Chills the mind a bit don’t you think?
The “why” is an articulate question, weighted in it is the
burden of the past. What I mean is that everyone has a “Samsonite” full of
baggage from the past. It is the culmination of a series of unfortunate or
fortunate events that have brought forth such a thought process that now
dictates.
Let me explain…
Let me explain…
Ptolemy and Galileo:
Remember the Ptolemiac pronouncements of the geocentric
Universe? Well back in the days of 1512 up until 1609, the held ground was that
the earth was the center of the universe and all other objects swirled and
twirled around her. And if you would take a time-lapse photography of the sly
at night the myriads of stars do seem to enter from the east and get swallowed
by the west. The belief was so strong that it ended up in the religious fervor
of that century. So when Galileo acting on Copernicus’s thought peered through
the telescope and found a differing view of the universe; the sun was the
center. All hell broke loose in the religious order thereafter. How dare he
(Galileo) challenge the authority of the church that the Pope had decreed to be
the infallible truth. The inquisition followed and eventually rational minds
prevailed. So for almost a hundred years the prevailing view was deranged, so
to speak.
Blood Letting:
In medicine there are many such examples, but foremost
amongst them is the “blood-letting” therapy for all ailments. The
Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Mayans, Greeks and the Aztecs all believed in the
benefits of “blood letting.”
This source of thought seems to have emanated from the
likes of Hippocrates who believed that menstruation in women was largely a
function of “purging women of bad humors.” And as students are sure to follow
their teachers, Galen followed Hippocrates lead and devised a complex
measurement of the need for “blood letting” based on age, sex, weather and
place. The process had been ongoing for at least 2000 years and even through
Sir William Harvey’s denunciation of it in 1628, the ongoing cause was further
celebrated by Sir William Osler all the way into 1923 edition of his textbook
“The Principles and Practice of Medicine” In fact “Blood-Letting” was the
celebrated treatment for disease as varied as acne to asthma, from cancer to
cholera, insanity to tuberculosis and even nosebleed, excessive menstruation, and even hemorrhoidal bleeding. So much so that as scientific minded doctors in the
early 20th Century started to move away from this form of therapy.
The “barber doctors” continued for while, that is why the Barber-Poles have the
red and white striped poles outside their shops even today. The red represented
“blood-letting” and the white represents the tourniquet while the pole is the
lancing “stick.”
Demonic Possessions:
In millennia preceding and during those times there was also
a resident concept of “demonic possession of the soul.” Insanity and
psychological ailments were considered nothing more than the “the devil in you.”
Exorcisms and prayers to various gods was practiced to expel the “evil
spirits.” These concepts held sway just as the “Witches of Salem,” in 1692 in
Massachusetts. These emotional frequencies of resident thought that
pervaded the human minds and belief were only a “I think so” away from finding "reality" and fitting in the closet of "truths.".
The best available science is just that, “best available.”
It is not the end-all, be-all. It is a doctrine of a practice accepted by most if
not all. It is the practice of medicine. Will it be different tomorrow? You
bet! Will it be better the day after tomorrow? Maybe, but it will be different!
Resonance:
So consider our current thought and reflect upon it. When
one states unequivocally that he or she has the answer and that everyone is
swimming in the sea of idiocy, for not seeing the truth. Something is rotten
in his or her state of state. Is he or she drumming to the beat of his/her own drum, rather then the chorus that surrounds?
Probably! Where is in him/her that fundamental of all frequency, which makes knowledge complete with all the facts?
Most time there is no resonance, only dissonance, unfortunately.
Most time there is a grand bias that inflates a prospect to glory.
And only some time there is coherence of the frequencies.
Most time there is no resonance, only dissonance, unfortunately.
Most time there is a grand bias that inflates a prospect to glory.
And only some time there is coherence of the frequencies.
Crucible of Wisdom:
That brings me to another whispering thought: I was young
and foolish once, as I will remind myself to be when I am older; that, opinions
of all code and conduct, of all decree and thought, of all majesty and
commonness, of all gale and silence, of all loud and soft, of all innocence and
guilt, of all that matters, should comport themselves into the crucible of
wisdom. It is here, where we draw the elixir of the future and quench our desire through progress. It is in this mix that much is told and much is revealed. It is in
this that, that is found; the truth, which we seek. It is in here that true Evidence lies, one that resonates with all known hypotheses, facts and known human truths.
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