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cause. The universe is replete with exactly enough energy. No additional energy is needed, nor can any be added. In fact, if human beings desire more energy, they must learn to cultivate it. They must alsoattain the wisdom that teaches them to preserve it, rather than waste it.
    Now, wherever I turn, everything I hear, smell, touch, and taste I understand to be a manifestation of energy. My perceptions hold true for people as well—I understand that their thoughts, words, actions, and deeds are part of an interwoven mosaic, a panoply of life inextricably tied to a greater matrix of energy. I now also understand that in this universe of energy that gives the illusion of matter, there are unseen, unwritten laws of cause and effect—laws that, once mastered, maximize the balance of our life-force energy.
    I was raised to understand life as an unintegrated series of random a priori experiences, events, and circumstances that manifest purely at a material level. Suddenly, I was beginning to see the multiverse from a perspective that views all of life as a holograph of implicate order—integrated, inductive, and energy-based. For the first time in my life I was peering through a lens that revealed all things as energy, flowing into one another, affecting one another, and changing the multiverse.
    Let me try to explain this another way. I was guided by constructs that suggested that everything was compartmentalized and separate. I understood there to be four separate seasons: winter, spring, summer, and fall. Then, all at once, I came to understand that the ice masses of winter were also the nurturing flow that would feed the early spring blossoms, and that the warmth of late spring was also the same energy that contributed to the germination of the high grasses of early summer, and so on.
    The ancient Chinese perspective reveals an integral model of life where everything is part of a unified energetic holograph. Unlike in the materialistic West, theirs is a vitalistic position deeply rooted in the belief that energy is the true animating “stuff” of life. The two cultures are, quite simply, worlds apart. I found this to be especially true, and most disturbing, in the areas of medicine and healing.
    Here in the West, medicine is largely a matter of diagnosing and prescribing. It’s all about discovering the disease the patient’s symptoms point to, and then finding a pharmaceutical protocol designed to offset those symptoms. In short, it’s about treating the symptoms with drugs. The classical Chinese medicine model suggests that there is a causal root for everything, and in order to successfully treat the patient, you must trace the problem back to its root with the intention of eliminating the cause of the imbalance.
    For example, the symptoms of pneumonia could be rooted in an overconsumption of phlegmatic foods, such as dairy. If so, dairy foods must be eliminated from the patient’s diet in order to free up the blocked lung energy. Where classical Chinese medicine believes that all things are interconnected, they would also be inclined to evaluate the possibility of emotion influencing the root of a physical health problem. For example, the symptoms of pneumonia might also be rooted in an excess of an emotion, such as sadness. By encouraging the patient to express and release the energy of the excess sadness, the lung blockage might then be cleared.
    Classical Chinese medicine ascribes to the belief that everything is a manifestation of a great life force called ch’i (energy), and that all forms of ch’i, including emotions and cells, are interconnected. Through 5,000 years of observing the ways of ch’i, the ancient Chinese painstakingly correlated and observed the interconnections of the subtle energy relationships between all things—this wisdom is the great source of inspiration for my personal shift in consciousness. It is what inspired the Whole Health Healing