Over the last 500 years, much has happened in health and healthcare.
Rene Descartes commented on how the mind and body could be separated and the body could be studied like a machine. Physical anatomy took further root with Henry Gray's textbook on anatomy, with no apparent need for "mind."
Still, folk traditions continued, and people accepted the idea of vital energy, which had been present for millennia in traditions around the world. But how could it be real? It wasn't in the textbooks. There was good reason to be skeptical, as there was such a wide range of treatments that it was hard to know what was credible and what wasn't.
Around that time, sanitation measures were implemented and people started to see significant improvements in health, especially from infectious disease. It was a perfect environment for germ theory to take hold, further cemented with the discovery of penicillin. We were on the right track, it seems.
In 1910, the Flexner report was published, supported by Carnegie and Rockefeller, aiming to bring rationality and rigor to the practice of medicine. Healing systems other than pharmaceuticals and surgery were deemed unscientific, corresponding with the investment by the Rockefeller family in creating pharmaceuticals from petroleum, the precursor of the modern pharmaceutical industry.
It was no longer okay for educated people to publicly talk about vital energy, subtle energy, chi, prana, shakthi and more. (Feel familiar?) These were apparently not based in science, and not based in materialism.
Research had a narrow focus. We attended to smaller, narrower ranges of what we are, except maybe on Sundays, where perhaps some clarity or further confusion would set in. Nevertheless, the biomedical approach had its major successes, from antibiotics to organ transplants and more. Yet, our collective senses generally became more dull. We became less perceptive, more susceptible. Marketing began to tell us what health looks like - maybe a six pack and a yoga mat, and a pill just in case.
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What we see is a convergence of leaving out the mind, sanitation measures that are improving life, germ theory taking hold, an official report that tells us subtle energy and other healing systems are unscientific, and the advent of the modern pharmaceutical and marketing industries.
All of the above happened from around the 1600s to the 1900s. I see this as a period of great change and significance in the U.S., because while health improved greatly due to sanitation measures, antibiotics, and surgery, the possibility of what Health could be (human potential) started to die. Today, even life expectancy is decreasing.
Health Revolution is curing this dumbing down of Health, using the antidote of Numocore, beginning with nutrition of the mind. This process is called health discovery.
Join us. Good things (like, health) are coming.
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