Somatic mysticism, diet and returning to my ancestry…. The hungry ghosts know. Listen. I like using “somatic mysticism” to explain my experience because I feel everything deeply in my body. I can feel my cells doing their work quite often and I feel all manner of metabolic movement and I feel far more than I can even begin to really know from a biological standpoint. Still when I listen and pay attention I collect data, information to act on.
we are being called to radical alchemy. the marriage of opposites…healing requires bringing together a great diversity of all aspects of our lives.
I've come to believe that all chronic diseases are microbiome issues. Hippocrates said the all disease begins in the gut. The gut, however, is not the only part of the body with a microbiome. We are microbiome. The human being is more micro-organism than not.
Why did I mostly stop writing? Because I was dealing with something I no longer knew how to talk about. Mostly because people really don't like reading about disability. All the able-bodied ableists who want to pretend that somehow disability must be the fault of the person suffering from it. Yeah. Lots of my readers too. The comments became unbearable and remain that way. I mostly keep them turned off. (2026: I've turned my comments back on these days ... the site is quieter now that I don't engage in social media much) I've written a few new pieces on my own idiosyncratic experience of TD. I thought I'd share with you Robert Whitaker's long and well-researched piece. )
update: I did test positive for lyme and several co-infections in 2020 I had multiple infections that responded to Lyme disease treatment. I never tested positive for Lyme and gave up on doctors after that. Healing (for me) didn't mean killing off all micro-organisms. It meant bringing balance by moving out excess of the ones... Continue Reading →
Update 2024: Detoxification (healing the internal ecosystem). The healthy body detoxes every single day. A body that has been exposed to large quantities of environmental toxins and years of pharmaceuticals may struggle to detox well at all. This is largely not understood in western medicine. It's a rather ludicrous oversite. It becomes easy to see that it is mindblowingly out of touch when you actually start understanding and feeling the process in your own body. ...
Gut / intestinal health is foundational to all health including mental well-being. A healthy gut micro-biome is important in the healing of a lot of the chronic illnesses The gut and the autonomic nervous system both are generally impacted in chronic illnesses. Supporting and healing one supports and heals the others in that profound way in which the systems of the body are all interconnected. Holistic health and well-being in action.
Given that the human microbiome is at this point a vast yet mostly uncharted territory, the fact that this is territory in which medicine — through the use of antibiotics — has engaged in open warfare for much of the last century, is all the more reason to think about our nature. In a rampage to kill our enemies we have also been destroying our selves.
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