Where's Your Trust

Hey, so I'm obviously a self professed health nerd and longtime advocate of healthy living, longevity and anti aging practices, wholesome nutrition and even some slightly more fringe modalities like biohacking here in my gym and alternative medicine and herbal remedies. I often run the risk of placing my trust in a lot of these supplements and superfoods and healing modalities and the perfect exercise and diet plan and similar healthy living endeavors. When it comes to your own health, you might feel the same way, or you might place your trust in modern medicine or hospitals or allopathic physicians or physical therapy and the like. Either way, no matter which way you tend to lean. Both you and I live in an era in which we prioritize turning to medicine, supplements, food, lifestyle modifications and our fellow medically trained humans to help us solve injuries and diseases and ailments and other health issues. But I was reading a book recently. It was actually a book that caused me to question the amount of trust I place in modern medicine, both alternatives and allopathic. There's a book called A Pharmacia A Hidden Assassin. There was a follow up book that I also read called Dead Doctors Don't Lie. Now stick with me here because I'm going to explain my thought pattern and what sparked from reading those books. You should check them out by the way. See, our bodies are amazing intelligent organisms. Our bodies are made by an all knowing creator to be strong and to be able to resist bacteria and parasites, infections and disruptions of many sorts. Yet we continuously hear statements like when you age, your bones decay and become laden with osteoporosis or menopause is accompanied by depression and severe hormonal imbalances or men lose their drive and strength dramatically with age or these 18 things are going to give you cancer or Watch out, flu season is coming or you'd be stupid not to be taking this particular supplement or superfood or medication. Heck, I've even been guilty of saying things like that myself. These popular thoughts, as well as many hundreds of other statements, along with the fear and hypochondriac like symptoms often created by Dr. Googling ourselves, can condition our minds to make us prone to that which we fear could happen to us. Bruce Lipton describes that phenomenon quite beautifully in his book the Biology of Belief. So the first problem is that we tend to constantly think something must be going wrong with our bodies. The second problem is that when something does go wrong, sometimes as a result of our infatuation with the first problem, we don't tend to turn to the original mechanic God who designed our engines. But we turn to modern health and medicine. Consulting God, though, should be our first and most natural reaction to ailments. But instead of saying consult God, we're told to consult your physician. Just think about it. When you get a sore throat or you feel like you're coming down with something, or you hear about a friend who has cancer, what's the first thing you do? Pray or ponder? What doctor or biohack or supplement or medication could help that person? Now, I'm not saying there's no place for medicine. Of course, the author of that book, pharmacia, I mentioned earlier, they say this. There's obviously cases in which surgery or the aid of paramedics who have saved so many lives is necessary. Of course, if somebody needs to be sutured or put in a cast or whatever is required because he or she suffered an accident, a heart attack, or something similar, the. The physicians need to treat them. Also, if childbirth puts a mother or baby at risk, a c section would be indispensable. And likewise, procedures in other cases. What God wants us to realize is what the pharmaceutical industry is doing to humanity and the abuses and aberrations they've reached. With the marketing of medicine, Sickness has kind of turned into something generalized, an expectation of selling more products. Much of modern medicine has created what's known as preventive medicine, the risk factor. They try to fill us up with pharmaceutical products because we may potentially generate a malady. I'm all about preventive lifestyle practices, but in this fashion, they ensure that everyone becomes their client. As a matter of fact, statistics show that 81% of populations in the western world are on some kind of a medication. And the problem is that medicine kind of creates this misplaced trust, A trust in man and chemicals rather than the healing power of God. I mean, alchemy, that ancient word, comes from the Arab alchemia, the word from which allopathic medicine is derived. This was an ancient practice and discipline that combined elements from chemistry and metallurgy and physics and medicine and astrology and semiotics and mysticism and spiritualism and art. It was practiced all over the world. It formed this complex network of schools and philosophic Systems for over 2500 years. Now, Western alchemy is related to something called hermetism, which is a philosophical and spiritual system that has roots in Hermes tramagisto, a Greek Egyptian deity, and also, in his human form, one of the greatest occultists of all time. In modern times, this alchemy evolved into the current modern chemistry. But interestingly, Hermes, along with a group of pagan gods, were associated with alchemist and pharmacological systems, and they still carry great importance among the occult. Does that mean modern medicine and pharmaceuticals are evil or satanic? No, but it does mean us humans seem to have a history of turning to these types of solutions in favor of turning to a trust in God. It's a case of misplaced trust, in a sense, constantly thinking we're sick while simultaneously not giving a thought to God. Being the first entity we can turn to when we need healing. That seems to send the message we really don't believe God designed our bodies very well. And then we also don't need our creator's healing power anymore because science now has medication and powerful physicians. But I don't think it's a good idea to tell God I generally trust you when it comes to my health. I instead mostly trust what science can do for me. That's all the more true if you've been neglecting to care for the very part of you that will go on to live forever in eternity. Your spirit, your soul, a star shriveled up and shrunken and internal sacred soul is in no state to radiate high frequencies and healthy energy to the body and the brain. As a matter of fact, there's this book called Medicine and Healthcare in Early Christianity. And it says early Christians viewed disease and physical impairment as part of the natural order of a fallen world that was under sin and yet providentially ordered by a God. Christians valued medicine as God's gift for the natural healing of disease. But for a Christian to seek medical healing apart from dependence on God, the ultimate healer, what's the substitute reliance on medicine alone for a Christian approach? There's also in this book, Pharmacia, a quote that goes like this. My life changed dramatically when I found out my soul and my body were in a state of spiritual anemia. I began to fast first only from solid foods and began to feed myself with spiritual food all day long. Sometimes that would last until the hours of the following day. The first thing I did was read the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. And my encounters with the Holy Spirit changed from being occasional to becoming constant. God's voice became clearer and stronger until the voices of doubt and unbelief ended up being practically muted. My spirit was gaining authority over my mind and over my body. I substituted images of fear and skepticism I previously had with a type of knowledge I can't even describe with words. Wow, that's powerful. What's the takeaway message from that? Well, don't swear off alternative or modern medicine like I said, but please trust God more and go to him first when you're injured or sick. Second, don't believe the lie that your body's getting worse and worse by the day. I mean, sure, all your flesh will eventually fade away, but you possess a far more wonderfully fabricated body and brain than most money grabbing pharmaceutical commercials on TV would have you to believe. And by feeding your spirit daily and trusting God, you'll become better equipped with your biology to operate the way that God intended your biology to operate and then finally realize the roots of anti aging practices and supplements and medications and pharmaceuticals and medicine biohacking in general originate from somewhat pagan practices that try to make humans mightier than God. And that doesn't mean we should swear that all off, but we should constantly question with great wisdom and discernment the underlying motivation and message behind the health practices in which we participate. In other words, take care of yourself, but also trust God and go to God first. He's the great healer and he's on your side. Thanks for watching.