Seeing Western Medicine Accurately

As I always encourage, I am posting an article sent by Member Don Beckett written as a follow up to a recent article posted on The Secret Of Reiki.  Thank You Don for your insight and article, Namaste’

By Don Beckett  ReikiTheTrueStory.com / johreiki.net

This is a confirmation and extension of Kimberlee’s article “Reiki and Western Medicine.” To me, western medicine is absolutely a last-resort, life-or-death option (and I’m thankful to it for saving my life, at least a couple times!).  In life-or-death situations, drugs and/or surgery are sometimes the only things that can keep us in the physical body … but it’s important to realize the difference between such emergency provisions and real healing.

I think the only “problem” with western medicine is that it has come to be perceived as something it is not.  It does NOT heal anything.  Its only benefit is, in emergency situations, to keep us alive (through extreme measures) long enough that the body’s natural healing ability has time to function.

What western medicine does is to suppress the symptoms or effects of disease and injury.  This suppression is responsible for its life-saving function … and also responsible for its equally damaging effects when applied for long periods of time.  Drugs and surgery do not address the CAUSE of illness, and therefore cannot possibly heal it.  The best they can do is to keep the body alive long enough that it can overcome the damaging effects of the “medicine” and heal itself…!

It disturbs me that the drug industry has brainwashed people (including doctors) into taking (and prescribing) handfuls of pills every day!  Even the drug manufacturers admit that their pills don’t heal anything, that they merely suppress unpleasant symptoms (while often creating equally unpleasant and dangerous effects of their own) … but no one seems to connect the dots to where this leads!  The energetic effects of drugs are so extreme — almost unimaginably so! — That they cause great imbalance in the body.  They suppress the symptoms of disease by literally pushing the energy of the disease deep into the body and trapping it there!  People feel better, because the symptoms have been hidden; and they make the mistake of believing that the drugs have healed them.

Until recent years, this was not such a dangerous mistake.  When I was a child, for instance — and even after that — doctors did not generally prescribe a drug for extended periods of time.  Drugs were seen (accurately) as emergency measures; they were taken for relatively short times, only until the body could heal itself sufficiently that the suppression of symptoms was no longer necessary.  Then, without the continued intake of the drug, the body could heal the original disease and also (eventually) rid itself of the drug toxins.  But nowadays the whole strategy is to get as many people as possible taking as many drugs as possible, every day for the rest of their lives!  (Ka-ching, ka-ching — listen to the Song of the Cash Registers!!)

What people are not seeing in this picture (though I can’t imagine why) is that, after years of daily pill-taking, the body eventually breaks down to such a point that it can no longer hold the trapped and destructive energies of the mountains of pills that have been consumed.  These extreme energies finally break loose and create havoc in the body (and people say things like, “I don’t understand it — I haven’t been sick a day in the past 20 years, and now suddenly, overnight, my whole body is full of cancer!”) … and, at that point, nothing can overcome them.

Thanks to this campaign by the drug industry, it has now become a life-and-death matter that we not succumb to their brainwashing!  It’s crucial that we see western medicine for what it really is – extreme, emergency treatment – and that we use it only in that way.  Any pills taken for long periods of time will have unintended and dangerous consequences.  Therefore, it’s important that we take them for no longer than truly necessary – and that we incorporate things into our daily life that bring us true healing and balance.

We must realize that everything physical arises from the spiritual and that physical and spiritual cannot be separated (as long as we are functioning in a physical world, at least).  We must take responsibility for our own health – and one way of doing so is to incorporate into our daily life some practice that keeps us aware of our Source and real Self (which is the only source of true health).  My preferences in this respect have been Reiki, Johrei, and Macrobiotics – which, of course, are only 3 of countless options, all of which are merely pathways to the one and only goal, Self-realization.

Finally, I would like to address 2 other points mentioned in Kimberlee’s “Reiki and Western Medicine” article: human lifespan, and viruses and bacteria.
We are often told that modern medicine has dramatically increased human lifespan; that, just a few hundred years ago, the average lifespan was only 40-some years!  While this may be statistically true, it’s often asserted to give a very false impression.  The key word here is average.  The average lifespan was 40-some years – not because most people only lived that long, but because great numbers of people lived only 1 year or less!  Before certain sanitation practices were widely established, the infant mortality rate was gigantic – and, for example, in a population of 100 people, if 50 of those people die at age 1 and the other 50 live to be 100 … the average lifespan is only 50.5 years!

So, the fact is, most people hundreds of years ago were living just as long as most people today.  I would even say, their lives were generally healthier than ours.  Their world was exponentially less polluted, their lives were so much simpler, and most of them were more aware of the connection to their spiritual Source.  And they did not end their lives addicted to pills and invaded by mechanical contraptions.  (And, if we look way far back in history, we find accounts of people routinely living to the age of several hundred years!)

As for bacteria and viruses: Beyond the undeniable fact that modern medicine has been responsible for exponentially increasing the number and the vitality of them, I’ll say only that the very nature of bacteria and viruses – their place in the real scheme of life – is misunderstood by most people.  Here’s a link to a further explanation of this — http://usui-reiki.johreiki.net/Reiki_Questions.php.  On that page, if you click on Question #3 (about viral disease), you’ll see an answer that may surprise you….

Sharing with Love n Lite,

Kimberlee Cusumano
Reiki Master Teacher/Intuitive Communications