order to swim flawlessly a fluid
state within the swimmer would seem desirable. In order to perform the T’ai Chi
flawlessly, a fluid state within the player would seem to be a trait to be
desired.
When one lets go of their past and future and resides totally within
the performance, it becomes flawless by its’ very nature. It is a perfect
expression of the present moment and any flaws are transformed into perfect
expressions of that which is.
The causes of our debilitating tensions are often found
within the extra baggage from past and future moments, which are not real in
the present moment. When we let these go we may find that the perfection attainable
becomes a useful referent with which to gain a new perspective on these
debilitative tensions, and aids in their dissipation when we later encounter
them.
When we remember the music of the spheres that is
encountered at such moments, this may create a certainty of oneness (generated
from the experience). This allows a great transformation, and is a form of
enlightenment.
Happy New Year to All!
