REGRESSION
In spite of my growing interest in "evidence-based wellness", as a child growing up I turned back from moments to try and make sense of Life in somewhat the same way we try to explain the Laws of Nature. As I remember how fascinating the most ordinary everyday things were, I could see that it was completely unrelated to survival and profit. When we get to think of everything in terms of the value of survival and profit, then the magic ceases to exist. In the course of nature, once we have ceased to see magic in the world anymore, we are no longer fulfilling natures game of being aware of itself.
When we were taught 1, 2, 3 and A, B, C, few of us were ever told about the Game of Black-and-White. In other words, we do not play the universal game of up/down, on/off, solid/space, and each/all. Instead, we play Black-versus-White or, more noticebly, White-versus-Black where "White must win" and its no longer a game, but a fight - a fight that is as crazy as trying to keep the mountains and get rid of the valleys.
SCHOOL YEARS
For so many years before I enabled myself to higher education in the Health Sciences I could not make up my mind and constantly postponed the decision.. was my interest bent rather toward history and philosophy? For some reason, everything imaginable interested me, but I did not know what I wanted. I remember the early days at school when I learned about the very word "Propaganda". I shortly followed a Google search and discovered the infamous book written by Edward Bernays, describing some of the most powerful and influential institutions of our contemporary society!
Shortly after I highlighted the entire manual to this book and I bounced between many great historians, philosophers and even comedians such as Alan Watts, Noam Chomsky, Bruce Lee, Peter Joseph, Nikola Tesla, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and many more. Absorbing much of what my infancy mind could make sense of, and attempt to translate, these understandings in conversations with my friends and family led my life to a story of the realization of the unconscious mind. My life is a story of the realization of the unconscious. Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole. What I am to my inward visions, and what I appear to be can only be expressed by the way of myth.
What I understand now is that the difficulty in realizing the unconscious mind to be so is that conceptual thinking cannot grasp it. Just as sight is something more than all things seen, the foundation or "ground" of our existence and our awareness cannot be understood in terms of things that are known. Therefore, we are forced to speak through myth - through images, metaphors and analogies, which says what it is "like" as distinct from what it "is". Thus, in using myth we should not confuse the image with fact. In terms of Health, I think an easy way to maintain perspective is to ask yourself why people eat? Ultimately, the reason is (or should be) to provide life-giving nourishment to our bodies. Basing food choices on the nourishment our body needs (instead of junk food that appears tasty) is one strategy for making better choices.
AS A HEALTH STUDENT
I never considered myself to be dabbling in the field of Academia. In fact, working as a serviceman in a multitude of jobs from age thirteen, I didn't even understand what the fuss was about with things like clinical studies and published science journals. What validity or credibility do they hold when so many of them can be faked? At least that's how I initially thought of them as some kind of "Computer Generated Non-Sense Papers".
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/more-computer-generated-nonsense-papers-pulled-science-journals/358735/
For the most part they are mostly funded in the same controlled fashion. They're all pre-selective of their mode of study, and its pretty obvious that in the Healthcare model "Allopathic Medicine" is the only type that is concerned here. However, in the case of emergencies and surgerical interventions I can see its purpose, but diagnosing chronic diseases? Seriously, with a Reductionist perspective Medical Doctors are not being taught how to prevent disease. They are taught merely to sweep the mess under the carpet. Any health condition, for example, Heartburn I guarantee your Medical Doctor can only "manage" it!
Because they would be unnecessary in our culture if people discovered that all they had to do to achieve optimal health was keep their intestines, liver, body and living enivornment clean. Many people, especially young adults, are susceptible to how the media portrays the “perfect body.” Magazines full of slim girls or muscular men may lead to a negative body image and, in turn, encourage unhealthy habits. Coupled with other factors, such as mental health, there’s little question why serious, sometimes life-threatening, body image and eating disorders are so common. https://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/how-culture-and-society-influence-healthy-eating/
To me institutionalized education seems pretty idiotic since all the greatest minds in our time didn't succumb to these styles of Government-funded indoctrination camps we call "School". I mean let's face it - the current healthcare systems around the Western democratic countries have been running for decades (in some places over a century) and they are failing us. The incidence of disease is climbing at an alarming rate and the television (Tell-Lie-Vision) continues to purports the same narrative - a new potential breakthrough discovery that might just cure Cancer one day (stay tuned). Anyway, while I have been acting as a subservient student, I have kept my focuses and research on these kinds of questions. It would be awesome if you too could throw in your two cents and comment with your insights!
How are these medical monopolies designed to keep us from becoming well?
What are the hidden truth behind the medical/healthcare industry?
Why does it seem to treat the symptoms of disease and not the root causes?
And, where can people go to find actual world leading pioneers in Alternative Medicine and Natural Healing?
CLOSING
While there is a wealth of alternative healing knowledge out there from both clinical practice and research publications, it is quite common to find yourself facing a wall of endless campaigns about health promising solutions that come with a pretty little price tag and sales pitch at the end. Discovering true Secrets to Health almost seems too good to be true, right? I mean to dissect all the misdirected information you see on social media (curious it may be) places many of us into a kind of skeptic and doubting state of mind. How could somebody put such an exorbinant price tag on some kind of cure for Cancer, Diabetes or Heart Disease? We already notice what kind of outlandlish claims weightloss products promise us!
Anyway, I believe it is my purpose in Life to entertain others about how important it is to detoxify their body from environmental toxins (inside as well as outside) while nutrifying their body with the right kind of synergistic nutrients.
Just what should a young man know in order to be "in the know"? Tell me some of your memories back at school. What tender memories did you have growing up? Did you have your attention set in the classroom, or looking out the window?
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Namaste!