Global Medicine Review

Dr. Kokayi interviews Dr. Larry Malerba on his new book “Green Medicine”. Dr. Malerba is a distinguished practitioner, educator and leader in the field of holistic medicine for more than 20 years. His book “Green Medicine” challenges the assumptions of general health care with regard to the allopathic biochemical approach to healthcare. The approaches of orthodox allopathic medicine and alternative paradigms of healing are compared and contrasted throughout the book and some of this is discussed in the interview. Dr Malerba shares some case histories to highlight the value of other medical paradigms. Dr Malerba’s work clearly helps to establish the role that non allopathic therapies could and should be playing in the general health care of the population.

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Guest: Walter Blick

Today we want to speak about one of the poles of the four pole model that I generally don’t touch on enough. For new listeners these four poles are spiritual/consciousness, emotional, biochemical, and biomechanical. Anything that you can think of diagnostically or therapeutically is going to fall into one of these four poles. Today we are going to speak about the biomechanical pole of this model. This includes everything from surgery and physical therapy, to chiropractic and osteopathic manipulation, to cranio sacral therapy and massage, and much more. In general the public is unaware of the wide variety of structural techniques and practices and their application to a variety of problems.
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This interview explores the work of Dr Jonathan Ellerby. For twenty years he has looked at spiritual traditions from more than forty different cultures around the world.. His book Return to the Sacred.categorizes the spiritual terrain and looks at the different spiritual paths that are available for people to take. The categorization of these paths helps us to get an idea of our own spiritual personality and which path would be most suited for an individual. His book explores the twelve master paths. Just like people prefer different kinds of music and clothes there are certain spiritual practices that are more suited for us because of our aptitudes. Within these twelve paths there are four categories that revolve around the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical dynamics. Some of us are mental and want to study written works while some of us need a more of an emotional connection. There are those of us who need movement and can’t wait to
get up and dance and move. And there are the soul type who crave a direct experience of the divine and tend to be more extreme in their practices with fasting and pilgrimages.

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Dr Kokayi has a chance to interview two practitioners in one of the Western world’s most cutting edge medical therapies that delves into the interface between mind and body and the true roots of disease. Dr Kokayi’s guests Mitchell Rabin and Isabelle Benarous share with the listening audience the science and art of Total Biology and Bioreprogramming. The method of Bioreprogramming contains powerful tools to undo personal and ancestral programs at a subconscious level, with acute precision, in order to create lasting solutions and healing of unresolved mental stress at the heart of pathological conditions in the body. As Mitchell Rabin points out the approach to total biology is like “Louis Hayes on steroids”.

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Dr Kokayi has the opportunity to speak with two practitioners of the Yoruba tradition, one a holistic health practitioner, Darmone Holland, and the other an Assistant Principal of a NYC school. Both are involved with Ijo Orisa Yoruba Church, a Yoruba organization offering services and counseling to the community at large.   Discussion revolves around cultural technologies designed to assist people with mental health issues and other everyday problems. The difference between Western medical approaches to mental health and African cultural approaches is highlighted. Mental health for African Americans is also explored in the context of Western mainstream society.

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Dr Kokayi has an opportunity to speak with Dr Steven Farmer a shamanic practitioner about his understanding and use of this discipline. Dr Farmer is a retired psychotherapist who has become adept at using the shamanic trance state to employ the help of spirit guides in the healing of others as well as using consciousness altering techniques in soul retrieval to assist individuals experiencing post traumatic stress and other psychological disorders. Dr Farmer’s latest book Earth Magic provides a good overview of the field of shamanic practices and more information about his work can be found at Power Animals

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This program focuses on how one practitioner utilizes non conventional methods in her naturopathic practice that allow her to diagnose and treat without a focus on blood work or physical exam. While these are things that she uses in her practice her main diagnostic tool belongs to a class of instruments that measures “vibrational “ energy of a patient to arrive at an understanding of the pattern of imbalance and then guides the practitioner in the selection of vibrational and biochemical therapies. The guest, Dr Tarryn Tranquility Foster, found that her interaction with patients constantly brought her back to issues that speak to the spiritual nature of people. Her unique way of approaching medicine allows her to access this medium. In approaching this topic Dr Kokayi also shares a some aspects of his practice and his development as a practitioner.

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Dr Kokayi is joined by a culture carrier of the Native American people, Frank Menusan, who shares how his reintegration into his own cultural path has aided himself as well as others. Highlighted in this program is the fact that modern medicine’s suppression of other cultural streams of healing decreases the possibilities for healing to take place in those people who need medicine that comes out of these cultural technologies. The Native American journey has been particularly difficult when you consider that the Freedom of Religion Act for Native Americans was only passed in 1978. Frank Menusan clears up misconceptions about “dream catchers” and shares other Native American healing technologies.

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Dr Kokayi interviews the world renowned Qi Qong master Robert Peng. They discuss his initiation in to the healing arts which took place in a remote monastery in China after the Cultural Revolution. Mr. Peng had to undergo a 100 day fast of which at least fifty days was water alone. He describes the physical transformation that took place in terms of his energy. Dr Kokayi and Mr Peng discuss his current work in the New York City area, particularly with cancer patients. Dr Kokayi first met Mr Peng at a meeting at Yale Medical School where he energized a dollar bill and broke two chop sticks in half with the bill!

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Dr Kokayi is once again joined by Dr Malidoma Some as part of the fundraising activity of WBAI. Dr Some once more, in his authentic voice, describes the indigenous world view as it relates to a different perspective on health care and healing. Dr Some’s description of African cosmology reveals how people were taken care of in the context of a set of beliefs and practices that both sustained them and their environment. The premium offered is Dr Some’s The Healing Wisdom of Africa. The indigenous perspective is so important at present as Americans as a whole begin to grapple with the reality of how our lifestyle is impacting on the environment and the inevitable changes that are taking place. As we prepare to adapt and adjust to a “new” earth we must consider the wisdom of those that have come before us.

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