| "> | | | | the dis-ease is much more difficult to treat and |
| Einstein, a genius scientist of the 20th century, | | | | when the chances of success are modest - this |
| and central to the new energy physics, stated | | | | means that potentially useful treatments are |
| that 'a problem cannot be solved by the same | | | | discarded as worthless. |
| mind set that created it'. Cancer is a case in point. | | | | Traditional research methodology, or 'quantitative |
| Cancer is a dis-ease that stems partly from the | | | | research' is central to science and other |
| products of the mechanistic, anthropomorphic and | | | | methodologies are not usually acceptable. |
| exploitative philosophy at the heart of our culture, | | | | 'Qualitative research' is equally, if not more |
| which we tend to ignore. Its effective treatment | | | | important at the present time in reference to |
| demands that we see ourselves in a different | | | | cancer. Other medical systems, such as Chinese |
| way and act accordingly. | | | | or Ayurvedic medicine, Homeopathy or |
| Medicine is extremely slow to move from a | | | | Naturopathy use far subtler tools in both diagnosis |
| mechanistic and physical philosophy to a more | | | | and treatment. They are based on seeing the |
| energetic model, like the Gaian paradigm that | | | | patient as a whole being and often use multiple |
| values all life forms as connected. A philosophy of | | | | interventions on several levels, simultaneously in |
| medicine that is over-reliant on logic and limited | | | | the treatment of dis-ease. Because they work at |
| mainly to drugs and surgery is fundamental | | | | the level of an individual patient, and from a |
| flawed. Acts of logic always rely on analysis, that | | | | different philosophy of medicine, it is almost |
| is breaking down a 'whole' into its constituent | | | | impossible to analyse them with the tools of |
| parts, and examining each minutely. Reductionist | | | | reductionist science. |
| approaches fail to see the connectivity and | | | | Our present rash of immune attacking diseases |
| relatedness of all things. As a result this philosophy | | | | calls for a different kind of response than just |
| is offering us 'cures' to cancer that are often as | | | | drugs and surgery. A new medicine that combines |
| dangerous and destructive as the disease itself. | | | | established scientific excellence with traditional, |
| Nobel prize-winner Carlo Rubbia maintains that only | | | | alternative and natural treatments is needed. One |
| a billionth of the world is actually made of matter | | | | that recognises humans as feeling, vibrant, |
| and the rest is made of energy. The new | | | | energetic, spiritual beings as well as physical and |
| sciences are challenging the way we perceive the | | | | mental. There are dramatic developments in the |
| world and as a result the way we relate to our | | | | treatment of cancer using energy systems, but |
| bodies. Dr. K. Scott-Mumby is author of Virtual | | | | information on this is actually suppressed. There is |
| Medicine and an allergy specialist in the UK writes: | | | | a movement towards an integrated medicine as |
| "Science is proving that we exist as regulated and | | | | more orthodox practitioners are starting to join in, |
| informed energy. Disease can now be redefined | | | | led mostly by their patients. |
| as a disruption, cessation or distortion in the | | | | From an energy point of view, when the human |
| information and energy fields. Its time for medical | | | | body is weak or unbalanced it oscillates at |
| practitioners to join the party". | | | | different frequencies than when it is healthy. This |
| Classical science has reached the end of what it | | | | less harmonious frequency shows a state of |
| can explain in reductionist terms. Issues such as | | | | cellular, energetic imbalance in the body. The |
| whether light is a particle or a wave, or whether | | | | physical body that is weakened in this way often |
| or not water has a memory (an issue central to | | | | needs help to shift to the needed frequency, |
| the 'proof' of homeopathy), are moving modern | | | | which strengthens the immune system. |
| science to a quantum level that deals with fields | | | | Some experienced medical doctors can make an |
| of energy. Medical science is still stuck in a very | | | | intuitive diagnosis based on experience and can |
| physical universe, where the objective is to | | | | sometimes tell in a second or so what ails their |
| 'excise the lump' almost regardless of where it | | | | patient. Posture, skin condition, nail, teeth and |
| came from and individual conditions of the patient | | | | tongue all give clues, but experienced doctors |
| and their experiences. | | | | may also intuitively pick up clues about their |
| New sciences such as the chaos theories point a | | | | patients from energy and vibrational levels in a |
| way forward into handling the complexities of | | | | similar way to a gardener tending plants or a wild |
| whole systems that work together, in synergy. | | | | animal hunting its prey. |
| Unfortunately our medical systems and practises | | | | But modern doctors simply do not have the time |
| are still too often based on philosophy formulated | | | | for the level of attention given in many |
| in medieval times. | | | | complementary and alternative therapies. This is |
| Because all interventions in a medical process | | | | one of the reasons alternatives are more popular |
| have to been 'proven' as workable (using scientific | | | | than ever. Professional detachment is an essential |
| double-blind testing methods) before doctors will | | | | part of the doctors' repertoire and it protects |
| recognise their validity (if they then do the | | | | them in part from the huge amount of need they |
| research), medical science mostly marginalises or | | | | encounter in day to day work. |
| ignores healing alternatives that can provide only | | | | Given the track record of orthodox medical |
| 'anecdotal evidence'. Multiple simultaneous | | | | science into whole person medicine, it may well be |
| treatments of different types and 'levels' tuned | | | | another 200 years or so before it is able to |
| for one patient are un-testable by a reductionist | | | | assimilate the new quantum sciences in relation to |
| philosophy and therefore ignored by mainstream | | | | the human body. For those people with cancer |
| medicine. In addition to this regulatory pressures | | | | now, there are a deliberately limited range of |
| force researchers and companies to test their | | | | options available from orthodox medicine. |
| drugs on patients with advanced cancer - when | | | | |