Words have meanings. Salvation is a word that means healing to me. We can be healed and the disease will come back far worse than before because the behavior that got us sick in the first place has not been addressed.
A major problem with Americans in general is that we have been formed to use a reductionist, fractionated, linear, syntactic, divisive way of looking at life itself. And it is this problem of not being able to see the forrest for the trees that makes it difficult to communicate from an integrated and wholistic perspective.
I have had some exciting experiences that allowed me to change the way I had chosen to think about disease. In fact, as a scientifically oriented person, there was no real choice other than the one that was offered in the biological sciences for most of my life. But in 1992, as I was leaving my office for the last time, on my way to serve the poor in Guatemala, I took a book with me that had just arrived, Life Itself. It's author, Robert Rosen, after many years of placing his ideas on the discussion table, has not be refuted. He is a guide for a new way of looking at disease, whether of the soul or of the body/mind. He makes several interesting points which many scientists don't like, but have not yet been able to successfully challenge. He proves that all science is faith based. This make every scientist a religious person. He also proves the fallacy of the present model that is used to examine, diagnose and treat disease. Most of us never question the basic guiding concept of the thought that we use, but I had the experience of being challenged to develop my own personal philosophy for the prevention of disease, early in my carreer and the blessing of being given permission to change. Since I was also very much involved in religious education, I worked on developing my personal theology at the same time.
My main biological interest has been teeth and their relationship to the body whole. Early in my professional continuing education studies, I listend to a Jew, Bertram Krause, as he explained the results of a study of more than 3000 patients, correlating the anatomy of the teeth with various genetic defects. This was truly a remarkable discovery but it was soon eliminated from the curriculum and I did not know why. No one had proved him wrong. But, in 1978, I discovered a relationship between jaw position and muscle efficiency. And, a patient, from the Autonomous University of Mexico, The chairman of the department of biophysics, helped me to study this phenomenon and to report the findings. Since science requires confirmation by another independent perpective, we travelled to San Antonio, Texas where we asked the leadership of the U.Texas Health Science Center to do a follow-up study. We were greeted with laughter and derision. We were both told to bug off. That no studies to demonstrate relationships between teeth and other body parts would be done. The justification given was that it would create a large number of law suits that would harm the entire health delivery system. And so I discovered a conscious conspiracy on the part of our American University System to hide the truth. In 1982, I was asked to be a participant in a continuing education experiment on the subject of acupuncture. The Texas Board of Medical examiners had put two Chinese acupuncturists in Houston, Texas, in jail for practicing medicine without a license. The Federal court released them on the grounds that the medical school did not teach acupuncture and could therefore not regulate it. The course was offered to be able to limit this practice, not to understand it. To make a long story short, it got me interested in the entire area of Alternative Medicine, and in searching for a scientific source on whom I could depend. Jews became that source. Not all of them, because some, like the Jews in Aushwitz, sold out to the system in order to gain their applause. But Rosen had not sold out. He left and went to Canada and taught at the Dalhousie Medical School. His book has become an uncontested alternative to thinking about disease, using the model of natural language. The more we know about how and why people acquire their language, the better able we will be able to diagnose disease. I hope this gives you another perspective and the understanding that I have put my money where my mouth is by going to find solutions for disease in the poor that does not require them to buy products and services, the major corrupting influence on our American Health Care Delivery System.
