Design as a method of healing

• Classical science excluded the observers from the observation.
• This (plus more) encourages a sense of personal distancing
• It discouraged a sense of responsibility (i.e. literally - the ability to act responsively)
• It reduced our sensible interaction with Earth, and others.
• Western medicine emerged from assumptions within classical science.
• Rather than seeing their task as maintain health by giving care to the body it combats disease.
• Medical practice shows that healing is based on the natural principle of self-healing.
• The health care system facilitates the subjective process of self healing.

Healing

• Healing is therefore the art of understanding and restoring the integrity of human being.
• It is the integration of the being within its context (i.e. the part within the whole).
• Health Care is not an analytical science. It is an art of (re)integration.
• Wholeness is the outcome of healing. It enables the being to live in balance with/in a (changing) context.

Can design be a form of healing?

• Metadesign can apply healing principles within a general design context.
• It identifies its intention in accord with its effect (socially and ecologically).
• It offers a contextualised meaning of design.
• This can be interpreted as an art of healing.

Self-Healing

• We all have direct experience of the process of self healing.
• We operate it daily while we are sleeping (thence "Sleep the Healer").
• It is based on a sequence of cycles of brain waves by which we disconnect from, and reconnect to, our context.
• This is the same principle described by Hans Selye as 'stress'.
• Stress is a mechanism by which hormones redefine the interface of the body via pro- and contra- 'inflammation'.
• The principle involved is that of 'resetting' our interface to the context.
• The corresponding Fight/Flight/Fear/Faint system corresponds to resetting our interface /in/ the context.
• These fundamental principles determine the Anatomy of our body.
• Because they change the Chemical balance.
• This is done by shift in the underlying charge/discharge (at the electromagnetic ionic level).
• But the basis on which this takes place is information integration; of out own being in our context.
• It is precisely /this/ function that is out of kilter when people individually - thus (!) collectively - are not in balance with their context.
• Many other problems (e.g. environmental damage, war, crime, famine and disease) have the same cause.
• The cure is therefore the same: restore the integrity of the integration of the person in the context.
• The metaphor of healing may be applied to the above.
• It means restoring autonomy and self-reliance.
• It means (re)introducing synergy and symbiosis.
• In science if
• integration complements differentiation,
• synthesis must complement analysis
• practical experience must complement theoretical models
• internal awareness must complement objective 'reality'.
• This is the case also for the models of science. It can no longer suffice to exclude the personal/collective position/view of observer involvement. Without this, equations are blind and biased and their limitations in the way they are used are not explicit.

As our body shows, we integrate matter with information. What we think matters. This makes us responsible. We are response-able because our body knows how to deal with changes of our context. For this reason the models of science must be based on the methods of healing. Not western medicine, which is based on mechanical analytical models, but on Integral Health Care; the methods of healing known and used the world over. They work because they effectively address the functioning of our own body. We thus can base science on the workings of our own body. After all, and before al, our body is the basis of science. It is the basis of realisation, communication, formulation and creation.

All we create is based on the basic principles of our body. It thus makes direct sense to solve the problems of science by resolving to use the process of healing found in our body. For that reason the process of self healing will be further explained by describing the functioning of or body. And the way it resets the boundary - thus balance while we interface with our context. Therein we have a choice always: if we choose for destructive/constructive interference. That is our most basic freedom of choice.

Our body is a processor of information. All materials in it serve to change patterns of information. In it we see the principle of information/creation, electromagnetic transformation, chemical equilibration, and physical manifestation. Our body operates simultaneously as a rock, plant, animal and self-conscious being. Our anatomy, physiology, regulatory system and information processing reflect this. And we have four corresponding systems of consciousness for this integration. We all have direct experience with this; we call this our life and our body. Systems theory offers a practical way to describe this. More important than the description is the application. Healing is not something to know; health matters if you live it.

The purpose of this paper is simple: analytical thinking severed the integration between culture and nature. Applying the methods of healing restores this. The principle involved is resetting he interface in or context; this is an application of the principle of freedom of choice of which our body is our best example.
The art of healing finds its foundation in the unfolding of the first cell of our
body: the Zygote.
The zygote was formed out of the fusion of Egg and Sperm, as part of an ongoing
unbroken chain of life with a lineage spanning millions of years.
The origin of the Zygote lies in the Eukaryote cell, which emerged out of the
symbiosis of four kinds of microbes (anaerobic, water based, aerobic, and
photosynthesis)
The foundation of the Eukaryote cell lies in the more basic development of microbes
our of virus out of amino acids, out of no more than an electric spark discharge
over primordial gasses on Earth.

The basis of healing lies however at a much deeper level.
Where the life forms originated from the charge discharges over the primordial
gasses of Earth, Earth itself was formed by congealing of a part of the Sun.
The Sun however forms part of a pattern of condensation of primordial matter: the
cloud of Cosmic Gas.
Cosmic Gas again is an effusion from a moment in creation known as Big Bang. It
means that /everything/ in existence has a common basis. All is connected.

Healing is the art of operating that connection.
It is founded on the understanding that all is one; and that every part is part of
the whole.
The meaning of the word Healing, Health, and wholeness (holiness also) reflect this
understanding: it refers to restoring the connection in/to the whole of/for the
part.
This is therefore a practical systemic operational functional definition of Health:
when the functioning of the whole operates in the part.
Our body is an example of the way this functions. We thi=us can learn from the body
how to function in health.

Health is an intriguing aspect of human understanding.
Healing is portrayed as if it is an applied (objective) science, while in fact it is
clearly founded on (individual) subjective functioning.
Health is thought of as reflecting the state of wellness of our body, while in fact
it represents the reflection of the integration of nature in the integrity of our
personal being.
Health Care is represented as a 'treatment' of the optimal functioning of the
individual, while it pertains to the wellness of functioning of humans, society,
humanity and nature as one integral whole.

Health, Healing, Health Care needs to therefore be regarded from a meta-perspective.
Herein it needs to be understood that the principles health care addresses aare
based on the healthy functioning of our body.
The basis of health lies in the system for self healing, of which the regulatory
system is an aspect, for the immune system, which is based on the integrity of the
functioning of the individual cell, as part of the whole.
The functioning of the individual cell is based on the functioning of the whole
body; which is based on the unfoldment of all body cells from the Zygote.

The "Equation of Health" is defined by the trace of divisions of the Zygote. Every
cell in the body can thus be traced back to its origin in the Zygote, These traces,
for each cell, form an integral fractal. This is called the Tree of Life, for our
species.
As part of this fractal, there are sensory cells in our body which relay their input
into neurons, via plexus, to the brain. This is known as the Tree of Knowledge. The
information is integrated in the brain, and relayed back to the body in the same
manner as the blood converges in the heart to be redistributed to the whole body.
There is an ongoing interaction between the 'inbound' flow of information from our
context via the Tree of Knowledge, and the 'outgoing' pattern of organisation of the
cells in the body in the Tree of Life, for our species.
There is an ongoing interaction between this inflow and this outflow. The
interference pattern between the two is known as the Tree of Good and Evil. It is in
fact the oscillatory pattern of attunement between the two fractals, on which our
ability to decide our position in our context is based.

Our experience of health is based on this last pattern: the oscillation of the
'inflow' (experience) in interaction with the 'outflow' (growth).
Between the two new options are 'computed' for our interaction with/in our context.
If the interference pattern starts to interfere with the integrity of the body,
diseases emerge.
Disease is a derailment of/from the pattern of integrity as specified from the
unfolding of the Zygote.
Crucial is, that this pattern of unfoldment contains all the information for the
integration of information with matter, as is the case in the making of our body as
part of our context.

The core of this realisation lies in the understanding that health is not based on
the form or functioning of our material/physical body.
It is based on the integrity of integration of our body in its context.
As the Equation of Health (above) specifies; this is a process/interference pattern
of information.
This understanding can be used in a general sense: healing is the art of integration
of information, in such a sense that the part is/remains/becomes part of the whole.