Love and the Cosmos

 by Ken Hamilton, MD ~ Summer 2005 Edition

About 10 years ago, a friend of mine who had recovered completely from Lou Gehrig’s disease that had taken her to within 10 minutes of her death told me that she didn’t know what had cured her of her disease. She was sure that love hadn’t, but was certain that it would not have been possible had she not come to love her self. At about four months into a highly aggressive form of the disease, she became aware of her intense self-hatred for having chosen her profession because of parental pressure. She vowed to replace her hatred with love in the short time she had left. It took hours of hard work every day for three weeks to love herself completely. She took that love to the brink of her life.  What does it mean to say that love didn’t cure her, but was necessary for the cure to take place?

Imagine lying in a hospital bed with the strength to breathe for another ten minutes (about 150 breaths) and to live with that same strength for three days. What would go through your mind? Wouldn’t  it be likely that you would feel some fear, anger or guilt during that time? I offer you that these feelings would create a temporospatial quality to your life. Fear and guilt would create the temporal dimension by projecting fearfully forward into the future and guiltily backward into the past. Anger would create a spatial dimension of attack thoughts and action directed toward the perceived cause of the guilt-fear.

In this situation, nobody is home; you have projected yourself out of the here and now. Your “here” is somewhere else and your “now” is some when else.

Could you stay in perfect peace—love—with that situation? Could you pull in all of your projections and be fully present in the moment of your breath and life? Pull your projections out of fear, and you become aware. Pull your projections out of anger, and you become a presence.

Consider that my friend did just that—become present and aware. Consider that with her mind, she created a dimensionless field… a field called “Now.” When time loses its dimensional nature, it becomes eternal, and when space loses its dimensional nature, it becomes infinite. J. Krishnamurti devoted his life to teaching people to live in the “now-moment” and Eckhardt Tolle is doing the same, having written about it in The Power of Now. Ram Dass and Paul Gorman wrote about it in their book, Be Here Now.

Today, such esoteric practices have a wonderfully powerful esoteric support in science—the quantum—a packet of energy that is neither particle (spatial) nor wave (temporal) but is common to both. A quantum can be in more than one place at the same time. Quanta are conscious—information moves between quanta without respect to time or space. What could this mean for my friend’s healing? What could this mean for disease in general?

Consider that her mind—her consciousness—entered into the quantum state without any of the conventional dimensions. Consider that the time of her wound, the time when she chose a career path very different from her dreams, became identical with the time of her last breaths in this life, and that she forgave herself that choice and forgave the parent who wanted her to make that choice. In so doing, she healed the wound at the time that it was made. (It is essential to note that she did not correct {heal?} the rather severe poliomyelitis damage to several muscle groups that took place when she was a teenager!)

As I consider the nature of the quantum, my understanding and appreciation of the nature of disease changes dramatically.

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