We had a very unusal weekend. We ventured out to a cadaver lab with a pack of budding herbalist/nutritionists and collided with some rolfers along the way. How can i explain what we saw? The inner working of the human body, or atleast how they once worked. This sounds so creepy, and it was, but it was also one of the coolest things I have ever seen. This man spends his life teaching people like us anatomy and physology, health care practitioners who do not attend med school and dont have access to their own labs. There were 5 cadavers there and we saw them all. He has spent hundreds of hours of work disecting people so we can look at the attachements of the kidneys, the central nervous system, the lungs, liver, etc. Do you all know how small the actual appendix is that causes so many people so many problems? And the size of a real human ovary is only that of an almond, but the cysts we saw where often 20 times that.
Looking at a body in this state, I often felt overwhelmed by so many emotions, there were a couple times that I felt like crying just in wonder of how complex we are as a beings in this world. Everything is connected. No, really, every piece of us is connected to a million other things. You cant really understand that when you look in an anatomy book; that the diaphram is intricatley connected to the lungs, that the liver is actually connected to both of those!
That we are not jsut a pile of bones with muscle and fascia piled on top and randon organs thrown in the middle is even more complrehendable somehow when you actual gaze upon all these piece.
There it is the cerebellum, the right and left lobe of the brain, one the greatest acheivement of the creator and yet a brain is not just a brain; it cant be the only thing that makes us, us.
I learned a lot about what does and what does not make us human beings this weekend.
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