"A leaderless but powerful network
is working to bring about radical change in the United States.
Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought,
and they may even have broken continuity with history.... This network
is the Aquarian Conspiracy....
"Broader than reform, deeper than
revolution, this benign conspiracy for a new human agenda has
triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history. The
great shuddering, irrevocable shift overtaking us is not a new
political, religious, or philosophical system. It is a new mind--the
ascendance of a startling worldview that gathers into its framework
breakthrough science and insights from earliest recorded thought....
"The Aquarian Conspirators range
across all levels of income and education, from the humblest to the
highest. There are schoolteachers and office workers, famous scientists,
government officials and lawmakers, artists and millionaires, taxi
drivers and celebrities, leaders in medicine, education, law,
psychology....They are in corporations, universities and hospitals, ...
in state and federal agencies, on city councils and the White House
staff.... in virtually all arenas of policy-making in the country....
"There are legions of conspirators.
They are in corporations, universities and hospitals, on the faculties
of public schools, in factories and doctors' offices, in state and
federal agencies, on city councils and the White House staff, in state
legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of
policy-making in the country.... They have coalesced into small groups
in every town and institution."[p.23-24]
"The crises of our time, it becomes
increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the
revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's
transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force
to feared our subdued. Our pathology is our opportunity."[p.25]
The following excerpts are from a section called
"THE EMERGENT PARADIGM OF HEALTH" in The Aquarian Conspiracy
(pp. 246-247).
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Assumptions of the
OLD PARADIGM OF MEDICINE
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Assumptions of the
NEW PARADIGM OF HEALTH
|
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Treatment of symptoms. |
Search for patterns and causes, plus
treatment |
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Specialized |
Integrated, concerned with the whole patient |
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Emphasis on efficiency. |
Emphasis on human values. |
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Pain and disease are wholly
negative. |
Pain and disease are information
about conflict, disharmony. |
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Mind is secondary factor in organic
disease. |
Mind is primary or coequal factor in
all illness. |
THE AQUARIAN CONSPIRACY IN
MEDICINE”“
"The new way of thinking about health and disease,
with its message of hope and its charge of individual responsibility, is widely
communicated by the Aquarian Conspiracy, as in a 1978 Washington conference,
‘Holistic Health: A Public Policy,’ co-sponsored by several government agencies
and private organizations. Agencies from the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare were represented. So was the White House staff. Insurance companies,
prepaid health-plan organizations, and foundations sent representatives—in many
cases, their top executive officers.
"Politicians, physicians, psychologists,
traditional healers, spiritual teachers, researchers, futurists, sociologists,
and health policymakers shared the platform. The assistant surgeon-general opened
the conference; principal speakers included Jerome Frank on the placebo effect,
California legislator John Vasconcellos, meditation teacher Jack Schwarz, Buckminster
Fuller on human ecology.
“Topics included public-health policy, implementation
of holistic health centers, cross-cultural healing practices, systems theory,
the holographic theory of mind and reality, yoga, music and consciousness, acupuncture
and acupressure, Buddhist meditative techniques, electro-medicine, alternative
birth approaches, bodywork, biofeedback, guided imagery, homeopathy, nutrition—and
‘the changing image of man.’
“This inclusive program typifies the new paradigm,
which sees many nontraditional healing systems as complementary to Western medicine.
Whether we understand how they work or not, they can be put to our service,…
without knowing why they are effective.
“It was in 1970 that the first group of scientists
and physicians—friends—gathered in a public forum to assert their interest in
spiritual realities and alternative approaches to health. The standing-room-only
program at De Anza College in Cupertino, California, was underwritten by Lockheed
Aircraft. Six months later a similar cast of characters staged twin weekend
programs at UCLA and Stanford, emphasizing the role of the mind in disease,
telling of ‘new’ therapies: meditation, visualization, biofeedback, acupuncture,
hypnosis, psychic healing, folk healing. Within a few years, variations on this
scientific-spiritual mating dance had been performed on the campuses of most
major universities in the country…. The Rockefeller, Ford, and Kellogg foundations
funded programs exploring the interface of mind and health.” (pp. 259-260)
“Malcolm
Todd,… then president of the conservative AMA… endorsed the concept of a ‘humanistic
medicine’ that deals with the ‘bodymind.’ [H]e urged… the integration of these
holistic approaches into the system. Wisely used, he said, they promise an exciting
rejuvenation of Western medicine. ‘The spectrum of components might range from
biofeedback and the psychology of consciousness to paranormal phenomena, psychic
healing.’
“The conspirators moved around the country like circuit
riders, preaching a perspective, not a dogma; launching an educational program
here, a pilot project there, promoting and publicizing a work of others in their
network, forging new links.” (p. 261)
“Caucuses have been formed
in many of the older professional organizations, and at every national convention,
panels and workshops are devoted to topics relating to alternative medicine:
altered states of consciousness, acupuncture, hypnosis, meditation, biofeedback.
The body-mind-spirit slogan of these sessions may take its place as a revolutionary
motif with ‘liberty, equality, fraternity.’ A number of holistic-health centers,
conferences, and networks have also emerged from churches or church-affiliated
foundations.” (pp. 262-263)
Subsection
heading: “WAYS OF LIVING, DYING, HEALING”
“Everything of importance is
already known, a sage said—the only thing is to rediscover it. Much of the current
excitement about healing is a kind of collective remembering, a homecoming to
the old wives and old doctors….
“Scientific discoveries about
the richness and complexity of nature reveal the poverty of our usual approaches
to health, especially our efforts to deal externally, forcefully, and invasively
with systems whose delicate balance can only be corrected if the inner physician
is recruited. Just as outer reforms have limited effect on the body politic,
external treatments are insufficient to heal the body if the spirit is in conflict.”
(p. 269)
Subsection
heading: “THE HEALING EFFECT”
“The image of the body as a
responsive field of energy, predominant in Eastern philosophy, coincides with
evidence that the acupuncture meridians are a reality and that the charkas of
Buddhist lore may indeed have a basis in fact.” (p. 275)
“While psychic healing may
prove a useful adjunct to medicine in the future, it is unlikely to become a
primary mode of treatment—for a simple reason. A ‘healer’ is ministering in
much the same way as a doctor, doing something to the patient. Shamanic
healers—the curanderos of South America, for instance—tell those they
treat that they can affect the symptoms but they cannot change the inner process
that produces disease. The symptom may disappear for a time but too often the
deeper matrix of disease has not been changed. Only the individual can effect
a healing from within.” (p. 276)
"I am the Lord,
and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace
and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things." Isaiah
45:6-7
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