ADAM VS. ATOM
Dr. Tom Cowan, co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, is hosting his first New Biology Experience at our farm this week as one of our summer event/gathering hostings.
I had the privilege of talking with him yesterday and appreciated his thought progression over the years. He's become more and more skeptical of almost everything western science believes. He boils it down to freedom and truth. No coercion and no monkeying around to make things fit into your paradigm. Just observe and enjoy--that's enough.
Lots of threads to unpack, but I'll start with the two origin stories. One involves God, Adam, and the Garden. Cowan admits he has no idea how all that transpired, but quickly and humbly admits "I don't have to." It's enough just to believe it.
The second story, in his telling is that billions of years ago a car backfired in a big bang and created the Atom. In his wry sense of humor, he points out that all truth has a counterfeit and this is typical: Adam and Atom. Counterfeits always try to come as close to the real as possible, even in terminology and language.
He says nobody has proved atoms exist. In fact, folks who believe in atoms say they are primarily space. It's always bothered me that a table, which is supposedly mostly space, can hold its form and function for centuries and you can't poke your finger through the space. Cowan agrees, and simply posits that the atom idea doesn't make sense with what we can see.
I'm not nearly as eloquent or well-versed in the science behind the science, but I can tell you it does blow your mind to think virtually everything we think we know is a fabrication of an Atom mindset. From viruses to testosterone to the periodic chart of the elements, Cowan says none of it is actually provable and only exists due to experiments that assume an atomic mindset.
He says science went off the rails when Einstein developed the theory of relativity. In his whimsical way, he says you don't eat bananas for potassium. A banana has a peel, innards, and some occasional strings. You eat it because it tastes good and makes you feel good. And that is enough.
Benet Brown eloquently addresses the scarcity vs. enough tension and I found Cowan's simplification heartening. He chided me for saying our Polyface pastured pork cooks faster because the pigs are happy and therefore don't secrete adrenalin's cortisol. For him, it's simply enough to realize stress tightens up muscles and affects tenderness. Period. Everything else is conjecture based on a predisposition to Atoms rather than Adam.
The folks attending this two-day event are open to unorthodox views; they are in for a great two-day experience. Whether or not you agree with Cowan's conclusions, I think we're all richer for listening and giving him a platform to question. You can dismiss it as crazy, or you can say "tell me more." I think our responses tell us more about ourselves than others.
If you believed atoms didn't exist, would it change anything about how you live day to day?
