疾病也是一种创造的工具

疾病|表达

此段摘自《个人与群体事件的本质》

第九章第867节

I can be perplexed, and it was my perplexity that Ruburt felt, for there is indeed much information that I want to give you along certain lines. And yet I must contend with modes of thought that are habitual to you, and those modes make it difficult for you to combine various elements of speculation.

As always, I will do the best that I can, using concepts with which you are familiar, at least to begin. I realize that current experience may perhaps seem contradictory to some of these ideas, so bear with me. I will, therefore, combine the idea of a disease with the idea of creativity, for the two are intimately connected.

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At certain levels the species is always creatively embarked upon alternate versions of itself. The overall patterns will remain. Biological integrity is everywhere sustained. What you think of as diseases, however, are quite creative elements working at different levels, and at many levels at once.

Many viruses are vital to physical existence, and in your terms there are gradations of activity, so that only under certain conditions do viruses turn into, say, what you think of as deadly ones. The healthiest body contains within it many so-called deadly viruses in what you may call an inactive form — inactive from your viewpoint, in that they are not causing disease. They are, however, helping to maintain the body's overall balance. In a way in each body, the species settles upon a known status quo, and yet experiments creatively at many levels with cellular alterations, chromosomal variations, so that of course each body is unique. There are kinds of gradations, say, in the lines and kinds of disease. Certain diseases can actually strengthen the body from a prior weaker state, by calling upon the body's full defenses. Under certain conditions, some so-called disease states could insure the species' survival.

It is very difficult to explain. In a way, some disease states help to insure the survival of the species — not by weeding out the sickly but by introducing into large numbers of individuals the conditions needed to stabilize other strains within the species that need to be checked, or to "naturally inoculate" the species against a sensed greater danger.

At the minute levels — microscopic levels — there are always some biological experiments being carried out, in a creative effort to give the species as much leeway as possible for effective action. Your body is changed biologically by your thoughts.

Your culture has its biological effect upon the species. I am not speaking of obvious connections in a derogatory manner, such as pollution and so forth. If you were thinking in old terms of evolution, then I would be saying that your cultures and civilizations actually alter the chromosomal messages. Your thoughts affect your cells, again, and they can change what are thought of as hereditary factors. Your imaginations are intimately connected with your diseases,just as your imaginations are so important in all other areas of your lives.You form your being by imaginatively considering such-and-such a possibility,and your thoughts ailed your body in that regard. In a way, illness is a tool used on behalf of life, for people have given it social, economic,psychological, and religious connotations. It becomes another area of activity and of expression.

I have told you that at microscopic levels there is no rigid self-structure like your own. There is identity. A cell does not fear its own death. Its identity has traveled back and forth from physical to nonphysical reality too often as a matter of course.It "sings"with the quality of its own life. It cooperates with other cells. It affiliates itself with the body of which it is part, but in a way it lends itself to that formation.

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