Holistic Medicine
I discovered this as I did this week's task of trying different search engines. I went to "Search Engine Search" and clicked on "W3 Search Engines". Under this heading I clicked on CUSI. This led me to many different search engines listed by continen
t and country. I wasn't feeling daring at the time, so I decided to stick with search engines in my own country. Under North America, The United States, I clicked on CUSI at Supernet. This led me to various major ways in which to find information. I d
ecided to go with the Robot generated WWW indices, and under this, I decided to try out Elnet Galaxy because it sounded pretty cool. This particular search engine was very organized and had major topics of interest organized alphabetically. I looked for
the topic of health, but there was none, but there was the topic of
medicine, with subtopics such as Chiropractic, Dentistry, Exercise,
History of Medicine, Holistic Medicine, Human Biology, Medical
Specialties, Nursing, and Nutrition. When I saw Holistic
Medicine, I
got very excited because that is my main field of interest, so I clicked
on that. In this index, under Periodicals, I decided to click on
Weaver: A Mind, Body and
Spirit magazine.
The first thing I saw on this screen, was a quote from chief Seattle: "Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the children of the earth. We did
not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves." This is one of my favorite quotes of all time, so I was very enthusiastic with what I found. There was also a biography of Chief Seattle with his pi
cture, which I found to be rather short and not too informative, but nonetheless, just the fact that it was there impressed me. I then clicked on a former issue of the magazine, July 1995, and what first appeared to me here, was a picture of a seagull wi
th a quote from Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. While I have never read that particular book, I did read another book of his, Illusions, which was so good I read it in a few hours because I couldn't put it down. This file was GREAT!
I was so pleased with what I found in the Holistic Medicine homepage, I decided to further explore the other subtopics under Medicine, so I went back to the original homepage. Unfortunately, I was not too impressed with most of the other homepages. Wha
t I found was a lot of incomplete stuff, or if the page was complete, it contained a minimal amount of trivial information. If you are looking for a good source of information on the topics I mentioned above, I would look elsewhere.
I am so glad that the internet is so progressive that there is a homepage dedicated to holistic medicine. I am a great advocate of holistic medicine because I feel that western medicine has been too focused on the body and totally excludes all other asp
ects of being -- namely, the mind and the spirit. These two aspects of self, along with the body, contributes to the total being, and so, we cannot only look to somatic etiologies for ailments. Western medicine is way too invasive in the sense that surg
ery seems to be our main solution to fixing the body. Cancer is the perfect example of an disease which is not necessarily grounded in the body, but rather, stems from malignant thought patterns which manifest themselves somatically. Chemotherapy is abh
orrent, and yet doctors rush to prescribe it, without even considering the psychic factor involved. We, as a society, must realize that our thoughts create our reality; if we think that the earth is there for us to use, we create an environment which is
decimated by our destructive tendencies. I think that this page for holistic medicine indicates a tiny awakening in the consciousness of mankind and I am happy that this awareness will be shared with others.
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