The tale of doctors who tried to create art

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The tale of doctors who tried to create art

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by Mike , The Health Ranger

There was once a small group of medical doctors (MDs) who wanted to

create art. To accomplish this, they first decided to study art to

find what it was made of.

Using elaborate microscopes and measurement devices, they discovered

that art was made up of ink on a canvas. With the help of the best

high-tech equipment available, they applied thousands of tiny blots

of ink to a canvas in the hopes of creating art.

But it wasn't art. It was just ink on a canvas.

Hoping to improve their results, one doctor noticed that art was

usually made of different colors of ink. To succeed in creating art,

he suggested, they would have to study these colors and find ways of

applying them to the canvas.

Using even more elaborate instruments, they determined that ink

colors were created by specific, measurable wavelengths of light

reflected off the surface of the ink. By isolating different

chemicals that absorbed certain wavelengths of light, they were able

to synthesize chemical pigments with the appearance of different

colors.

With this success in hand, they once again turned to the canvas,

applying large quantities of chemical inks, in all varieties, in

their attempt to create art.

But it still wasn't art. It was just a lot of different colored inks

on a canvas.

Frustrated by the failure, another doctor in the group came up with

the idea that since art obviously wasn't produced by the colored

ink, then it must somehow be found within the canvas. They proceeded

to dissect the canvas.

Using medical imaging equipment and an elaborate system of fiber

classification, they were able to catalog and name over two hundred

types of microscopic fibers found in the canvas. With this

knowledge, the doctors were certain they now understood art. They

knew the fiber structure of the canvas and the chemical composition

of the inks. What more could art be made of?

Armed with this new scientific knowledge of art, they gathered

enormous samples of all the fibers, chemicals and inks now known and

combined them in a giant mass of ink colors and canvas fibers.

Only it still wasn't art. It was a flattened blob of canvas covered

with multicolored inks.

In frustration, the doctors declared there is no such thing as art.

" If it cannot be scientifically replicated in laboratory

experiments, " stated one doctor, " it does not exist. " And thus art

was thereafter banned from all scientific discussion, and artists

were ridiculed for dallying in their colorful parlor tricks.

The art laboratory was abandoned, left to fade into dust, forgotten

by the scientists and doctors who once thought they could understand

art by naming its chemical constituents.

Not long after, a young girl happened across the abandoned

laboratory. There, she was surprised to find the most brilliant

collection of multicolored inks she had ever seen. They reminded her

of a dream she once had with rainbows and fields overflowing with

wildflowers

Spotting an empty canvas, she dipped her finger into a pool of

brilliant blue paint and began to smear it across the canvas. She

followed that with a warm yellow sun, luscious green fields, and

brilliant blotches of color that looked like flowers.

She didn't notice the wall charts, diagrams and reams of data around

her in the room. She knew nothing about the chemical composition of

inks, nor the structure of canvas fibers. She only knew that

brilliant colors and a fresh canvas tugged at her creativity,

opening a window of possibility through which she traced the dreams

that once danced across the canvas in her mind.

It was art.

Healing is like art.

Neither healing nor art come from the physical matter, the

chemicals, the molecules.

Neither healing nor art can be measured or understood as an

inventory of parts.

Neither healing nor art exist anywhere but in the minds and hearts

of those who materialize observable artifacts by acting on utterly

non-scientific dreams and intentions.

Healing and art are much the same. Hence the term, " Healing Arts. "