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The work of Dr. Francis Biley Francis Biley

Dr. Biley's paper contains a description and critical analysis of the main components of the SUHB. The paper would benefit from considerable updating but may be of some use to some readers in its present form.

CLICK HERE to read his paper  

 

Notable Quotes possibly relevant to Unitary Health Care, the Science of Unitary Human Beings and the work of Martha E. Rogers:

 

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons
Dostoevsky (with thanks to Mike Sullivan)

Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful
Nietzsche (with thanks to Mike Sullivan)

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed. 
Carl Gustav Jung (with thanks to Sandra Wilson who supplied this quote).

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.
Richard P. Feynman

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.
Isaac Asimov

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
John Dewey

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

General system theory, therefore, is a general science of "wholeness”...The meaning of the somewhat mystical expression, "The whole is more that the sum of its parts" is simply that constitutive characteristics are not explanable from the characteristics of the isolated parts. The characteristics of the complex, therefore, appear as "new" or "emergent"...
Ludwig von Bertalanffy

The overall name of these interrelated structures is system. The motorcycle is a system. A real system. …There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. That's all a motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There's no part in it, no shape in it that is not in someone's mind. I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this- that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.
Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

All things are like visions beyond the reach of the human mind.
Jack Kerouac

Truth can only be experienced. It cannot be described and it cannot be explained.
A Course of Miracles

General Systems Theory, a related modern concept, says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that cause and effect cannot be separated. A simple variable can be both cause and effect. Reality will not be still. And it cannot be taken apart! You cannot understand a cell, a rat, a brain structure, a family, a culture if you isolate it from its context. Relationship is everything.
Marilyn Ferguson: The Aquarian Conspiracy

Indeed, to some extent it has always been necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, if we tried to deal with the whole of reality at once, we would be swamped. However when this mode of thought is applied more broadly to man's notion of himself and the whole world in which he lives, (i.e. in his world-view) then man ceases to regard the resultant divisions as merely useful or convenient and begins to see and experience himself and this world as actually constituted of separately existing fragments. What is needed is a relativistic theory, to give up altogether the notion that the world is constituted of basic objects or building blocks. Rather one has to view the world in terms of universal flux of events and processes.
David Bohm

The fact was I had the vision...I think everyone has...what we lack is the method.
Jack Kerouac

If [man] thinks of the totality as constituted of independent fragments, then that is how his mind will tend to operate, but if he can include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border then his mind will tend to move in a similar way, and from this will flow an orderly action within the whole.
David Bohm

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
A Course of Miracles

The recognition that you do not understand is a prerequisite for undoing your false ideas.
A Course of Miracles

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
Herman Hesse

Perception is a choice and not a fact. But on this choice depends far more than you may realize as yet. For on the voice you choose to hear, and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are.
A Course of Miracles

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

 

 

 
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