How Truly Natural Healing Actually Works
---- Unconventional Concepts of Illness & Health
All humans, including scientists, are inclined to jump to
conclusions; even though we know digging for facts is much
better (and more productive) "exercise". A more-detached,
less-intimidated consideration of certain related scientific facts
would suggest that a number of widespread THEORIES that have become
ACCEPTED as fact MAY have originated by the FIRST method --- jumping
to conclusions --- and thus are actually only assumptions.
For example:
Micro-organisms have been demonstrated to exist (some can even be
seen directly with optical microscopes), are nearly always present
in certain "diseased" conditions and even appear to be involved in
some way in the "spreading" of some "diseases". So it's generally
ASSUMED they CAUSE the "disease". It may SOUND logical enough ---
on the surface. But it's based on VERY SKETCHY "circumstantial
evidence". --- Think about it: When we notice vultures, maggots
or other scavengers nearly always present at dead carcasses do we
assume they CAUSED the dead carcass? And will killing or otherwise
eliminating the scavengers prevent or "cure" the condition? Or,
are we missing a "bigger picture", here? My father, (a licensed
non-medical health-care professional for many years) used to ask:
"Now, the FIRST person who ever had this disease --- who did they
CATCH it from?"
Do I hear you muttering under your breath: "Who do you think you are
to be questioning this most 'sacred' concept of 'disease'?" If so,
the answer is: Nobody special. Just a person who can read, think,
observe, and reason --- and who is willing to do so even when the facts
lead to unpopular conclusions.
As discussed in Part 4.
Is It Scientific? , "science" is NOT a "sacred body of knowledge".
The word itself comes from an older-language root word that simply
means "to know"; and was originally coined to describe a METHOD of
learning or "coming to know" --- careful, deliberate, UNBIASED
examination of observable facts. As acknowledged in the beginning,
that's a "tall order" for human-nature-as-we-know-it, but it CAN be
accomplished ---- at least, some of the time. And it is not an
"exclusive club". You are legally and ethically free to participate.
So, if you're willing to engage in a little "exercise", think carefully
about the following ----
The human body is often compared to a machine. And it truly IS one
of the greatest mechanical-and-more marvels in the natural world.
But it's also a "structure" (like a bridge or a building). Like the
body, both machines and structures require maintenance; but, UNLIKE
the body, nothing humans make can fully repair and maintain itself.
That is surely one of the greatest marvels of living things ---- second
only to the miracle of life itself ---- and one we often take for
granted, or even totally ignore. Yet, our body's continuous internal
maintenance-and-repair functions and their associated needs closely
resemble those of a building. Compare, for example, a very large
industrial manufacturing laboratory/office complex. While some
maintenance goes on even during business hours, such as patrolling
lobbies and corridors for trash and spills as a matter of safety as
well as appearance; the more extensive maintenance starts after the
place closes for the day. Not just trash pickup, cleaning, polishing
and restoration of vulnerable surfaces like floor finish. If it's a
very large (or very old) complex, there will nearly always be some
rooms or areas in the process of being completely "gutted" and
restored, rebuilt or remodeled.
While this latter process greatly extends the usefulness (and,
usually, structural soundness) of the building, it produces a great
deal of debris ---IN ADDITION TO the trash the janitorial crew
carries out every night from the regular day-to-day course of doing
business. A process very similar to our body's metabolism and it's
replacement and disposal of worn-out cells IN ADDITION TO the waste
byproducts from digesting, assimilating and producing energy from
the food we eat. And, yes; the bulk of our body's "repair" work
also goes on after WE'RE "closed for the day" ---- while we're
asleep. (See why sleep-deprivation and sleep quality are so
serious?)
Now, what do you think would become of all this building maintenance in
the event of a general sanitation strike? Business as usual? --- For a
few days, perhaps --- until the enclosed pick-up area outside the back
door got full. Then trash would start to accumulate INSIDE the back
door, then along the back corridor, finally in ALL the corridors (the
"arteries" of all the building's activity); until everyone is stepping
over and around it. Production slows to a crawl during the day (ever
get that sluggish feeling?); while maintenance and repair are brought
almost to a standstill at night. (In our body, we notice when "flesh
wounds" heal slowly, but internal deterioration may remain unrecognized
for years.) Finally, it becomes almost impossible to accomplish
ANYTHING in the building --- OR in our body; which by then may be "at
death's door" while the doctor is trying to "pull us through".
("tongue-in-cheek" --- Sorry! I couldn't resist that one.)
If both the day crew and the maintenance crew are under enough
deadline pressure to "produce", and repeated attempts to resolve the
waste problem are unsuccessful long enough, somebody will eventually
give up in total frustration and start throwing it out the windows.
Ever have boils, pimples, abscesses or a discharge of similar material
from sinuses and bronchial tubes? Wherever and however it comes out,
it's essentially the same "crud". The body HAS to get rid of its
biologic/metabolic debris IN SOME WAY in order to function and stay
alive --- just as ashes must be regularly removed from a fireplace to
maintain sufficient space for fuel and air flow to sustain useful
combustion. [Remember, combustion is rapid "oxidation" (combining with
oxygen) of a "combustible" material in such a way that it produces heat
(and light, in most cases); while metabolism is basically a slower,
"cooler" biological equivalent using "digestible" rather than
"combustible" materials to produce, not only body heat, but also the
"biochemical" energy to repair/replace damaged or worn out cells
and "transport" non-usable residue (debris) out of the living organism
--- much like the building maintenance described above.]
That brings us to another building-maintenance / health-maintenance
comparison: If the building's trash and other debris stays piled up
in the corridors and outside holding areas long enough, it's almost
certain to become infested with vermin --- from roaches to rats to
who knows what else --- just as accumulations of biologic waste
anywhere in the human body will nearly always contain "undesirable"
(by supposedly "civilized" standards) micro-organisms. Now, does the
VERMIN in the building CAUSE the trash to accumulate? Or does the mass
of debris DRAW the vermin? Would not the same logical progression of
events occur in our bodies? Why should we think this "cause and
effect" relationship would be totally different just because it takes
place inside a multi-celled living organism? Yes, life is a "miracle".
But nothing "mystical" or "magical" goes on inside. The same laws of
physics (and logic) apply there as in the "outside world". There's no
biological "black magic".
Just because certain micro-organisms detect in our bodies (while we're
still alive no less) the kind of dead and decaying organic material
they were designed to "recycle" (and --- eager to go to work ---
PRODUCE RESULTS (the symptoms of "dis-ease") WE WERE NOT DESIGNED TO
LIVE WITH as they clean up a mess that SHOULD NOT EXIST in our bodies
unless we're dead) does not make them our "natural enemies". But it
MAY explain the effectiveness of antibiotics --- which interrupts their
activity AND ITS RESULTS (but does not actually solve the debris
problem) --- and of quarantine --- which apparently keeps us far enough
away that the microscopic "recycling crew" does not "see" us --- as
carrion --- and as their next work assignment.
[---To identify a possible OUTSIDE source of much of this
"dead and decaying organic material", see Appendix 3. ---]
Similarly, my father (the licensed non-medical health-care professional
mentioned above) used to insist that at least 90% of all our ills in
the "Western World" come about from two primary contributing factors:
Failure to put INTO our bodies the proper biological cleaning and
building materials (POOR NUTRITION that WE may believe is excellent)
and the body's resulting FAILURE to properly repair itself and, in due
course, ELIMINATE IT'S WASTE MATERIALS. (As in the fireplace and
the building's trash removal problem.)
In contrast, acceptance of the widely held ASSUMPTION mentioned at
the beginning of this part requires belief either that an "all-wise
and loving creator" DESIGNED certain micro-organisms to make us sick
and shorten our life, OR that life IS merely an accidental eternal
struggle for "survival of the fittest". But, neither view accounts
for all the observable evidence. Scientific researchers tell us the
soil is teeming with numerous varieties of micro-organisms WITHOUT
WHICH no larger plant life could survive. Others find in our
intestines a similar array of bacteria without which we could not
digest our food to continue living. In spite of abundant
SPECULATION to the contrary, the most carefully observed EVIDENCE
indicates that all life is designed to SUPPORT other life in SOME
way. So, if any living thing APPEARS to be an enemy, something is
either out of balance, out of place, or grossly misunderstood.
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Have you ever noticed how "natural science" often marvels at the
"order" and "wisdom" in "nature", while so-called "civilization"
seems obsessed with refining, refashioning or otherwise "remodeling"
nature as if it were a blunder, controlling it as if it were
demented, or even conquering it as if it were an enemy? In similar
contrast, if we see "natural healing" as merely a safer, less toxic
way of "fighting pathogens", we're missing the whole point.
Truly-natural healing is not an alternative "remedy" or even an
ongoing "therapy"; it's a way of life --- even more --- an entirely
different CONCEPT of life. --- Think about it.
And if it comes across as a "foreign" concept, as it very well may
(even to traditionally religious people who CLAIM to believe in an
"all-wise and loving creator"), please review this page carefully
and really try to visualize the biological processes by their herein
discussed similarities --- logically, rationally --- and calmly ---
on the basis of actual observable evidence that you can examine for
yourself --- not the supposedly scientific speculations we've heard
all our lives and accepted as "fact" just because they came from
unquestioningly-accepted "authorities" and the mythical "everybody"
appeared to believe it. And maybe we're either too mentally passive
--- or scared too senseless of being different from the intimidating
"majority" --- to exercise our human intelligence that we like to
congratulate ourselves is "superior" to that of the "lower" forms of
life. (We all seem to "take turns" NOT using it well, sometimes.)
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Further aspects of the PROCESS of true healing is described and
illustrated in the column "Whether
'Natural' OR Pharmaceutical --- Medicine is a Blue Poly Tarp"
--- on this same website.
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The actual account of the matter is, according to some medical
historians (google "medical history"), a number of very competent
scientists DISAGREED with the microbial-cause-of-illness theory from
it's very inception. But that's the concept that "sold" to big
business and to the self-indulgent human nature of the majority of
it's customers. (You KNOW how we tend to love convenience and other
pleasures ---- more than even life itself, sometimes. ---- This
widely-popular view of illness sort of "absolves" us of much of
the responsibility for the consequences of our unwise lifestyle
choices.) So, now it's automatically and thoughtlessly accepted by
(and apparently a part of the "personal religion" of) both the
religious AND irreligious overwhelming majority of the "western world".
(---possibly even around the globe, but this editor is not intimately
acquainted with the "pseudo-religious" feelings of most other cultures.
And, yes, "non-religious" people CAN have such feelings --- observe how
SOME environmentalists, "animal rights" activists and other validly
well-intentioned "crusaders" exibit what amount to DEEPLY "religious"
feelings about their cause --- even when they profess no religion.) In
any case, reality has almost certainly become grossly misunderstood, if
not completely distorted.
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"When the evidence is tentative,
we should not be embarrassed
to call on common sense
for guidance."
---science writer
John Horgan
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Perhaps he's noticed how our human nature's tendency
to jump to conclusions makes some elements of our "science"
rather unscientific.
Meet part of "nature's" cleaning/recycling crew!
Maasai Mara National Park, Kenya
Photo by Magnus Kjaergaard
Immediate Source: Wikimedia.Com
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From---
"The Medusa and the Snail" ----
"It is true, of course, that germs are all around us; they comprise
a fair proportion of the sheer bulk of the soil, and they abound in
the air. But it is certainly not true that they are our natural
enemies. Indeed, it comes as a surprise to realize that such a tiny
minority of the bacterial populations of the Earth has any interest
at all in us. The commonest of encounters between bacteria and the
higher forms of life take place after the death of the latter, in
the course of recycling the elements of life. This is obviously the
main business of the microbial world in general, and it has nothing
to do with disease." ----
---- Dr. Lewis Thomas, M.D., former Dean of
Yale University and president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center in New York
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