Personal Growth 101

(just started 11/9/15. will be growing and changing for quite a while)

PERSONAL GROWTH 101

a practical guide to an increased sense of peace and well being

by SOCRATES THALASSOS

Imagine hearing, in the distance, a beautiful bird singing in the morning, and then a chainsaw starts.
The bird is your sense of peace and well being. The chainsaw is your mind. Quieting the mind, both the conscious mind and the deeper subconscious mind, is the greatest life skill one can learn .
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WHAT IS SUCCESS?
A sense of peace and well being, to have all our needs met, emotional and spiritual as well as physical. To heal our wounds and live a happy, healthy life, including manifesting our gifts in the world, the gifts we are here to share.

Most people are so caught up in the struggles of everyday life, often so habitually run by their subconscious programming that they don't even begin to consider that they might have gifts they are here to share, but they do.

WHO ARE WE, WHAT ARE WE?
As human beings we have a dual nature: our human personalities, with all their wounds and challenges, and our eternal natures as a part of all-that-is, as a cell is a part of your body.

As human beings, we have our conscious mind, our subconscious mind, our bodies, and our emotions. Some would say we also have superconscious minds, which are our connection to all that is.

Our conscious minds are often stuck in blahblahblah, noise, the chainsaw. To experience peace and well being, we need to quiet this.

Our subconscious minds, which we are often unaware of, carry a lot of old programming, much of it negative. Fear, shame, guilt, etc. The analogy of an iceberg has often been used, that the conscious is like the %10 above water, the subconscious the %90 below water. In practical terms, for most people the subconscious is running their lives. Cleansing and releasing negative programs, replacing them with positive ones, is the key to peace and happiness. The analogy of software for a computer is very apt.

WHAT IS PERSONAL GROWTH
Ultimately, personal growth means living in higher states of consciousness, meaning higher states of peace and well being, the highest being realizing, having the experience of being what the yogis call the Self, your oneness with all that is. Notice the word experience, which is so totally more than intellectual understanding. Understanding that food is tasty is one thing, eating it quite another.

In more down to earth terms, personal growth means
1) accepting your power to make positive changes in your life, starting with your mental states. Most people want to go straight to doing, but until you change your mind, you'll get the same results you always have.

2) releasing and healing the wounds that keep you creating your problems, whether through action or inaction. Letting go of victimhood, he did this, they did that, she didn't do that, I can't do this, I'm too (fill in the blanks).

That's not to condone bad behaviour, not saying you shouldn't stand up for yourself, it is saying that as long as you stay in blame and judgement, including self judgement, you stay stuck. In most normal life situations, your state of mind is your responsibility (I am not talking about extreme examples), and your happiness and effectiveness is a direct result of your state of mind.

3) Manifesting positive states of health, happiness, behaviours. Taking care of yourself, manifesting your dreams in the world. Having healthy relationships. All the stuff of a fulfilled human existence. However, people who “have it all” often report that they feel some sense of something missing. That something is connection with, experience of your spirit.

EXECUTIVE PAY CONSEQUENCES

“Have you ever been in a store that seemed to be run on a skeleton crew, can't find anyone to ask a question, long lines at the cash register? Not to mention the value of experienced, helpful, motivated staff, rather than minimum wage kids. Have you been put on hold, while a recording said "we are experiencing an unusually high level of call volume".
Bullshit.

If it were truthful, that recording would say:
"we are experiencing an unusually high level of executive compensation and consequently are not hiring enough people to run the business properly".

There are thousands of businesses across America that need more sales people, customer service reps, technical people, clerks, etc. but instead of hiring enough people to staff the counters and floors, the execs are choosing to pad their own pockets and raise their own pay, give themselves perks and bonuses, and run the companies on a skeleton crew.

"Downsizing" was the euphemism fat cat execs used to fire people, make the poor slobs left work two jobs for the price of one, and stick the money in their own pockets. 

if all the executives were sick for the day, the business would still go on. If the sales floor staff didn't show up, it's all over.

For every $1,000,000 some yacht owning private plane flying CEO chooses to enrich himself with, he could have hired 30 people at $33,000 per,”

“WORK HARD-GET SCREWED
In the 1950s, one of the most prosperous (financially) decades in America, the ratio of CEO pay to that of the average worker was 25-1. By 2001 it was around 300-1. Since then, workers' productivity has exploded, as has the ratio of CEO pay, now around 500-1.

The thanks people got for working hard and doing a great job?
*they got fired, (downsized)
*the people left got to do 2 jobs for 1 salary
*businesses sent as many jobs as they could overseas
*while executives raised their salaries through the roof
and shareholders got rich

What if CEOs were required by law to share the benefits. They can make as much as they want, but only 25 times what the average salary of their company is, including perks and benefits.
It was good enough under Eisenhower.”

Why We're Here

This is going to be incorporated into my personal growth manual at some point
https://jaydancingbear.wordpress.com/writings/personal-growth-manual-gradual-reformat/

As best as i understand right now, we are here to:
a) realize the Self, experience ourselves as a part of all-that-is, as a wave is part of the ocean, and
b) have our human experience, make the best of it, do our best to be healthy and happy, but still, whatever our circumstances, as difficult as they may be, realize that we chose to be here for some reason. Embrace the world, be tantric.

I've read a lot of spiritual books, especially from the Indian traditions, which basically view our time here as an opportunity to do the work to not be here, not get reborn, not get sucked into the world. Often they are very anti-pleasure, anti-sex, anti-engaging with the world, anti- in the sense that they think that worldly pleasures are, at best, wasted time. The ascetic approach has a lot of fulfillment and satisfaction in it, but only for those truly drawn to it. For others it is torture.

So i don't agree with the anti-worldly view, and yet i do recognize that the world often distracts us from the experience of our true nature, which is the greatest bliss there is. We get pulled outward, and lose our inner experience. The experience of meditation can be far more satisfying than the experience of drunkenness, and it's ok to get drunk, just try not to say or do anything harmful to yourself or others. Worldly pleasures and possessions are transitory, they inevitably end, "this too shall pass", but that doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with them, they are a part of life.

Just remember, as the Buddha observed, that sickness, old age and suffering are inevitable parts of life, certainly not all there is, but inevitably come to us at some point. When storms come, trees with deep roots survive. When the storms of life blow, if we have resources based on experience, which we get from time spent doing practices, resources such as intuition and mental focus, then we see opportunity and growth where others see calamity and disaster. Beyond just being tools to deal with adversity, being in these states feels "good". Again, all these happen as the result of hours and hours and hours of practice, not talking about it.

So for this reason i think the tantrics have it most correct, not necessarily the sexual tantrics, but the people who believe in finding their enlightenment through engaging with the world in a sacred way. I am using the word tantric in a general way, specific sects would probably find issues with what i am writing. Personally i have been torn between the monk and the pleasure seeker. It's been hard to reconcile the two. This post may be the peace treaty.

What i am saying is, that it is not either/or, either spiritual practices or a total worldly life, and it both/and, two halves of one whole. To be in the world, have our human lives, and not get so drawn outward that we live only on the surface. To meditate, and to party. To make love, and to pray. To earn a living, and to realize it's all a game. The tibetans seem to understand that best, although i am not a tibetan buddhist.

All a game, Maya, illusion, masks of god. To see spirit in everything is a lot harder in New York City than on a mountain. To go back and forth from the city to the mountain, and back again.
Namaste,
Socrates

Three poems

Three recent poems
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One Day (july 5)

One day follows the next
     and the next
I look down at my shadow on the ground
One day it will not be there
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Free Bird (july 6)

Free Bird, have your wings been clipped by
ingesting the fears and limiting beliefs
of frightened and limited people
This can't happen, that can't happen, that can't happen unless _____

No belief in or understanding of higher truths
No belief in miracles
despite the miracles all around us, as us

Free Bird, your wings are not clipped, they only seem to be
Free Bird, spread your wings, and
fly
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How would i live (july 12)

if i wasn't thinking of the future, afraid of the future
     how would i live?
I i wasn't reacting to the past
     how would i live?
if my mind wasn't busy, busy, busy
     how would i live?
if i was aware of the infinite eternal
in me, as me
     how would i live?

if i wasn't afraid of surrendering to the experience of the infinite eternal
in me, as me
     how would i live?

if i really experienced THAT
     would it matter?

Proportional Wage Law

Whether you're the president of a corporation, or a janitor, you still only have 24 hours in a day.
One of the biggest problems in this country is income inequality, which has created a society where people don't even have time to spend with their kids. Income inequality impacts our lives in a thousand small, unpleasant ways, because prices tend to go up to what the market will bear, meaning what the more affluent can afford. Society is slowly falling apart, as the rich get richer, and the poor and middle class sink into quicksand.

I propose a PROPORTIONAL WAGE LAW-You can make as much as you want, as long as you create wealth for everybody. The highest paid person in a company can make up to 25 times what the lowest paid worker makes, including the janitor, including temp workers and subcontracted labor, including the value of all perks and benefits, not more than 25 times the lowest paid salary.

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

The next time you hear about how we are the wealthiest country, think of this example of statistics in action:
*if you put a millionaire and a homeless person in a room, their average income is $500,000/yr.
*If the next year the millionaire makes 2 million, and the homeless person, probably a Vietnam vet, is still living under a bridge, the average income has gone up to $1,000,000/yr.
*If the next year the homeless person dies, and the millionaire still makes 2 million, the average income has gone up to $2 million/yr.
The economy is doing great.
That's statistics in action.

Know thyself

I am going to have a small piece published. Here it is:

Know Thyself

by Socrates Thalassos

1) Are you somatically conscious of, present in, your body?
   Where in your body are "you"?

2) Are you lost in your thoughts, or conscious of your thoughts?

3) Are you aware of your sub/unconscious programs?
    How "on automatic" are you, how "here now"?

4) Do you identify yourself with "all-that-is"?
5) Have you articulated clearly your spiritual/metaphysical belief paradigm,            
    your values, intentions and priorities?
6) How much time do you spend working on yourself?

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Bio
Socrates Thalassos is someone who has spent many hours working on himself, has experienced great benefit, and wants to help you be happier and healthier.

Here we go again-Bernie Sanders, Hilary Clinton and The Facade of Democracy

I love Bernie, but ask yourself, why is he forced to run as a Democrat?
Can you vote for who you REALLY want for President? Or Senator? No.
Remember the 2000 election, when Ralph Nader voters were vilified for "costing" Al Gore the election? The obvious lesson was that what is needed is ranked balloting, where you put 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd Choice, and if your first choice doesn't come in the top 2, your vote goes to next choice, etc. That's getting close to real democracy. So did ranked voting become an issue? No.

Whatever the issue: environment, economic justice, prisons, corporate rule, etc., the decisions are made by politicians who got in as a result of a corrupt and dysfunctional "electoral" system. The real truth is that we have
AUCTIONS, NOT ELECTIONS
The amazing thing is that things aren't worse.
And almost more amazing is that all the various political, environmental and economic organizations don't get it, that the fix is in, the system is rigged, and put some effort into creating an honest system.

Democrats are not more creative thinkers than Republicans. They both have their stock set of beliefs and policies, both on auto response most of the time. They both rarely look under the surface appearances of issues, rarely look deeply, rarely see the full complexity and inter-relationship of issues. They think the problem is bad leaders, rather than recognizing that the bad leaders are a product of a broken system.

There really are not that many died in the wool conservatives, but when you disenfranchise the left, have auctions not elections, and when necessary simply hack the vote, well, you get what we have now, plutocracy, a system in which the environment and the populace are simply something to exploit.
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Two obvious issues
*Districts so gerrymandered, that your vote hardly counts.
*Can you trust electronic voting, when so much evidence indicates that it is easily hacked (google it)
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Election day not a national holiday, elections on a workday=discriminates against workers
This tells you the truth right away 

  A) Who gets to vote?
  1) Who gets to register
  2) Who gets wiped off the rolls (florida 2000).
  3) Drug laws as political repression-
if you wanted to find a way to take away the vote of tens of millions of Republicans, you would pass laws making beer and cigarettes illegal, serious crimes.
When, during the late 60s and 70s, the height of the culture and Vietnam wars, Republicans wanted to take away the votes of Democratic voters, especially blacks and hippies, they made pot and drugs illegal. It worked.
Ronald Reagan, Bush, and a host of Senators and Congressmen, would never have won if all those votes hadn't been taken away. We still are very much at the affect of those laws today.
  4) Are there enough voting machines (ohio 2004)

B) Who do they get to vote for?
   1) Winner take all=Lesser of two evils
   In most cases third party candidates have no chance, people are afraid of throwing away their vote
   i.e. Ralph Nader
  2) Instant Runoff Voting, Proportional Representation=every vote counts

C) How honest is the vote count
  1) Electronic voting machines = stolen elections
      Paper ballots harder to steal an election

D) How is the process financed?
  1) Campaign contributions =legal bribery
  2) Corporate money allowed as "free speech"
      No money=no chance to win=candidates sell out 

E) How do we find out what the candidates have to say
  1) Role of media
  a) corporate owned
  b) covers some candidates more than others, shuts out 3rd party candidates
  c) sound bites, slogan advertising

F) Serious, serious gerrymandering of elections, to the point that your vote hardly makes a difference.
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There's a great book called Fixing Elections,by Steven Hill, which is as valid today as the day it was written.
https://www.google.com/search?q=fixing+elections+steven+hill+&aq=f&oq=fixing+elections+steven+hill+&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

http://www.c-span.org/video/?171355-1/book-discussion-fixing-elections

EXECUTIVE HOURLY WAGES

EXECUTIVE HOURLY WAGES
based on 40hrs/wk x 50wks/yr
$500,000yr=$250/hr
$1 mil====$500/hr
$2 mil===$1000/hr
$5 mil===$2500/hr
$10 mil==$5000/hr
$20 mil=$10,000/hr
$30 mil=$15,000/hr

does not include perks and benefits

Does Western Medicine do more harm than good?

It would be difficult to find a more corrupt system 
such total lack of integrity and deep hypocrisy 
as the American medical system of "healthcare".
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In a nutshell:
1) has the profit motive so corrupted the medical system that effective, safe and cheap treatments have been deliberately ignored and suppressed, for example cancer treatments, and brutal, expensive and relatively ineffective treatments offered, often doing more harm than healing, all for the sake of making more money?

2) Do the egos of people in the medical establishment keep them from accepting new evidence and treatments which disprove theories they have built their careers on?
 
3a) Does Western allopathic medical theory have an accurate and relatively full understanding of how the human being really works, and the deeper, non technical causes of dis-ease, or is the theory so one dimensional that it renders the diagnosis and treatment much, much less effective than it could be, often doing more harm than healing. 

3b) is this deliberate, because the system has deliberately excluded any changes to the underlying theory because they might lose some of their obscene profits?
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Currently there is a big debate in this country about people having access to health care. A noble idea, but what good is access to health care if that care sucks? if it is based on maximizing profits, not health?

Most people unquestioningly accept Western Medicine without ever researching it.

People who do take the time to investigate often find themselves turning against allopathic medicine, on the fringes, becoming critics of not just the system but the very basic tenets of the medical establishment.
But few take the time to look into it.

We are surrounded and bombarded every day by a massive brainwashing propaganda machine touting Western medicine: drug ads everywhere, doctor heroes on TV, articles in magazines about the latest pill or treatment, public service billboards, etc, etc, etc.

But very few people ever question and look deeply into the details, which get more damning the deeper one looks. They may grumble about prices, but basically they do what they're told.
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• Is it safe? 

• Is it effective?

• Are the benefits greater than the risks? 

• Does it often do a lot more harm than good?

• Is it the only choice?

• Is it the best choice for your particular problem?

• Does Western medicine have a real understanding of the true causes and conditions of dis-ease, including energy and emotions, or is it like a lamp repairman who does not know that electricity is what makes the lamp work?

• Does the Western medical industry treat people in ways based on maximizing healing, or maximizing profits (at your expense, in health and money)?

• Have safe, effective and cheap treatments been deliberately ignored and even suppressed, because they threatened the profits of the pharmaceutical industry?

• Has the very research process itself been corrupted to the point that one can not even trust what is reported?
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Most people think of the benefits of medical treatment. They acknowledge that there are some problems, but believe that the benefits outweigh the costs, that most of the time it works.
Is that true?

Based on all the research i have done, my impression is that for emergencies Western Medicine is great, but for illness is often the worst choice, often does more harm than good, and maybe %10 of the time a good choice. When you read books by health oriented, open minded doctors like Andrew Weil they ask these questions.

The basic training that medical schools, schools usually funded by drug companies, indoctrinate doctors with is the idea that drugs are necessary. Of course, these drugs have many harmful side effects, such as turning people into zombies or destroying their sex lives, but that is considered necessary.

If you go to a doctor, there is a good chance that you too will be turned into a drug addict, although people taking these "medications" are not considered drug addicts in the usual sense. This is what the schools trained doctors to do, drugs and surgery. Doctors are taught to look with contempt on alternative practitioners as qucks, and taught that they are failing their patients if they don't give them pills or surgery. Medical schools are basically there for training Drug Pushers (legal drugs of course).

Meanwhile, there has been a systematic suppression of alternatives, with the intent of leaving people no choice but to go a drug pushing doctor. A medical monopoly. Just go online and read the stories of the suppression of many alternative treatments.

How many people have suffered and died 

because they were deliberately denied access to, 

or even knowledge of cheap, safe and effective treatments? 

Tens of millions? Hundreds of millions? More?

Ask yourself, is the incentive for drug companies and the medical establishment to come up with a pill that costs $10  and that you take one time, or is the incentive to give you just enough relief of symptoms to keep you coming back for more.

One of the biggest problems is that the basic scientific research itself can not be trusted.

who funds the experiments?

Who writes the protocols, which very often determine the results.
Who gets to publish their results.

*Very often the drug companies themselves write the research reports. Statistics are skewed (statistics can easily be made to lie simply by how you frame them).

*Experiments that produce results drug companies don't like are suppressed.

*Definitions of illness are changed so that more drugs are prescribed.

*how many times have you heard alternative treatments called unproven. That's because drug companies are not going to fund research which could reduce their obscene profits.
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In short, you can't even believe that what a doctor believes is scientifically true, because the drug companies have systematically lied and corrupted research. See some of the links i provide below, or just google it. Tons of examples on the internet, including some very big names.

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And the billing system-doctors and hospitals running up the bills at every chance they get. Just compare prices for treatments and drugs in the US to prices in other countries. and insurance companies dedicated to denying treatment using any excuse they can find.

is it any wonder people turn to "alternative" medicine.

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I want to make clear that my main criticism is of the drug companies and the medical schools, and secondarily of the doctors who close their minds to anything other than drugs and surgery. There are many fine individuals out there, doctors and especially nurses, working in the spirit of service, with the highest intentions, and i am appreciative and honoring of their efforts. My wish is that the means they have at their disposal are determined by effectiveness, not profitability.

Certainly many people have had the experience of being helped, the question is, 
*did people, did you,  receive the best care you could have, 
*were they/you denied treatments that could have helped, 
given treatments that were inferior to the treatments they/you were denied, 
*did they/you suffer horrible side effects that were unnecessary if they/you had been treated with "alternative" treatments (alternative only because ignored and suppressed), 
*did they/you pay enormous sums of money, sometimes losing everything, to pay for their/your medical care, and 
*was all this done for the sake of
maximizing profits instead of maximizing healing?

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here's a partial list of problems:

• 1 Misdiagnosis
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• 2 Side effects
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• 3 Illness picked up in hospitals, that people didn't have before they got there, 6th leading cause of death in the US
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• 4 The only treatments are strong drugs with many, many side effects, or drugs and surgery. Not much else. A sledgehammer approach. Created a nation of drug addicts. Very often doesn't cure illness, just keeps people hooked on taking heart medicine and blood pressure medicine
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• 5 The Placebo effect. In studies, people have had astonishing results from water injections and fake pills, just because they believed they were getting medicine. How much is this happening with regular medicines. Do they really work as much as we think?
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• 6 The natural tendency of the body is to heal. Medicine takes credit for every person who gets better. Speaking in terms of minor illnesses and accidents, most of them would have gotten better anyway. Did the pills do anything? Did they retard healing?
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• 7 Through overuse of antibiotics, many germs have progressively evolved to be resistant to treatments, a large long term cost.
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• 8 Western medicine is one dimensional, treating people like a hunk of meat. So much illness is the result of emotions. Medicating the body without treating the heart, the head, working with the causes of illness, is at best a temporary fix. 
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• 9 Western Medicine does not address the energetic body,  including EMF poisoning
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• 10 The emphasis is on treatment of disease after it occurs, rather than prevention
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• 11 Western Medicine refuses to address the toxicity of the environment, all the poisons in the land, water and air.
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• 12 Financial Incentives-is the incentive to come up with a pill that you take one time and costs 10 dollars, or to keep people hooked
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• 13 Is the research itself valid? Medical politics make US govt politics look tame. Can we trust what we're told, or was someones' reputation or job more important than health?
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• 14 Western medicine ignores significant lines of research. Two specific examples:
• a) There have been thousands and tens of thousands of cases of what medicine calls "spontaneous remission" of illness. In other words, diseases just went away, disappeared. Another word for this is miracle.
• b) In cases of multiple personality disorder, situations have been documented where one personality had illnesses, wore glasses, etc, and the other personality didn't. In other words, people's physiology changed drastically within the span of moments, as the change from one personality to another occurred.
• Rather than investigating how these things have happened, and how they can be encouraged to happen, medicine has ignored these lines of research, lines of research which could lead to amazing healings. Why?
  In fact, really accounting for spontaneous remission and MPD would mean that currently accepted medical theory would have to totally change, and so these amazing sources of insight are ignored. 
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• 15 Food.  Ignores the fact that you are what you eat; your body needs fresh, whole, living food with a lot of life force and the nutrients not processed out of it. A little lip service, but for the most part nutrition is not a part of medical diagnosis or treatment, in contrast to many "alternative" therapies, such as Gerson, macrobiotics and Wigmore, where it is the cornerstone.
• And, if you eat poison, you'll get sick; pesticides, herbicides, fungicides- the word cide means poison in latin, and if you got to a supermarket the factory farmed food there is loaded with poisons. 
• and now there's GMOs, a worldwide experiment in which you are the guinea pig.
  
  16 Emotions not accounted for as one of the primary causes of dis-ease
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• My personal opinion is that 
• the Western Medical establishment represents the biggest betrayal of trust since Judas. 
• A system more thoroughly lacking in integrity would be hard to find, although there are many fine individuals who are doing what they think is right, meaning what they've been trained by the teaching institutions to do.
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  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/health/research/05ghost.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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• https://www.google.com/search?q=Fishbein+AMA&aq=f&oq=Fishbein+AMA&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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• this is a great one to read
  http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/medical-history.html
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=drug+companies+%26+doctors+a+story+of+corruption&aq=0&oq=Drug+companies&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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• https://www.google.com/search?q=drug+companies+%26+doctors+a+story+of+corruption&aq=0&oq=Drug+companies&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=definitions+of+disease+expanded+for+profit
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I'm not saying to do nothing.
When we're sick, we need to take care of ourselves.

What IS the best way? I do think Western Medicine has some good to offer, is the best choice for some things, but with all the problems, you practically need to spend 10 years studying, and not at a medical institution, to know what is the best treatment for you.

My opinion is that, when you really look at the costs and benefits, "alternative" treatments are, 90% of the time, safer and more effective on deeper levels, and are gentler and cheaper.
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Most of us are surrounded every day by advertisements for medications and medicine.

TV shows regularly feature doctors as heroes, and have as long as TV has existed.
The underlying effect is the same as if a massive propaganda brainwashing campaign has been taking place, and maybe it has. It is very interesting to read, when one studies the history, that

• The reason alternative medicine is alternative, is because there was a deliberate creation of a Western Allopathic Medicine business monopoly in the early 1900s.

• Through the bribing of politicians, "Alternative" treatments, which had been the choice of many people, were, one by one, systematically made illegal, forcing people to have no other options than allopathic medicine, forcing them to spend their money on doctors, drugs and surgery, not on herbs or hydrotherapy.

• At the same time, the teaching institutions for doctors were taken over, in a devious way, by huge funding of medical schools, on the condition that the only thing they taught would be drugs and surgery.

• A one-two punch.

Just think of how no one is allowed to write or say anything about health without the words, "consult your doctor". Legally they have to say that, the medical monopoly in action.

Many doctors are kind people who truly care about their patients.
The question is, what were they taught?
In particular i want to mention cancer, a disease that 1 in 3 americans gets during their lifetime. I react whenever i hear an appeal to "help us do more research". Based on my studies, and people i have personally known, there are a number of safe, gentle and cheap ways to heal cancer, and they have been ignored and actively suppressed by the Medical Monopoly. For example,
did you know that

• in 1950 a Federal Court found the Hoxsey treatment an effective cure for cancer. The AMA got the FDA to drive it out of the country the following year.
• With actions like that, how much credibility can we accord the medical profession?

Watch the video below. I can also mention Macrobiotics and Wheatgrass Juice, and there are many more. Click the link for Recalled by Life, a book by a doctor who turned to Macrobiotics because he had no other choice, and then wrote this great book
Much of what you will read about health and alternative medicine is written by people who have come through the medical school machine. They were basically taught that everything except drugs and surgery is bullshit, that even mentioning it means they are failing their patients, and:
that is changing.

Please, do not take my word for anything!
Do your own research, come to your own conclusions.

Nothing original in this blog entry. Many people have said it all before, and well.

• There is a book called Sugar Blues, by William Dufty, that is basically a history of western medicine. you must read it.
• http://www.google.com/search?q=sugar+blues+william+dufty&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
  

• Also, watch Hoxsey, When Healing Becomes a crime. You can watch it free online. https://www.google.com/search?q=hoxsey+when+healing+becomes+a+crime&aq=f&oq=Ho&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

• Andrew Weil has stated most of this much better in his new book, why our health matters, which should have been named, The Medical Monopoly, America's National Disaster, How Allopathic Medicine has created a nation of drug addicts. Brutal Treatments, high prices, no real cures.
• http://www.amazon.com/Why-Our-Health-Matters-Transform/dp/1594630666

• http://www.amazon.com/Recalled-Life-Anthony-J-Sattilaro/dp/0395325242/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

• what doctors don't tell you http://www.wddty.com
• https://www.google.com/search?q=embrace+release+heal+by+leigh+fortson&aq=0&oq=embrace%2C+release%2C+heal&sugexp=chrome,mod=0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Let me summarize my core ideas quickly
1) The causes of dis-ease are primarily mental and emotional, secondarily lifestyle, diet, exercise, Modern medical treats people as biological machines; inherently this is inadequate and inacurate
2) Medicine has been corrupted by money (selling drugs) and ego (not being open to new ideas (for various reasons)), and consequently has ignored and even suppressed many useful treatments and lines of research.
3) Western medicine is good for emergencies, but for illness it is quite possible that Western Medicine does a lot more harm than good.

be well,
jay dancing bear