Quantum-Integral Medicine

By Dr. Michael Wayne, Ph.D., L.Ac.

Scientist and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once wrote, “Highly advanced technology is essentially indistinguishable from magic. Fortunately, such magic appears to be waiting in the wings of our deepening understanding of the quantum vacuum in which we live.”

If we are a reflection and microcosm of the universe, why do we think in such a limited fashion, when the universe and quantum vacuum are so infinite? Are we afraid of infinity, of being open vessels to the greatness of the vast universe? The brilliant Latin American writer Jorge Luis Borges thought so. In his essay Avatars of the Tortoise, he wrote, “There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics. I refer to the infinite.”

Quantum physics and the field of quantum consciousness tell us that consciousness is infinite and eternal, and spreads out across the universe everywhere all at once. Although we can only be in one place at one time in the relative plane, at our core we are infinite beings. Yet, we behave just the opposite. We think and act dogmatically; we would rather defend our dogmas – the antithesis of an open-ended, infinite universe – to the death than to take a step back and examine why we think the way we do.

And the reason we think the way we do is because of our Mental Models, the deeply held images of how the world works. These images are so ingrained and embedded in our subconscious that we are not even aware that this is what guides our thinking. Mental models are the assumptions we make about how the world operates, and how we function or take action. Mental models may be illogical and dogmatic, but they are our guiding force.

The greatest impediment to awakening the power that we all have within – the power to heal, the power of vision, the power to live more full, self-actualized lives – is our mental models, and the greatest mental model of them all is the belief that we live in a closed, linear deterministic universe. This belief leads to a sense of absolutism – the belief that “I’m right and you’re wrong,” of which we are all guilty. This is a mental model that says all is knowable, all things are predictable, and all things follow set patterns. Any time we get rigid about an idea or belief, we are operating from this mental model.

But this is not how the world operates at all. The world is based on the laws of quantum physics, chaos, complexity, and emergence; a world like this is one with a spiritual undercurrent that pulls and pushes us along the path of life.
Imagine if this was the mental model of medicine, science, and, most importantly, for all. Medicine would no longer be a field that more often than not does more harm than good, and people would start to more fully understand how to tap into their own innate healing capabilities. This quality of healing, and the science behind it, is what I call a Quantum-Integral Medicine.

Many people believe we have an immense reservoir of healing inherent within. Norman Cousins wrote a best seller, Anatomy of an Illness, which was his personal story of recovery from a terminal illness. Larry Dossey has said that there should be a Manhattan Project for Miracles or a government agency, the National Institute for the Miraculous, to help us more fully understand the nature of deep, profound healing.
There is an inner mechanism that gets activated when deep healing occurs. A woman who healed herself from cancer, when asked by her doctor how she cured herself, answered, “It’s just a feeling; something I know instinctively from the inside. The emotions come up, and something happens in my body because of them, but I don’t have words for it. It is just a big, big trust.”

Scientifically, this mechanism is called emergence; a healing process emerges from the body to harmonize and overcome the illness. Emergence is a creative process and not always easily predicted, but it is a fact of nature. Most natural healing systems are based on emergence.

Emergence holds the key to healing, and the more we access it, the more we can understand and penetrate the mysteries of the body and the pathways to healing. A researcher once made a profile of what he called the Type M, or Miracle, personality, and the common traits he found in those people. Inner Change, Regression, Active Surrender, Altered States, Emotional Expression, and Social Change are key steps towards emergence.

Emergence doesn’t fit into the mental model of a closed, linear deterministic universe. It is an aspect of an open-ended universe, one that is based on the knowledge of an infinite universe that arises from a deepening quantum vacuum. Emergence holds the key not only to a Quantum-Integral Medicine, but to the future of medicine and healing and, in the broadest sense, to the future of humanity.

Michael Wayne, Ph.D., L.Ac., author of Quantum-Integral Medicine: Towards a New Science of Healing and Human Potential, is the Director of The Center for Quantum-Integral Medicine. Mwayne2@mac.com