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Imagining a ReVisioned Medicine in 2012

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Physicians also become patients.  They also suffer iatrogenic events.  An MD colleague suffered kidney failure from medication for rheumatoid arthritis.  His own physician did not protect him from the medical treatment that was known to cause harm and he couldn't protect himself either.  This was the protocol insisted upon.  He was its victim.  

To almost every Darà © gathering, someone has brought a story of having suffered recently at the hands of western medicine.  Yes, they asked for treatment but they didn't expect to become sicker, they didn't expect to suffer from the medicine to which they had been forced to submit. Debilitating infections contracted during hospital stays.  Sensitivity to pharmaceuticals. Children, everywhere, on drugs.  An alarming increase in autism.  

Medical research consistently denies the relationship between mercury in vaccines and autism.  But ask the mother (in our community) who brought a healthy, vibrant baby to the post natal clinic for his shots and two days later had a lifeless baby who is seriously autistic twenty years later.  

Medicine has hidden the ever present dangers of the thousands of chemicals used by industry because it itself is an industry that uses toxic chemicals in the form of drugs. " According to the New York Times a study by the Army surgeon general, conducted soon after 9/11, found that up to 2.4 million people could be killed or wounded by a terrorist attack on a single chemical plant. What could be released instantly in a cloud of death is inevitably released slowly in the environment and carried to our children through the air and through the many thousands of products including medicines, vaccines and dental fillings". Today the nightmare for doctors, who have any kind of sensitivity to the realities that environmental medicine provides, is to diagnose problems and disease that are occurring against a background of chemical hostility including the ever-present serious side effects from medications. The general tendency of allopathic physicians is to deny toxicity while falsely elevating bacteria and viruses as the main causes of disease. Their failure to understand when chemicals are combining to overwhelm the health of any particular individual is tragic.

Multiple Causes of Autism Spectrum Disorders

International Medical Veritas Association Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

This week there was a suicide in our kinship network.  The woman, addicted to prescribed pain pills, could no longer bear her life. The question remains, wouldn't we invent different treatment if we thought differently about healing?   If we didn't see enemies everywhere, might we create protocols that are not devastating to the body and the earth?  

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I am haunted by an image.  I have had the great fortune of being friends with the extraordinary woman writer, Anaà ¯s Nin. Anaà ¯s' life was committed to beauty and graciousness.  She introduced her readers to the mysterious realms of the dream and inner life.  In January 1977, she was dying of cancer.  Before her death, her husband had built a Japanese teahouse outside her bedroom window that she would never enter.  In the last weeks of her life, until I had to go to New York, I had been able to visit her every day to help her cross from one world to another.  These were blessed moments.  She had arranged her dying to accord with her living so that it would occur peacefully in the house she loved, by the miniature sand garden with sunlight and moonlight reflecting on the dark waters of the little pool outside.  Her husband, who loved her passionately, had promised her that she could die at home.  I called from Manhattan to say good-bye yet again.  I could barely make out her voice.  When I called the next day, I learned that in the last moment, her husband had panicked, had been afraid to defy the doctors, had called an ambulance and she had died in the hospital.

This is the image; I wasn't there but it is one of my strongest memories: Anaà ¯s is strapped onto a gurney that is being raised into the ambulance.  Her husband has placed a red velvet bow in her hair.  An IV is being plugged into her vein.  Her eyes are wide open.  Startled.  Terrified.  Later, her husband would say, "I knew from the way she looked at me, that I had entirely betrayed her."  

Betrayal is a word commonly used by people coming to Darà © or ReVisioning Medicine. Betrayal is a word that veterans use when speaking of their military experience in Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.  Those who come to Darà © suffering PTSD, say they did not expect to be violating the basic principles of human community in a war whose motives they quickly began to distrust.  Betrayal by family members who never learned the ways of healing, by physicians, therapists, priests, lawmakers, police, teachers, whose loyalties are to other than the individual patient.

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We are not free to live or to die the ways we wish.  We do not have control over our own lives.  We are forced to yield to authorities we do not know and may well not respect.  Guilds of professionals and politicians, often beholden to the pharmaceutical, insurance and medical industries, make strategic economic decisions that will decide our fate.  When you are prohibited from acting on behalf of your own life, you are living in a totalitarian system.  Despite what we have been led to believe, totalitarianism is very subtle. It seeps into our bodies and minds like an invisible gas.  Like radiation that we cannot detect without a specialized instrument, that enters or bones, distorts our cells. "You must.  You must not." Even those who ultimately impose the laws and create the conditions under which we live, are not aware of the full impact of their decisions, actions and their consequences. It is the way of those who presume, without asking, to alter our food supply, to pollute our land, to envelop us in a chemical and electromagnetic soup that threatens all of us, our children, human and non-human.  

In The Third Reich of Dreams 1933 -- 1939, Charlotte Beradt, who kept a diary of patient dreams in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich and smuggled it out of Germany in code, traces the ways in which the rising tide of fascism infected the unconscious lives of ordinary Germans, how people, according to one reviewer, are remade from the inside out by totalitarian regimes.

In the time since I was young, western medicine has become a dogmatic system entering every aspect of our lives.  If an individual or a family refuses certain treatments, they can be coerced into acquiescence.  Children who are not vaccinated cannot attend public school despite the increasing evidence, scientific and anecdotal, of the relationship between the plague of autism and vaccinations.  People can be denied their rightful and respectful death by being kept on life support or revived against their will and their instructions.  We are injured and die of a host of medical treatments and procedures.  Every prescription comes with a long list of possible side-effects, from mild to serious.  Iatrogenic illness is the third most fatal disease in the United States after heart disease and cancer.  

I must repeat this: Iatrogenic illness is the third most fatal disease in the United States after heart disease and cancer

And yet, we have no freedom to refuse and no global imperative to undo the system that is killing us and the earth, but still calls itself medicine.  

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Deena Metzger  is a poet, novelist, essayist, storyteller, teacher, healer and medicine woman who has taught and counseled for over forty years, in the process of which she has developed therapies (Healing Stories) (more...)
 

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