Random Thoughts on "Alternative Therapies"

When william Blake sang,

To see a world in a grain of san,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour
(From Auguries of Innocence)
he was singing on the never-fully-comprehendible reality in which we live, participate and have our being. It is in participating in that mystery of the universe we can realise ourselves, we become"fully actualised"persons. Perhaps the alternative therapies are attepts to participate int he mystery of that reality.

The little wo/man in that dark corner of the temple in an unknown corner of the world, s/he is trying to be in touch with substratum of realities. S/he in a mysterious way realises there is meaning to everything that happened/happens to her. S/he states deep within, "God within and without, above and below, love flowing from Him (Her!)in his/er veins, everything is/shall/was fine, for good and safe. You name it this therapy or that, isn't this prayer helping her to "Self Actualise" him/er?

The person who practices water therapy understand that s/he is made up of sixty per cent water and links him/er to the elements of the universe. The water, the waters of the ocean shall rise up at high tide and go down at low tide. When you sing the lullaby to the baby the waters in its body rises and falls in waves as the waters on the fullmoon night in a million shapes and hues. It soothes the baby and it lies in peaceful slumber dreaming himself to be among angels and stars. Doesn't the same happen within us when we hear Bhairavi or asveri ragas? We thank Dr Misaru Emoto helping us to see what is happening within us. You call this water therapy, music therapy,or by another name; fine.

So are the other so called alternative therapies. All invies to participate in the
inexplicable mystery of the universe. The mystery out there and insde me are one and the same. Alternative therapies are feeble attempts to relate tothe myteries that can heal, soothe, and live fuller lives. This is never to say that the so called mainstream therapies are out of bound with the mysterious inner wold of human beings. These too are part of that attempts to realte and participate in that we live, participate and have our being.