When I was young, I would watch the Count Scary Saturday afternoon spooky cinema with my Dad. This introduced me to classical scary/ridiculous cinema. I got to know Vincent Price, I watched movies like The Birds, The Blob, The Creature from the Blue Lagoon, and Frankenstein. Around this same time my favorite singer (of that time) Michael Jackson had just made The Thriller video. This set me up for a gore addicted adolescence. My friends and I treated scary movies like porn. Indeed, it was about who could get their hands on the scariest and most sadistic films.

The scenes became less and less exciting and it culminated for me at around 17 years old. I became hooked on The Faces of Death series. I had a total mental breakdown at that time, as if I had reached my sadistic capacity. I had a religious experience and it led me down an alternate path and got me to stop reaching out to the scary films to fuel my belief of terror and distrust. Ironically, my attempt at religion led me to a God that gave me more terror and distrust. I had not solved my sadistic dillema, I had only went from the swing of secular to religious but both experiences became a mirror of my core.

It is within this context I would like to explain the MRSA/staph bacteria invasion. How does the world's most common bacteria rise up like a Goliath monster against a clean and medically advanced society? The USA known for it's technological advances in medicine, people who shower daily, and food that is radioactively purified has genetically modified egg on it's face. Despite all of our medical advances; fertility medication, selective abortions (the search for the perfect embryo), ultrasound (the search for the perfect baby), vaccines, circumcision, hospital births and anti-biotics we are still losing the war on germs. Well, that is what it is isn't it-a war? We have been taught to battle and stave off infection and disease by inundating the human body and immune system with every outside non-organic intervention imaginable. We created a homebased filled with literal time bombs of chemicals made by years of distrust in ourselves and ultimate trust in "higher authorities." These are the five patriarchal "P's": the papas, priests, pastors, police and physicians.

Are the five P's worthy of our trust and money? Only if you come in contact with one that is lovingly and powerfully filled with integrity. We must always remain conscious that there are certain "Ps" out there that prey off of a society that will blindly follow them down any corrider, no matter how dark, twisted or diabolical it looks. For many of us who have been hurt by a "P" and for me I can truthfully say I have been hurt by all five, trusting becomes difficult and cynisism sets in. We must not, however, throw the baby out with the bath water and declare every patriarchal "P" as bad, insensitive and guilty of malicious intent. No, we must be careful to swing to the middle and treat them like we should treat any other individual. They should be treated with psychologically active awareness. No individual ever deserves blind and complete trust.

As a metaphor I would like to use the ridiculous "scary" film The Blob as an example of our current health crisis. The big jelly-like blob grew and grew by devoring everything in its path. It is slow and poisonous and if you have your eyes open you will see it coming and be able to avoid it. But the irony is, no one ever got out of its path and in the end the blob problem is so big that no one escapes. The film, like many other horror films, centers on unconscious people being taken by surprise, by horrors that could be easily avoided. We sit watching these films screaming "wake-up, they are right behind you!" or "run, you idiot, run!!!" What we are watching are eternal victims, helpless to the demonic horrors taking place all around them. One after another these victims hopelessly follow eachother to their doom. We have much to learn from the intellectually inferior B rated horror film.

The ever present staph bacteria is or was like any other germ bacteria or virus. It is our puritanical obsession with cleanliness and destroying the "evil" within and without which has caused us to attack everything, even ourself. We have cornered ourselves in the movie theatre of medicine just as in The Blob. We are conveniently hypnotically staring at the film they show us, while the germs grow and grow on the outside and prepare to meet us, as if by destiny inside. When they finally get inside, there is no war and no fight. Why? Because the human being has no immunological weapons left, all of the time was spent manipulating and controlling reality behind the scenes as if to trick the enemy, which has been in some ways, been ourself. It is the model of naturopathy that I am proposing, the belief in health and bringing the body into balance...and it is never too late to change from attack mode to retreat and healing mode.

I would like to focus now on the holistic community, which has always been my primary audience. People who are already interested or have been living a holistic life. How have you been contributing or not contributing to the "superbug" war? You maybe like me, avoiding vaccines, limiting sugar, and declining the use of anti-biotics. However, there is more work to do in holistic years 2007-2008. The fact that I see just as many sick Vegans as meat eaters tells me that we are still fighting the battle of the mind and need to continue are healing journey. It does not solely begin and end with food, which can become a fear based obsession if you are vegan or an area of severe unconsiousness if you are a meat eater.

While I would like to see many changes in our society. I would like to see all meat and dairy consumed organically grass fed without anti-biotics. I would also like the average person to seriously consider the high rate of elective surgeries in the country. C-sections (baby removal), teeth, womb, gall bladder, and tonsil removal are among the most prevalant common unnecessary surgeries. This accounts for a big part of highly toxic and organ damaging broad spectrum anti-biotic use. Many people I see, holistic or not, are gravely misinformed about the amount of anti-biotic they receive from surgery. While I could spend an entire book on this subject my purpose here is merely to "wet" your ears and ask you to contemplate this travesty.

Andrew Weil M.D. has devoted an entire chapter in his book "Health and Healing" about the damaging effects on the human body from anti-biotics used in surgery. He opposes surgery because it undermines the human's motivation to prevent disease in the first place and it also delineates from the Hypocratic Oath. He states that the massive amounts of broad spectrum anti-biotics given before surgery to prevent infection is bad medicine. He blames this as one strong causal factor in the current plight of anti-biotic ineffectiveness (Weil, 1998).

We are a land of excess, it is in our blood, call it consumerism, capitalism or greed. I see medicine as an integral part of this "excess." However, I do not like the moral connotations assigned to this belief system. It was, is, and will continue to be a part of our gross societal disassociative state. We have been cut off emotionally from: our parents, our self and our earth (in that exact order). As we drift farther from reality and cling closer to illusion be it TV, drugs, or surgery, our situation here will continue to get collectively worse.

Many religious people insist that this problem will be remedied by a mass societal conversion to "God" or re-connecting with the Divine. While I would not argue the truth of this statement, however, one must take into account the current disassociative state that many religious people are living in. One can schizophrenically accept God's love in one moment and then work very hard recreating God's image into an aspect of the five patriarchal "P's."

Though many cry out in their hearts for a God of love and acceptance, the truth for many is, that they cannot accept nor recognize the attributes of love and acceptance. Such beliefs are taught to children from a Mother that gives her child the gift of a conscious non-violent birth and a contactful and attached first few years. A child can readily accept a God of Love when they have been shown Love and acceptance from their own parents (DeMeo, 1998)(Welch, 1998).

I end this article with a belief that the world health can change on a large scale by our honest reassessment of birthing and parenting practices. When we faithfully and lovingly reach out to our own children, they will reach out to their own health and the world around them in power and not fear. The children will value their life and others, they will be more aware and will be able to see and smell real danger from faux danger. The "Superbug" will not be a threat to human being raised with a constitutionally strong immune system and a constitutionally strong Mother.

References

Weil, Andrew, M.D. (1998). Health and healing.

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