The Dangers and Absurdities of Disease Eradication.
John Bradley
It is unfortunate that in order to discuss the above I have to ask
that you make , at least temporarily , two assumptions that undermine the
structure of orthodox medicine. So at this point I take leave of rationalist
and sceptic alike. First I ask that you accept the existence of a non locatable
and non material vitality that inhabits the human body and when that Vitality
( or life force) leaves that body it is dead
So it follows from the above that illness has its root in a flaw or fault in the vitality. Usually a hereditary flaw. Such illnesses normally manifest themselves as functional deviations in the first place. It may show up as a vague functional malaise and be self curing. It is , however, always a signal that some change is taking place in the vitality and if that change is not easily managed by the Vitality then pathology starts to arise in order to give vent to the internal pressures built up by the illness.
However as the illness originated at the level where the life force or vitality operates , it is best cured by a therapy that operates at an energy level rather than at a material/ chemical level. Such energy level therapies include Acupuncture , Healing, (where the life force of the healer is in direct contact with the life force of the patient ) Homeopathy ( in the higher potencies ) Reflexology etc. with regard to the second assumption I ask you to accept that humanity is an experimental mode of the genetic material. A very successful experiment at the moment, but in their time so were the dinosaurs.
It is after all , the genetic material that determines if a cell
becomes a tree, a bacteria, a virus, a protozoa or a human being. Without
the genetic material organic life as we know it cannot exist. Under the
spur of survival at all costs the genetic material has evolved into many
differing species and beneficial mutations are occurring all around as
the genes attempt to keep pace with the effect we have on the environment.
I would expect that , in view of a possible nuclear holocaust there is
even genetic material of some kind that has taken up residence inside nuclear
reactors. Thus ensuring that , while life as we know it may be wiped out
by nuclear radiation, the basic form of life will survive even that event
. We then have to accept that at some energy level there is a combination
of energy ( life force) and material ( genes) that allows an interaction
between energy and material, E = mc2 as the physicists would have it .
I merely wish to translate this concept into the realm of medicine. As
we of the human race and those diseases, viruses, bacteria, protozoa etc.
that seem to seek to destroy us , are all in fact part of the same basic
life system or ecology, it follows that any measure conceived on one side
of the equation will balance out on the other , quite rapidly even if not
immediately. The seven varieties of Candida Albicans have shown that "..
Rapid switching from one form to another is triggered by challengers whether
by sun light , chemotherapy or environmental circumstances. Yeast's merely
weigh the odds and switch into the form most likely to survive. " It is
also well known that the various forms of syphilis act in a similar manner
( Venereological Medicine; Wilcox & Wilcox ) . In morphological terms
it is almost impossible to distinguish between Yaws, Pinta, Endemic Syphilis
and Virulent Syphilis . Once inside the body syphilis can come to terms
with the immune system and by slowing down its replication rate it can
become avirulent and in this form is safe from antibiotics. In effect it
becomes what is now labeled as a slow virus , like "Kuru" A.I.D.S. falls
into this increasing group . In fact it would appear that various organisms,
virus, protozoa, yeast's etc. are adopting the survival mechanism of slow
replication and avirulence to avoid the challenge represented by antibiotics.
The antibiotic challenge can , of course, be responded to by the various
organisms in an entirely different fashion. An altogether more aggressive
response. Those that follow this course become "Superbugs" such as Methicillin
Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) . This superbug originated in Australia
in the I970's (Observer 3I/8/86) and is an ever present danger to hospital
patients , whatever their illness. Tubercular Dinosaur bones have been
discovered showing that tuberculosis was around millions of years ago.
Wherever there is extreme poverty and social pressure individuals begin
to develop tuberculosis and while the pulmonary form is the one that is
most feared TS has many forms from the spinal deformity ( hunchback) known
as Potts Disease to LUPUS. One thing is certain that Tuberculosis rarely
develops among the wealthy , well fed and well housed populace. This is
due to the fact that their high Vitality or Life Force holds it in check.
Such a high Vitality or life force will also defend the body against the
worst consequences of most infections, venereal diseases and A.I.D.S. The
diseases that are as old or older than the Human Race are never going to
be eradicated by any measure that humanity can devise. When we challenge
a disease and try to eradicate it with antibiotics or other means we simply
Compel it to change in order to survive and that change will always reshape
it to fit another chink in our armour , one that we were not aware of until
the reshaped disease penetrated it. The only way forward in a medical sense
is to strengthen the vitality and to accept that we relate to nature in
a symbiotic relationship as part of a whole. We of the human race should
be asking ourselves where we fit into that whole so that we do not progress
and wipe out nature , in whatever form , be it virus ,yeast , protozoa
or animal, but enter into a harmonious " User Friendly " relationship with
all of these. Accepting that as in all epidemics some of us have to die
and this is the levy placed upon us for the privilege of life.