I will paraphrase a recent pundit’s opinion piece, here, by repeating his conclusion: The current hysteria in the health care debate is not about not having access to medical care so much as it is about our fear of dying, dying alone, dying in agony, dying without drugs to ease the pain and the fear. We have convinced ourselves that going to a doctor is the only way to keep the grim reaper at bay.
Everyone’s solution seems to be “Well, lets just throw more money at the problem and maybe it will go away”. Hence a 1500 page bill in Congress to modify our current system and create another excuse to print more money.
Doctors and placebos have a lot in common. If I can convince you that the sugar pill (the placebo) I give you will make you live forever, then somewhere between 15% and 45% of the people who take it will, in fact, live forever, such is the power of the mind to change our physical reality. Doctors, as titular heads of the health care system, have absconded with our inner healer, and now sit as final arbiters to our peace of mind when it comes to our body and our minds. How is it that sixty seconds of conversation with a guy with a degree can make us feel better? Why do we give them so much power, when they do so little for us?
Perhaps the solution to the health care problem or the lack thereof is to reintroduce the idea of an Inner Healer.
Let’s start:
Dealing with death: You exist. You have existed, in one form or another, since the Oneverse exploded into being. You will exist, in one form or another, until the last star gutters and goes out at the end of time. This is a very, very long time and you will have a whole lot of fun along the way. That you have chosen to enter the Earth School and animate a human body is pretty cool, but it is not the end of your journey through space/time. Do not cling to this place. Do not seek death, but do not cling overlong to a life you have finished living. As with any school, the lessons learned here must be taken out into the greater whole of life and passed on. In Earth School, death is our greatest teacher. Live fiercely and die with grace. This is the way of the warrior.
Now that we have put the fear of death to bed, let’s take the next step. Staying healthy. What the placebo effect tells us is that our minds are our final arbiter of what is real and what is not. Your body is clay, your mind is the tool that shapes it. Fear destroys that mind/body connection. First. Fear nothing. Next. Listen.
Listening: First time listeners have a hard time with this. Sit somewhere quiet, turn off your left brain, access the right brain and listen for the song of the Oneverse (It helps to be a little high the first couple of times, hence the popularity of medical marijuana. Psilosybin works as well, but only if you are hard of hearing, metaphorically speaking). The song is all around you, so this part is not hard. Now listen for the song inside your body. This can be hard if you live a toxic lifestyle. Until you have cleansed yourself of fear and jealousy and lust for things that are not good for you, your internal song with be the song of dark chaos. This is the song of death. You will be able to hear your body dying. Uck! Not fun.
Breaking down the walls: How do we get rid of the song of chaos? Hmmm. Outside the wall you have built around yourself is the wholeness of the Oneverse. Inside is fear and dark death. We need to bring the Oneverse inside to wash out the dark chaos. This sounds simple. It can be very hard. You love your walls. Your walls have kept you safe. Bad things want to eat you, outside those walls, you think. Well, yes, but you are stronger and more powerful than those bad things. You built the walls as a temporary shield while you learned the ropes here in Earth School. But you are grown now. The walls must come down if you are to do what you intended yourself to do when you first contracted to come here. You must hear the Song of the Oneverse if this is to happen.
What happens when you listen to the song? See it in your mind’s eye? The Oneverse becomes whole and continuous, the threads of it running through you, touching all of reality. You become aware of your connection to everything. Grok this. You are as powerful as that which you can grok. This is the way of the warrior.
Once you have grokked the Oneverse, you will be able to listen to the human body you use as avatar. It will tell you many things. What to eat. What to drink. When to play. When to make love. When to sleep. It will even tell you when you are having toxic thoughts. Watch young children. They have this ability but lose it as society beats them into a different shape. Do what your inner child tells you. You will make mistakes, at first. Don’t worry. It is very forgiving, this human clay. You can use it roughly and put it away wet and it will heal itself, because you believe it will and because you are listening to it, thereby placing the light of your awareness and your good intention where light needs to shine. Shine that light into all your dark corners. Ever so slowly, those places will heal.
Staying healthy: Think non-toxic thoughts. This is also a little tricky. Sort of like walking a long narrow path with a sheer cliff on one side. I could tell you to never look at the edge, never see the drop into oblivion, and your mind, being a creature of attention and intention, will follow your eyes to the edge and start gibbering about falling to your death. You have to force yourself, train yourself to see only the path. Force your eyes and your mind into seeing the positive and the constructive. That does not mean you are not aware of the danger. You are. But you let that danger hang off on the edge of knowing, trusting that if you keep your mind pointed in the place you want to go, you will get there.
In modern society, that means you must stop listening to the Chicken Littles and the Fear Mongers. You have to divorce yourself from people and organizations that lay blame or induce guilt. You have to shed the institutions that nurture your fear and powerlessness. All these people are busy shouting “Look out, the cliff is right there, you are going to fall, stop, turn back, be afraid, be very afraid, here, give me your money, close your eyes, I will lead you down the path.”
With your eyes closed, your safety is just an illusion. And can you really trust someone else to guide your feet safely down the path? Recent events have proved that no one can be trusted to take care of your vested interests except yourself. No one sees your path as well as you. No one knows your heart and your soul and your body as well as you. No one loves your life as much as you. You must become aware. You must keep your eyes open. You must keep your mind open. Self actualize. Self educate. Self care.
You have a path. Your path. No one can tell you how to make your journey. Let no one stand in your way, those who would tell you it is unwise or unsafe or unholy or unjust. No one can be the arbiter of your journey but you. Ignore the rules and laws that keep you from that journey. There are higher rules and only one law. That of the Oneverse.
Would a warrior, living a warrior’s life, give his sword to another? No. Neither would he allow anyone to fight his battle for him.
Remember. Most importantly. No fear.
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