For hundreds of years, Western cultures have implemented a mechanistic model of reality, influenced by Rene Descartes’ philosophy and Isaac Newton’s laws of physics. This mechanistic model sees the whole universe as a mechanical clock where everything happens by chance with no divine influence. This model does not even include any aspect of the human spirit, which is where your permanent, perfect, “true self” can be found, and is a healing power – all by itself.
In other words, anything that can’t be proven by science in regard to a mathematical cause-effect direct relationship is seen as superstitious. Subsequently, it views humans as entities with separate parts that have no relativity for optimal functionality.
Western conventional medicine applies this mechanistic clock philosophy to the physiology of human beings. These doctors are trained to repair body parts without really giving any recognition to the mind, spirit, or what you would believe to be an OBVIOUS interconnectedness between different body systems. Treating the symptoms of individual parts of the body as a first resort with the use of drugs, radiation, and surgery is an example of this debauchery. At best, this approach can only lead to long-term management of the symptoms from any particular condition or disease.
As the holistic community is well aware, treating the symptoms of disease and not the cause almost always comes with the added cost of side effects, which can sometimes be worse than the original condition itself. Now additional drugs may be needed to address the side effects of the original medication. Premature death is inevitable, and sudden death is a statistical possibility when we follow this precarious path. This mechanistic model takes all the focus of healing away from the patient and puts it into the doctor’s hands exclusively. A very scary concept to accept indeed, as one is placing trust in a broken system with little to no success in curing disease, only managing it!
DID YOU KNOW: More than 128,000 people died in 2014 from taking drugs properly prescribed, ranking prescription drugs 4th as a leading cause of death!
Even with today’s clinical improvements, physicians continue to consider the human body as a clock with parts that can be fixed or replaced separately, without taking into consideration the interconnectedness of all body systems. Treating the body as if it is merely the sum of its individual parts not only lacks efficiency, but is often injurious to the body as a whole.
A perfect example of this is when a patient is diagnosed with an autoimmune disease – they may be sent to countless specialists like endocrinologists, neurologists, gastroenterologists, or nephrologists, when most the time all that is needed is diet and lifestyle change, and sealing up the leaky gut (which is actually at the root of the issue). Instead, these doctors go on a wild goose chase to treat the symptoms with medications, claiming there is no cure? This often leaves the patient feeling hopeless in addition to decreasing their lifespan!
The basic principles of modern Western medicine haven’t changed in more than 300 years. This mechanical clock concept may seem logical to some, but it’s not realistic or applicable, and a more incorporate model is necessary.
The illustrious Albert Einstein understood the concept of connectivity. He was in favor of the Unified Field Theory, which views the universe as a web of connecting parts all affecting each other. This theory is very similar to a Systems Theory, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. This system approach goes further than Newtonian’s minimalistic view, which reduces the parts from the whole or views the whole without any connection to the parts. Unified field and systems theories are far more substantiated and make a lot more sense, as the world itself is a complex network of systems all intertwined and working together.
Not to say that over the course of the years’ western medicine has not made many advances. It has made remarkable progress and helped millions. If someone gets into a major car accident and loses a leg, western medicine is advanced enough to provide an amputee with functional prosthetic equipment that allows him to work, drive and even compete on an Olympic level! Of course, conventional western medicine becomes imperative when emergency situations develop.
Clinical advances (like liver transplants and hip replacements) are also quite astounding, but they can come with many limitations and side effects. Note that many of these surgical procedures would not even be necessary if preventative measures were in place from the start. Medications also have their place in certain cases, like for those who are truly genetically predisposed to illness and require medication to survive, for example – those born with congenital heart defects. In fact, over the last 30 to 40 years, due to dramatic medical advances, about 90 percent of CHD patients have survived to adult age range.
Misdirected victims of deceptive marketing and conventionally instilled fears also fall prey to the use of medications. Although some are addicted, some blatantly choose to follow poor dietary and lifestyle habits that require the use of drugs to survive. When used scrupulously for bacterial infections, antibiotics have saved countless lives, but when haphazardly overly prescribed deadly drug resistant superbugs can result.