Michio Kaku – Photo by Campus Party Mexico
A guest post written by Robert B. Clark, Committee on Publication for Florida
Michio Kaku is a quantum physicist and co-founder of “string field theory”. When he was 16 he built a particle accelerator in his mother’s garage, blowing out the electrical circuitry in the house and causing his mother to ask, “Why couldn’t I have a son who plays baseball?”
His new book, Physics of the Future, spells out some amazing technological wonders that may await us in the not so distant future. How about accessing the internet through your contact lenses? Blink…and you’re online.
Fascinating stuff with big implications in many areas, including health care. Kaku predicts that thought will be harnessed and become action with no physical body movement involved. Form a thought…and watch it become an action.
He tells about paralyzed stroke victims equipped with special computer chips who are already able to manipulate computers and guide wheelchairs simply by thinking. “After a while … [the patients] were able to read email, write email, surf the Internet, play video games, guide wheelchairs — anything you can do on a computer, they can do as well, except they’re trapped inside a paralyzed body.”
What implications does the power of thought, including religious thought, have for health care?
Already professors of psychology, such as Gail Ironson at the University of Miami, who studies HIV and religious belief, are finding that “spirituality predicts for better disease control.” And neuroscientists such as Dr. Lou Ritz at the University of Florida are offering classes in “neurotheology”, making clear connections between religious thought and health.
Another Florida researcher, Michael E. McCullough of the University of Miami, has conducted research with colleague, Robert A. Emmons, of the University of California, Davis, proving that people who keep gratitude journals are more optimistic, happier and have fewer physical problems.
Where is all of this headed? In a healthy direction for sure. The effect of thought…especially religious thought…on the body, the body’s movement, and overall physical health, is a rapidly growing field of study. It offers inexpensive, real life alternatives to the worn-out theory that overly expensive drug-based medicine is the only effective way to achieve and sustain health.
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Love the quote about being “trapped inside a paralysed body” and yet still being able to exercise dominion over the physical world thru our thinking.
Such a clear example of metaphysics, resolving things into thoughts!
Wow is that awesome or what. And to think over a hundred years ago a young woman discovered the same thing. Her name…Mary Baker Eddy. She tells us in her book, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” that “Suffering is no less a mental condition than is enjoyment.” That statement tells me that our mental condition determines our lives. And further down on the page when Eddy gives the remedy for accidents, she writes this, “When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, ‘I am hurt!’ Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.” Imagine that, our thought being more powerful than what just happened? If thought is that powerful as Mr. Kaku and Mrs. Eddy claim it is, then we need to be careful what we are thinking at all times. I’m a Christian Scientist and I am so grateful for what I am learning in my study of Christian Science on how to use thought properly. Christian Science teaches me to keep my thought in line with God, good. I find in doing that my days are more productive and my life is much happier. Thanks Robert for sharing this information.
Great stuff. Thanks for the blog.
Thank you for the Blog Robert! I love the responses. Complete respect is due for all aspects of research that’s being done by those referred to in this blog and for all who are working and searching for answers for the betterment of mankind. I believe that quantum physicists to astrophysicists to physicians will ultimately find their answers in the Christ Science which Mary Baker Eddy discovered. String theorists are hoping that they’ve found the “theory of everything” or the “ultimate” or “final” theory. Of course the reductionist concept is primarily based on the idea that, in principle absolutely everything can be described in terms of underlying microscopic constituents of matter. Astrophysicists look to many of the same disciplines of physics for their answers. And physicians look to anatomy and physiology for theirs. Eddy points out, “Obedience to the so-called laws of health has not checked sickness. Diseases have multiplied, since man-made material theories took the place of spiritual truth.” And she also states, “Material substances or mundane formations, astronomical calculations, and all the paraphernalia of speculative theories, based on the hypothesis of material law or life and intelligence in matter, will ultimately vanish, swallowed up in the infinite calculus of Spirit (God)”. And that ultimately “The astronomer will no longer look up to the stars,- he will look out from them upon the universe”. What a day that will be!
Great article and replies! What hope for mankind this holds. (=