Conventional medicine perceives of human biology as representing a physical mechanism that is shaped by its biochemistry and genes. If there is dis-ease, the vision of repair would involve changing the physical parameters of the body, via surgery and drugs. This process could work. However, with our limited awareness the effectiveness of allopathic medicine is also quite limited. And, based upon the statistics for iatrogenic deaths, those attributed to medical intervention, allopathic science is quite lethal!
Complementary medicine emphasizes the role of the environment and the energetic milieu in the regulation of life. Though it has been around for thousands of years longer than allopathic medicine, medical associations have consistently downplayed the effectiveness of such an approach because it does not conform with allopathic philosophy of how life works. Yet, complementary approaches have proven their effectives, are profoundly safe and, in light of today’s new view of biology and physics, are scientifically sound. The new biology of epigenetics and protein biophysics endorse adjusting health by adjusting the “field” rather than the physical body.
Spiritual healing implies the existence of a non-local reality, that “we” (our “spiritual” selves) are one and the same with the field (the Universe). Since the new biology envisions the role of a non-corporal “self” derived from the environment in controlling biology, then it would make sense that if one can “nudge” the field with the intention of prayer, one could affect the expression of physical reality. As Einstein offered, “The field is the sole governing agency of the particle.” Which implies an alteration of the field can change the body (particle).
Knowledge is power. Or say a loss of knowledge is a loss of power.