Future Medicine: Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation

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Conclusion Integrated Awareness The power to bless and the power to curse: the same energy can be used for creation or destruction. I may be a healer, but I am still on the soul’s journey. Is falling off center not universal ? Did Jesus not weep in the garden of Gethsemane, and did he not ask, “Father, why have you forsaken me?” When they spat on him and the crown of thorns dug into his skull, did he not bless them and pray for them and ask God to forgive them? Did he not love them with all his heart and tell the Devil to piss off? Yet when he was scared, did he not sweat blood? Is not the “dark night of the soul” a companion even to mystics and saints? I look into people’s eyes; I see their past lives. This woman, a monk; that child, a scholar; that man, a beggar; that homeless person, a king. Wherever I look, I see the soul. The images and impressions float through my consciousness . I see the heart; it is partly open and needs God’s love. I see the third eye, the scope of sight, the breadth of awakening. I see the second chakra, the issues with money, sexuality, and power. I see the cords running from the temples to other realms of consciousness. I see the guides behind them, the guardians, angels, and relatives, companions on the journey. “And what do you do for a living?” she asked. He was attending a cocktail party at a museum. The somber, eighteenth -century portraits of dying Christs hung mournfully as he listened to conversation in the presence of iconography. And yet these paintings had graced many dining room tables over the centuries, witness to family crises as well as celebrations. He stood before a statue of Kwan Yin, the Chinese Buddha of compassion. Silently, he offered salutations to the feminine principle of the cosmos, felt her sweet energy penetrate his field. Thoughts came. There are two ways to visit a 305 museum: one is to look at a statue and examine it, in the objective, scientific sense of Western medicine; the other is to merge with the consciousness that made the statue, that expresses itself through the sculpted. “I work with securities,” he finally said. “Emotional?” she asked. “No. Financial.” Idolatry. My religion admonishes not to worship stone or wood, yet it is the consciousness expressing through the stone and wood that I worship, the same consciousness that peers through my eyes and those of everyone else. He waved at Kwan Yin. “What do you think of the statue?” he asked the woman. Without waiting for the woman’s response, the statue replied: “The power of spiritual energy mirrored through the human psyche strikes me as profoundly complicated and misunderstood. Religious doctrines control the minds of many on this plane, yet an openness to energetic perception creates bridges to the fundamental truths behind the doctrines, to the unity consciousness behind the labels and identification of a religion, to the felt reality of the Godhead even within objects one culture might proclaim as idols and another might revere.” The woman in human form smiled at him. “I like it,” she said. He found himself in two conversations, one verbal to a woman in form and the other telepathic to a woman in spirit. In unity consciousness , the two interpenetrated, yet they were separate beings occupying different dimensions of existence. “Yes,” he said, “isn’t she lovely?” The Future of the Future Future medicine will mean that health care providers and governments internationally collaborate to synthesize technological medicine with different healing systems and traditions from across the globe and to more deeply incorporate spirituality across a range of traditions in the care for human health. Such a synthesis has not yet fully occurred and indeed today is marked by ideological battles in legal, medical and scientific , and cultural communities. Nonetheless, with increasing integration of systems of knowledge and cultures, with interpenetration of ancient wisdom and modern know-how, with blending of cultures and viewpoints within the “global village,” and with the erosion of bio306 • Future Medicine medical dominance, the advent of future medicine portends a new synthesis in which belief systems of all communities will face challenge and reconciliation. If disease and health are biopsychically mediated and depend to a significant extent on biofield as well as biochemical interactions...