100%. So many appeal to authority. My parents asked me what medication I was on. I told them I wasn't on any and that I felt fine. They suggested I go to the doctor just in case there was something wrong with me that I didn't know about. This is how people think now. They both gulp down handfuls of pills everyday because the doctor says.
My parents are/were similar, but thankfully due to covid, and the subsequent collapse of the National Health Service in the UK, where every encounter with a doctor is now negative, and antagonistic, they have become much less trusting, and have started to question all the meds they are on.
Well that's far healthier an attitude. Mine asked me to leave because I wouldn't take the jab. Now they refuse to discuss it. But they are TV addicts. They cannot be reached.
Nowhere is this principle of the (lack of) democratization of medicine more clear than in the 'treatment' of depression with SSRIs, which allegedly address an imbalance of serotonin in the brain, which is supposedly the cause of depressive illness. Except, at best they are placebos, at worse they cause more harm than good. The 'experts' told us they found the neurochemical path to happiness and they could package it in a convenient pill. The 'experts' were wrong, but they're making an awful lot of money by being wrong. GPs hand out antidepressants like Smarties and no doubt Big Pharma rewards them for doing so.
This is a good case in point, because the "science" on which it was based has now been overturned. They now know that the serotonin pathway is not where it is at, and they have little idea why SSRIs "work", yet the practice of prescribing them continues unabated. It will take decades for the textbooks to be updated and filter through into the university training. Another example is amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's, an idea which has now been shown to be based on fraudulent work.
NeoLiberal is actually an old term for free markets. The universities and pharma-freak show aren't interested in free markets. That why they want to shut down ideas like yours. This medical system is fascist and they promote neoliberal as the scape goat.
Well it is definitely a very authoritarian and patronizing system, and it really reacts badly to having its authority questioned. My experience on a hospital ward a few years ago was it was run by Nazi like people.
when the economy is left alone (little government regulation) monopolies will evolve, such is the nature of big corporations. to ensure growing profits they want more control of markets, hence the movement into becoming evermore powerful monopolies. small stores and small companies don't stand a chance if they don't join in this direction. it has everything to do with power, profits and (ultimately) greed, more than either 'liberalism' or 'communism'. sorry, rant over ;-))
only if monopolies are profitable to the government, no...? monopolies like Big Oil, BigTech, Big media, Big Pharma, etc are run by non-government corporations, their non-government boards and CEOs, with precious little government involvement. the same goes for the military-industrial complex, which is run by mega-companies, not the government. or...?
Who contracts with MIC? The pharma freak show just used the government to push its injection and was paid for by government money. There are special treatments by government for big tech connected to surveillance of, like, everybody. Big oil doesn't pay for the roads their consumers drive on, ect.
The larger the corporation the more lobbying they pay for for special treatment.
totally true Gary. i call it becoming our own clinician. we have to act from that deep knowing and intuition we were born with and not wait for the elites to concur.
I find it true to act FROM this place, though we still use our outside knowledge too. We cannot use intuition without this other part. It has to be both.
Our intuition is when our subconscious, thus the Vagus etc., processes our stored knowledge. Knowledge is like threads, and intuition is the weaving our logical mind cannot do alone.
Xisca, i agree, in that i've studied medicine "outside the system" and have the "outer knowledge" you may be speaking of - but i can't in any integrity suggest people "see a doctor" first. The system can't be trusted and yet people keep investing. Their tests poison people and only name the thing . Ultimately, all truth came through our nervous system directly from the source, translated into perception. The Vedas were heard in their complete form by the mystic saints who penned them. i think all spiritual traditions and all science emerged this way. i BELIEVE we have it all within us - maybe some inner work to get there - but it's IN there and these times make it clear we must train that full knowing. i stand strong on this. But alas, too many are too far gone...
Excellent. You had me at :"Why We Need to be the Experts in Ourselves"
The whole system is locked down pretty good isn't it? It's not difficult to create lines of success for the "experts" in whatever field, by having them repeat whatever nonsense the MONEY wants and disregard the rest. (Ah, humans, so easy to manipulate.)
There has been a growing sense in the medical world, imo, of denying the emotional, mental and spiritual parts of us - just addressing the physical. Reinforcing the idea that what's real about us, is the physical part, yes, but also what's important and worth fixing. The "parts" you can see. In other words, treating us like robots. Which I do believe is intentional and part of the drive towards humans 2.0.
Yes, the medical system is definitely set up to prime us to enable and transition us into transhumanism. Machine and computer metaphors abound in medicine and healthcare [and the language of steam power, which I wrote about somewhere else... also I saw a video about how the system talks about people in terms of marimtime law - birthing [berthing], the birth canal, doctors [dockers] and so forth, which means we are vessels owned by the system]. The medical support and medical indoctrination about transgender is just the beginning of trying to undo our true natures. The hope is enough of us find our to healing what the medical system says is incurable to remove people's blind faith in the system we have [although to be fair, the pandemic, and the subsequent failures in health systems, have done us a bit of a favour of accelerating a lot of people's loss of faith it it].
"Vessels owned by the system" - that's a big one for many to see, the language and maritime stuff is so embedded in everything. And agree, the plandemic did wake a lot of us up.
So, ready to step into something new and human friendly.
Thank you for this post, which reminds me a bit of this story:
When we traveled to Ukraine in the mid-1990s with our son, who has suffered from cerebral palsy since birth, to try out a new therapy there (manual therapy of the spine within the framework of the system of intensive neurophysiological rehabilitation developed by Prof. Dr. med. Kozijavkin), the health insurance company refused to cover the treatment costs, although the therapy was also considered very promising and recommended by German specialists. The reason given was simply that this service was not included in the catalog of services provided by the statutory health insurance funds and could not be provided anyway, since the therapy took place abroad. So we scraped together about 9,000 DM to make this therapy possible for our son. The results were so amazing that we traveled to Ukraine again the following year. We could not afford a third trip and unfortunately could not continue the therapy.
To this day, there is no comparable therapy on offer in Germany - apart from much more expensive treatments, which all too often consist merely of quasi-cosmetic surgical interventions such as aductor, knee and Achilles tendon lengthening or Botox treatments.
Profit over people was probably the motto of the healthcare industry even back then.
And yet ... when you are reading about a particular chronic ailment and its pharmacological treatment - heart disease, say - what are the two things that are always advised at the end? DIET and EXERCISE. Oh, and don’t forget to hydrate and build good sleep habits.
Yes but this advice does not go far beyond this generic "boiler plate", and is not targetted or indivdualized, for example most doctors would not discuss the benefits of ketogenic diets, carnivore diets, for some, elimination diets to determine food sensitivies, tests for allergies or nutritional deficits [in the UK it is very hard to even get a vitamin D level test]. Similar with optimal exercise, including the benefits of sauna or cold plunge, breathwork etc. And for sleep, the benefits of hypnosis, meditation, CBD, herbal teas etc...
Yes, that is true, likely because they don’t know anything about them. For instance, in the US, the boilerplate government diet advice - the infamous Food Pyramid - is still carb-heavy, with an emphasis on limited meat. I know I’ve ignored it for years and experimented with what works best for me and it bears no resemblance to the Food Pyramid. Most athletic trainers have better knowledge about kinds of diets than do most doctors and dieticians. Amazingly enough, I will say that my GI doctor put me on a high dose of Vitamin D several years ago for about a month, then a maintenance dose thereafter. But those were pills. She could have said “Go stand outside for a while.”
I have tried to cross post in the 2 types of group, like about how vitamins like Thiamine could help alleviate the lack of energy so that their clients could stand the waves of activations better, so discharge it more easily.
No real interest...
In trauma resolution, they don't really take into account that some people solved some seemingly psychological issues just with supps.
Those who believe in supps often overlook the possible help of human support and Nervous System regulation.
I think that's a big point that Veronique Mead saw!
As long as we trust too much our linear mind, this will happen. Symbiosis is based on an instinctive web mind.
OOOooo tell us more about that finding about Thiamine helping discharging more? I get uncaring about nutrition and supplements etc.. because I've spent a ridiculous amount of time, money, different experiments, supplements, blood tests, all to not get anywhere that was noticeable improved from any of it. I just keep doing my keto thing because that helps with crazy cravings to eat all the things.
Hello Robert! Yeah, I am out of keto and keep my energy since making ATP aerobically thanks to thiamine. When we lack thiamine we do better on keto.
It's not thiamine alone but the big root. There are Facebook groups about it.
It's fundamental for the nervous system, so it increases our container and thus our capacity to stand the discharge of Sympathetic activations better.
Actually it helps discharge oxalates too, so it reduces a charge on the body.
Not everybody stands to supp B1 right away, in particular when there's a problem with sulfur. All other B must also be on board, according to what we need beyond food.
I supp with B 2, 3 and 6 as well.
Some need extra 9 and 12... Biotin too.
But I still eat between 6 and 12 eggs per day! They also have the sulfur....
I never tested but I felt the difference on my energy in one day when I reached the dose I needed. It's so high that it means my transporters are not working. I guess the prenatal exposure to lab chemicals in alcohol are the cause. Or what... as many people need very high dose too.
BTW electric sensibility is also a sign of thiamine deficiency!
I hear you. I have always been happy to research based on n=1 and I have gathered a mountain of evidence for myself. My doctor is a consultant but I say what I do. I have watched my parents rely on the doctors for everything over the years and often they don't know. Great work!
Hell yeah Gary! I love this article. Couldn't agree more on all fronts. I do think it's important, however that we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Seeking evidence is a good thing. "Science" is a good thing when referencing a means of inquiry. What's bad are the incentives, institutions, and potentially, people executing "science" and "evidence." It's the industry that's the problem, not the methodology or concept at its core.
Yes, fully agree that the true scientific method is something we should keep, and teach. I am with Dr Iain McGilchrist though [in his book or youtube video series, The Matter with Things], that true science includes intuition, imagination and hubris.
Yes, the tendency to separate rationality is actually not rational at all!
It's not easy to use intuitions though, if we are not let to practise it. They are spontaneous, and expecting them puts the thinking brain in the way much too easily.
It's interesting to see how people manage to connect in a loss-of-the-tribe world.
We need a new word as this "unity of people affected by the same" is not what tribes are, but the modern use of the word "tribe" shows to me that we miss this form of somatic connection, at the level of our nervous system and the rest of our physiology.
exactly, there's a sense of fluidity. several families living nearby are a community, but a more or less randomly organised group (i.e. students, labourers, soccer-moms, neighbours etc) might develop into a community as well. glad to have found this substack :-))
I have always tried to earn the cooperation of the medical staff by saying I am a specialist of myself... So I know things they don't, and viceversa, and we have to cooperate.
Evidence-based is precisely based on what we see and feel with all senses, but we can confuse correlation with causation.
It half works, for a few things... I didn't mean to say it works but it removes some of the helplessness. Also, the mere will to do it is the hint of having understood the problem you mentioned!
You know I agree with you Gary, with regards to the medical pharmacy establishment. The same is also true in other regards too. I recently self.dignised a car issue that my mechanic (a good bloke, but very busy) could not. I have no real knowledge of engines or mechanics but after 2 days of researching I am now more of an expert on my particular engine type that he is. He can't be expected to have all the knowledge on all of the engines in all the cars on the road, or have the time to diagnose unusual issues.
Yes, agree - I see no reason why any one can't learn which others got from textbooks and teachers. The worship of expertise - as measured by a bit of paper from a University - seems to be part of the elites ethos [including articles in the msm with headlines like "why you should not do your own research"]. youtube is actually great for teaching videos on just about anything, and has democratized learning.
I love YouTube for kknowledge and info on particular things/skills. I think word here is discernment. You have to expose yourself to enough of something and various opinions/idea to be able to discern for yourself the right and wrong in whatever you are looking for. I wouldn't advise anyone to to take anyones particular opinion as the only opinion or as fact. People need to open themselves up to as much opinion/theory/evidence as possible and back themselves to make a decision.
Everything I read here is smart, compassionate and blessedly practicable. Thank you so much for this work. When I'm able to apply what I learn, it's always helpful.
Thank you for saying this! This was based on some posts I wrote some years back, when my writing [and inner] "voice" was more angry, strident, and blaming, I was worried this might come across as too "attacking" which isn't my style any more.
It comes across (to me) as even-tempered and inviting. There's no pressure. That works really well, especially when a reader might wish to reflect and change course.
We can no longer put our blind trust in "experts". This is the lesson the world is learning, and resisting, right now.
Over-specialization is something I witnessed even in the philosophy department back in the 90s. (Which is no surprise, because philosophy always spills its ugly guts over into the rest of the culture). The entire focus of academics, my young freshman self observed, seemed to be finding a piece of intellectual turf small enough that no one could (or would bother) to challenge you on it. That turf could then be yours, for all time, and you could happily stay there as the "expert" of your little class of minutae.
Our misunderstanding of disease, and over-focus on diagnosis and drug-pairing, I think, is a direct outcome of this. Eastern medicine focus on the whole body and how everything relates to everything, which is why it does a better job of getting to the bottom of chronic illness.
100%. So many appeal to authority. My parents asked me what medication I was on. I told them I wasn't on any and that I felt fine. They suggested I go to the doctor just in case there was something wrong with me that I didn't know about. This is how people think now. They both gulp down handfuls of pills everyday because the doctor says.
My parents are/were similar, but thankfully due to covid, and the subsequent collapse of the National Health Service in the UK, where every encounter with a doctor is now negative, and antagonistic, they have become much less trusting, and have started to question all the meds they are on.
Well that's far healthier an attitude. Mine asked me to leave because I wouldn't take the jab. Now they refuse to discuss it. But they are TV addicts. They cannot be reached.
Parent: "I can't even keep track of all these pills. It doesn't make much sense. I'm taking pills to counteract the effects of other pills..."
Me: "Exactly, so you need to figure out how to get off of them."
Parent: "Well, the doctor knows best."
Me: (facepalm)
I've had this conversation so many times it feels like a pre-recorded loop.
Nowhere is this principle of the (lack of) democratization of medicine more clear than in the 'treatment' of depression with SSRIs, which allegedly address an imbalance of serotonin in the brain, which is supposedly the cause of depressive illness. Except, at best they are placebos, at worse they cause more harm than good. The 'experts' told us they found the neurochemical path to happiness and they could package it in a convenient pill. The 'experts' were wrong, but they're making an awful lot of money by being wrong. GPs hand out antidepressants like Smarties and no doubt Big Pharma rewards them for doing so.
This is a good case in point, because the "science" on which it was based has now been overturned. They now know that the serotonin pathway is not where it is at, and they have little idea why SSRIs "work", yet the practice of prescribing them continues unabated. It will take decades for the textbooks to be updated and filter through into the university training. Another example is amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's, an idea which has now been shown to be based on fraudulent work.
NeoLiberal is actually an old term for free markets. The universities and pharma-freak show aren't interested in free markets. That why they want to shut down ideas like yours. This medical system is fascist and they promote neoliberal as the scape goat.
Well it is definitely a very authoritarian and patronizing system, and it really reacts badly to having its authority questioned. My experience on a hospital ward a few years ago was it was run by Nazi like people.
If it quakes like a duck... Same corporate investor system that put the Nazis in power to wipe out the smallholders of Europe.
monopolies and corporatism, the anti-thesis of any free market system.
Exactly.
when the economy is left alone (little government regulation) monopolies will evolve, such is the nature of big corporations. to ensure growing profits they want more control of markets, hence the movement into becoming evermore powerful monopolies. small stores and small companies don't stand a chance if they don't join in this direction. it has everything to do with power, profits and (ultimately) greed, more than either 'liberalism' or 'communism'. sorry, rant over ;-))
No, monopolies only exist with government protection.
only if monopolies are profitable to the government, no...? monopolies like Big Oil, BigTech, Big media, Big Pharma, etc are run by non-government corporations, their non-government boards and CEOs, with precious little government involvement. the same goes for the military-industrial complex, which is run by mega-companies, not the government. or...?
Who contracts with MIC? The pharma freak show just used the government to push its injection and was paid for by government money. There are special treatments by government for big tech connected to surveillance of, like, everybody. Big oil doesn't pay for the roads their consumers drive on, ect.
The larger the corporation the more lobbying they pay for for special treatment.
totally true Gary. i call it becoming our own clinician. we have to act from that deep knowing and intuition we were born with and not wait for the elites to concur.
so many have forgottenf, first, how to recognise and next to trust that deep knowledge. most young (and healthy) children are good at it though.
I find it true to act FROM this place, though we still use our outside knowledge too. We cannot use intuition without this other part. It has to be both.
Our intuition is when our subconscious, thus the Vagus etc., processes our stored knowledge. Knowledge is like threads, and intuition is the weaving our logical mind cannot do alone.
Xisca, i agree, in that i've studied medicine "outside the system" and have the "outer knowledge" you may be speaking of - but i can't in any integrity suggest people "see a doctor" first. The system can't be trusted and yet people keep investing. Their tests poison people and only name the thing . Ultimately, all truth came through our nervous system directly from the source, translated into perception. The Vedas were heard in their complete form by the mystic saints who penned them. i think all spiritual traditions and all science emerged this way. i BELIEVE we have it all within us - maybe some inner work to get there - but it's IN there and these times make it clear we must train that full knowing. i stand strong on this. But alas, too many are too far gone...
That's something I can see around for sure. Nevertheless I am going to respectfully suggest something that can change your view for something wider.
Instead of something instead of the other, it's life changing to see how much cold and hot belong to the same thermometer!
So it means to shift to the habit of seeing "it's both, and both at the same time".
It cannot be all inside us more than it can all come from the outside.
It's both.
Absolutely nobody has received those messages from God out of the context of their culture and the place where they live.
It's closer to the truth to think in terms of relationships.
and equilibrium.
Excellent. You had me at :"Why We Need to be the Experts in Ourselves"
The whole system is locked down pretty good isn't it? It's not difficult to create lines of success for the "experts" in whatever field, by having them repeat whatever nonsense the MONEY wants and disregard the rest. (Ah, humans, so easy to manipulate.)
There has been a growing sense in the medical world, imo, of denying the emotional, mental and spiritual parts of us - just addressing the physical. Reinforcing the idea that what's real about us, is the physical part, yes, but also what's important and worth fixing. The "parts" you can see. In other words, treating us like robots. Which I do believe is intentional and part of the drive towards humans 2.0.
Thanks, Gary.
Yes, the medical system is definitely set up to prime us to enable and transition us into transhumanism. Machine and computer metaphors abound in medicine and healthcare [and the language of steam power, which I wrote about somewhere else... also I saw a video about how the system talks about people in terms of marimtime law - birthing [berthing], the birth canal, doctors [dockers] and so forth, which means we are vessels owned by the system]. The medical support and medical indoctrination about transgender is just the beginning of trying to undo our true natures. The hope is enough of us find our to healing what the medical system says is incurable to remove people's blind faith in the system we have [although to be fair, the pandemic, and the subsequent failures in health systems, have done us a bit of a favour of accelerating a lot of people's loss of faith it it].
"Vessels owned by the system" - that's a big one for many to see, the language and maritime stuff is so embedded in everything. And agree, the plandemic did wake a lot of us up.
So, ready to step into something new and human friendly.
Appreciate your posts and insights, Gary.
reductionist medicine, like patching up a car.
Thank you for this post, which reminds me a bit of this story:
When we traveled to Ukraine in the mid-1990s with our son, who has suffered from cerebral palsy since birth, to try out a new therapy there (manual therapy of the spine within the framework of the system of intensive neurophysiological rehabilitation developed by Prof. Dr. med. Kozijavkin), the health insurance company refused to cover the treatment costs, although the therapy was also considered very promising and recommended by German specialists. The reason given was simply that this service was not included in the catalog of services provided by the statutory health insurance funds and could not be provided anyway, since the therapy took place abroad. So we scraped together about 9,000 DM to make this therapy possible for our son. The results were so amazing that we traveled to Ukraine again the following year. We could not afford a third trip and unfortunately could not continue the therapy.
To this day, there is no comparable therapy on offer in Germany - apart from much more expensive treatments, which all too often consist merely of quasi-cosmetic surgical interventions such as aductor, knee and Achilles tendon lengthening or Botox treatments.
Profit over people was probably the motto of the healthcare industry even back then.
So sorry to hear how you have been failed by this system, but grateful for you adding your story to help illustrate the points.
I forget if you mentioned it before, but the polyvagal theory pocket guide by Stephen Porges is amazing and connects with what you mention.
I also think parkinson's has a toxic component, primarily from jabs.
Perhaps the toxins are what jam up the signals of the sympathetic and parasympathetic vagal systems and stress just exacerbates it.
That might explain a factor why two people could be exposed to the same toxins and one gets debilitated while the other seems perfectly fine.
I'm also amazed at the nocebo effect being so strong in some people.
Dr Tom Cowan noticed a common number of 10% of people getting sick in control experiments.
There's so much that allopathic medicine is wrong about because they're hung up on narrow minded explanations for disease, ignoring the big picture.
Yes! Polyvagal Theory was central in my own understandings, and figuring out what the cause and effects were. I have a series of posts which relate to this PD directly https://www.outthinkingparkinsons.com/articles/dorsal-vagus
And yet ... when you are reading about a particular chronic ailment and its pharmacological treatment - heart disease, say - what are the two things that are always advised at the end? DIET and EXERCISE. Oh, and don’t forget to hydrate and build good sleep habits.
Yes but this advice does not go far beyond this generic "boiler plate", and is not targetted or indivdualized, for example most doctors would not discuss the benefits of ketogenic diets, carnivore diets, for some, elimination diets to determine food sensitivies, tests for allergies or nutritional deficits [in the UK it is very hard to even get a vitamin D level test]. Similar with optimal exercise, including the benefits of sauna or cold plunge, breathwork etc. And for sleep, the benefits of hypnosis, meditation, CBD, herbal teas etc...
Yes, that is true, likely because they don’t know anything about them. For instance, in the US, the boilerplate government diet advice - the infamous Food Pyramid - is still carb-heavy, with an emphasis on limited meat. I know I’ve ignored it for years and experimented with what works best for me and it bears no resemblance to the Food Pyramid. Most athletic trainers have better knowledge about kinds of diets than do most doctors and dieticians. Amazingly enough, I will say that my GI doctor put me on a high dose of Vitamin D several years ago for about a month, then a maintenance dose thereafter. But those were pills. She could have said “Go stand outside for a while.”
The reverse is true too... Those who are trained in trauma resolution mostly ignore nutrition and exercise.
I know both sides and have tried to speak about each system in the others' paradigm, with little success.
In general they strawman into a rebuttal of their side instead of seeing that a multi approach is needed with cooperation.
Interesting, not sure I have noticed that particular divide before.
I have tried to cross post in the 2 types of group, like about how vitamins like Thiamine could help alleviate the lack of energy so that their clients could stand the waves of activations better, so discharge it more easily.
No real interest...
In trauma resolution, they don't really take into account that some people solved some seemingly psychological issues just with supps.
Those who believe in supps often overlook the possible help of human support and Nervous System regulation.
I think that's a big point that Veronique Mead saw!
As long as we trust too much our linear mind, this will happen. Symbiosis is based on an instinctive web mind.
Oh yes, I see what you mean.
OOOooo tell us more about that finding about Thiamine helping discharging more? I get uncaring about nutrition and supplements etc.. because I've spent a ridiculous amount of time, money, different experiments, supplements, blood tests, all to not get anywhere that was noticeable improved from any of it. I just keep doing my keto thing because that helps with crazy cravings to eat all the things.
Hello Robert! Yeah, I am out of keto and keep my energy since making ATP aerobically thanks to thiamine. When we lack thiamine we do better on keto.
It's not thiamine alone but the big root. There are Facebook groups about it.
It's fundamental for the nervous system, so it increases our container and thus our capacity to stand the discharge of Sympathetic activations better.
Actually it helps discharge oxalates too, so it reduces a charge on the body.
Not everybody stands to supp B1 right away, in particular when there's a problem with sulfur. All other B must also be on board, according to what we need beyond food.
I supp with B 2, 3 and 6 as well.
Some need extra 9 and 12... Biotin too.
But I still eat between 6 and 12 eggs per day! They also have the sulfur....
I never tested but I felt the difference on my energy in one day when I reached the dose I needed. It's so high that it means my transporters are not working. I guess the prenatal exposure to lab chemicals in alcohol are the cause. Or what... as many people need very high dose too.
BTW electric sensibility is also a sign of thiamine deficiency!
I hear you. I have always been happy to research based on n=1 and I have gathered a mountain of evidence for myself. My doctor is a consultant but I say what I do. I have watched my parents rely on the doctors for everything over the years and often they don't know. Great work!
Hell yeah Gary! I love this article. Couldn't agree more on all fronts. I do think it's important, however that we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Seeking evidence is a good thing. "Science" is a good thing when referencing a means of inquiry. What's bad are the incentives, institutions, and potentially, people executing "science" and "evidence." It's the industry that's the problem, not the methodology or concept at its core.
Yes, fully agree that the true scientific method is something we should keep, and teach. I am with Dr Iain McGilchrist though [in his book or youtube video series, The Matter with Things], that true science includes intuition, imagination and hubris.
Yes, the tendency to separate rationality is actually not rational at all!
It's not easy to use intuitions though, if we are not let to practise it. They are spontaneous, and expecting them puts the thinking brain in the way much too easily.
A lot is thrown away with bath dirty water, but also the reverse, so much keeping of dirt!
It's interesting to see how people manage to connect in a loss-of-the-tribe world.
We need a new word as this "unity of people affected by the same" is not what tribes are, but the modern use of the word "tribe" shows to me that we miss this form of somatic connection, at the level of our nervous system and the rest of our physiology.
'community' is a good term as well, a social construct implying various positive elements (close contact, warmth, togetherness etc).
Yes I think it's the right word! Several communities can coexist in the same place, and don't have the same link as in tribes.
exactly, there's a sense of fluidity. several families living nearby are a community, but a more or less randomly organised group (i.e. students, labourers, soccer-moms, neighbours etc) might develop into a community as well. glad to have found this substack :-))
I have always tried to earn the cooperation of the medical staff by saying I am a specialist of myself... So I know things they don't, and viceversa, and we have to cooperate.
Evidence-based is precisely based on what we see and feel with all senses, but we can confuse correlation with causation.
Does it work? Here, it is likely to make them even more dismissive, and then to gainsay everything you say.
It half works, for a few things... I didn't mean to say it works but it removes some of the helplessness. Also, the mere will to do it is the hint of having understood the problem you mentioned!
wonder what the verdict is on Lyme. and Alzheimer's.
You know I agree with you Gary, with regards to the medical pharmacy establishment. The same is also true in other regards too. I recently self.dignised a car issue that my mechanic (a good bloke, but very busy) could not. I have no real knowledge of engines or mechanics but after 2 days of researching I am now more of an expert on my particular engine type that he is. He can't be expected to have all the knowledge on all of the engines in all the cars on the road, or have the time to diagnose unusual issues.
Yes, agree - I see no reason why any one can't learn which others got from textbooks and teachers. The worship of expertise - as measured by a bit of paper from a University - seems to be part of the elites ethos [including articles in the msm with headlines like "why you should not do your own research"]. youtube is actually great for teaching videos on just about anything, and has democratized learning.
I love YouTube for kknowledge and info on particular things/skills. I think word here is discernment. You have to expose yourself to enough of something and various opinions/idea to be able to discern for yourself the right and wrong in whatever you are looking for. I wouldn't advise anyone to to take anyones particular opinion as the only opinion or as fact. People need to open themselves up to as much opinion/theory/evidence as possible and back themselves to make a decision.
Everything I read here is smart, compassionate and blessedly practicable. Thank you so much for this work. When I'm able to apply what I learn, it's always helpful.
Thank you for saying this! This was based on some posts I wrote some years back, when my writing [and inner] "voice" was more angry, strident, and blaming, I was worried this might come across as too "attacking" which isn't my style any more.
It comes across (to me) as even-tempered and inviting. There's no pressure. That works really well, especially when a reader might wish to reflect and change course.
We can no longer put our blind trust in "experts". This is the lesson the world is learning, and resisting, right now.
Over-specialization is something I witnessed even in the philosophy department back in the 90s. (Which is no surprise, because philosophy always spills its ugly guts over into the rest of the culture). The entire focus of academics, my young freshman self observed, seemed to be finding a piece of intellectual turf small enough that no one could (or would bother) to challenge you on it. That turf could then be yours, for all time, and you could happily stay there as the "expert" of your little class of minutae.
Our misunderstanding of disease, and over-focus on diagnosis and drug-pairing, I think, is a direct outcome of this. Eastern medicine focus on the whole body and how everything relates to everything, which is why it does a better job of getting to the bottom of chronic illness.