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As sequel to the description of the 3^rd order system as pivot for self-integration and self-preservation in a changing context, the 4^th order system adds the perspective of the integration (and implementation) of the information of the context within the system. Thus requires the understanding of the closed system as part of the open system. This is what mysticism describes in many ways. This cannot be described nor understood in closed system (classical physical) terms. Health is the functioning of the closed system on basis of the open system (the internal system processes coincide with open system processes if the environment). Healing is the restoration of the information integrity of the system: what is experienced in the part coincides with the whole. This mechanism explains how and why spiritual healing works, and why resonant logic is required to describe this. The application of this notion requires the understanding that the body is not an object, nor a process, nor a transition state, but a manifestation of the same information as the context. This is where science and religion unite, and the open/closed systems formulation (i.e. the 4D dynamic Logic) is essential for the system description. The later papers on Information Healing are elaborations of this concept.