I just came across this website promoting the book: Silent Betrayal Ilooks like teally explosive stuff: DO WE HAVE A HEALTH CARE OR DISEASE CARE INDUSTRY? "Medicine as an organization, acts more out of economic motives than scientific ones." Dr. Robert Atkins - author of 'The Age-Defying Diet Revolution' Did you know? · Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US, Causing 250,000 Deaths Every Year (Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000 Jul 26;284(4):483-5) o 12,000 -- unnecessary surgery o 7,000 -- medication errors in hospitals o 20,000 -- other errors in hospitals o 80,000 -- infections in hospitals o 106,000 -- non-error, negative effects of drugs · In 2000 there is a doctors strike in Israel. The death rate fell so sharply (50%) during the strike that the Israeli funeral parlors and burial associations began complaining. The last time the mortality rate dropped that low was 20 years previously during the time of the last doctor's strike. · One of the reasons the Japanese live so long is that prescription drugs are "last resorts" in Japan. http://www.silentbetrayal.com/whybook.htm

Feb 7, 2007, 12:03 PM  by Mi Ka El

A look at the figures of causes of death in the USA demonstrates that it's mostly what we do that leads to the ultimate consequences. In other words we could say: We are always doing it to ourselves.

Apr 20, 2006, 5:17 PM  by Mi Ka El

Here I would look for infos like the docotor's strike causing the death rate to go down. Or anything else that throws a new light on the health news we usually get and illustrates the need to depend on oneself rather than the doctor and medicine.

Jul 17, 2008, 11:46 AM  by Mi Ka El

Healing techniques are really self healing techniques. No doctor ever healed anyone. It's just that we like to defer the responsibility, because we are scared of it. So let's get started and share what worked for us. Or anyone we know. So we can encourage each other to pick up the responsibility again.

Sep 14, 2008, 10:59 PM  by Seamus

Researchers claimed that over 80 % of mental illness, from depression to anxiety disorders, substance abuse, eating disordersand and even half of the cases of schizophrenia are caused by emotional trauma. Minor traumas cause fears, anger, and resentments and lock us into patterns of thought which make us repeat the trauma through revenge, jealousy, pride, or other dysfunctiopnal behaviors, which I hope we can identify here.

Oct 18, 2006, 8:34 PM  by Don

Many recovery professionals claim that self destructive behaviors as well as violent behavior can only be cured by a spiritual awakening or a spiritual experience. So what is the spirit and how do we grow spiritually? I would like to discuss the nuts and bolts, the tools that everybody can use and what they did for you.

Nov 22, 2006, 6:51 PM  by Mi Ka El

Recovery taught me that I can only be happy without relying on outer sources when I realize that I am spirit, and not the ego perdsonality I used to refer to as me. That I need a spiritual experience or awakening and that I need to constantly grow along spiritual lines. So what is the spirit, and how do we do spiritual growth? Let's tsalk a botu the nuts and bolts here, the tols everybody can use and should be aware of to connect the higher Self or true Self, which they say " is always happy, joyous, and free." (Recovery slogan)

Nov 29, 2006, 7:27 AM  by Mi Ka El

Welcome to the mindchange pod. Please give us an idea why you are here and what you would like to see in this pod.

Dec 17, 2007, 6:24 PM  by Mi Ka El