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A Revised EntryWorth Reading, inshAllah

What is a human being? It keeps coming back to that. What are we? And where are we? Let us go back to how Chinese medicine sees a human being and our relationship with the rest of creation. And let us compare that to how a physicist might describe a human being. As I said in an earlier post, both the Chinese doctor and the physicist would be comfortable with the idea of a human being as a field of energy or a flow of force within a field of energy. Check out my previous post. River's Chi House: We are wondrously made. The American Heritage Dictionary defines a field as having many different meanings. The one we are interested in is under the number " (7) physics - A region of space characterized by a physical property such as a gravitational or electromagnetic force or fluid pressure, having a determinable value at every point in the region." Under field of force or force field we have, “Field of Force- A region of space throughout which the force produced by an agent...