Philosophy and Cancer Treatment
By Simon Mitchell
1000 years ago in Europe pre-Christian tribes originally
had a Goddess culture - a matriarchy where the earth and nature and
their cycles and secrets were revered. In pre-industrial societies
illness was not seen as a 'random assault from outside' but as a deeply
significant life event integral to the sufferer's whole being - spiritual,
moral, physical and life course - past, present and future.
Disease was interpreted as packed with moral, spiritual
and religious messages as one of the many ways through which 'God
revealed his will to mankind'. Other philosophies of medicine such
as Ayurvedic or Tibetan think similarly, in these, dis-ease has a
karmic aspect.
Around the tenth century in Europe - after the so
called 'Dark Ages' - women, the original stewards of the land (men
did ‘animal husbandry’), were dispossessed of it by the
new patriarchies of the Church and State. This male hierarchy hid
the things they were most afraid of, namely the fact that it is women
who hold the key to the processes and powers of life.
They took them as their own, decreeing laws about
how we should behave to impose control and inventing 'original sin'.
Allied to this there came a prolonged persecution of women, especially
any of those involved in healing.
Some sources estimate about 5 - 9 million women were
destroyed across Europe during this persecution. Essentially the role
of women as healers and midwives was discouraged and ‘home-making’
and its many associated skills is still regarded as a ‘worthless’
career according to our primarily fiscal values based on GDP.
When a patriarchy takes over a matriarchy as a fundamental
paradigm shift, one of the main things that happens is that 'healing'
and 'spirituality' are separated out as an instrument of control.
The world of spirit and physic were separated and became even more
so during the great male 'Age of Reason' that began with Descartes
and continued with Newton, the tail-end of which many are presently
clinging to in desperation and a degree of applied self-interest.
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650) was a central influence
on the 17th century revolution that began modern science and philosophy.
His ‘Method of Doubt’ was published in 1637:
"I resolved to reject as false everything in which I could imagine
the least doubt, in order to see if there afterwards remained anything
that was entirely indubitable".
The philosophy of ‘Cartesian dualism’
became part of our science, where the mind and the body are seen as
essentially separate. The ‘self’, the conscious being
that is ‘me’ was seen as essentially non-physical. Misguidedly
(it was not Descartes intention) this philosophy contributed to the
mechanistic and rational philosophy of the universe adopted by our
culture.
Descartes was one of the first people to suggest that
phenomena could be understood by breaking them down into constituent
parts and examining each minutely. His view of the human body as a
machine functioning within a mechanistic universe took prevalence
within the ‘Age of Reason’.
"Consider the human body as a machine. My thought
compares a sick man and an ill-made clock with my idea of a healthy
man and a well made clock".
This attention to analytical detail is still at the
heart of our scientific research methodologies. As a result Western
medicine has produced ‘World saving’ vaccines and antibiotics.
It has created drugs and surgical techniques that do utterly amazing
things.
It has virtually eliminated all the serious communicable
diseases (in the First World) such as leprosy, plague, tuberculosis,
tetanus, syphilis, rheumatic fever, pneumonia, meningitis, polio,
septicaemia. There are very few women dying in childbirth compared
to the past.
Western medicine has been, and is, a triumph in the
face of these problems which worried us back then the way cancer and
heart disease worry us today. Even the big medical problems of the
of 1930’s and 40’s have literally vanished.
The age of infectious disease has given way to the
age of chronic disorders. The major killers today are heart and vascular
disease, chronic degenerative diseases and cancer, largely incurable
and increasing in incidence. The strategies that worked so well for
all but eliminating acute infectious diseases just don’t seem
to work for chronic and degenerative conditions.
"The prevalence of asthma, multiple sclerosis,
chronic fatigue, immune deficiency syndrome, HIV and a host of other
debilitating conditions is increasing. Conventional biomedicine -
so strikingly successful in the treatment of overwhelming infections,
surgical and medical emergencies and congenital defects, has been
unable to stem the tide of these conditions".
James Gordon M.D., Washington, D.C.
Even during the time of Sir Isaac Newton the human
body was viewed as an intricate biological machine. The Universe was
an orderly, predictable but divine mechanism, a ‘grand clockwork’.
Although hundreds of years have passed, Western scientific medicine
still holds the same basic philosophy, but are more sophisticated
in studying biological mechanisms at a molecular level.
The first Newtonian approaches were essentially surgical.
The body was seen as if it were a complex plumbing system. If it went
wrong the offending piece was removed or bypassed. These days instead
of using knives, drugs are often used to do more or less the same
things.
Humans though are far more than walking sacks of chemicals.
The animating life-force central to other medical systems is an energy
that is not addressed by modern scientific methodology and there are
no Western medical models that explain what it is and what it does.
It is misguided by the concept that all illnesses
are cured by physically repairing or eliminating abnormal cells. This
is partly due to a conflict between ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’
philosophies and has its roots in the division of science and religion
along with the destruction of folk medicine in both U.S. and Europe.
Cancer cannot be treated effectively under a philosophy
of reductionism. Scientific cancer research has failed to find a cure
because it is looking in the wrong places with the wrong tools. Cancer
needs to be understood as a ‘whole’ disease in relation
to each individual’s experience and the culture of which they
are part.
It has multiple causes that vary with each patient.
The strategies that worked so well for tackling acute infectious diseases
are inappropriate for dealing with chronic and degenerative conditions.
Cancer patients can be at best increasingly ‘patched up’
by orthodox treatments but at spiralling health care costs.
This is an extract from 'Don't Get Cancer' a new
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