However much you hate the idea, health remains YOUR responsibility

 

In the modern world taking responsibility for one’s health is a very tough job. Giving people genuine health advice even more so.

For the last 70 to 80 years people have learnt to depend on the pharmaceutical industry for their health. This dependency is so great that the very thought of ending it is unbearable.

This is coupled with the lack of knowledge of how to take care of oneself. Today health has been replaced with disease. The moment one thinks of disease one thinks of doctors, specialists, clinics, pathology labs, and hospitals. Why care about one’s health when an army of stakeholders is there pretending to take care of you?

Yet another impediment is the lack of choice, or the perceived lack of choice. With a plethora of modern medical set ups all decked up with gadgets, the thought of visiting a naturopath, ayurved, or homeopath seems prehistoric.

The expert in the white coat and stethoscope who becomes Mr Dependable and a beacon of hope does not deliver on the basis of his own knowledge, observation and experience but on what he is taught. The world has woken up to the reality that medical education is but the manipulative arm of the mighty pharmaceutical empire. It is a business proposal designed to perpetuate disease and sell products rather than teach about health and wellness.

At a point of time the cost factor used to force people to think of alternatives. Currently with the rise of income, health insurance is easy and makes one feel that costs are affordable, though the insurance only covers hospitalization and often getting reimbursement or total reimbursement is not easy. Insurance reimburses treatment cost; it does not guarantee the right approach.

There is another factor. The healthy person is not afraid of disease. He is confident about his health. But practically no one is healthy today. There is constant anxiety about health. The modern medical system takes advantage of this anxiety to instill fear and order various regular half and full body checkups that are but recruitment drive for its huge business empire. Just the stroke of a pen can push people towards doctors and hospitals, and once visited it becomes a routine affair.

Therefore people get annoyed when they come across genuine health advice. After all what can people do? They have developed blind faith. Blind faith can be very reassuring. It is very difficult to get over.

Modern medicine is extremely deceptive. It promises the world only to deliver the exact opposite. Millions of parents all over the globe, for example, today repent the routine visits to pediatricians they indulged in, the endless chain of vaccinations they administered to their children resulting in grave lifelong injury. They are repenting but what is done cannot be undone. Repentance is not a good choice.

Who are the people who are trying to replace blind faith with a knowledgeable and systematic inquiry?

Sadly these are the categories;

• People who have experienced the harm and the extreme pain that goes with it
• People who have closely watched their loved ones suffer excruciatingly
• People who have sought answers from the system and been ignored and abused
• People who have become bankrupt trying to treat themselves and their loved ones
• Doctors who have noticed the harm, tried to help, and been victimized themselves
• Healthcare workers who routinely observe the harm and know that they should remain silent about it
• Researchers who begin by trying to refute the harm but upon researching find to their horror that the victims are speaking the truth
• The rare journalists and media persons who want both sides of the story and then realize the extent of lies being perpetuated

It is not easy being in any one of the above categories. The burden of truth is very heavy and to witness the continuing harm is pure torture.

Is blind faith reassuring? Not as much as believed. There is a very thin line that separates complacency from the inevitable victimization. That one pill, one injection, one slice of a surgeon’s knife can change your life forever and lead to irreversible damage.

To experience pain and helplessness to the extent that is being experienced in the modern age is a terrible experience. Once into that stage one comes to know that the system is not only responsible but is unrepentant and on top has no idea or intent to reverse the process.

You may have heard of a friend or relative that has been administered chemotherapy. The process is romanticized. The patient is portrayed as a hero. However the person undergoing it lives the torture. It is only when post death the body is witnessed that people sense the pain the dead person has undergone.

Why be sick? Why suffer? Why undergo extreme pain? Why make life a burden? Why become impoverished paying medical bills? Why be traumatized by the experience? Why not live a healthy and happy life instead with a little knowledge and effort?

It is amazing how people can be antagonistic to the truth. Medicine is strongly portrayed to be infallible science. People feel guilty they are opposing science. Those practicing it have no way out; they are slaves to the wheel. Medicine is a huge business network. People in that network and benefiting from it will never seek the truth. Medicine is also the largest employer. Those employed, and those benefiting from that employment will always prefer to remain blind.

However even the above categories cannot escape disease and the associated painful experiences.

There is no harm in knowing and acknowledging the truth. A system that cannot be questioned and one that does not tolerate questions is not science. Science does not and cannot survive in a totally commercial set up. What is unscientific perpetuates and causes untold suffering and misery. The world is aflame with the consequences.

Those who have seen the film Matrix have an idea how this system operates. People are brainwashed into accepting the mainstream. The corrupted knowledge takes on a life of its own. It is this corrupted knowledge that reacts violently when the truth is presented to it.

In the Second World War the Japanese had perfected a technique. The prisoners were tortured into accepting the notion that their enemy is the friend and the friend the enemy. The experiment worked very well. Consequently when attempts were made to rescue them, the prisoners instinctively killed their own.

This world is similarly manipulated. Here the oppressor is the friend. Those trying to help are perceived to be the enemy. They are ignored and despised.

The world is being led by the pied piper of death. There appears to be no one that can stop the death march.