Great post. A blind belief that a # defines "health" is sure to take you down the iatrogenic path of pill poppin cures or supplements. But then again, the greatest impoverishment is neither innumeracy or illiteracy, but not reading the "owner's manual" no medical school teaches.
The way the medical mafia markets health, you would think it is having all vaccines and enough big pharma drugs coursing through your body at all times...as if there are no limits. No time to be trusting the medical stumble-bums...a.k.a...doctors.
Genesis 2:7 “then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”
Reiki Master here. All day long, I’m up to my elbows in life force energy. 😃Often my clients report back that they told their doctors that energy healing helped xyz. The common response from the docs? “There’s no science.” As if the fact that it hasn’t been studied means it doesn’t exist. As if the real life experience in front of them is meaningless because it doesn’t fit under a microscope or in a tidy box. So frustrating!
I had a 15 year old cat with arthritis in both front “elbows”. My relative was a Reiki practitioner and when she noticed Annie the cat limping asked if she could perform Reiki on Annie. As Elizabeth, my cousin, knelt and out her hands over Annie, the cat lay down and stayed put for the 15-20 minutes Elizabeth worked. When finished Annie got up and walked away limp free! So tell me the cat “believed” it worked and was a placebo example!
Thank you @Bitsy54 for sharing this amazing story. I’m delighted to hear your cat is limp-free! The results are not usually this pronounced and obvious. And “science” would dismiss this as anecdotal. It’s so sad.
“A medical student can tell you what homeostasis is”, but can they, or are they even taught or asked to consider how homeostasis informs about the body’s inherent balancing ability? As you’ve pointed out, vitalistic medicine does consider this. By the way, just wanted to share that I once knew a Chinese computer science professor who came from a family of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) healers and had himself learned acupuncture. Sometimes he’d give talks to nurse groups interested in TCM, and he’d describe computer binary code (0 and 1) as yin and yang!
The Bible uses the world sozo. This Greek word means "To save or deliver from danger,
To heal, make whole, or cure from disease, To preserve or keep from corruption." It encompasses the whole man and everything it needs for wholeness: physically, emotionally, relationally, spiritually.
We are so much more than measurable units and biological fragments! Of course, big Pharma tries to reduce you to just that and they’re in is the problem!
It is similar to calling a Ford car anything but a Ford. To avoid acknowledging our Creator and lifegiver by bragging that anything but Him can heal us.
Thanks, I didn't know that quote or even much about Wendell Berry till I looked him up just now and am curious to learn more about such a fascinating person. But it sort of helps reinforce a lot of what I believe we already know - that the forces trying to cause health decline are the same ones that are trying to disintegrate that sense of community.
Great post. A blind belief that a # defines "health" is sure to take you down the iatrogenic path of pill poppin cures or supplements. But then again, the greatest impoverishment is neither innumeracy or illiteracy, but not reading the "owner's manual" no medical school teaches.
Brüssow H. (2013). What is health?. Microbial biotechnology, 6(4), 341–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.12063
The way the medical mafia markets health, you would think it is having all vaccines and enough big pharma drugs coursing through your body at all times...as if there are no limits. No time to be trusting the medical stumble-bums...a.k.a...doctors.
Genesis 2:7 “then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”
Reiki Master here. All day long, I’m up to my elbows in life force energy. 😃Often my clients report back that they told their doctors that energy healing helped xyz. The common response from the docs? “There’s no science.” As if the fact that it hasn’t been studied means it doesn’t exist. As if the real life experience in front of them is meaningless because it doesn’t fit under a microscope or in a tidy box. So frustrating!
I had a 15 year old cat with arthritis in both front “elbows”. My relative was a Reiki practitioner and when she noticed Annie the cat limping asked if she could perform Reiki on Annie. As Elizabeth, my cousin, knelt and out her hands over Annie, the cat lay down and stayed put for the 15-20 minutes Elizabeth worked. When finished Annie got up and walked away limp free! So tell me the cat “believed” it worked and was a placebo example!
That's amazing.
I'd love to learn from people like your cousin Elizabeth.
Thank you @Bitsy54 for sharing this amazing story. I’m delighted to hear your cat is limp-free! The results are not usually this pronounced and obvious. And “science” would dismiss this as anecdotal. It’s so sad.
It’s incredible what people will ignore or dimiss.
“A medical student can tell you what homeostasis is”, but can they, or are they even taught or asked to consider how homeostasis informs about the body’s inherent balancing ability? As you’ve pointed out, vitalistic medicine does consider this. By the way, just wanted to share that I once knew a Chinese computer science professor who came from a family of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) healers and had himself learned acupuncture. Sometimes he’d give talks to nurse groups interested in TCM, and he’d describe computer binary code (0 and 1) as yin and yang!
Of course! Yin dark hence nothing or zero and yang light or 1.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/yin-and-yang-an-analysis-of-their?utm_source=publication-search
There is a connection to tennis too.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/tennis-and-god-why-is-there-a-relationship?utm_source=publication-search
Thank you so much. I thoroughly enjoyed those 2 pieces. Never thought there could be such a fascinating new (to me) way of interpreting things.
My pleasure and thank you for mentioning that Chinese computer science professor, it's good to hear of someone else who thinks broadly.
The Bible uses the world sozo. This Greek word means "To save or deliver from danger,
To heal, make whole, or cure from disease, To preserve or keep from corruption." It encompasses the whole man and everything it needs for wholeness: physically, emotionally, relationally, spiritually.
We are so much more than measurable units and biological fragments! Of course, big Pharma tries to reduce you to just that and they’re in is the problem!
It is similar to calling a Ford car anything but a Ford. To avoid acknowledging our Creator and lifegiver by bragging that anything but Him can heal us.
Well it pays to remember that health literally means wholeness. And in the words of Wendell Berry, the smallest unit of health is community
Thanks, I didn't know that quote or even much about Wendell Berry till I looked him up just now and am curious to learn more about such a fascinating person. But it sort of helps reinforce a lot of what I believe we already know - that the forces trying to cause health decline are the same ones that are trying to disintegrate that sense of community.
READ HIS NOVELS; INCREDIBLE
INDEED