NATURAL HEALING

Real Medicine and Healing

Every Body Can Heal

Know it or not, modern western medicine is neither the only nor the best paradigm for dealing with human ills. That is so despite all we have been led to believe over the generations regarding the reigning system. From the poorest to the richest of patients and from the dullest to the most educated consumers, we take on faith that current medical practice is “as good as it gets.” Even when the “good” that we get is commonly counter-intuitive and simplistic, ineffective yet costly, often painful and fraught with side effects and complications. Eventually, the value of other means to relieve illness will be made better known and we will move toward true healing as opposed to the present medical system which is largely based on searching for, naming, and fighting supposed physical disease agents. However, that change will only occur when the human race begins to view itself and its world from beyond the materialistic angle which has been gaining in force for centuries. Someday, we will realize the potential for simple healing methods which have been with us for ages. Some have surely been present from the beginning of human experience. Inevitably we will gain the perspective that, in the midst of the formation of worlds and beings, wise and gracious Creative Forces must have provided such means without the need of a priesthood of physicians. Creation and re-creation, or healing, are quite similar in nature. Humanity has succeeded into the modern era not because of the medical profession, but simply because means to healing have been available here and there and everywhere since time immemorial. It is interesting to note that all sorts of medical paradigms have existed throughout history, and still do; and patients generally have similar results regardless of the methods used upon them. Furthermore, most of “medicine” is practiced in the home and away beyond the sight of physicians.   But with the advance of civilization, healing has been taken over by what has been considered the “science” of medicine. All the while, medicine has largely become a business and guild, practice and profession. Healing has increasingly become a secondary concern of its members. Service and care have tended to diminish with the advent of technology. Still, consumers accept and even praise the “care” they get because we know no better. While most practitioners sincerely wish to aid, relieve and even heal patients, they are often prevented in such efforts by their limited education, constricted beliefs, small expectations, and the confines of their profession. Paperwork, insurance, the specter of malpractice and a host of other issues help to cloud the medical scene. To be sure, patients and onlookers frequently interfere with the healing process. Furthermore, book knowledge has neither served physicians nor patients as well as we would wish or imagine. Much of medicine's apparent success can be readily traced to the resilience of the human form, faith in the physician, and the healing power of nature and time. “The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” Voltaire Physicians and scientists have become the white-coated priests of the present age. Just as we have made gods out of science and technology. Hospitals and clinics and laboratories stand more and more as the temples of the times. Along the way, we have exchanged faith in God and Nature for what quite often appears as faith in our Medical Deities. At the same time, if a remedy or treatment or study is not “scientific,” it is immediately suspect. But to the keen eye, “scientific medicine” itself stands suspect. “Despite its high-tech trappings, modern medicine seems to have progressed little from the days of Galen [second century Greek physician]; simplistic solutions to oversimplified problems are still preferred to the real complexities of life.” Cross Currents: The Perils of Electropollution, The Promise of Electromedicine by Robert Becker Even after millennia of “practice,” modern medicine is still far from true understanding of the human body and being, thence its health and diseases. “The human body is so complex and intricate that we have not even begun to scratch the surface of its mysteries. Look at all of that complexity.” (Matrix Energetics by Richard Bartlett) Try to picture the trillions of cells, uncountable tissues, manifold organs, and numerous systems which make up the outer husk of the human. Even into the 21st century in the midst of this perspective, we continue to have very limited understanding of health and disease. Then, to ponder the myriad energies which play through and underlie them is even more daunting. Much of the persistent problem lies in medicine's focus on disease, the study of dead bodies more than living ones, and its blinders in regard to spirit and consciousness. To even a casual observer, it is is easy to recognize medicine's penchant for thinking “in terms of pathology instead of function, of disease instead of health, of matter instead of energy.... Medical ‘Newtonian’ theory threatens to overwhelm us completely with a plethora of unrelated detail.”  The Pattern of Health by Aubrey Westlake Contrary to much of public opinion, modern medical practice has become to a large extent mechanical. That much more so than when, 70 years ago, Leslie Weatherhead in Psychology, Religion and Healing, described ordinary doctors being skilled to repair human bodies as machines and working at the garage level of healing. The true source of healing has been neglected or simply forgotten, while physicians and patients alike have come to believe medications and scalpels alone can produce desired effects and needed cures. All of the above must not detract from the unequaled abilities of modern medicine and surgery to deal with blatant emergencies, man-made problems, and cosmetic repairs. But, the passage of the centuries has drawn medicine further and further away from many key elements in the healing process for the vast majority of human ills. “Nature heals while the doctor takes the fee.” Benjamin Franklin Becoming familiar with healing force requires getting in touch with Nature. All the great healers of history found Nature to be a far better teacher than books. To emulate them does not mean we have to live outside next to a tree by the side of a river. But rather to take time and trouble to open our senses and whole being to the rhythms, flows and movements of life in our very midst. At the behest of Spirit, Nature moves in and through us from cradle to grave. It reaches out through vital force to create and re-create all the worlds in and around us. Human beings quite naturally are part of that process. We need to become conscious of our co-creating, healing and transforming potentials. Vis medicatrix naturae, the healing power of nature, is constantly at work. Its efforts can be stimulated, assisted, and augmented through simple human kindness and modest efforts. Unfortunately, standard medicine often ignores much of what Nature has to teach. Simply because it spends so much of its time and energy in man-made clinics and laboratories while focusing on disease rather than health and life. The physician-writer Lewis Thomas candidly admitted some years ago that, “The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology.” The Medusa and the Snail Seeking its omnipresent powers and constantly recreating substance, let us reach out to Nature which is the handmaiden of the Divine. While neither glamorous nor technical nor expensive, the works of Nature are obvious to all who dare to examine the world around and within them. Its healing processes are also constantly able to be recognized by those who seek truth. Regardless of the methods that any practitioner may use, his/her efforts are bound to be aided by the healing powers of nature. Nature Cure methods go back thousands of years in history and persist into the modern day. And, the magical forces of Nature are always available to laypersons as well as professionals. “Every physician, in his humble moments, must know that all he can in fact do is to invoke this mysterious force to restore his patient to health. But in these scientific times we seem to have forgotten this elementary fact, so bemused are we by modern ‘progress.’ Nature is the healer of diseases.” Aubrey Westlake

“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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