Sunday, May 4, 2003

Proven or Unproven? Old or New? Behind the Times or Ahead? It seems like this to me: 1. Holistic health treatments are sometimes lumped in with new age. But how can they be "new" age if most of them are hundreds (homeopathy, etc.) or thousands (massage, Traditional Chinese medicine, etc.) of years old? 2. Western (or Conventional) medicine seems to be "slightly ahead of its time" concerning technology, food and drugs. We are trying things that the FDA says are "proven" and then we find out in a few years that it wasn't a good idea at all. Take aspartame, for example. For several years, it seemed quite safe, but now a lot of doctors are saying it causes big problems. But it hasn't been taken off the shelf yet. Chemotherapy is ultra-expensive, causes great havoc in a person's immune system, has a poor record of helping people (especially with things like prostate cancer), why are we still using it so widely? Why haven't we backed off? Why did we jump on using it so quickly in the first place? 3. Yet, Western medicine seems to be four hundred years behind in its physics! Western medicine is based on Newtonian/Cartesian physics, on the clockwork universe. When an MD says "that alternative therapy has no scientific basis" they are often talking about Newtonian science! Physicists would probably be surprised by many things coming out of the mouths of Western medical doctors. What about Albert Einstein? Niels Bohr? David Bohm? Erwin Schrödinger? Relativity? Quantum mechanics>? Chaos? Complexity? All other aspects of modern civilization have changed dramatically based on these "new sciences" (several of them over seventy years old!) except Western medicine. Basically, these new sciences will mean that we need to pay closer attention to the electromagnetic fields in our bodies than to the matter of our bodies. Matter doesn't matter, as quantum physicists often say. (I'm not one, but I've read at least enough to be a concerned onlooker.) 9:14:06 PM     Cool Blogs These blogs are cool, although you probably knew that. Darren Barefoot Transforming Technology Radio Free Blogistan 12:39:26 AM

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