tie-in to the "engrams" and Scientology's novel cosmology. It is the
tie-in with the belief system that makes it religious. My point is
that it is smart to tread lightly when addressing or assessing
religious, medical, or political belief systems. One cannot
extirpate a deep-seated opinion with logic; it is a fool's task to
try. Even a sensible dialog is frustrating.
A year ago a very pleasant couple invited me to their home for
dinner. The woman was between bouts of chemo for metastatic breast
cancer. She was on the conveyor belt with a 100% certain outcome of
death. They knew it. They also knew others with whom I have worked
and they really wanted to do my program, but they couldn't. They
were snugly wrapped in a cultural web of family, friends, business
associates, and conventional medical social cliques that left them no
wiggle room for survival. All were well meaning. In a relativistic
world they were all perfectly sane. In an objective universe they
would be considered batty as fruitcakes.
A month ago they contacted me again. I had to turn them down because
her situation had become acute and she was dying. Within two weeks
she was gone.
In the past few days I have found myself reflecting on this. The
lady was felled by cancer, but not the cancer that was within her
body, but by the cancerous socio-economic paradigm for which she was
a necessary sacrifice. Should we ever get our non-profit adequately
funded I'll allocate significant funds into explorations of an
achievable healthcare paradigm that can replace the ruthless
economics of the system we have. In such a system there should be a
constitutional, individually sovereign right to choose one's own
medicines, strategies, and advisors. In the U.S. this is about as
anathema as saying we need to turn the entire "defense" budget into
an international diplomacy budget. I'd like to see that too.
Vincent
At 07:49 AM 7/1/2008, you wrote:
>..Why such hostility? I must have hit some sort of nerve...
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