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Sept. 18, 2005 Palm Point juts out to the west about 400 feet from the parking lot so one can walk out there and look three miles south along 150 foot cliffs and sea stacks almost as high. It's partly cloudy today with altocumulus, and the Ocean is sparkling a hundred and fifty feet below me. Waves roll in and roar. Seals and sea lions bask on the rocks. This is a piece of paradise. Wow! Three pelicans just flew fifty feet below my feet! A sea lion is grunting a quarter mile away! The sounds and sights here are indeed primeval. Far out on this promontory where I sit there is no television, no radio, no cell phone, no airplane, and no chain saw. I hear only the sea waves, the sea lion, and my inner soul voice dictating these words. Looking south the great expanse of blue sky merges with the ocean's blue water and a long slice of spruce and alder covered continent meets the sea at a point where seven huge rocks rise from the waters nearby. Fountains of spray rise up fifty feet or more as a big wave breaks against one rock and then another. Off in the distance cumulus clouds break into thunderheads like great waves exploding above a boulder. Now a sea lion is singing his heart song to the world. The coastline is chaotic here, with little coves cluttered with rocks. And now. What about Jesus? Jesus went up upon a mountain, and a great crowd followed Him. Christ looked at all his followers and spoke, saying among other things, "Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted." Hey! The wise Jesus was talking about self-treatment, self-healing, the immense healing potency latent in our own bodies! The healthy body is cybernetic and homeostatic, and when a person mourns, the tear-shedding enables a person to feel better. The body itself has wisdom in it. Read the book "Wisdom of the Body" by Walter B. Cannon. Witness Christ the Comforter through homeostasis. Here is a quote from Dr. Cannon's daughter, explaining a little about the book "Wisdom of the Body." (This is taken from the website http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/cannon_walter.html) "In the early thirties, as the result of his conviction that "it is important that science be understood in a democracy," he wrote The Wisdom of the Body, a fascinating description of the factors involved in the preservation of the internal equilibrium of the body, which he called "homeostasis." The book often reads like a book of wonders as it describes the extraordinarily complex internal world of the human animal and the mechanisms by which the body acts to maintain the balance essential for continuing existence. How, for example, the water, sugar, and salt content of the blood is kept constant; how the body temperature, exposed to great fluctuations from within and without, maintains constancy; how in case of an emergency in many organs, the margin of safety to draw on is often fifteen times that necessary for rectification. He describes how the processes of repair and adjustment go on independently of conscious thought, triggered by an incredibly sensitive system of automatic indicators, which set the corrective process in operation." Scientists understand homeostasis in theory as negative feedback. The healthy body avoids excess. In his sermons often Jesus was talking about the cyber computer governor of everything physiological and psychological inside of us. The single line flies through my head with its feathers humming: Cultures and languages differ, but each healthy body carries Christ's homeostatic directive within." ------------ About the author: John L. Waters is an amateur psychologist and independent researcher on self-healing, integration, and problem-solving. John has created art, music and songs, prose and poetry, and helped people solve a difficult problem. For more information, read: John's letters of recommendation: http://members.tripod.com/johnlwaters/recommendations about John's self-healing and integration: http://members.tripod.com/johnlwaters/index.html about John's independent research: http://www.humboldt.edu/~jlw47/index.html about John's seeking an agent or a publisher: http://www.writers.net/writers/39295 Email: blueguntwo@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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