Sources of Knowledge

by Jon Sasmor RCPC (Mineral Guide, MinBalance LLC)
Updated October 30, 2024

Scientific inquiry is wonderful and important! If we think in additional ways beyond those usually taught, we can expand ourselves and brighten our world. Science can grow in dimensions, we can learn more, and we can get healthier!

All the sources of knowledge mentioned below contribute to MinBalance. These diverse sources expand mineral balancing into a rich and multi-faceted approach to enhance our energy, our response to stress, our body, mind, and spirit.

We can integrate, learn from, and nurture many sources of knowledge, not just one:

• Higher Power: Reverence, gratitude, faith, and connection with what we don't know, what's beyond us — provides context for all else.
• Nature, our Mother: Nature's ways of doing things show complexity, genius, exquisite beauty. Eons of time and experimentation have embedded their wisdom. We have much to learn from Nature.
• Ancestral Ways: A human part of Nature; traditions refined through scores of generations. Intuitive, multi-dimensional knowledge. Time-tested for safety and effectiveness.
• Modern Science: Miraculous insights and marvellous tools. Science rapidly changes and refines and digs deeper. Which questions we ask, and how we ask them, affects which answers science reveals. Scientific paradigms change and develop as questions are asked differently. There are new methods and results each day that shine greater light on all the sources of knowledge on this list.
• Modern Technology: Technology gives us opportunities to live efficiently, organize data, do more with our lives, and connect with each other in ways that weren't possible in the past. Nevertheless, some 21st century ideas and practices seem to involve pollution of our own internal environment.
• Eastern, Western, and Indigenous Ideas: Western ways of thinking aren't the only science. Many traditions pay close attention to energies, interconnectedness, holistic well-being, and other sources of knowledge.
• Intuition: Sometimes we receive intuitive guidance from places we don't understand. Intuition may not always be correct. Copper seems to help intuition.
• Experience, Anecdotes: Our own stories make a powerful way of learning. With the internet connecting us, our knowledge becomes crowdsourced and our stories assemble into a powerful tool of knowledge in itself. Our pooled stories often exceed the complexity of experimentation that can be explored in a lab. Our experiences show us combined, interactive effects of the extraordinary number of real-life variables that apply to human beings alive today.
• Time: We perceive Time differently than the three dimensions of Space. Through Space, we may move backward and forward, up, down, sideways, diagonally, and in curves and arcs. Through Time, we move only forward, it seems. We can remember the past, to a degree. We can predict the future, to a degree. We see the present as real, but it is a snapshot of a constantly passing moment. In the sands of Time, the present moment is like dust in the wind. In the future, things likely will seem different; in the past, they seemed different. Time, forward and back, may reveal more than what we now think we know.
• Other methods: Surely there may be more. You may know different or additional ways of knowing!