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BODY = ENERGY My husband, Bob Schrei, and I have worked with the principle of the blueprint for many years and have discovered that to embark on the path of energetic medicine involves a radical redefinition of self, energy, healing, and indeed this universe in which we dwell. It is a path that constantly intrigues, challenges, invites, confuses, clarifies, and delights. Our work with the blueprint has led to the evolution of an energetic healing system we call SourcePoint Therapy, which has been developed, refined, and tested over the past 13 years. Bob is a former Zen teacher with degrees in architecture and fine arts, a certified advanced Rolfer in practice since 1986, and a biodynamic craniosacral therapist. I am a meditation teacher and intuitive. SourcePoint Therapy is the culmination of almost 40 years of explorations in consciousness, energy, and healing. As we developed this work together, we found reflections of its fundamental principles in both ancient and modern worldviews, and in varied philosophies and healing traditions. AN ENERGETIC TEMPLATE Shipibo healers in Peru say that before they can begin to do anything they must repair the energetic structure of the body by singing the energetic patterns. In Kabbalah, we find Adam Kadmon, the original human, sometimes defined as that pattern which, animated by light, gives birth to life, repairs, and heals. Goethe's "ur-phenomenon" (origin or source phenomenon) is also the "morphological imperative"—the archetype from which form arises.1 Michael Kern, DO, discusses this energetic pattern from the perspective of contemporary biodynamic craniosacral practitioners: "The We seek to determine the location of blockages in the physical body that obstruct this flow of information. that is "simultaneously a mechanical, vibrational or oscillatory, energetic, electronic, and informational network."7 All these philosophical and healing traditions have their differences, but they are all pointing to a similar phenomenon. An energetic template underlies and permeates a material form. It is an organizing principle that both creates and maintains health and life, a storehouse of information that guides the development of the individual in conjunction with ancestral, genetic, and environmental influences. In other words, this template gives rise to the blueprint. Breath of Life carries an essential blueprint for health … a deep and unwavering ordering principle …"2 In The Integration of Human Structures Ida Rolf poses the question, "Is 'balancing' actually the placing of the body of flesh upon an energy pattern that activates it?"3 DO,4 Robert O. Becker, as well as Harold Saxton Burr in his book The Blueprint of Immortality,5 also looked at the possibility of an energetic or electrical blueprint as a field that surrounds the body. James Oschman, in his excellent book, Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis, points out that "in a few short decades scientists have gone from a conviction there is no such thing as energy fields in and around the human body to an absolute certainty they exist."6 He goes on to describe the human body as a "living matrix" THE AKASHIC FIELD These time-honored principles find themselves reappearing in the thinking of many contemporary scientists. Highly respected physicist Ervin Laszlo, in his book Science and the Akashic Field, describes the quantum vacuum as "not just a superdense sea of energy but also a sea of information."8 He argues convincingly and in detail that "the physical world is a reflection of energy vibrations from more subtle worlds that, in turn, are reflections of still more subtle energy fields. Creation, and all subsequent existence, is a progression downward and outward from the primordial source."9 Laszlo has named this fundamental information/energy field the Akashic Field from the Sanskrit word akasha, meaning sky or ether. This references the concept of the Akashic Record, which in various religious and metaphysical traditions is believed to be a cosmic record of all that has ever happened. In this contemporary scientific view, the Akashic field also contains all the information necessary to create and sustain the universe as we know it, a universe that is 90 massage & bodywork september/october 2008