Never Fear, the Quantum Doctor Is Here

What is a quantum doctor? A quantum doctor is a practitioner of medicine whoknows the fallacies of the Newtonian classical physics-based deterministicworldview that was discarded in physics many decades ago. A quantum doctor isgrounded in the world-view of the new physics, also called quantum physics. Andthere is more. Quantum doctors bring the message of quantum physics alive intheir practice of medicine.

You may wonder: What difference does a worldview make in the practice ofmedicine? In contrast to the classical physics world-view in which the world isseen as a mechanical, determined machine, we cannot even make sense of quantumphysics unless we ground it in the primacy of consciousness: Consciousness comesfirst; it is the ground of all being. Everything else, including matter, is apossibility of consciousness. And consciousness chooses out of thesepossibilities all the events we experience.

Now do you see? Physicians of the old ilk of classical physics aficionadospractice machine medicine, designed for machines (that is the picture of thepatient in the classical worldview) and by machines (the physicians who areself-avowed machines). And make no mistake about it, the medicine that thepatient gets, allopathic medicine, is also of a mechanical nature, with chemicaldrugs, mechanical surgery or organ transplant, and energy radiation. A quantumdoctor, on the other hand, practices conscious medicine designed for people, notmachines. What conscious medicine prescribes includes the mechanical but extendsalso to the domains of vitality and meaning, even love. And most important, aspractitioners of conscious medicine the quantum doctors bring consciousness totheir practice.

Admittedly, the quantum doctor is right now only an idea developed in this book,an idea you are probably reading about for the first time. But if the idea ishere, and as I will show, it is an idea with much integrative power, can themanifestation of the idea be far behind? In fact, a partial manifestation of theidea is age-old and continues to the present era.

I am talking about practitioners of what today is called alternative orcomplementary medicine, including the age-old systems of acupuncture andtraditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda (developed in India), spiritual healing,the more recent homeopathy, and the very recent mind-body medicine. Alternativemedicine practitioners go partway toward being quantum doctors. Their medicalsystems are designed for conscious beings, and they do have more dimensions thanthe mechanical. Unfortunately, alternative medicine practitioners suffer fromconsiderable amounts of worldview confusion (discussed later).

Although our culture promotes the "great" advancements of machine medicine allthe time, still many people are disillusioned with it. Partly, it is because weall miss the conscious human touch that we expect from a healer. Partly, it isbecause, its "miracles" notwithstanding, allopathic medicine doesn't work wellfor the bulk of our day-to-day medical problems—the chronic ailments, forexample. And it is because machine medicine and mechanical procedures are veryexpensive.

So although the machinists in medicine are openly scornful of alternativepractices, alternative medicine is gaining in popularity. Unfortunately, thisonly aggravates the reaction of the conventional allopathic practitioners.Before, allopaths could afford benign neglect. But now, as their bread andbutter is threatened, for many of them it is all-out war against alternativemedicine. Alternative medicine is voodoo medicine, they declare.

If the world is machine, mind is machine, and even the soul is machine, as someobservers contend, then how can anything but machine medicine have any validity?

Alternative medicine practitioners also strike back. Let's note just two oftheir criticisms. Allopathic drugs have harmful side effects, they point out.Why should we unnecessarily poison the body? Allopathic procedures such asvaccinations administered when we are children weaken the immune system so muchthat we become more vulnerable to disease later in life. Why should we acceptsuch procedures without questioning them?

We all are interested in health and healing, in our physical well-being. We allsearch for it when we don't have it. But with the sharp division of medicineinto two camps—conventional and alternative—it is increasingly difficult tochoose the proper healing method when we need it. What criteria should we usefor such a choice? Is a combination of healing techniques better than any onetechnique? What should we do to maintain our health, to prevent disease in thefirst place? Can we heal ourselves without any physical or chemical instrumentsof healing?

The answers to such questions depend on whom you ask. Are at least some of thestories of spontaneous healing true? Some experts answer yes. But is spontaneoushealing accessible to all of us? Experts from some medical traditions nod yes,while others stubbornly shake their heads no. When we are middle-aged or old,are we to feel fortunate if we suffer from only a few chronic diseases, withoutany major life-threatening illness? Should we accept stress and lack of vitalityas the price we must pay for modern living? Maybe so, some experts say. Why iseconomics such an important consideration for health and healing? We are sorry,say the experts. Is medicine only about pathology? Can we not strive forpositive health where vitality and well-being reign supreme? We don't know, saythe experts.

Truth is, we cannot begin to answer such questions with much credibility withoutdeveloping an integral paradigm that embraces all medical systems that haveadequate clinical data to support their efficacy. We must end the currentconfusion of paradigms that pervades medicine.

Never fear, the quantum doctor is here. The quantum doctor, like his or herworldview, is integrative. In this book, I show that when medicine is formulatedwithin the integral metaphysics of the primacy of consciousness,...