Global Medicine Review

I wanted to take some time at the beginning of this year to share some of my own thoughts about medicine, healing, and health care.  Outside of my radio intros I have not put anything in print since last January’s letter to Obama.

The easy part of this commentary is the health care piece.  Health care for working people is abominable, this being the case for overwhelming majority of the American population whether you can afford it or not. And many times you really don’t realize this until you are sick and have to interface with the health care system on any consistent basis.   If your problem fits neatly into modern medicine’s conceptualization of what is going on with you then you may get thru the system unscathed and even recover your health.  But this is not the rule.  Being medicated is not the same as being healed.  Your options become really limited unless you spend disposable income.  Yet your premiums are going up.

Beyond the administrative and financial headaches the real  question is what is the intention of your practitioner and the health care system as a whole and how is your problem being conceptualized. Are you someone to be fit into a protocol or is something being designed for you during that five to ten minutes that you are with your doctor.  In modern medicine you are working in a closed solution set dictated by the pharmaceutical and insurance industries….not by science. Much of what goes on in medical practice is by way of convention and not the hard science that is constantly being referenced. Your doctor may not have any training in nutrition or any other modality other than making a pathology diagnosis and prescribing drugs.  Who would want to be in this situation?

But the obstacles to receiving real quality health care with a emphasis on healing are systemic…and as I wrote in my letter to Obama last January  we are caught in the grip of an insurance pharmaceutical monstrosity that will suck us and this country dry.   More money is taken for less service and dependency on medication is a goal.  In the meantime cancer rolls are growing with almost one out of every other male and one out of every three woman developing cancer in their lifetime. The pharmaceutical companies and their investors are having a field day in this growth industry.  And beyond diet who is going to take on industry and the chemicals that have flooded our environment and are part of our modern lifestyle.  In some instances the companies that provide the chemotherapy also make the chemicals that poison us.  We have practically become the “harvest” depicted in the Matrix.   Add to this an epidemic of obesity which is associated with
many other diseases, from cardiovascular disease, to cancer and diabetes…and just plain early mortality.  And yet the medical community has been manipulated by industry to create a mythology around cholesterol and low fat foods.

Like the earth’s atmosphere our protective shields, our immune systems have been weakened.  It’s the enemy within whether we are speaking about the chemicals that break down the ozone layer or the trans fats, sugars, and toxic chemicals that break down the lining of our blood vessels an organs.  We are at the heart of our problems.  We have glorified a way of life that is destroying the planet and our lives and most importantly future generations.  We even inject our own children with toxic substances , increasing rates of autism,  with doctors in denial about the role vaccinations are playing in this.  We have replaced thimerosal with aluminumn as we sacrifice many of our new born at the alter of corporate profits and priorities.

This is the backdrop for the delivery of health care in AMERICA in 2010.

Health care can’t be based on pathology or disease…it impossible to fund such a system.  A culture of wellness must be developed.  We reach for superfoods like noni juice, acai berries,  ginseng, and all manner of green drinks and wheat grass and any number of other miracle foods that have hit the market and many of us get better because we are so devitalized such that any  whole food concentrate will perk us up.  But we are going to have go beyond this.  We are going to have to take extreme measures to get our health back and I think you are going to be surprised at what I’m going to suggest.

All of the chronic diseases, the diseases at the top of the morbidity and mortality list have to do with the interaction of food, toxins, stress, a lot of which goes on with the government’s consent, whether we are speaking about vaccinations or the toxic chemicals in our work place and food.   This is not about assigning blame but rather my  sharing the understanding that our government, is under the control of corporate interests that set policies and dictate priorities and direction that generally are not in our best interest….. until we learn how to say enough in an effective manner. There will be no official cure for cancer…why …think of all the money that would be lost by various corporate interests if this were to occur.  Hundreds of policemen and firemen can be poisoned by the conflagration of ground zero and the pile in Staten Island and yet we deny them the financial remuneration they deserve because of the impact that it would have on
corporate entities.  So even though it  was the financial industry of this country that was targeted it’s the everyday people that have to pay the price and have their lives truncated. If we can treat our heroes this way and deprive our war veterans, who have been emotionally and physically mutilated, of all the care they need  what is left for you or me or our progeny.

For me this is one part of the world that I live in ….its the darker side….filled with parasites, corruption, money brokers, compromised politicians, broken people and broken health practitioners….and a system that is destined to fail.

There is a light side.  Its embodied by a few phrases….words from wise men and woman thru the ages ……from simple phrases like “ let go and let God”,  neti neti I am not this or that,  this little light of mine I’m going to let it shine, one man’s magic is another man’s technology.   There is enough light and love in the world to keep us optimistic, to keep us from descending into cynicism and materialism and even the kind of barbarism where we prey on each other. How we treat one another from day to day can change the world.

In many indigenous cultures whatever profession you had was surrounded with stories that linked your work back to the universal consciousness, the stream of light that underlies everything in this universe. Your work was a metaphor for some divine principle or universal creative process.  And here I’m speaking both from spiritual vantage point and modern physics….the left and right side of the brain.  There  is a unified field/ consciousness an undifferentiated energy matter that underlies all things an events. We all tap into this at some point in our lives…indeed at multiple points.  Examples of intuition,   spontaneous healing , prophetic dreams,   healing thru the laying on of hands,   through the power of the word, communication with those deceased and spiritual forces in the universe whether we call them Angels or Orisha or Whatever…..

And yet the everyday laws that seem to govern our existence would have to bend and change for us to accept these realities as more than just random events and some of us will not believe in this.   Just like modern medicine has put limitations on itself most of us living from day to day act like we are living in a mechanical fixed universe….  This belief is held together thru the consensus of our culture and institutions.   We are fascinated by things that don’t fit the western cultural model  yet the distractions in our culture prevent us from embracing the consciousness that is capable of taking us in a direction that will truly liberate us.  We are like Neo in the matrix trying to be of  no mind in order to experience the truth of existence.  For 99% of the movie the matrix was real for him.

Modern physics and what in ancient Khamit was called the Sethian mind , the intellect,  is proving what indigenous non Western cultures have known all along, that we exist in a living universal sea of consciousness…..One mind.   At the level of the quantum field, the sub molecular world’s reality is created by dent of the observer observing.  Just by observing, energy matter is transformed.  A wave only becomes a particle when it is observed.  This is the level  at which creation takes place……manifestation. It’s the playground of the Gods.  While western science will try to manipulate this mankind throughout the ages has sort to make connection with this universal mind through altered states of consciousness …whether through using chanting,  drumming,  meditation, and so on.  The  methods are as diverse as the cultures.

So why am I bringing this up at Global Medicine Review at the beginning of 2010.  Well for more than thirty years I have been trying to appreciate the unifying themes in different cultural systems  and how they can be utilized in the healing professions in these critical times and in this limited cultural framework.  In 1979 I wrote my medical thesis Where Philosophy Meets Medicine; Modern Physics and Acupuncture,  I  was then part of an African cultural community for about sixteen years participating in all but four full moon rituals during this span of time, I have studied various oracular systems, yoga, qi qong, cranial sacral therapy, chiropractic, meditation, kinesiology, homeopathy  here and abroad,  a even did a documentary film on Traditional African medicine filmed in five African countries….trips to the Caribbean, Europe, China , and South America.  I have never spent my time writing books because there was always something more interesting
and fascinating to learn.

What have I been looking for…most of this time has been looking for cultural healing technologies that I could employ in the context of a medical practice whether it was cranial sacral therapy, herbal medicine, acupuncture, etc.   I have been like a kid at the candy store.   But what has gotten my attention more than anything else is when I have been able to shift into an altered state of consciousness and work with someone.  This has usually happened when I have worked with a person with the intention of having no intention and have called on my ancestors and the patient’s ancestors and whatever spirit guides were available to assist.  There would be a merging such that I would be aware of whatever was going on in the person’s body and could monitor the problem as it dissipated.  In one instance there was a woman with an inoperable brain tumor.  Periodically the pressure would build so high that it was almost intolerable.  In working with her in
this fashion I was able
to give her relief from  the pressure for weeks at a time. No I have no evidence that tumor shrank.  But the truth is that I let this part of my practice dissipate because the demands of running an office and keeping a schedule does not fit into this model of practice.  This kind of healing art takes time and practice.  But I believe it is accessible to just about anybody. In fact the less medical education  the better.

The more material based  techniques like nutrition or herbal medicine (not the esoteric systems)  the less one has to shift one’s consciousness.  These therapies are rooted in intellect although they can be benefited from the presence of a higher mind or consciousness.  Therapies like reiki and qi gong require a shift in consciousness to really be practiced in an effective manner.  I am not speaking about focused concentration as with a surgeon or say with a chiropractic adjustment.  I am speaking about a state of mind where light channels through you or where you create at the level of the subtle energy field.  I highly recommend the book Matrix Energetics by Richard Bartlett for anyone interested in this an exercise you can begin today.

I remember when I first started Qi Qong and we were told that to follow the energy moving into the crown center and then thru different pathways in the body and then concentrating in the lao gong point in the center of the palm.  At first it was like make believe but then the energy became so palpable that it could be directed from my palm and felt by someone at a distance. Again this not anything particular to me but but rather was experienced by most people in the class. I can only imagine what years of practice would do for a person. The example of Mantak Chia comes to mind …capable of rooting himself to the ground on one leg and pushing over a row of ten or more people lined up supporting one another and trying to oppose the chi that he pulled up from the earth and directed at them.

Modern medicine won’t be adopting these healing systems any time soon.  First it requires more people to be able to consistently to operate at this level.  This has to be done in the modern context because most people in the West are not going to take the time to go thru a whole ritual process and build up the consciousness infrastructure of all the deities and ancestral connections that allow the belief  system to operate.  Those entities exist because the group consciousness of people practicing an acknowledging these metaphysical realities around the world has created them in the same way that the scientific observer creates a particle from a wave form just thru the simple act of observation.  These real life metaphysical systems exist and they will inform and deliver what is asked of them. Indeed there are so many metaphysical landscapes in existence. They exist just like virtual spaces…one need only to type in the correct URL so to speak to make a connection. But in truth we are just much to busy and distracted to even do this.

The power of the Word spoken from a person in a certain state of consciousness can heal or destroy.  The more people that become fluid in shifting their consciousness and can work from this level the more the paradigm shift will take place in this culture.  Look at what has happened with acupuncture. These skills are teachable and there are exercises that will assist you in developing this skill.

As for myself the problem is always been my own density first, then the system of health care we operate in,  and then all the distractions of life……learning all the while but having things go in and out of focus.   The answers have always been right in front of me but I have been tuned into the wrong bandwidth most of the time.   So this year marks another year for me to get back to this state of mind in a consistent way with intention and practice.  Radical healing is the revolution that beckons us.  It’s the path I chose in college as an activist when I looked at the reality of those who had trodden the political revolutionary path in this country. Too much conflict and destruction. Lets go the healing route instead.

Here is the trick…..in allopathic medicine we are limited to a mechanistic understanding of health and disease….and when you operate in this belief system…ie. there is a mass that needs to be removed,  there is a blockage in the arteries,  bacteria in the bladder on and on……you are limited to the rules prescribed by that belief system.  Through repetition in this model your consciousness becomes locked into a set of expectations as to what is and is not possible in a situation.   The example of someone who spontaneously heals is not something that you learn from unless you are willing to shift your paradigm and with that there are a lot of walls that have to come down.  Near death experiences have done this for many as well as a sudden crisis were one has to act….like the father or mother lifting a vehicle up so it will not crush his or her child.

I remember in my thesis writing that if a microscope was capable of infinite magnification at the atomic level we would have vibrating subatomic particles that in no way would be able to say that we were solid.  Yet the consensus from our five senses is that we are solid beings even its mostly liquid.  From the standpoint of electromagnetic fields we have the acupuncture meridians and yogic nadis and chakras coursing throughout and beyond our bodies.  And on the subatomic level we have a subatomic grid of photons not solid in any real sense of the word but yet making up the substance of our reality, from our bodies to the outer most reaches that our minds can conceive.

Well the substance of miracles in this culture is what can occur at the quantum level.  When people have spontaneous healing,  telepathy,  documented telekinesis its not because they are super human but rather they have tapped into the quantum field or what I would call God’s play ground.

Here’s the thing with respect to paranormal healing or supersensory events that take place and are clearly the exception in this culture…..you can either believe them or not.  Every culture or society has a conceptual field that it creates and dictates a reality box that its members function within.    This has been referred to as a morphogenic field and it plays a role in governing the reality sets that we work out of.  Problems are attempted to be solved within that box.  Acupuncture has been one of the main instruments that has whittled away at the mechanistic medical model.  There have been too many people that have been touched by this modality.  Yet and still it takes a lot for people to function outside of this morphogenic filed.  Its like being Galileo in his time and telling your fellow Europeans that the earth is not the center of the universe.  He almost lost his life behind this. If you choose to accept your own experience of supersensory events then what does that say about the nature of everything else?

So what would arthritis look like at the quantum level?  What would colitis look like?  Can we imagine altering our mindset so that we can operate on a level where these can easily be manipulated.  We have done this with acupuncture.  We know what points to employ, to manipulate the person’s energy field in these conditions and many others.   At the quantum level we are working with the will, intention and energy matter in an undifferentiated state.  And here is where it gets interesting.  Because in dealing with the collective consciousness of the quantum level one can receive help from ancestors and various guides  or anything that has been known by anybody at any time. Let that sink in.  Just getting into an altered state of consciousness can be sufficient to bring about changes in your energy matrix such that you affect the object or person of your intention. Think about what can occur at this level of undifferentiated energy matter or light.

Most of us are stuck in an everyday state of consciousness held back by reality encoded by our belief systems.  We can’t journey down to that zero point energy field, or the place of Samadhi.  Here is where practice makes perfect.  There are healers and practitioners who can go into altered states of consciousness on a dime and transform the health of others instantaneously.  More of us will need to move in this direction.  If its radical change that we seek then we need to make radical changes in ourselves. This present round of humanity seems to be running out of time.

A simple exercise is to start recording all of the examples in your life where everyday logic and classical physics can not explain what had transpired.  It has to be things that you have experienced first hand. Anything with precognition, energy you experience related to spontaneous healing, etc.  What you are doing is providing your self with the examples that will help you to liberate your mind from the matrix.  Break the mold.  The next step is to recall what you were experiencing when something out of the ordinary occurred for you. What were your bodily sensations. For instance I once won a raffle prize in college.  I knew I had won because of the wave of energy that I felt when I selected the raffle ticket from the bag. Once I tried to reproduce that with a lotto ticket and got four numbers out of six right.  Ask me why I never tried it again. I don’t know. Think of the times when you have been struck by intuition or have experienced something paranormal.  Here you can be aided
by the elements.  For instance I due my deepest thinking in  water.  Many problems have been solved in a hot shower.  For you it might be a walk in the park or perhaps even staring into a flame.  And third recreate the feeling in your body of when you have been in an altered state.  I have sent many patients home with the instruction that they can recreate what they felt in my office when I was working on them.  We do it all the time when we call up an old memory both pleasant and unpleasant.

The more people that free themselves from the Matrix with the intent of helping others and doing good in the world the sooner we can remake this world. Amen