All of our physical and mental “illness” originates in our worldview, in our confusion about the nature of Reality (Oneness) itself. In his book I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong reveals a misunderstanding related to our reductionist view of disease. “These bacteria are so plentiful and so essential to our well-being that in Yong’s vision there is really no such thing as bacteria and human, no “us” and “them:” We are all an indivisible unit.”[i]
According to William Blake, “Illness expresses what is going on in the world and in the soul.”[ii] We would do well to shift to a worldview of Oneness wherein “diseases” would be profoundly redefined.
Refer to the supplemental reading for a more comprehensive discussion.
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Supplemental Reading: Health, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 1
#40 Transcending Dis-ease
[i] Zuger, Abigail. “Prescribed Reading: Antibiotics.” The New York Times Book Review. November 24, 2019, p. 29.
[ii] Moore, Thomas. Dark Nights of the Soul. New York: Gotham, 2004, p. 275.
