Healthy Body

"There is no illness of the body apart from the mind." - Socrates

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The reductionist practitioners of modern medical science have it partly right. The body is a sort of machine. It's a machine like the one you're staring at right now, smitten and mesmerized. Your computer.

Your body is the physical apparatus which feeds into and is run by your brain. The answer to understanding the function or dysfunction of the body is to understand the operation of the brain. This is what I do as a healer. I'm pretty good at it, even though I flunked CS102 in university (I couldn't figure out what the command prompt meant).

The trick to knowing how to heal the body is the same trick the computer maintenance people have to figure out: you've got to address the user. We are not computers having a spiritual experience, we're spirits having a computer experience.

For every computer, there has to be a user, a programmer. Otherwise, it's just a hunk of plastic and viscera and stuff. If you don't talk to the computer's owner and help her make some conscious choices about how to use her computer properly, there will be no "healing." It's the same with the wet system. Medical doctors will be much more successful if and when they first start thinking of patients as conscious operators, and, second, learn how the brain works in relation to the body. In order to achieve healing, we have to accept the brain as something other than a lump of goo that somehow makes us "smart."

I love the brain. The human brain's complexity is beyond anything anyone can imagine. It has the capacity to give us enough information quickly enough that we can grasp what is really going on, make judgments about how to improve our reality, and then set about making choices and taking action.

Then the unimaginably-complex human brain's complexity increases to a further unbelievable level because each human brain has been designed to confer with up to a maximum of 150 other inconceivably-complex human brains, and that unfathomably-complex uber-brain pulls together all its data and conjecture and comes up with a workable solution to an even bigger version of reality. A solution that betters the lives of all 150 people involved.

We know that those solutions are workable and based on a grasp of reality, because if they weren't, the species wouldn't exist.

Now we're in a strange time. With the advent of our culture (now global society) around 10,000 years ago in the Near East, some subtle changes began to happen in our ability to solve problems. We began leaving more and more of our decision-making to those in authority, while we went about our business doing simple things, following the herd, providing stability to civilization... leaving the hard work of grasping reality to the "experts." Our tribes have been broken for hundreds of generations.

Those subtle changes have been accumulating and accelerating with the accelerated growth of civilized human population until we have the situation as it is today: a fantastic rift between the way most of us live our lives and the lifeway with which human beings have evolved.

The healing knowledge discussed on this website represent ideas new only to those of us living at the tail-end of industrial empire, which happens to be about 95% of the people on the planet. The ideas, however, aren't particularly new to humanity itself. They've just been forgotten.