Daniel has become a friend of mine by now and I like to see him but I expect I won’t see Daniel very much at all any more.  He has learned what he needs to know to take care of himself.  This is a typical onion case that resolved successfully.  However this case might not have worked out so well had Daniel not possessed a high degree of personal integrity and bravery, had he not faced and resolved his emotional conflicts.  Fortunately, Daniel had always conducted an ethical life, without dishonesty or a secret collection of disreputable acts.  Bodies are easy to fix; they are carbon oxygen engines that work on chemistry and respond unfailingly to physical measures.  But the entity that runs the body is not so simple.  The thoughts and emotions of the spirit impinge on a body as powerfully or more powerfully than all the vitamins, dietary reform or protomorphogens I can provide.  The mind, and the spirit behind that mind, can make a body sick or can prevent it from getting well or staying well despite everything I do.

Unethical Illness

I see a lot of spiritually-induced physical illness in my practice.  Maybe more than my share.  Maybe its karmic; it tends to find me because I understand it.  And it comes up my driveway because people who have it often become doctor shoppers, and seek out a naturopath as a last resort after exhausting everything that modern medical science has to offer.  I have had large numbers of undiagnosable people that suffer greatly but who medical doctors can find nothing wrong with and label psychosomatic.  I have also repaired people given specific medical diagnoses that standard physical remedies cannot make better.

In most of these cases, the physical illness is secondary to, is an overlay of a more fundamental spiritual cause.  On this type of case there are inevitably severe problems connected with close friends, relatives and business associates.  The sick person inevitably blames the friends, relatives and business associates and takes no responsibility.  The problems seem unresolvable.  When I probe deeply enough into these problems, I begin to discover the real infection below.  The sick person, so fond of complaining about all the terrible things done to them by the people they have or have had problems with, or sometimes, so proud of not complaining about all the terrible things done to them.  Actually, almost inevitably this person has committed a huge mass of secret crimes, viciousness and betrayals, rarely indictable felonious acts, but crimes none the less, disreputable deeds that must be kept secret.

These deeds are always completely justified; the sick person always claims to have been right for having done them and it is next to impossible for me as a therapist to get them to take responsibility for their sins.  But at the deep, center of almost all people is an honest, decent soul that knows what it has really done and feels guilty and judges itself.  That is why it says in the Bible, ’judge not, lest you be judged’.  It is not the judgment of the Deity we have so much to fear; we are own worst judge, jury, and executioner, and eventually extract from ourselves full payment with compound interest for all harmful acts.