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Life's Search ~ .. ~/ /L, Earlierin human history there were groups ofpeople who livedoutside the mainstream of everyday culture. These people were drawn to con centrate on developing their experience ofmeaning and wonderment at the action of spirit through matter -the act of life. They provided various services to the community at large, one of which was healing. They did the repair work for those who damaged themselvesdur ing the complex actions of living day to day. By caring for accident victims they became aware of the internal environ ment of the body. They observed the sacs and tubes, the cords and the bones, the various fluids and the masses of different tissues. Faced with the prospect of trying to understand the functions ofthese things in the body they attempted various ways of analysis. In Northern China, the head abbot of a monastery got one of his monks to meditate on the sac that was connected to the mouth by a tube, and was often seen with half-pulped food in it. Another monk was told by the abbot to meditate on the fist-sized l~mp of stuff that sat behind the first sac. This process was continued until there were all these monks sitting around concen trating on each of the major s.ystems in the body. Aftersome.yearsofdoing this,it was noticed that the dl1.fi:u'ent organs (or rather, prolonged 'breath-cnllJleded concentration on them) produced dis tinctive movements. Tltese were-re corded and the movements themse-lves used as a form of therapy lor people with pain or weakness in a particular part of their beings. Later these devel oped into various systems inclUdIng Hatha Yoga and Tai-Chi. In Europe and Eastern China an other approach appeared. A person at the point of death was placed in a sealed container and al lowed to decompose. This was re peated many times; sometimes the body was suspended in water, some times it was heated, sometimes gently, sometimes Vigorously. Essences and Elements Thedifferent substances thatseparated out were then collected and studied. It was found that the body was mostly water, but that there were three other types of substances. There was a highly volatile sub stance that acted as a solvent and came off at a low body temperature. Another substance seemed to be a lubricant, an 011. The lhird type was a solid crystal Imetorm. Nexus New Times Three r Life by John Burke It was noted that these three "es sences", as they became known, were also present in the things we use as food. It was also seen that these substances could, under various conditions, be gas, fire, liquid or solid. These are the four elemental states of the essences. By further experiment it was fou~d that there were twelve basic kinds of "salts" (the crystalline substance that took the most heat to extract). Perhaps an infinite number of different oils, yet there seemed to be only two types of "spirit" (so called because it was the first thing lost at the point of death). After meditating on this, a picture of our place in the environment was envis aged. Alcohols The fine vapours were cillled alcohol, which means "the evolving essetici", or spirit. They were given the symbal~ shows the lens of the mind "" mooting the universe 0 while fixed, to matter +. Alcohols are carbon chain$ with heaps of availab'l~potential in~eraetions with prana (hydrogen ions). These ions form the basis of most organic fife proc esses. Al~hDls act as "super soaps" to keep our bodily processes moving. Unrortunately, they are also the easiest lost during cooking. Sometimes if an accumulation ofa particular substance is causing disease, it may be necessary to give the body the correct alcohoL This can be made from a herb rich in the particular substance; or perhaps the impression of the particular potential spirit of the substance -such as a homeopathic nosode. A nosode is a finely separated im pression of the ions of a particular sub stance. Once the correct alcohol is supplied, the body can wash out quite amazing amounts of junk. Oils Alcohols come off at just below blood temperature, oils come off at or just over blood temperature. Oils are the body's lubricants and storehouses of energies. They were called Sulfur and later Soul, 30