When Healing Becomes Educating, Vol. 2 - Waldorf Research Institute

causal steps will not permit clarification of the immune system. The method
is not appropriate to the complex laws that pertain to life.
Despite their complexity and incalculability, these biochemical processes
always create a harmonious, unstable equilibrium that is far removed from
the thermodynamic equilibrium and exactly for this reason highly adaptable.
Health may thus be seen as a middle element between chaos and order,
with disease a deviation from this middle position toward either extreme.
W. Gerok has shown this rather well in the case of osteoporosis. 12 Blood
levels of parathyroid hormone normally show irregular diurnal fluctuations.
If osteoporosis develops the level remains rigidly the same, indicating a
swing to excessive order. It is now also known that irregularity is the norm
for the human heart beat and that excessive regularity as well as irregularity
signal functional disorders that have to be taken seriously. There are many
other examples, but space does not permit them to be discussed here.
In fractal geometry, the balanced state in natural morphology is seen to
lie on the boundary to chaos, which also means that chaos is essential to it.
Healthy physiological processes may also be seen to be in balance between
chaos and order, with the equilibrium constantly re-established on a narrow
ridge between two unequal weights.
Chaos theory offers equally startling new insights in other sciences; this
will lead to changes in paradigm, and rightly so.
The brief outline given above indicates that the level to which chaos
theory is addressed is the level of the etheric. As already stated, the golden
Fig. 4. Golden section in
pentagram.
Sides are divided in golden
section, with
b : a = a : c or a + b;
a : c = c : 2a + b (whole side).
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