C. Norman Shealy MD - Medical Intuition: Your Awakening to Wholeness

MEDICAL INTUITION: A SCIENCE OF THE SOUL

I do not know one person who, when describing his or her state of health, does not fail to include a profile of his or her mental and emotional status. It is, in fact, incomprehensible these days to leave out those details. Who would even think to ignore their stress patterns or their heartaches or their business or life traumas when describing how they are feeling? I can honestly say that I cannot even imagine such a conversation these days. Over the past fifty years, we have made great strides into re-awakening the Divine design of the natural order of the body/mind/emotions/spirit coordinates that support life. This inherent intelligence about the natural harmony between the soul and the body was lost over the centuries as the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment fell in love with the scientific approach to life, but we now stand on the threshold of both a Mystical and a Medical Renaissance. We have crossed the psychic Rubicon and entered into the era of the intuitive mind, the cosmic heart, and mystical consciousness. We have not yet fully arrived in this new place, make no mistake. But we have made the crossing. We are pilgrims, en route to our potential, a potential we will never fulfill in this lifetime. But we are the pilgrims who have begun the journey.

The field of holistic medicine is, of course, a central part of the energy paradigm. And the need for medical intuition to be recognized as a science within this emerging paradigm of energy, or mystical consciousness, is not an option so far as I am concerned. It is a necessity. We have years of research ahead of us to mature this field into a well-respected science that can stand alongside other sciences, and like other new fields, this, too, must earn its stripes. But that is a worthy scrutiny, as medical intuition needs to come into its own as a legitimate field. As an energy-based science, medical intuition has an enormous amount of vital data that it is capable of providing to the physical world of science, data that quite frankly makes a standard diagnosis incomplete. Yet, because medical intuition is not yet subject to the rigors of an authentic science and does not yet have an agreed upon education program for medical intuitives, much less a national board that licenses them to practice, and because we have yet to formulate controlled means to validate energy data or to work with it in a reliable manner, the field has not yet earned the credibility that it so urgently needs.

While Norm brilliantly addresses these concerns within the pages of this book, as a practicing medical intuitive for over two decades, I know from long experience that the field of holistic health, including the science of medical intuition, is confronting several obstacles that will take years to resolve, as they are not mere problems. Problems have solutions. What we are confronted with as we truly come to grips with the vast difference between the physical world of medicine and the philosophical core of energy medicine is a predicamentnamely, a collision of realities and all that such a collision portends. And predicaments, unlike problems, do not have solutions. Rather, they call for the emergence of new perceptions in order to move forward.

Let me offer just a few examples of what the challenge is to which I am referring. What makes science a science is repeated research that, in turn, produces reliable data. Such data becomes a building block, a given piece of information that can then be applied to a problem toward arriving at a solution. Energy information is an entirely different type of data. It is kairos data as opposed to chronos, meaning that it is reflective of the here and now or having a more timeless quality to it, whereas physical, or chronos, data is concrete and forensic-friendly. A person may be emotionally upset today, in the here and now, but not yesterday and perhaps not tomorrow. That doesn't make the here and now data invalid or useless, but it does make it exactly what it is good for the here and now and not measurable. A person's energy is off today but on yesterday. Such information is valid but how exactly does that translate to hard-core healing information? People talk about the influence of attitudes and beliefs. That's true, but which ones? Have you any idea whatsoever how many beliefs you have in that head of yours? And exactly which ones are causing you stress? Which precise negative patterns do you think are at the root of your crisis? Now that's what I call a fishing expedition if there ever was one.

All science evolved and inherent to the evolution of all sciences was the evolution of the vocabulary of each science. There was a time when the words bacteria and infection and germs and virus and molecules and atoms did not exist. Words are the telescopes and periscopes and microscopes of the imagination and intuition. Without an adequate vocabulary, we can see nothing. We can articulate nothing. We can sense that something is out there or in there, longing to makes its presence known and its significance realized, but we are helpless until we name it. Language and naming something are as significant a building block to any science as the discoveries are themselves. Our challenge at this point is that we lack an adequate vocabulary that carries us between the dimensions of the physical body and the full force of the energetic anatomy and all the mysteries and power of that domain. We are at a loss to find a way that actually animates in measurable, real terms the connection between First Chakra issues and their everyday fetishes or fears. For example, the influence inherited tribal superstitions have on a person's emotional maturity are hugenot smallhuge. They are as influential as the religious myths a person grows up with because they are often intertwined. Try to measure the energetic intensity of that subtle thread within a psyche and then delicately track that thread as it went from a superstitious thought form into a behavioral pattern that resulted in a control fetish so intense that the person becomes incapable of intimacy. Can physical medicine do something like that? Not likely.