Ep. 15: COVID-19, Chinese Medicine and germ theory

This is a desperately-needed update to the original 2020 episode! Here’s why…

You may notice that the podcast took a few years break after this episode. The following episode, the original episode 16, was slated to be about terrain theory – and the beautiful overlap between it and the ancient health wisdom of Chinese Medicine.

What happened was that the events of 2020 prompted a journey of “unindoctrination” that led me deep into research, and away from this podcast for a while. Until this time, existing as I was in the holistic health space, I had not had the pressing need to examine some of the beliefs and worldviews that I had absorbed as a child. And the brainwashing was real – one of my children’s books was about the “hero” Pasteur, germ theory and contagion! However, the events of 2020 were immediately “off” to my science brain, and so off I went on a journey of discovery and unlearning.

I had thought my journey would take me deeper into terrain theory and end there, but instead I journeyed far beyond, into frequency and vibrational medicine, EMFs and structured water – and along the way, I dismantled many beliefs about society, our world, economics, law and so much more.

I have toyed with deleting my original episode 15 for several years now. I value truth and transparency about my own evolution and learning, and I am definitely not a fan of erasing information, censorship or any type of book burning. But, I also value integrity and coherence, and after consideration, I don’t feel ok about having outdated perspectives of mine in the public domain, especially when it might appear that I am condoning certain outdated – and thoroughly disproven – theories about health and “disease”.

So here we are: an updated episode 15, where I review both what I still stand by, and where my understanding has expanded. I share the liberating and empowering views of Chinese Medicine on maintaining health, as stated in the ancient text, the Huang Di Nei Jing (Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine, circa 200CE):

…when the Qi and Shen* are present and sound, no pathogen** can invade a person, even when the cycles of nature are disruptive, and plagues*** are near. 
Chapter 73: Etiology of Disease

I also love this deathbed quote from Louis Pasteur, acknowledging that terrain theory trumps germ theory (a nice antidote to my children’s book propaganda!). He is referring to his contemporary, Claude Bernard – the physiologist who explained many of the workings of the body through the modern, biomedical lens and was hailed as “one of the greatest of all men of science”****

“”Bernard was right: the microbe is nothing; the terrain is everything”
Louis Pasteur

* Shen = spirit, soul, consciousness, awareness – the spark of life in someone’s eyes

** pathogen – literally, “pathos” and -“gen”, meaning something that is engendering suffering (not an invisible, contagious baddie or germ)

*** again, this originally meant an “affliction”, not necessarily infectious

**** by Harvard historian, Bernard Cohen

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