Week 12 - Vaccination & Public Health

1. Should parents take a more active role in designing their children's immunization schedule?
2. Would I support making vaccination programs 'compulsory'?

1.
I currently find myself sitting in the midst of a mild storm of crap-flinging with regards to vaccination. Among this chaotic conversation, there are certain patterns that I have parsed out that seem to indicate some sort of sense:

• combining vaccination technologies with toxic compounds (e.g. mercury, formaldehyde) is no longer practiced and reduces the concern for vaccination toxicity in general
  
• giving vaccines to infants and babies is highly suspect and irresponsible on the part of the health-care profession
• more legitimate and clear testing needs to be done on these substances/experimental 'medicines' before we inject them into underdeveloped and vulnerable human beings
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So in answer to the question: Yes. Parents need to invest as much energy and discerning thought into the investigation of the histories and safety of the vaccinations before making a choice and developing a personalized vaccination schedule. I do not think it responsible or careful or wise to simply write all vaccinations off, ever simply because one doesn't want to invest time into research and would rather not even consider the choice they are making.

Vaccinations are a community issue because viral illness affects the welfare of our larger social organism, but I believe that more than an experimental chemical warfare against viruses is necessary in combating illness/disease/unwanted death. This brings me to the very broad but very relevant topic of the need for us to shift our entire paradigmatic understanding of our bodies, health, wellness, lifestyle and our relationship with the natural harmonic patterns that surround us and directly affect our well-being.

The Vaccination Liberation website gives a lovely reminder of the broader equation of health;

L O V E
+ R E S T
+ EXERCISE
+ SANITATION
+ NUTRITION
+ HYGIENE
+ NO-VACCINES*
= HEALTH

This equation illustrates the fact that vaccinations are useless in the context of a healthy community; a community that is in harmony with itself and the reality is resides in. The only thing I would add to this equation is some sort of spiritual attuning practice, otherwise, the details lie within the basic concepts and the larger idea is that this issue is more about redefining ourselves and our well-being than whether or not we want to be using experimental chemicals on our children and ourselves.

Other good sites on this issue:

• Immunization Action Coalition
• PATH - Bringing immunization to the poor of the world
• National Network for Immunization Information
• Vaccination News

2.
Compulsory Vaccination Programs - Hello No.

Why not? Because they are experimental chemical warfare on viruses and we generally do not have enough of an understanding of both the viruses and the chemicals' effect on our sensitive systems to enforce the taking of these substances.

I would rather that they be used in emergency situations to prevent the further spread of out-breaks but in order to ensure true health, I feel that we should focus on educating ourselves about true nutrition, wellness, stress-reduction & lifestyle re-structuring towards the goal of greater personal empowerment and well-being.

I feel that there is a deeply-rooted mental disease and delusion about disease and death in our society/culture and we must first confront this and work on this if we are to ever truly experience wellness. Perhaps the reason we are susceptible to diseases is because we are complete out of alignment with the natural cycles of energy in our own bodies, our homes, our communities, our planets and our galaxy. We have cut ourselves off from the living flow of life-energy that moves through all things and in order to be healthy, we must reconnect to this flow - this includes:

• eating as locally grown, organic, whole-foods as possible
• eating seasonally and in accord with our own constitutions/body-needs
• re-aligning with our own bodies' intelligence and spiritual aspects through meditations, energy-healing/work, and signing/chanting/dancing
• re-committing ourselves to our families - our personal families, our local community families and global communities - not just human beings but all forms of living consciousness
• practicing gratitude daily
• remembering our heart and gut intelligences and harmonizing them with our mind intelligence
• confronting our fear of death and disease - realizing that these are natural manifestations and processes of life-energy that are necessary for harmonious flow, we will re-orient ourselves to these concepts/experiences and realize that there are more efficient and fulfilling ways to minimize their occurrence in the flow of our individual and collective experience

If we can do these things on a larger scale and within ourselves, then we will realize that developing a chemical poison to attack pathogenic/harmful energies - virus/bacteria/etc is actually a waste of energy and ultimately locks us in a loop of conflict, fear, and pain.

I would fight any attempt to enforce compulsory poisoning, especially regarding vaccinations. Let people decide what is best for them and I am sure it will work itself out - despite the many many mistakes we have and continue to make, everything seems to continue to unfold without any effort.... maybe we should effort less?

Week Four Inquiries

Questions?

• Is there a drug around for just about everything?
• Can we raise our levels of dopamine ourselves?
• How do you think chimps and humans diverged as species?

a) There surely appears to be an effort by the pharmaceutical companies to manufacture a drug for every unsightly, unwanted, or inconvenient physical and psychological manifestation. Often times the disease isn't really a disease but rather a physical expression of stress - a release of energy (flowing of Qi) such as in the case of 'restless leg syndrome'.
Upon performing a Google search of 'restless leg syndrome', I came across this thread of people discussing various exercises, supplements, dietary changes, and drugs that have helped reduce symptoms or eliminate the restless leg. The search also pulled up hundreds of advertisements for drugs and methods such as "The Cure" and "All Calm". In TCM, there is a clear connection between muscle spasms and Liver Blood deficiency. This could be treated in a variety of ways in TCM without the use of pharmaceutical chemicals. I find the resistance to the simple and holistic approach offered by TCM to be almost completely based in ignorance. There aren't commercials selling acupuncture on television like there are for drugs to cure RLS. If, there were, we might see a flood of people rushing to Eastern and Alternative medical doctors.

b) We can alter our chemistry and we have a much more powerful effect on ourselves than we realize. In one person's explanation of placebo, they emphasize the archetype of the 'doctor' as being a contributing factor:

"The placebo effect illustrates the effectiveness of the physician's role in 'healing' a patient. Past research show that a patient's high opinion of the physician prescribing the treatment as well as the doctor's personality can invoke the placebo effect. Furthermore, research has shown that an amiable doctor with a positive outlook of a drug treatment would induce the placebo effect.

The power of the placebo is more readily explained as a function of the individual because the placebo effect can rely on the amount of faith an individual has for a given treatment. One suggestion is that placebo effects may be due to anxiety reduction. Stress and anxiety adversely affect the body and increase an individual's focus on symptoms. A decrease in the body's stress and anxiety level by a well-known doctor alleviates the patient's worry and pain leading to a 'curing' of the symptoms. It has been shown that placebos may be more effective among highly anxious people because the adverse effects interact with the physiological processing. There is evidence that there might be an alteration in the body's endogenous opioid release. Pain relief in patients provided via placebo, may be caused by a release of endorphins in the brain. Endorphins are the body's own morphine-like painkillers. Within the nervous system, there are specific pathways that modulate pain when stimulated by these endorphins. As a patient anticipates symptom relief, the expectation of receiving an active substance, alone, may be activating the pain pathway thereby reducing symptoms. The presence of a substance probably activates the pain-inhibition because unaware of the treatment group, the patient is led to believe that they have received an active substance." (1)

Ultimately I feel that this all boils down to our own capacity to directly affect the quantum reality surrounding and swimming within us through conscious or unconscious intention and emotional energy. Most people have yet to realize that they generate a series of electromagnetic fields around them which have direct effects on the atoms that make us up and move around us. See the film 'What the *&$@# Do We Know?' for a detailed explanation. There are many explanations and scientific studies that support this view. It is only a matter of time before it trickles through the collective mind.




c) How do I think Humans and Chimp diverged? Slowly and over mind-distortingly long periods of time, such that it makes the time that we have been assuming ourselves as the supreme authority over all of Creation a complete blip in the greater dream of it all.

I think that the process took much longer than we can truly understand and that there was a lot of experimentation, dead-ends, and unexpected leaps in genetic expression. It is a miracle that this process exists at all. Why is there even an argument about whether or not evolution is a valid explanation for how we came to be? It is so beyond understanding and beauty that it can still be considered of 'divine will' or whatever people are choosing to defend.

We are animals that have slowly arrived at a state of such high vibration and frequency that we are about to invert on ourselves in self-reflection and ever-new expansion.