Health: My journey & realization.
Respected Dr
N.....,
Namaskar.
My decision to go in for homeopathy was not a choice. I was given up as a lost
case by the mainstream. The doctors did not know what to do with me. It was
clearly admitted mine was a strange case. I did not savor the idea of further
experimentation and decided to move away. Besides the threats of
institutionalization when I protested did little to build my confidence on the
system.
I do not
disagree with their conclusions. Treating a rapidly deteriorating person who
had suffered loss of immunity, hepatotoxicity, splenomegaly, skin lesions, a
strange form of IBS, mitochondrial damage, multiple sclerosis and bipolar
disorder bordering on schizophrenia is not any doctors dream.
It was
providence that kept me alive and the threat directed towards me. But for the
decision to fight back there was nothing left for me to continue. I simply took
up the challenge.
I do not
mind what I have been through. It is only through such devastating experiences
that one can learn in detail about the inner functioning of the body and mind.
Every Shaman has to go through such an experience. Then they are expected to
propagate the knowledge in society. I feel I am one such Shaman. I look within
and then without and try to become the voice of those who suffer.
Such suffering
also leads to spiritual knowledge as one has to face several dimensions that
are ignored by a materialistic society. You called the system a fraud. It is
not a fraud. It is just the refusal to look beyond the material and
consequently be trapped in the physical.
The
objective of medicine ought to be cures and the restoration of health. Keeping
the healthy at an optimal level of health, leading the unhealthy towards
health, and curing the sick should be the goal. Disease management is a cobbler’s
job.
It is when
cure becomes the goal that the need to study the body - mind -emotions - energy
- consciousness entity in relation to the physical and spiritual environment
becomes evident. This is exactly what the holistic sciences do. They study the
entire creation in its totality. It is all one. Every living and non living
object in this universe is connected at several levels in a dynamic pulsating
intelligent way. In India the knowledge is known as Samkhya philosophy.
It is when
that connectedness is disturbed that disease occurs. Man is most well placed
when he is in the natural environment. This is the reason why diseases
increased after hunter gatherers became agriculturalists and exploded after
they became industrialists.
A
perfectly healthy person knows and feels that he is a part of the whole. He is
in a meditative state even while he is in action. Life is a joy in just living
when the connections are experienced and probed. In such a state health
and healing are spontaneous. Vitality that helps life develop from the womb to
birth and growth also takes care to maintain the optimal state of health. The
consciousness leads it towards that goal. Our ancestors tapped that
consciousness both at individual and collective levels. It was this
consciousness that provided answers and revealed the secrets of nature.
The germs
and viruses we hate are but the key to that interconnectedness. The microbiome
and the mycobiome are what connect us with nature at the physical and energy
levels. Life emerged from them, evolved due to them and is maintained due to
them. The interplay between the genes of the microbiome that live within and
without us provides vital intelligence about natural balance that is known as
symbiosis. We are constantly interacting with our environment and adjusting to
it thanks to the trillions of foreigners that exist within us. The process of
adjustment often appears as illness or disease. The outcome is always
beneficial both to the being and environment.
The Sun's
energy rules us. The plants help in converting that energy into the food we
consume. In turn our excreta become the food of plants. Entire nature exists on
such principles known as ecological principles. They point out a network of
vibrant systems that support each other in a cyclical mechanism increasing in
value with every transaction. The output of one becomes the input of another.
The process helps in keeping the energy going at several levels and adding
value in the process.
The Moon
rules the mind. Its subtle forces guide us in various ways. The night is a time
for contemplation. The Yogis meditate at night. More important are the
intersections; break of dawn, peak afternoon, twilight and midnight. These are
points when the individual consciousness communicates with the universal
consciousness. These are the times best suited for prayer and the seeking of
spiritual knowledge from the universal. With the circadian rhythm we stay in
touch with the universal forces.
Man is
essentially a spiritual creature; the physical life is a tiny portion of an
entity whose vastness happens to be infinite. Philosophy points to a vastness
that science cannot touch with the senses. Quantum physics is confounding
because opposites can be true and mechanical laws do not apply. Logic loses its
relevance once the physical world is crossed and intuition takes over. That
intuition becomes supra intelligence when man agrees to probe the spiritual and
connects with it.
The doctor’s
job is to know and maintain the interconnections. To maintain the flow of
events that cyclically occur all around us. A healthy man leads to a healthy
environment and vice versa. Similarly an unhealthy person leads to a cycle of
disease that can affect both the individual and the community.
The world
is a mental construct. We leave an imprint according to our mental makeup. A
person healthy at all levels as a consequence of being connected is a boon to society and a disoriented person who has lost that connection is a
curse. A physician must discover health, be healthy at all levels and lead the
others towards health.
When this
entirety is known and practiced in essence one becomes one’s own doctor. The
spiritual guides help in molding the consciousness and help it in the path of
merging with the all pervading intelligent consciousness. This was why the early
ayurveds were hated and reviled. Though established in holism they brought in
the role of the body. The leaders knew this could lead to body consciousness
and thus opposed the physical crutch.
Today we
have come very far from that goal and are established in the material world.
But this too is a part of the cycle. Now that we are at the bottom the wheel
has started moving again swinging towards its upward journey. It is up to us to
be a part of that journey and aid the process or stick to our failed concepts
and become obstacles that will be thrown out by the wheel of time.
The choice
is ours.
I hope to
write more of my own internal journey and the body mind processes I noticed
when similarly provoked.
Looking
forward to such interactions.
With love
& regards,
Jagannath
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