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THE FUTURE IS NOW
An earlier chapter in this series posed the wonderment of “What Might Have Been” in the political world. It soon moved to wondering about possibilities in the world of health and healing. The past is gone, but we may yet learn from it for the betterment of all. When we do not, as often is the case, we pay the price. As Santayana said, “Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.” We all know that story in surveying personal moments and passages in our own lives. We can find larger examples in the political, military, and international arenas. It should be evident, though often unfortunately not, that we are only beginning to make real discoveries in science and medicine. This despite the fact that some researchers and writers believe all the great discoveries have been made. Sometimes, it seems that that might be true. But, what significant medical contributions have our universities brought forth in recent history? Often we are re-learning things long known in centuries and millennia past. Columbus re-discovered the continent of America. Galileo's pronouncements on the Earth circling the Sun only repeated the teachings of ancient Greeks, Persians, and Indians. Einstein, as bright as he was, parroted what great philosophers of old dictated on the energies which stand within all of creation.  Uncle Albert
What may be even more important for health and well-being are the simple, long-held facts that human beings are ultimately energy in motion. How little has that understanding of the century past in physics penetrated into modern medicine. Human illnesses appear more often than not when that energy-in-motion is impeded. Then, your physician tries to treat your discomfort with his pills and your surgeon which his scalpel. But, he or she is really acting like a carpenter trying to manipulate a tack with a sledge hammer. It can be done, but often ends up in a mess. Thus explaining in part the reasons for so many side-effects, unnecessary procedures, and waste in medicine. When something goes wrong, the patient pays for the price physically and financially. “The
person who takes medicine must recover twice,
once from the disease and once from the medicine.” William Oslet Dis-ease and diseases persists despite proclaimed technological advances. Their names have changed. So have the way they are approached and attacked (treated). People live longer, but often not so well considering all the pills they take and operations to which they are subjected. A high school friend from sixty years ago revealed to the writer recently that he takes twelve - that is 12 - different meds daily. The human race is yet laden with so many inexplicable illnesses. You name a disease and its cause is likely unknown and its treatment less than effective. Such brings us back to olden times when real healers walked the planet. Unfortunately, they were frequently and basely misunderstood. Then mistreated, and often worse. Here the reader will find the new/old approaches to healing demonstrated by the likes of Jesus and Apollonius, Paracelsus and Mesmer. All four healed far and wide without labeling of diseases or producing protocols for healing. No diagnoses, no radical therapy. No pills and no knives. And, no ill effects. They simply offered the gift of health much like we are used to offer gifts of goods or money to others who are in need. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy - a much maligned methodology, was on the right trail when he said, “There are no diseases, only sick people.” Anton Mesmer put it a bit differently, “There is only one disease and only one cure.” Those two quotes, especially the latter, might boggle your mind for a while as they have many scholars and skeptics over the ages. Why then do we have vast numbers of physicians and so more and more specialties to treat thousands of named diseases? |
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“Even as there is only one nature, one life, one health,
there is, only one disease, one remedy, one healing.”
Mesmer
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