The Tao of Pooh pp. When you are faced with a daunting physical task you pull from somewhere within yourself the intention to act. You know an instant before you begin if you will be successful or not, for the result does not so much depend on your own physical strength as on the power of that inner will, that 'energy' you feel within you. Just as within a laser a small energy can have a tremendous effect, so, too, by coordinating the body's forces one can, in an emergency, lift incredible weights or walk great distances. Likewise, when a people are filled with 'spirit' they are able to do great tasks and overcome great obstacles.
Healing is the activation and renewal of spirit in the individual and the group.
The operation of spirit may, in some way, be connected with that experience of power we all feel within ourselves, with recovery to health that sometimes comes about when we discover a new meaning to our lives, and with the way in which a small group of individuals can perform great tasks. The Spiritual Ways, Healing and Science of the Native American pp. Using the development of computers as a parallel, we can see that design and construction must go hand in hand. If we accumulate a backlog of designs, they simply will not work at first. Steady and magnificent technological progress has been the hallmark of the last half century.