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Virtual Medicine ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Sacred Journal is a free newsletter that features my thoughts, areas of interest and psychic insights. It is a monthly publication by Charlene Ryan. www.CharleneRyan.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, In each issue I will share my thoughts, areas of interest, and psychic insights. I welcome feedback and your personal insights to share with other Sacred Journal subscribers. I encourage input on areas you would like to see addressed. Charlene --------------------------------------------------------------- It's hard for us to believe that ancient peoples knew more about their world than we know about ours. We think, or we presume, that our knowledge has not only caught up with theirs but surpasses it. And yet, those primitive peoples may have known more about healing and preventing disease than we give them credit for. Their medicine was a combination of faith, blind luck and relying on the good earth - relying on what was there. What nature provided was all there was. There was no corner drugstore, no medical specialist. Yet, they knew what would keep them from getting sick and what potions would ease the pains of snake bite, rheumatism, and child birth . . . what would heal the wounds of arrows and gunshots and other scars of battles in daily living. Centuries of trial and error taught them what leaves and herbs and roots and smoke and heat and faith could do. They knew what could cure them and what could kill them. It was natural healing. And now, centuries later, the world is returning to it. The American Medical Association, for years, was against the idea of herbal medicine, herbal remedies, any type of alternative medicine and any form of complementary therapy. Allopathic medicine placed these approaches in a category akin to quackery. Today they are changing their views because of the wide spread grass roots interest in alternative approaches to healing. We are in the middle of an interesting contradiction. We have the most advanced medical system in the world - with exotic machines and drug therapies that couldn't have even been imagined even 50 years ago. And yet, there is a tendency to go back to old approaches. Why? One primary reason: Medical care has become too expensive, too impersonal and people are searching for alternatives. Almost every Indian culture believed that every mountain had a soul; every tree, every rock, every living creature and the Great Spirit flowed through all, keeping nature and mankind in perfect balance. Religious belief and daily life were intertwined, embodied by the medicine men, the priest, the magicians, and the healers whose knowledge and rituals were handed down through the centuries. The medicine bag was the symbol of their status and authority, in which they carried their healing secrets. Even today, with everything we know, their secrets remain intact. American and South American Indians brought more than 200 drugs to the modern healing culture that are now used in today's societies for different healing methods. Aspirin, pain killers, muscle relaxant, cure for scurvy, the cure for malaria, all of those remedies that are used today were in fact used by Indian people many, many, many centuries prior to Western Civilization. Indians were also prolific inventors. They developed syringes and the surgical uses of rubber and cotton. They had vast knowledge of anesthetics and antiseptics. They knew how to set fractures. While Native American tribes were developing their herbal remedies, the Chinese created acupuncture and the Indians chakras. Chi,' in Chinese medicine and philosophy, is the energy or life force of the universe, believed to flow round and through the body and to be present in all living things. By inserting needles into the skin at points (meridians) where the flow of energy is thought to be blocked, the body mind and spirit were brought back into harmony using Acupuncture. 1985 at the University of Paris, Pierre de Vernejoul carried out a definitive and much-quoted experiment. What this simple but helpful study proved beyond doubt is that meridians are definitely real vessels. His findings proved that energy is conducted via the collagen fibers of the connective tissues. There is a continuum of liquid crystalline water-bound collagen fibers running throughout the whole body. The universal energy, which the Chinese call chi', is known as prana by the Indians. Instead of meridians, the Indian system introduces the concept of chakras. These are the gates by which the life giving energy enters and leaves our bodies, thus influencing our bodily functions and vitality. Although there is not hard evidence that chakras exist, the best work to date seems to be that of Japanese psychic and clinical psychologist, Hiroshi Motoyama. He claims that he has developed a "chakra instrument" called a (AMI), Apparatus for Measuring the Functional Conditions of Meridians, which is able to detect minute electrical, magnetic and optical variables in the immediate environment shell of the study subject. In Hinduism the word maya is used to describe how the ultimate reality of everything is made manifest in perceivable forms. It is often said that maya means the World is an illusion. Thanks to Quantum mechanics we know this to be true at the subatomic level. Have you ever wondered why a teacup is a teacup? Why don' t the atoms at the edge go wandering off and become a spoon? The answer is an information field. Information fields create reality; they put it together and hold it together the way it should be. Matter as quantum physics teaches us, is a mere illusion. It comes out of this "void or vacuum" , whenever we interact with it. It follows that cancer, a parasite, or a virus, are also just information fields. Disease can now be redefined as a disruption, cessation or distortion arising in the information and energy fields. The best way to approach disease is by correcting these disturbances, which will then eliminate the disharmony and disease process, bring about healing. Life is not merely a property of physical matter. Healing takes place at a higher level. Advanced physics, cyber healing is beginning to meet ancient systems of mind. In the 20th century we were forced to look again at the mechanistic universe and, writers like Rupert Sheldrake came out with a refreshing paradigm, which is that life and the conscious process makes matter, and not the other way around. The model of the world in which the energies of life are pre-eminent and drive creation is called Vitalism. Vitalism maintains that life and the functions of a living organism depend on a nonmaterial force or principal separate from physical and chemical processes. Gary Zukov in his book "The Dancing Wu-Li Masters" says, " we live in a conscious and intelligent universe. The body possesses a natural ability to resist disease and heal itself, when correctly stimulated." Virtual is used to describe a particle whose existence is suggested to explain observed phenomena but is not proven or directly observable. The ancient teaching new about the invisible world or virtual world. They honored it and worked with it. Theirs was a Oneness with Spirit from which all things flow. The ancient teachings from our ancestors which we might call Metaphysics and combined with modern science which we might call quantum physics has shown us that we are the creators of our personal world. Our thoughts, and emotions are powerful and manifest in positive or limiting ways. In closing, nothing is ours; we are instruments through which healing and love come through. It is our choice to fine tune the instrument (us) so that the message is clear and in integrity serve all. Nothing is done in the material domain, only the results are felt there. What healing methods have you explored? What methods are not listed? Acupuncture, Alexander Technique Auras, Aloe Vera Antioxidants, Aromatherapy, Ayurvedic Medicine Bowen, Chi Energy, Chinese Medicine, Chi gung Colon Health, Cranio Sacral, Energy Medicine, Flower Essences, Herbal Medicine, Homeopathy, Kinesiology Light and Color, Kirillian photography, Massage, Meditation –Movement, Naturopathy, NLP, Reflexology Reiki, Shiatsu, Sound and Music, Yoga Copyright 2001 - Charlene Ryan | |||
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