Dear Fellow Crew Member of Spaceship Earth,
Do you think we now have cause to stage a mutiny?
Millions of people across the world seem to think so. I may have missed some, but we know protests have shaken Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrein, Yemen, Spain, Greece, France, England, Chile, and now, finally, the US.
Last week I wrote about the OCCUPY WALL STREET and END THE FED protests in the US, the latest link in this global revolutionary movement.
What I did not mention was the elaborate and powerful statement, issued by the protesters as early as September 17th, but never reported by media. It was finally brought to the attention of TV-viewers by popular anti-establishment TV host Keith Olbermann on October 5th. As he points out, the massive manifestations in Wall Street and elsewhere, including several arrests, were completely covered up and never mentioned by US media even after going on for several weeks. That´s free press for you. Talk about bias and disinformation.
Here is the link to the video where Olbermann reads the statement or manifesto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8o3peQq79Q&feature=player_detailpage
Having cleared that important complement to last week´s blogpost, I am now offering you the 2nd instalment of my vision of 21st Century Medicine.
21st Century Medicine will automatically pay attention to the patient’s social and emotional interactions. Relationships, both intimate, family and professional, often play a decisive psychological role for the development of illness, and they should be included in the clinical pictures.
In the near future, with enlightened use and proper application of holistic medicine, there should be very little need for most types of surgery, and especially for organ transplant surgery. The conditions that lead to failure of organs should in the vast majority of cases be remedied long before the organs become deceased and ineffective.
At the same time, those patients whose lives have come to their natural conclusion, should be assisted in the all-important process of dying. They should be given moral, emotional and intellectual support and they should be allowed to make the transition in as harmonious, supportive and loving an environment as possible, when they are ready. People should certainly not be kept alive artificially in degrading circumstances, helplessly plugged into all kinds of intensive care equipment in a hospital at exorbitant costs, just to prolong a physical existence void of human dignity.
I am not advocating euthanasia, just that people who are ready to die should be allowed to do so naturally, in a peaceful and dignified way, if possible at home, surrounded by their loved ones. At the appropriate time, Death is as natural, necessary and positive as Birth. Learning to see the larger holistic perspective of Man, we will also learn to accept – and even welcome – Death as a vital (sic!) part of the soul’s experience and development.
The horizons and scope of Science is expanding dramatically with the new paradigm, and this will enable us to approach Death and the spiritual dimension from a scientific – not religious – point of view. It is particularly important that this perspective be brought into the curriculum of future medical training. In the 20th century very few medical doctors have been capable of helping a patient face death in a natural, positive manner.
The anecdotal Chinese acupuncture doctor of ancient times may serve us as a model. He is said to have been paid regularly by his patients as long as they remained in good health. Should they fall ill, then payment was withheld till he had cured them.
To understand the logic and practicality of this system we must remind ourselves that acupuncture is particularly well suited for prevention of illness. Through Chinese pulse diagnosis it is possible to detect subtle irregularities in the flow and equilibrium of energies within the acupuncture meridians before any noticeable symptoms appear. Such irregularities in the energy system, if not corrected, may lead to malfunctioning glands and organs which in turn will cause the corresponding symptoms of illness.
So our ancient Chinese doctor wasn’t just sitting back, rolling his thumbs and passively collecting his fees. He had to work for his pay, regularly checking the pulse, face, tongue, eyes etc. of his patients. In other words, he sold and honoured a maintenance contract for his patients, much like we do today for certain equipment or machinery.
As soon as he detected any abnormality, he then had to treat the patient, before any symptoms had time to develop. And if a patient developed symptoms in spite of regular checks, then the doctor had not done his job properly, and this is when his fees were withheld until the patient was cured. From this point of view Chinese medicine is a good deal more advanced and practically useful to the patients than the medicine practised in the West during the 20th century is for all its scientific pretenses.
In ancient China it was in the doctor’s interest to keep his patients healthy. In modern Western society, doctors – and especially the all powerful pharmaceutical industry – only make money when their patients are ill.
Modern Western school medicine with its materialistic, static outlook usually addresses itself exclusively to looking at established physical and chemical structures. Therefore it is only brought in when far-reaching visible changes have already occurred. At this late stage in an often long process, it is becoming increasingly difficult to correct the problem. Physical measures, such as surgery, only eliminate the physically manifest long term result of such processes; they do not stop or reverse the process. And we should not forget the discomfort and risk to the patient that these invasive methods entail. Holistic medicine, properly practised, is therefore far more cost effective – from several points of view – than today’s Western school medicine.
A principal feature of 21st Century Medicine must be an emphasis on prevention. Western school medicine pays very little attention to prevention. One might even suspect that it has chosen this attitude from fear of becoming redundant. But it need not fear. By taking it upon them not only to treat patients for already manifest physical symptoms, but to assist their patients in coming to terms with their overall life unfoldment processes, 21st century holistic doctors will be more in demand than ever.
The aim of 21st century medicine will then be set much higher, namely to assist patients in functioning at an optimal level of efficiency and wellbeing, in harmony with their environment and in consonance with their spiritual goal; Body, Mind and Soul must be seen as an integrated Whole. But for that to happen, Big Pharma´s tyrannical and greedy grip on the entire medical system of the West must be released.
Among the most common complaints in today’s society are back or spine problems, one of many areas where orthodox school medicine has very little to offer.
21st Century Medicine will integrate chiropractic and osteopathic knowledge to deal with the spine and skeletal structure and its finer implications for energy circulation and communication through the nerve system. In this way it will be able to correct, without surgery, most functionally disturbing dislocations in the skeletal system, especially in the spine and skull, even when so subtle that they do not show up on X-ray photographs or more advanced types of scanning.
But 21st Century Medicine will also put this knowledge into a larger holistic perspective, which is often lacking now. It will realize how problems affecting muscles and tendons may cause dislocations in the skeletal system, which therefore cannot be permanently corrected by manipulation alone. The cause of such problems may be found in nutrition or metabolism. It may be found in toxic interference or in circulatory deficiencies. It may be found in psychological tension or stress. And therefore skeletal-structural problems may often need nutritional adjustments, acupuncture or homoeopathy, to just mention a few possibilities, in addition to – or instead of – chiropractic or osteopathic treatment, in order to produce a permanent cure.
Our future medicine must become conscious of the crucial role of invisible energy and information interactions in the human organism and uncover their deepest causes. It should avoid suppressing acute immune defense responses without addressing the root of the problem, a grave error which conventional 20th century medicine today is committing as accepted routine.
A horde of electronic instruments will come into widespread use, by which the practitioner in a matter of minutes can find out exactly which toxins, viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites etc. are affecting the patient, and also from what deficiencies the patient may suffer with regard to minerals, vitamins, amino acids, enzymes etc.
The late German physician Dr. Reinhold Voll’s brilliant discoveries and research over more than four decades has dramatically expanded our knowledge and understanding of the sciences of acupuncture and homoeopathy. And make no mistake about this: They are sciences. A tangible result of this has further been the development of various electronic instruments able to register and measure the balance, flow and energy level of the acupuncture meridiens. These instruments are also used for actual treatment of patients by electronically stimulating the relevant acupuncture points.
Several instruments are further able to test which homoeopathic remedies, down to the potency, combination, sequence etc., will give the best therapeutic results or bring about homoeostasis through biophysical resonance. The same applies to colours, sounds, herbal remedies, flower essences, crystals, and nutritional supplements. Some of these machines can even electronically generate and introduce the relevant therapeuticly effective frequencies into the bio-field of the patient, e.g. those of a homoeopathic remedy, a colour or a mineral crystal, without the presence of a natural vibrational source.
One kind of instruments is able to identify disease-producing vibratory frequencies present in the patients energy field, and then produce the opposite “anti-frequency” that cancels out the harmful vibration. Incidentally, a similar technique has been commercialized for the control of unwanted noise by neutralizing the offending soundwave.
In the 21st century, the role of subtle biological energy and information systems will finally be recognized and understood, which will lead to the general acceptance of therapies such as homoeopathy, radionics, psychic healing, crystal, colour and sound therapies.
There will be a 3rd and last part of my vision of 21st Century Medicine in a coming blogpost, so stay tuned!
Till next week,
Be happy and take care,
Look out and be aware!
Dr. Jens
