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Tao Stoic 227

"Master, I have a very difficult question for you."

"Shoot Ling."

"It is about organ transplantations. Normally they have to shut down practically the whole immune system. Can it not be done selectively by ideational influence, i.e. only for the transplantate, nothing else?"

"I am not going to answer this one for you Ling. You are perfectly capable of answering it yourself."

"I thought I could Master, but then I doubted. It seemed too fantastical."

"You do make me curious Ling. Tell me your answer."

"I held that it is theoretically possible to command the Mind to accept the foreign organ as one's own, but remain alert for all other foreign and infectious matter."

"Excellent! But is it more fantastic to you than a digital wristwatch that keeps time for years, even complete with leapyears, to a Galileo? You answered correct, a True Word. It is only fantastic that our scientists are still not studying Mind, 3000 years after Homer (Hesiod, Herodotus etc. ). Now, there's a good boy, give me a definition of Immunity."

"Immunity is an IDEATIONAL pattern of physico-chemical acts, serving as measures against a foreign body or malfunctioning cell, threatening life."

"You see, the Way is in the fourth word, a True Word. We shall print it in capitals." [48]


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Ven 2005-01-24