1000 years ago in Europe pre-Christian tribes initially had a Goddess culture - a matriarchy exactly where the earth and nature and their cycles and secrets had been revered. In pre-industrial societies disease was not noticed as a 'random assault from outside' but as a deeply substantial life occasion integral to the sufferer's entire becoming - spiritual, moral, physical and life course - previous, present and future. Dis-ease was interpreted as packed with moral, spiritual and religious messages as 1 of the several techniques via which 'God revealed his will to mankind'. Other philosophies of medicine such as Ayurvedic or Tibetan feel similarly, in those, dis-ease has a karmic element.
About the tenth century in Europe - right after the so known as 'Dark Ages' - ladies, the original stewards of the land (guys did 'animal husbandry'), have been dispossessed of it by the new patriarchies of the Church and State. This male hierarchy hid the points they had been most afraid of, namely the truth that it is girls who hold the essential to the processes and powers of life. They took them as their own, decreeing laws Around how we should really behave to impose handle and inventing 'original sin'. Allied to this there came a prolonged persecution of ladies, in particular any of these involved in healing. Some sources estimate Around five - 9 million girls have been destroyed across Europe through this persecution. Primarily the part of girls as healers and midwives was discouraged and 'home-making' and its lots of linked capabilities is nevertheless regarded as a 'worthless' profession according to our Essentially fiscal values primarily based on GDP.
When a patriarchy requires more than a matriarchy as a basic paradigm shift, one particular of the most important items that occurs is that 'healing' and 'spirituality' are separated out as an instrument of manage. The globe of spirit and physic have been separated and became even a lot more so in the course of the excellent male 'Age of Reason' that started with Descartes and continued with Newton, the tail-finish of which numerous are presently clinging to in desperation and a degree of made use of self-consideration.
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) was a central influence on the 17th century revolution that started contemporary science and philosophy. His 'Technique of Doubt' was published in 1637:
"I resolved to reject as false almost everything in which I could think about the least doubt, in order to see if there afterwards remained every little thing that was totally indubitable".
The philosophy of 'Cartesian dualism' became part of our science, exactly where the thoughts and the physique are observed as Basically separate. The 'self', the conscious getting that is 'me' was noticed as Basically non-physical. Misguidedly (it was not Descartes intention) this philosophy contributed to the mechanistic and rational philosophy of the universe adopted by our culture. Descartes was 1 of the 1st persons to recommend that phenomena could be understood by breaking them down into constituent components and examining every single minutely. His view of the human physique as a machine functioning inside a mechanistic universe took prevalence inside the 'Age of Reason'.
"Believe the human physique as a machine. My thought compares a sick man and an ill-created clock with my notion of a healthier man and a properly created clock".
This consideration to analytical detail is nonetheless at the heart of our scientific investigation methodologies. As a outcome Western medicine has created 'Globe saving' vaccines and antibiotics. It has made drugs and surgical strategies that do utterly incredible issues. It has practically eliminated all the severe communicable illnesses (in the 1st Planet) such as leprosy, plague, tuberculosis, tetanus, syphilis, rheumatic fever, pneumonia, meningitis, polio, septicaemia. There are very couple of ladies dying in childbirth compared to the previous. Western medicine has been, and is, a triumph in the face of those issues which worried us back then the way cancer and heart illness be concerned us right now. Even the huge healthcare complications of the of 1930's and 40's have actually vanished.
The age of infectious illness has offered way to the age of chronic problems. The most important killers nowadays are heart and vascular illness, chronic degenerative illnesses and cancer, largely incurable and escalating in incidence. The approaches that worked so effectively for all but eliminating acute infectious illnesses just do not appear to work for chronic and degenerative circumstances.
"The prevalence of asthma, a number of sclerosis, chronic fatigue, immune deficiency syndrome, HIV and a host of other debilitating circumstances is escalating. Traditional biomedicine - so strikingly prosperous in the remedy of overwhelming infections, surgical and healthcare emergencies and congenital defects, has been unable to stem the tide of those situations".
James Gordon M.D., Washington, D.C.
Even throughout the time of Sir Isaac Newton the human physique was viewed as an intricate biological machine. The Universe was an orderly, predictable but divine mechanism, a 'grand clockwork'. Despite the fact that hundreds of years have passed, Western scientific medicine nonetheless holds the very same fundamental philosophy, but are a lot more sophisticated in studying biological mechanisms at a molecular level.
The 1st Newtonian methods had been Primarily surgical. The physique was observed as if it have been a complicated plumbing technique. If it went incorrect the offending piece was removed or bypassed. Those days alternatively of applying knives, drugs are normally made use of to do much more or less the similar points.
Humans though are far over walking sacks of chemical substances. The animating life-force central to other healthcare systems is an power that is not addressed by modern day scientific methodology and there are no Western healthcare models that clarify what it is and what it does. It is misguided by the notion that all ailments are cured by physically repairing or eliminating abnormal cells. This is partly due to a conflict in between 'Western' and 'Eastern' philosophies and has its roots in the division of science and religion along with the destruction of folk medicine in each U.S. and Europe.
Cancer can't be treated nicely under a philosophy of reductionism. Scientific cancer study has failed to locate a cure since it is searching in the incorrect locations with the incorrect tools. Cancer wants to be understood as a 'complete' illness in relation to every individual's expertise and the culture of which they are part. It has various causes that differ with each and every patient. The ways that worked so properly for tackling acute infectious ailments are inappropriate for dealing with chronic and degenerative situations. Cancer sufferers can be at ideal increasingly 'patched up' by orthodox treatment options but at spiralling health care fees.
This is an extract from 'Do not Get Cancer'a new ebook offered only at: http://www.simonthescribe.co.uk/don'tget1.html [http://www.simonthescribe.co.uk/don]
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