When we peer at your tongue, we see the temperature, moistness or dryness, swelling or mucus in different organs of your body. When we press three fingers on your wrist pulse, we feel a reflection of how blood is moving through the upper, middle, and lower "chambers" of your torso. The tongue, radial pulses, abdomen, face, and foot, for example, all contain a "map" of the entire body. If your acupuncturist has taken your pulse, looked at your tongue, or pressed points on your ears or your abdomen, you have seen this principle in use. This foundational holographic principle (also known as the macrocosm/microcosm principle) enables acupuncturists to discern a complex image of how your body's systems are functioning almost instantaneously. And recently (in the scheme of things) physicists may have proven the universe itself is holographic, that is to say, information about an entire region of space may be encoded at its borders. Empirical evidence exists in Biology: humans have recently (cosmically speaking) discovered DNA, coiled instructions for the entire body contained within each cell. But one part containing the whole can be a more difficult concept to grasp. Drinking "Hologram" made me think of one of the central principles of Chinese Medicine: each part is contained within the whole and the image of the whole is reflected within the confines of each part.Ī whole contains parts, of course. That cup of coffee was, in a word, heavenly. As I sipped from my cup, distinct flavors: blueberry, toast, sour, chocolate, bitter, would emerge and then recede and then merge again into the flavor we call "coffee". Last week my favorite coffee shop was serving a blend called "Hologram". Hologram: Where Microcosm Meets Macrocosm By Jennifer Kapraun, LAc
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