Quantum
HEALTH
Issue 13 September/October 2011
FPM: You know, I once had this Romanian doctor screaming at me, ‘There is no such thing as alternative medicine. It’s all just medicine!’ And in a way that’s true. Every so often people come along, like Newton or Einstein, who completely shatter everything.
As for your question, it’s very hard for single individuals, especially when they are sick, to make such a leap in their personal lives. What usually happens is that friends or relatives come to them and say, ‘Hey, have you heard of this or heard of that.’ I would say—and I am sure this is a cliché— to try to think with your heart. Somehow, when something is true for you it will resonate.
As a Foundation we are not against doctors. All of the great advances of medicine are incredible. But sometimes we do see abominations. We are not in a position to come in and say ‘No’—fi rstly, because we would create a lot of enemies, and secondly because we don’t have the true competency to be able to do that. So in this process of trying to bridge . . . well, sometimes two therapies are not really complementary to each other. They really are alternative to each other. I mean, in a sense, if you buy into, for example, Dr. Simoncini’s therapy you cannot buy into chemotherapy. This is the most diffi cult part. It’s not a question of complementing a therapy with minerals or vitamins or good nutrition, which is always good for everybody all the time, right? It’s sometimes a question about having to choose a completely alternative path. It’s like dropping out of college and saying I am going to study something else. It’s personal. And it’s diffi cult. Especially with the Internet and all the information that is available—just fi fteen years ago you had to be a library rat to investigate something or to travel across the country to meet someone. Now it’s all out there on websites. It’s incredible! And that’s why I think the revolution is happening.
be wearing. There are those people in the CAM world who, fairly or unfairly, place blame for the state of medicine on Big Pharma, reductionist scientists and
Q 14 Quantum Health
I want to ask you about any blinders CAM practitioners might
the “matter-based” focus on the body. But CAM has its own problems, not the least of which is remaining open itself, as many practitioners become champions for their own specialties and screen out new, different or confl icting information. Would you care to comment on if you think this is true and how it is affecting the fi eld?
FPM: One of the biggest obstacles we are seeing to the advancement of certain therapies is the proponents themselves. The proponents of the therapies themselves, who most of the time are the inventors. They can have such complicated and complex personalities that they either make enemies or they don’t really communicate clearly what their ideas are. This has been a big limitation. I would say that some good ideas are not getting across for this reason.
You know, the kind of, let’s say, hippie movement feeling to some of CAM, and you know the feeling that the guys in the white coats are the bad guys—I think that is breaking down. We are not in that enemy-is-out-there-mode anymore. Now we are more in the place of the enemy is within. The enemy is our own smallness.
And another obstacle to CAM, one of the biggest, is sloppy science. People who have studied conventional medicine have had a much better preparation in science—I mean among therapists. But people are getting self-organized now. Just as doctors get licensed by other doctors, other types of practitioners are getting licensed by associations so they can ensure that their level of competency is high, and so that we won’t have this type of sloppy attitude toward science or clients.
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As we close, I would like to completely shift gears. You also study with South American indigenous healers, curanderos. They are the masters of natural medicine. Is modern medicine—both conventional and CAM—missing something important by not paying attention to the “old knowledge”?
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