Bioenergy by Irene Zweifel-Lanz

Author:Irene Zweifel-Lanz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Books on Demand
Published: 2016-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

“Research is seeing what others don’t see

and thinking what others haven’t thought.”

Nobel prizewinner Hans-Adolf Krebs

7. THE UNDERSTANDING OF LIFE – RESONANCE, INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION

The understanding of life presupposes knowledge of the interactions that take place in the extremely complex and dynamic organization of living systems, with a broad scope, and not just exploring the structure of dead organisms. Life and its history can thus be the object of research only of disciplines and scientists that think in a system that functions as a whole, without losing view of this whole.

Life can be described not only in quantitative and mechanical terms such as force, matter, and energy, since life, in its essential characteristics, is metaphysical, metachemical, metamaterial, metaenergetic, and metamechanical.

Science has driven out the gods and fairies. Material world affairs can – as people believe today – be understood without them. But can we truly grasp the abstract truth of life with the means currently at our disposal? Can man extend his gaze down to the utmost foundations of the world? Some scientists may actually believe that they will soon have God’s plan in their hands. But the question of whether living beings can ever know absolute truth, the utmost foundation of reality, implies the question of whether living beings are at all capable of understanding themselves, or life, at an absolute level. Every living being is itself a part of this holistic reality.

If we recognize physics as the highest authority for describing reality, the question suggests itself: What kind of truth does physics describe, after all? Or should we turn instead to theology in order to better understand life? For re-ligio (Lat. religere = reconnect) is related to resonance. True religion is to be found in the place where there is resonance, where one feels secure, that is, reconnected. Re-ligio has very much to do with true life, and true life is life lived in resonance in compliance to the laws.

According to Aristotle, the shape of living beings is brought about by means of a particular, form-giving force. This force that moves and gives form was for him the soul, which he also designated as entelechy. In his view, the body is oργανον [organon], or the instrument of the soul. Paracelsus spoke of the spiritual body, the “archeus,” as the form-giving authority that creates the body. He understood archeus as a spiritual principle, a creative, ordering intelligence. The astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), in his work Harmonices Mundi (1619), also examined the phenomena of forces in a particular manner, asking himself the question of what is actually at work behind what we see. This question moved him deeply and he came to the following conclusion: The cause of form is not to be found in matter, but in activity. The real world exists only in the mathematical harmony inherent in things. The ever-changing qualities of the things we can perceive with our senses represent a lower plane of reality and do not possess veritable being.

From these statements of prominent thinkers, it follows

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