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Disease or ill-health is a state in which the physical body is no longer at ease with itself. This could range from a very minor bodily ailment to an extremely serious and acute health condition. Where the situation persists over a long period of time, the condition is classified as chronic. Such a condition sometimes terminates only at the death of the individual.

        People move in and out of disease conditions all the time. No human being in flesh is exempt, although a few outstanding individuals scattered all over the world seems to enjoy good heath all their lives and live to very old age. However, for the generality of mankind today, ill-health has become one grave burden. The statistics are grim and really scary. Sometimes, you hear one in five or ten Americans will contract one form of cancer or the other before age 60 etc.

In every front, the god of disease seems to be winning the battle. Diseases of yester years are coming back with vengeance. This is happening in spite of advances and breakthroughs in scientific and diagnostic methods. More and more powerful drugs and anti-biotics are being developed and deployed in the battle against emerging and resistant strains of disease causing bacteria of all kinds. The pharmaceutical companies declare huge profits in billions of Dollars each year from sales of manufactured drugs and other treatment protocols. In the circumstances under review one is tempted to ask:

Are we getting Healthier or Sicker? Your guess is as good as mine. The other problem is that in seeking to bring good Health to mankind, many practitioners whether in orthodox, Herbal and Alternative medicines actually work in ignorance of the underlying causes of diseases and ill-heath. Few know the elaborate spider web surrounding each case of ill health, and fewer still have the experience to handle cases that are brought before them.

In addition, the truth of how the physical body really works is not completely understood. All of these are important and vital in finding solutions to the global problem of Disease control as well as the complete eradication of ill heath from our lives. Therefore, we shall address known and unknown causes of Diseases ravaging mankind today.

         The following are generally viewed by Health Care Professionals and providers in the field; from the western trained physicians and specialists to the Native Healers, shamans and local medicine man as being responsible for all manner of ill health and sicknesses:

(1)        What we eat

(2)        Infections from other life forms, e.g. viruses, Bacteria, Parasites, etc.

(3)        Stress

(4)        Harmful radiations

(5)        Environmental pollution

(6)        Oxygen Deficiency in Urban settlements.

(7)        Your thoughts, words and Deeds.  

(8)        Psychic Attacks and poisons

(9)        Karma, the law of Retributive justice and compensation

WHAT WE EAT:

“Good health is every man’s right, but no man will keep it if he is careless as to what he feeds his body and mind daily”

-         Paul Twitchell, “Herbs, the Magic Healers” P. 252.

There is an old saying that we are what we eat. The genesis of most of our ill-heath today started with the wrong feeding habits developed when we were children from parents who were more concerned and eager to please us with sweets, candy, cake, bread, biscuits etc, this we have carried over to our adult years and the attendant ill-heath, physical and mental weaknesses and Disease. The emphasis here is to eat more of raw foods, cooked vegetables, fish, poultry, fruits and seeds.

On the other hand, consumption of whole lot of Unnatural foods and Drugs, Teas, Sugar, white flour products, chemicals will in time leave the physical body in very poor health. Diseases will flourish because the body’s natural defense mechanism would have been compromised. Poor Nutrition is one of the biggest threats today. What you eat also covers all manner of things you ingest or allow into your body. This is also true of an over indulgent life style, Alcohol, sex etc. The basic rules governing good nutrition are simple to follow. Just remember that fresh food, fruits and vegetable are better that frozen ones. The frozen ones are better than canned ones etc.

INFECTIONS:  From other life forms like Viruses, Bacteria and Parasites that feed on their victims; they destabilize the host organism in this case man, wrecking havoc in the body. The origins of some of these micro-organisms e.g. Viruses are still being debated. However, what we do know is that they often defend their territories by developing quick resistance to treatment, thereby calling for stronger and more powerful antibiotics most of the times. Any physical body already weakened by wrongful feeding habits will sooner or later be invaded by these organisms. Many of them like HIV, Herpes, staph, tuberculosis etc are deadly and remain largely incurable at least for now in orthodox context.

STRESS:  Stress comes from a host of unfulfilled desires, worries and anxiety that people go through daily. People are been driven to death installmentally through greed, success, positions, power and quest for crass materialism. Stress is one major proof that the present organization of the human society is faulty and dangerous to health and well-being. Anxiety and other negative emotions occasioned by stressful living end up breaking down one’s immunity  paving the way for all manner of opportunistic diseases and infections in the body.

Others are depression and mental in-balance. We cannot accept reliance on daily doses of pills and other anti-depressants manufactured by the pharmaceutical companies to calm our nerves. Solutions lie in following nature’s ways. Our basic nature calls for a less complex societal organization. We must go back to the simplicity of living as our forefathers did. This will require bringing more Love into what we do. Please know it now that a life devoted to fulfilling material desires and sensual pleasure is toxic to your health anyhow.

HARMFUL RADIATIONS

Radiations emanates from just about any thing. We live in a sea of different radiations and not every one of these is harmless as we have being made to believe. Some of the harmful radiations come from very unlikely sources. We have electromagnetic radiations from high voltage electric wires, telecommunication masts, computers and TV sets, GSM Handsets, and a host of other appliances we use daily and take for granted. The dangers posed collectively by these equipments are still being debated worldwide.

These debates will continue until the businessmen who trade in these equipments agrees to tell the world the truth that these equipments actually pose some health risks raging from the mild to the very severe. Some forms of cancers have being traced to them. Radiations are invisible and our individual responses to them different. The constitution of the individual plays significant role here in determining why some are easily susceptible, and others are not. There are also some harmful radiations from space coming onto the earth.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION.

Man has become very unkind to mother earth in recent times. We dump toxic waste from every corner of the world into our seas, oceans and rivers endangering other life forms and damaging the ecosystem. There have been numerous underground nuclear tests over the decades, Co₂ emissions into the atmosphere from around the world, large-scale deforestation, oil drilling and the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in farming in many parts of the globe. The resultant effect is that the earth is being rubbed of its vitality. Any danger posed to the earth is equally directed at man. Whatever happens to the earth is eventually passed onto its offspring; that is us and every other thing dwelling upon the earth.

We can already see signs of these environmental diseases in many places on earth today- China, India, Russia, Pakistan, Latin America etc. Some years ago, in the 80’s there was the Saga of the Toxic waste dumped at Koko, a sleeping port town in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Shortly after, many persons in that community fell victim to strange illnesses that culminated in the death of some of them. We must learn to live with ourselves in peace and respect for the environment. Our Ancestors worshiped the Earth in reverence for its fruitfulness, which was primal to their survival. We have a lot to learn from them.

OXYGEN DEFICIENCY

All that we eat or ingest into the physical body by way of food, water, minerals, vitamins, drugs, herbs etc. constitute the negative element (-), while the Air we breath in, constitute the (+) element. This is in consonance with the law of Polarity that governs all phases of life in this world. The interaction of these two generates the energy the body needs for its survival and for the proper functioning of the human machine. So, a depletion of Oxygen in our environment is inimical to good health and ultimate well being of man. Yet this is the situation in most of our urban settlements all over the world. In some communities and cities people actually breathe in so much of polluted air. And visibility in some cases reduced by excessive pollution.

According to some Authorities and Ancient wisdom, the life giving property of the air is not necessarily the Oxygen, but what it carries or conveys to the body. This is the “life force”, the subtle current of life that creates, maintains and sustains all life forms and embodiments. Many of the miracles recorded from amongst Monks living in far-off monasteries in the Far East involve the use of specific exercises that manipulates the current of air flowing into the body system. Some live without physical food and are able to retain youth and longevity for centuries. As the saying goes, some of the most important things in life are free. Our forests constitute the major oxygen factories for this planet, yet we allow for large scale deforestation in our communities to make way for the so called urban development. Plants and Trees not only generate oxygen, they also filter the atmosphere around them of harmful radiations and impurities.

OUR THOUGHTS, WORDS

Thoughts are things. A Thought form is pure energy in motion. Through our mind images, thoughts and words we create out world. Negative and sickly thoughts generate negatives and sickness to the physical body. An ancient adept once said that “Every thought inevitably solidifies into a future condition”. The way the world is now with all its conflicts, is as it should be, because we have made it so. There is an immortal classic on this subject by James Allen, AS A MAN THINKETH. You can find this wonderful book at www.AsAManThinketh.net. It speaks volumes.

PSYCHIC ATTACKS AND POISONS

These are subtle and invisible currents of energies and force fields that can be generated with the inherent power of the Human Mind (people do this unconsciously all the time because the average mind is a sort of broadcasting station of images, thoughts and feelings) or the uses of certain rare herbs and other materials to condense a peculiar force of energy that can be directed at an individual, a group or even communities. Contrary to public view, these very dangerous and subtle forms of attacks, not only exist but are quite prevalent in some communities scattered around the world.

There are black adepts, psychic criminals, and other forms of organized evil in high and low places capable of transferring malicious thought forms to a target to achieve some evil aim. This can also be done through hypnotic suggestions to assail people’s dreams, cast spells or postulates to control the desired victim. Some victims wake up in the morning very weak and only to find bruises and other painful injuries all over their bodies.

Peoples’ health have been ruined this way, and inexperienced healthcare practitioners do have a hell of time figuring out what could possibly have gone wrong to no avail. Even, vital organs in an individual’s body can be made to fail using the power of the unseen terror or black magic as they are some times called. In extreme cases an individual’s body could be taken over by another discarnate entity. This is partly responsible for the increasing cases of mental disability, Depression and Nervous Breakdowns.

        Psychic attacks are possible because of the power of the mind over matter and the inherent constitution of man. Man is a composite being with several multidimensional bodies fused with his physical body. He has the Emotional, Memory, Mind and Subconscious bodies also within and each with its own peculiar attributes. This is all that can be shared here for now

KARMA AND THE LAW OF RETRIBUTION

I have reserved this segment for last because it summarizes the whole fundamental causes of human problems including Diseases and ill-health, good and bad fortunes etc.        

In the light of our understanding, all the previous causes of Diseases and ill health so far discussed would be meaningless without understanding the Nature of Karma and how it operates, because all the issues so far raised are simply manifestations of different faces of this ancient and inexorable law of life. Karma, the law of cause and effect is the root cause of all forms of ill health and its varied manifestations in man and the human communities.

        Karma refers to cause and effect or compensation. It is the law that brings to the doer the legitimate consequences of his or her actions. It is a law that is no respecter of persons, status, positions, king or queen. Everyone is paid ultimately his dues. Ill health and disease conditions prevalent in the life of man, is one way nature compels one to take stock of his weakness or defects of character. Every transgression will be paid for and how you pay will be determined by life in its infinite wisdom.

Sicknesses, ill-health as well as all physical and mental handicaps constitute ways people are compelled to pay for their karmic debts. Karma is also tied up with Reincarnation which is the constantly ongoing cycle of death and rebirth. Karma and Reincarnation are realities that constitute part of the cycle of life for everyone. We are our own Ancestors. The people of history, in times past. But now in new and different bodies, through the process of rebirth. Karma and Reincarnation relates in principle to the development of character and right values in the individual. Both together offers humanity, a sound basis for understanding the countless irregularities we find in life. In the words of a Tibetan Adept, in the book, “Stranger by the River”, by Paul Twitchell. P. 68

                             “Life is but a perpetual balancing of accounts. Man dies leaving behind many unsettled accounts. Some are debits, some are credits; man is debited with the evil he does and credited with the good he does. Therefore, he must return again to this world to pay and collect”.

        For these and other reasons not mentioned here, man and the health industries will continue for a long while yet to deal with the challenges posed by ill health, sicknesses (of mind and body) and diseases. Hence, as part of the health care system in many parts of Africa and other places, practitioners resort to divination and other means to figure out the actual cause of a persistent ill health and a host of other pernicious conditions.

This practice often involves digging up dirts in the individual’s past lives and the present lessons or challenges he faces. So, trying to get rid quickly of a challenging health situation is not really a solution as experiences in Western medicine has proven time and time again. The health industries today thrive on recurring ill-health and disease conditions across the world.

         Suffice it to say here that, there are other methods of delving into past lives other then the method of divination mentioned here. But very few people are acquainted with this kind of knowledge.

        To conclude this article I quote from “Nature power”, (By Anselm Adodo, a Benedictine Monk, Ewu, Nigeria). On page 36 of this Book he wrote the following under the subtitle THE HUNGER OF THE WORLD: “We have only one problem: Lack of Love. Our problem is not lack of power, or lack of leadership or lack of money. Our problem is lack of love. And there is only one solution to all our problem - Love. The world is sick due to lack of that Love. The fruits of this lack of love are divisions, strife and violence. Look around you. What do you see? Angry faces, hungry stomachs, broken families, warring nations. The image one gets is that of a people who are not at peace within themselves and with one another”.

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