I am paying attention to Lissa Rankin's "Sacred Medicine" book. In her video I mentioned in this post https://fearfunandfiloz.blogspot.com/2022/04/inside-ourselves.html
She explains that as a practicing ob/gyn physician, she kept seeing a patient she had seen before but this time, that same patient had developed a new problem, with somewhat new symptoms. She got interested in the question of other ways to help people heal than the approach and methods she had learned in medical school. The "Sacred Medicine" looks at methods and procedures that other groups use and have used to cure ills and might help us with some difficult to handle problems. She is not above learning from medicine men and women and practicing rituals they use.
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When I was ushered in, Aida, Emma, another friend, and I formed a circle around the healer. When it was my turn, he sat me square in front of him, looked at me for a long time, then laughed his ass off!
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There is always something to evoke awe and open our hearts as long as we resist the tendency to take these blessings for granted.
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We do not give to the nature spirits because we want something from them. It is not a sneaky manifestation trick. We give because it is spiritual law. We give because we have received so much. Cures come as gifts, not transactions.
Yesterday, Professor Dona Warren explained typically rational steps in considering an argument, a conversation or some individual thinking. I totally admit that applying both logic and imagination to our lives and our situations is wise and has paid off. However, I also learned from "Incognito" by Eagleman and "Seven and a Half Lessons About Your Brain" that the world and we ourselves are quite complex. So, it seems to make sense to explore many avenues.
I have wondered if the human species goes back in time so far and yet modern medicine is so young, how humans survived without antibiotics and surgery and such. Dr. Rankin's explorations certainly seem to point in other directions that might have potential.
