The vital force "reincarnated": modeling entelechy as a quantized spinning gyroscopic metaphor for integrated medicine

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2015:821:111-23. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-08939-3_15.

Abstract

The ancient concept of the Vital Force receives a modern incarnation as a metaphorical multidimensional spinning gyroscope. The consequences for a different understanding of health and disease are examined in the context of integrated medicine.

MeSH terms

  • Homeopathy / psychology
  • Homeopathy / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Integrative Medicine / statistics & numerical data*
  • Metaphor
  • Models, Statistical*
  • Qi*
  • Quantum Theory