The Mind-Body problem is not a problem. It’s a process.
I’m not an expert, but to me, the mind-body problem is an extremely important topic for discussion because it addresses the most fundamental essence of reality. It suggests that the substance approach to understanding reality (as a purely mechanistic model of particles glued together by other force particles) is somewhat lacking. Quantum physics has proven that physical form and non-physical (formless) are entangled, not just as a “formation” of physical parts, but as a cyclic waveform process: in-formation. Therefore, a process approach seems to be the way to go.
A process is an action. But if you talk about “it” then it refers to a thing — a body. The process is “it” (“it” is “the process”). As a Human Being, I am a being. The process of being means “to be” and the conjugation of the verb “to be” (I am; you are; he/she/it is;…) starts with “I am”. If I am the embodiment of a process of being, then wouldn’t it make sense to say “I am ‘I am’”?
You don’t need to know the language of quantum physics to understand the process. But if you’re curious, the transformation process is expressed as
Operator (to be)| Eigenfunction (I am) = Eigenvalue (I).
“Form” is an integral part of the “transform” process, yet “it” seems to be separate from the process because “it” actually “pops” when you look at it or measure it. When I say it “pops”, I mean that experientially, in the same sense that the color yellow “pops” out of a dark background. But I also mean it experimentally, in that a 3-D quantum “it” actually pops out of the two dimensions we call space and time. It’s a metamorphic process (which I call the “holomorphic process”) that transforms nothingness (formless or “dark” energy) into matter at the quantum level and transforms matter into quantum bits (qbits) of information by interaction as motion. The process is continuous and forms layers, transforming more dark energy into more bits of matter, separating these 3-D bits from the 2-D field, and projecting them out as mirror images of the process. As holomorphic projections, we “beings” can reflect upon our “source” (the process) and allow our “self” to reunite with “it” as one unit of mind-body.
The mind-body problem is only a problem because we, as macro-level embodiments of the life process, reflect on the process but cannot “put our finger on” the process itself. Physicists named it “energy” and try to measure it but what they measure is the form (space) that “pops” into cells of energy (quantum particles). So it’s hard not to conclude that the physical “standard model” is “it”. If it is, then mind must somehow emerge from the body. But no one can say how that happens.
Others say that consciousness is primary and physical reality is just a projection of mind.
If the holomorphic process model is correct, then the life process is primary so body and mind are equivalent, integral parts of the process. The process is symbolized as a 2-D circle — a shadow or projection of motion (symbolized as a 3-D spherical unit of energy) onto the space-time plane. Quantized units of energy that “pop” due to relative motion as bits of information are the “it” in a holographic pattern that forms actual bits in DNA molecules (“bit from it”). This process (separation, projection, reflection, reunification) encodes DNA with information and allows for the body to evolve, adapt, heal and reflect on itself. So it fools itself into “thinking” it is two instead of one.
Unfortunately, the masculine (the projection, phallic) tends to take charge by force and creates the distortions and crises that lead to self destruction. Fortunately, the life process is the creator of life (feminine, cyclic) and can restore health if only we can understand the metamorphic process enough to trust her. Keep in mind that everyone is both the masculine and feminine parts of the eternal process, but we embody one or the other for now.
Another name for the process is “truth”. Truth is what we seek in both science (where seeing is believing) and religion (where believing is supposed to be seeing). Truth is what you can trust. Truth is the “knowing self” that the “thinking self” thinks to. Truth is the conscious that knows what’s right. Ironically and tragically, society treats life as a game that requires you to pretend and lie; it encourages you to ignore truth. A lie distorts the truth and this distorts the information in the DNA. And that is what is physically passed on from generation to generation. That is what manifests as genetic health and genetic disease. I am the embodiment of all of my ancestors in-formation and it’s my responsibility to live in truth. Mind-body medicine is simply a way of allowing the lie to die and letting truth take over. Mind-body unity is a state of being that transcends seeing and believing. It’s where being is being.
