CONTINUATION OF PREVOUS POLICY POST
As humans, we also carry a spark of original spirit (source energy) inside of us which may be referred to as “The God Within,” our inner compass or yardstick, without which “meaning,” “value” or “sense of” cannot be assessed. We can feel this Spirit live in our heart area, as it moves and expands at times and, when it does, we instantly well up. Moreover, it communicates with us all the time, if we consider it possible and listen. To the extent we learn to allow this Spirit to operate our being and value in on our decisions, we experience wellness and are thriving. Dis-Ease, then, can be viewed as working from the outside inward, i.e., first as error messages in our subtle bodies of thought and emotions, until these finally manifest themselves as ailments in our physical body. The reverse process can also happen due to excessive exposure to toxins and radiation in our environment, persistently feeding their subtle energy information to our organism, until our physical, emotional and mental health has been negatively changed. Since most medical interventions (especially surgical interventions) do not aim to change how a person feels and thinks, their effectiveness can be short-lived. Illness recurs, perhaps elsewhere in the body, and life-long drug dependencies are created. Both such occurrences are examples of how mainstream medicine does NOT heal. Healing has much to do with learning to undo error messages in our larger organism, individually and/or in our collective “organism.” Our over-reliance on the alleviation of physical symptoms can delay such learning or make it impossible. Illness can be viewed as unconscious learning. Yet the process of healing can be much accelerated when facilitating to consciously recognize and correct error messages which are hiding in our subtle energy fields.
With these premises and definitions in mind, it becomes clear that a holistic modality, “borrowed” from the East and plugged into our Western scientific paradigm does not make a practitioner “holistic.” When removed from its much broader context, these modalities and interventions lose much of their effectiveness and can have a (negatively) enabling effect. This is so because the person is not viewed in his/her entirety, and the inherent spirit-will is not viewed as paramount. The same applies to the manifold gadgets meanwhile invented to possibly achieve subtle energy changes which were traditionally accomplished by healers. This impersonal approach is not holistic; the practitioner might have no opinion or world view at all regarding Holism. Unlike natural forms of healing, e.g., with crystals, sound, etc., machines do not operate in a holistic fashion. For all of it, this is true: As long as we view the removal or suppression of physical symptoms as the sole goal or purpose of therapy or an intervention, not even the addition of “prayer with the patient” makes the treatment a holistic one. Prayer is now offered by some clinics for patients who are following all medical treatment recommendations. Of course, prayer is never wasted, but—from the holistic view–this approach is “upside-down.” A holistic practitioner, prior to recommending any intervention, always consults with spirit first, and attempts to “read” the language of the body, as an expression of the inherent spirit-will.
Body Therapy versus Spiritual Therapy
A Body Therapy (one that aims to alter physical symptoms, as its ultimate goal) can be holistic, as long as it considers the other subtle-energy bodies and does nothing to cause those harm. It also would not serve to maintain or enable existing deficiencies in those bodies. Body therapies are very beneficial for those in the final stages of “learning” about the purpose of a particular ailment. As such, it can serve as the final push in the right direction, after all lessons have been learned. Chiropractic and nutrition coaching can be such examples. Yet without deeper work on one’s issues, chiropractic efforts bring but temporary relief and we’ll find ourselves going back, time and again, for additional treatments.
Conversely, a spiritual therapy (i.e., non-physical or subtle energy therapy) aims only at positive change in a person’s energy bodies. Based on the assumption that a healthy body follows healthy thinking and feeling, the physical ailment will disappear, by itself, once one’s errors in intent, thinking and feeling have been explored. However, if it does not disappear, a holistic practitioner considers healing possible, even in the presence of a persistent ailment! Perfect wellness and peace can be achieved by a person without limbs, or with latent predisposition toward chemical dependency, for example. Some ailments or genetic predispositions may be chosen by the Spirit, for a multitude of reasons. A truly holistic practitioner considers those reasons and the spirit-will as paramount and will never remove an ailment, “just because I can”! Prayer (consulting the spirit) comes before any intervention to preclude the willful interference of man in someone else’s chosen journey. Any ailment which appears treatment resistant or which resurfaces elsewhere after surgery, for example, should give us a clue regarding some larger principle being at work, needing to be explored and understood.
Ideally, body therapies should always be combined with one or more spiritual therapies and, at times, with mental health interventions as well. Ultimately, spirit will and the individual’s informed and conscious decisions reign supreme in all recovery, and health practitioners must enjoy legal freedom and protection to allow and cooperate with such individual freedom themselves—free from pushing “standard medicine” which are designed for the masses, without individualistic focus.
The following is an attempt to contrast the most obvious differences between allopathic and holistic approaches to wellness:
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Allopathic Medicine:
• Look for the common denominator in illnesses
• Look for the “enemy” and “fight” (aggressively)
• Uncomfortable Hospital, ER, and doctor waiting rooms, ice-cold treatment rooms and instruments, waiting for hours, often with little clothing or housed together with many other very sick people, for extended periods of time.
• Doctors and staff “hiding” behind laptops. (“Would they even recognize me if they saw me at Starbucks?”)
• Administer pharmaceuticals which add subtle-energy information, but often do not address the root cause (which always involves one’s mis/understanding of something). Therefore, harmful side-effects, life-long drug dependencies, and enabling of poor mental attitudes follow.
• Reliance on surgery and replacement of “unfixable” body parts, without regard to the energy bodies which actually will be harmed by the procedure.
• As long as Spirit is not considered a viable entity in medicine and as unscientific, an MD will not explore and adhere to a person’s spirit-intentions and spirit-will. -
Holistic Intervention:
• Each intervention is most individualistic! No two people have even the same symptoms for the exact same reason, nor do they heal in exactly the same way, at the same sequence, in the same timeframe or in response to the same stimuli/questions/information. Healing has to do with Learning. No two people understand the same thing, even when attending the identical lecture.
• Look for and strengthen a person’s resources and assets.
• Determine, omit (passive), undo and avoid the original stressor, instead of fighting.
E.g., turning the stove off and removing the hand, instead of only pouring salves on the hand and administering pain killers, while keeping all other things constant.
• Add love and a warm, loving environment. In ancient Greece, sick people were brought to a beautiful island, with flowers and music, fountains, healing foods and gentle people, so that the body-mind could find rest and find its own rhythm again.
• Emphasis is on building trust and creating an atmosphere conducive to exploring a person’s blind spots in the mind. This involves lowering each person’s defenses which will only happen in a completely non-judgmental and personable and confidential environment.
• Add the missing (energy) information, “sound” or frequency, until the organism resonates.
• Commit to “Soul searching,” as a person’s memory is triggered or glimpses into blind spots become visible during the therapy, leading to complete ownership and self-responsibility of all that will or will not happen, i.e., learning, personal growth and change, in utter respect for a person’s free will and choice.
• Considers that some ailments are “chosen” or “karmic” in origin.
One must give credit to the phenomenal achievements of Western Medicine in life-threatening emergencies. All in all, however, I believe that over-reliance on surgery and pharmaceuticals has made us lazier and sicker, as a species. All the while, we have made healing dependent upon trillion-dollar gadgets and on the presence of electricity! What if we ever were without those again? What would happen to our capacity to heal ourselves and others? What do these medical procedures do in regards to teaching us to utilize our own healing mechanisms to heal ourselves?
The Role of the Environment & “Lifestyle Choices”
Doubtlessly, our thriving is being influenced, today mostly negatively, by environmental toxins and constant bombardment with electro-magnetic radiation, the effects of which cannot be removed without a clear understanding of, “What is Poison,” followed by action and environmental changes. In the holistic view, the environment is me, too! We are not supposed to be immune to poison, as this would rob us of the learning about poisons and recognizing the same as such. We are supposed to know how we are harming the environment and, with that, in the end, ourselves. Therefore, social and environmental activism becomes a necessary part of our own healing and spiritual growth, as we do have impact on and responsibility for the “Whole” of all things and the world we create.
But I understand, also, that the order within my own house(s) is my first and foremost responsibility, without which my actions will be weak and ineffective. Still, adding a few lifestyle changes to the treatment plan, in itself, does not make an intervention a “holistic” one! And also, we shouldn’t be told or say that we are close to finding a cure (e.g., for cancer or Alzheimer’s), as long as we collectively are not willing to address and remove causative agents from the environment, and as long as Corporations continue to be allowed to produce and unleash toxins into the world!
We would logically expect health practitioners to be in the forefront of detecting environmental dangers, raising the red flag and driving political and legal action, instead of fighting a never ending and unwinnable fight against disease. And holistic practitioners and scientists should not have to fight the current, prevailing (but outdated) paradigm. What a waste of energy and resources! Driving politics would be a novel change to always being the ones being sued, wouldn’t it?
In summary, it all has been said before: To “Know thy own house” may, indeed, be the key to understanding creation and life itself. Rather than increasingly depending on electricity and technology, our wellness and thriving as a species seem much more related to a re-definition of life and what we expect life to be. If wellness doesn’t result (a mere “managing the ever-increasing symptoms and diagnoses” is not the same as wellness and thriving), something is missing from our basic premise and concept. Yes, indeed, the holistic paradigm shift appears well-overdue!
In the words of Pythagoras:
“The most divine art is that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy itself with the soul as well as the body; for no creature can be sound so long as the higher part of it is suffering.”
Or as inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo:
“Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe,” which is a most holistic thought and revived by Jung in many ways, stressing the importance of therapy to make the unconscious concous.
In studying and accepting our non-physical bodies into our total view of us humans, we discover that this is the Mind; indeed, this is also the Soul, complete or “whole” with a divine spirit, residing in one’s heart. How each of us relates to our energy bodies, how those relate to spirit, and how each inter-relates with spirits and souls throughout the universe…all of these relationships, singly and together, define the essence of HOLISM.”
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CONCLUSION
We may expect that all areas of our lives and our very lifestyles would be affected by something which is truly “holistic.” A world view changes the nature of all sciences and, in particular, the research questions we pose and what we research. It further would and will change the way we live our lives. Therefore, this is not a proposal for our health care and education alone.
How different a world we might create and might have created, without radiating technology, satellites, WiFi, Blue Tooth and all wireless technology. We would not make lightbulb decisions based on their longevity, but instead, on how dirty their radiation is (Steven Magee, “Electrical Forensics,” 2013, and “Toxic Electricity,” 2012). We would forego AI for the most part, and be very selective regarding highly radiating technologies based on urgent need and not for everyday uses. Electric and AI sensors will disappear from mattresses; heating blanket would disappear, along with any radiating technology in close proximity to our bodies and homes. We won’t force our livestock to live under such conditions either or even to graze beneath power lines (Steven Magee, “Electrical Forensics,” 2013). Digital meters to measure our electric home use will be replaced again with analog ones; we will choose to live without home security systems and outdoor surveillance or 5G towers and cell phone antennae near schools, shopping areas or homes. We would choose to hardwire most of our computers again. Please note that (“the FCC hasn’t updated U.S. wireless radiation exposure limits since 1996. That’s 11 years before the iphone was even invented” (Environmental Health Trust Data). It is highly recommended that such updating will finally be undertaken or, perhaps, it is a no-issue if we simply do away with so much dirtly electricity and wireless technology for everyday uses.
HAARP activities will have to cease, except for sending storms back out to sea, to protect our homes and agricultural products. It will no longer be used to microwave the atmosphere or for tomographic purposes, X-raying right through us to detect minerals, etc., inside the earth. All these measure will significantly our energy needs and costs, if only we put health first.
Remember: When bombarded consistently with frequencies which are not our own or naturally occurring, or in excess of what is naturally occurring, our own electromagnetic frequencies will change, to include the vibrations of thought and feelings, followed by untold ill-health effects. A truly holistic paradigm makes these connections very clear. It’s like forcing the organism to constantly think very unhealthy thoughts!
To make all this happen, I recommend to reinstall the Office of Alternative Medicine, and rename it “Office for Holistic Measures and Research,” or perhaps a Department of Holistic Health and Education. NI would like to nominate Dr. Marc Micozzi in Bethesda, MD, to head such an office, if he is so willing. I myself will gladly make myself available in some advisory capacity. In general, I strongly recommend that no more than half the positions regarding health and healthcare be filled with MD’s, because their indoctrination often seems insurmountably strong to be able to think beyond it, to include in research. Conversely, healers and holistic practitioners often don’t know enough about mainstream medicine to be able to know exactly what about it to change and how. The time has come to truly merge and not just live side-by-side, and certainly not by one being a mere afterthought. Intent influences outcome. Discriminating against each other in any way will reduce treatment outcome in more ways than we can see with our eyes. But non-medically trained, holistic practitioners must be part of any viable discussion about health, healthcare and what we call “Life,” way-of-life and worldview.
“Medical schools don’t teach you how to think; they teach you what to think” (“Global Biopolitiks,” Dr. Alejandro Diaz, Newsletter, October 2024).
Hippokrates: “He who heals is right.”
Exodus 15:26: Spirit is what heals you.”
Psalm 103:3: “He who forgives all sins and heals all my diseases.”
Mark 16:18: Jesus said: “In my name, they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
