Zhi Gang Sha - Soul Mind Body Science System: Grand Unification Theory and Practice for Healing, Rejuvenation, Longevity, and Immortality

T HIS BOOK INTRODUCES a sophisticated system that draws on unification theory in physics to explain the unification of soul, heart, mind, and body. The unification this book presents consists of bringing together soul, heart, mind, and body as one. One denotes the Source Field, which is the Creator of this universe, of all things in this universe, and of all universes.

I welcome the publication of Soul Mind Body Science System because it accomplishes another, much needed unification as well: that between traditional wisdom, as denoted by concepts such as jing, qi, and shen (where jing stands for matter, qi stands for energy, and shen stands for soul, heart, and mind), and contemporary physics, medical science, and science in general. It is true, as Dr. Rulin Xiu tells us, that physics and Western medicine focus on jing (matter) together with their matter-based interpretation of qi (energy), and largely neglect shen (soul). Based on the remarkable success of the practice of Dr. and Master Sha, in this book Dr. Xiu seeks to rectify this one-sided emphasis. She brings into the ambit of healing and healthcare insights regarding mind, spirit, and soul that until now were largely the preserve of traditional healers. In the modern world, in physics, medicine, and most other branches of science, such insights were either ignored or, if acknowledged, presented in a conceptual framework that denied the very possibility that modern science could contribute to their clarification.

Based on five decades of research on the relevance of modern science to well-being and evolution in our world, I can attest in good conscience to the importance of bringing about a unification of the key insights of traditional wisdom with the emerging insights of cutting-edge science. The basis of this unification, in my view, is the recognition that the universe consists fundamentally of in-formed energythat is, of energy formed by information (which is then in-formation ). This recognition is now dawning among researchers at the cutting edge of science, in particular physics.

There is a question, however, that has not been sufficiently considered and explored in science, and that concerns what Dr. Xiu calls the Source: the nature and origin of the in-formation that acts on the systems of in-formed energy most people regard as matter. As the great physicist David Bohm affirmed, the source of in-formation is not on the same plane or dimension as the things and events on which the in-formation acts. These things and events are on the plane that Bohm called the explicate order, whereas the in-formation that acts on them is on the plane of the implicate order. The human body, for example, on which the in-formation acts, is in spacetime, whereas the in-formation that acts on it is beyond spacetime. The existence of a dimension that is beyond space and time has been recognized by classical philosophers, spiritual masters, and healers: it is the fifth element of the universe, the most fundamental. The Indian rishis named this deep dimension the Akasha .

We can affirm today that the four-dimensional spacetime matrix is in-formed by a beyond-spacetime Akashic dimension. This in-formation is what gives things and events form in space and orientation in time. In its absence, the universe would be a random concourse of particles scientists know as quanta and commonsense as matter. Yet, instead of a randomly configured assembly of quanta or material events, we find a universe of in-formed energy evolving consistently and harmoniously toward form and complexitytoward coherence and indeed supercoherence (which is coherence among in-themselves coherent systems).

Evolution creates higher and higher levels of coherence in and among systems. Coherence is based on the fine-tuning of the mutual sensitivity of the parts that constitute the systems. This is what enables what philosopher Alfred North Whitehead called prehension in and by the systems: the grasp or perception of one system of other systems around it. In a universe where spacetime is a nonlocally entangled matrixas physicists claimprehension involves the basic perception by every system of every other system.

In an evolved system, prehension is manifest as conscious grasp or perception: as consciousness. With good reason, Dr. and Master Sha and Dr. Xiu affirm that all systems in space and time have some level and form of consciousness. We humans are privileged to possess a relatively evolved form and level of consciousness, more evolved than those of other species in this biosphere. Our highly articulate prehension enables us not only to be in-formed by the cosmic source of spirit, mind, and soul, but to be consciously guided by it.

In my view, the soul is the localized but intrinsically nonlocal manifestation of cosmic in-formation in our brain. It appears in association with our brain but is not produced by our brain and cannot be reduced to it. As already William James, the great American psychologist and philosopher, affirmed in his 1899 Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality, the brain