Emergencies and Dr. Hamer's New Medicine

I wrote this essay several months ago.

Some reflections about emergencies
3/15/08

Life is short. Death comes too soon. As we age, we get weaker. Eventually we must die. Are any of these statements true? We take them for granted, except, maybe in church. The statements certainly fit the life most humans expect. Are they true? Statistically they must be. Most people live a typical lifespan. However there are legends of individuals who lived to a very old age. In fact many do so today. Suppose there were some people who, 1000 years ago, knew how to be immortal. They would have had to be skillful at hiding their age. They would have had plenty of time to learn the skill. I imagine someone like that lecturing someone else about what they “should” be thinking about when they discuss their health. It sounds like a good way to annoy the other person. However, immortal people would not have much difficulty hiding their age. It was effectively impossible to determine someone's age unless you knew them as a child. Some people were expected to travel. Suppose their bodies did not look old. If the people in one community knew them as very old, they could simply go somewhere else where they were not known, make up a comfortable vague answer about their past, and poof! they were young again. Nowadays, with DNA tracing, they couldn't get away with that. They would have to admit being immortal.
Today we hear speculations about the possibility of immortality for all of us. I can't imagine anyone wanting immortality if we continued to deteriorate as we age. What we look like at age 200? If the body is designed to heal us, perhaps the first mystery is why it can't keep us young as we age. Sometimes I wonder if the answer is simply that we already know it can't. As Henry Ford said, “If you know you can or you know you can't, you are probably right.” Well, if you know you can't live to age one hundred, you are probably right. On the other hand, perhaps you have known people who in fact did not weaken and die of disease. They simply died. Their bodies didn't wear out. They turned themselves off.
Dr. Hamer, the creator of New German Medicine, has created an understanding of disease that appeals to me. Let me explain my own version. I suspect the ideas he has expressed are, in fact, ancient. Generally, the young are healthy. We take that for granted. Deterioration takes place as we age. Yet, we know the body's job is to keep us healthy. It seems to do this job better when we are young than when we are old. Why? Let me offer an explanation based on my experience.
Suppose that, in the presence of an urgent situation you decide to neglect an essential activity. For instance, you might be too busy caring for others to spend time reflecting, imagining, dreaming, and caring for yourself. Although the body requires a certain minimum level of this activity, you may feel unwilling to provide it. Suppose you learned how to do this particular activity from a simpler organism: a virus, bacteria, or flatworm. In order to take care of your needs, you invite into your body a community of these organisms to take care of it for you. One simple way to do this is to shut down your immune system in the neighborhood of this community. You might even persuade your own immune system to help protect the community, since it is providing your body with an essential service. Although there are consequences to handing over this task to a simpler organism, they may be preferable to neglecting some outside-world “emergency” like your job, your wife, or your children.
Eventually we may feel that the outside-world situation has eased and we are ready to return to “normal.” Here is the problem: you ARE normal. Your body simply is. It has no supervisor. Its habits create it. It has no memory. Suppose you asked a community to help you when you were busy raising your twins. Well, now they are both married, and you are free to return to the writing poetry and drawing with charcoal that you loved as a young student. I remember falling in love with physics theory as a young college student. Later, as a college professor, I became so preoccupied with family and “life” that I literally forgot how to think that way. I eventually became senile. Did my body remember how to love physics theory? In my case the answer was NO. I last did this more than 40 years ago. In fact my brain seems to get tired if I attempt to do it for any length of time. Perhaps the diabetes I carried for so many years has left me with an insulin resistance that makes it difficult for my brain to absorb energy quickly from the bloodstream. Perhaps your body has no memory of how to take care of itself without the community of organisms it invited in. The organisms I invited in did not seem willing to develop new physics models of the universe. I decided to return to my own brain. They were willing to leave, but they doubted (and still doubt) my ability to function without them. In fact, as a cooperative neighbor, this community may simply be waiting for the opportunity to withdraw. It may be happy to leave you, as long as it is convinced it is the right thing to do. Are you capable of doing the job yourself? If you have been living in this emergency for the last 40 years, however, your body has probably forgotten how to be independent. What do you do now?
The first answer is another question: what do you want to do? As a child you wanted to grow up and contribute to the world as an adult. Your body cooperated and provided the body you asked for. As a mature adult, what are you asking for now? Are you asking for the opportunity to slow down, deteriorate and die? I assure you your body is capable of providing that. It isn't much fun though. I suggest you ask for the ability to contribute in a way that will be fun and will challenge your body. Above all look for something that you see as worth doing. Look for something you will be proud to be. Many people are reluctant to do this, but that does not make it impossible. It only makes it impossible for them. They have invented the “emergency” that stops them. Well, it is their emergency. They have that right. I suggest you ask.
Suppose you do ask. I decided to rebuild my brain and nervous system and cure the diabetes. The project is still in process. The diabetes has been gone for several years now, but the tiredness of the brain and eyes still speaks of insulin resistance.
A more fundamental question appears: where does the information come from that the body needs in order to satisfy the challenge? After all, the body has no supervisor. Normal is your present habits. How does your body know what to change into? The question is a good one. Yet you answered it as a child. Where did the answers come from then? You are still that same person. Have the answers disappeared simply because you are mature? I doubt it. You have those answers, just as you had them as a child. Are you willing to ask for them again? As the mature adult, with a lifetime of experience, you now have the opportunity to approach the possibility with a wisdom and maturity that would be the envy of any child. I suggest you take advantage of the opportunity.