A seemingly innocuous event occurred recently that I feel has great import concerning the increasing dependency of Western society upon its institutions and I decided to share it with you.
After having cold symptoms that would not break for more than a month and in the process becoming fatigued and achy, I visited my doctor who conducted a series of blood tests, which determined that I had a vitamin B12 deficiency. A few B12 shots later my body returned to normal functioning. This event on the surface did not contain any newsworthiness as it occurs many times a day every day throughout Western society.
However, the event did concern me because I am a vegetarian and common knowledge (a myth) holds that vegetarians tend to suffer more from vitamin B12 deficiencies than non-vegetarians. Upon some personal questioning and internet research I learned that many, if not most, vegetarians take B12 supplements, which if true caused me to wonder how all the vegetarians survived through the millennia before the development of synthesized B12 by Western society. Something didn’t ring true about the understanding of vitamin B12 deficiency, especially since I learned that many non-vegetarians suffer from B12 deficiencies and also take supplements.
I phoned a friend well steeped in nutrition and holistic medicine and he informed me that vitamin B12 did not come from foods; the body generated it. I later remembered that in my youth, perhaps in grade school, one of my teachers taught us that the body generated all the B12 that it needed. This caused me to reflect on why the body of modern man (whether vegetarian or not) had difficulty in producing B12.
One view holds that people live longer now and that nutritional deficiencies existed in earlier times but did not manifest because of the shorter life spans. This view is pure propaganda. If we check our own history we will learn that Indian chiefs such as Sitting Bull rode into battle at 50, 60 and even 70 years of age. Geronimo was selling his autograph to tourists in Florida when he was in his 90’s. The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus lived to the age of 109 and he was one of a host of ancient Greek philosophers that lived beyond the age of 90. Every society of indigenous peoples throughout the world had its elders that lived well beyond the age of 90. All these societies did it without the availability of modern Western nutritional supplements. Even the Hunzas of today live well beyond 100 years of age without access to modern technology.
The reason that an increasing number of people require vitamin B12 supplements, and other supplements as well stems from the damage done to the food chain and then to the body from medication, pesticides, herbicides, hormones, genetic engineering, and preservative packaging that contaminate our foods. The intrusion of these toxic elements into our food chain (with the complicity of all of our institutions) has destroyed the body’s natural inner balance. The same imbalance has been created in the womb of women due to the use of antibiotics, which alter the ph levels and cause an increased incidence of yeast infections. These very institutions that offer “cures” for our illnesses created the conditions that spawned them.
What we do to another person happens to ourselves and what we do to the environment affects us personally as well. We have created dead zones in the environment such as in the Gulf of Mexico in which marine life can no longer develop properly. Dead zones have also developed in our bodies in which bacteria and microbial life can no longer develop properly. As we desecrate the earth we desecrate our bodies. As mother earth suffers, we too suffer.
Western thought does not harmonize with nature; instead it strives to control, fight and tame nature so that it can be exploited. As we have seen this materialistic thinking leads to the demise of all life. The technology that provides antibiotics, vitamin supplements, and synthetic hormones used to prolong our lives actually shortens our lives and makes us dependent upon artificial sources to survive.
Technology is an extension of gross materialism and those who are enamored with it believe it can solve all problems; an arrogant point of view based on ignorance of the workings of the universe. Technologists actually believe they can make a better apple than God did. They believe they can improve upon nature. They practice genetic engineering in order make and do things not found in nature.
The prophet Jeremiah speaking the words of God tells the people “You forgot who I am, I’m the one who gave you everything. I gave you cisterns of living water and you have made for yourselves cisterns that leak.” Several centuries later Paul said, “There is no single gift that you have not received.” Still today, Western thought actually believes it can improve upon nature, as though God forgot something. This thinking is evidence of the imbalance of gender, of a failure to realize that what we see is predicated upon what is unseen. Only the unseen provides for the seen and only the male provides for the female.
There are two significant points that I make with this essay, both of them showing the imbalance of gender in Western society and the negative effects that they produce. The first and more obvious being that the destruction of the natural by the technological results in the malfunction of life and ultimately its demise. I am 80 years old and represent a generation raised on natural foods. The animals that served as our food were raised in free range and ate a natural diet. We as a generation were not injected with antibiotics and did not take drugs to alleviate the discomfort of colds. We were not subject to high frequency radiation from communications products. We are the last of a generation that lived a relatively natural life. I take no medications and the vitamin B12 injections were the first medically prescribed supplements I ever took. I expect to live many more years, not as a result of technology, but as a result of having lived the formative years of my life without it. I was a poor boy raised during the Great Depression and I didn’t see people suffering from lack of medical attention. There was no health crisis.
My mother, father in law, and mother in law all lived to be 90. My stepfather died at 88 and never went to doctors. These people lived a relatively natural life and required relatively little attention in their old age.
Let’s contrast my generation to the present generation which contains an increasing number of diabetics among those in their 30’s. Thirty-year-old diabetics usually do not reach old age. The incidence of Alzheimer’s disease is occurring more frequently and at lower ages. Technology is searching for a cure for this debilitating condition. There is nothing to cure. God did not create Alzheimer’s; it is a direct result of Western technology and the aberrant lifestyle it creates, as are most of the new diseases of the modern technological age.
If modern technology is such a blessing why is there a health crises in America? The material focus and ignorance of the unseen has mutated every facet of life in modern society. All of our institutions whether medical, legal, governmental, educational, scientific, and pharmaceutical are infected with gross materialistic thinking and are imploding from a lack of virility.
The second point I make with this essay—and perhaps most important—addresses the docility that accompanies the feminization of our society. We accept nutritional supplements, inoculations, the destruction of the food chain, the destruction of the family, increasing incarceration rates, the prevalence of divorce and adultery, and the multitude of aberrations of nature that constitute modern Western society. It has become the norm of society and whatever becomes the norm gains acceptance, even if it is unnatural and detrimental to our lives.
Ten percent of American Women and 15% of European women suffer from debilitating depression. The number one health issue of the European world is mental illness. In America 26.2% of the people at any given time are diagnosed as having mental illness. As those who suffer from these maladies increase they will be considered normal and those who do not suffer from these conditions will be considered abnormal. This is not a joke. I am considered to be an anomaly by the American Medical Association. According to their figures the average person over 65 takes eight prescription medications. I do not take any; therefore, I am not normal. Normal people take drugs. Think of the ramifications of that value structure.
It is time for people who understand the principle of gender, which is manifested as the balance of nature, to begin to do something different with their lives before they become classified as abnormal. We are a society that has already become enslaved; it is only the degree of slavery that is questionable. It is time to come out from under this enslavement and start living a life apart from the institutions that created it.
I ask that you review my essays The Cubists and The Fix It Society. You might also review the following link on B12 deficiencies. http://www.vibrancyuk.com/B12.html
Don’t be docile. It’s time to act. Let me hear from you.
E.G.
