The Cure is Prevention, and The Remedy is a Journey

There’s a saying in Traditional Chinese Medicine which translates as “The saint cures the patient before he gets sick”, and the ‘saint’, or warrior, or hero(ine) is a high frequency vibration within the individual, as opposed to the low vibration which is an apathetic ogre focused only on obtaining objects of pleasure, or destroying any obstacles to that stand in its way.
We haven’t been taught about the prevention of disease and we’ve been lead to believe in the quick fix for the disease.

The prevention of disease lies in “letting vitality be your sovereignty”. Living in harmony with the law of life (yes, there is a law of life) and respecting our bodies is the prevention aspect.

If you’ve received a diagnosis, the first obstacle is in the acceptance of this, and then the next step is to commit the ultimate audacity, and change your fate. Improvement is always possible, and one needs to be open-minded to a multi-dimensional approach (giving anything a try), and a decent try. Patience, persistence, and positivity are the keys.
It is NOT easy, but nothing worth doing is, as they say. You have to have the courage to veer away from the beaten track and try things, like a scientist who can only test on herself, knowing that the result could even be undesirable.

Western doctors diagnose, and treat symptoms. They can also perform surgery, if the problem is that severe, but so often the problem can reoccur (as can happen with cancerous tumours) or a different set of problems can arise. The Pharmaceutical treatments always come with “side-effects”, and you won’t know exactly which side effects until you’ve tried them, as they affect everyone a little differently. These options may be unavoidable, and very helpful as a crutch, a step, or even a leap on the journey.

The problem itself, whatever it is, is a message from the body/mind saying “I don’t like this, stop this!”, and so you have to rise above the traditional, conformist, accepted lifestyles and opinions to live in accord with what the body/mind wants. If you don’t, you can’t expect improvement, and for most who don’t, things gradually get worse, and the person feels that life has treated him/her badly, when it’s really the other way around.

Western science is based on a “pull it apart and look at things separately” philosophy, whereas, Eastern science is based on a holistic approach: “everything is part of the whole”. History has shown there is value in both approaches, but Eastern medical science is steeped in over two thousand years of history, whereas Western medical science, relatively speaking, is in its infancy.

The first step on the journey to vitality is often diet, and when it comes to diet, I quite like the Macro-biotic diet, as it balances Western and Eastern sciences well, but the individual will always need to do their own research and experimentation to find out what works best for them, and that’s the fun of it.

Positive Skepticism

‎”We are in a war within our own mind. It is a war between our truth and all the opinions and judgements that have been thrown at us or that we have thrown at ourselves. Become a warrior and fight against the parasite in your own mind. Stop being the scorpion that stings itself with it’s own tail and be skeptical of what you are telling yourself. Listen carefully, filter through the negative, allowing only the positive to rule and reign bringing heaven into your existence.” ~don Jose Ruiz

The Problem with Transcendence

These are the definitions of the word “Transcendence” taken from thefreedictionary.com:

1. Surpassing others; preeminent or supreme.
2. Lying beyond the ordinary range of perception: “fails to achieve a transcendent significance in suffering and squalor” (National Review).
3. Philosophy
a. Transcending the Aristotelian categories.
b. In Kant’s theory of knowledge, being beyond the limits of experience and hence unknowable.
4. Being above and independent of the material universe. Used of the Deity

In Unithou, the higher and lower plains exist in our minds, not in some ideal imaginary realm where a deity presides and presumes to judge our actions. This imaginary realm is often thought to be a plateau of sorts, which we’ll reach at some point and won’t have to try any more. Some traditions talk of reincarnation as being a return to the material world, due to one not having earned the privilege yet to reside on the transcendental plateau permanently: thus, they return here, life after life, until they are deemed ready to remain in the transcendental realm.

I once had a talk with a Hare Krishna fellow who was handing out free books about reincarnation to people on the street. He said to me “Do you really want to come back to this world, man? I definitely don’t!”. I tried to encourage him to look further, and feed his mind by reading other philosophies besides the Bhagavad Gita, and he replied “Don’t you think I’ve had time to look, man?”. So then I tried to explain that he was being mislead, and that Krishna was present here and now. He said “Oh, so you’ve seen Krishna have you?”, I said “Yes, I have.” (the word Krishna translates as “all attractive”), he said “So what did he look like?”, to which I replied “You!”. He shook his head and turned his back on me. His belief in a transcendental deity blinds him of his own unique divinity, and has him all the time looking outside of himself for the experience of bliss. His mantras and meditations are designed to help him escape this earthly realm as much as possible in his day-to-day life.

He believes that people are superior to animals, even though they actually do a better job of living in harmony with nature than us. He has a shaved head, with one of those rat’s tails at the back, and follows the teachings of a painted face freak. He’s looked for the truth, and found a bunch of people dressed in old indian garb with a book/doctrine which has simply reprogrammed him into a different kind of subservience. Their greatest trick is to tell us that it is not a religion!

Unithou is a religion of presence and positivity, designed to help us recognise our own unique divinity, and the divinity present within others, as well as to encourage vitality and individual liberation.

“We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” (Alan Watts).