The Truth About "Natural" Healing
Appendix 2 ----
A Natural-Healing Perspective on Coronavirus
and others that are blamed for various illnesses
It was never the purpose or intention of these essays to discuss
ANY SPECIFIC diseases. Most could rightly be considered merely
symptoms of a more basic "disease" ---the body's failure to repair,
maintain and energize itself adequately as described in
Part 9. "Unconventional Concepts of
Illness & Health You May or May Not Have Considered" .
But since this particular "dis - - ease" has become such a
polarizing issue both politically and "religiously" that nobody
seems to be listening to anybody, and since truly natural health and
healing is not on EITHER side but IS often categorized in the minds
of many as part of the DO-NOTHING crowd, there appears to be some
widely-overlooked science that BOTH groups really need to stop and
listen to and think about.
FIRST--- "natural healing" is NOT about DOING NOTHING. NOR is
it just replacing so-called "big pharma" with supposedly safer,
"natural medicine" ---as in so-called "folk healing". Truly-natural
health and healing is not about ANY kind of medicine. It's an
ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CONCEPT and OBJECTIVE; and that is to physically
and biologically (not chemically and pharmaceutically) support and
maximize the entire body's OWN NATURAL, INTERNAL, BUILT-IN
day-to-day self-cleaning, self-repairing functions ---primarily by
SUPPLYING it with the quality "raw materials" it needs to do that
work properly (the biological/nutritional equivalent of fuel,
cleaning supplies and building-materials), and PROTECTING it from as
many HARMFUL substances and conditions as humanly possible. A full
and complete practical application of these principles would make
"medicine" NOT ONLY unneeded, but fundamentally harmful itself.
(Remember, most medicine is "controlled" ---by prescription only---
BECAUSE it is dangerous stuff.) But, don't assume "natural" healing
is some fantasy that could never heal or prevent "disease" just
because it sounds "too simple". It's actually the only TRUE healing
there ever is --- with OR without medicine --- and is usually
accomplished IN SPITE OF any OUTSIDE healing efforts more than
BECAUSE of them. It's the prevailing culture's strongly-held
preconceived notions of what is "proper" or "the right way to live"
that suppresses good health and makes healing complicated.
Part 3."Is It Safe?"
briefly explained the FUNCTIONAL difference. (Link opens to
that point in a new window if you missed it or need a review.)
For those who object, all-righteously, before even listening to the
facts, that "life is sacred" ---and for those who ARE interested in
the facts--- the CONCEPT difference follows:
Ready?
The so-called "civilized" world seems to have the idea that life is
an accident, and that our supposedly highly intelligent society must
sift through the "rubble" and try to bring some sort of order to the
"chaos"; when, actually, life must have been highly organized when
it began, since reliable scientific evidence (in contrast to most
pseudo-scientific speculation) indicates that life cannot exist for
any useful, sustainable period of time any other way.
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Whether or not a virus is "alive" is more a philosophical than a
scientific question on which biologists still appear unable to
agree. (What constitutes life? etc.) There DOES seem to be general
agreement that it is NOT a "living CELL", but even a virus shows
considerable internal regulation and organization. It does not
appear as totally random chaos. (Could it be a PART of a
once-living cell that did not die a "natural death"?)
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So, while many scientists rather loosely and glibly admire the
DESIGN in "nature" (and courts of law debate whether or not the
expression should be taken literally to imply INTELLIGENT design
---and consequently an intelligent Designer) an impressive number
of reputable researchers, from biologists and biochemists to
astronomers and physicists, are finding serious evidence that life
and everything else about the physical universe IS INDEED
METICULOUSLY DESIGNED with great precision.
Although "natural science" marvels at the order and "wisdom" in
"nature", so-called "civilization" seems obsessed with controlling
"nature" as if it were demented, remodeling it as if it were a
blunder, or even conquering it as if it were an enemy. Technology
becomes the only "science" that matters. (Ah, well, that's where
the money, power and prestige is, isn't it?:) Unfettered,
non-commercialized scientific research indicates, however, that
the real needs for long-term TRUE QUALITY of human life are:
(1) UNPROCESSED food IN IT'S NATURAL STATE, (2) Avoiding all contact
with chemical compounds that were NOT ALREADY put together in
"nature" (along with a few that were) and (3) Learning better ways
of COOPERATING with "nature" rather than trying to refine, refashion
or remodel the earth and it's "furnishings" and other resources.
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Many years ago, a Medical Doctor and nutritionist who was an earnest
advocate of such research had an uncomplicated, elegantly simple
guiding "formula" for that first need: "Eat only those foods which
[readily] spoil or rot or decay ...before they do." (Quoted from
personal interview in AWAKE! February 22, 1968 "How Fine are Refined
Foods?" and his own book "Please Doctor, Do Something"). The other
two needs are equally simple IN CONCEPT. It's "civilized" society's
egotistic mindset about what's "proper" that makes them complicated.
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These research studies are seldom widely publicized, however, not
only because they're "not good for business", but largely because
"civilization" in general doesn't really want to hear it. Its
society has become mentally conditioned to see the "refined" way of
life that requires ingesting in our food ---usually without our
knowledge or judicious permission--- chemicals we can't even
pronounce ---and inhaling or absorbing through our skin even more
toxic stuff while cleaning and deodorizing with products that
promise to make our job almost effortless (and never quite deliver)
--- as the superior (or even the only right) way to live. Our
fragile sense of self worth (or lack of it) can become so wrapped up
in this delusion that we see anyone who dares to live differently as
ignorant, foolish ---even frightening. No "conspiracy" OR theories
involved! Just typical insecure-but-gullible self-indulgent human
nature.
Of course, many people agree ---abstractly--- that human activity is
ruining the earth. But real life, in the natural world, unchanged
by human intervention, has long been seen by "polite society" as
UN-civilized, even barbaric. Granted, it's far more momentarily
convenient (as well as socially acceptable) to take a vaccine or
other medicine and go on living one's customary "civilized",
refined, self-indulgent lifestyle as if IT had made no contribution
to the problem and each illness or disease were a separate,
unrelated issue that "just happened" or was "caught" from someone
else. The meticulous-design evidence strongly suggests, however,
that in the human body, most illnesses ARE related and ALL the
elements of truly natural health are connected and inter-dependent.
It's a sort of "package deal". Not meaning there's no room for
individual tastes and preferences. There's LOTS of variety in
nature. But WE REALLY need to cooperate with IT and try diligently
to shake this deeply held egocentric feeling that modern
"civilization" is somehow smarter than "nature". If life really is
"sacred", as medicine's advocates are prone to retort, then DON'T
TAMPER with it! Of course, civilization's "refined" self-pleasing
convenient-but-shortsighted physical/material lifestyle could not
exist WITHOUT remodeling "nature", could it? ---A sharp contrast
from the "three basic needs" for TRUE quality-of-life described
above.
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In case you missed it,
Part 9. "How Does It Work?"
explains further details of the natural healing concept.
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SECOND--- Medicine is NOT the only "savior" and protector or the
only "scientific" healing method. In fact ----are you sitting
down?---- it is not always even PROVEN truly scientific at all!
(See this excerpt from
Part 4. "Is It
Scientific?"
for a startling example!
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But it IS often the only usable option for refined, "civilized"
society. ---Another "package deal" ----if we want its convenience
and other perceived pleasures, we most likely will need to "take the
medicine" that goes with the lifestyle.
You likely recognize, however, that TRUE HEALTH does not come
from something you TAKE. It's something you BUILD or CULTIVATE
over many years. And those who have spent a lifetime carefully
and consistently doing just that in harmony with the natural,
life-respecting "3-basic-needs" briefly outlined above (and who
therefore know from personal experience how well it works) are not
about to risk compromising the PROTECTION that comes from THAT
extensive "investment" just to be "socially acceptable". "Life is
sacred"! Remember? You surely know that many drugs are NOT
compatible with a number of other drugs. Are you also aware that
many are medically recognized as incompatible with certain simple,
natural, "healing" foods? Ask any caring, knowledgeable pharmacist.
Or see Part 8. "Is It For YOU?" for one
classic example.
Interestingly, according to news reports, the three Covid-19
vaccines (and the oral drug being developed as of this writing)
have the same basic objective ---keep the virus from replicating!
But according to information on CDC's website, each goes about it
by a somewhat different method. Does that make ONE the ONLY right
way while all others are "the work of the Devil"? If statistics
indicate a certain method "works" for the majority of people, does
that automatically make it the BEST one for EVERYBODY? Then think
about this: The LARGER objective of the natural-healing way of
life accomplishes the above NARROW objective AND MORE by still
another method. It deprives the virus of the material IT uses to
replicate and provides the body with the "raw materials" IT needs
to dispose of the virus as the biological refuse that it is. And
it was already doing that long before coronavirus was a word or its
vaccines were even thought about. No, it isn't foolproof any more
than vaccines or other medicines are 100% effective or risk-free.
But it DOES work ---extremely effectively--- when you LIVE the method.
THIRD--- Truly natural healing is NOT "prompt, temporary relief";
NOR is it merely psychosomatic. Sure, it works more effectively the
more committed and focused you are. Yet, given time and constancy,
it works whether you believe in it or not ---and whether you follow
it willingly or (as in some "less civilized" countries) you have no
choice. The latter situation shows up in the below-cited statistics
reported by Johns Hopkins Univerity School of Medicine and United
Nations World Health Organization that reveal a PATTERN very similar
to that of the "systemic" diseases [from dental caries to
heart-disease, stroke, cancer and more] that were studied
extensively in similar statistical-occurance manner the past
century and shown to be primarily "diseases of civilization".
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
https://covid19.who.int/
[Both last retrieved in October 2021]
Neither study was presented in a manner to PROVE anything; simply as
information. But if you apply only a basic geographic/demographic
knowledge of the world, the following pattern emerges: The FEWEST
Covid-19 deaths COMPARED TO POPULATION were reported by the
countries with the LEAST access to the processed, "refined" (dead-
and-embalmed) foods, toxic chemicals and medicines of the so-called
"civilized" world. Granted, the geographic isolation of parts of
those countries may have hindered both "transmission" and accurate
reporting. But from a FIFTH? to a TENTH? the PER-CAPITA death rate
of the most "civilized" countries??!!!
----THINK ABOUT IT!----
----"Diseases of Civilization"----
----"We" largely did this to "ourselves"----
Yes, all of this is "heresy" to the "civilized" world, just as
Galileo's ego-shattering discovery in the 15th Century that the
earth is NOT the center of the universe was heresy to those in
power at that time. But it isn't necessary for others to believe
it for it to work; any more than all Europe needed to believe the
earth to be a sphere when "Columbus sailed the ocean blue, In
fourteen hundred ninety-two". The outstanding success experienced
by the individuals who manage to personally practice truly-natural
healing strongly indicates that they are treating life as MUCH MORE
SACRED than so-called civilization is. They're NOT DOING NOTHING.
They're doing MUCH MORE than traditional "civilized" medicine is.
Now, surely, that does NOT make them a menace to society ---unless,
of course, society is insecure in it's convictions.
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