Table of Contents (this page)
- Introduction. (14.1)
- Gods concentrate on… (14.2)
- We focus and emphasize ‘not weak’. (14.3)
- Big medicine belongs to the gods. (14.4)
- And humans? (14.5)
- The Body Matters. (14A)
- Does the body matter? (14.6)
- The body is an ‘other’. (14.7)
- Your body as your partner in life. (14.8)
- The body as ‘sacred’. (14.9)
- Wellness. (14.10)
- The ‘what plants need to grow best’ metaphor. (14.12)
- ‘Health’ or ‘sickness’? (14.13)
- Our immune system. (14.14)
- TISPing the body. (14.15)
- ‘Heading things off at the pass’. (14.19)
- Building health. (14B)
- Introduction. (14.20)
- The medical world belongs to gods. (14.21)
- The ‘big med’ message. (14.22)
- What about ‘scientific’? (14.23)
- Being ‘scientific’. (14.24)
- Diet, lifestyle and environment, and medical teaching. (14.28)
- Diet, lifestyle and environment. (14.29)
- What diet? (14.30)
- Diet, region and metabolism. (14.31)
- Metabolism. (14.35)
- Blood pH. (14.36)
- Those ‘minor’ problems. (14.38)
- The commercial imperative. (14.41)
- Conclusion to Chapter 14. (14.42)
Part IV, Chapter 14. BODY MATTERS. (14)
“It’s easy to look on responsibilities as a burden; but the better we get at fulfilling them, the freer we become to enjoy everything else.” Eric Francis
This chapter has 2 sections,
THE BODY MATTERS. (14A)
BUILDING HEALTH. (14B)
Introduction. (14.1)
The aim of this chapter is to explain how and why the body matters and how to TISP it for our own benefit. This is empowering for anyone who wants to look after their own health themself.
Our pursuit of godship totally affects our current way of looking at life, hence it affects our attitude towards our health and how we look after our body.
To recap on godship… (See also Part III.)
Gods are, by their own definition, (and they call the rules) Intelligent, Strong (powerful), Competent and Hard-working, (naturally). Being a god means ‘success’ in life, and hence, Self-Esteem.
Peons are defined by gods as ‘not gods’ and Stupid, Weak, Incompetent, and Lazy. Being a peon means ‘failure’ in life and hence, no Self-Esteem. Peons hate being peons because it does awful things to their Self-Esteem, and they fear it greatly, as well as being very cross about it, but it is also true that gods greatly fear being considered a peon and use godship as a reassurance that they are not a peon. They know no other possibility and will fight to the death to retain their own assurance/self-esteem, which although it might feel better than ‘peon’ is actually a False Self-Esteem. (FSE) – See Chapter 12.
This godship outlook is the Superiority/Inferiority Caper of judgement and fear in its full glory, with no love/TISP anywhere to be seen, as I have argued throughout this book.
Godship is the way that we stay split internally and unable to give Life or TISP to our Inner Self or to others. We give our authority to our gods and continue to worship them – we trust them, do as we are told and model our behaviour on them.
Notice that godship has no concept of ‘human’ and what humans could do; it’s all judging whether that human is a god or a peon as to whether we take notice of them. The trouble is that anybody trying to be simply human is labelled a peon anyway, mostly because the majority of the population are peons as defined by more powerful gods. However much women do not like this fact, it affects their lives a lot.
Gods concentrate on… (14.2)
- Strength, ie, physically fit and powerful, and so we have the great fitness industry, along with its ‘superfoods’ and body-building ethos.
- Youth, beauty, and immortality, and so we have the great beauty industry.
- Authority, so they can tell you what to do, and you will ‘buy’ it, and,
- Avoiding Effort, as in, no Chopping Wood or Carrying Water (CWCW) here because that’s in the definition of peon. A lot of our technology is about avoiding the effort of the mundane, viz. our ‘Till and Keep’. Apparently, Jung used to say that man’s greatest passion is laziness.
We focus and emphasize ‘not weak’. (14.3)
A primary problem with the gods’ definition of godship is the word ‘Weak’ which is part of the peon attributes; any problem with the body or the emotions puts us in the ‘weak’ category, and that makes us a peon (horrors! because it is). So, we do our absolute darndest to avoid said category, and therefore the emphasis is entirely upon denying/suppressing any ‘weakness’, while at the same time trying to find as much strength and fitness as we can manage, as a way of keeping out of the ‘peon’ category, although too bad if you can’t get fit. So, in health matters we suppress symptoms as much as we possibly can, which is our primary emphasis in our godship ‘health’ system. We are also quite sure that exercise is the key to all health and fitness matters, but there are many factors to health, and we don’t seem to consider the other factors very much if at all. To put it another way, all ‘weakness’ is a death to our efforts at godship and our potential self-esteem, which sounds like a complete exaggeration, but it explains so much of people’s reactions and behaviour.
But as we leave out and suppress the body and the emotions, we end up treating the body as a kind of robot or car, and leaving out our emotions leaves us Soul-less, which is a primary problem in our society. We also lose our own abilities to observe and notice life and our own bodies, including what we do to ourselves, especially in the pursuit of godship. In this we are dismissing our own natural abilities and we dehumanize and disempower ourselves.
Big medicine belongs to the gods. (14.4)
Our entire medical health system, which I will refer to as Big Medicine (Big Med for short) is part of the STEM scientific/academic branch of the gods, (STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine) all of whom are gods by definition, and work hard at staying that way. Gods only listen to other gods, not peons, and that means they take no notice of normal human experience whether past or present, or even other cultures, and no notice of anything that is not in their mentor god’s experience or learning. Of course, there are exceptions, but the media does its thing as well, and you will need to search for yourself to find otherwise.
And humans? (14.5)
But, if you want to be human, and to heal that inner split so that you will feel healed, you have to take notice of your body and your emotions because they are part of your unconscious, your InSelf. And this part of ourselves is always thought of as ‘weak’, which is a judgement, which is where the difficulty lies, because the whole of this book is pointing out (among other things) that your unconscious is not ‘weak‘ – it’s actually running the show! Healing your internal split means making friends with your unconscious, and treating it as equal in importance to you, and your body is your instrument for doing that. Hence your body matters; you cannot get to ‘human’ without it.
Wanting to be human and creative and building your health does not actually fit into our normal godship ‘health’ system. You will need to go ‘outside’ our godship Big Med if such things matter to you, and educate yourself, and do your own research to boot, but there is the Internet. In our current society this also means that if you aim at being human you are likely to be judged by others as being in the peon category which your ‘ego’ will not like at all, but all ‘spiritual’ teachings tell you to get rid of your ego anyway, and this is one major reason why.
The Body Matters. (14A)
Does the body matter? (14.6)
‘Spiritual’ religions imply that it doesn’t. Spirit (defined in Part I as the spirit part of you) considers the body a blasted nuisance and a trap and a punishment, and wants to escape; hence our religions all thinking of life on earth as punishment for ‘sinning’. But we also have teachings about ‘treat the body as a temple and sacred to you’ so what’s that about?
We need the body for…
- Sorting out what is fact and what is theory. There is a difference between theory and practice, and we need to notice the difference and think about why. Spirit does not notice, while Soul does. Spirit will never learn to Serve the Soul, unless it has a body, (which is ultimately for its (Spirit’s) own good anyway). We learn to give Life to the other as Spirit learns to Serve the Soul, and giving Life is our Flowering.
- Sorting out ‘the bottom line’, you might say. Another way to think of this is ‘boundaries’ or what you value and what you don’t. it’s about what is important to you, what matters and what doesn’t. Only you know this, and it’s your body that helps you find out. These first 2 points are closely related.
Notice that in this age of bombardment with information we may or may not need for our lives, we need to have very good filters for ourselves about what is important or we will end up overwhelmed with ‘stuff’ of not much use to us and simply stay unsatisfied. Everything that we hear from gods has a ‘spin’ on it because you are always being ‘sold’ something, but listening to them and thinking they must know leaves you ‘spinning’ and conflicted with not knowing what’s right or wrong, and then it’s very difficult to navigate life for your own needs. But your body can tell you, but you do need to ask it (and nicely helps).
- Talking to God. It’s your body that is perceiving this ‘still, small voice’ inside you and/or the numinous within you or around you, however you perceive this, and helps you define that this is not you that’s doing this ‘talking to you’. Otherwise you won’t know. And I consider that ‘talking to God’ is one of the things that humans want a lot.
All of these things matter to us human beings.
The body is an ‘other’. (14.7)
But the body is an ‘other’ to you. We think and assume that our body is ‘us’, as in, our own conscious, and that we have control over it, and make it do as we wish. But anybody who has been sick/ill in some way has found that this is not so. We cannot will ourselves to get well. If you don’t get sick you are unlikely to find out, which is ostensibly very lucky for you, but many healthy people are somewhat arrogant to those who aren’t, (the ‘weakness’ thing) and really have no idea of the troubles/trials of compromised health.
We expect our body to serve us, and rarely understand that we need to serve our own body, ie, it’s the other way around.
Our body is part of our unconscious which is a fact that we can use by letting the body ‘tell’ us about our unconscious. It (the body) is also part of Life itself and that can also be useful if we will notice it. It’s our ‘clay’ or ‘earth’ and is directly connected to all other beings made of the same ‘clay’. This is something we don’t consider at all in our great modern society, but is probably related to God’s instruction to Adam to ‘return to the dust’, (as a method for coping with getting chucked out of the Garden of Eden – See Addendum 2. But notice that it may also be a good method for getting back in!).
Hence, notice what your body has to say to you about God, Life and your inner self (GLS).
Your body as your partner in life. (14.8)
It is useful to you to think of your body as a partner in your life who has things to tell you about yourself. Your body’s problems can actually tell you about issues that you have which are held in your unconscious, as in, you don’t know about them, but that does not mean they are not there.
The body wants to tell you its truth about itself and ‘how life is’ for it, but its ‘language’ is different from the normal conscious. It’s a bit like dealing with a small child with no vocabulary, so you learn to use the body’s signs and symptoms to tell you what these issues are. There are several writers who address what these signs and symptoms mean, as a method for you to understand what’s going on in your unconscious. See Hay (1988) and Noontil (1998. Many people use these ‘translations’ to help themselves work out what to do about their problems. Being able to ‘translate’ these signs and symptoms makes it easier to address these issues and hopefully be more aware of them. But, once again, these things are definitely ‘under the radar’ of normal awareness. We all have issues in life and it is a big help to know what they are and clear them. When we have cleared out an issue it always gives us more energy to face life and explore, rather than needing/using that energy to keep the issue out of our awareness. We tend not to like our ‘issues’ and avoid looking at them, but that avoidance uses up our energy, so that it seems to take energy from us. Avoiding looking at things uses nearly as much energy as not avoiding, but we feel heavier as we avoid the problem/issue.
As we need our body for those things that matter very much to us, so the body matters a lot. Hence, we have the injunction to treat the body as sacred.
The body as ‘sacred’. (14.9)
Treating the body as sacred or as a temple. Well, what does that mean?
- We care for it and care enough about it to look after it, protecting it from being damaged or hurt, and also treat it as valuable to us, however we wish to do that. Keeping it comfortable, attractive and well, and wanting what it can bring to us. We also protect it from the detrimental, including our own negative emotions.
- In fact, we are giving it Time, Interest, Sustain and Protect, ie, TISP, (that again) so that this ‘temple’ is well-kept, and in so doing, we are able to carry out those things that we wish to do in life.
Another way to think about looking after our body is as a musician looks after their instrument. Basically, very carefully, knowing that the music they play is dependent on that instrument being well. Our life is about how we play our instrument and what we use it for. It’s our choice what to do with it; good, bad or indifferent, but all musicians look after their instrument very well if they want to play music. Playing music is a form of self-expression which has been defined as ‘Flowering’ in this book. (See Chapter 8.) The more we are well, the more we can Flower. Hence, the goal is Well-ness so we can Flower. As we are well, so we can Flower. It is also true that the more we can Flower, the more well we are able to become if that is what we wish. (I am not talking about permanent incapacities here. I am talking about your choices while you are still in a position to choose. Neither are incapacitated people unable to Flower.) Most of us have some choice in our wellness as to whether we can be bothered making the effort. An example of this sort of effort is that if we need to refrain from alcohol if we wish to be well, we might not bother. Most people do not wish to consider that what they ingest affects their health; this is part of not wanting to notice, or take responsibility.
Notice that your body does not actually like being unwell and will protest. It does not like feeling poisoned and hung over from too much alcohol; ditto smoking, and it coughs. It is your conscious (your ‘you’) that ‘likes’ these things, not your body. It makes it clearer if you work out what you consciously get out of smoking, eg, social interaction, or some-such, and then work out if you can find another form of what you want without the bodily cost. if your body is unhappy, you will lack the energy to look for what you are truly wanting.
The metaphor of Flowering is that it comes when the plant has enough energy to divert some of it from growth or maintenance to flowering. A primary path to Flowering is through wellness and we get to wellness by TISPing the Body.
Wellness. (14.10)
How then do we define wellness? If we are well, we have the energy to explore and express, and to flower.
But wellness is actually an Inner state or an inner energy. We can look well externally but need to be well internally to maintain wellness externally. We place great importance on looking well, but may not have the strength or fortitude to continue to do so over our whole lifetime. But we as part of society ignore this inner state of our mental and emotional wellbeing almost completely, along with the spiritual/intuitive. Yet a primary requirement for being able to continue with life is an understanding or belief about why you are here, that actually keeps you happy internally. Otherwise you will not be able to be happy about having a life on earth, and unhappiness/discontent in this energy department ‘poisons’ life for us because there is no point, and simply fear. And Notice that we have a lot of poisons in our environment. (ML; the external reflects the internal.)
We also need wellness for our immune system to work properly, as in, vaccines may not function fully if we are not well. We are really losing sight of this fact, and our wellness level in our society is dropping, as our ballooning health budgets attest, so then we try to vaccinate more, which costs more, while at the same time not looking at whether our strategies are working or not – (of course they’re working, so we don’t need to look! Yes, well, all very scientific, I’m sure. Just because this looks, sounds and behaves like a belief system does not mean that it is; does it?)
What is the difference between wellness and not having sickness/illness/disease? (14.11)
We actually get this difference mixed up by assuming that ‘wellness’ is simply not being sick, and our emphasis goes to avoiding illness/weakness. This is partly because of the extra pressure of our godship judging on our ‘weakness’ and hence our abilities to be part of the godship world. Sorting out these differences is best explained using another Plant Metaphor.
The ‘what plants need to grow best’ metaphor. (14.12)
This is a metaphor about how we grow plants and what we are expecting when we grow them.
If we want them to do well, as in, grow and flower and fruit as well as possible, as in, to reach their fullest potential, we provide…
- Clean air, water and soil, with the proper sunlight conditions. No poisons, heavy metals or chemical residues, including from us, mucking these up. Hence, we avoid using any chemicals, and adding to the problem. And clean means the actual, by any measure, 100% clean. (And why did I have to put that in?)
- The correct pH for the plant, or as close as possible.
- The right food for the plant providing maximum nutrition for the plant. Plants particularly like fertilizers that come from manures or broken down or rotted life forms, eg, compost and blood and bone.
- Good soil which is healthy and has plenty of worms, microorganisms and humus all feeding the plant.
- Proper support for its growth and root structure, with protection from the elements.
- Companion plants along with exposure to helpful elements in nature; insects, birds that eat pests, etc. Hence, we find ways to encourage such things, which also adds to the diversity.
- Protection from competition from other plants.
The better and stronger the growth, the more resilient the plant, and the more resistance there will be to insects, fungi, competition from weeds and so on. However, all of this takes Time and Interest in the plant and its needs for maximum growth plus the Effort to carry this out, ie, we are Serving the plant, which we do for our own sakes. Lovely flowers and/or beautiful tasting vegies and fruit all feed and sustain us.
If we don’t know or are not interested in what plants need, or don’t want the effort, plants can end up on any sort of deficient or poisoned soil, in any sort of position, pH, or exposure, with whatever sort or amount of water, air and so on. And they don’t grow very well or thrive, and flowers are diminished or deformed, and fruit accordingly.
So, out come the chemicals; sprays for whatever, fungi, insects, weeds; extra fertilizers which may have some of the basic nutrients for the plant, but will not have all of them. But all of this is trying to ‘fix’ problems after they arise, often referred to as “locking/bolting the door after the horse has gone”. There is no understanding of what the plant needs to be really well, and these conditions have not been given to the plant in the first place. Or if we do understand, it’s too expensive or time consuming or too much effort, and gods hate effort.
But, all of this ‘fixing’ is not actually making the plant grow to be fully well. Maybe there’ll be less fungi, aphids etc. and maybe some flowering, but not to the plant’s maximum potential. The conditions and nutrients are simply not there while the growing plant needs them.
However, it takes a lot less Time and Interest to grow this sort of plant, so it seems easier to do. After all plants should just grow and do what they’re told – like us. We are expecting the plant to just do as we want.
Plants are grown commercially within a similar mindset. Money, effort and time are drivers here and as little as possible for all of them. In general, it’s the basic needs for the plant to look OK that are attended to here. Soils become flogged and overworked; superphosphate can make plants look OK but does not necessarily ensure their maximum nutrition. No worms or microorganisms and no humus; the pH may be incorrect, and so on. Plants can look alright, but may not be 100% alright, and in general simply do not taste as good as those that have reached a much greater potential.
Lots of chemicals are used in commercial production, antifungals, insecticides, weedkillers, etc, and these chemicals can become incorporated into the plant itself, all because it is easier for the grower, who is in fact being remorselessly squeezed in this commercial world.
Hence, the plant may be unable to provide full nutrition for you. It is also likely to provide you with chemicals that use up some of your body’s own nutrients as said body tries to detox said chemicals and get rid of them, if it can, hopefully.
The argument here is that plants grown with their full needs in mind are far more likely to reach their fullest potential, while plants placed anyhow with the assumption that they will just grow are far less likely to do so. Getting these plants to their full potential is not ‘luck’. Plants reaching their full potential will be well, and have a well-ness and a vitality in them, not to mention, look and taste better. This is the proof – the down-to-earth, practical ‘what is’ and notice that humans do better when plants are better. Plants needing ‘luck’ may or may not do as well, and we won’t take much notice anyway unless they are not so good, ie, getting sick.
‘Health’ or ‘sickness’? (14.13)
Our health system is exactly like this in that we focus on repressing and fixing things that are ‘sick’. We really seem not to know how to work towards Wellness, and simply assume that everything is OK until it is flagrantly not. This is in the face of a staggering level of poisoning throughout our environment, and our arrogance in thinking that this will have no effect on us or our children, while rates of various disabilities for children increase and are ignored as ‘fate/genetics’ and nothing to do with our attitudes to life or health.
Hence, socially we actually have a ‘sickness’ system, where it is ‘fate/genetics’ or ‘God’ who has dumped this problem on us, and we’ll fix it with whatever chemical (or mechanical technique) we have to hand, (‘cos we’re so clever) and then assume that we will get well, but we don’t, and no-one takes any notice, because it’s ‘fate’ and so on and on… We go on and on looking at how to ‘fix’ these things while ignoring or even touting the actual causes of these problems. We are focussing on the problems that essentially come out of our failure to look at how we are messing up the Earth and ourselves, mainly because many of our problems are caused by godship and the way gods look at life as a power and money game that they ‘win’.
This is an extremely costly system, and getting more expensive all the time, and still we cannot see that we are not focussing on health or wellness but on illness and not being sick/weak. We are very afraid of being sick/weak, but will not look at or do what is required to be fully well; so what’s going on? I look at this question below. See Chapter 14B.
Our immune system. (14.14)
What does our immune system want so that it can work at its best?
Well, we actually do know that we need…
- Diet. Clean, nutritious, chemical/poison-free food that has not been processed commercially. And we need a clean environment for growing clean food.
- Home. A stable and reasonably secure living space that includes peace and quiet and routine.
- Emotional support, which you are more likely to get if your support people are not stressed off their scones.
- Fulfilling Lifestyle; your life has purpose and meaning, and you have some satisfactions in life, generally through your ability to be creative and ‘give Life to ‘the other”.
- Sustaining reasons for life, otherwise you won’t bother to make the effort needed for the previous points because they all require Effort on somebody’s part.
And, in fact these look a lot like the Soul’s needs, because they are the Body’s needs.
And notice that almost all of these needs come under the category of Diet, Lifestyle and Environment, which just shows you how important all of these are to your ongoing health.
Your immune system will work much better if you have this sort of wellness, and we know this, but it’s not happening. There’s this tacit assumption that of course, in our modern society everybody is well, but how can we be if our rates of ‘peculiar problems’ including mental, physical and emotional disabilities in children as well as plenty of other types of problems are vastly increasing? And the answer is that I suspect no-one is looking, but why don’t we? More below.
If we want Wellness and an effective Immune System, we achieve this by giving TISP to our body, so what would that involve?
TISPing the body. (14.15)
If we are TISPing the body, we are caring about it enough to Care For it properly, similar to looking after a child. We notice it, we are interested in it, we listen to it, and we give it the time and allow for its needs; in fact, we Serve it. We endeavour to meet those needs, and Sustain it and Protect it. And we enjoy it (the body) and what it can do while remembering that it’s part of the InSelf, not the outself. This ‘looking after’ is similar to how a mother who has the time and notices her child day-to-day (hopefully), actually gives TISP in the practical to the child to ‘head things off at the pass’. Addressing and looking after small issues now can prevent bigger problems later.
Time and interest. (14.16)
How much do we give Time or Interest to our body? We tend to treat it like a car and fix it like a car, as in, entirely mechanical with no internal workings or feelings etc. We feed it processed/commercial food because we lack the time or energy to cook properly or make it from scratch. We don’t even have the time to notice that commercial food has many addictive qualities and that the circumstances of our life-styles also make this food addictive. Hence, changing these addictive patterns means changing one’s lifestyle as well as what is ingested.
We generally only look at the body when it is ill and has stopped us from doing what we want. Then we might have the time, but that is when we turn to Big Med to ‘fix it’ and get us back on the normal ‘godship wheel’ again. We completely ignore our emotions, or our beliefs and values, or our internal sensations, and in fact society is fairly crippled in terms of actually knowing what to do about them anyway, other than suppressing them. This cannot be otherwise if society has no concept of the unconscious or what it is and does and why. But, as I explained in Part I, we are ignoring our life and our roots (which are our internal energy departments) and will not be able to grow into our potential.
In fact, the ideal is to get off that ‘godship wheel’ altogether, but that takes time, and the attitude of asking your body, and your unconscious, what is it that makes your heart ‘sing’, and most people do not know, but godship is not the answer. So, the primary question is ‘what does your body want from you’?, giving it the time for it to answer this, (after it has collapsed in shock because you actually asked). And also notice what it wants and does daily; lots of little things – what matters to it, etc, as in, you are interested in it enough to notice and take the time to be patient.
Sustain. (14.17)
Sustain is actually an internal need; see Chapter 7B. This means that you are the one that needs to know what it is that sustains you, simply because different people have different answers, and their answers may or may not work for you.
Of primary importance is the question of how we sustain ourselves in the face of life? If we don’t know, it becomes increasingly difficult to be bothered continuing on. This question belongs in the Internal Spiritual/Inspiritive energy department which society tends to ignore (See Chapter 3). It’s a question of increasing importance in the second half of life. All the energy departments are intertwined but this one is key, because it affects you at such a deep level. What is the point of keeping on if there is no point?
We know that love and our social contacts and ‘tribe’ are all very important, but you will need to do your own defining of what ‘love’ and ‘social’ and ‘tribe’ mean to you because we are all different. Your body may or may not agree with others, and this question of Sustain is about how you love your body enough to want to make the effort to Serve it, and take notice of it and what it ‘says’. If your social life makes you physically ill/sick afterwards, there is probably a problem; your body does not like being sick. Also, addictions or obsessions/compulsions are generally a warning sign that in some way you are not feeling sustained in life.
Doing what is ‘right for you’ is actually very sustaining for you. Hence, the value of finding what that ‘right’ actually is. Strangely enough truth, beauty and clarity are all sustaining and all of them apply in all of the energy departments. The Treasure Tool (See Chapter 16.) is very useful for this.
Hence if you were to consider Sustaining yourself through the four different Energy Departments.
Food and the Physical energy department.
If our fuel cannot sustain us, we cannot continue in the long term.
You are better off if your food has a truth about it, and you know what that is. This means it is clean in all ways, inside and out; no chemicals, additives and so on. Prepare your food with care and respect and look after it properly. It’s no good if food and its preparation is a boring nuisance to you, or you’ve lost your sense of taste. Real food tastes much better, but it ‘goes off’ more quickly too. Hence there’s more effort in looking after it.
Being clear about physically looking after your body and what its needs are is also about facing the truth of yourself. Sustaining yourself properly does give an inner light which is visible to those who can see.
Your thinking; the Mental.
Your thoughts and your emotions are completely intertwined.
You will be far better off if your thinking is also aiming at truth, beauty and clarity. All our stories to ourselves stop us living life in a sustaining way; inspecting our stories for their truth helps us work out what we really want. Both anger and fear stop your ability to think clearly, so both need to be addressed and cleared. ‘Attacking’ (anger with fear) thoughts about others are simply attacking yourself (Mirror Laws) so you don’t want them. And it’s certainly easier to feel sustained if you are not fearful of whatever.
Emotions.
Your emotions are your rudders; you want them working properly if you want to get to what is right for you.
The idea is to actually think about your emotions and sort out what works and what doesn’t in terms of this business of ‘living right’, ie, following your Path with Heart. This can take a while, so allow for that.
Protect. (14.18)
We think of protecting our body as protecting it from nature and life which ‘attack’ us all the time. But we don’t consider that we need to protect our body from our own expectations. Protecting Life/Nature from us humans would help us too (ML).
We tend to equate fitness with wellness but an emphasis on fitness alone does not mean wellness. It may mean strength (and control) which is part of our godship world but it may also mean pushing the body and exploiting it rather than serving it.
Our primary expectation from our body is that it is a car/vehicle that can get us to godship, so we exploit it and others to do so. But this is an exploitation of our own body, which is not looking for godship ‘per se’ at all. It wants TISP and that’s what it loves. It wants you to allow it to be human and meet its demands/needs which are as individual as any instrument, hence, you get to work out what these needs actually are, and then how to address them as well as doing it. This means you have to take it into consideration in the first place.
It wants you to be careful of it and look after it and watch over it. Increasing your wellness will protect you from needing Big Med at all. Hence,
- Minimize bangs or bumps or exposure to risks of hurt or damage
- Minimize exposure to mean people or demeaning or unsafe work or workplaces.
- Kept safe from the environment, which includes protecting it from chemicals as much as possible; ditto dirt and mess and their consequences.
- Kept clean and protected from bugs, as in, clean home and clothing, etc.
- Using natural methods for health and healing will protect it from the side effects of pharmaceuticals.
So, once again, you need to educate yourself as to what you need for well-ness and how you can fulfill this as simply and easily as possible.
One of our current ideas of ‘protect’ is our version of prevention of serious acute illnesses by vaccination. But vaccination has serious side effects for some, about which we will probably quarrel forever while no-one will pay for any unbiased studies. Should we be using anything that has serious side effects for anyone – ever? But we’re beginning to look at these ‘weaklings’ as ‘collateral damage’ – how charming and how ‘human’ (not!). We are also not looking at the problem of the immune response to these vaccines. Not only does vaccination not necessarily protect you, but vaccinations are being done without a full understanding of exactly what is in them and how or if they are actually working as we think they should. We are not looking, and it costs to look. On the other hand, it has cost some people some dreadful consequences, but we don’t and won’t count them because they are peons and always get it wrong anyway. We have hints throughout history that other factors for illness are in play, and it might be wise to consider what they might be, but we do not look at our history, which is also part of our godship ignoring of history as ‘we know better now’. Godship never looks after others, and especially not ‘losers’ – eugenics anyone?
‘Heading things off at the pass’. (14.19)
This is part of ‘watching out’ and ‘watching over’. It’s called prevention. We really like the idea of angels watching over us, but this must take them an awful lot of time; hopefully they don’t get bored. We certainly don’t want to spend the time doing it for ourselves. Hopefully we’ll do it for our children, but the point is that it takes time, and in general we don’t like spending time on non-godship things. We tend to ignore all signs and symptoms and carry on and hope it will all go away; we want to be ‘strong’ and not ‘weak’. We won’t notice the ‘small’ things and simply belittle them. But, as others have pointed out, the little warning lights in your car are not there for you to ignore, they’re there for you to do something about them. But we are terribly prone to let everything build up until it’s too big and we’re in heaps of trouble. Some of this is about not admitting that we are ‘weak’, but the whole business of looking after your body correctly is to find your internal ‘well-ness’ which means ditching the whole horror of godship and finding out how to be human, (and by that I mean accepting your own ‘weaknesses’ and addressing them – which actually makes them a strength, but who knows that?).
Another part of our ignoring is that prevention and ‘watching out’ are considered ‘boring’ and routine, not to mention effort. And nothing happens! Well, that’s the point, but it’s more exciting if it does (and if you’re not ‘alive’ you might want some stimulation) – yes, well, but not peaceful.
Some of this ignoring is also about the remedies we use to manage the ‘small’ stuff, especially those remedies that have few side effects and do us no harm. But, many of the remedies that are far kinder to the body are categorized as ‘unscientific’ and therefore beyond the pale. This really narrows down the range of remedies that we can use as tools in our health ‘arsenal’, and leaves us rather hamstrung in terms of addressing our problems before they escalate. This is in both the physical and the mental/emotional energy departments.
But, in general we don’t do much of this ‘watching out’ and TISPing ourselves, otherwise I wouldn’t have to write about it. So, why not? None of this chapter is earth-shattering; heaps of people try to say the same thing. It’s a bit like we all say we want a peaceful world while it becomes anything but. We have this fear of ‘illness and weakness’, and focus on how to avoid that, but it is not making us well, and we refuse to understand what is required to be well. In the same manner no amount of analyzing all the ways we are miserable helps us to be happy.
Solving the problem takes effort, and godship doesn’t like effort, and likes to think that others should be doing that for them; the toxic part being that gods expect peons to do that. In fact, none of us really likes effort very much. I suspect we need to have good reasons to look after ourselves and others and give TISP, and these ‘reasons’ have to have point and meaning for each of us because these are the ‘meanings/reasons’ that sustain us in these efforts. Basically, unless our heart is in it, we won’t keep on keeping on.
But we live in a godship system, and that deeply affects the judgement of how we build health, as in, how we go about it and what we use for it.
Do we have the knowledge and remedies that can actually build health?
Well, of course we do. It’s diet, lifestyle and environment as well as all those vitamins and minerals and natural substances heartily condemned by our gods as dangerous and/or useless and unnecessary.
Our social condemnation of natural remedies that could help us fulfill our wish for well-ness by building our health leaves us more stuck in our ‘sickness’ system, but we seem to be losing this understanding of how to build health rather than deal with sickness. Remember, godship makes money out of our ‘illness’ – always – that’s the point! Hence, I consider it wise to understand how and why we do this ‘throwing away’ type of condemnation, especially of the more natural remedies as well as the nutritional information we already have available for building health.
I address this business of building health in the next section, and it is a bit of a business, ie, it’s effort.
Building health. (14B)
Introduction. (14.20)
The aim of this section is to explain how we have got to our current ‘sickness’ system, as in, why aren’t we focussing on building health, and are we losing our ability to understand how much we can do for ourselves, if we want to. As we understand what we are actually doing, so we can focus on what we need to do for ourselves and our own health.
Our society is awash with these attitudes toward illness.
- It’s all ‘fate’ or ‘luck’ or the ‘sickness fairy’ or God really; illness and disease are things that ‘drop out of the sky’ or someone has ‘given it to me’; it’s all genetics and nothing can be done about that. I am powerless and it’s not my fault, ie, victim, as in, no responsibility and ‘poor me’. I am a victim of life which is out to get me. Life is against us all, and we blame it for our troubles.
- Our environment doesn’t matter very much. In general, it’s OK and doesn’t affect us.
- Most people eat a good diet; most processed food is OK; diet and lifestyle will not really be able to change our ‘fatedness’ for whatever happens to us.
This kind of thinking really disempowers us all and leaves us not knowing where to look or what to address, but one of the things we can do is ask where our gods come from and how do we grow them? These gods are actually humans who have been able to reach a very high potential. And many people know perfectly well how to do that for their children.
The medical world belongs to gods. (14.21)
To get through the Medical course to practice Medicine you need to be mentally, physically and emotionally well through to your mid-20s at least, and longer for any specialties, which means that your genetic physical and intellectual inheritance is very good and that you have been fed correctly by a healthy mother in a stable and supportive environment for at least a generation. No major illnesses or problems and nothing ‘hand to mouth’ here. The more money in the family, the more likely you are to get into and through this punishingly long and difficult course. The more you get to study the less you will be involved in having to get the food or anything to do with cooking or housework; more so if you are male.
To spell this out, this means…
- There is a highly stable routine for 25 years or so at least. A clean, quiet and peaceful environment means the time to study, and the support to do so. Good quality nutritious food generally made within the household, and relatively little processed food. This means that someone is making this food, day in and day out for >25 years, as in, >27,000 meals provided for, and that’s just the meals.
- Stability and the money for that. Single parent families or poor health or rented housing all make this aim of stability more difficult.
- Good schools and teaching and the money to support that. The primary advantage of private schools over government schools is the attitude that study is valuable in its own right. This usually means the teachers (may) have an easier time as well, and can actually teach. In Australia at least, further education is derided as unnecessary, and higher education makes people ‘nerdy’ and socially unacceptable. Children who want the education do not need to run the gauntlet of the general social derision and dumbing down.
- The parents themselves are able to maintain their health and positive support for the children; they are able to watch out for the child and direct them successfully. They will have that legacy from their parents who know the value of these things and so on. This is also a household where the woman actually has the time and the energy to watch out for the children. Children do not get to where they’ve got without this.
This is a fair dose of Effort, to say the least.
Is providing this solid foundational setup for the child Chopping Wood and Carrying Water (CWCW) or is this CWCW? Who has been able to do this? Someone has worked and watched very well for a very long time for this to be able to happen. It is highly likely to be a woman, and she herself must be and stay (for decades) healthy, fit, awake to all that this service needs, motivated and have the wherewithal to carry this out, otherwise it doesn’t happen. And we take it all for granted and classify this great service in with ‘peon work’, which is ridiculous, but we’re not looking.
This is Effort and Serve in spades and likely to set up any child for a far more successful future in life. But we don’t count this, so we need to look at what we are not counting, and maybe think about what we humans need to help all people to be able to give this to our next generation. The strange thing here is that we consider all this Effort on the parents’ part as ‘fate’ and envy those people able to benefit from this sort of background, but it doesn’t even need huge amounts of money. It’s much more about valuing these things as important; they matter and they count. But this sort of household is beginning to be the exception rather than the rule. Not to mention the media fully succumbs to the envy of this sort of household as part of our self-pity as well as the ‘lowest common denominator’ factor (it’s the one that sells) and promotes it. This envy is all part of our ‘happy’ society.
The point I wish to spell out is that this ‘growing to the max’ for the child is a background that is a primary contribution to the rest of that person’s life. As long as that person continues to look after themself which they are largely taught through their parents’ example, they’re pretty well set for life, and able to avoid using Big Med at all. Providing this foundation for a child has not dropped out of the sky, nor is it ‘genetics’ as DNA, nor does it take vast amounts of money. It’s much more about the ‘genetics’ of the attitude and values that the family has, so that the mother is prepared to do this Effort. Nowadays, as we try to avoid the Effort of Serving children and our bodies, particularly as women aspire to goddess/princess/waif, it’s harder for things to go so well for the children.
But these major primary factors contributing to the success and well-being of the adult are generally ignored and/or taken for granted by the person who has benefitted from them. For that person there is little or no experience of the problems that occur when any of these factors are missing. No experience means no awareness, and really, no idea of how this has happened to them. It seems to be ‘magic’, as in, they don’t seem to know how it has happened, but it is not ‘magic’. Somebody has worked very hard to give this to them. So, the next step is, do gods ask the woman how she has managed to do this great gift to the other because she must know a thing or two to have been able to do that successfully? And the answer is ‘No’, so the real question is ‘Why Not?’ and the only answer is that gods won’t count it, and in failing to do so, our society is simply barmy; we only count people (men) who have made no effort. This ‘gift to the other’ is what God’s commandment to ‘Till and Keep’ actually means, but it’s Effort, and godship is allergic to Effort. And of course, if you do ask the mother personally, all good little women are trained to say ‘oh, it was nothing’. But there are other ways of ‘asking’, as in, actually studying the full diet, lifestyle and environment choices carried out by these human ‘god-makers’.
This ‘grow to the max’ is how we make gods, and humans are perfectly capable of doing that. The idea then is to understand how we can do that for everybody, so that all humans are able to reach their full potential, (but staying human might be a good idea; and grateful to boot).
If your body does not have the full growth/development and natural fortitude that has come through this ‘grow to the max’ background, it’s much harder to correct any problems that are there or acquired, eg, narrow sinuses that always get infected, or the gut and immune problems that come with sensitivities to dairy or wheat or whatever. Ditto, tendencies to hay fever, asthma, eczema, and plenty of things that are even worse. Chemicals cannot help you be more well in these situations; they may ‘manage’ symptoms, but the original problems remain and continue to be a problem. All pharmaceuticals have side effects, so that the more you use them, the more you are exposed to these side effects.
The structure of the medical course itself has the full authority and hierarchy of the academic world, backed by the mighty social forces and structures attendant upon the power of medicine. ‘Learn all this stuff properly and you too may join us in the ranks of authority and power’, is the siren call. Of course, all the people further up the hierarchy have had the same privileged background, so no need for them to consider such diet/lifestyle/environment factors either.
Remember that gods are much more able to control their environment, and avoid the consequences of their decisions. They are also concentrating on being intelligent, strong/powerful, competent and hard-working, while making sure they are not peons. But in placing almost all other human beings in the peon category, there is a natural denigration and discounting of all other human experience, especially as ‘unscientific’.
Another aspect of having a strong healthy physique is that many doctors have no idea of the pain and suffering that their methods inflict on their patients who if they complain are weak and peons, by definition, so who dares complain?
The other thing about medical training is that it incorporates the social attitudes that the body is treated as a machine or robot and that our emotions or internal attitude to life have nothing to do with health.
The ‘big med’ message. (14.22)
Big Med likes to tell us over and over…, which is a kind of brain-washing…
- Everybody gets sick; everybody will get cancer; Life attacks us all. We should all be afraid, and only Big Med knows what to do, and so we need to do as they say.
- Big Med knows everything and can fix it all; it is completely noble and scientific and wants to look after us. In the meantime, we can do as we please and leave the expertise to them.
- Alternative or natural methods are dangerous, useless/un-necessary and ‘unscientific’.
- All other cultures, past and present, are/were primitive and basic and don’t know anything, so we take no notice of them either, and,
- In the past, everybody died young, (so we can’t/don’t use their information, and we’re much cleverer now).
In this way, we end up ignoring and discounting……
- All other cultures and their findings over hundreds, if not thousands, of years, and humans have found a lot, so that’s a lot of ignoring, to our own cost.
- Our own Western history of how people lived and worked before the modern world of pharmaceuticals with the use of natural remedies, especially herbs, as well as long experience with handling the human body in midwifery and accidents. The women who knew about such things tended to get killed off in some way or other, with the Inquisition and witch hunts going on for nigh on 400 years – very off-putting to anyone interested in such things.
- The very long period of Feudalism through our Western history which meant that for most people, (~95% of the population) their lives were under duress and exploited and uncounted in so many ways – not a great recipe for a long life.
And we throw all this experience away by discounting everyone else as peons and therefore ignorant and deluded; we modern people are so clever…. But remember, the ‘higher’ the gods, the more they are actually out of touch with reality. See Chapter 9.
We also like to believe that the government protects us and wouldn’t allow things that might be bad for us, which is another set of beliefs or assumptions that are particularly useless for us. This is truly not the case, if it were ever so.
But we live in a godship system where it is the gods who make the money and have the power and the influence. So, how do they make their money? By your ‘buying into’ what they are ‘selling’. And one of the first things to understand is that diet, lifestyle, environment, and natural remedies cannot be patented, (thank heavens!), but that means that gods cannot make money out of them, so they don’t want you to use them – that is why they denigrate them. They want you to use and depend upon what they sell, so they discount and condemn in all ways those alternatives that may be useful to you. It is as simple as that, and money not only ‘talks’, it shouts down the ‘competition’ or any ‘nay-sayer’, and nowadays gets rid of them when it can, and we can be afraid of that as well.
If you actually found out that you could manage perfectly well without these gods, then why are they there at all? Well, we would probably like them around if we had an accident or an emergency, but it is also true that the happier you become, the less likely you are to have an accident or an emergency. All the more reason for you to find your own ‘path with heart’.
Big Pharma and Big Med as their promoters are paid by governments, as in, your taxes, to look after our ‘health’, but they would simply not be there if governments simply could not pay them for it, and the cost is stupendous and growing, but we want to go on being ‘looked after’ because we are victims of Life.
But the more we want someone else to look after us, the more dependent we are, and the more we can be scared into doing as we are told. So that is what Big Pharma and Big Med are saying – ‘do as we tell you, or you’ll get sick; we know the right things to do’. And so on and on. Essentially, Big Med earns its money from people being sick, so they don’t mind that much if you’re sick, nor are they particularly concerned that we should all be well. And anyone who queries this is a wicked so and so and selfish, blah, blah, blah. Well, you’ll have to decide for yourself, but first, follow the money, and there’s a lot of money to be made here, especially as we continue to eat more and more processed food and sugar in all their forms.
The irony is that those who do understand the importance and relevance of diet, lifestyle and environment, and use more natural remedies, cost their governments very little if at all, but who is looking at that when we like to think it’s all fate?
The other aspect of this is that we want to do as we please and someone else can pick up the pieces so that we can go on doing as we please. We also like to consider ourselves powerless victims of Life and would like to be rescued from Life. This is why we love all those ‘hospital emergency’ films.
Remember, we are complicit in our dependence; it suits us. We like eating processed foods, heaps of sweets, chocolates, alcohol, and fats, etc, (and they’re all somewhat addictive to boot) and it’s all much easier than cooking, preparing and washing up, etc. and we like thinking that someone will rescue us. Doing as we please may give us pleasure at the time, but it is unlikely to bring us satisfaction in the long term.
Our health is absolutely bound up in our diet, lifestyle and environment, and as our environment deteriorates, so will our health. It cannot be otherwise. But the gods who make money out of wrecking the environment are not going to stop. It would be nice if we could understand what it is doing to us, but we don’t want to look, primarily because to look is to be horrified and feel futile. Which is why we need the Power of the Human Group, which I have discussed in Chapter 13.
What about ‘scientific’? (14.23)
Aren’t we so much more scientific and knowledgeable about what works and what doesn’t? And the answer is yes, and no.
In the middle of the word ‘scientific’ are the assumptions that all science is…
- carried out by scientists who are ‘experts’ and therefore gods, so we don’t query what they say,
- Completely free from bias and,
- normal people cannot be scientific at all, and always delude themselves.
Science and scientists cost, and in the world of the commercial imperative it is almost impossible for scientists to carry out any work with results that might affect their bread and butter. And that means bias cannot stay out of it; the work cannot be unbiased, no matter what anyone says. Very few bite the hand that feeds them, and whistleblowers have a very hard time. Is biased ‘science’ even scientific? How can it be?
Some of the fault here is in our expectations, and it’s back to our wanting others to look after us; we want to believe that they can. They can’t and we mustn’t. in fact, the more you can educate yourself and learn to think, the better you can become at sorting out what is relevant for you and what is not, but most people think that normal people, ie, ‘peons’, cannot be ‘scientific’.
Being ‘scientific’. (14.24)
But ‘peons’ can be perfectly ‘scientific’ and always have been able to do so. But it does require clear thinking and good clear observation, and most people need to be taught how to do that.
The problem here is that ‘science’ in the health world has almost come to mean only the kind of research carried out for new pharmaceuticals or other remedies, and we are discounting virtually everything that has gone before.
This is arrogance and the dismissal of normal humans as peons and there’s plenty of it around. It is also about the gods’ inability to actually cope with reality. But the arrogance of the gods makes them blind, and in fact, stupid. In the meantime, there is a lot of information you can find out for yourself if you are able to notice that what you are told and what you are experiencing for yourself doesn’t seem to ‘gel’.
Some of the things that ‘normal people’ are told and maybe you are up against are,
- The research hasn’t been done, so ‘whatever’ natural thing you want to use is not ‘scientific’. Or, research has proven that ‘whatever’ hasn’t worked or is detrimental.
- Our bodies delude us, and particularly with,
- Placebo effect.
So, we need to look at these more closely.
Research and when it was done, as well as what is counted. (14.25)
There was actually a lot of research done on vitamins and minerals throughout the 1930s to 1950s which is over 30 years of work done before the large medical indexing services which began in the 1960s. This older research is far more difficult to find, although it can be done, but it’s very easy to forget that plenty of work was done before the big indexes began, and hence it looks like it’s ‘not there’ and not carried out at all. It is also true that said medical indexes specifically refuse to index modern research into vitamins and minerals no matter how correctly scientific such research might be. Is this bias or is this bias? There’s an awful lot of shenanigans goes on in the world of ‘publish or perish’. Swallow it all at your peril.
You also need to understand that Big Pharma is perfectly capable of setting up experiments designed to prove that some natural substance or method doesn’t work, (while theirs does, of course).
Deluding ourselves. (14.26)
It is easy to delude ourselves and get caught up in what we are wanting rather than able to assess what we are actually getting. This ‘wanting’ is generally referred to as ‘attachments’. This is why we need to think and observe with clarity and without assumptions or bias; not easy, but it can be done and has been done by normal human beings over millennia.
One of the ways that you can do this for yourself is to understand that you can use your body as a kind of ‘bottom line’ in your assessments or experiments at looking at or exploring whatever. The trouble is that there is a fine line here and it’s you that has to work out where that line is, otherwise you end up being scared sick or worried that you’re being deluded when trying out for yourself an awful lot of things that might be useful to you.
The kind of things that I’m talking about include wanting to eat processed food because it may make you feel better psychologically in the very short-term, and it may also be a craving, but if your body gets fat and/or tired sooner or later, then your body needs you to notice that effect. It’s telling you a truth about itself and hoping you might notice. Many do not and don’t want to.
We are taught to ignore the body and take no notice of it, as well as that it is a weakness to take notice of it, as in, actually making allowances for its abilities puts us in the peon category if we do notice. But it has a truth of its own that is valuable to hear. The body does not lie.
For example, if I find I have less of a particular problem if I change my diet and take some natural substances, then that in itself is a ‘truth’ for me, which may or may not be replicated by others, but I don’t know what these others are actually doing in terms of lifestyle or diet, or their genetics for that matter. This personal truth of mine may not be ‘scientific’ per se but it’s still a truth for me, however much others may accuse me of deluding myself. Another way to really test for yourself is to change some aspect(s) for yourself and then change them back and see what happens, and then change again, and see what happens. This is a test, retest set of parameters that you can use to explore whatever for yourself.
Placebo effect. (14.27)
Another form of accusation of ‘delusion’ is the ‘placebo effect’.
This is used to belittle an enormous number of natural substances that may be useful to us, as in, we are told that we are deluding ourselves if we use them. Hence, we need to look at just what this ‘delusion’ is.
The ‘placebo effect’ is actually an hypnosis. Somebody in authority whom you believe can tell you that this whatever will have such-and-such effect, and this can happen, so it appears to ‘work’. But what we fail to factor in is that if this effect is not true at the unconscious, which includes the body, it will wear off, which generally takes about 6 weeks. This may or may not matter. This ‘wearing off’ is in the literature, but most people dealing with the ‘placebo effect’ don’t know about hypnosis. You can’t do ‘placebo effect’ with animals because they are not ‘believing’ anyone, and in general small children are also ‘immune’ to such things with the proviso that children will often ‘go along’ with what their parents tell them because they are gods to them.
Our society ‘belittles’ and ‘throws away’ so many useful remedies such as vitamins and minerals, herbs, homeopathics, essential oils, and so on, but this simply cuts you off from so many remedies useful for your health. We do this because that’s what the gods tell us, but these ‘things that don’t work, etc.’, work perfectly well for children and animals when used correctly, which means respecting their properties, so you need knowledge about them. Thus, if these substances work for children and animals they are not placebos; they are the real McCoy.
The label ‘Placebo Effect’ is now being used to imply that everyone deludes themselves or that the body is always being deluded, so you need to query how it is being used. It is an actual effect that can be used and misused, and once again you can educate yourself for your own benefit. The more you can educate yourself, the less you will have problems with ‘delusion’ and believing what you are told until you get a rude awakening.
Anybody who has experimented with trying to hypnotize themselves into wellness in whatever form will find that it just wears off if it is not true for the InSelf which includes the body, and will need to repeat the hypnosis to maintain it, and that can be done, and can be very useful for pain, etc.
Thus, if the effect of whatever natural substance you are trying out does not wear off, and you can test and retest it for yourself, you are likely to have found something that works for you, and this is knowledge that you can use, regardless of what others think. You are not ‘deluding yourself’. There is always a safety element in anything, but you will have done your research first anyway. But it is also difficult to work out what is happening if the substance you are looking at takes a long time to have an effect.
This works both ways. Something can be poisoning you, but it can be very difficult to work out what that is, especially if our godship world discounts its effect, (Mercury in ‘silver’ dental fillings is a good example here) or something may benefit you, and ditto. Our environment includes not only a stonking number of chemicals and heavy metals with effects known and mostly unknown, but we are also surrounded by medical remedies with ‘discounted’ side-effects that you don’t know about and won’t be told either. Another reason to find well-ness for yourself, and learn what does what for yourself as much as you can.
One of the more interesting areas of research over the last few years has been to understand the effect of foods on the gut and how that affects the brain and the rest of the body. There is increasing evidence that our body can heal itself with the right foods and conditions which also means we do not have to pass on ever-increasingly deficient genes, which is another sub-theme running through our ‘need for Big Med’.
The upshot of all this is that with the importance of diet and lifestyle along with our environment so discounted and disregarded, it kind of disappears down a hole and doesn’t get studied or looked at, especially during the medical course, and everything is blamed on genetics which is as useful as blaming it all on ‘fate’. Human beings do tend to ignore those things they don’t know what to do about.
Diet, lifestyle and environment, and medical teaching. (14.28)
Diet, Lifestyle and Environment are barely included in the medical courses; after all, it’s not really considered ‘their thing’, and how could it be?
Essentially, Big Med and our society deal with only a few of the eight Energy Departments available to us. I discussed some of the aspects of energy including its ‘departments’ in Part 1, but to briefly recap, there are the four energy ‘departments’ of the Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual for both our inner self (our ‘roots’) and our outer self (our ‘shoots’); hence eight of them, and we need to consider all eight Energy Departments to grow properly. Big Med really only deals with the Physical Department of our bodies, and that’s its focus, as in, seven of the eight departments are not addressed by Big Med. But your choices about Diet, Lifestyle and Environment, however much they may be in the Physical energy department, also involve the other energy departments, and at least in the Western World are still something we have some choice about. In this way they are not actually part of the medical course in the first place, which means that Big Med doesn’t really know very much about them, no matter how much we are officially advised to seek their advice, especially since most practitioners have been able to take them all for granted. But your choices about Diet, Lifestyle and Environment affect your physical body, and those choices are up to you. All the more reason to find your choices with your heart as well as taking all the other energy ‘departments’ into consideration.
So, what happens if you are one of those people who has trouble being well? All those ‘minor’ problems with the gut, skin, allergies, tiredness, headaches, fleeting pains, and a general not-rightness that do not show up in blood tests. You’re ‘normal’ and ‘fantasizing’, ie, a hypochondriac, which is no use to you, so you had better start working out how to help yourself. And your first port of call is to go back to basics and stay in touch with reality, as in, your body and your life. There are a lot of far more natural remedies out there, but if your basic diet is incorrect for you, nothing will ‘last’ or ‘work’. Diet is crucial and can help enormously, although it isn’t everything either. However, it’s where anyone who’s ‘having problems’ has to start.
Diet, lifestyle and environment. (14.29)
We do actually know that these factors are of primary importance through studies of separated twins that almost invariably come to the conclusion that diet, the environment and lifestyle contribute between 70-80% of differences between these twins with the same genetics. These studies are increasingly ignored as we like to blame genetics or the ‘sickness fairy’, but they are an indicator of the importance of factors that you can control to a fair extent, particularly if you can wake up from our godship social brain-washing. Diet, is of course, terribly important, but your lifestyle choices are important to your health as well, hence, the more aware you can be about what is important to you, the more you can choose a lifestyle that you actually like and is good for you. Environment is also very important of course, and it involves a lot of factors as well. But none of these are dealt with by Big Med, and yet, at least 70% of your health depends on them. This is a very good indicator that it might be an idea to address the issues of diet, lifestyle and environment as much as you can yourself, including asking yourself what makes your heart sing, because the answers will affect your health, simply because you will begin to change your diet, lifestyle and environment in their pursuit.
Since diet is so crucial, how then does one go about working out for one’s self what to eat? Is the normal nutritional information pushed by the government right or useful for you or anyone? Not to mention there are so many diets out there – how can they all be true and how does one choose the right one? They are all supposed to be the right one.
There is a lot of controversy about what’s the right diet. So, how do we go about studying this question?
What diet? (14.30)
How do we work out what diet to eat?
We have a lot of Government Recommendations, which have arisen from having to provide food for Lots of People…
- Providing food for armies primarily; governments needed to control and specify the food for their soldiers so they were able to fight, (a big deal in a war) followed by,
- Providing food for the institutionalised; prisons, hospitals, etc. There used to be a lot more sheltered people (who now fend for themselves – of course!) and so on.
- Nowadays, wishing there were some way to reign in the ballooning ‘Health’ (= sickness) budget.
We tackle this by averaging what that government’s population eat, and this is what Nutritionists work with, and what governments talk about. The result gives the General Recommendations that we all know and love; pieces of fruit and lots of veg and ‘servings’ of this and that, and ‘food pyramids’ etc. These recommendations would work better for most people if we were not eating so much sugar, but notice that any government carrying out these studies of their populations lived in a particular region. When we average people’s diets, we are assuming that most people in the population are consuming roughly similar diets, viz., that the foods available to this population are available to all this population in this particular geographical region. But we forget that different regions on our planet have different foods available within that region. Much of our ‘averaging’ is now trying to look at the whole world while forgetting that the foods simply are not the same throughout our world. We forget that our foods vary with different temperatures and with the seasons within different regions.
We are also assuming that humans have the same metabolisms for these foods regardless of the regions from which these humans and foods have come, but this is just not so.
To repeat, as we try to average people’s diets across different regions so we are intrinsically assuming that all foods (what we ingest) are available throughout all these regions, and we also assume that human physiology responds to these foods in the same way and has the same requirements, ie, all human beings have the same metabolism, but they don’t. They do within regions but not across different regions.
So, why do we try to average these things out in the first place? Well, first we need to look at the differences between diets in different regions as well as the human metabolisms for these regions.
Diet, region and metabolism. (14.31)
The earth is inhabited by humans anywhere that they can survive, from the Equator to the high latitudes of the Arctic/Antarctic Circle (@ 67deg lat.) This means we have different regions for human beings to live in. These regions are different in terms of what lives and grows there and therefore what humans eat and how they live.
The tropics, warm. (14.32)
The latitudes from ~0-25 degrees which we think of as the Tropics, generally have a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, and nuts (ie, plant material) throughout the whole year, as well as fish and some wildlife. If animals were not farmed, they were hard to hunt because there was usually plenty of forest for them to hide in.
These regions are mostly warm to hot and people who live in these regions are needing to keep cool, ie, they actually need to shed heat. The diets within this region are likely to be mostly plant food, some protein, and some fats/oils such as coconut oil.
The middle latitudes, eg, Mediterranean. (14.33)
The middle latitudes of ~25-35 degrees also provide a wide variety of plants and animals, but the lushness of forest is usually less (less rainfall), but there are more open areas for grains, and the variety of fruits has decreased while vegetables have increased. This region has (or had) a lot of grass plains. Also, at these latitudes humans are required to spend some of the calories they produce on their own internal heating, rather than trying to cool down all the time. Food is also more seasonal, as in, it has to be stored over the months that it is not available, and generally without refrigeration. Grains and nuts often keep well, but not always.
The diets in this region tend to be more grains, still plenty of plants, a bit more protein, or often more combining of incomplete proteins, and a greater fats component, generally from nut or fruit oils, eg, olive oil.
Cool climates. (14.34)
As latitudes increase, ~35 degrees and over, the dependence on animal flesh and fats increases because the plant growing season decreases. The plants eaten tend to be more the root vegetables while the fruits are the cold climate fruits such as apples and pears. It also takes energy to hunt your food which is more likely to be mobile.
By the time we get to Alaska, the growing season is very short and the diet is much closer to entirely flesh and fat, which is basically pretty carnivorous. Also, humans in the higher latitudes have a greater need to produce internal heat for much of the year so people from the colder climates have to burn calories much faster to generate more heat, and generally need the ‘solid fat’ calories to enable the body to do this sufficiently and continuously to last the 3-4 hours to the next meal, which is how long it may take to get it.
Few people live naturally at latitudes higher than the Arctic Circle.
Thus, in general, people from the warmest climes tend to be more vegetarian with a slower metabolism and good at shedding heat and cope with it better. Those from colder climates tend to have a much faster metabolism to generate heat internally for a colder climate. They are good at retaining heat, and need a much higher proportion of complete and high-purine proteins and fats.
These metabolisms are genetic, as in, in our genes.
All these populations have adapted over thousands of years, and if not interfered with by war or little Ice Ages do well. Even if they were interfered with, they were not able to move very far away, as travel was prohibitive.
[The Irish Potato Famine is a good example, amongst many, of such interference with people’s welfare. In this example a large number of Irish people were thrown into poverty by the loss of their land, and had to become dependent upon potatoes. Ireland is a country that’s more in the higher latitudes and people there would need the complete proteins, as well as ‘cool-climate’ root vegetables and fruits to survive and thrive. But with the loss of protein along with the dependence on potatoes, those children that most needed the complete proteins would have died first. Over the next few generations there was acute selection for ‘ability to survive on potatoes’. Then the failure of the potato crops forced emigration to other countries, the most obvious examples being to USA and Australia. Many simply starved to death which was just great for those who owned the land and could use it to make money.For another example, I also wonder what used to happen to all those soldiers from the UK who went out to India to fight various wars. I bet many of them, especially if they were from further north, eg, Scotland, struggled with the heat and had a very hard time.]
Thus, if we looked at any diets within a particular region and averaged across that region, we would simply not get the width of range between vegetarian and carnivore. The diet fits that region and what is available for humans to eat throughout the year, and human genetics have adapted to that region. There’ll be some variation, but not a lot.
Over the years, governments have been used to averaging diets within their countries and in general this has been perfectly adequate. But countries such as the USA or Australia have large immigrant populations from various regions in the world as well as encompassing a large span of regions within these countries. To repeat, plants are unable to transfer across these regions, eg, tropical plants don’t grow in cooler climates. Our metabolisms have a strong genetic basis established over millennia but with mixed populations we each inherit we know not what, until we need to find out and some will and some won’t depending on what the eating patterns within the family have been and how much that suited the child.
Diets also have strong leanings toward fashions such as the ‘spiritual’ and vegetarianism, which again may or may not suit your metabolism. The upshot of this being that what is ‘right’ for others may not be so for you, and vice versa.
To add to the mix, countries have their own intrinsic factors that affect your welfare. An example here is that Australia with its very old soils, has had minerals such as Magnesium and Zinc leached out, but both of these are very important to our health. These minerals cannot be in our food if they are not in the soil, and hence plants cannot take them up. And, strangely enough, Australia has quite high rates of the problems that occur with these lacks, but who counts these things?
Metabolism. (14.35)
Metabolism is about how fast we humans burn/oxidize our food. A major indicator of metabolism is how hungry a person gets how soon after their meal depending upon what they have eaten.
People who have studied these different diets and the human metabolism have used a variety of terms to name these differences, but in general the most immediately useful are;
- Slow metabolizer for those who need and thrive on the high carbohydrate plant-based diets of ‘vegetarianism’, and whose genetics ultimately come from warm climates.
- Fast metabolizer for those who need and thrive on diets high in meat and fats; ‘carnivores’ (although not entirely of course), and whose genetics come from cold climates.
- Mixed for those who need some of everything, and whose genetics come from ‘Mediterranean’-type climates.
If we average all these different diets we tend to come up with the ‘Mediterranean’ type diet, but not everyone can stay completely healthy over time on that diet, and your health is the bottom line here.
The primary point being that if a fast metabolizer is eating ‘vegetarian’ type or even a Mediterranean type diet, their energy will decrease and they will have trouble maintaining their health. They tend to be hungrier and often gain extra weight because they are eating foods that can’t ‘last’ and so they get hungry sooner. The degree of trouble will vary with the foods eaten and the speed of the person’s metabolism. In fact, if someone has trouble with fasting, they are likely to have a fast metabolism (words are funny things). Similarly, someone with a slow metabolism eating a more ‘carnivorous’ diet will also have difficulty staying well, and because diet is over the long term, it makes it difficult to tell what’s going on.
So, why are we trying to average out all these foods and all these regions in the first place?
The primary reason is that governments use averages to try to work out what to tell people to eat so that said governments don’t have to spend monster amounts of money trying to fix sickness. Averaging works perfectly well as long as it is within regions, but must not be done across regions.
The problem is that nowadays, huge movements of populations have occurred and that relatively recently, and America and Australia have this conglomerate or polyglot of peoples from different regions around the world. And now we have this very wide range of genetic metabolisms from all over the world, but in the one country, (albeit encompassing several regions each) and I suspect we don’t know what the statistics of personal genetic metabolism looks like in actuality because no-one has asked that question.
In America, the few people who have studied this and kept some figures are finding it’s about 1/3 each for slow, mixed and fast. Neither do we have any idea about how these metabolic genetics are inherited within ‘mixed’ families, and by that I mean parents with different metabolisms.
The problems become apparent when couples have markedly different metabolisms, and their children end up with a range of different metabolic types and nutritional needs. This problem happens in countries with large mixed immigrant populations, but far less so in countries with populations that have remained relatively stable. The outcome for the child will depend on who does the cooking.
In general, we cook and eat the foods that we like, and everybody has different preferences. If parents have different metabolisms, the children will have whatever mix of these their genes dictate, and will get to ‘lump’ whatever foods the cooking parent provides, and that may or may not be good for them.
If it’s the ‘slow’ metabolizer who cooks, a fast metabolizer child can get terribly hungry within an hour or so of eating foods that cannot ‘last’ for them and/or have trouble with weight if they are eating a lot of carbs. If the ‘fast’ metabolizer has problems with blood sugars as well, being hungry for too long can mean sick headaches and a very bad temper, hence this person cannot ‘wait’. Someone with a ‘slow’ metabolism has no understanding of how hungry the fast metabolizer can become if s/he has not eaten correctly. In a similar vein, if it’s the ‘fast’ metabolizer who’s cooking, the food will not suit a ‘slow’ metabolizer child.
In my family, my father was a ‘fast’ metabolizer and my mother had a much slower metabolism. Dad took over the cooking because he would have starved if he hadn’t. Food was far less urgent for my mother because she didn’t get that hungry, and she could ‘graze’ at home as she pleased. As one of 5 children, I seem to have the fastest metabolism, and have struggled all my life because I did not know about this stuff. My siblings’ needs are different, and varied.
Another social factor on the increase is that vegetarianism is now holding the high moral ground. Being vegetarian will ‘save the planet’ in various ways. Not to mention that it is actually cheaper to eat less meat, although that is cold comfort for those who know they need red meat to function effectively. Full vegetarianism really would be detrimental for the possible 50% (although that’s a severe guess based on a few rough USA stats) of the Australian population that may need to have more or less meat in their diet.
Vegetarianism as a ‘spiritual’ practice comes primarily from India which is a generally tropical country that has had a stable population of slow metabolism types for many years, not to mention no refrigeration. Hence their emphasis on vegetarianism and directives about not eating meat.
Different metabolisms don’t just mean different choices in foods, they engender different lifestyle choices as well. There is a tendency for fast metabolizers to move to cooler climes because they don’t cope as well with the heat, while those with slower metabolisms tend to move to warmer climes. This is another factor that will affect any attempt to average dietary requirements. In Australia, people living in Queensland (lower latitudes) are likely to shift toward different foods than those living in Tasmania (higher latitudes).
Finding which foods are correct for your body is not straightforward for some, in that some people do not have to bother with any of this at all, but some will.
The whole business of human metabolism is complex because the human body and its biochemistry and physiology are very complex. In this short overview I have almost over-simplified the information down to make the points about,
- why there is no one single diet that fits all, and can never be while earth has its different regions.
- that sorting out what foods help you and what don’t, can be extremely useful information for you, but it is personal, and
- to make this information more ‘digestible’.
This section is more of a ‘heads up’ that there’s a lot more information ‘under the radar’ that can be of use to you in your search for health. The most important thing to understand is that your body reacts in its own way to whatever you ingest and you would be wise to work out what this reaction is. It’s absolutely no use looking at whatever anyone else is doing or eating if you have the mixed genetic heritage that comes with being born in countries with large immigrant populations from all over the world.
Another factor that we need to consider is our blood pH, which makes things even more complex, but is worth knowing about because it is so useful.
Blood pH. (14.36)
To add to the complexities of different types of metabolism, it is very useful to know about blood pH.
Human biochemistry operates at a blood pH of 7.54 which is slightly alkaline, so the next question is, does the food we eat affect this pH? And the official answer is No, and the unofficial answer is Yes, sometimes, and if you’re having health problems it would be wise to investigate the unofficial answer because you need to know for yourself. The more you can keep your blood pH close to this figure, the fewer health problems you are likely to have, as in, fewer allergies, inflammations, etc.
So, how can we have a Yes and a No answer?
As far as I can ascertain, some people’s blood pH is affected by what they eat and others are not. For those whose blood pH is not affected by what they ingest, this may correspond to the Chinese ‘quality’ of ‘strong inherited energy’, and I suspect that those who have this ‘strong inherited energy’ had the ‘grow to the max’ background when they were young. Lucky them.
In the meantime, those with ‘problems’ and whose blood pH is affected by what they ingest, can learn how to investigate these matters for themselves.
Proper testing of blood pH is done by drawing blood and testing it and several times a day at that. This is highly impractical for most people, but Kristal & Haig (2002) write that using pH paper to test the saliva is a sufficient guide even though it is rough and ready. It is also easy, cheap, and simple and the pH paper is fairly easily available. There is enough correlation between blood pH and saliva pH to be a useful indicator; urine pH is not. See references at end of Chapter.
Testing your saliva with pH paper can be profoundly useful. It also helps greatly that you can see the results for yourself. It is also completely harmless, and the instructions on how to use it are on the packet. It is cheapest as a small roll that you can tear small strips from. It is useful to you to test your saliva before and after each meal so that you can establish what is happening with you and what you ingest. It is also intrinsically interesting to find out.
If your blood pH is affected by what you ingest, then using pH paper to test your saliva can be very informative, helping you to sort out what foods/drinks are correct for you and what is not.
It is ‘common knowledge’ that red meat makes people acidic. This simply is not true for everybody and so it is not a rule. For example, it makes some people’s blood pH alkaline very quickly. Thus, everyone else’s opinion on diet is theory when applied to you. You need to know how your own body reacts to whatever you ingest. There appears to be a tendency for those people with a slower metabolism to be more likely to get some of the cancers while those with the faster metabolisms may tend more toward the immune-system deficiencies. Hence there may well be some truth in the general instructions to eat less meat to avoid cancer because slow metabolizers do better with less meat. But the big but here is you may need more meat if you have a faster metabolism and a tendency toward the immune system problems. It sure is a pill finding out the hard way, particularly as vegetarianism is becoming increasingly fashionable.
Understand that none of the above is ‘scientific’, and neither do you need to take any notice of it, but waiting for ‘science’ to sort this stuff out may leave you pretty uncomfortable for a long time, not to mention, who do you think is going to test such things?
To repeat, testing your saliva with pH paper is a most useful indicator for you to know what is actually happening within your own biochemistry in response to what you ingest.
Other diets around. (14.37)
There are other diets that you may have heard of and/or need to research in your search for health. The point here is keep looking, and keep testing. Some things work and some things don’t, and what suits others may not suit you.
- D’Adamo’s Blood Type Diet.
Once again, these different diets for different blood types suit some and not others, but they are not the last word. They miss out on the importance of Metabolic Type. However, they can be very useful for the ‘avoids’, as well as the herbs, supplements and the lifestyle information.
- FODMAP Diet.
This diet also has information that may be useful to you.
- ‘Channelled’ diets from psychics.
Well, you would think that ‘off-earth’ others would know…, but maybe not. You still need to check your own body’s ‘ideas’ about it all here on earth. This is not to say that they don’t work for some, but that may or may not include you.
However, psychic information can be perfectly useful; it’s just that bits of it may not fit you, and you get to work out which bits. Expecting everybody else to get everything ‘right’ is as useless as expecting yourself to do the same. As humans we are all bumbling and stumbling around. And gods are not even ‘right’ as often as normal humans – funny, that.
We all like to think we’ve got it ‘right’, but, sadly, no. There simply is no one size fits all and in general, there is so much confusion and bias out there that you get to sort it out for yourself, which you can.
Those ‘minor’ problems. (14.38)
In general, unexplained tiredness, sleepiness and fatigue, as well as the ‘atopic’ problems of eczema, asthma, and hay fever are good reasons to suspect allergies/intolerances to something ingested. The problem with the word ‘allergy’ is that there is more than one sort/type of allergic reaction, and maybe it is better to use the word ‘intolerance’ for those foods/drink that give the above type of problems and ‘allergy’ for those foods that give an anaphylactic reaction.
The general rule for intolerances is to reduce as far as is feasible, wheat, dairy and sugar from your diet, and then go on from there. This is a useful tactic for anyone with health problems, although not that easy to do. Intolerances often signal their presence with an increased Heart Rate which you will feel because it also makes you a bit breathless and tired, so testing your pulse is another very useful indicator to help you sort out what foods are correct or not for you.
It is also wise to ascertain if you have any heavy metal poisoning. The primary test for these is a hair analysis. However, these tests are accused of ‘quackery’ by ‘scientists’ who know so little about them that it’s actually relatively easy to know more than they do if you want to. If you have any heavy metal poisoning going on it’s like a huge spanner in the works, and the devil to remedy. Notice that both China and India have major problems with heavy metals as pollutants, and these will be in any foodstuffs from these countries, no matter what anyone says, and it’s you that gets to be clever, as in, it’s ‘fend for yourself’ here.
This business of having to notice and track one’s body processes and reactions is not what anyone ever expects to have to do in their lives. A long, difficult and tedious process that has to be done if you want to unravel your health puzzles. Coeliacs as well as those with any anaphylactic allergy responses have to watch like a hawk, and fend for themselves the whole time. It is so much easier to be able to eat anything, but having to watch out is far more prevalent nowadays, and I suspect it has a great deal to do with our poisoning of our environment. Anyone with chronic un-wellness probably needs to use these strategies.
Educate yourself. (14.39)
Learn as much as you can about these things, especially since I have simplified (maybe too much so) most of the above information. I have included some references below but there are others.
And please note that I have written what I regard as correct for me at this point of time, but there is always more to know. This is no substitute for finding your own information that is correct for you.
Available information. (14.40)
So, why isn’t this information more generally available, especially if it’s useful? I have spoken a lot about our godship society and your need to understand that ‘free’ information such as the above is highly denigrated by gods because it can help you become independent, and therefore not spending any money on their ‘products/services’, and they don’t like that, and they have the power to enforce their view, and you give them that power when you listen to them rather than to your body.
The commercial imperative. (14.41)
To emphasize what I have said previously, Public preventive health is not part of the commercial imperative, in that few companies have worked out how to make good money out of it. To some extent public health has only arisen in the last 200 years as have democracy and proper sewage works.
Public Health is really about the battle between the individual, the company that wants to make money without worrying about any effect on your health, and government, as in, taxpayers’ money spent ‘watching out’ because it costs so much to treat us once we are sick. We still have an unconscious expectation that the government wouldn’t permit dangerous things in our food, drink or environment etc., but those days have long gone, and our innocence is useless to us. One cannot make money protecting the consumer from deleterious private behaviour; it has to be government business. Who said governments have to be the same as business, anyway? But, we forget, and we don’t think. The media mantra is ‘money is good; business is more efficient etc, etc, governments waste money’, and so on and on. This mantra is repeated time out of mind. There is no other voice or opinion. Our news is terribly skewed. Meanwhile public money haemorrhages to the private purse, and some people make money, and many more people become voiceless. It also sends some countries bankrupt, and how do governments try to save money? By spending less on government programs.
The less money the government spends monitoring business behaviour and its effects on your health, the happier the business world and the more at risk you are.
The irony here is that the less the government spends on understanding and monitoring the quality of people’s diets as relevant to themselves personally, the more it gets to spend on picking up the pieces at the end of your not-so-long life. The sickness industry.
As I have said before, all the more reason to investigate and establish the Power of the Human Group as I have talked about in Chapter 13.
Conclusion to Chapter 14. (14.42)
In this discussion the first question has been whether the body matters or not, because in fact we treat the body as though it does not matter at all. We denigrate the body as weak, deluded and stupid, with nothing to say to us. But notice that we also do this to women, children, and Nature; we don’t count them or take any notice of them. In fact, we do this to Life all the time. This is an entirely incorrect attitude to Life, and gets us into vast amounts of trouble. This is a primary argument in this book.
Our body is not a car to be compared to others all the time (eg. I have a Porsche while you look like the backside of a bus, so I must be a better person) and treated as a mechanical device. It does have much to tell us and we need to learn to listen, not to mention act upon said information. But of course, we think we know better – we don’t – and suffering seems to be the only way we might find that out.
Our bodies are our direct connection to God, Life, and our Inner Self, and hold a truth about us. It is the only way we get any handle on four of the eight energy departments in Life, and thus it is half of how we develop ourselves, and in particular it’s how we develop our roots in Life. The current disconnection engendered by our social expectations of godship leaves us split from Life, God and our inner self and thus unable to heal. If we want to heal, we have to connect to our body, and each of us gets to work out how to connect to it and how to TISP it, for our own sakes.
But, taking our bodies into account is deemed a ‘weakness’ within our society, and this is how we get stuck. If we do what we need to find wellness, we will be judged by others as being in the peon category of the ‘weak’, and then make it even worse by putting ourselves outside the medical world, and in with the deluded.
Not only do we dislike the effort of looking after ourselves, it’s actually categorized as a ‘stupid/bad’ thing to do. But if you don’t happen to like being ill or to suffer discomfort or pain, you will probably have to simply put up with being classed in with ‘deluded and/or stupid’ and go do your own research and testing for yourself. But you are the only one who can decide this. And it’s effort.
For anyone who does want to think and look for alternatives, then questioning your choices regarding Diet, Lifestyle and Environment, is the first port of call since there is much here that you can do for yourself, which is what empowering yourself is all about. It is also important to understand that choices you make that are ‘right’ for you can get you away from needing Big Med at all, and help you stay that way, and progressively less afraid if that’s what you would like.
Choosing to be a human in Wellness can be a very powerful thing for you because it is right for you, no matter what anyone else thinks.
It is possible for you to begin to work out what foods ‘work’ or not for you, by dealing with your own reality which is how your body responds to those things you ingest. However, the continued poisoning of our environment is making it increasingly difficult to work out all the things that are wrong, and none of this is helped by Big Med and Big Pharma pushing all their remedies on to you. All of this is a call to start taking as much control as possible of your own Diet, Lifestyle and Environment as you can, for your own benefit.
The essentials of this chapter’s discussion are,
We have a ‘health’ (read, sickness) system where we focus on getting rid of the ‘little warning lights on the dashboard of the car’, ie, repressing all the warning signs of problems when they are small, and then consider the bigger problems as fate.
But, if you are looking for wellness, which is defined here as Life and Love with Desire and Delight, for Exploring and Expression of your full Self, you must take your body into account and Serve it and help it. As you Serve your body so it can help you to find Wellness, as in, it’s to your own benefit. This is especially so in the second half of life.
As you take notice of your body so you can keep your feet on the ground. Note that all gods (and peons who listen to them) end up with their feet thoroughly off the ground, as they get ‘higher’ into godship, and human beings need to be very careful of them.
But your research/hunting/looking and your methods have to be outside the godship system of Big Med. And you need to reassure yourself that you are capable of doing that, with time, patience, careful thinking and testing. You can use alternative therapists and therapies to help you double-check that your health is improving and that you are not ‘deluding’ yourself. ‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating.’
Life is not out to get us, no matter what we think or believe, and you are perfectly capable of empowering yourself, but you will need to think, and also check what information you use in the first place, and where it has come from. If that information has money, power or control behind it, as in, large companies, then watch out. These companies are not controlled/regulated by anyone and can fudge their data as they please, because no-one is able to check; repeat, no-one. It is also useful to understand how governments are controlled by these companies, hence, more watching out.
Essentially, this discussion has been about the importance and benefit to you of having a relationship with your body and treating it as sacred, but the whole ethos of godship is about having no relationship with ‘any body’ at all. And since Life comes through relationship there is no Life in godship.
The precepts of godship are stopping us as human beings from being able to think clearly if at all about our world and what is required of us. Life wants us to respond to it and its needs, as well as our need to be part of Life. But we refuse to do this because of our vanity and greed.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in our continued poisoning of every single thing including ourselves in our search for domination of life and ‘winning’. And it makes and keeps us blind.
In the next chapter I talk about how we are ‘structured’ psychologically using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.