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In this book I offer some practical methods for solving health problems by increasing biological energy. The methods can be applied by people to thems
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elves, or by physicians to their patients. But energy and individuality and thought are so closely associated that full access to the value of these techniques might require the integrated and balanced approach that can be provided by a new theoretical orientation. I offer some suggestions on the way our inner world can mesh with the outer world, in such an energy-based orientation. And the theory might not be of general interest unless its meaning can be concretized in some specific situations. Other people are working on the same kinds of theories, and other people have worked out parts of the various techniques, but my effort here is to offer something like a "technology of life," which unites theory and practice.
I intend to show that the human substance isn't simply a metastable, transient event, but that it is rather a pioneering probe into a new system. Self-organizing systems decay only if they have assimilated inertia, and--with a little support of the right kind--the centers of degeneration can become centers of regeneration.
Biogenic stimulators, adaptogens, spontaneous healing, cancer, aging, and reproduction are considered here in the light of the best available knowledge of developmental systems in biology and non-equilibrium processes. Besides having the practical value of bringing coherence into our understanding of some things that have been merely "therapeutic approaches," I hope it will also help to shift the theoretical focus in the study of self-ordering processes away from the informational-statistical, and toward the energetic; to interpret structure, phase and state in terms of energy and history, before considering their abstract, informational properties.
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