Outside the friends and family who may visit me here, I am an ambiguity. You don't know me. Why should you trust me? I could be a complete lunatic with some smooth phraseology and a nice book list. I'm not, but you don't know that. LOL (This reminds me of a conversation I had with my hubby about "credibility stock." When I advise someone on a course of treatment or dietary change and they see positive improvement or healing occur, he tells me my "credibility stock" soars. Nice visual.)
So it causes thoughtful pause...whom do we trust and why? Whom should we trust and how do we know? Instead of force-feeding you my point of view, I want to cause you to think...to question. I want you to dig, to learn, to formulate healthy skepticisms and a nose for half-truths. For those already in my camp, this message is nothing new. And I am not in the business of converting staunch objectors...I have neither the time nor the emotional bandwidth to do so. My message is perhaps most apropos for the seekers.
When it comes to health problems, illness and disease, people often seek "alternatives" after modern medicine has failed them. These seekers have begun to see a fundamental truth: modern medicine will continue to fail because it is not a system of healing that can create wellness. How often do you consult with a conventionally trained doctor that considers your ailment in light of your holistic physiological system and teaches you how to change your lifestyle and diet to create wellness? How often do they encourage you to learn and take responsibility for your own health so that you do not need them? How often do they help you to identify the core cause of your chronic illness/ailment and teach you how to achieve healing? How often do they tell you to eschew chemicals and toxins (including drugs), eat Real Food (including saturated fats from pastured animals), spend time outside in direct sunlight without sunscreen, drink the correct amount of water, consume sea salt generously, and reduce your EMF exposure? How often do they prescribe pure botanical medicine that actually heal bodily systems and boost immunity? How often do they advise you to cleanse and restore your liver and then teach you how to do it? How often do they tell you that cancer can be healed...and without toxins? or tell you how to live and eat to avoid getting cancer? How often do those doctors do much more than "diagnose" and prescribe pharmaceuticals to affect symptomatology? Drugs don't cure disease. The drug industry has no vested interest in curing anyone of anything. Medical mistakes, including prescription drugs kill around 780,000 people annually.* But I digress......
When you consider the medical establishment and its practices, you should be asking some simple but fundamental questions. [If it isn't already painfully obvious, I should point out that I will be using "we" to represent our collective modern society.] Why do we blindly trust doctors (MDs); why do we accept them as the "gods" in the white coats? Why do we believe that they "know best" and have the answers? How did the modern allopathic medical system become the dominant option...the authoritative voice...on the medical landscape? Is their science supreme? Are their theories and modalities correct? How and in what are said doctors educated...by whom and why? How are drugs and procedures tested and approved...and by whom? Whose interests are served in the outcome? Are the outcomes honest? Is the modern medical industry truly a trustworthy system?
I could answer all these questions for you, but it would spoil your fun. Do your own digging...seek truth and be not afraid of the answers you may find. As you search, consider this: Are we, in our technocratic age, so arrogant as to believe that only in the last 100 years of human history we have "gotten it all right?" I argue that millennia of human history tells us otherwise.
I will close with an anecdote (which, of course, will contain another question). I encountered someone who came to me for advice in dealing with a significant medical issue. She was not completely comfortable with the pharmaceutical approach recommended to her by the MD and I took the time to discuss with her the very real dangers of the drug offered to her, as well as to prescribe some herbal and nutritional therapies. When I told her the history and effects of said drug, she became wide-eyed, somewhat incredulous, and replied, "Oh, but they (the FDA) would never allow that to be given to people if it were dangerous!" I was so astounded at such naivete that I could not immediately reply. But her comment typifies an all-too-common mentality of blind trust in the medical establishment and its regulatory agencies. My new reply, which I must practice, lest I be caught off-guard again in future, is, "Why would you assume such a thing?"
And I will leave you with that thought...or this one: Why would you...why do you...assume the status quo is the only acceptable route? Why do you trust the modern medical establishment? I suggest that before you continue to do so with any level of comfort, that you do some homework. After that, once you have unearthed what lies beneath well-crafted PR and cleared through the smoke and mirrors, if you still want to place your trust completely in the existing dominant system, just be sure it is earned trust...not blind trust.
For more information on these topics, please watch my Library and Links tabs (which will be compiled as quickly as possible in the next weeks).
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http://www.ourcivilisation.com/medicine/usamed/deaths.htm
http://www.naturalnews.com/009278.html
http://www.lightparty.com/Health/HealingRegeneration/html/AccidentalDeathPrescriptio.html
