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Is Freedom the Highest Value?

Posted on February 22, 2012 by simonrees

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“If you love somebody, set them free” (Sting)

“Life has its own ways. The moment you start managing everything, you spoil. Allow life its freedom …Don’t take the criterion from others about what is true and what is not true; these are the teachers that have been spoiling all of humanity. They tell you how to walk – which leg first and which leg second, and if you put them in some other order you are a sinner.” (Osho, “The Philosophical Frog and the Centipede”)

I have heard it said that freedom, as a value, is more important than any other, and more important even than love, because when freedom is lost, so is everything else.

Today I’ll explore this notion from a few angles. Is freedom really the highest value that there is? I wonder what you, our readers, think about this?

I’ll look at a range of topics including: an 8th tenet of medicine we are adding to the previous list of 7; Dr Yurkovsky’s emphasis on evolutionary principles; how medicine needs to approach human physiology; the future of feminism; an anecdote about a “free” school; the trouble with Plato’s “Utopia”; and a look at some of the highly unusual ways Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi sought to stand up for freedom as a core value – unlike most of the bland leaders in the world today.

Do our world leaders – and our doctors – truly understand what the concept of freedom means and how it relates to their politics and their medicine? Many of them may give lip service Continue reading →

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Clinical Tips #2 – Knowing When to Wait, and Addressing Head Traumas

Posted on February 2, 2012 by simonrees

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In most modern cultures, it seems at times that there is an almost manic dependency on a regular intake of medicines of some form, whether or not it is really justified or indicated; this has become our zeitgeist, the social expectation around medicine. How many people do you know, for example, who go weeks or months at a time without taking a single medication or supplement for anything? Why has such a person become a rarity in the modern world?

In my last blog, I shared some clinical tips in relation to my own case history of migraines. Today I will continue the story to illustrate some further points. . .

As a clinician, do you know when to wait and when to act? As a patient, does your clinician know this?

And do you, too, know when to give yourself a break from those daily vitamins or over-the-counter items that, after all, may not always be quite as continuously needed as you might think?

This is not a small matter, but can make the difference between success and failure. Here are some examples.

When I was learning the piano as a child, I remember my wise teacher My Deryck Seymour telling me the following about the music of Amadeus Mozart. I was learning a sonata and Continue reading →

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Who we are – more on information fields

Posted on January 26, 2012 by kevinjeakins

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Jonathan Frewing, who is an FCT graduate and a very talented healer and practitioner, once observed during an FCT training day lunch break that we filter out who we are from pure information. There was much talk of zero point fields at the time and his words were spoken on the spur of the moment, said in passing and quietly and in a way that could easily have been forgotten. However, for years his statement has stayed with me. Many times I have returned to his words and pondered on the vision and wisdom inherent in this simple, yet profound statement.

Out there in the vast, interconnected, seemingly infinite hinterland of information fields is the memory of every atom that has ever existed, every physical and chemical reaction that has ever taken place, every life form that has ever lived in the full glory of every moment, every emotion that was ever felt, every conscious thought that was ever formed, and so on, and so on..

His hypothesis is that we simply download who we are from the infinity of space. It is a vision which Continue reading →

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Clinical Tips #1 – Migraine Example and the Value of Precision

Posted on January 19, 2012 by simonrees

Today I want to start a series of personal blogs in which I will share clinical tips for anyone practising bio-resonance testing, as well being of common interest to lay people wanting to broaden their understanding of health and medicine.

I will start with a useful clinical example from my own life – that of migraines.

And I will be asking the question: how precise do we really need to be in medicine, without over-complicating things? How important is precision, and how do we best achieve it when it is needed?

In my teens and early twenties, I used to suffer for many years from Continue reading →

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Placebo and healing – Information Fields revisited

Posted on January 12, 2012 by kevinjeakins

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Let’s start with a question: what is the most cost effective, most under-rated healing tool available to all medical practitioners, alternative or otherwise? You can’t see it or feel it. It gives no readings and requires no dispensing. Some call it the power of positive thinking while others prefer to think in terms of spiritual connection and prayer. Whatever label you give there is a non physical, non-directly measurable force that aids healing. Its effects have been measured in double blind studies and there are countless anecdotal stories from patients and doctors alike to testify to its effectiveness.

It doesn’t fit into the neat biochemical world of modern medicine and so we’re all a bit embarrassed by it. How do we deal with this kind of “inconvenient truth”? Well, we can give a pejorative label and refer to it in hushed tones as some sort of underhand practice.

Yes, I’m referring to what is lovingly known as the placebo effect and wondering what place this has in medical practice. I think it’s fair to say that the conventional attitude is one of suspicion whereby during a drug trial the patient is being “hoodwinked” into believing that a pill is “real” whereas it has in fact no active ingredient at all. Its sole function is to set a baseline standard that the “real” drug has to beat.

Miraculously, in a consistently high percentage of cases taking this “fake” medicine, the patient’s condition improves. Not only that but placebo performance is gaining ground by creating higher baseline results for the drugs to beat every year. The fact that many patients continue to stay well on this long term non-medication seems to be a fact which is ignored or stored away under unexplainable phenomena. Clearly something is happening here that current paradigms fail to explain. Continue reading →

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Is Bio-Resonance Testing Subjective?

Posted on January 7, 2012 by simonrees

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A happy and creative new year to all our readers! Let’s launch 2012 with perhaps our most popular and much-demanded topic of all – bio-resonance testing.

Today I want to reflect on the question of objectivity and subjectivity in medicine, in response to a question we have just received from one of our readers, named Mike, which was:

I had a question this morning about FCT and wondered: how is Subjectivity taught as an element of consciousness a pre-requisite quality to a successful testing process? Thus, is there some sort of statement which a practitioner can use as a frame to establish a baseline to apply objective observances (results) from a subjective perspective?

For those new to the subject, I aim to share some blogs soon to introduce bio-resonance testing more generally. For today, suffice it to say, before we dive straight into our topic, that bio-resonance testing (BRT) is an up-and-coming diagnostic tool in medicine utilizing a form of muscle-testing which, although not yet accepted in orthodox medical practice, utilizes energetic and informational aspects of human physiology to elicit useful or even imperative information that is not available through any other means.

For this reason, even if no other, bio-resonance testing requires urgent assessment by all conscientious healthcare professionals. Because of its enormous promise, it deserves attention. It can allow us to pinpoint causative factors in internal organs, ranging from toxins to infections to many other stressors – as well as to build, based on this, effective treatment strategies. Bio-resonance testing, as I have learned it and practise it, forms the main diagnostic component of Field Control Therapy (FCT), created by Savely Yurkovsky, M.D.

Without any doubt, all doctors, nurses and alternative practitioners should learn bio-resonance testing.

Why, then, when this sounds so frankly cool, does bio-resonance testing remain shrouded in such controversy and neglect in conventional circles? Primarily, the reason is straight-forward: because it has the appearance of being subjective, unlike the “objective” measures usually preferred in medicine.

Today I will challenge the very foundation of this assumption, and present an alternative view. Continue reading →

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The Circle and Triangle Model of Chronic Disease

Posted on December 29, 2011 by kevinjeakins

I was visualising the other day how I might describe the cancer causation process to a patient in as simple a manner as possible. I started thinking in terms of a circle of health and a triangle of disease causation superimposed upon each other.

I thought I’d set it down here for everyone to comment on and see if anyone feels it has any use or value. I like simple concepts and I know that simplicity comes at a price because often the simpler model leaves out the nuances that can sometimes be very important.

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Who wants to be an invalid? (Christmas blog)

Posted on December 22, 2011 by simonrees

Ever felt your patients, or someone you know, moans too much about being ill? Or are just too negative in general and need to think more positively? Ever had doubts about what they had to say? Ever felt maybe it was really their own fault they’re not getting better yet? Or perhaps that their symptoms clearly have an emotional cause, as evidenced by the negativity and/or the hysterical presentation?

These attitudes must be among the ones that have acquired the most ill-deserved hype of any in our line of work. Surely it is time to burst the bubble of mass deceit?

Today is our first “Christmas blog” – and since Christmas is supposed to be about compassion and goodwill, this is my topic for today. . . Continue reading →

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Hormonal Resistance – Part 2

Posted on December 15, 2011 by kevinjeakins

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I wrote an earlier blog on this subject here and it’s a good idea to read that one before reading this but then again it’s probably not necessary. My theme here continues on with the cellular resistance that develops over time to normal, healthy physiological messages that the body is sending each cell.

Many questions are asking themselves in my mind (clearly this inside-the-mind dialogue is proof of obsession or madness, more likely both) and the foremost of these is why does this occur?

Let’s go back over Dr. Yurkovsky’s 7 star model of disease for a moment and review his key disease causation factors:

- Toxicity

- Ruinous diet & lifestyle

- Electro-Magnetic Fields (EMFs)

- Infectious Agents (acquired and inherited susceptibility to)

- Iatrogenic Interventions

- Physical and Emotional Trauma

- Inherited and acquired physiological/organ weaknesses

The answer is here somewhere but let’s start with too much. What happens when the music’s too loud? We cover our ears. When the lights are too bright? We cover our eyes? Our sense organs are, well, sensitive and need protection so we down-regulate them when exposed to too much stimuli. The same happens at a cellular level and it’s a perfectly normal defence mechanism. If I were to pick the number one reason for cellular resistance, down-regulation would come top of my list.

What else? For my second place I’d choose Continue reading →

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What type of Revolution is taking place in Science and Medicine? – Revisiting the idea of perspective, and Thomas S Kuhn’s work, a year after this website’s launch…

Posted on December 8, 2011 by simonrees

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Perhaps the bottom line – in science, medicine and life – is that perception is where it’s at!

This month we celebrate the start of this website’s second year. . . To mark the occasion, Kevin Eakins and I have decided to alter the name and homepage slightly but significantly. As a part of our process of frank sharing and exchange with you, this blog is about the how and why – with reference to our most dramatic original claim: that we represent a movement which forms part of a scientific and medical revolution.

Along the way, I’ll share some insight into the thought processes of those behind this website and its ideas – in case you ever wondered how these two wackos came to put together such an eccentric collection of ideas, and the background to it! More importantly, I’ll quote from one of the most inspiring books written in the history of the philosophy of science – a landmark work first published in 1962, perhaps marking the dawn of the modern era and since earmarked as a modern classic – and once labelled by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the “hundred most influential books since the Second World War”: Thomas S. Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”.

You guessed right, it’s fresh on my mind because I’m reading it at present. . . at last! It’s one of those books I’ve been eyeing up for years but hadn’t yet read, and although I haven’t finished it, I’m already keen to write this blog in reference to some of its inspired line of thinking. But who cares about what’s on my reading list, anyway? Well, as our medical mentor Savely Yurkovsky, M.D., has said many times, no one in today’s world can practise any form of medicine responsibly without also acquiring a profound understanding of the nature of science. . . This means that in addition to books on medicine, we should have books on science on our reading list too. . . Furthermore, patients and the general public would also do well to develop a basic understanding of science principles, to avoid being duped and to become at least partially fluent in today’s main popular “currency” of thought. . . ! Continue reading →

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The Four Elements of Healing

Posted on December 1, 2011 by kevinjeakins

It’s fun to write a title like this! As if I could decree the fact that there are four rather three or five or six elements or any elements at all for that matter! Of course what I write is entirely a personal opinion, a perspective which is as individual to me as my face. However I have tried to reach out to some ancient wisdom and I trust you will decide for yourself whether this attempt merits anything.

Traditionally (in western culture at least) the four elements that made up everything in Nature were earth, air, fire, and water. Here are my interpretations of these elements:

- Earth: the substrate in which everything happens

- Water: the medium in which everything happens

- Air: the message which directs everything that happens

- Fire: the transformation which takes place in every happening

So let’s look through this perspective at some of the therapies we use and the lifestyle advice we hand out to see if we can’t characterise our interventions in terms of these four fundamentals… Continue reading →

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Is the World About to End? – A Fresh Perspective

Posted on November 24, 2011 by simonrees

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Today I’ll be asking questions about the end of the world, death and destruction; about friends who are buying up gold or silver in expectation of global economic collapse; and, equally, about beginnings, horizons and creativity – about fear and conspiracy theories – and about some of my views on spirituality and Buddhism – about proactive things we can do medically to improve our quality of life, and about an uplifting perspective on the meaning of life which, quite possibly, may be a relatively original way of putting things. . .

I recently attended the Dublin Film Institute and watched two of the latest films on the arthouse circuit – both coincidentally proposing end-world scenarios. I would rather not name them because I don’t recommend either of them, although they were well enough made. The main point seemed to be just a “what if”. I mention them because they have moved me to write a blog about an increasingly popular topic of conversation these days – impending catastrophes.

Is there some sort of massive disaster waiting for us all just round the corner? I wonder what you, our readers, think?

I do not personally expect the world to end soon. But I know quite a few people who subscribe to disaster theories of all sort of colours and shades. Does the year 2012 hold any special significance, as so many are focusing on it? Or is it (as I suspect) more likely a convenient peg on which to hang an inexplicable sense of foreboding that many people are feeling? And if there is foreboding in many people’s minds, where is it coming from? I’ll pose some suggestions about this below.

In the first film, a larger passing planet engulfs Earth. In the other, people all round the world mysteriously start losing each of their five primary senses, one at a time. No one knows why, but medical labels are conjured up like rabbits from a hat – “Severe Olfactory Syndrome”, followed by other names, one for each sense that is lost – as though the events are not really connected by a single disease. The filmmakers probably don’t realize it, but they have created an exaggerated allegory for the mercury poisoning of modern populations Continue reading →

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A public reply to Yvonne – can Evidence Based Medicine provide proof for FCT?

Posted on November 17, 2011 by kevinjeakins

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A lady called Yvonne has recently added the following comment to a blog posted by my colleague Simon:

This is all fine, but I’d like some information demonstrating that sarcodes actually work.

Hi Yvonne,

Your question touches on a fundamental issue and so I’d like to publish an open reply to it. First of all, Yvonne, thank you for taking the time and being interested enough to read Simon’s blog and to post a comment.

What you are saying is basically “Although this all sounds great, I don’t believe it’s possible so find an argument that convinces me…”

We live in an age where we expect proof: proof of identity, proof of competency, proof of efficacy, etc.. However the sad truth is that for medical “science”, in real terms “proof” basically means enough people of sufficient credibility hold something to be true. Everyone else then assumes the accepted wisdom is correct because how could the experts be wrong?

Science in general continues to evolve and the experts have never been 100% right about anything fundamental. In fact most of them do not agree with each other or at least they are not 100% in agreement. The consequence of this is an exchange of views that sometimes gels into a sort of average consensus.

Based on this, a simplified version of the debate ripples down into the public domain. In fact it was always thus. We are social creatures and very few of us take the journey from first principles through to final conclusion. None of us have the time and I for one certainly Continue reading →

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Share your favourite Youtube clips here – and View Haley PhD, Johansson PhD, Monty Python on Science, and others

Posted on November 10, 2011 by simonrees

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For a change, I thought this week I’d share with you a few youtube video clip links that I’ve enjoyed recently, related to the themes of the Living Systems Revolution, and invite you to add links below in the comments section to any that you, in turn, have found good! I look forward to seeing your links and hope you’ll enjoy each others’ too! Of course, we are blessed to have websites like youtube, and others like it, at our fingertips, enabling us so easily to view free clips such as our first one below with Boyd Haley, PhD, which I highly recommend:

In the above clip, Dr Haley shares the extraordinary story which everyone alive today needs to hear – how after over 25 years of funding, he lost his NIH career because he accidentally stumbled upon what had all the hallmarks of being a clear definitive primary cause of Alzheimer’s Disease and wanted to do more studies to corroborate the findings. . . and how none of the Alzheimer’s associations have invited him to speak, either, and basically no one wants to know! Unbelievable!

But each of us has the choice to buck this trend NOW – by listening to what he has to say and letting others know about it. My thanks go out to Dr Haley and other scientists like him (such as, for example, Professor Olle Johansson, PhD in EMF research) who recognize the importance of their scientific findings and stand by them, even when it risks putting their careers on the line. Are these not some of the unsung heroes of our time?

The next one is a Monty Python sketch – for a good laugh, and also symbolic perhaps of what has gone wrong with “science” Continue reading →

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Cancer, chronic disease and Living Systems

Posted on November 3, 2011 by kevinjeakins

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As I write this blog I am in the process of reading Xandria Williams’ excellent book, Cancer Concerns. I recommend it to anyone wishing to get a better understanding of cancer. I truly believe that we are in the midst of a revolution in terms of how we understand and hence are able to treat this and other chronic diseases.

I must confess that the subject of cancer has captivated me over the past months and once more I return to it – only this time I want to put it in the perspective of a hierarchy of living systems. But first let’s start with three definitions and for those who have read my previous blogs before please forgive any repetition:

1) Cancer is a “conscious” process of cellular devolution whereby a healthy cell retreats into a more primitive life form

2) The cause of cancer in its most generalised definition is cellular stress. Or to put it another way, cancer is one of the possible outcomes of strain exhibited by a cell in response to an external stressor or combination of external stressors. It is also a chronic process of mutated genetic/epigenetic signalling which progressively pushes the cell towards the “decision” to degrade. It is generally accepted that the ratio of influence between genetic and epigenetic is 1:9 which gives us all hope that we can change our ways. The strain is a cumulative process which takes place over time. The screw is slowly turned until the prisoner finally submits and gives up his loyalty to his anatomical community.

3) Anything that causes cellular strain is a carcinogen. Therefore carcinogens can be chemical or metal toxins, ionizing or non ionizing radiation, imprudent lifestyle or ruinous dietary choices, or emotional or mental stress (that translates into hormonal imbalance or immune system suppression/dysfunction).

I admit “Stress” is a pretty general term –perhaps too general to be of use clinically but we should always try and start at the simplest concept which encompasses all the observable phenomena and build from there.

Also we need to differentiate between so called “eustress” and “distress.” Eustress is Continue reading →

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‘Mercury is a Time Bomb’ – Favourite Quotations About Mercury Poisoning, Part One

Posted on October 28, 2011 by simonrees

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Okay, I accept with humility that my last piece on bicycles wasn’t our biggest hit so far among our readers! Hmm, it may be that many of you are avid car-lovers, or it may be that you’re looking to read about something else, not bicycles or the health merits of exercise! Am I broaching subjects that are too ahead of their time, or too behind the times?

Well, whichever may be the case, worry not as, just as the wheel spins and the clock ticks, today I’m moving on to an entirely different subject – I’m launching a new series of blogs in which I’ve prepared for your delectation what I hope will be a “supreme dessert” that you may find worthy of returning to again and again – or even printing to frame and decorate your walls with:

I will set about sharing with you a selection of “golden nugget” quotations on the subject of mercury – some dating back a few years, others “hot off the press” from earlier this month, adding a little to the wonderful summary of Dr Yurkovsky’s latest seminar which Kevin Eakins shared with us last week.

All of them are hand-picked by me from my own reading and research as statements that I have personally found useful to return to on multiple occasions. Most have then been typed into the computer myself from hard copies of books on my shelves, and/or from listening to medical seminars and lectures of various sorts.

There is so much to be said about mercury which is of great importance to every person alive today, that I don’t want you only to hear things from our mouths – I would rather also share direct quotations with you from a range of scientists, doctors and other experts and authors.

In today’s world, and in today’s medicine, the subject of micro-mercurialism holds a “high meaning” – it is, as Dr Yurkovsky has described at his seminar earlier this month, one of the few major “stars” or “bullets” that require our special attention. Yet, I ask you, in today’s popular medical paradigm of “Evidence Based Medicine”, where there is an expensive medical research train busy gathering billions of scientifically proven but practically irrelevant data – items of “low meaning” – what is the “Evidence” we are seeking? I propose that instead of Evidence Based Medicine, we need Meaningful Evidence – i.e., information of high relevance to health and to healing. And, once “high meaning” holds interest for us, then understanding mercury toxicity is one of the main places to direct our attention.

So, enough from me, and on with the “show”: After three favourite initial quotations below, I will be focusing today on two authors with multiple quotations from each – Patrick Stortebecker, M.D., Ph. D., and Savely Yurkovsky, M.D. – and then I will move on to a range of quotes from other works and authors in future blogs.

Mercury is a time bomb. . . If it’s not bothering someone when they’re young – especially when they age it could turn into something quite disastrous. Even tiny quantities.

– Boyd Haley, Ph.D. (interviewed by the BBC)

To come here is to discover the Hell of mercury pollution.

– Noriaki Tsuchimoto / Minamata: The Victims and Their World (A highly recommended documentary)

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My Top 10 Take Away Tips from Dr Y’s Latest Seminar

Posted on October 20, 2011 by kevinjeakins

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This blog is my own favourite set of tips from Dr. Yurkovsky’s seminar that I was privileged enough to attend the weekend before last. I accept that this is going to be more interesting to FCT practitioners and students than others but no matter who you are, I urge you to continue reading. This training had something for everyone who is interested in the real causes of chronic diseases and how to treat them.

OK let’s jump in and begin with my top favourite:

1) The importance of electricity, magnetism, and EMFs in health and disease.

Firstly, the beneficial, regenerative kind: the Schumann resonances centred around 7 hertz emanating from the earth and from our own bodies ; and the natural emission of photons from the DNA in our forming a matrix, wave pattern of interference that signals the presence of health and disease.

Now, the nasty, pathogenic, negative, stressful kind: pretty much all the rest of what we as contemporary society generate: household electricity, wireless radio/TV broadcast/mobile phone transmissions, local WIFI/hands-free phone emissions, household appliances (especially those with motors…) , etc…, etc… I replicate with permission (presented online exclusively here for the first time in the public domain) two new diagrams from Dr Yurkovsky (www.yurkovsky.com) illustrating this:

i) The role of EMFs in Retention of toxins & harmful effects on the immune system leading to chronic toxicity & inflammation (NB: HM = Heavy Metal ; EMF = Electromagnetic fields)

ii) The “oulde” triangle

In Ireland there is a very well known traditional song about a prison in Dublin, Kilmainham Gaol, and the lyrics refer to a triangle that was used to signal to prisoners when they should be ready to wake up or prepare for lights out etc.. Similarly the above flow chart can be summarised more simply as follows and a prison of pathogenic signals that keeps patients in disease and obstructs our best attempts at treatment. Continue reading →

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In Praise of Bicycles – and Exercise

Posted on October 15, 2011 by simonrees

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In my last blog, I attempted to summarize what Field Control Therapy (FCT) is – by introducing the idea of design – and I sought to show how important it is in medicine to have a well-designed system. I theorized that this may be why FCT, based on the concepts of Living Systems Medicine, has been a popular course of study for engineers. Next, by way of example or parallel, I’m going to take on a rather different issue – bicycling – and relate it also to questions of health as well as much else. . . Be warned, all car drivers – you may find cause for offence in my writing today, and if I take it too far, may I apologise in advance – although perhaps it may be a worthy debate either way!

Consider this: the bicycle is a truly beautiful design. Do you have one? Take a look at it. Surely it is almost as near perfection as any human design can get. (I can understand why Flann O’Brien wrote about characters falling in love with their bicycles – more from him later!)

It is compact. It can even be folded up in some designs (my father, for example, cycled from San Francisco to New York on a fold-up bike). It is easy to learn to ride. It can go fast or slow. It’s hard to kill someone with one. It’s good for the heart. It helps the rider stay fit and healthy. When riding it, there’s no shortage of fresh air. It affords a great all-round view of the passing scenery, and allows us to be more connected to nature as we travel. It requires no fuel except your own legs, and yet your legs don’t need to feel any jolt from touching the ground, making it a healthier form of exercise than jogging. It’s no wonder that gyms the world over are full of exercise bikes – yet why bother with those when you can have the joy of a real bike in the fresh air?

Using gears, it’s easy to adjust for different slopes. It’s a quick and easy way to travel a mile or, for enthusiasts, a hundred miles. It gives off no pollution. It doesn’t harm the environment. It’s not directly dependent on any fossil fuels. It can even be a sociable mode of transport, with fellow cyclists chatting as they ride. When there are traffic jams, you can slip between and ahead of the cars easily on your bike, because no one ever heard of a traffic jam or rush hour delay caused by bicycles. Continue reading →

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Perspective & Informed Choices – A tribute to Dr. Vincent McCabe

Posted on October 6, 2011 by kevinjeakins

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One of the “magnificent seven” guiding principles in FCT is perspective. First let me readily acknowledge my colleague, Simon Rees, who introduced this key concept to the FCT lexicon. It is truly of paramount importance in guiding not only how we treat patients but also how we make choices for health and healing in life.

I was reminded of the importance of perspective recently while listening to a radio interview about raw milk. Many of you may not be aware but the sale of raw milk is about to be banned in Ireland. I believe that raw milk produced by organic, pasture fed cows in farms that adhere to proper standards of hygiene is a true super food. As such, banning it is a travesty of justice. Anyway, my purpose here is not to try and argue the case for raw milk (you can refer to the Weston A Price foundation web site for this).

During the interview a “scientist” was being asked why raw milk should be banned. He replied by referencing a very specific bacterium which was considered to be “pathogenic” and stating that this was included in raw milk and as such it would be dangerous for humans to consume it. I’m amazed that so many survived this deadly bug before the wonders of pasteurisation and homogenization were invented. In fact, how do the many Germans, Italians, and Swiss consumers survive its deadly effects when so many people in these countries still continue to consume raw milk regularly. . . ?

When I was in first year engineering many years ago, we had a lecturer who taught a course on engineering practice. His name was Dr. Vincent McCabe and he asked a question that illustrated beautifully the primacy of perspective in analysis: what happens when you install and turn on a refrigerator in a kitchen and leave the door open? Does the ambient temperature in the room rise or fall? Continue reading →

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Complexity and Medicine

Posted on October 3, 2011 by dryurkovsky

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One is never to underestimate the power of societal conditioning and its mind control over an individual psyche that would render the majority doubt the existing ineptness of contemporary medical research and practices to find answers to autism and all chronic diseases as expressed in my blog last week. “Some maverick doctor who isn’t even a scientist cannot be right while so many in notoriety are wrong.”

However, to my own surprise and barely weeks after first posting my autism article at my website, I came across an ardent supporter of the same views and who has been a prominent member of medical research and the professional community until his recent passing away. British-born former Professor of Medicine from Auckland University School of Medicine, Colin J. Alexander, in his just-published book, “Complexity and Medicine: The elephant in the waiting room” makes emphasis on the crucial factor of the human body in all chronic diseases and in health ─ complexity.

This very concept that the FCT curriculum has introduced and evolved since 1999 explains why and exactly how complexity can easily mislead the entire community of medical research and medical practices. It does so by generating an enormous excess of findings in diseases which, without correct methods to understand their essence, primary or unimportant factors and the ability to address the primary ones, dooms us to confusion and failure.

Not surprisingly, Professor Alexander, as anybody who understands the concept of complexity, concurs that it is the excess, not deficiency of findings that has doomed medical research and medical practices to a dead-end street. Continue reading →

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About FCT: What’s in a Design?

Posted on September 29, 2011 by simonrees

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First, a couple of preliminaries:

On 6-9 October, there is a seminar in Field Control Therapy (FCT) taking place in NY, USA – details here. We will be there, and recommend it also to anyone with an interest in FCT, autism, ADHD, Lyme Disease or bioresonance testing – or health in general.

Savely Yurkovsky, M.D., creator of FCT, who is teaching the seminar, kindly contributed a blog for us earlier this week on the subject of autism, the subject of this seminar and also of his upcoming book. If you haven’t already, read his autism blog here. It’s a free article in which he shares many profound insights about autism and medicine in general. Next week, he will be following it up with a blog on complexity and medicine.

For subscribers – don’t forget also to add Dr Yurkovsky’s blog email address to your “Contacts” list in your email account alongside ours, to ensure you receive his future blogs: dryurkovsky@systemsrevolution.com.

Now, my main topic of today – What’s in a design?

An idea struck me as I was cycling my bike. . . and there on the roadside yesterday I planned a new blog in which I’m going to link bicycles, engineers, exercise and medicine!

For a while now, I’ve been pondering how best to write an introduction to FCT for this webpage. For now, I’ve decided instead to write first about why I and others I know like it. After all, by way of parallel, there are probably even more books out there about why people loved the Beatles, than those about their music. So this seems as good a starting place as any! At the same time, I’ll be discussing why FCT is so popular with engineers; and I’ll be taking a brief look at the role of exercise in a healthy lifestyle – and the main reason many people don’t get enough: cars. . . I’ll also be analyzing some of the primary shortcomings of conventional medicine and lab testing with examples. So let’s aim for several birds with one stone. . .

The basic theme I have in mind is one of design. I’m a person who basically respects things which are well-made. I have always been like this.

When I see someone doing something with great skill, or something which has been designed impeccably, it invites my fascination and admiration. Continue reading →

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The Living Systems Revolution

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Perspective & Informed Choices – A tribute to Dr. Vincent McCabe

About FCT: What’s in a Design?

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