An Occultist's Look at Health and Healing

[kimberlysteele]

Allopathic medicine’s primary failure lies within its dismissal of the non-physical planes, especially the etheric plane. In the occult theory of the planes, the etheric plane is the most closely linked with the physical. Anyone can sense the etheric plane. When a person, place, or thing feels right or wrong, that is the etheric plane in action. For instance, my father was recently in the hospital for the better part of a week. I visited him and brought him cookies. Hospitals, especially hospitals in salary class strongholds like the hospital where my dad was interred, are huge etheric drains that prey upon all who enter them. Nursing homes and assisted living facilities have similar functions on the etheric. I will not speculate as to why they have this function, however, I will comment that it is highly ironic that places of ostensible healing run on energy vampirism. The modern hospital doesn’t just exist to drain your bank account; it sucks the life out of the people who frequent it as a hidden bonus.

Anybody Want Cookies?

When I entered the hospital, a young hospital worker asked “Are those homemade cookies?” I said “Yes”. Homemade cookies, despite being full of sugar and fat, are far healthier than hospital food of any sort because they are etherically rich. To those with etheric starvation, homemade cookies are an all-night oasis with a flashing neon sign. If only I had the time and the energy, I would have given everyone working and staying at the hospital a batch of homemade cookies.

Etheric starvation may be one of the most common health deficiencies of our time. The etheric plane is one step more subtle than smell and one step less subtle than an emotional feeling. The reasons why etheric starvation are so commonplace nowadays are myriad: ugly built environments, magnetic radiation, tons of plastic, hectic schedules, devitalized food, and ungrateful attitudes of entitlement all contribute to the phenomenon. I suffer from etheric starvation much like anyone else, however my starvation is ameliorated by the daily practice of the Sphere of Protection (SoP) and my ability to cook decent meals at home.

Etheric starvation often manifests as auto-immune disease such as diabetes and chronic fatigue. Type two diabetes is often caused by stuffing and gorging in an attempt to alleviate etheric starvation with devitalized, etherically-poor food. The sex addict’s number one problem is usually etheric starvation, and that is why a large amount of sex with constantly changing partners cannot cure them. Sex is an etheric exchange that ends up lumpy and one-sided if one partner is more into it than the other — the lonely heart would be better off remedying their etheric starvation in non-sexual ways.

The first task of remedying etheric starvation is by recognizing that the aesthetics of one’s living space provide a primary source of etheric nourishment. In order to replenish etheric stocks, you must have a place where you feel you are home. “Home” is as individual and randomly eccentric as the people who live there. For some, home is an apartment in a big city nestled among skyscrapers. For others, home is a cookie-cutter three-bedroom suburban house. Some live in yurts, tents, boats, and vans because they have no other choice; for some, it’s exactly how they like it. For me, home is not just my tiny little house, it’s my garden or the forest preserve. The moral of the story is we all need an etherically-rich place we can regularly go where our energy is restored.

The Importance of Decor... Seriously

Decorating, like many activities that are sacred to Aphrodite, is routinely pooh-poohed as unimportant and trivial. Decorating and the cleaning and organization that usually precedes it is crucial to imbuing a space with etheric richness. Repainting a room and updating the furniture and tchotchkes may not seem like a big deal, but anyone who perceives the etheric plane in any depth will understand it is crucial to remedying etheric starvation. Not all decorating is created equal, of course. The living space that is bought pre-fab from the Made-in-the-Third-World furniture store, installed entirely by a crew who couldn’t care less about the people living in an overlarge heat sink of a house, has far less restorative etheric potency than the room appointed with lovingly-restored thrift store furniture and is regularly cleaned and maintained by the people who actually live there.

I am a big proponent of starting where you are, with what you have right now. If you have etheric starvation, and it is likely that you do, the easiest way of remedying it is to thank your space for its service to you. For instance, I sit at my desk writing this essay on a computer. I will later thank the computer, the desk, and the chair for helping me write the essay. When I do this, my gratitude will sublimate the material things I have thanked and this will return in the form of good luck for both me and the items I thanked. Another way to sublimate gratitude is to do something that blesses the environment, such as picking up trash in the forest preserve. Every little bit helps, which is why those who put effort into gardening or who decorate for holidays are blessed — those tiny bits of care and cheer go a long way in brightening a sad world and making it etherically richer.

I have said the etheric is one sense subtler than smell. Hospitals have a smell that indicates their etheric toxicity. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and if a place smells like you shouldn’t be there, you should probably try to get out of there as quickly as you can. Etherically-drained environments are terrible for human health. That is why you want whatever place you call home to be etherically rich. Allopathic medicine is not about to remedy itself or its approach to healing, which is why I believe the majority of it will be discarded in the centuries to come. (That’s too bad, because allopathic medicine does have an assortment of helpful protocols that shouldn’t be thrown away like the baby with the bathwater.)

The Formula

Allopathic medicine has utterly failed because it prioritizes attacking the source of disease over building up the patient. In the realm of magic, it is easier to curse what you hate than to bless what you love. Nevertheless, cursing what you hate causes detrimental blowback — if you get the destruction you want, it will return to you like the shrapnel of a grenade. If you bless your own side, you get that blowback, and you strengthen yourself enough to triumph over the enemy with overwhelming force. Hippocrates advocated the approach of strengthening the patient. Allopathic medicine goes the curse route, poisoning and/or removing the offending body part and attempting to replace it with someone else’s body part or a prosthetic. There are rare occasions where removing the body part is the best approach, like the case of me and my gall bladder. In 2002, I came within about an hour of dying because my gall bladder had become extremely inflamed and full of stones. Unfortunately, it had to go and luckily for me and my survival to the present day, it did. In most cases, however, it is preferable to strengthen the patient and err on the side of conservatism by not removing anything. The following is not health advice: If I were to be diagnosed with cancer, I would refuse chemotherapy. It is my personal opinion that chemotherapy is as barbaric as trepanning. You don’t get rid of an ornery fish by poisoning the whole ocean. Instead, I would look at my lifestyle: if I was subsisting on etherically-depleted food from the freezer, fast food restaurant, or out of a can, I would change it to homemade food. If I wasn’t sleeping enough, I would find a way to make regular, adequate sleep happen. I would decorate and thank every space I used and the objects in it. I would get lots of sunlight whenever possible. Last but not least, if none of this worked and if I still had cancer, I would accept my impending death as gracefully as possible and I would do my level best not to complain.

In some ways, alternative healing modalities are not as potent as taking an allopathic drug, and that can be a good thing. Allopathic medicine is often a blitzkrieg as it had to be in the case of my gall bladder whereas alternative healing methods are usually a gentle readjustment. When I have a sinus headache, I take white willow in the form of a capsule instead of taking Advil or Tylenol. The reasons for this are more complicated than they would appear. I often have to take more white willow than one would Tylenol — 2 or three capsules every couple of hours versus a single Tylenol for the span of half a day — because they aren’t as strong. Over the counter NSAIDS like Tylenol and Advil obliterate the endothelial single cell layer in my upper intestine, and this layer is the only thing that filters out pathogenic viruses. My headache might be solved, but I have just opened my immune system to any virus that comes my way, so if I have to be around a sick person, symptomatic or asymptomatic, I’m probably going to catch whatever virus they have. Willow doesn’t do that. Additionally, the health of my teeth is directly related to my sinus headaches, so if I have a sinus headache, I can remedy it by putting a thick paste of calcium citrate in the corners of my gums and behind my front teeth. I usually do this at night so I do not appear to be foaming at the mouth during the daytime. Calcium citrate stops my teeth from decaying. By remineralizing my teeth, which are just small bones after all, I slowly work on the root cause of the headaches, which is inflammation caused by infected teeth. Is this as instant or as powerful as popping an Advil? Heck no. Does it work? Yes. Another supplement I use if I have a sinus headache is zinc in the form of lozenges or gummies. Sinus headaches are the canary in the coal mine that say “You are at risk of catching a flu or cold”. If I get one, I supplement with extra Vitamin D, zinc, and put special attention toward improving my etheric state.

Magic Chef

If your household has a good cook living there (maybe it is you) please bless that person for me. The good cook is the most dramatically undervalued healer of our civilization. Good cooks are beyond the price of rubies in a landscape of etheric starvation, and that is why if you have etheric starvation, you should do your level best to become a good cook.

Soup is an extremely powerful form of medicine, and it doesn’t need to be chicken soup specifically. Soup is healing because our bodies need salty water with a dash of sugar in it. Soup is the human body’s preferred form of hydration and nutrition. Soup made from scratch is the most etherically potent form, however, soup from a can or box “doctored up” with additions like chopped vegetables or noodles comes relatively close. Though most soup recipes call for broth, I don’t use broth when I make soup. The basic recipe for homemade soup is to start with a stockpot, put in about a tablespoon of oil, and fry a vegetable, usually onions, at the bottom of it. Herbs or spices follow for a brief sauté, and then the rest of the vegetables get thrown in there, the pot gets filled to the top with water, and then it cooks for anywhere from thirty minutes to several hours. I salt it to taste somewhere within that time span. Noodles or rice, if being used, don’t get added until the soup is cooked or mostly cooked. Soup is not rocket science. I have not used an actual recipe for many years.

Avoid the Modern-Brutalist Approach to Exercise and Everything Else

Another spot where the allopaths get it wrong is exercise. Vigorous exercise has a time and a place: it belongs to children and young adults, and its place is ideally a bit on the wild side, in the form of copious unstructured play. Instead, we drive our cars to go to the gym, where we proceed to overwork in an etherically-deadened meat market of rubber, plastic and metal while subjected to an aural assault of nihilistic, autotuned popular music. The environment is wrong and the type of exercise is wrong. Older people are generally not designed to sprint or to powerlift — though if you can, good for you. Human bodies are designed for long bouts of mild exercise, and people of a certain age who manage this form of movement stay healthy for a long time.

If allopathic medicine ever regains its sense, hospitals everywhere will be torn down and replaced with the health spas of old where patients “took the waters” in etherically rich environments. No place of healing should ever permit a television upon its premises, and the proliferation of televisions in hospitals is a travesty that displays how far allopathic medicine has fallen from healing as a priority. Perhaps in the hospitals of the future, people of all walks of life will be able to use the healing center instead of the super-rich few. Until then, it is up to regular people to take back the modalities of healing.  These days, healing must start at home.

Comments

[methylethyl]

It's weird to see that happen: the reversal of all the smart kids leaving the farm for the big city. Now they're all taking their kids and moving back to the farm.

[kimberlysteele]

I'd like to see the re-normalization of multigenerational households in the US. It's not ideal in every case, but it makes a great deal more sense than the atomized family dynamic most of us have now.

[methylethyl]

It's been happening, gradually, for over a decade. Think about all the people just a little younger than us who went off to college, graduated into a crap jobs market, and moved back in with their parents to pay off student loans... sometimes with a spouse and/or kids in tow. I think it's had time to lose some of the associated stigma, and now you're seeing people do it much less out of financial desperation, and more from "we need to get out of the city and find something better for our kids". Obviously, not gonna work for everyone-- not everybody has a farm to go back to, or family they can live with-- but I think overall it's a good thing. I have benefitted hugely my whole life from being part of a large, close-knit kin network, that has allowed us to live considerably better than our income alone would have let us.

[kimberlysteele]

One aspect of multigenerational family living that gets completely overlooked is the importance of elders being involved in not just the lives of children but of people my age. Even though I don't have children, I would rather live my adult life close to my aging parents.

[lp9]

I don't live in this situation now, but this is essentially how I grew up. I lived in a trailer with my parents and siblings on my grandparents' farm. One aunt and uncle also lived in a trailer on the farm and my great grandfathers both lived in the farmhouse with my grandmother and grandfather. Everyone has spread out now, but even so, my parents live next door to my aunt and uncle and my grandmother lives in their basement apartment. And most of my cousins and extended family live in town. There are certainly drawbacks--LOTS of drama on my dad's side of the family--but huge benefits as well. I am glad we return often enough that my kids spend a ton of time with their grandparents and even great-grandparents. There is so much passing of knowledge that can happen when you have extended generations like that.

[(Anonymous)]

I and one other friend and our resoective spouses had made the choice years prior to 2020 to turn our lives upside-down and live with aging parents rather than institutionalize them.
That paid off. In spades.
Our respective parents are no worse off as 2021 draws to a close than they would normally be expected to be at their ages. (For two of them this is, in fact, how are you still alive even levels of lack of health.) They are as okay as ever; have enough interaction with family, including their grandkids, to stay sane and mentally healthy; spend at least some time outside; and are generally, well, my default answer to how mine are is "Ornery as ever!" None of them are well, none of them have been well in the last decade, but they are as well as anyone would normally be with the combination of age and medical issues they have.
Some of our mutual friends have expressed regrets that they "weren't able to" keep their elderly parents at home.

It's a hard, counter-cultural choice. I have the easy setting enabled for counter-cultural, my friend simply decided to do what she and her husband thought was best regardless of consequence, and he has an autism disabled son that lives with them also, so perhaps they got the easy setting, too.

BoysMom

[kimberlysteele]

Basically I have already told my elderly parents that the only way they are going into "a home" is if they absolutely insist they must be there. Otherwise they will be living with me. Thank you for going against what I feel is a very stupid grain. Decline and collapse will hopefully bring with it the end of nursing homes -- why would anyone trust their elderly parents to one? To be fair, for some older people, it is a situation that can work out well for them, and of course there are childless people like myself who will have no children to live with, but I would venture a guess to happy nursing home residents being well in the minority.