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Post by MagnetMan on Apr 9, 2008 13:31:44 GMT -5
Bronze Age shamans originated the healing art.
Each was trained by an accomplished adept.
Training mainly encompassed the focusing of their innate psychic powers. They were also given a knowledge of herbal remedies. Since psychic healers consider all illness to be psycho-somatic.
herbal potions were uses more as a placebo effect.
Once trained and practice begun, with fame as a healer on the rise, each shaman faced a psychological fork in the road: Capitalize materially on the training - or keep working for small donations from grateful patients.?
Most shamans tend to fall into the material trap. The material path is called tagati by Zulu shamans - black magic.
Once reliant on material possessions, the intuitive powers of the shaman invariably wane - leading the practitioner to become more of a quack than a healer. Many fall low enough to concoct poisonous potions for the clients to use against enemies - or love-potions for seduction.
And so it is that the word; "sham" has become part of our modern lexicon. The ancient magic of the psychic healer and alchemist has been long in disrepute.
The question arises: Are modern doctors and chemists ethical? Are they true healers of troubled spirits? Or are they practicing black magic on the material body for material gain?
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Post by soulatom on Apr 9, 2008 19:09:39 GMT -5
The question arises: Are modern doctors and chemists ethical? Are they true healers of troubled spirits? I have had some experiences with these things. There is nothing more wonderful than when someone you love is miraculously saved with a little pill. Then again on the downside having gone through many rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and all the adjacent drugs that go along with those medications it has often been a real murky sea of waters for me to navigate. The side effects are so vast now in such tiny little print that it is virtually impossible to decipher them, and what is the motivation if you have cancer or some other horrific disease the alternative is death or horrificness anyway. But I was given a drug to help me get through chemo later to have my nurse tell me that it isn't recomended so often now. This was my second or third go at chemo and I wondered why I couldn't have the drug that they shoved down my throat before and which I fought them tooth and nail not wanting to take. Well I went home and researched it and found out that it can actually cause some tumors to accelerate in growth while it is being administered to promote your white cell count so you can keep getting chemo. At the last of my treatment with the doctor he gave me an unusual drug for my type of cancer it was a retinol drug and the side effects actually seemed mild in comparrison to most of the chemos I have been on. When my skin started to come off in layers I became concerned. At the same time it was wearing on my consciousness the astronomical amount of money that this drug cost. I argued for weeks with myself about it and finally for more than one reason I decided to stop taking the drug. I could not reconcile feeling ethical about taking a drug which seemed to be doing more harm than good, cost enough for one months supply that you could feed an African village on it for a year, and how could anything heal me that I felt that way about. I have always been extremely uncomfortable with the cost of my treatment, and justified it with well I am staying live to take care of my kids, and this and that. But really if the question is there in your mind you are uneasy about it. I have strong reserves about prolonged illness and medical care and whether it is ethical. Maybe it is more ethical to take it on the chin and face up right away to the fact that it didn't work out this time. Of course these matters also lie in the hands of Big Pharma as well. And I'd be a liar if I said that I'm not eternally grateful for the added years these treatments have provided me. But I'd be a fool to say there hasn't been one hell of a price to pay. The amount of damage my body had endured, the scar tissue, the cellular damage, numbness, the list goes on, I find myself very hard pressed to imagine even if the cancer went away if my body would ever be a comfortable place to live in again. Once again I can only come back to the fact that there has to be a better way. |
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Post by soulatom on Apr 15, 2008 16:50:08 GMT -5
I thought this was kind of a fitting place to insert this though a little bit off in the rough. Excerpt from McDonough author of Cradle to Cradle, Archeitect. I think iit weaves into the whole medical crisis we face today and how we look at it.....
"I wanted things designed so well there is no need for regulations," he continues. "How about cars that spew out good emissions. Factories that make clean water? Then growth is good. Then the question becomes what do you want to grow? Right now industry is set up to grow cancer and Alzheimer's. For every case of leukemia we create nine jobs. Are the government and industry willing to sign on to that as the right kind of job-creation program?
In another section he is talking about trying to find a fabric that was eco friendly for another project.
"One of the most advanced mills in Switzerland was selected. The McDonough-Braungart group tested all of the dye chemicals to determine if they caused cancer or other problems - birth defects, immune system disruption, soil and water toxicity. They found that, of the 8,000 chemicals used in the dyeing and finishing process, only 38 met the protocol standards for human and ecological safety........they went with the the 38. The human gains were even greater -health risks for mill workers and customers greatly reduced.
When they tested the water leaving the plant the inspectors thought their instruments were broken. It was as clean as the water coming into the plant......"
This then brings me to an observation I have made over the last few years receiving medical treatment. The vast increase in size and quality of medical facilities, the shortages of nurses and doctors, they can't get enough. They now have apartments on medical campuses where you can live while you are undergoing prolonged treatment, you can bring the family along etc. etc.
10 million people have died from cancer alone was a statstistic I read today. The article is stating because we are putting all the money into treatment not into the prevention of the disease. When the very cellular componenets of our every day living and breathing have been infiltrated with caustic agents from every avenue it does seem time we stood back and had a real long look at this.
All you hear on the political debate is that no one has health care!
And how can you possibly be a part of the medical profession and keep turning your head the other way knowing you are failing at the very task to which you have avowed yourself to be a healer.
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Post by MagnetMan on Apr 16, 2008 12:19:54 GMT -5
It is graceless paying attention to personal hygiene if one cares less about environmental hygiene.
The body of the self and the body of the planet are mutually inter-dependant. Each depends on the good care and good health of the other
It is graceful to live with the realization that:
Sef Consciousness, Planet Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness and God Consciounsess are all aspects of the same consciousness and behave accordingly.
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Post by lavender1 on Aug 17, 2009 17:52:01 GMT -5
It is graceless paying attention to personal hygiene if one cares less about environmental hygiene. The body of the self and the body of the planet are mutually inter-dependant. Each depends on the good care and good health of the other It is graceful to live with the realization that: Sef Consciousness, Planet Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness and God Consciounsess are all aspects of the same consciousness and behave accordingly. words like these can already be pure comfort to someone permanently forced to suppress precisely these thoughts what a relief for starters |
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