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- Traditional Healing
by John Handy Jr.
A little while ago I wanted to write a short booklet on natural health. I wished to provide my community with some guidelines for a healthy diet and lifestyle. Our communities are stricken with disease and illness; indigenous societies lead all others in rates of obesity and diabetes. I felt obliged to do something about this. After spending six months under the leadership of my Master, Naba Lamoussa Morodenibig, a Dogon/Kemetic Priest and Master Healer from the bush of West Africa, I now know that what I planned to provide my community with in my proposed health papers was mostly superstition. Learning the art of healing and good health from the oldest healing tradition in the world has opened my perspective on what true health is. Life is a fragile balance of energies. Good health is the maintenance of this balance. Illness is caused by certain things in our existence, which cause an imbalance in our system. Our immune systems and the medicines we supply it work at regaining that balance. The healthiest person will not always be healthy - he will not be free from the possibility of sickness, because he is a part of, and therefore subject to, life. Life is made of chaos: light vs. dark, hot vs. cold, good vs. evil. To be alive is to exist amidst this chaos.
Like anything else, our immune system is built up through its experiences. The more it is tested, the stronger it becomes. It is not beneficial to our overall health to be perfectly healthy throughout life. If our objective is to live as long as possible, we will notice that the individuals who live a life of perfect health are not the ones known to live the longest. We must live according to how nature and existence function. This is a completely different perspective than the one of the modern medical system - it seems the modern system treats the human being as if they do not exist as a part of nature. Instead of finding a harmonious place within the world we have come to, we would rather disregard that world and create an artificial world as an escape. We are not the dictators of this existence. We enter it without knowing how, therefore, we cannot take life hostage. The smart thing to do is to find our harmonious place within it.
The methods used by the modern medical system do not respect nature. The most commonly used medication is antibiotics. Antibiotics are, as stated, anti - against, and bio - life. The only reason antibiotics do not kill us is because they are taken in small enough amounts so that their proportion is not life threatening. If your objective is getting rid of a certain illness and you use an antibiotic, you may kill the illness but you will also kill anything that comes in contact with the antibiotic. This is a dangerous way of going through life. If you hire a madman to help you kill your enemy, after your enemy is killed you will have to deal with that madman yourself. Who will he kill next?
A healer's job is to preserve life. The traditional understanding is much more supportive of life, and it is understood that existence is a full place. The Earth has provided solutions/medicines for any ailment that we can have. Using different herbal remedies to combat and cure diseases is a harmonious method to healing. This utilizes another part of nature and the positive affect of our coexistence. This is our objective in this zouhet, where everything affects everything else. Traditional healing is an art form. It is much more than our ideas of the doctorıs office; it is a way of life. It is a life of quality and an art of restoring balance based on the nature of existence.
Here in America, the land of opportunity, health is an industry. An individual's health is exploited and we are forced to buy into the superstitions, misdiagnosis, and lies given to us by people uninterested in our health, those interested only in dollars and the illusion they have built. It is because their interest lies in the accumulation of money and the maintenance of an illusion that makes this behavior acceptable.
I still intend to provide my communities with the knowledge of balance and good health. I see that it is much more useful to provide people with the values of survival. These values, and many more, are taught at The Earth Center in initiation classes. Please do yourself and the whole of existence a favor and register for the upcoming session of classes starting at the end of January. Call 773-722-7001 for more information.
