To understand how we live—and why we struggle the way we do, we have to know how our body, our soul and our brain are working together.

Our body is way above our head

At first, the human body looks rather simple: one trunk, one head, two legs and two arms. Most of the sense organs are found close to the brain.  This is a very common template that has been used on many animals. Let’s start by comparing our life expectancy with other animals.  

What happens inside our body is more than puzzling. We don’t know all the chemistry necessary to digest a simple meal. We don’t know what happens for 8 hours a day while we are asleep. Remove 75% of a liver and the body will completely rebuild the whole liver.   This is more than regular maintenance. There is some creation involved. Starfish can regenerate their body. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/cells-maintain-repair-liver-identified

Our body is so complicated that we had to divide our medicine into more than 100 different specialties such as Urology – Neurology – Cardiology – Ophthalmology – Pathology…. And many more.

What did we do to deserve such a sophisticated body? The human body was designed to last 120 to 140 years.  Jeanne Louise Calment lived 122 years and 164 days from 21 Feb 1875 to 4 August 1997.  Medicine and better hygiene prolonged our life expectancy from 30 to 80 years. This is a good start, but we are only halfway. We gained 50 years. After prolonging our life from 30 to 80 years we still have to prolong it from 80 to 120 years to get back to ‘normal’.  We started by using our linear way of thinking: one symptom, one illness, one treatment. In the second half, we could find different combinations of causes producing different illnesses requiring different treatments, depending on the patient. Our grandchildren will compare our medicine without A.I. with life without computers.

Mother Nature does not make a body like we make machines. She makes a seed and lets it grow.  Our parents only introduced a spermatozoid to an ovule. What happened after that was out of their control. The first cell knows how to grow and multiply. The mother provides food and shelter. She cannot even decide if she wants a boy or a girl. You may not approve. This is not the way to treat your mother!

At birth, our environment changes from the womb to the environment of planet earth. No wonder the newborns are crying. They have been kicked out of a very comfortable place for no good reason.  It will be our responsibility, all our life, to provide our body with food and shelter and do for our body what our mother did for the embryo. Should we assume that the same process could continue after our death? Could we keep moving out from the environment of planet Earth to the environment of the solar system? Why not?  Our body is only a very small part of the matter of planet Earth, which is itself a very small part of all the matter in the universe.  That makes us part of a big cycle of Nature.