Interesting Books on the True Nature of Medicine

Healing versus Curing
Cindy Holt, RN, LMT

I have been reading an interesting book on the author’s vision of the future of medicine. He is a physician himself, and his book raises some interesting points that most physicians are either unwilling to discuss, or unwilling to acknowledge. "First, do no harm.", the famous statement by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, seems all but forgotten. "The Yoga of Time Travel" by Fred Alan Wolfe, Ph.D. and "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot give more information about the quantum physics behind all this. If you are ready to really stretch your mind, try reading "Matrix Energetics" by Richard Bartlett, DC, ND.

First of all, you heal yourself. Your body is an amazing organism that has the capacity to heal most things. If the organism is overwhelmed by a virulent attack or injury, it may require outside assistance, but for the most part, you do your own healing. Modalities such as homeopathy, Chinese medicine, and Ayervedic medicine help stimulate the body’s innate abilities while doing the least amount of harm.

Curing, on the other hand, is something that is done to you. Western medicine considers you “cured” when you no longer present the symptoms you came in with. Comprehensive medicine (the combination of Western medicine and Alternative medicine) disagrees in instances when only the presenting symptoms are considered and not what caused the problem in the first place. Simply wiping out or suppressing symptoms invites the underlying dis-ease to make a comeback in the form of another illness or symptom.

Consider that fact that we are made of atoms. Everything in our world is made of atoms. What is occupying the rest of the space not occupied by electrons, protons, and nuclei? What if the answer is energy, or ch’i, or prana, or God’s light? If our illnesses are caused by a disruption of this energy, then what would be the best way to correct the illness and achieve balance in the energetic system? Restoring energy patterns and flows seems to me to be the logical answer. All chronic diseases of our time are caused by a pattern in our life which then creates matter in our body that we call disease. This pattern may be the way we eat and fail to meet nutrition requirements, the way we treat our body with lack of rest, or the way we abuse ourselves with negative thoughts and criticism of all by which we feel threatened.

Healing also has three levels. You can seem perfectly healthy on the outside, and deemed so by the fact you have no symptoms. However, you have a seething anger toward another person you have kept bottled up for years. You are not mentally healthy. Or, you are angry at God, have no connection with a sense of a higher self or purpose, and may be in spiritual distress. There is no healing possible on a physical level if the other levels are not in a healthy balance.

Modern medicine has made wonderful achievements, but its ego is in an unbalanced state. When we fear something simply because it interferes with how we perceive reality and then act to stomp it out of existence, we have become unbalanced in our own thinking. Comprehensive medicine has great potential, and I urge you all to keep an open mind in the area of health and medicine. Many great things can be done when we work together.