Doctors,
I must concede, have saved my life on two occasions. However, had they
understood the subtle and sometimes not-so-subtle causes of disease the
monetary costs to me and my insurance company would have been significantly
cheaper and I would have experienced much less suffering.
Cause
and effect relationships remain outside the area of focus for almost all
doctors. They see disease, the visible sign of many causes and effects, as if
it existed in isolation and the medical community, with rare exceptions,
attacks the symptom as though it were the cause. Doctors see themselves as
heroic soldiers waging war on the body of effects. As a consequence, they will
quickly point out, people do indeed live longer. The human body can be
sustained through medical marvels but those who do live longer only continue to
worsen and inevitably need another fix and so disease, as well as the social
problems caused by certain cures, become increasing complicated and cry out for
more marvels of medicine. Thus syphilis and gonorrhea cured are replaced by
HIV, not so curable.
I
am not a methodical, exhaustive researcher. Rather, my delight comes in seeking
out those little nuggets of wonders researchers uncover. Science revels in
empirical evidence; I take pleasure in what they fail to see. I look beneath
their discovery to the cause.
Einstein
once said that the universe is made up of a very few principles; he wanted to
know what God thought. My particular version of this principle lies in looking
further and further back in time for the numen behind the phenomenon, seeking
cause behind effects. I suppose if we were to go back far enough in time
through all the causes and effects, we might discover the unprecedented impetus
of all causes and effects. What better way to find the cause of all misery and
suffering than by probing the failing of the human spirit, admittedly a
dangerous practice.
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