Hi Woody
I found what you had to say very interesting and I also know it to be true. I know that from my own experience but did not connect it until I read what you had to say. While I was reading your post it is as if a door in my mind opened up. William Blake's The Doors of Perception!!
Also my husband has mentioned that he noticed the frame of my mind seems to have an effect on my condition. But I did not connect it until I read what you had to say. I can't thank you enough for that.
What I am referring to is that I had a four year remission from my condition. I thought it had gone away for good because of that remission so it depressed me and frustrated me all the more when it came back. Just connecting the frame of my mind and where I was at when that remission happened coincides with what you said. I was very spiritual at that time, my mind was on spiritual things most of the time and there was a wish, a prayer that my illness would go away so I might be physically healthy as well. The condition began to gradually get better and better until it was completely gone. There must have been at that time in my life that connection, that unity between the soul and the mind that you spoke of in your post. So why did the condition start acting up again? Because certain events in my life that were negative, the stress that came along with those events, and my mind turning away from the spiritual all coincided at that time as well. I think that everything you said is true. We are even hearing that more and more from doctors. They are saying a person's frame of mind concerning their illness plays a large part in their recovery. They tell cancer patients to meditate now, and imagine the tumor or cancer cells disappearing. It has worked for a lot of cancer patients, even brought about complete cures. That probably happens because when we do meditate, we are more in contact with our spiritual nature and our soul and body become one as it it is meant to be. Negative thoughts and fears interfere with that oneness of the soul and body. Which can have the reverse effect and we actually become ill.
You used astrology and an example of the Shaman and the use of herbs and plants to bring about the increased amounts of DMT in the body. Spirit molecule. I like that! It is what my Native American ancestors used to do as well when they used Peyote cactus in their religious ceremonies. In Scripture Jesus tells us to heal ourselves. In Scripture there is the incident when Peter sees Jesus walking on the water towards the boat. Jesus beckons for Peter to come to him. In his excitement Peter began walking on the water towards Jesus. Then a storm arose on the sea and the waves grew higher and Peter was afraid so he began to sink. He yelled for Jesus to save him, which of course Jesus did. But in saving him Jesus asks Peter why he was afraid, and told him did he not know that if he had the faith he could move mountains. That too is an example of what can happen if you separate the soul and body, the spiritual from the physical because of negative thoughts and fear. In other instances in the New Testament when Jesus heals someone, he tells the person, "it is your faith that healed you." I am not out to give people bible studies here, it is just that I know more about theology than astrology but what I cited here is just the same as what you spoke of. Just a different perspective.
I also agree with what you said about perscription drugs. I knew you were referring to the way they are dispensed as a way of treating the symptoms and that they can be overused. I mean most of us have more than one thing wrong with our bodies at the same time. So most of us, especially the older you get, are taking more than one perscription drug at the same time. And at the same time may be using over the counter drugs as well. There are times when drugs are needed, but on the whole, a lot of doctors just give you medicine to treat symptoms because they don't know the cause of most illnesses or what cures them. Antibiotics to cure bacteria infections are helpful, but then again, they got to be so over perscribed that they lost their effect because our system was so use to them. Not everyone can take Penecillin, I for one am allergic to it. I also know that you were not encouraging the use of marijuana, just comparing it to the number of deaths as compared to its use and the use of prescription drugs. Funny how sometimes just one thing you say gets jumped on and the whole point you are making is lost isn't it?
Thanks again for triggering the lightbulb in my head to go on with what you have said here, Woody. Gives me a lot to think about.
Love, Connie
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