Greetings from Russell's Remnant:
Dr. Whitesell cautioned doctors about treating effects and not cause. He urged us all to get at cause and not effects. D.K. made the following comments about Medicine/Doctors:
The indebtedness of mankind to the medical profession is great, and the service rendered to humanity by the profession does largely offset the evil. There is a small percentage of physicians and surgeons (less than in any other profession) who are self-seeking and no credit to their craft is equally true. EH 28
In the medical profession, the money-grasping specialists and the charlatan are rare. The medical profession has one of the greatest and most beautiful records in the world of its purpose and field of activity, and has developed some of the greatest of the soul qualities - self-sacrifice, compassion and service. EH 68
The world is full of groups revolting against orthodox medicine - wrongly in revolt. They ignore the beneficent aspects of medical science, which is a proven divine expression and a most beneficent force in the world, in spite of human weakness, commercial exploitation and many mistakes. It is the same with religion. Both full of closed minded fundamentalists. EH 279+
Medical science has made such progress that it has now reached the limits of its purely physical area or field and is now on the verge of advancing into the realm of the intangible and is thus drawing nearer to the world of causes. EH 480
The contribution of medicine is indispensable. In spite of mistakes, faulty diagnosis and much error, humanity cannot do without its doctors, its surgeons and its hospitals. They are urgently needed, and will be for centuries to come. Modern medicine must become far more open-minded, more ready to endorse that which is new. The barriers erected by specialized medicine must come down. EH 481+
One of the great errors into which the human family has fallen has been the endeavor to administer mineral drugs to man for medical purposes. It has resulted in a combination of deva substance which was never intended (complicating the deva evolution). The use of animal food has produced a commingling of deva substance not attuned to each other. Not so for vegetables for its karma lies in providing food for man. TCF 645
Medical science must simplify their methods, return from a complexity of drugs and operations and understand the right use of energies. EH 108
Steps should be taken to minimize the physical condition through the use of sedatives and of anesthetics so that undue strain should not be put on an already overworked nervous system. TWM 305
The modern physician should concern himself with the removal of nerve or material congestion, so as to leave a free channel for the inner warmth. TCF 57
When the differences between the physical bodies of the animals and humanity have been investigated, there will appear a new and very fruitful field of study. The differences are largely in the nervous system. The brain of the animal is really in the region of the solar plexus. EP1 371+
If doctors would study with greater care and accuracy the electrical condition of the spinal column, good results would be achieved. LOM 104
The aim of the physician should be to find out what is in the man's life which is preventing egoic energy from flooding every part of his being; to find out what lines of thought are being indulged in which are causing inertia of the will aspect; to ascertain what it is in the emotional body which is affecting the nervous system; and thus, obstructing the flow of energy; to discover what is the hindrance in the etheric body which is preventing the right flow of prana. Medical men should realize that disease in the physical body is incidental to wrong internal conditions. The great souls of the earth are practically immune. Why? The medical profession should concentrate upon preventive action, substituting sunshine, a vegetarian diet, and the application of the laws of magnetic vibration and vitality for the present regimen of drugs and surgical operations. When doctors comprehend the effect of the emotions upon the nervous system, they will turn their attention to the amelioration of environal conditions, and will study the effects of the emotional currents upon the fluids of the body, nerve centers and spinal column. TCF 811+
The outstanding characteristic of the coming cycle will be an outgrowth of psychology. The present day findings are sound in fact, but erroneous in conclusion. TWM 336The psycho-analytic theories are tending in the wrong direction and may prove disastrous to higher development of the race, unless the true nature of the "psyche" is elucidated. TCF 809
Psychologists should make a study of all reactions of the astral or emotional nature. DNA 171
The indebtedness of the world to the trained psychologists cannot be estimated, but unless there is a key idea interjected into the whole field of thought, it will fall of its own weight and produce (as it is already producing) problems, complexes and diseases of the mind which are direct results of its own methods. What we know today was known 150 years ago and has been based upon a study of the abnormal. Esoteric psychology deals with the soul. EP1 5
Medical science strains every effort to retain life in forms diseased and inadequate; these Nature would have long ago discarded. TCF 1068
The overcoming of death is not contingent upon the elimination of bodily ills, but upon the establishing of continuity of consciousness. EOH 45
Unnatural preservation of life is the cause of much suffering and is a fruitful source of war. EH 278
Doctors today get much information from certain devas. Two great green devas assist on the mental level and some physicians get much subjective knowledge from a violet deva. Devas can destroy diseased tissue by sounding a note that will result in the elimination of the corrupt tissue - if they are called correctly. Forget not that evil entities exist on other planes and that they can respond to invocations sounded incorrectly. In ritual lies protection. EP1 125+
These angelic groups will train man in physics so that weight shall be transmuted, motion will be more rapid and fatigue will be eliminated; they will teach humanity to see etherically; they will teach the efficiency of violet light in lessening human ills; and they will teach man how to nourish the body from the surrounding ethers. EOH 508+
The soundest results in healing will be found in the cooperative work of the orthodox physician and the occult healer or group. EH 284
The orthodox physician is less rabid and exclusive than the modern metaphysician. They know too well their limitations, but the spiritual healer recognizes no limitations (a weakness). In both groups are to be found a very small minority of self-seeking and ignorant exploiters of men. Among both are those commercially oriented; however, they are a minority. EH 531
Sometimes the world healers when doing good, often are doing harm. EOH 43
The debt of the world to its doctors and surgeons is very great. The debt to healers is not so great because they criticize the physicians and medicine. Even the spiritual healer will call the doctor in times of emergency. EH 632+
The brain is largely conditioned by the endocrine system; far more than endocrinologists would care to admit. RAI 431
Children should be studied in the following directions: Astrologically - to determine life tendencies and the peculiar problem of the soul. Psychologically - in accord with knowledge of the seven ray types. Medically - with special attention to the endocrine system. Vocationally - where gifts and capacities can be expressed. Spiritually - noting where the age of the soul is. ENA 10
Medicine in the next century will use the mind as a major factor to control the centers. The open minded endocrinologist will eventually succeed in solving many human ills. EH 219+
Some of Morya’s comments on Medicine/Doctors:
Psychology is made a most effective science under conditions of complete good will. AUM 196
Do not ask psychiatrists about obsession because their theories are fossilized. HE 136
All medicines are merely auxiliary expedients; without the primary energy no medicine will have the necessary effect. BRO 12
It is a great error to take narcotics and alcohol. HE 311
Inoculations are good if the vitality is equal to them. One possessing full vitality needs no inoculations. MG2 72
A surgeon who performs a needless operation is frequently likened to a murderer. BRO 74
Each artificial pulsation of the heart will perpetrate an unpardonable act of decomposition and suffering. Do not cut the heart open except in the case of wounds. HE 208
Avoid all physical operations. FW2 28+
Medical science is lavish in producing living corpses. HIE 106+
It is not wise to invent cures for corpses. AY 305
Physicians should observe people during the so-called healthy states. HE 95