May I be a boat, a bridge, a passage for those desiring the further shore.
Within the middle of the world, within midsouth China, I was so priviledged to encounter and live with persons from more than 60 different countries. Despite the obvious linguistic, cultural and belief differences, we celebrated each others' holidays, life events, comforted each other and encouraged each other. We became each others' family, teachers, students, etc.
Even now, as I sit on the other side of the world missing them all, I still feel the connection to each one of them and smile.
From that time and space, I more fully realize how deeply affected we are by world events and by our heartstrings. It more fully inaugurated each one of us as global citizens and reminded us that we are ONE FAMILY.
I only hope that anyone who encounters these words and memories ponders the implications of such and opens his/her heart to the world family in which we all play a part.
Namaste, 湘君
Monday, September 17, 2007
May I be a boat, a bridge, a passage for those desiring the further shore.
It is with a saddened and disheartened heart that I look upon the state of affairs within America and the world that the official government and the private somewhat hidden economic sectors touch throughout the world....
Yet, I have hope!
Hearts and minds come together without seeing or realizing borders and people collaborate for the greater good. Albeit, these are often the grassroots groups and some of the nonprofit organizations, but as long as they exist there is hope that someone will listen and understand, shed light into the darkness and effect change!
I never set out to bridge humanity or awaken the West to the realities of its inadequacies globally. However, dialogue and targeted actions through the WHO and various other channels must bridge the US and the health care sector it engages to invoke the tools of neocolonialism and not only dispel them but also integrate indigenous and cultural knowledge and together heal the world as the 1978 Alma Ata dictates. This has never been more crucial!
According to Dr. Benson in 1987, modern medicine only effectively addresses less than 25% of all illness and currently that percentage has fallen dramatically with the rise of drug resistant Malaria and TB and the pandemic of chronic diseases. additionally, we must view the fact that the US health care occupies the lowest level of all developed countries and approximately the fortieth best position in the world.
People suffer needlessly as the need for transplants rise daily. Not only could these be avoided through "Alternative" methods and preventative methods of health care but the sheer number of them indicates much larger problems within modern society. By looking at the integrated whole of the human body and of course the world, the answers become clear.
Resources need to be focused on forgotten diseases and those methods of healing often misunderstood and often overlooked or debased because of lack of cultural knowledge.
By doing so, we realize that racial disparities are created by the system of medical care within the west, which reinforces them through its cultural lens. By engaging and integrating other ways in which to view health and healing, we merely bridge humanity and free ourselves.
Like the ancestors before me who signed the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, I am striving to create a more equal, more harmonious society where not only bodies and minds heal but also the divides constructed by men that separate them. Like them, I must leave the land of my youth and set out for distant shores and strive to bring about new or renewed understanding and effect change.
We have no time to waste. I am merely a bridge, a boat, a passage for those desiring the distant shores. Like my ancestors and so many healers before me, I realize that through compassion, dedication and harnessing the 80% of the world that realizes healing on multiple levels, we can build upon humanity, heal the spirits and bodies and restore a balance we now lack.
Namaste,
湘君
It is with a saddened and disheartened heart that I look upon the state of affairs within America and the world that the official government and the private somewhat hidden economic sectors touch throughout the world....
Yet, I have hope!
Hearts and minds come together without seeing or realizing borders and people collaborate for the greater good. Albeit, these are often the grassroots groups and some of the nonprofit organizations, but as long as they exist there is hope that someone will listen and understand, shed light into the darkness and effect change!
I never set out to bridge humanity or awaken the West to the realities of its inadequacies globally. However, dialogue and targeted actions through the WHO and various other channels must bridge the US and the health care sector it engages to invoke the tools of neocolonialism and not only dispel them but also integrate indigenous and cultural knowledge and together heal the world as the 1978 Alma Ata dictates. This has never been more crucial!
According to Dr. Benson in 1987, modern medicine only effectively addresses less than 25% of all illness and currently that percentage has fallen dramatically with the rise of drug resistant Malaria and TB and the pandemic of chronic diseases. additionally, we must view the fact that the US health care occupies the lowest level of all developed countries and approximately the fortieth best position in the world.
People suffer needlessly as the need for transplants rise daily. Not only could these be avoided through "Alternative" methods and preventative methods of health care but the sheer number of them indicates much larger problems within modern society. By looking at the integrated whole of the human body and of course the world, the answers become clear.
Resources need to be focused on forgotten diseases and those methods of healing often misunderstood and often overlooked or debased because of lack of cultural knowledge.
By doing so, we realize that racial disparities are created by the system of medical care within the west, which reinforces them through its cultural lens. By engaging and integrating other ways in which to view health and healing, we merely bridge humanity and free ourselves.
Like the ancestors before me who signed the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, I am striving to create a more equal, more harmonious society where not only bodies and minds heal but also the divides constructed by men that separate them. Like them, I must leave the land of my youth and set out for distant shores and strive to bring about new or renewed understanding and effect change.
We have no time to waste. I am merely a bridge, a boat, a passage for those desiring the distant shores. Like my ancestors and so many healers before me, I realize that through compassion, dedication and harnessing the 80% of the world that realizes healing on multiple levels, we can build upon humanity, heal the spirits and bodies and restore a balance we now lack.
Namaste,
湘君
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
