1. An Introduction to Energy Medicine
“The most important realization of my life is that we live in a loving universe.”
ALBERT EINSTEIN, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN PHYSICS
The Order of the Universe
Our world consists of a clearly structured order that can be expressed in numbers, symbols, colours and sounds. The following laws of nature are an expression of this order. They come from thebooks of William Walker Atkinson.2 We have taken passages or individual sentences from these books or summarized texts. Below you will find the most important laws.
1.1 Laws of Nature
Our life on earth is subject to various laws of nature. These apply to the entire nature in which we live, but of course also to humans themselves and to all living beings. In order to understand how human beings function in their energetic environment, we would first like to introduce these different laws of nature. These laws of nature are described in ancient wisdom traditions and come from traditional sources. For many years, they were only passed on orally and only later written down. Nowadays, theosophical literature offers the opportunity to study these ancient texts and thus gain a deeper insight into the nature of man and the energies surrounding him.
We would now like to briefly introduce the essential and most important 7 laws of nature (or cosmic laws). In the ancient texts, they are sometimes given different names, but you can see that there are many similarities here and we will now try to present these similarities to you briefly.
1.1.1 The Law of Unity and Diversity
The cosmos is an organized system consisting of correlating and coordinated parts that form a true unity.
All parts are interdependent, with each individual part having a specific task in relation to the whole.
All these parts form a system. Within this system, all things are defined by mutual relations, so that each part is what it is because of its relationship to the whole.
Everything is related to each other and these relationships are of enormous importance. Each law depends on the other and dependence or relativity is the controlling principle of the universe. The dependence is so absolute that as soon as even the slightest object is disturbed in its position or weight, the outermost edge of the material universe is affected by it.
If we look at nature, we see the same phenomenon in a tree that consists of the trunk, branches, leaves and fruits, but also of invisible parts such as cells, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen atoms that the human eye cannot see. If homeostasis, the balance in one of the individual parts of the tree, is disturbed, problems and an imbalance in the overall structure occur, which may lead to no fruit forming or even the tree dying. It is similar if we look at the human being as a whole or even individual systems of the human being. If there is an underactive thyroid gland, other hormones are also affected at the same time and there is not only an imbalance within the entire hormone balance, but also disturbances in the control and function of other organ systems.
If the tree falls ill or dies, however, this also has an impact on the surrounding nature. It has an impact on the birds, the insects, the soil, photosynthesis and even the location associated with the tree. If a person becomes ill or dies due to an imbalance in his individual parts, this in turn has an impact on his environment, on his family, on his friends, on his workplace, on the place where he lives, etc.
Thus, all living beings, all plants, animals, humans, but also the minerals and even the smallest living beings such as viruses or bacteria are parts of a great whole, a large unit that is closely connected to each other and is dependent on each other.
- Humans cannot survive without the smallest living beings such as bacteria and viruses that form their microbiome and virome, but also without minerals, without oxygen, without their environment and the other living beings associated with it, such as plants and animals, but also without other people. Thus, the human being as an individual is only a part within a large unit. We have to keep reminding ourselves of that.
- There are also some subordinate principles to this law
The Principle of Composition
Everything in the universe consists of partial components that make a thing what it is in certain compositions. This gives it its