It was also a way for scientific thinkers to separate religion from science in understanding the functioning of the human body, in that divine explanations for the nature of health and illness were no longer deemed necessary. Newton's laws were quite useful, but they were found to have extreme shortcomings when the new forces of electricity and magnetism were explored. The fundamental understanding of the Einsteinian model is that the subatomic particles which are the building blocks of all matter in the universe are, in fact, miniature energy fields. It has taken more than seventy years for physicists to verify the predictions and implications of the Einsteinian model. Although physics has confirmed the energetic field nature of matter, most physicians have not yet integrated this understanding into their model of human biological functioning.
Doctors still see the body as a sophisticated physical mechanism.
And yet, the human form is composed of the same stuff of the universe. That universal material, as we now understand it, is woven together from orderly patterns of frozen light. In the human body these aggregates of frozen light are, in turn, held in pattern by organizing energy fields which provide structure, and thus function, to the living whole. By extending our model of human physiology to incorporate the interactions of subtle life-fields that orchestrate the patterns of cellular and organismic behavior, in concert with molecular biologic mechanisms, we open the door to new realms of diagnosis, as well as unique energetic approaches to therapy. To some extent, we have already begun to see the introduction of purely energetic therapies into orthodox medical practice.