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Recent conversations in private messages about medicines have led me to do some thinking on the subject.
What is medicine? What is it designed to do? I think most of us can agree that it is some substance or even some action that treats an illness, restores health and normal functioning, lessens the symptoms of disease, or even removes them entirely.
Medicine exists in a binary relationship. It returns one to ease from a state of disease. These diseases can be of many natures: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and so forth.
The stone is said to be a panacea, or a universal medicine, a "cure-all" that treats all diseases. This is only so because it treats the roots of those diseases which may express themselves in the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual forms.
Many modern medicines are designed to treat the symptoms of a disease, and the true healing comes from treating the underlying issues, not the symptoms. In a likewise manner, the stone deals with the underlying system that is behind the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual natures, and returns that to a balance. In that sense, it is a universal modulator that has an impact on the particulars.
We must also be able to recognize the different types of diseases, and I believe many of these are not easily recognized. The physical diseases are the easiest to understand, as they exist on that grossest or most material of planes.
The mental, emotional, and spiritual diseases are harder to understand. Just like a man who perhaps had a physical injury early on in life, adapted to the injury, normalized it, and learned to function with it to the point of no longer realizing the injury, so too do we normalize our injurious adaptations in the mental, emotional, and spiritual realms. Large parts of cultural norms may in fact be adaptations or normalization of injury.
The universal medicine that heals all these types of injuries may impart a pain, just like a doctor who needs to break a badly fused bone in order to reset it and allow it later to fuse properly. The resets we can experience in the mental, emotional, and spiritual realms may seem devastating, and without context, it may appear that we are in some dark place, or lost from the path. It is only afterward that we can perceive the necessity of this darkness.
To those who seek the universal medicine, I believe it is first important to understand the real source: that which expresses itself as the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. These are like four rivers that all derive from the same source, and perhaps it does not matter much which river we start to explore, so long as we explore upstream to find the common source.
A rotting carcass upstream may poison the water downstream, and the removal of that rotting carcass can allow the river to return to its natural state.
What is medicine? What is it designed to do? I think most of us can agree that it is some substance or even some action that treats an illness, restores health and normal functioning, lessens the symptoms of disease, or even removes them entirely.
Medicine exists in a binary relationship. It returns one to ease from a state of disease. These diseases can be of many natures: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and so forth.
The stone is said to be a panacea, or a universal medicine, a "cure-all" that treats all diseases. This is only so because it treats the roots of those diseases which may express themselves in the physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual forms.
Many modern medicines are designed to treat the symptoms of a disease, and the true healing comes from treating the underlying issues, not the symptoms. In a likewise manner, the stone deals with the underlying system that is behind the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual natures, and returns that to a balance. In that sense, it is a universal modulator that has an impact on the particulars.
We must also be able to recognize the different types of diseases, and I believe many of these are not easily recognized. The physical diseases are the easiest to understand, as they exist on that grossest or most material of planes.
The mental, emotional, and spiritual diseases are harder to understand. Just like a man who perhaps had a physical injury early on in life, adapted to the injury, normalized it, and learned to function with it to the point of no longer realizing the injury, so too do we normalize our injurious adaptations in the mental, emotional, and spiritual realms. Large parts of cultural norms may in fact be adaptations or normalization of injury.
The universal medicine that heals all these types of injuries may impart a pain, just like a doctor who needs to break a badly fused bone in order to reset it and allow it later to fuse properly. The resets we can experience in the mental, emotional, and spiritual realms may seem devastating, and without context, it may appear that we are in some dark place, or lost from the path. It is only afterward that we can perceive the necessity of this darkness.
To those who seek the universal medicine, I believe it is first important to understand the real source: that which expresses itself as the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. These are like four rivers that all derive from the same source, and perhaps it does not matter much which river we start to explore, so long as we explore upstream to find the common source.
A rotting carcass upstream may poison the water downstream, and the removal of that rotting carcass can allow the river to return to its natural state.
