Mind Sciences

A generic, general classification of religious groups that teach that human beings are inherently divine and that mind or thoughts are energy forms that can create and/or alter reality.

Most often used in reference to the American religions formed since the middle of the 19th century, especially the New Thought Movement that denies the actuality of sin, sickness, and/or death and promotes health though mental practices.

(See also: Mind Sciences, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Health Harmonics: Technology that enables determination of the sound frequency one needs for balance and harmony of body, mind, and spirit.

(See also: Health Harmonics, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Health Patterning: a process of facilitating unitary well-being. It includes imagery (see creative visualization), mediation, and Therapeutic Touch.

(See also: Health Patterning, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Touch for Health (TFH): Form or variation of energy balancing developed by chiropractor John F. Thie, author of Touch for Health: A New Approach to Restoring Our Natural Energies (T.H. Enterprises). TFH is a combination of acupressure touch, applied kinesiology, and massage.

(See also: Touch for Health, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Balanced Health: Offshoot of applied kinesiology taught by The Academy of Systematic Kinesiology, in Britain. Treatment may include chakra corrections.

(See also: Balanced Health, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Tao of Health (Tao of Healing, Tao of Healing method): natural approach to health promoted by the School of Classical Taoist Herbology, in Manhattan (New York City). Its theory posits an original and rightful state of health. The Tao of Health encompasses Acu-Powder, energy balance analysis, sexology, meridian energy diagnosis, the Taoist Diet, Tuina, and a variation of self-healing.

(See also: Tao of Health, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Health Kinesiology (HK, HK system): An energy modality created by psychologist Jimmy Scott, Ph.D. HK is an offshoot of applied kinesiology. Its theory posits the Five Elements (Five Phases), a material layer of the aura, a meridian system, and reflex points for the Five Elements in the area of the navel. Corrective treatments may include crystals, gems, magnets, and homeopathic remedies.

(See also: Health Kinesiology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

A Theosophical definition of Science :

Science

An operation of the human spirit-mind in its endeavor to understand the how of things  - not any particular science whatsoever, but the thing in itself, science per se  - ordered and classified knowledge. One phase of a triform method of understanding the nature of universal nature and its multiform and multifold workings; and this phase cannot be separated from the other two  - philosophy and religion  - if we wish to gain a true picture of things as they are in themselves.

Science is the aspect of human thinking in the activity of the mentality in the latter's inquisitive, researching, and classifying functions.

See also: Science, Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul)

Science:

Accumulated and accepted knowledge that has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound or philosophical knowledge, especially knowledge obtained and tested through the use of the scientific method.

(See also: Science, Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Definition and meaning of sustainability science:

sustainability science - a multi-disciplinary approach to science that recognizes the limitations of traditional scientific inquiry in dealing with the complex reality of social institutions interacting with natural phenomena. Sustainability science seeks to improve on the substantial but limited understanding of nature-society interactions gained in recent decades. This has been achieved through work in the environmental sciences estimating and evaluating human impacts, and evidence from social and development studies that takes into account environmental influences on human well-being. Urgently needed is a better understanding of the complex dynamic interactions between society and nature so that the trend towards increasing vulnerability is reversed

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

Also see these pages: Oceanography, Oceanography Sitemap, Coral Reef, Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change,

Science [from Latin scientia from scire to know]

In its widest sense formulated knowledge, a knowledge of structure, laws, and operations. The unity of human knowledge may be artificially divided into religion, philosophy, and science. Science and philosophy, as presently understood, have in common the quality of being speculative, as opposed to religion, which in the West is supposed to be founded merely on faith and moral sentiments.

The present distinction between science and philosophy lies largely in their respective fields of speculation. What is known as modern science investigates the phenomena of physical nature and by inferential reasoning formulates general laws therefrom. Its method is called inductive and its data are so-called facts -- i.e., sensory observations; whereas deductive philosophy starts from axioms. Yet a scientist, in order to reason from his data at all, must necessarily use both induction and deduction.

Modern science has limited its field of study to the laws of physical nature; but in the 20th century the illusive and entirely phenomenal nature of matter and energy, formerly assumed to be eternal and indestructible, is better realized by scientists who have traced the chain of physical causation to a point beyond physical limits altogether and admit that the physical world consists of phenomena occurring in an ultraphysical substance.

In modern sciences dealing with biology, evolution, and anthropology, legitimate inference from facts has been much interfered with by preconceived ideas. Modern science suffers from its failure to see the necessity of postulating an astral or formative world behind the physical, this astral world being in itself but one stage in a rising scale or ladder of invisible worlds. To ascertain the facts upon which to build a true inductive system, we must admit the existence in man of means of direct perception other than those afforded by the physical senses.

(See also: Science, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Optimum Health Balance: Offshoot of applied kinesiology developed by Charles Benham. Practitioners place remedies or supplements on clients, to channel the energy patterns of such things.

(See also: Optimum Health Balance, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Unitary Health Care (unitary nursing): A mode of nursing based on the work of nursing professor Martha Elizabeth Rogers, Ph.D. (1914Ð1994), during the 1950s in New York. It includes Health Patterning and Unitary Pattern Appreciation.

(See also: Unitary Health Care, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Natural Health Program: New York Open Center course that provides a way to empower persons to improve their health. The course encompasses the five elements theory, spiritual nutrition (see Rainbow Diet), and means of detoxifying and protecting human energy fields.

(See also: Natural Health Program, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Morter Health System: Mode of chiropractic that includes B.E.S.T, Baby B.E.S.T., a videocassette stress-management program called The Twelve Steps to Stress Less, and dietary supplementation whose design is to restore the body to its natural alkaline state.

(See also: Morter Health System, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Psycho-kinetic Health (PKH): Offshoot of applied kinesiology developed in Britain. Its principle is that practitioners can feel and see energy blocks in clients and remove the blocks through mental effort. PKH theory posits meridians and subtle body energies.

(See also: Psycho-kinetic Health, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)