(www.nature-talk.com)
2250 feet. That's over half a mile. Person Q wakes up and says, "wow you are so far away!" He imagines trying to reach A by walking but it seems like it would take considerable effort. Q is attacked by narcolepsy and this time falls asleep for four hours.
Now, A is 54000 feet away. This is about 10.2 miles. Q wakes up and sees a speck in the distance, hazily meshed with the ceaseless horizon. Q is incredulous and has a panic attack and says "I cannot BELIEVE MY EYES!"
This is something I've been studying for a while, connecting it to my studies of health. Here are a few concepts that many people would not be able to believe.
1. Raw meat can be eaten, raw, without getting sick, to improve health
2. Meditating can cure diseases like cancer, it can even remove warts and stop bleeding instantaneously.
3. Chemotherapy is not very effective in curing cancer
4. Carbohydrates kill, through insulin, fructose is the worst
5. If you say a prayer to water, its crystal structure improves and it is better for your health
6. Animal protein causes cancer
7. Miniscule amounts of electromagnetic frequencies from things like phones, computers, and wi-fi stations adversely impact human health.
8. Obesity is not caused by overeating, or a caloric surplus
9. Emotions are linked to many diseases, anxiety can cause indigestion for instance
10. The way your house is oriented with the sun can improve your luck
11. Any story in "Autobiography of a Yogi," such as the ability of saints and yogis to materialize anything from thin air
12. The FDA is not protecting our health
Alright, the list can easily go on. But this is what happens. Researchers study very hard, for many minutes, many hours, many years, many millenia. Yogis and doctors meditate and practice for years and years. They go one step at a time carefully, mindfully. Similarly, Atiki took one step at a time, and ended up so far away from Qmondo in a mere four hours. Qmondo could hardly grasp the 21,600 steps Atiki took. Researchers take the same amount of steps, and sometimes their work cannot be grasped, due how "far out" it is from the current world view.
Many people do not have the patience to even bike the 21,600 steps, because it takes so much effort. Some will fly the distance, arrive at the end, and miss the details along the way; the flora, fauna, and grains of sand. Often, scientists become so caught up in the one step, they forget the larger path they are on. Then we do end up with radical theories, such as carbohydrates kill us. Honestly, I do not know what to think of that hypothesis, as I have not walked the steps it took to come to that conclusion. I've read a good book or two on it, seen some of the science, and from the steps I've taken it does seem to be a little radical since the larger picture is usually forgotten in those discussions.
Dr. O'Becker's research on electromagnetic radiation on human health, which is presented very unbiasedly in "The Body Electric," has also been highly rejected. Instead of replicating the experiments he did, most researchers did not believe it. Many who have replicated the experiments and have come to similar conclusions are shunned by the disbelievers. You can tell who is willing to go the extra mile when you present new types of information to people, including your doctor. You can either say "yeah right," present a bunch of evidence from the top of your head on the topic to discredit it, or say, "I wonder how?"
These are natural tendencies. The only way to rise above these tendencies is through self-reflection, meditation, letting go of our ego by perhaps understanding the concept of selflessness, becoming more compassionate . . . the list goes on. This is called "inner work," and you can tell who has done it. Those who have not, most people in the world, react to things. In the scientific community, these reactions are indeed violent. Thankfully we can read many accounts of this and try to understand why we shouldn't react. Many scientists have had their careers destroyed simply due to a lack of compassion, and inner work. Essentially it is a form of laziness, to not do inner work that is. You must question your beliefs, fall off your pedestal, and change the way you think, about the way you think.
I'm not saying everyone needs to do this. The doctors and scientists do however. The general public will believe a lot of things. This gives them true power; tis the placebo effect. At first I would advocate not believing anything, but so much good health is achieved by simply believing and having a positive attitude, I cannot say that anymore. In fact, I'd encourage people undergoing a health transformation to wholeheartedly believe in what they are doing, even if some nutritional study shows that something in their diet isn't perfect or the drug they take can cause a heart attack. There is a new book by much respected doctor Bruce Lipton called the "Biology of Belief," that I cannot wait to read. "The Holographic Universe," which I am reading now, mentions many cases of a placebo effect. In one case, a patient wanted to take a new drug for cancer due to its promise, and was cured. When clinical trials (oooooo cinical trials, good right?) showed the drug had no effect, cancer, actually multiple cancers, came back. The doctor told him the studies messed up and they had to re-do them. Cancers were all gone again. Later, more studies were published, showing the drug had no effect. Cancers came back again, and he died.
The only thing I will believe is that the foods I put in my body are doing absolute wonders. I do not disbelieve any theory completely, nor do I esteem any other. The placebo effect does work, but there ares very important biochemical reasons to eat healthy food. You can believe your diet is healthy and still suffer from some disease caused by your food. In Buddhism, this non-belief is termed non-clinging. "The mind of no clinging is open and vast. It is receptive to everything, but holds on to nothing" - One Dharma, Joseph Goldstein (136).
MEEDDIIIITAAATEeE,
Avishek
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