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Friday, October 22, 2010

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic

Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science - Magazine - The Atlantic
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motto

Happiness is a minimum of assumptions. 

stated bias

Conventional medicine is superb for triage, emergency response, surgery and orthopedics. It does less well in its resistance to special interests, quality of involvement in disease prevention or grasp of its nuanced human subject.

One must also call lackluster, the current benchmark in family practice, institutional disease and post-operative care management, and its worth saying, such result is for no lack of goodwill on the part of most healthcare providers. It lies in the misdiagnostic, causalistic metaphors inculcated in medical schools and the post-industrial, atomistic clinics they give rise to.

In these investigations and opinions, I attempt integrated, empirical presentation of my interest in analytic self-confrontation, synchronic, non-material medicines like homeopathy, meridian systems, movement and body work.

I see the chain of ancestors, diet, manifestation practices and inner attitudes as the molecular architecture of the self. I affirm the creative role to be played by illness and suffering. I favour self-responsibility for one's health and happiness and a minimum reliance on experts. I advocate resistance to the dependency-schemes fostered by the wellness racket and support the furtherance of training models and professional codes which guard the vulnerable from abuse of powers.

The times are rich in whole food/whole body/whole mind approaches that polish strength, improve situational adaptability, sharpen self-preservation responses, and deepen our capacity for ingenuity and kindness.

LONG TERM AIMS
Wishing to one day serve as an advisor to government and NGO's as to the manner and means by which the holistic sciences could be integrated into both front-line and chronic care institutions, my interests extend to include progressive economics, constructive paradigmatic upheaval in political life, the arts and sciences, and the delicate act of neutralizing bipartisan tribalism.

selected bibliography 2011

  • An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain by Diane Ackerman
  • Anatomy Trains by Thomas Myers
  • Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby
  • Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas
  • Descent to the goddess : a way of initiation for women by Sylvia Brinton Perera
  • Dopaminergic Mind in Human Evolution and History by Fred H. Previc
  • Dreams: A Portal to the Source by Edward Whitmont and Sylvia Brinton Perera
  • Eating for Beauty by David Wolfe
  • Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
  • God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
  • Healing with Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford
  • Hermes: Literature, Science, Philosophy by Michel Serres
  • Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby
  • LSD: Doorway to the Luminous: The Groundbreaking Psychedelic Research into Realms of the Human Unconscious by Stanislav Grof, M.D.
  • Planet Medicine by Richard Grossinger
  • Psyche and Substance by Edward Whitmont, M.D.
  • Psychology and Alchemy by C.G. Jung
  • Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler
  • Shamans Through Time by Jeremy Narby
  • Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
  • Superfoods by David Wolfe
  • The Alchemy of Healing by Edward Whitmont, M.D.
  • The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
  • The Endless Web: Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality by Schultz and Feitis
  • The Holotropic Mind by Stanislav Grof, M.D.
  • The Molecules of Life: DNA, RNA and Proteins by Russ Hodge
  • The Power of Limits by Gyorgy Doczi
  • The Ravaged Bridegroom by Marion Woodman
  • The Symbolic Quest by Edward Whitmont, M.D.
  • War of the World by Niall Ferguson
  • Witch-Doctor's Apprentice by Nicole Maxwell

maverick medicine babe aphorisms

The coming age belongs to the conscientious empiricist and alchemical creative.

The vital principle in nature is mirroring. Disease occurs in the absence of reflective intelligence.

Politics is a con. Religion is bad faith.

The reasoning faculty, likes its contrapuntal naive believer, is an excellent servant but a most embarrassing master.

One of the blindsides of formal education is the entrenched dichotomization of the so-called factuals. This is the age of their undoing.

There is no homogeneity behind borders. Systems of quiet tyranny can take root and prosper in climes of free democracy. Liberation can spread insidiously and flourish in police states.

Progress will not prove to be some linear, determinist factor that happily took technology as its spouse, begetting human convenience as progeny. This is a view conditioned by the limitations of recorded history.

Separation of man from his symbiotic fusion with nature is an old achievement. It was hardly the point as we glorify it. All cycles return.

We are not subject or objects but injects.

Silence always precedes creation.

The ascendency of the West has already crested. What lies ahead is new systems of multilateral cooperatives rising to offset tyranny.

Sex engaged for mere sensationalism degenerates into a field of judgement.

Love pursued for mere security or adornment becomes its opposite in time.

To be understood is a false expectation and the source of many-headed sufferings. We're isolates in fluid suspension, never really touching.

The real skill in life is knowing when to actualize and when to refrain. Its folly to deny the impulses, or become fixed in our ways of responding.

Love is dimensional, tender and nourished by deferments. Seduction is dominating, mawkish and feeds on exploitation.

If someone of constellated neurosis casts an affected eye on another, circumstances escalate and magically conspire to support their delusion.

Lacking information or direct knowledge, we scan the new for outlines of past experience and fill in the rest according to old fears and resentments.

Our preferences are not something we command, but a conflagration that begins innocently enough before burning wildfire under the skin.

Coming together one falls apart. Falling apart one comes together.

Striving and grasping are futile. Better to place oneself in the right directional flow to make use of the waveforms which surround us.

Romance is for suckers.

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Kinesiological shamanism, holistic systems view, ultramolecular remedies, whole foods, depth psychology.

why the name?

I was in a discussion with a group of people about some of these inquiries and brought up the term "maverick" to describe the approach to wellness I was exploring. Someone guffawed and wondered aloud if I was some kind of "maverick medicine babe." 

Though intended as a scornful remark, I liked the idea of turning the label into a constructive identity. Every project or function we perform requires its persona, and mine is good-naturedly immune to being misunderstood.

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