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The American Medical Association (AMA), a very powerful and tightly held organization managing policies of every medical institution, school, and doctor in the USA and advising the government on health issues, held a stranglehold for most of the 19th century on health research and health care in the US.

The western medical model insists that the doctor is the one who knows everything -- he went to medical school and therefore knows everything about the body and its ailments. But, we are discovering with the help of ayurveda that the Self, the Atman of everyone, knows everything. From that level, we can regenerate our body and take care of our own health.

Ayurveda strengthens our own self-referral ability. Western medicine, by its own intrinsic design, weakens it. Ayurveda strengthens the cells own intelligence by offering substances which are rich in the intelligence of nature, where as western medicine often robs the cell of its own intelligence. (see note below on GMO's) Ayurveda offers holistic combinations of substances which are prepared to offer the body wholeness instead of partial and side-effect ridden medicines.

All these attributes are the result of the genius of a collection of writings called Ayurveda. The texts of Ayurveda were the result of direct cognition by advanced souls and seers who knew directly the relationships and interrelations between the body and the presiding consciousness. From this level, they gave methods and prescriptions necessary to keep the three major systems of the life -- consciousness, mind, and body -- in proper balance. Western medicine knows nothing of this. As humans evolved into higher ability and greater consciousness, it became necessary for medicine to treat the conditions that were created thereby and therefrom. Quite simply, humans outgrew the modality of western medicine. "You trust me and I will take care of you" became, "you become more conscious and nature as wholeness will take care of you". Ayurveda is the name.

This does not mean western medicine is invalid, or useless. No. It simply puts into perspective a broaden vision of what health care is. Recent advances in western medical treatments using lasers restore eyesight for those who have lost or damaged their eyes. This is truly remarkable. Certainly, western medicine has its area of expertise. But it does not and should not have tyranny or a stranglehold on treatment modalities which support and strengthen the human ability to obtain and maintain states of higher consciousness. In fact, western medicine does not really even know what higher consciousness means (that is, in fact, changing via quantum field theory and scientific advances in understanding fields).

Ayurveda is deeply concerned with the evolution of human consciousness, the Atman of everyone, the quantum field.

The battle has been fought, and the way is open for perfect health to be revealed by an intelligent use of the best medicine that nature has to offer. While it is still true that doctors tend to think they know everything, and usually let you know that that this the case, increasingly, as human consciousness evolves, it is becoming clear that it is the Atman which knows, and knows everything, and everyone has access to that, not just a few medical school graduates.

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