If you look close enough it is not hard to see that the medical establishment is crumbling.

People have lost faith in the intentions behind this institution.

Politicians and corporate boards have interceded into the relationship that was one reserved solely for patient and physician.

Is it by accident, or is it by design?

If you understand what medicine is, you understand that it is one of the oldest forms of sorcery in existence.

If you want to maintain power over a group of people, sorcery is a way to do that.

What is sorcery?

The term sorcery is commonly used to refer to the practice of obtaining results in the physical world via the use of nonphysical forces, i.e. spirits. The term itself contains the tone of “source.” Therefore, this word means ‘to work from the source.’

It is the use of nonphysical means, i.e. spirit, the source of the physical, in order to effect change in the physical realm. The first time a human being was compelled to do this must have come about when they or a loved one fell into disease. Or, when they wanted to obtain something important, for which obstacles and difficulties may arise, e.g. hunting for food.

Medicine and Hunting were the first arenas through which sorcery was used.

If we go back into the “primitive” mind and senses. The world of nature was a much more lively place than what most modern humans see. The human being was in a constant relationship with plants, animals, and the natural forces around them. These ‘others’ served as the teachers of mankind. We observed how invisible forces acted through each one of these teachers to effect change in the physical world. We observed how each one of these teachers embodied a specific quality of the invisible force. Each one of these teachers then became a physical representation for that specific quality of the invisible force, i.e. spirit. Now you had a bear spirit, a tree spirit, a wind spirit, so on and so forth.

In order to make use of what that spirit had to offer we figured the best way would be to use the physical components of that spirit. If you want the bear spirit to effect change for you, you need to get a piece of a bear, and different pieces may represent different aspects of that spirit. For example, if you want to fight like a bear, obtain it’s claw. If you want to fly like an eagle, obtain a feather from its wing.

Then we began experimenting with the consumption of these physical components. We noticed that one of the most profound ways that change was effected in the human body is when something was allowed access into our inner temple via the mouth.

We noticed how the consumption of plants had some of the most varied and profound effects on the human body. We also noted how the plants had an invisible force quite different than the animated beings of animals. It was older, more wise, more ancient.

This was the birth of pharmakeus, aka pharmacology.

The first medicine people were specialists in pharmakeus. Specialists in identifying the physical components needed to cure a disease. They themselves gathered, prepared, and administered the medicine.

Not only did they administer the medicine to the diseased, but they themselves consumed the medicine beforehand in order to understand it’s spirit and how that spirit could affect a person.

The medicine person had an extremely intimate relationship with whatever plant, animal, or mineral that became part of their materia medica. These were not simply a plant, an animal, or a mineral. It was an entity with an invisible source attached to it. It was an ally, a friend, a close companion.

Fast forward to the 21st Century. The medicine person no longer makes their own medicine.

Medicine making is now relegated to a whole different profession. The Pharmacist.

In fact, the nature of the medicine has changed completely. Thick brews of plant roots and bark were replaced with syrups of guaifenesin, dextromethorphan, codeine, and glycerol.

Powdered herbs replaced with crystalline synthetic compounds.

Drugs made by the Earth were replaced with drugs made in a lab.

We found the source again. This time in chemistry.

We figured that now we have become the controllers of the source for we could manufacture any chemical compound you could think of.

In 1617, The Society of Apothecaries was founded in England. Before this, herbs, prepared medicines, and groceries were all sold together. After this, medicine makers were mandated to sell their products separate from grocers. This was the inception of the druggist, aka the pharmacist.

Within the next year the Pharmacoepia Londinensis was published and was made the gold standard book of remedies. It contained both herbal and chemical preparations. No one in England was allowed to make or use any drug that was not in this book. This was the inception of government regulated medicine.

The petrochemical companies realized this medicine making business was ripe for profits. They embarked on a campaign to slander and eradicate anyone who was making medicines that was not in alignment with their chemical process of drug manufacture. They eliminated plants altogether. This was the inception of capitalized medicine.

Every medicine that we knew of, the plants and herbs we mixed, were labeled inefficacious at best and dangerous at worst. The only real medicine is the chemicals created by multi-million dollar labs. The colonizers had effectively made the whole population dependent on their industry. Now, if you want to be healed, you must go through them. It no longer was a tradition of the people. It became the tradition of big business.

Meanwhile the modern medicine person, the physician, has been completely divorced from the process of medicine making. The person who is having direct interactions with the sick, lost their expertise over how to make medicine for the sick. How could this be?

The medicine person is inextricably linked to the medicine they work with. Ask a physician of today to take the same drugs they are prescribing you. Have your phone ready to take a picture of the expression on their face. The physician of today does not compound the drugs they give you and has no expertise on their chemical structure. They were not there when the drug was being synthesized. Very few of them looked into the details of the scientific studies proving the effectiveness of the drug they’re giving you. Regardless, the only studies available would be anything the pharmaceutical company agrees to release. The thousands of failed experiments and adverse effects discovered are never released to the public.

The division of the medicine person into a physician on one side and a pharmacist on the other side has left the opportunity open for scammers to fill in the gap between.

Modern sorcery is now in action. Your consent is offered the second you open your mouth and drop the pill inside. They have brain-washed you to the point to think that their way is the only way.

This is not true, and many are realizing this.

Herbal medicine is undergoing a revival and will soon approach a Renaissance period as the healthcare industry transforms into the medical system of the future. The corporations have not missed the memo. They have all begun to proudly tout “integrative” “holistic” and other such feel-good terms into their marketing schemes. They will do their very best to colonize herbal medicine to keep it under their control and extract any profits they can. In fact, many of the naturopathic schools in the U.S. have been purchased by pharmaceutical companies. Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer; they understand this.

They have productized the whole industry with herbal “supplements” manufactured into the pill form we are used to, packaged neatly into plastic bottles with stickers. Those under the spell have their cabinets full of these pill bottles and feel good about being “natural.” Yet these same people have never touched any of the plants that serve as their medicine and would never be able to recognize them in their living form. Have never dug a plant out by its roots. Have never plucked the leaves off a stem.

Nonetheless, there is a saving grace to the whole thing, and that is, Nature Cannot Be Contained. Wherever soil, water, and sun exist, plants may also exist. We don’t need million dollar stainless steel labs to make medicine. The more people realize this, the less profits the pharmaco-medical system will have access to.

I am not an anti-capitalist, and I do not wish to short circuit the profit of any company. However, I am a humanist and a servant of Mama Gaia. Therefore, I am in a stark opposition to any venture that seeks to place profit over human and/or ecological well-being.

What I do wish is that we go back to the root.

The Medicine Man of The Future will be a revival of the Medicine Man of The Past.

This is The Medical Renaissance.

Sources:

1. Dailey, JW. Pharmaceutical Industry. Encyclopaedia Britannica. June 2, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/technology/pharmaceutical-industry
2. Matthew Wood. A ‘weapon dressed as a book’: the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Royal College of Physicians. June 8, 2018.
   https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/blog/weapon-dressed-book-pharmacopoeia-londinensis