This is a very challenging question, because even daring to ask the question can seem immoral, crass, or uncaring, especially when it arises out of medical work. But at some point it becomes essential to ask this question when we strive to understand illness in the context of broader patterns of human growth and development. […]
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The Integrated Care Package
There are currently places in the world where large hospitals, medical clinics and retreat centers are able to offer multi-disciplinary anthroposophic care (Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden), but the current medical model and insurance programs in the U.S. do not make this possible. This is a challenging moral quandary, as participation in insurance plans immediately creates […]
Avoiding Surgery for Big Tonsils, Gallstones or Fibroids
A New Feature Things you may not know Anthroposophic Treatments are good for: Avoiding Surgery for Big Tonsils, Gallstones or Fibroids We get sick in stages: there is a waterfall relationship between the immediate impressions of a situation; to what with time becomes a more chronic, physiologic imbalance; to what eventually becomes a true […]
Something Spiritual–What to do when Nothing seems to be Happening
Some new year's thoughts: one of the best, and also the hardest parts of life is that things are continually shifting. If we are too busy we wish for some down time. If we are bored or under-utilized we wish for something more to happen. Amazingly, there are even times when we wish for things […]
Plastic Surgery for Food? The GMO Question. Living an Authentic Life, part 4
Is there such a thing as living food? If so, does that mean that there is dead food? Why should it make a difference, if the most important thing about nutrition is the calories, fats, protein and vitamin content of a food? Let's explore this a little: certainly fresh food tastes better, and fruit that […]
How do I find more Peace?–through the Life Sense. Living and Authentic Life, part 3.
“How are you?” That's a common greeting, which is usually answered more out of politeness than honesty. Most of the time we answer casually, so that when someone does answer in a truthful way it is a little bit shocking–either because it is so negative (“Lousy!” which we probably would rather not know) or […]
Why email can’t possibly meet our full humanity (and yes, I’m sending you an email): Living an Authentic Life, part 2
VISION–WARMTH–HEARING–WORD–THOUGHT–“I” One part of leading an authentic life is about being conscientious with our body, and trying not to repetitively deceive our own physiology (see last month's post about artificial sweeteners, as well as a little update at the bottom*). But that is not the only place where we are being numbed into disconnection. […]
Artificial Sweeteners and What They Do to Our Humanity: Living an Authentic Life, Part 1
Are you living a life of deprivation? Might seem like a strange question, as most people today are living in a world of such tremendous material abundance that it has no real historical precedent. People have never lived such complicated lives with so much stuff. There are, of course, scary times and hard situations when […]
Biographical Rhythm and Crisis: Getting Unstuck part 4
Change catches us off guard all the time, but it doesn't always sneak up on us from the outside. Some of the biggest impulses for change surprise us by coming from the inside. That can be hard to make sense of because we are so used to constantly needing to respond to the events, expectations […]
Does our body influence how we think? Getting unstuck, part 3
There is another aspect to getting unstuck, which relates directly to the connection between our physical/physiologic life and our emotional/spiritual life. It is actually a connection that goes both ways, meaning that our emotional and spiritual life impact how our body feels and how our body works, and vice versa. We all experience this. When […]