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The Scientific Foundation: Exploring the Flow of Matter, Energy and Information Through Time and Space How the Yogis Describe the World of Form Its as easy as 1 -2 -3! 1. Forms and the Formless are two perspectives of a non-dual unbroken wholeness or oneness. 2. The world of forms arises as polarities, yin and yang, which can be in a balanced realtionship, or out of balance. 3. Yin and Yang refer to fundamental ways in which forms change and energies move through time. Some of these include: heating/expanding/speeding up and cooling/condensing/slowing down; increasing order/complexity and decreasing order/complexity (entropy); or Newton's inertia of rest and inertia of motion. 4. The out of balance states involve stagnation (tamas) or chaos (rajas). In these states, the flow of information is inhibited or blocked between the poles and each acts in isolation from the other. 4. The balanced state is called harmony or sattva, where stagnation becomes stability and chaos becomes self-organizing flow. 5. In the healing arts we see creation divided into 5 basic qualities or elements: Earth signifying weight plus stability, density Water, signifying weight plus fluidity, mutability Fire signifying mutability, transformation Air signifying communication, resonance, energetic exchange Akasha (no English equivalent) signifying spaciousness In Indian philosophy, each of the elements contains all of the others. In other words, the element earth is composed of 50% earth and 12.5% water, 12.5% fire, 12.5% air and 12.5% akasha. Water is composed of 50% water etc. In Ayurvedic medicine, earth and akasha are considered to be relatively stable, while water, fire and air are subject to change, and ones constitution tends to have one of these water (kapha) fire, (pitta) or air (vata) as a dominant tendency In Chinese medicine, air and akasha are substituted with wood and metal.
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