Mike's commentary · The "Unknown" Reality, Session 703

The "Guide" and "Key Points" for this chapter were summarized by an AI editor based on the main text below; they are not words spoken by Mike during his lectures. The main text comes from Mike's commentary, and the blockquotes are Seth's original words (the portions Mike read aloud).

Introduction

This session uses the analogies of electrons and oranges to explain that external instruments and dissection can only touch the inner surface of reality, not the inner principles or blueprint; consciousness is the nearest doorway to inner reality. The medical discussion points out that health is regulated by emotions, desires, and thoughts, and that true healing requires the doctor to identify with the patient and to use psychic power to handle the relationship among desires, beliefs, and the conscious mind. From this it proposes the "complete physician": one who is himself healthy and understands the relationship between the soul and the body.

Key Points of This Chapter

• Electrons and other multidimensional existences cannot be observed with three-dimensional instruments; focused consciousness can approach their essence.
• External dissection and instrumental exploration can only touch the inner surface of reality; the blueprint of reality exists in inner dimensions without temporal sequence.
• Consciousness is the nearest gateway to inner reality; thoughts are as real as objects and constitute the personal blueprint.
• Health is regulated by emotions, desires, and thoughts; those ready to die will die, and those who want to live will seize hope.
• True medicine should study healthy people and, through the power of the psyche, handle the relationship among desires, beliefs, and the conscious mind, so as to achieve genuine healing.

Main Text

Fully Autonomous Health: The Endless Cycle of Effect as Cause

Today, let's continue sharing Seth Book Session 703, The "Unknown" Reality Volume 1, Session 703, titled "The Complete Physician: Health, Disease, Healing, and Death." This session began on Wednesday, June 12, 1974, at 10:01 p.m. Seth came through with a very humorous "Good evening" right at the start. Seth is often humorous like this, but what he says is not humorous at all; it is all very profound truth.

He said:

The multidimensional facets of the electron cannot be perceived within your three-dimensional system by instruments that measure certain effects with a focus already set in advance.

What this sentence means is that the electron itself is a multidimensional existence, and the facets of this multidimensional existence cannot possibly be observed in our three-dimensional world by instruments or focuses already set for the three-dimensional world. That kind of multidimensional effect, you cannot observe it. Although this may sound quite blasphemous to science, through certain focuses of consciousness, it is possible to understand the nature of the electron and the greater reality. He says that using instruments to study the electron is not as good as using the focus of consciousness to study it; this may actually be more reliable, allow you to see more truly, and also allow you to see the greater reality.

For example:

By means of a precisely focused and aimed beam of consciousness to probe the electron.

He says through a "beam of consciousness" -- an electron beam is an electron ray -- you can use a kind of conscious electron ray to explore the electron. In the previous session, he said that Jane could often place her consciousness on very, very small objects, and even at the level of the electron, Jane could do this. He says people can also do this; you can focus your consciousness on a scale as small as the electron to explore the electron. Later in this book, more will be said about this point; it will teach you how to adjust your own focus of consciousness to explore the electron.

The Inner Face and the Inner Principle: Finding the Entrance to Reality

Up to now, in any of your investigations, you have been probing outer conditions and trying to seek their inner essence. This is going in exactly the opposite direction, running counter to the way things are. To illustrate this point, for example:

When you dissect an animal, you are still only dealing with the inner face of this outer reality, or dealing with the outside of one level.

He says when you dissect an animal, it seems like you have opened up its inside. You say, "I have entered the inside of the animal to study it" -- aren't you always saying that I study it from the outside? Well, this time haven't I gone inside? He says what you have entered is still not the inner face of this reality; you have only entered "that side of it which is inside," and it is still on the outside. In a manner of speaking, when you explore the sky with your instruments, you are doing the same thing. When we use radio telescopes, all kinds of instruments, the Hubble telescope to probe, it seems as though we are exploring this universe, but actually what you are exploring may be another inner face of reality, or probing the outside of another level. You still have not probed its true reality.

There is a difference between this and the inner principle that leaps out from within all objects. The inner face is still a certain level, still a surface. You have not recognized your way into the substance itself, have not entered into the essence. And the inner principle is that essence; all objects must leap out from this inner principle. This inner face is different from the inner principle:

The blueprint for reality is in the latter, and it is there, within that inner principle, that it is found.

There are many different methods for studying reality. Here he again mentions several approaches: one is the method mentioned earlier of using dreams -- the method of the dream artist; one is the method of art; and another is the method of the psychic physicist. He puts dreams and art together here; using this method one can also explore the truth. And in the section that follows, he talks about using a completely medical approach, which can also explore one truth of reality.

The Orange Analogy: Reality Beyond the Senses

He begins with an example:

Suppose a scientist discovered the first orange -- the first time he discovered a fruit, not knowing it was called an orange -- and he examined it with every instrument available, giving it X-rays, CT scans, all kinds of instrument tests and probes, but refused to touch it only for fear of losing scientific objectivity.

The scientist thinks that if I personally touch it, that affects its objectivity, because my touching it is a subjective event, and this act of touching affects the objectivity of the orange. Even more so, I cannot eat it or taste it; these are all subjective. Eating it, tasting it, smelling it, and other methods -- he considers all of these subjective, all personal associations, not objective. We must use an instrument to measure it; only that is objective.

Doesn't this example sound ridiculous to us? You want to study an orange, yet eating it, tasting it, smelling it are the most effective methods. If you don't eat it, how do you know what the orange tastes like? What does it feel like? What is its texture like? What physical and mental pleasures does it bring? You don't know any of that. What can instruments measure for you, what can they tell you? Doesn't it sound laughable to us? But don't think it's laughable, because we humans right now are studying our universe using exactly this method. Whatever he sees, he wants to measure it with an instrument; he doesn't trust his own judgment, he insists on using instruments to measure.

In terms of the senses, he would learn very little about the orange. Scientifically speaking, from what they themselves consider a scientific perspective, he seems to have learned a lot: what the water content of the orange is, what its components are, what its molecular structure is, and so on -- it seems like he has studied it. But in terms of the senses, he hasn't studied anything. Although he can also separate its components, know what the orange is made of, predict that other oranges can be found there, he can also discover how this orange is cultivated, how it grows, and develop a theory about its environment -- what kind of growing environment it needs -- but the greater inner reality of that orange, the true essential nature of that orange, cannot be found anywhere within its skin. Regarding the essence of this orange, even if you study all of it, can you find it? No. What is meant by essence? Why does this orange grow into an orange, rather than an apple? Can you tell me why? You cannot find this thing.

The seed is the carrier of the physical properties of the future orange.

The seed is a physical carrier; it already carries this information at the level of genes and chromosomes, but where does the information come from? This information comes from the blueprint of the future reality generated internally by the orange. This blueprint of the future reality is what allows this orange to grow into an orange, but where is this blueprint of the future reality? Can you find it in the DNA? No. You can only find the sequence of the DNA.

In such a predicament, you are always brought back to that prior question -- the question of which came first -- this is an ancient question, and it starts a dog-chasing-its-tail game:

Because you think in terms of sequential time, it seems as though there must have been a first egg or a first seed. But the blueprint for reality does exist in a dimension where there is no such time sequence.

We humans keep asking whether the egg came first or the chicken, whether the seed came first or the fruit. You say the seed came first, then they ask where the seed came from; you say the fruit came first, then which seed grew that fruit? Isn't this question unsolvable? No matter how advanced science is, scientists still cannot answer this question. They will ramble on about evolution, the origin of species, the origin of life, but just ask them: don't ramble, just tell me, did the egg come first or the chicken? Is a primary school student wrong to ask such a question? Shouldn't it be asked? Yet scientists cannot give you an answer. They can ramble on for a whole day and night, and in the end still cannot answer whether the egg came first or the chicken.

Why? Because fundamentally there is no concept of egg and chicken. Everything comes from a future-based reality, from a future-based blueprint, and this future blueprint belongs to the inner world; it is not in our three-dimensional spacetime, it is simply not a thing of this dimension. So how can you find it within this dimension? It's like someone developed a game, and you want to ask why the game is the way it is. You analyze every pixel, every scene, you run through the game inside and out, and you still cannot find how the game was designed or where its code is, because it is not in the same dimension.

Consciousness: The Gateway to the Inner Realm

The point closest to this inner principle I speak of is your own consciousness. When you want to explore this inner principle from which all things emerge, that inner world, the closest thing to us is our own consciousness. Why do all religions tell us to look inward, and why do all the masters tell you to look inward? You yourself are inherently complete and sufficient. What is this inherent completeness and sufficiency? It is all within your consciousness.

Although we treat it as a tool for examining the outer universe, still:

Consciousness is basically not limited by that reality.

Consciousness is not limited by time and space. It is not confined within the saga of birth and death. It is not within this material world that we humans have defined, so it also transcends birth and death. On other levels it handles the blueprints of its own material existence -- it handles its future blueprints on higher dimensions, manifesting them into our material world. That is the way it works.

From cellular self-consciousness to the entire gestalt of vast knowledge, most of it can now be obtained unconsciously, in order to maintain the body's integrity in time and space.

From the cells all the way to the whole, within such a vast field of knowledge, most of the body's knowledge can be obtained unconsciously. You cannot obtain it consciously. Only by using this unconsciously obtained field of knowledge can the body's integrity in time and space be maintained. With the conscious mind as the director, there is no reason most of this knowledge cannot become normal and be obtained. The conscious mind spans both ends. It can see what these inner, unconscious parts have obtained, and then based on that situation, simultaneously perceive your intentions, beliefs, and desires at that moment, and make a comprehensive judgment. So the conscious mind is a director.

Therefore:

There is a fairly effective, vital, real, yet creative inner event, and an inward sequence of events, and your present universe and life are paid out from this inner reality and an inner sequence of events.

Any true scientist must eventually learn to enter that realm of reality. To be a true scientist, one must study this inner reality, and the so-called objective means can only have any effect when you are dealing with so-called objective effects.

And your physicists are learning that even within the framework, many facts are facts only within certain frequencies or under certain conditions. And what is left to you are only facts that can help you in your own backyard. But when you try to venture beyond your own cosmic neighborhood, such facts become prejudices. And you will find that your preformed native ideas do not apply beyond their scope.

Simply put, the rules of our outer world simply do not apply in the inner world. They are of no use there. They are only useful in this material world. But you say it is enough that they are useful in the material world -- yes, that is what you think. In certain domains it does not work; under most conditions it does work, so there is its particularity. But you say, "It is fine that it works most of the time now; I do not need to study anything else." No problem. Humans have mostly lived this way in the last few hundred years. They do not need to study those things; they feel it is fine -- I do not need to know how it comes about internally; I only need to know how it operates externally. Just like when you pick up a cell phone, you do not need to know how it is constructed inside; you can just use it.

If your goal is limited only to this, no problem. But when you want to do deeper research, you must enter this inner world. So what he is saying is any true scientist -- he is not talking about ordinary people. For ordinary people, there is no need for you to study that deeply.

A True Comparison Between Thoughts and Objects

Because of your mental attitudes, concepts do not seem to you as real and substantial as objects, and thoughts are not given the same validity as rocks, trees, beer cans -- because when they were giving the session two beer cans happened to be sitting on the coffee table -- or automobiles. For in your terms, a car is useful because it can take you where you want to go. You do not understand the great mobility of thought, nor do you realize that thought can carry you far farther than a car, or grasp the practical nature of thought.

He says our thoughts and concepts, just like our physical world, also have shape, also have form, and they are also truly existent. But we do not feel this is so; we feel thoughts are not. You think a car is useful because a car can take you anywhere you want to go. But thought takes you much farther -- it can even take you on interstellar travel, which a car cannot. You have not grasped the practical essence of thought -- thought has its practicality, its true validity.

You form your world, so in an important way your thoughts are indeed its intimate, personal blueprints.

Your thoughts are in fact creating your own world. Your life trajectory, your life blueprint, are all determined by your thoughts. From a certain angle, thought is this most important part, right there within your personal blueprint.

When you manipulate objects you feel efficient, but manipulating thoughts is far more practical.

He says manipulating thought is more practical, more effective than manipulating objects. But we feel manipulating objects is simpler and more effective, while manipulating thought is too difficult, and thought does not necessarily produce actual results. Below he gives examples.

The Limits and Essence of Medicine

He says, your medical technology may help you conquer one disease after another, but some illnesses are in fact caused by that same technology. When you perform heart transplants or fight off one virus after another, you feel very effective:

But all of this merely allows people to die of other diseases that have not yet been conquered, so to speak.

He feels that thought is useless and that things in the actual physical world are more useful, so he gives an example to refute you. Because the theme of this session is to discuss a complete physician, he uses medicine as the connecting point.

Our science and technology seem very impressive: I have conquered yet another new disease, I can manufacture a vaccine to resist a certain virus, you can even perform heart transplants -- if a person's heart fails, I can replace it with another one. But he says, when you feel this is effective, you actually do not understand the true meaning of life. When a person does not want to live, no matter what you do for him, it is useless. When a person has a strong will to live, he can heal himself. You think that using a certain drug to cure a certain disease saves this person from death, but what you do not know is that this person has already decided to die, and he may be taken by another disease -- one that, for you humans at present, simply appears to be unconquerable.

According to inner direction and the way it operates, people die when they are ready. Regardless of any medicine, a person who is ready to die will die.

He states this very emphatically. It is indeed the case. Only doctors who have fought on the front lines can understand these things. A person who wants to die -- you cannot cure him. This also existed in ancient times. In traditional Chinese medicine, a doctor would also make this judgment: some illnesses he would not treat. Why? Because this patient is certain to die, so treating him would only waste money, leaving the family with neither their loved one nor their resources -- it would be meaningless.

Regarding this example, Teacher Xiyu's later interpretation says a great deal about it. Because Teacher Xiyu himself is a doctor, he has fought on the front lines. But I can add some other perspectives. For example, some of our relatives are doctors, and they will tell me things that doctors do not say in the hospital, only in private. For instance, to give a simple example, he would say: actually, medicine cannot even cure the common cold. If a person catches a cold, just let him recover slowly on his own. If it is not severe, let it run its course, and after about seven days he will get better on his own¹. But you catch a cold today, and tomorrow you demand that it be cured immediately -- such a minor illness as a cold, and the doctor cannot even cure it? Sorry, he cannot. Even for such a minor cold, he cannot cure it. And there are far more other illnesses.

Also, for example, when a family member of ours got cancer and passed away, we went to this doctor, hoping he would find someone to provide treatment. He looked at the situation, looked at the materials, and said there was no real necessity for treatment -- eat whatever you want, do whatever you want, because no matter how you treat it, it will be useless. But we did not believe him. After all, when a family member is ill, how can you not treat them? So we went ahead with treatment, really did it. The final result was that in less than two years -- about one year and ten months -- the person still passed away. There was a period in the middle that was fairly good, but most of the time was still quite painful.

Only truly conscientious doctors will tell you some honest truths, but most doctors will not say such things to you. There are people who have specifically written about this -- some doctors have exposed the dark side of the current medical system -- but such articles are quickly suppressed, and such doctors are quickly fired. For example, I read an article once where a doctor described the current methods for treating cancer: as soon as cancer is diagnosed, the first step is a full round of examinations -- all the scans and tests from head to toe -- and then the standard treatment methods begin: radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery. Depending on the case, possibly all of them will be done. Usually surgery comes first, then after surgery one of radiation or chemotherapy is chosen; if the results are poor, both may be used. By this point, the patient has basically either recovered -- if recovery was possible -- or is beyond help. Then what happens? They are transferred to what? To the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine department, because Western medicine has exhausted its tricks. The three methods for treating cancer -- surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy -- have all been used up, so what do you do? You send the patient to integrated medicine or traditional Chinese medicine, and let Chinese medicine treat them again using its own methods. And the so-called Chinese medicine of today is not real Chinese medicine either; it is practiced in the Western medical manner, just under the name of Chinese medicine. After the treatment is finished, in the end the person is not cured, and they pass away. But by then, they have already made the rounds through every department of the hospital, generating profit at each stop.

Saying this seems rather irresponsible, especially when it comes to the issue of medicine and medical treatment. Whether in China or in the United States, if someone takes this issue seriously, they will use the powerful forces behind them to attack me, or attack anyone who holds such views. They will define you as a cult organization, or define you as something else -- because if you tell people not to see a doctor when they are sick, you yourself are an evil method. You can see many such methods of attack, endlessly emerging in the news.

A person who wants to live will respond to the smallest hope. The dynamics of health have nothing to do with inoculations; they reside in the psychological consciousness of each individual.

Inoculations means vaccines. The dynamics of health have nothing to do with inoculations; true immunity is spiritual immunity, not vaccine immunity. Seth specifically discussed this in the material on COVID-19, in the four videos I made on that topic. Of course, such words will certainly not be accepted by mainstream society.

In your terms, they are regulated by emotions, desires, and thoughts.

That is, whether you can get better, whether this illness can heal in your body, whether you can recover -- it is mainly regulated by your emotions, desires, and thoughts. This includes your immune system as well; it operates under these conditions. And whether you can catch COVID also depends on these conditions.

What Is True Healing

A true doctor cannot be scientific or objective; he cannot separate himself from the reality of the patient. A true doctor must identify with his own patient, at least in terms of empathy and shared feeling. The strength of Chinese medicine lies in the fact that it treats the human body as part of nature, and it treats itself as part of nature as well, so when treating a patient, there is a mutual sense of identification between them.

Teacher Xiyu gave an example later on, and I think it is necessary to share it briefly with everyone here. He said that in the late 1960s and early 1970s, China gathered together the most top-tier Chinese medicine experts and miracle doctors² and asked them to summarize some new treatment methods so that Chinese medicine could be carried forward and developed. As a result, these hundreds, even thousands, of experts sat together -- all of them the most famous Chinese medicine doctors in the country -- and it turned out that their methods were each different, and their approaches were each different. The people doing the national research were a bit baffled. They said, how are we supposed to summarize this? Each person had his own explanation, each person had his own viewpoint, each person had his own treatment method. Although all of them were very effective, there was no way to summarize them.

Then they did not give up. This research went on for about five years, and then they brought together the twenty top miracle doctors with the best treatment results³. These twenty were the best of the best, and I can call them miracle doctors. By "miracle doctors" I mean: cancer could be cured in fifteen days, the lame could stand up, the blind could see again -- the kind of miraculous treatment methods we used to see a lot of in qigong, which were even treated as various kinds of heretical or deviant arts. Then they placed these twenty miracle doctors specifically in a hospital within a research institute, apparently in the Ministry of Public Security's Chinese medicine hospital, specifically to have them studied.

What was the result of the research? It was very surprising. They found that these twenty top-tier doctors all used one and the same method to treat patients: they used their own extremely centered and powerful energy field, together with patients who trusted them -- the patients first had to trust them, believe in them, recognize them, know they were miracle doctors, and accept them -- and then the two of them established a link at the level of the energy field, and then the doctor used his own centered, healthy, very positive energy field to adjust the patient's energy field back into alignment, and the patient got well. It was that simple.

In the end, the result of the research was just this result. But there was no way to popularize this, because each person's foundation of training and cultivation was different. Later on, people preserved the prescriptions of these miracle doctors and preserved their treatment methods, but you only learned the surface. Without the centered attitude of these old Chinese medicine doctors, or without their very stable stream of consciousness, there is no way for you to cure a patient's illness.

On the contrary, the words of ordinary doctors and the methods they use truly separate the illness from the patient himself.

Doctors, instead of achieving identification and empathy with the patient, actually cause the patient to become separated from his own illness.

The Fragmented Patient

Western medicine sees only the disease, not the person. That is, whatever illnesses you have on your body, I check and find you have ten diseases, rank them by severity and urgency, and decide which to treat first and which later. He does not say what this person is like. He considers the disease and the person to be separate. The disease is like something stuck onto the person, and we just remove it and that is that. This is the Western medical view. As for how the disease came about, he has his own theories, but he does not delve deeply into them. He only looks at the most superficial level of how the disease came about, and he does not care about how the cause of the disease actually came about.

The disease was almost regarded as a thing apart from the patient, thrust upon him, over which he had little control.

Our Western medicine thinks exactly this way. How did you get it? No idea. Look, the incidence rate of this disease is such-and-such a percentage -- so every person has that probability of getting the disease. Well, saying that is the same as saying nothing. Every person also has a probability of winning the lottery, and every person has a probability of being hit by a car and killed. Is there any meaning in saying that? No meaning. Did you tell me how the disease came about? No, you did not. He only says what the probable incidence rate of the disease is. That is a typical characteristic of Western medicine.

The condition was analyzed, blood samples taken. To the doctor, the blood became a blood sample. The patient might think to himself, that is not a blood sample, that is my blood. But he was not encouraged to identify with his physical blood, so that even his own blood seemed strange to him.

Western medicine only looks at data, only looks at results, and does not speak of the wholeness of the person. His blood is not important; the test results in the blood are what matter. Actually, the biggest difference between Western medicine and Chinese medicine is that 70% of the human body is water⁴, and the vast majority of blood is also water. Now you only examine certain components in the blood -- hemoglobin, platelets, white blood cells, various cells, T cells, granulocytes -- and then you judge the person's condition through these. Yes, this is very good data. But do not forget, what carries this blood? It is water. The human body also contains a great deal of water, and this water is a very important part of the person. You do not look at the water that carries the blood, yet you say the blood itself has a problem. That is a very interesting thing.

The blueprints for reality, generally speaking, reside within you. Personally speaking, they are a part of your existence.

Your blueprint is within you. It can be translated into the form of chromosomes and DNA at the physical level, but it is not chromosomes and DNA. DNA and chromosomes are only its carriers. Its larger blueprint of inner reality is within.

To some extent I am building up a different approach in this book.

He says, in this book, I will tell you another method for obtaining the blueprint of inner reality. Up to today, the blueprint of reality has been largely unknown -- which is why this book is called The "Unknown" Reality. In fact, it explores this unknown blueprint of reality.

Your methods make them invisible.

The methods currently used by human scientists make it impossible for humans to see this blueprint of reality. Therefore, here I suggest a method by which the unknown reality can become known. This book is called The "Unknown" Reality, but he wants this unknown reality to become known to us humans, rather than unknown. He has mentioned using the method of dreams -- scientists of dream art, studying dreams as an art form, studying art as a science. That is one method. The second method is the spiritual physicist, the truly spiritual physicist, which was also mentioned in an earlier session. These two methods, and here he adds a third method: the complete physician. The complete physician is the third method.

The Complete Doctor

What is meant by a complete doctor?

He would be a person who has learned to understand the dynamics of human existence, the relationship between soul and body, and who is himself physically healthy.

Simply put, he understands the dynamics of human existence -- this relationship of mutual energy transformation between a person's spirituality and their physical body, which he calls a kind of dynamics. That is, how this life comes into being, how the physical body is produced by inner beliefs, inner consciousness, and the inner world. He also understands the relationship between soul and body. Simply put, he is a person who is thoroughly healthy in all three aspects of body, mind, and spirit. He himself is healthy.

An unhappy person cannot teach you to be happy. A sick person cannot teach you to be healthy.

If a person is unhappy, how can you ask him to teach you happiness? A sick person does not even know what health is himself, so how can he teach you to be healthy? Psychiatrists have a very high suicide rate -- this is indeed true -- but they just do not talk about it. Why do you think they can help you live happily, or enhance your vitality? They themselves have problems.

I am not attacking certain people; I am simply stating the facts. And some of these people are very honest. For example, Wu Zhihong, whom I particularly admire, is a very famous psychologist in China, and he is extremely candid. Once on the show "Behind the Headlines with Dou Wentao," Dou Wentao asked him: I heard that you see a psychologist? He said yes. He said, have you been seeing one all along? He said, all along. How often do you go? He said once or twice a week. This is our most famous psychologist, but he is very honest, and he dares to admit it. Some people do not admit it, but anyone who has studied psychology normally knows that these psychologists all have their own psychologists.

A person who himself needs to see a psychologist yet claims to be a psychologist and says he can cure your illness -- he himself is ill, so how can he cure you? This is an indisputable fact within the field of psychology; everyone knows it. But there is no alternative; this is the current system. If you do not go to him, who else can you see? There is no one else. If someone else tried to treat you and you sued him, that would be the end of it -- practicing medicine without a license. He would define you as practicing medicine illegally. In America it is even more impossible; if you want to treat people's mental illnesses in America, an undergraduate degree is not enough. You need at least a graduate degree, preferably a doctorate, before you can treat others. So you have to study for at least seven years or even longer. But after all that study, they themselves still have major problems, and there is nothing to be done about it.

Doctors are obviously not the healthiest people, so why do you think they can heal you?

Seth begins the soul-searching question: how can someone who is not healthy himself heal you? Seth continues:

Within your framework of beliefs, psychiatrists and doctors are helpful because they know more about the techniques that all of you agree upon than you do.

They have professional knowledge that you do not have. That is, they possess the techniques that everyone agrees upon, their so-called medical knowledge and professional expertise, so society has acknowledged it. You do not understand it, but those experts do, and everyone accepts it, so there must be something reasonable about it. And before you give them up, you had better think twice -- you say, I will not use him, is that okay? You had better think twice. Why?

But in larger and more important matters, a sick doctor does not know any more about health than an uneducated, untrained, but healthy person does. And I am speaking in very practical terms, so that you know I am not just talking off the top of my head.

You find a sick person to treat you -- that is, someone who is not healthy himself, and health here refers to all three aspects of body, mind, and spirit -- if you find someone who is unhealthy in these three aspects to treat your illness, you would be better off simply spending time with a person who is healthy in body, mind, and spirit; your illness would actually improve faster. A healthy person understands the way toward health, but within your framework, it seems as though his understanding has no practical value for you. But human society believes this advice is useless; better to listen to the doctors.

But a true medical profession should be a true profession of health. It would seek out those who are healthy, and learn from them how to promote health, rather than how to solve disease.

What he means is, if medicine wants to heal others, its greatest direction of development should be to study healthy people -- to study how they became healthy and how they remain healthy -- rather than pouring all its energy into studying the so-called diseases of the sick. Studying sick people is somewhat better, but studying disease itself is the real problem. Because disease does not exist in isolation; it is intimately connected with a person's state of mind, spirit, emotions, and desires. If you set all that aside and only talk about the disease, it is meaningless and solves nothing. In Chinese medicine we say that Western medicine does not get to the root, only treats the surface, and does not cure the root cause. Why? For this very reason: it sees only the disease and not the person. The patient does not exist in the doctor's eyes; only the disease truly exists.

Now when you go to the hospital, doctors no longer do much analysis; they just order tests and look at the results. A couple of days ago I saw a video about a 22-year-old girl who suddenly fainted while taking a shower and fell into a coma. She was rushed to the hospital, where they tried all kinds of resuscitation and investigation, and after a long time they still could not find the cause. They ran every test imaginable, suspecting poisoning, suspecting she had eaten something bad, suspecting drug use -- all kinds of suspected causes, but none of them solved the problem. In the end, it was only through a brain CT scan that they discovered bleeding in the brain, a vascular malformation in the brain, and then they called in neurosurgeons to perform surgery and so on.

I am not saying this to deny these things; I am only saying that if a doctor can only rely on instruments for diagnosis, then in the future we will not need these doctors at all; artificial intelligence will do a better job than they can. Suppose a person goes to the hospital, and in the future there is a machine that, once you enter it, immediately performs a full-body 3D scan and feeds the results directly into an AI robot, and the robot is even more capable than the doctor. So our Western doctors are only trained to look at illness in a so-called objective way; they do not want to involve too much personal emotion, nor do they want to understand the patient's emotional issues. They only talk about the disease in terms of the disease.

Then a couple of days ago I saw another news story, also about an American doctor. He was in excellent physical condition, a marathon-running New York doctor who had run marathons seven times. He could often run for 16 hours without any problem; he was a long-distance running champion, in excellent health, and he had also been vaccinated. Yet this very doctor contracted COVID. After contracting it, his symptoms were so severe that he nearly died. They used every piece of resuscitation equipment, including extracorporeal circulation, and finally brought him back. The resuscitation took months. Everyone was overjoyed.

And then, what was his biggest change? He rested for another six months and then returned to work. He had originally been a hospital doctor, an organ transplant surgeon. After he went back, he made several changes -- after this near-death experience -- and his biggest change was in how he saw patients. He said, now when I see patients, I can completely empathize with them. He gave an example: a patient says, oh, the hospital food is terrible, I do not want to eat. He said, in the past I would have urged him, saying, you have to eat, you need to build up your nutrition. He said, now I tell him, if you do not want to eat, then do not eat; order whatever you feel like eating. That was the first thing.

Second, he said he originally had a foundation, but he had not put much effort into it. He said, now I am going to devote myself fully to my foundation. What if I die and no one is there to take over the foundation? His foundation helps organ transplant patients in impoverished areas of Africa and South America receive free organ transplant surgeries. He hired several more people to help him, and he personally trained these doctors. Because he said, even though I am this healthy, even though my body is this strong, I cannot be sure I will not pass away someday. So why not do this work well while I am alive? If I die, the foundation might cease to exist.

This is a doctor who -- he has not studied spiritual knowledge; it has nothing to do with that -- even such a doctor, when placed in this position, undergoes a tremendous change. At the very least, he can now empathize. Although in medical terms he cannot make a 180-degree turn the way Seth does, since after all he was trained in this profession, he still made many positive changes: he became more altruistic, more considerate of patients' feelings, more able to appreciate patients' concerns, and more willing to contribute to society.

The Power of the Psyche

But these are all only the most superficial levels. A true healing, a true cure, or a healthy profession:

will deal intimately with the power of the psyche to heal the body.

Remember, it is through the power of the psyche that the body is healed. What heals the body is this power of the psyche. A truly good doctor will use this approach and deal with:

the interrelationship among desires, beliefs, and the activities of the conscious mind.

These things are all variables, and they all influence the development of the illness, as well as its effects upon cellular behavior. Ultimately, the effect still has to manifest at the cellular level, because I am a person in the physical world, after all. Although these things play a decisive role, in the end they still have to be reflected in the cells. To put it in simple terms, we need to handle well the relationship among body, mind, and spirit. The body is the most direct response; your mind and your spirituality both determine your body, but what is the relationship among the three? It is a relationship of mutual constraint, mutual influence, and mutual promotion; they are mutually nested, mutually influencing, and mutually promoting. It is not a relationship where one leads the others or one determines the others.

So when treating a person, you must treat from this direction. Why did we see, at Guangzhou this time, Director Lu of art healing, who uses sound for healing and art for healing; and Teacher Cao, who uses painting for healing, and who went to France specifically to study art healing and painting therapy. What is a painting? A painting is something that changes a person's heart. Painting can heal the heart, and healing the heart can also cure illness. So this kind of body-mind healing and nourishment of the psyche is definitely the direction of future development. When our spiritual university and psyche university are established in the future, in terms of nourishing the psyche and healing the psyche, this is also a very important and effective direction that can benefit more people. We must make sure it is grounded in reality; we cannot let it become purely theoretical study. Theoretical study is necessary, and it is hard to achieve, but after the theoretical study is done, we must put it into practice, so that thousands of households and millions of people can benefit.

The unknown reality, whether known or not, is what you are dealing with.

He says the unknown reality, whether you know it or not, is always working behind the scenes. If you know it, you know how it works; if you do not know it, it is still working. It cannot be that because of your ignorance, because you do not know it, it stops working. It is always working. So our study of The "Unknown" Reality today is precisely to figure out how it works.

There is also a note later in this session: physicists have assigned to all objects in the universe—including galaxies, stars, planets, subatomic waves, particles, and so on—a frequency or periodic vibration, and shape is considered to be an expression of that frequency. This is a recognition held by our scientists.

Next, I would like you to listen to Teacher Xiyu's interpretation. Because as a doctor who has been fighting on the front line with decades of experience, his views on treatment, illness, the relationship among body, mind, and spirit, and also some of the drawbacks in modern medicine, are more practical and more real than mine.

注释与核实

1. Source: Beijing Municipal Health Commission, "Weekly First Aid Topic: How to Distinguish the Common Cold from Influenza" (https://wjw.beijing.gov.cn/bmfw_20143/jkzs/jzjj/202003/t20200306_1681561.html) ↩

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4. According to Mike's original words, "the human body is 70% water"; upon verification, it should be "water typically accounts for about 55% to 60% of an adult's body weight, and varies with age, sex, and body fat proportion." (Source: U.S. Geological Survey Water Science School, "The Water in You: Water and the Human Body," https://www.usgs.gov/water-science-school/science/water-you-water-and-human-body) ↩