Context
Some history and thoughts on my writings, my perspective, my motivation, my path forward.
I’d like to invite comments to this post.
Please indicate in the comments if you prefer this subject matter (Group 1) or if you would prefer I stick to herbalism, foraging, and ancestral healing (Group 2). Perhaps some of you are in both groups.
Although I see how it all overlaps, I am seeking to get the feedback of my readers.
Thank you!
My last post (The Hart Group - managing propaganda) was an attempt to share important insights along the seemingly never-ending trail of uncovering fraud within virology.
‘Why is this relevant?’ some may ask. I believe it’s relevant to the point of maintaining integrity in how we approach health and well-being, to put it very simply.
To belabor a point, I was attempting to ride the crest of the wave of information coming out in March of 2020 as I was still attempting to align my (“less-educated'“) self with paradigms of thought that I viewed to be “superior” to what my particular level of (mostly experiential) education had provided.
At the time, this was my attempt to bring more integrity to what I was doing - attempting to provide accurate and relevant information to my followers/subscribers/the herbalism community at large. What I didn’t know (or still hadn’t come to accept) was that the foundational premise upon which I was viewing the world was misconceived, false, fraudulent.
It took me the better part of one year to come to terms with what the likes of Tom Cowan, Andrew Kaufman, and eventually Stefan Lanka, the Baileys, and others were saying about viruses. Essentially, it took me that long to put down my ill-founded preconceived ideas to be able to listen to their well-thought out, clearly delineated and consistent message. Once I had done that, it was a no-brainer. There were seemingly infinite holes (amassing through each denunciation of their work or proclamation of claims about viruses) in the narrative of virology, yet continually mounting support of the claim that “viruses didn’t exist”, or perhaps more accurately, viral particles - as we have come to know them (protein-coated, replication dependent, infectious pathogens) - had never been shown to exist, anywhere, ever. That was a freeing moment for me, to come to understand and accept that fact. In part, it freed me from the inherent confusion of the concept of a viral particle as essentially “non-living” information floating around (seasonally, somehow) with an agenda to dismantle “immune systems” and turn them upon the “host” (that’s another story) and cause lasting harm if not mortality in a great number of people annually - but it’s not living, so you can’t kill it. That is a terror story to take the cake.
There are many layers to explore within this extensive fraud that extends back nearly 150 years - and I urge all of you to do so if my words do not make sense to you in some way. With my very limited time to commit to writing, and with so much left to write about and share from my experience in bioregional herbalism and foraging, I have attempted to share what the most lucid minds and voices within this “no virus movement” have taken the pains to create for us and share. So I often do not go into the detail that I would wish, and I have written perhaps 1 of every 25 posts that came to mind, if that.
But let me say it here very clearly for you all - this has caused me to pass through a portal in my work as an herbalist.
I had been struggling with how I was “supposed” to speak and write about herbs as an “erudite and educated herbalist” (projected idea) which would include all the language and concepts that modern American herbalism has glommed onto into order to become accepted and validated by the mainstream medical community.
The result, as I see it, is quite unfortunate as herbalism is largely folk at its roots and through that root structure we are connected to all things, the seen and unseen. Traditions in Burkina Faso, County Clare, or the Florida Everglades, Filipino Hilot practitioner beliefs, or ancient palm leaf treatises from the Buddhist monasteries in Thailand.
They are all part of a composite picture that is extremely diverse and unreconcilable, one to the other, except for the fact that they are all emergent phenomena of the soulful human experience on Earth. What they are NOT is a cold, calculated collection of data to misrepresent reality (whatever that is, exactly) and to lead the minds of the people to think in a very specific way. That is not healing, that is certainly not herbalism - that is sorcery, dark sorcery, through control and manipulation.
As I’ve passed through this portal I refer to, I can no longer even consider the concept of an “antiviral herb”, for example. In fact, it makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I have considered myself a Vitalist for many years now. I would often say “host resistance trumps pathogenic virulence”. Thus, I had a concept of vitality that was infiltrated by what I now believe to be a fraudulent ideology of pathogenic virulence. Marrying these two ideas together was a sort of stalemate (after a certain point), but nonetheless, it was my path and I developed a great deal of insight by at least initially adopting and practicing - with myself in Nature - the concepts of Vitalism before I came to the greater test of accepting that there are no pathogens, as we define them, in Nature.
That is not to say that bacteria, fungi, or parasites don’t exist. Of course, they do. But our concepts about how they cause illness are false projections (for what purpose?).
As Antoine Béchamp is known to have promulgated throughout his career and as his sycophant lacky contemporary, Pasteur, was known to have admitted on his death bed, “the terrain is everything”.
Thus, it would have it that bacteria and fungi show up on the scene when there is work to be done. They have a role, a niche, a duty, so to speak, to which they are committed and highly attentive to - especially given the presence of adequate vital force. Thus, the presence of a so-called bacterial “infection” is, in fact, a vital response of the ecology of the organism, no different than a fever, in that sense. As such, it is not something to be suppressed or stopped, let alone attacked, but to be fostered on the best path forward.
This post is not meant to be a complete refutation of so-called germ theory or a point by point treatise on how so-called “terrain theory works”. Not at all.
It’s my simple attempt (upon waking early enough to meditate and get to writing before breakfast, yard chores, and off to the office) to clarify, to some extent, where I’m coming from (but I realize there’s a LOT more I could be writing here) and why I’m sharing some things that I am here that don’t seem to relate to my work with Bioregional Herbalism, Foraging, or Ancestral Healing, aka, my “wheelhouse”.
As a Vitalist, it all fits together. There is no compartmentalization that separates but instead ties these elements together in a rich fabric - fighte fuaighte, “woven together and through each other”, say the Irish.
Cead míle beannachtaí, many blessing to you all!