Experiencing health via the connection

Edwin de Leonwas diagnosed with a muscular skeletal condition a few years ago. Having relied on medications and painkillers constantly for some time, as well as other therapies to manage the problem which he was told would continue for the rest of his life, he decided to revert to the spiritual practice he'd grown up with but had left behind – the "divine Science of Mind-healing", as Mary Baker Eddyonce described it.

This practice relies on an increased understanding of the divine Mind, rather than the human mind and is based on the contemplative practice of prayer that seeks a change of perception from a material sense of identity, to a higher view of being created "in the image and likeness" of the Divine, as the Bible puts it.

Within about three or four months he found he didn't need the painkillers any more. He says the experience was "almost like having a light being shined on my thought" and as it turned out "this wasn't just a physical healing … it changed my whole attitude and outlook on life."

How long it will be until traditional and integrative medicine can accept this new-old paradigm based on true consciousness - the spiritual sense of being and of our true connection to the Divine – is unknown. Kuhn's hypothesis explains why current medicine is still conflicted by it.

While a growing number of medical practitioners are certain of the need today for the integration of mind-body practices with useful treatments from the traditional medical paradigm, if Kuhn's hypothesis stands true they will one day accept this new-old spiritual paradigm, which offers the gold standard of medicine.