Nothing sends a shudder through people more than human sacrifice. Just to utter the concept of one human being consciously taking the life of another to benefit his own or even his society is practically unfathomable in modern society and is pushed aside as not even worthy of consideration, being far too irrational to achieve anything civilized. Yet the growth of totalitarian civilization, seemingly a slave to technology and whose hugeness and power in all ways shows that we are surrounded with death and due to lack of thought over this matter of violence and without understanding nobility and sacrifice true healing always eludes us. The cultural denial produces chaos to the degree that entire human extinction is predicted by many worthy of such prediction.
On the other hand the story of a man who so desperately wanted God in his life, to align his puny individual activities for his sake and those around him so that the limitations of his humanity could grasp the knowledge of God takes the highest degree of art to fathom and to understand the science of heartbreak as well as will power, the ability to stay focused on an objective. We have to step way out of the box to understand how and why chemotherapy works and the nature of love and commitment to life and not mindless capitulation.
Understanding sacrifice, a cornerstone of not only Judaism but all major cultures* can help us understand such therapies as chemotherapy, therapy so powerful many if not most, do not survive.
This vid includes a message I got on my answering machine from Michael Ellner, founder of HEAL (Health Education Aids Liason) and one of the wisest healers I know balanced in heart and mind (but a little stuck regarding his Jewish heritage) who I had asked to call into my live video streaming (M-F) rabbitholecentralDOTtv but who couldn't get through. He comments on how my Dad looks in the YouTube posting of the interview Harold Channer did while I was in California with my father and Harold in NYC through the aid of Skype
*In the Mahabharata it starts with the sacrifice of seven or eight children, the activity couched in cultural myth but nevertheless sacrifice. A study of Greek and Egyptian myth would show the same.
My 17 year old brother was told he could heal with chemo. If I would have known then what I know now...
YouTubReptilian 4 years ago
what do you know now?
paulagloria 4 years ago
whaaaaaaa...i don't get it...chemo, is equivalent to human sacrifice?
photofu 4 years ago
here's some thing else to think about: the word "Pharmacy" refers to "Pharmakos" - a Greek word for ill fated souls who were kept at state expense to be sacrificed. It means that which poisons and that which heals
paulagloria 4 years ago
Or moreover, Pharmakos is the use of drugs so that Faustian sorcerers may conjure. It implies using substances to induce possession by supernatural beings.
OzzybinOswald2 4 years ago
sacrifice is a deep concept and it does produce results. the master I studied with taught that there are three ways to heal with water, milk or blood....you can guess which is the most powerful
paulagloria 4 years ago