Actually, Castaneda appropriated that term for use in his Don Juan stories.
Tensegrity is a scientific/architectural/structural engineering term; a contraction of the words tensional integrity, it refers to structures that stabilize themselves by balancing the counteracting forces of compression and tension - providing shape and strength to both natural and artificial forms.
Recent studies in energy medicine are leading many researchers to believe (what many energy healers have known for ages) that the human body is actually a tensegrity structure, with every cell supporting every other cell, and conducting instantaneous vibrational communication to each other constantly, so that anything that occurs in any portion of a person (physically or energetically) instantly affects/is communicated to all other portions of the being simultaneously.
(see "Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis," by Dr. James Oschman)
Regards,
Mark
Tensegrity is a scientific/architectural/structural engineering term; a contraction of the words tensional integrity, it refers to structures that stabilize themselves by balancing the counteracting forces of compression and tension - providing shape and strength to both natural and artificial forms.
Recent studies in energy medicine are leading many researchers to believe (what many energy healers have known for ages) that the human body is actually a tensegrity structure, with every cell supporting every other cell, and conducting instantaneous vibrational communication to each other constantly, so that anything that occurs in any portion of a person (physically or energetically) instantly affects/is communicated to all other portions of the being simultaneously.
(see "Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis," by Dr. James Oschman)
Regards,
Mark