The Way Toward Health - April 25, 1984

April 25, 1984

Even in situations that involve a so-called host-and-parasite relationship, there is a cooperative process.  Fleas, for example, actually help increase circulation, and constantly comb animal’s hair.  At minute levels, they also consume some bodily wastes, and creatures even smaller than they are.  They also keep the immune system active and flexible.

Many diseases are actually health-promoting processes.  Chicken pox, measles, and other like diseases in childhood in their own way “naturally inoculate” the body, so that it is able to handle other elements that are a part of the body and the body’s environment.

When civilized children are medically inoculated against such diseases, however, they usually do not show the same symptoms, and to an important extent the natural protective processes are impeded.  Such children may not come down with the disease against which they are medially protected, then – but they may indeed therefore become “prey” to other diseases later in life that would not otherwise have occurred.

I am speaking generally here, for remember that your individual beliefs, thoughts, and emotions cause your reality, so no person dies ahead of his or her time.  The individual chooses the time of death.  It is true, however, that many cancers and conditions such as AIDS result because the immunity system has been so tampered with that the body has not been allowed to follow through with its own balancing procedures.

Again, however, no individual dies of cancer or AIDS or any other condition, until they themselves have set the time.

There are many other conditions to be taken into consideration, for such diseases certainly do have strong social connections.  They occur in social species.  This does not mean that they are necessarily contagious at all, but that they do bear an overall relationship to the give-and-take between individuals and their social and natural frameworks.

A city might be overrun by rats, for example – a fine situation for the rats if not the populace – but the entire picture would include unrest in the populace at large, a severe dissatisfaction with social conditions, feelings of dejection, and all of those conditions together would contribute to the problem.  Rat poison may indeed add its own dangers, killing other small birds or rodents, and contaminating animal food supplies.  Nor are insects invulnerable to such conditions, in such an hypothesized picture.  Actually, all forms of life in that certain environment would be seeking for a balanced return to a more advantageous condition.

You may wonder why so many forms of life would be involved in what might seem to be self-destructive behavior, often leading to death – but remember that no consciousness considers death an end or a disaster, but views it instead as a means to the continuation of corporeal and noncorporeal existence.