Healers (tradition, blood, choice, attend, shaman)

[Lightkeeper]

Are there people who are born healers? What about shaman? There seems to be an increase in alternative medicines. Do you think we will pull away from traditional medicine and more toward the alternatives?

[cardero]

Lightkeeper writes: Are there people who are born healers?

I would say there are born healers and people who acquire healing abilities later in life. Whether you are born with these abilities or if they are acquired later I think the key motivation for why someone would become a healer or a doctor is because they developed a deep desire or concern to care for other people.

Lightkeeper writes: There seems to be an increase in alternative medicines. Do you think we will pull away from traditional medicine and more toward the alternatives?

Chemical medicine really doesn’t leave us much choice but to lean towards alternative medicines. With all the side effects that are attributed to prescription medicines there are some cases that people may be better off without medicine and dealing with the original illness.



Interesting topic Lightkeeper but it would be interesting to hear from a professional and I do believe we may have a doctor in the house.

[Feathers in Hair]

I've been told that I am a born healer, but maybe what I really am is extremely self-centered; because I can't stand to see a person in pain, physically, mentally or emotionally, I go out of my way to heal them. I can't handle the sight of blood, so I wouldn't be a good doctor or nurse, but I've done a number of things that I can't explain that seem to have helped people.

[cardero]

Oracle is another person who heals.

[jewscout]

I think there are people who are born to be healers in the sense that they are naturally inclined to the medical field and have all the attributes a good caregiver would have. Whether they have supernatural healing powers....i'm not sure.

[Master Vigil]

I agree that some are born as healers. But in some cultures shamans are born into the blood line as healers, and others are sought out and are taught the healing gifts. I guess it differs with everyone.

[Mr Spinkles]

Originally Posted by Lightkeeper

Are there people who are born healers?

Are there people who attended medical school while inside the womb?

[Christy]

Originally Posted by Lightkeeper

There seems to be an increase in alternative medicines. Do you think we will pull away from traditional medicine and more toward the alternatives?

I do not think that we will "pull away" from traditional medicine - rather, the thinking public HAS ALREADY pulled away.

Here is just one example: There is an ever increasing interest in what is now called food supplements - natural herbal mixtures that have been used for centuries by ancient and modern native populations to cure all sorts of ailments. The evidence is - herbs work.

Pharmaceutical medicines come from herbs, too, but what our SO intelligent scientists have done is mega-concentrate those parts of the herbs that they think are doing the good work. Our bodies are not built to take this concentrated form - and shazaam - we get zillions of deadly side-effects.

Healthy food supplements, on the other hand, give us the whole herb to consume. (There is some evidence to suggest that the whole herb has elements in it that mitigate any negative consequences of eating the part of the herb that "cures" an ailment.)

I believe that this pharmaceutical vs. food supplement "controversy" is an example of nature "getting it right" all along - and us humans trying to be so smart and lousing up a good thing.

What do YOU think?

[Scuba Pete]

I think most "herbal" products are hooey... snake oil... pure fantasy. They are pushed by those wanting to benefit from the pain of others. They are as bad aas TV evangelists, faith healers and OTHER politicians. It is easy to get duped when you are hurting emotionally or physically.

Not that I would ever ascribe to being a part of the "THINKING PUBLIC".