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Such a knowledge as you suggest in actuality would not have added to his comprehension of his body, for he comprehended it very well. It would not have added to his health for example either, for he listened to his body so acutely that natural healings followed as he sought from nature what his body needed. Perhaps a more recent example would help. There have been articles (in the newspapers) about people dying of broken hearts after long periods of time, when hearts were simply regarded as mechanical pumps. No man’s knowledge will alone save him from heart failure, or heart difficulties, if such knowledge is not backed up by comprehensions of an entirely different order.

Medically much can be done in your framework to alter bodily parts. The body is not just a physical entity, however, nor is its working completely the result of the condition of all of its parts. People in seemingly good health, for example, all parts functioning normally as far as you know, medically, can suddenly die, or become ill, while no reason can be found. Such cases can occur, among other reasons, because of relationships between or among bodily parts that in your terms do not have a physical status.

Give us a moment.... There are for example pressures that do not show, strained relationships between, say, organs that are not apparent medically. These can best be symbolically stated, and would always represent states of mind or feeling. They affect bodily behavior, however, and bodily experience, and are far more important to health in basic terms.

A conscious knowledge of the eye’s working will not necessarily give you better vision. To a certain extent that system, while it has its advantages, is also limited and differently slanted in certain directions that can at least at times mitigate against the body’s health and well-being.