Some look at the religious fanatic and think her deluded and brainwashed, someone who has bought into a mindset fashioned by the church she attends. They see the closed mind and dogmatism and are grateful that they have not been so influenced, grateful for their independence of thought.
But when it comes to health, illness, and treatment, they consider themselves knowledgeable and open-minded. They are ever learning new cures and methods of treatment, and many are proud that they have stepped outside the main allopathic current into side eddies of homeopathy, essential oils, superfoods, body work and the like.
But their mindset is still that of pathology, of finding cures for symptoms, which are only effects of an underlying cause. From the witch doctor to the physician, all view disease as an entity caused by the devil or the microbe or genetics. The body is a fragile thing prone to a multitude of dysfunctions, each one having its own name and location and drug of choice.
Instead of buying, begging, or stealing, a cure, it is better to stop building disease. Disease is of man’s own building, and one worse thing than the stupidity of buying a cure is to remain so ignorant as to believe in cures. –Dr. John Tilden
A Flawed Foundation
What if the entire foundation upon which you understand health and disease is flawed? What if you are asking the wrong questions? Instead of asking, “What drug should I take for my high blood pressure?” what if you should ask, “What causes my high blood pressure and how do I lower it naturally? How do I remove the cause?”
Instead of asking, “Should I avoid nightshade plants for my arthritis and which essential oil should I use?” what if you asked, “What has caused the irritation in my joints and how do I remove it? If I remove it, will my joints return to normal?”
And instead of asking, “How do I do the gall bladder flush to get rid of gallstones?” what if you asked, “What habits do I need to change to not only stop developing gallstones but to naturally dissolve the ones I already have?”
Reversal of Diseases Is Possible
These questions require a belief in the possibility that reversal of disease is possible, and we have been brainwashed by allopathic medicine that says, “We don’t know the cause, and there is no cure.” Allopathic medicine is focused on biochemical manipulation through drugs to suppress symptoms and provide relief, not reversal. And after a time, when the drugs no longer work and the affected organ or tissue begins to fail, the surgeon steps in and cuts it out.
But they’re right about there being no cure. Does bringing a lit candle into a dark room cure darkness? No. Darkness is not a condition, a thing, an affliction. Darkness is just the absence of light as disease is the absence of health.
The proper way to study disease is to study health and every influence favorable or not to its continuance. Disease is perverted health. Any influence that lowers nerve-energy becomes disease-producing. Disease cannot be its own cause; neither can it be its own cure, and certainly not its own prevention. –Dr. John Tilden
The physicians will ensure the clogging of your arteries does not kill you by thinning your blood. They do not try to help you unclog your arteries. The doctors will give you anti-inflammatories for your arthritis without searching for the irritant causing the inflammation. The disease progresses. You are given insulin to regulate your blood sugar, but lip service is given to diet to reduce the load on your pancreas.
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases. –Molière
Cause is ignored while symptoms are soothed or suppressed or malfunctioning organs are cut out. We live longer than we should given our state of health, but what sort of life is it habituated to the pill, dead on our feet living in fear.
Cures are what the people want, and cures are what doctors and cultists affect to make; but at most only relief is given.–Dr. John Tilden
The most important things to realize and admit is that disease is of man’s own building. But it’s terrifying to think that you might be responsible for your disease. That means you’re responsible for doing something about it. It’s a lot easier to let the doctor handle it all like your mechanic handles your car. You don’t want to learn about piston engines and braking systems and electrical wiring. You want to watch TV! You want to par-TAY!
Look at your current level of health and at your current belief system regarding health and health care, and ask yourself, “How’s it working so far?” Your success or lack thereof is largely based on your belief system and the habits you’ve acquired.
I remember arguing with a friend about health and illness. She was on high blood pressure and arthritis medicine and, because she had had her womb removed, estrogen. She invited me to dinner one night, which was a five-course meal of baked, fried, smashed, boiled, sugared, pickled, you name it, “foods.” My taste buds were in heaven, but if I ate like that I’d have clogged arteries, aching joints and a womb that couldn’t survive the onslaught.
We talked once of moving out of the SF Bay Area, and her number one requirement wasn’t what city she wanted to live in, the type of house she wanted, how many bedrooms, or how much land. Her main concern was to be near a hospital. What kind of life is that? That’s bondage, not freedom. How’s it working so far?
