Today our culture is much more scientific, our medical practices have themselves become our guides to vitality and long life, so terminology replaces myth and folklore. We don t respond to stories about renouncing this or that temptation, or by avoiding the examples of the hard men falling hard. We speak in medical terms, and gauge our progress in how much we can spend on medical research. T-cells are the body s immunological warriors. Riding the white blood cells, they peruse the body s various organ systems, identifying things as simply Self or Non-self.
Self is what is considered by the t-cells necessary for survival.
Because the Greek doctor Galen warned that a person with Alopekia might suffer in both appearance and health. It also remains fairly unclear how to correct it, in the most severe cases. It might be just as well to try goat s nails as to be put through the punished effects of cortisone shots, rogaine, or ultraviolet rays. There is, I believe, during the moments when we come into union with the world, a sense of beauty and mystery. William James, in his book, Varieties of Religious Experience, considers the most profound sense of God a sense of mystery.