Matthew Budd wrote in “You Are What You Say”: Obviously, you and I are more than the sum of our parts. We have unique cares, intentions, commitments, feelings etc. We have preferences…

And we suffer over things and people we want or have lost. None of this can be explained by examining our parts. We exist as whole and unique organisms. We are part of nature and nature is seamless, a connected whole. Only in our explanatory systems is it separated.

     That is why when I had a voice problem for years in the 1990s my doctors could not explain what ailed me. Eventually I suggested Myasthenia Gravis and most of my doctors greed although a female neurologist vehemently refused to confirm this.

     I was often in turmoil. I had a crisis of Faith. I had too many issues with my in-laws. I had so many questions about our finances. I was definitely unhappy.

     Luckily a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and to Lourdes etc. gave me a new worldview. Slowly I integrated my mind and my body. Eventually my explanatory system changed for the better.