Joseph Mandla Maseko
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This book consists of the confessions of a resolute consumer of medical and health care services and how he had to take matters into his own hands while leading the way that the medical and health care services are provided to him by the licensed professionals and supply chain role players in the provisioning of medicinal products.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
1. Introduction 8
2. Waking Trances 16
3. Mediocrity of Diagnostic methods 20
4. When the cure is worse than disease 23
5. Problems Caused by Treatment (Iatrogeny) 48
6. Packs of wolves in Private Hospitals 58
7. The Consumer Protection Law 61
8. Protections in Medical law 66
9. Professional Ethics 72
10. Do pharmaceuticals bribe doctors? 77
11. Rewarding Medical Professionals 87
12. The Placebo –Nocebo Dichotomy 95
13. The Consumer Perspective 101
14. Who are the Exploiters? 104
15. The Bohemian Grove and God 113
16. The Book of Enoch 124
17. Self-Monitoring 136
18. War against Aging 140
19. Emotional Causes of Disease 144
20. Dealing with Underlying Causes 150
21. Nutrition and Exercise 165
22. Healing Wounds and Bones 171
23. The process of Mylenation 175
24. More on the Oral Health 180
25. No Studying to be Doctor 184
26. Research Paradigms and Philosophies 188
27. Conclusion 193
References 200
Preface
Hodge (2011, p. 6) declares that:
“The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within.”
Imagine you called emergency services in your town to report a fire raging in your house. Imagine the fire engine and fire fighters arrive on the scene, with smoke eliminating, (not firefighting) equipment. Imagine they put out the smoke in your house by lighting up other small fires that will eventually burn the entire house down and all of its contents. And imagine that all these little fires that are primed to gut your house, furniture, garage and garden; are actually the stuff with which the smoke masking substance is made? Then ask yourself if it would be wise; sane and even smart to repeat this process; and allow these “firefighters” anywhere near your burning house. Now imagine no more. It is a reality. When you go to the western medical practitioners and pharmacies, you are getting just that.
If you think it would not be wise, sane and smart to allow such firefighters to hang around your house and put out your fire, then why are you always going to your doctor and chemist? Why do you have medical aid and proud of it? The simple answer is that you have been hypnotised into a system that is elaborate, large, international, multi-class encompassing and disguised as a friend when it in fact is an enemy. It makes you believe that you need it for your very existence and survival, but in fact it needs you for its very existence and survival. The system puts you in a mass-waking trance, with others, that erroneously and hypnotically believe that allopathic medicine exists to save you from certain death; when it is actually the one killing you. And it is you that is saving it from the death that it should experience.
Do you want to discover how you have been induced and lulled (deepened) into a mass hypnotic trance; in which you are unwittingly, but willingly enriching your own killers? Would you like to snap out of such a trance; were you to be aware that you are indeed trapped like a fly in the syrup of a medical trance? Then read on. But if your interest lies in continuing the professional and big bucks conspiracy against you and your loved ones, then ask whether you should even continue reading beyond this point.
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines hypnotism as “the act of putting someone into a mental state like sleep, in which their thoughts can be easily influenced by someone else.” It also defines a trance as “a temporary mental condition in which someone is not completely conscious of and/or not in control of himself or herself.” I put it to you that if you use medical assistance and medicines from western doctors and western pharmacies; that have to come by prescription; and with lots of warnings; if sold over the counter, you already are in a trance. I have just entered your trance to climb out of the dungeon of victimisation; with you; watching how I climbed out and still am.
I should know. I was also in such a trance and for a long time too. I was forced out of that trance by the awareness of consumer rights and the need to be sold and to buy services and goods that are not harmful to you as a consumer. And the saddest part of all this is that you get made to actually pay for your own demise and compensate the perpetrators against your own health. Many anecdotal illustrations of these claims will be found in the pages of this book.
This book covers a lot of science, medical science and the law. It also covers a lot of pharmacological issues. Some of the concepts covered are not even familiar to this writer and to the ordinary reader alike. We will both have to look them up at every step of the way as they are scientific and deliberately designed for medical speak. Where the law is covered, I could at least simplify those terms into plain English, to debug the obscurity. This is because I am a lawyer now for the past few decades. But it is not about medicines or law and also not about pharmacology. But those fields are implicated as they are used by the human minds behind the façade of those fields; to enrich themselves at the expense of the victim (you and I).
In this book, the writer is the market comparing notes with itself. Another way of looking at it would be that of a cook comparing recipes with other cooks or recording such receipts for own future reference or even for others to bring theirs to the table; for joint improvement of what they all do, together and apart.
Hello Peter, at www.hellopeter.com is a website recording consumer complaints. Grange (2013), reports that consumers are able to rant and rave over the platform when frustrated; or simply out right annoyed or peeved at some suppliers of goods and services. She also reports that some of the venters do get good results from complaints logged on the site. According to her piece, this company has existed for a long time and already had 2070 companies subscribed to it; at the time of that write-up (2013). It was started by one Peter Cheales, author of “I was your customer” published in 2004. I have not yet read this book, but I think it was genius for anyone to have conceived it. He must have been as peeved as this writer has been; each time some supplier bungled a very simple assignment that they claim to be experts in.
The bunglers, in my case, as I am sure will be the case with so many of us consuming public, range from car service outlets, car dealers, lawyers, real estate agents, banks, insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, furniture chains, retail chains, Engine / Generator Reborers and many more. A lot of the time it appears that the humans involved in the bungling could either be idiots, severe retards or just autistic little souls in need of salvation (or firing). A normal person with no personality or mental disorders would not be expected to be so severely retarded so as to sabotage their own business or that of their employers. It’s like cutting one’s nose to spite one’s face. Sabotage to your employer’s business directly sabotages your salary or wages, Da! (As my 8 year old daughter, Angela would say)
The hello peter site is one forum where one would consider taking one’s complaints as a means of applying some form of moral pressure, assuming the suppliers you have a gripe with; are even susceptible to moral pressure. Some are just acute narcissists . We all know that some suppliers, as samples of the general public, are sadistic psychopaths who should not be regarded at all as humans. They should not even be permitted to be among the normal members of society who adhere to normal human norms and regard other humans as humans.
Sites like hello peter and “Don’t date him girl” on face book, are solidarity sites for consumers to alert and protect each other as the market against the exploitative and at times plain criminal elements. This helps alert potential scam victims from those scammers and uncouth people (if we can be as generous as to call them people – a term normally reserved for humans). By the time you finish reading this book, you should be able to also know why to not date the palliative medical profession; its pharmaceutical industry that backs and props it up; as well as sponsor them to fleece you under the guise of helping you. The dictionary meaning of palliative medicine is – medicine that or medical care relieving pain without dealing with the cause of the condition. That is where the smoke metaphor finds application and relevance. And by now, it will already be obvious that the fire in the metaphor would be the cause of the disease or pain.
As it must have already become apparent, a superlative tone is taken in some parts of this book; for emphasis rather as an error. Derek Prince, in one YouTube video, cautions against supping with the devil using a long spoon handle, and rather says that “do not sup with the devil because, if you give him the small finger, he will take the whole arm before you know it.” One would say the same for palliative medicine. It is deliberately designed to ensnare you like a narcotic drug. Once you use it, you get permanently hooked – more by design rather than by accident.
Pain masking has its place in a person’s health. It should be a stop gap. But when it takes centre stage and have trillions of dollars industry thriving from it, and when it also propagates itself by creating more pain for the doctors and the drug manufacturers to mask later, then we have a serious problem. And that is what this book is concerned with; and shares ways in which this writer has managed to manoeuvre around this ubiquitous problem.
The recognition also is that this industry kills more people than it helps via employment. It also steals from people, the poor, the rich and the middle class, as all visit health care services and get rerouted to pharmacies as lambs to the slaughter. That is when they purchase the drugs that kill and maim them with side effects. Whereas, as Hodge (2011, p. 6) says, self-preservation trumps every other sense of responsibility to any human. And I am a human being, and so are you.
Chapter One
Introduction
A medical patient is a consumer. He / she consumes medicines as products and the services that the health care workers provide. By allowing even just one symptom of illness to manifest on your body; you have a single problem. But if you go for the first medical treatment (Note that I did not say healing or cure), you will return with medicines form a western health care professional licenced to pump you with drugs aimed at your symptoms. But intentionally concealed in those medicines, and intended as built in consequences of that consultation will, be for you to return with dozens of side effects. That means more consultation fees for the doctor and more medicine sales for the pharmaceuticals that make and peddle them.
These side effects are actually direct effects (future ailments) designed and strategically positioned to keep you to not just increasing, but also accelerating your trips to the doctor and the chemist. This is because the (would be) cure in allopathic / western medicines is worse than the disease. And that is because it is not a cure and does not claim to be and never will be. The manufacturers of western medicines even tell you on the packaging inserts, by law, in each medical remedy, that the medicines have all these toxins embedded in them. Why do we do this to ourselves? Ignorance and blind trust are the answer. But marketing hypnosis has also put paid to our wakefulness. One hopes that that will not be for long; after reading this book.
This book started off as a short article which was designed for self-publishing in my blog https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1920035255774108697#allposts
and on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/. The other site at which I had intended placing the article, but had not done so, is https://themasekoforum.blogspot.com/ But in the process of writing it; and due to the contents that refused to be left out, it blew up into a mini-book. This book argues that the medical professions and their allies make us (consumers and patients) sicker than the diseases (and medical conditions) they are supposedly intended to alleviate. From this absence of curing, emerges a concept such as “treatment” (not healing). And It also argues that the medicines that we are convinced by licensing bodies and authorities to trust and take, are more dangerous than the diseases they are supposed to remedy.
This book further argues that the discerning and sophisticated consumer of medical services and products; should take charge of their treatment and healing and not sheepishly be misled by the “professionals” - like lambs to the slaughter; which is the current practice. It’s one big scam as I write this text on the first of January 2020.
Taking charge of one’s treatment; does not mean self-medication. And prevention is neither medical practice, nor medical advice. The best equivalent of this metaphor would be the drawing of parallels between health restaurants and hospitals. Hospitals make their profit from medical problems, just like funeral parlours make theirs from actual deaths. Near death is never a desired outcome for funeral parlours. And they would probably kill to defend their market. And it follows that all their consumers die to do business with them – as the popular party jest goes.
This book shares personal experiences, interspersed with scholarly researched materials in the medical; philosophical, spiritual and legal fields. The legal field is my forte, while the only knowledge I possess in the medical field is that of an experienced consumer (patient). And I have been an equal opportunity victim of both medical manufacturers and medical practitioners, without any discrimination. The health care practitioners may have their own experiences and expertise as service providers, but I have my own as a consumer of what they peddle. And this book is written from the eyes of a patient. Like Peter above, I nearly titled this book: “I used to be your patient.”
The experiences shared in this book are therefore, not formally structured in any order and sequence as would be the case in layered knowledge materials. Educational materials start from the shortest to the longest, the simplest to the most complex, and the easier to the more obscure contents. If anything, it is also, in part, a record of how the health professions and the allopathic medicine system actually harms more than helps the target market it pretends to exist for. I argue in this book that the patients exist for the health care professions and their backing pharmaceutical industry. And yet, they pretend that it is the other way round. The health care services and professions should exist for the patients. But these professions now farm their own patients to create their own market. And it’s a lucrative market for many of them as will be apparent in this book.
As you read this book, it would be better for you to keep a separate note pad on which you jot down all the experiences that you find that mirror your own. At the end of the reading, you must be able to distil the actions that you need to personally take to do something about this attack on the humans of this world who consumer these expensive health services and medicines. The actions may be political, legal, scientific, and even spiritual. Any little thing should help. We have to eat this parasitic elephant one piece at a time; regardless of how long it will take to finish it up. Social media gives us that power. We no longer have to wait media elites to surface and stoke stories like this one. The answer is in our own hands. Bu those who enjoy being exploited, should not bother as they can just enjoy the trance and stay down as victims. But for the rest of us, the intellectual zombification is thawing off.
The industry resembles the old reverse psychology gimmick employed by large city thugs. When a country bumpkin arrives in town; the real hardened criminals and murderers send the smaller thugs to aggressively harass the new arrival. And when the new comer starts showing signs of complete morbid distress and desperation; the kingpin moves in to his rescue, shooing off the smaller vultures. Then he moves in posing as a knight and rescuer to the new victim. After that, the victim owes him one, and dares not forget it. That is the way of the mafia. They always make you an offer you cannot refuse.
By the time the new comer gets to know that he has been played like a fiddle, it will be too late. By then; he will have been taken over by the gang leader, sent on various legal and illegal errands, some of which can send him to jail for a long time. And in all that time, the gang will be keeping damning evidence of the crimes committed by Johnny-come-lately, and used to blackmail him. This just goes to show that not all those who mess with you are necessarily your enemies; and not all those who come to your rescue; are necessarily your friends. In the case of medicines, they may also be your enemas of course (pun intended).They will blackmail you more especially if you are a black male. Would that perhaps make one a black mailed black male? (Pun further intended).
This book is meant for consumers, primarily of medicines and related services all over the globe. It is availed on-line as an e-book as well as a hard copy book for those who prefer same. But it is based on laws obtaining in the South African jurisdiction, where legal issues are canvassed. Every reader and user can then seek the equivalents of such concept in their own jurisdictions in interpreting or drawing parallels with the legal issues covered. And specific protections will then differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. The science incorporated is the same the world over, where covered. And it can be read with that Universalist outlook which it commands.
In the case of South Africa, where the Applicant wishes to claim damages, from a provider, the Chairperson of the Tribunal may, on request, issue a notice certifying that the conduct constituting the basis for an action has been found to be prohibited conduct in terms of the Consumer Protection Act No. 68 of 2008 (CPA). It is this same certificate that can be used in any forum where claims against prohibited conduct can be proven, legally. This is because, such a certificate is sufficient proof of its contents and it enables the holder to proceed to the civil courts to claim for suffered damages. But the consumer should first approach the regulators in each of these fields. To investigate and satisfy themselves; that some unconscionable conduct has taken place and that some prohibited conduct has been committed or required conducted omitted. Some of these are sins of omission and sins of commission alike. But contact details of the regulators have to be googled each time as they may be amendable to change from year to year when lease agreements for premises may change.
In the case of Joroy 4440 CC t/a Ubuntu Procurement v Potgieter N.O. and Another the court held that consumers are obliged to follow the procedures set out in section 69 of the CPA before approaching the civil courts for relief. This means that before the Applicant can approach the civil courts for any damages he / she must exhaust his/her remedies under the CPA. And such remedies include approaching the Tribunal for a hearing resulting in a determination – judgment.
Section 69(d) read with section 4(1) of the same Act, provides that consumers seeking to approach courts to resolve complaints while relying on provisions of the CPA, must first demonstrate that they have exhausted all other remedial forums provided for by available legislation. These variable legal rules may include referring the matter directly to the Tribunal or referring the matter to the applicable ombud with jurisdiction, if the supplier is subject to the jurisdiction of any such ombud. In the case of medical complaints, the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has its own complaints handling processes.
Section 115(2)(b), ion the other hand provides that:
“A person who has suffered loss or damage as a result of prohibited conduct, or dereliction of required conduct…if entitled to commence an action referred to in paragraph (a), when instituting proceedings, must file with the registrar or clerk of the court a notice from the Chairperson of the Tribunal in the prescribed form—
(i) Certifying whether the conduct constituting the basis for the action has been found to be a prohibited or required conduct in terms of this Act;
(ii) Stating the date of the Tribunal’s finding, if any; and
(iii) Setting out the section of this Act in terms of which the Tribunal made its finding, if any.”
Section 115(3) also concludes that “A certificate referred to in subsection (2)(b) is sufficient proof of its contents.” This means that unless it can be proven or found that the certificate is fraudulent, incorrectly or unlawfully obtained, the court to which it is presented should consider it as conclusive evidence of the existence of what it purports to prove. And that also means that no further evidence should be required to prove the findings that the Tribunal has already recorded in tat certificate.
Self-medication can border on illegality when it comes to dispensing certain substances that the profession and the law has reserved strictly for those legally licensed drug dealers - doctors and allied professions. In the case of South Africa, this is in terms of section 17(1) (a) of the Health Professions Act 56 of 1974. And as a reader you should note by now that this is more of an opinion piece and that it is informed by years of being sick from an assortment of medical problems and the medicines that are supposed to remedy them. The prompting of this writing was from being sick and tired of being sick. This includes the professionals that legally possess the monopoly to administer and prescribe as well as manufacture those “medicines.” But in actual fact, they should just be labelled as pain killers or pain maskers as well as poisons. This is on account that they can numb some symptoms and mask them for a time, in some cases; while at the same time injecting many more problems in the form of the so called side effects.
This work is as much about this writer’s experience with medicines, medication in the hands of the medical profession and the pharmacological industry; as well as food. Food supplements are a branch of food. And food and medicine basically coexist and collaborate as partners. But they are supposed to sustain, maintain, preserve and strengthen life as we know it from a biological perspective. They both have many overlaps and common ground pertaining to their mutually supportive roles. And as Dr. Demaria (Infra) and Renger & Witkamp, (2018, pp. 102-114), agree with each other that if one fails to make one’s food medicine, then you will end up making medicine your food. This also goes to the sections on treating underlying issues as well as dealing with nutrition (Infra).
Many of the medical conditions appear to be linked to dietary deficiencies. As Dr Joel Wallach (Wallach, 2019) would say, in his book “Dead Doctors don’t lie” - contemporary communities no longer obtain the correct life sustaining nutrients from food. These include such things as essential minerals and enzymes that rural or agrarian communities used to live on. Agrarian communities are supposed to have extracted these from the wood fires they used for heat and cooking.
Dr. Wallach is of the view that rural communities burnt firewood. This firewood obviously came from trees. The trees extracted essential minerals and enzymes from via their roots though transpiration and the photosynthesis processes that we learnt about in biology (botany). And when the ashes were supposedly disposed of on the land surfaces, and turned into compost, the minerals would deposit themselves back into the garden vegetables and found their way into the bodies of the consumers of these vegetables. This ecological cycle ensured that the bodies got what they needed through the ordinary way of living on farm lands. After all, as Sadguru would say, when you eat a cabbage you immediately promote it from a vegetable into a human. That agrees with the saying that you are what you eat. I never think of Chinese dishes when considering that adage. I like Chinese food. Less said is better. This is the situation where less is more. The outbreak of the coroner virus is nothing to joke about.
Wallach (Ibid) further avers that the damage to our healthy and natural diets or absorption; is due to the lack of the correct minerals and micronutrients that our bodies so desperately crave and need. And he states that this commenced at 15h00 on Monday the 4th September 1882, when Thomas Edison switched on the first electric stove. The fate of coal stoves was sealed since that day and we have never had the benefit of the ash from firewood anymore. And in one fell swoop, we also started damming water and stopped many of these ashes with the correct minerals flowing to the seas to nourish marine life. He further revealed that we are not running out of fish from pollution alone, but mainly because we have cut off the food supply for fish that was carried by water, salts and silt through rivers.
With the current (or lack of) quality of the water and the soil that are heavily polluted with toxic farm chemicals and basic poor delivery of municipal services from failing and failed states, sicknesses are a natural result. For instance in a conversation with South African Ambassador (His Excellency V.M. Khumalo), to Iran (2019), he shared an account by one of his erstwhile university colleagues – a Dr. Zwane. Dr Zwane was a medical doctor. At the time of our conversation he was working for a research institution in Pretoria, South Africa. So, this is not a direct account from him, but illustrates the point extremely well.
At some point the good Dr. had taken to a specialist practice and later reverted to a General Practice. It so happened that while on holiday with his family in France, his son had fallen sick and could not breathe. He had examined his son and could not diagnose the problem. He booked him to a hospital and a team of French doctors could not find the cause of the problem either.
After some blood tests, laboratory results showed that he had a shortage of Vitamin D. So, the diabetes like symptoms were merely a result of the body crying out for this essential vitamin in the body. But ordinarily, a clinician could have just merely prescribed diabetes treatment for the poor boy and delayed the administration of vitamin D, to a point of death. It is good that due to French efficiencies, the blood test results could be obtained just in time. One shatters to contemplate what would have been the case in third world countries where results could take days and weeks when hurried up. They hurry up very slowly.
Chapter Two
Waking Trances
The allopathic medicine system and value chain has mass hypnotised the human population of the earth, to believe that it is helpful to them when in fact it is victimising and destroying them. It shortens their lives and takes their money. All this work of genius is perpetrated by the industry and its professionals against all other professions, business entrepreneurs, academics, judges and all other categories of humanity on the planet.
Wells (1924) distinguishes between sleeping and waking hypnosis. Meantime, Alarcón and Capafons (2006, p.70); are of the view that in this hypnotic state, “the hypnotized persons keep their eyes open while talking fluently.” One can argue that this is exactly the kind of hypnotic state that the pharmaceuticals and their agents and surrogates have placed us - in the value chain of supply. We go to the doctors with our eyes wide open talking fluently. We interact with doctors and other health care service providers with our eyes open wide and talking fluently. We even boast of our diseases. It could be out of seeking sympathy or even just trying to outdo each other as hypnotised humans compete even over issues concerning their own demise. Munchausen's syndrome is a psychological disorder where someone pretends to be ill or deliberately produces symptoms of illness in themselves. Their main intention is to assume the "sick role" so that people care for them and they are the centre of attention. The tendency of such people is to look lugubrious.
Alarcón and Capafons (Ibid); also describe hypnosis as a general coping skill for self-control that uses the self-regulatory functions of the brain. Their explanation also encompasses the view that in waking hypnosis, the subject does not have to close their eyes, but keep on talking fluently, or walking. They also add that there is no need in the waking hypnotism inducement to use the conventional rituals associated with sleep hypnotism. And the state of this hypnosis entails:
(a) The hypnotised subject remaining wide awake – wide open eyes while in the trance already;
(b) The state of mind does not include drowsiness or relaxation, but activity and mental expansion;
(c) The hypnotised subject, while under hypnosis, retains their abilities, during the trance, to talk fluently, walk, and perform daily tasks; and
(d) The hypnotic process avoids the conventional suggesting trance, altered states of awareness, but pays attention to vocabulary used to present hypnosis as a general coping strategy for the subject needing medical interventions. The hypnotist manages this state of mind by, inter alia, also presenting the process as self-control and coping strategy - (Capafons, 2001a). In other words, they pretend to you that they are giving you full control of your faculties to decide and act in your best interests. But the subtle suggestion is inducing the trance on you to still completely relinquish the control to the hypnotist to direct you to what you are free to decide, believe and do. This continues until you end up in the deepest (albeit waking) trance in which you actually mistakenly believe that you are in control.
It’s pretty much like Henry Ford quipping of his Model T's colour options: “A customer can have a car painted any colour he wants—so long as it's black” (Williamson, 2015).
Alarcón and Capafons (Ibid); further advances the reason to use waking hypnosis which include that it has advantages. One of these advantages being that it is faster and easier and has an impact on a larger number of hypnotic subjects. This mass appeal, in turn is informed by the fact that since subjects being hypnotised are not required to close their eyes, the fear of loss of control is absent and the subjects are better relaxed. This writing could be putting you into a waking trance as you read and you are getting drawn into wanting to hear the next thing that the following pages of this book contain. The state of being hypnotised here is not a mere manner of talking. It is as real as truck driving in front of you in traffic. It is that tangible and cannot be missed.
This book is not about hypnotism. One bothers to go to such lengths to explain the foregoing, simply to demonstrate what it entails without attempting to convert the reader or self into a hypnotist. The extent to which the foregoing paragraphs cover the subject of hypnotism is merely to show that it is not used loosely here as a metaphor for anything else, but real hypnotism which marketers have mastered. Marketers can sell you a dummy and let you also insure it and still pay them a commission on top of that by spinning stories called narratives and sales letters. And at the end of the whole transaction you would find that what you bought, insured and even gave a commission to the sellers for, was not even carrying any intrinsic value worth even one percent of the total amount spent on it.
The product of good marketing, especially when selling to the hypnotically tranced masses (both rich and poor), resembles the kind of electrical hammer that has been making the rounds in social media – parodying the ludicrous gullibility of even the sophisticated in our world society.
Hypnosis, as such, is also said to be more potent when it promotes expectations that are humanly possible, to the human mind, and positive attitudes (Schoenberger, 2000). And in; conclusion; Alarcón and Capafons (2006, p. 76); inform that the use of waking hypnotism “is very careful in its use of language. No reference is made to trance or altered states of awareness, to prevent scaring or discouraging clients…it emphasizes self-control and perseverance.” For instance, when a medical doctor explains the physiology behind some condition and its symptoms, he transports with words and mental pictures into a mind theatre where these characters he is painting come alive and fill your mind and convince you that it is best to take the drug he is prescribing. It costs you and benefits the doctor and those who sent him. And, oh yes, should there be any complications, you can return to see the doctor again. It will still be at your expense and pay, which of course the doctor conveniently omits to add – it’s elementary (Dear Watson) its elementary.
And quoting Frankl’s (1985), Alarcón and Capafons (2006, p. 76) concur with the view that some objects evoke different reactions, when there is no reason for them to provoke any of them naturally. They further explain that this is because of the way of thinking and talking about them (giving oneself suggestions), and allowing the brain to put its self-regulatory mechanisms into practice. We clearly are subject to waking hypnotism imposed trances. Even as you read this book you are being hypnotised into the waking trance that says that you awakening from the deeper waking trance that’s teals from you and leaves you sicker and broker than you were before. You are always in one at all times by various people – especially in marketing. Doctors use it all the time when they spin a story about the physiology resulting from chemical interactions with your biochemistry and endocrine system. It arouses the placebo aspect of your psyche or nocebo, when they scare you half to death about an incurable condition.
The authors - Alarcón and Capafons (2006) - also refer to Rapid Self-Hypnosis (RSH), citing other authority, and while they indicate that these techniques are used as therapies. It appears clear to this writer, that, by the same token, these techniques can also be used to reverse marketing mass trances already induced in the wakeful stage in all of us. Do you want to awaken yourself from the hypnotic trance to consumer medical services and medicines designed to kill you at your own expense? I invite every reader who is a consumer of such products and services to join hands and extricate ourselves as consumers, from exploitation. We need to reshape the wold in which we live.
But if you enjoy pain and paying for it to those who inflict and kill you slowly, while smiling in your face like best friends, carry on as you have been doing. After all we have all be doing it for centuries. But if ,not then by now you are filling your note book with actions to take with dates and times and places and people to see and things to do to reverse the damage incurred so far. There is room for sadists as much as there is one for masochists too. This writer is neither of those. Hence the decision to act and do something – I write at least an alarm ringing book.
Chapter Thee
Mediocrity of Diagnostic methods
When my then 4 year old son had suffered a horrendous femur fracture, one of the nursing staff at that private hospital, who was administering pain killers through an intravenous contraption, would come to attend to him when we called her that he had seemed in pain. At one point and in my presence, she asked a 4 year old to describe how much pain he had. She asked him to estimate between the scales of 1 – 10 how much pain there was. He just said it was painful. I don’t think a four year old can distinguish between degrees of pain to any competent degree, as would an adult for that matter. I couldn’t describe pain well into my 30s. I did not know for instance that the people who go on sick leave for flu, common colds, bronchitis and post-nasal drips and sore throats, were experiencing what I experienced when I had those conditions, growing up – well into my adulthood.
So, from my school days to my adult years, I never went on sick leave because of those conditions. I would work with them and attend school with them at their height. I only went on sick leave about twice in my life when I had taken a jab of flu immunisation, having taken the advice of some medical practitioners. That year, in my late 50s, was the only day I wanted to lie down. My voice was gone. My breathing was a battle. And my throat was on fire. The next other time, I took myself out of an UNCTAD conference in Geneva, already in my 60s, when I had a heavy strain of bronchitis that had transformed into pneumonia. It had attacked from the sprays they sprayed in the flight from Johannesburg to Zurich, before Geneva and on the way back same route. All other times were when I had undergone surgery.
So, when this lady asked my 4 year old son to indicate how much pain he had felt between the scales of 1 – 10; I was horrified. The kid had barely learnt to count to 20 by that time. And this so-called trained paediatric ward nurse, at huge expense, was of the (nursing) professional view that a four year old could work out pain ratios and proportions, when she herself appears to have not mastered this aspect of mathematics in her college training. Even I couldn’t tell thresholds of pain myself in my 60s then. I doubt if this woman could actually distinguish degrees of pain herself. You would have to first inflict pain to an adult and tell them the scale of 10 and then inflict more to the scale of one, to then enable them to compare. So, needless to say, I protested very vociferously and told her to just administer the blooming pain killer and stop asking stupid questions to a kid who has no ability to answer them.
Even the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2019, p.7), had professionally observed and acknowledged the number of medical professionals; far more qualified than that nurse in the expensive private hospital; how it had been baffling; to evaluate pain using the scales that ask a patient to rate their pain on a scale of 0 to 10. This had for some time been done rather than using measurements that weigh comprehensive function, worth of life, or other pertinent facets of the pain experienced. That National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (op cit.) had also expressly revealed the concern regarding doctors, like patients, facing substantial gaps in gauging and comprehending pain, and in measuring the efficiency and possible harms of cures.
Other highlights expressed by individual speakers (shown in brackets) at the workshop of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2019, p.15), were that:
• Though many pharmacological therapies exist for treating pain, indication of effectiveness for chronic pain is limited for many of them (Chou, Kroenke, Turk);
• Psychosocial elements strongly forecast the conversion from severe to chronic pain and the relentlessness of pain (Chou);
• Novel advices support a shift from pharmacological to nonpharmacological approaches for the treatment of pain, and there is some fair- to good-quality evidence of usefulness of some of those treatments (Chou); and
• Cost-effectiveness studies support the use of mindfulness-based stress reduction, yoga, acupuncture, and cognitive behavioural therapy in treating lower back pain (Herman).
In this regard, Patricia Herman (Ibid), is also quoted indicating that she and colleagues had earlier studied readings that assessed costs compared with usual care from the perspective of a hospital, payer, employer, or society in general. She further noted that monetary results cannot be indiscriminate across settings, but the evidence found in one situation can be extrapolated to other settings through simulation modelling.
One can argue, though, that only a well-informed patient can be able to make all these well considered decisions. Doctors by and large metaphorically microwave patients. They try to squeeze as many appointments as they can manage in an hour. And each consumer pays the same amount whether they spend an hour or 15 minutes or three minutes with the doctor. That on its own is a problem. But forcing them to charge per time spent could also result with a doctor taking 6 hours with rich patients and 15 minutes with poor ones regardless of the type of issue dealt with. So, this part of the problem, in isolation, has no viable solution to it. The only viable solution is in paying doctors for keeping cities, villages and towns alive instead of paying them for masking pains of all the afflicted medical consumers.
Chapter Four
When the Cure is worse than the Disease
The issue of side effects is the most overlooked atrocity that the medical fraternity is using to defraud and “legally” but unethically keep the patients perennially sick for their own sick gain. And the laws that support them in this deal are themselves unlawful and stand to be attacked and reviewed and revised. This occurs when a patient comes to a doctor for the treatment of one medical condition. The doctor prescribes medicines manufactured, imported, distributed and sold in the supply chain even involving compounding and dispensing pharmacists. The typical medicines, especially those availed via a prescription; will have about 18 side effects, for example. Those side effects become direct effects of the next series of conditions that will keep you in doctors’ rooms, hospitals and pharmacies for the rest of your life – and eventually kill you. That is not alarmist. It is true too.
And when you return to the doctor after the first symptoms that started the chain of events have disappeared; (even though the root cause will still be present), now you will be suffering from several of the “side effects” which are guaranteed to manifest, the doctor will treat these as new problems. But he knew in advance that they were on the way – guaranteed. You just have to keep paying the consultancy fees and feed your own slow killers. All they need to have is the degree, professional registration and a license to practice from HPCSA and its various professional boards. The next treatment for the new symptoms caused by the side effects will require its own set of medicines that contain even more side effects. That will be enough to drain your medical aid, which itself is another sort of scandal for another day.
After going for a postgraduate degree over a few years, part-time, while also running a very busy consultancy both in Germiston (Gauteng) and Mbombela (Mpumalanga) provinces of South Africa, it happened that a doctor, after a serious health scare, diagnosed me with hypertension. After a while, that medication prescribed became insufficient to control the readings within the 120 systolic and 90 diastolic readings of mercury.
So, Dr. R. prescribed additional medicines to help the initial medicines. This second medicine caused me swollen feet and bloating as it was one of the side effects. So, she added water retention prevention medicines on top of the two hypertension medicines. And before very long, and because of these concoctions that were accumulating and being added in my body, I started developing body weight that I was no longer responding to diet and exercise interventions. So I consulted one of the anti-aging specialists in Bryanston, Johannesburg. She ordered blood tests for me based on the symptoms. I was about 51 years old at the time. The tests revealed that I had insulin intolerance, had a sluggish thyroid (hypothyroidism); which affected my metabolism. It was this that caused the weight gain and the worsening of the weight problem. At the time I did not research how I could have acquired that insulin resistance and whether it was not a side effect of some or all of the concoctions for hypertension I was being professionally poisoned with.
So, she prescribed Metformin (Glucophage) to deal with the insulin resistance, and I had to carry on with all the other medicines, pending a new diagnosis by a doctor after some usage for a while. I even received cholest-away to supposedly remove excess cholesterol (the LDL) which is the bad cholesterol. But I learnt later that lowering cholesterol might appear to relieve the strain in your cardio-vascular system (which has to do with hypertension), but that it also drains your brain and could appear to have an effect of shrinking, and make you senile too early or at all. Then I started struggling to remember words and names of people I knew very well. My speech was almost slurring from these challenges.
The side effects of Metformin alone, far from merely treating the symptoms shown in the footnote, are a staggering list including the gastrointestinal upset, diarrhoea, cramps, nausea, vomiting and increased flatulence. The long-term use of metformin has been associated with increased homocysteine levels[28] and malabsorption of vitamin B12. Higher doses and prolonged use are associated with increased incidence of B12 deficiency. It was this malabsorption of vitamin B12 that had caused me an even bigger medical infliction – peripheral neuropathy. I got to know this because when I finally consulted the Neurologist in another private hospital in Centurion, he had told me that this condition emanates from the deficiency of Vitamin B12 and was not always reversible. He had in the result offered to only mask the excruciating pain I was still undergoing then. By the last part of 2018, I had just commenced my self-treatment for healing – not their nonsensical maintenance (what they surreptitiously call “supportive”).
After he had prescribed neurobion, which combines all the various types of Vitamin B, and emphasizing B12, I quickly learnt that I could get the neurobion over the counter without prescription. He had prescribed Lyrica for the masking of the pain. And while the Lyrica was important for the very misleading disguising of the pain, I quickly learnt from experience that it had very staggering side effects of its own.
And apart from the ones I experienced, from the packaging insert alone, these consisted of blurred vision; uncoordinated; cannot focus thoughts; dizzy; drowsiness; dry mouth; fluid retention in the legs, feet, arms or hands; weight gain; confused; decreased blood platelets; infection; puffy face from water retention; accidental injury; constipation; extreme sense of well-being; feeling weak; head pain; increased production of saliva; inflammation of the lining of the stomach and intestines; intense abdominal pain; orgasm problems; sensation of spinning or whirling; sinus irritation and congestion.
It also includes twitching; chest pain; double vision; dysarthria; dyskinesia; giant hives; having thoughts of suicide; hemorrhage of blood under the skin; hives; kidney stone; low blood sugar; problem behavior; prolonged p-r interval observed on ekg; ringing in the ears; small skin blister; wheezing; abnormal increase in muscle tone; abnormal manner of walking; absence of menstrual periods; altered interest in having sexual intercourse; backache; bacterial infection of middle ear; bloody urine; bronchitis; diarrhea; difficult or painful urination; enlarged breasts; feel like throwing up; feeling anxious; fever; fingernail and/or toenail disease; flu-like symptoms; frequent urination; gas; inability to have an erection; increased hunger; involuntary eye movement; involuntary quivering; itching; joint pain; leg cramps; loss of memory; loss of one's own sense of reality or identity; low energy; muscle pain; muscle spasm; muscle weakness; nervous; numbness; pain with sexual intercourse; painful periods; pink eye; problems with bladder control; problems with eyesight; rash; stupor; swelling of the abdomen; throwing up; trouble breathing; and visible water retention.
I experienced about 15 of these foregoing side effects within the first two weeks of using this Lyrica to disguise pain and not even to heal the sickness of peripheral neuropathy. So, in the face of such atrocity from the medicine, from a qualified neurologist who had also admitted that he knew of no cure for this condition, I decided to abandon this treatment on my own and never revisited him. By his own admission he had proven to be useless to me beyond the point of diagnosis. I needed that diagnosis and the assurance that there was nothing he could actually do for me. That is at least what his university education, degrees and professional registration at the HPCSA and its professional boards could positively be of any use to me.
So, I decided early enough to leave this useless and pathetic treatment and concentrated on finding a cure, not a pain killer. And by this time, I knew that there would be a cure that is sitting waiting to be revealed; and might even lie among the simplest and plentiful of things. The pharmaceuticals would be shooting it down because; by law; they would not be allowed to patent it and sell it expensively. Alternatively, the market for the drug was not large enough to earn them billions. But either way, I know I would find one when I looked high and low. After all; my motive was to find a cure, not mere greedy murderous profit.
I have long been convinced that pain is not our enemy. It is a friend and a messenger that tells that we have a problem that needs sorting out to avoid further damage from the its underlying causes. Killing pain is like killing that very helpful and irreplaceable alarm system. So, I decided to research natural pain killers of peripheral neuropathy. And lo and behold, they were there. So, I quickly switched to black pepper; and I found that while it is a food spice and not medicine, its benefits included relief from respiratory disorders, cough, common cold, constipation, digestion, anaemia, impotency, muscular strains, dental care, pyorrhoea, diarrhoea, and heart disease. It is a source of manganese, iron, potassium, vitamin C and vitamin K and dietary fibre. Black pepper is a very good, anti-inflammatory agent.
It is also good for the stomach; increases the hydrochloric acid secretion in stomach and thus, helps digestion. It helps to avoid diarrhoea, constipation and colic; prevent formation of intestinal gas; promotes sweating and urination; helps one to lose weight; good for skin: cures Vitiligo, which is a skin disease that causes some areas of skin to lose its normal pigment and turn white; stimulates the skin to produce pigment; relieves cough and cold; cold and cough; sinusitis; nasal congestion; its antibacterial property fights infections, insect bites; keeps arteries clean; prevent or repair the damage caused by the free radicals and thus helps to prevent cancer, cardiovascular diseases and liver problems.
Wow! These cheap naturally growing substances go better than the manufactured drugs. They cure and not merely mask pain. Then they also pack more curative aspects and functions than the manufactured drugs pack their side effects. And they do all of this for less than the cost of the price of bread. This is the closely but thinly guarded secret that the expensive and (visually) impressive packaging of pharmaceuticals hoodwinks the market. They cheat the market into hypnotically believing the mirage and fiction that they sell. That even explains why some packages are more expensive looking like the tiny placebo pills they contain. Check what a placebo is in Chapter 12 - allocated to that topic.
What is remarkable here is the list of benefits from the natural remedies like black pepper, which exceed those of the symptomatic properties and benefits of the western scientific symptom targeting remedies by about 99% to 1%. And the reverse is true for the adverse effects, which create more suffering than the curative or window dressing aspects of such manufactured products. Its uncanny how an international body of humanity in every civilised country can be bamboozled to glorify and pay with their own hard earned cash (and lives) for something that destroys them and causes them early death, discomfort and pain. And they do this; while shunning the free and naturally available real remedies that bring cures and not even mere to the party. We need to wake up from the waking trance. Snap out of it already!
Then by 2017, I had developed a full blown excruciating pain on my legs on both sides. The pain was not responding to any over-the-counter medication that pharmacists gave me. Some of them actually made it worse. And in all that time I was still on all the medications which were busy injecting my body with all sorts of toxins and “side effects” - direct effects of these medications. So I made an appointment to see a veins specialist at Four Ways in Johannesburg. He examined my leg veins and found that they were perfect. He said they were like those of a 16 year old. Well what with all the supplements I had started taking over the years?
The only conclusion he could reach after such a careful examination and diagnosis, was that I was suffering from peripheral neuropathy. This condition affects the nerves of extremities in the body, as opposed to the central nervous system and the brain – all of which are made up of the types of cells found in the brain matter. So, he had referred me to the neurologist above. And this was after warning me that peripheral neuropathy is not curable and can only be controlled with regard to the pain it causes. But there was nothing more they could do form me.
At about this time, after more than a decade of being on the hypertension medications, the Glucophage and acidity reducing puricos , to reduce gout attacks which had also manifested by that time, I had started manifesting gout symptoms that did not go away with gout medication – even the prescription and not only the prevention puricos. It had by now started overwhelming me even despite the injections which used to act very fast and have an effect within hours leading up to these new strains of gout attacks. So, my own research told me that Glucophage was responsible. It was solving the insulin resistance aspect and killing my feet and joints with gout like symptoms even when PH (Power of Hydrogen) tests showed that I had no acidity or uric acid, which gout is all about.
Puricos, for example, while credited for the work of reducing the concentration of uric acid in plasma, for which it gets prescribed as a chronic medicine, what is downplayed by all the suppliers in the supply chain and the doctors who prescribe it, is that its own side effects, which one automatically should expect, by taking it, are many and devastating. They include: skin eruptions, fever, chills, leucopenia or leucocytosis and eosinophilia; arthralgia and vasculitis leading to renal and hepatic damage. These reactions may be severe, even fatal and patients with renal impairment or taking thiazide diuretics are at special risk. These reactions usually subside a few days after administration is stopped. The manufacturers further indicate that more serious allergic reactions may occur and include exfoliative rashes, the Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and toxic necrolysis. Allopurinol should therefore be withdrawn immediately if a rash occurs. Headache, drowsiness, alopecia, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, vertigo, peripheral neuritis, diarrhoea, and gastric irritation are noted but do not require that therapy be stopped. Cataract formation has been reported.
It would be little wonder then to find one’s self marred with any of these maladies caused by the treatment and not by anything else. Western treatment is the most dangerous pastime next to bungee jumping and sky diving, it seems to me. And only the suicidal and brave should dare indulge in that pastime.
By the last two weeks of 2019, I had also learnt, albeit by the process of repeat revisits to old research and verifying if the sites visited still show the same information gleaned earlier or not. I had also read that the excess supply of Vitamin B12 to the system, in the face of peripheral neuropathy, can have the reverse effect of actually severing the remaining nerve cells or axons as they appear. That explained why after about more than a year of using the Neurobion, the pain had returned with a vengeance inexplicably. And I had taken twice the dosage earlier because I had worked out in my mind that I am above average in weight and about 6 feet 2 inches, and should not take the normal dose prescribed for normal average heights and weights. That was the risk; I was willing to take, reasoning for myself and not being squeezed in averages of people I don’t even know. I am not a statistic.
I had then revisited the medical qualities of olive oil, virgin oil on hypertension and peripheral neuropathy. I found that olive oil (extra virgin) is loaded with Vitamin E. I also learnt that as an antioxidant with a powerful punch, vitamin E helps prevent cancer, heart disease, strokes, cataracts, and possibly some of the signs of aging. It further protects artery walls and keeps the "bad" low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol from being oxidized. Oxidation of LDL cholesterol marks the beginning of clogged arteries. Vitamin E also keeps the blood thin by preventing blood platelets from clumping together. Its high levels in the body decrease the risk of a non-fatal heart attack or stroke in most people. It is further credited for being a dynamic cancer fighter, which protects cells and DNA from damage that can turn cancerous. It reduces the growth of tumours while enhancing immune function and preventing precancerous substances from being turned into carcinogens. Studies with mice show that vitamin E applied to the skin may help prevent skin cancer resulting from exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
When I later learnt, not from the doctors, that peripheral neuropathy was about the damage of myelin sheaths which insulate the nerves, I also noted that Vitamin E can be beneficial to people with diabetes. It was said to enhance the action of insulin and improve blood glucose metabolism by reducing oxidative stress. It also reportedly keeps the nervous system healthy by protecting the myelin sheaths that surround nerves. It also reportedly appears to prevent mental degeneration due to aging, possibly including Alzheimer disease. And that is all the assurance I needed. For me, it was no longer viable to take the word of the medical fraternity that self-confess ignorance of any remedies to the underlying issues of the conditions I was experiencing.
I also noted that Vitamin E applied to cuts may very well increase the healing rate because it minimizes oxidation reactions in the wound and also keeps the wound moist. These were all the assurances I needed to know. These are by far, better and superior than being told that there is no cure and that we have to only mask the pain of all these conditions. And these are now sicknesses I had kept acquiring from medicines in the hands of medical professionals. Once I was assured that their knowledge hand ended, I stopped consulting with them and took a solo voyage to my own healing. It has been a very rewarding journey too, even I have to say so myself. I have just restrained myself from providing advice to others due to my knowledge and abidance with the law – even ten immoral laws – as a law man. My oath of office as an officer of the court compels me from the inside to stay with this approach.
The electronic availability of information was also a God sent in that I was able to find the latest, research findings from research laboratories. I no longer had to rely on university knowledge that can easily get stale - even before it hits the text books and lecture halls. By the time this knowledge is applied in the field, it must have more than 30 years knowledge gaps. This does not take away the actual deliberate system of fleecing consumers (patients) that is deliberately embedded in the system backed by laws and big money that runs the system.
So, I took myself off Glucophage. The doctors kept repeating its prescriptions, as to them it was almost like staving off the inset of diabetes mellitus, which is also allegedly incurable. Doctors have many nocebos to scare the death into a patient when they declare things incurable, leading to a deeper hypnosis to believe that death sentence. So they kept including it in my script, of chronic medicines, but I had already decided not to collect it from the pharmacy. Whenever the pharmacy personnel would ask me whether I want to take my Glucophage, with each refill, I would tell them I still have a supply. But that was not true. I had loathed the thought of collecting something that is giving the unmatched pain of gout – the disease of kings and king of diseases (Tang, 2018).
After I stopped taking Glucophage, the gout like symptoms went away. So, my own research and taking of matters of my treatment and healing into my own hands, to the point of dribbling past the hegemony and monopoly of knowledge monopolised by the doctors, I started seeing dividends to my self-assertion. The word of the doctors and their pharmacists had ceased to be gospel truth to me from thence forth. I reaped the first benefits of taking your health and healing into my own hands. I had started regarding the doctors and their allies as mere service providers and advisers like bankers, financial planners and people like that. I no longer deferred to them on matters pertaining to my health or that of my loved ones. I had now fully taken centre stage to my treatment and healing.
In all this time, I still go to the doctors and other Health care Professionals for diagnosis and to hear their take on how the matter should be resolved. But by the time I go to them, I have already researched all the symptoms from Google Scholar and medical peer reviewed journals of medicines and researchers. In many cases, I even recommend the prescriptions to them. And since they will not know what I am talking about, for failure to research the latest on a topic, I share with them my laboratory fresh articles on such matters. They google or “phone a friend” checking my recommended treatments then prescribe them – simply because they are authorised to. I also let this happen simply because I am not qualified to self-diagnose and self-treat. But I am legally and morally more than fully qualified and equipped to take charge of how my health is dealt with. The service providers and professionals have now made peace with me eliciting and evaluating their counsel and still directing which route my assistance will take – just like any other employer.
A pilot may be called captain in the air and take charge. But I am still the captain of my journey and destination. For all intents and purposes, while I am on that ticketed journey or voyage - he / she works for me. And if customer is king, then he / she is my subject and I am the sovereign king. His / her counsel is welcome but no longer an unfettered finality. They are not unlike taxi drivers, except I am sharing them with a few other sovereign clients with equal right to the services of these highfalutin employees. This is even more so if that plane is chartered. I may not be licensed or even trained to fly that jet, but that does not detract from the fact that I am still the master of my destination. And the jet and pilot have a narrower part to play, which is to get me there according to my orders and their technical skills.
Talking of workers and employees, the law is clear on the various categories. Grogan (2001, p.19) defines the difference between locatio conductio operarum as opposed to locatio condictio operis, by way of their differences. While the former is a contract of services, the latter is a contract of work. Their differences were further endorsed by the Labour Appeal Court in the leading case of SABC v McKenzie (1999) 20 ILJ 585 (LAC).
Grogan (Op cit), also intimates that locatio conductio operarum is the old Roman (now common law) contract of letting and hiring of personal services in return for remuneration, while locatio condictio operis, is the Roman law inherited common law contract and fore runner of the present day independent contract agreement. Both of these are further contrasted from the third even more different Roman law locatio inductio rei – which is about the letting and hiring of a specified thing for money payment.
So, the claim that the professional works for the patient during the time of the appointment is not oblique, glib, metaphoric or proverbial. It is also in terms of the law real where the locatio condictio operis, is concerned. It is a contractual obligation. It is enforceable in a court of law or other competent tribunal established by law – even a private arbitration.
I may not employ the doctor fulltime. But for the hour that I pay consultation fees for, I employ them and they are at my beck and call and will conclude my treatment protocols with my involvement and approval. Instead of them deciding my fate in a paternalistic fashion, I now take the lead and ask all the questions and negotiate the way things should unfold. This happens until they convince me that taking all my concerns and health into account, augmented with their years of learning and training, I am getting the optimum service from interacting with them. But where I and my money are concerned, my interest and good health trumps their interests in monetary gain – if I can help it. And I indeed can. They will not, at my expense, increase “side effects” laden drugs; in my system to create future business for themselves. The time for that is over.
At this point, it is worth noting that the insulin resistance could be reversed by taking enough purified water. I purified the water with a device from Makro that cost less than R400 at that time. This purifier removes heavy metals like mercury, lead, and water cleaning toxic chemicals like chlorine that also their own medical complication in our bodies much to the pleasure of the medicos and our chagrin. I had also by this time learnt to ingest tins of Zeolite from Dischem costing less than R200 at the time, to remove heavy metals that are already in the body compliments of air pollution which is growing in South Africa.
I also use the pie cup from Long Rich – a Chinese company now also based in the USA. They research their own curative devices and products and avoid the western mediocrity of pain maskers. Some of their products are derived from very weird sounding sources of animals and insects that it makes one puke just thinking of them. But, they are still by and large more trustworthy to me than the poisons and toxins that are sure to kill from the west. Forget about the coroner virus as there appears to be more in that tan meets the eye. Some suspect a political and intelligence fiasco in that regard. The jury is still out on reliable information on this one.
One has learnt from Fan et al. (2018); that iron overload illnesses in humans present mainly as heritable (primary) hemochromatosis; mostly ending up causing an accretion of iron as ferritin and hemosiderin. These in turn cause solid organ damage especially to the liver, heart or pancreas. This solid organ damage is said to be the most prevalent genetic disorder in people of European extraction. While I am of African extraction, this piece of information does not help me very much or lend any comfort. My wife and children are glaringly of mixed race. So, I still have to pay attention despite that exemption of myself. The authors (Ibid) also indicate that genetic hemochromatosis may lead to extreme conditions, such as cirrhosis, weight loss, chronic fatigue, liver disease, hepatocellular carcinoma, joint pain, diabetes and cardiomyopathy.
Iron overload has been studied extensively in humans and in many animal models of iron‐induced cancer. In one trial, male Wistar rats were injected (intraperitoneal) with iron saccharate daily for 5 months and sacrificed 1 year later. Nine of 19 rats had mesothelioma tumours upon post-mortem examination, leading the authors to conclude that the gradual release of free iron could induce mesotheliomas. This and other animal model studies have identified iron‐induced free radical generation, lipid peroxidation, DNA damage and carcinogenesis.
Where Zeolite is concerned, Fan et al. (2018); report how it is able to remove iron as a heavy metal from the internal parts of a body such as the liver, which iron attacks when excessive. Their assertions; in summary; report that for hundreds of years, zeolites have been used to bind metals, function in many agrarian and industrial uses where the honeycombed zeolite bodies make up perfect ion exchangers, compounds and binding causes. Zeolites are presently in a shifting period, moving towards implementation in human ailments and diseases.
They further suggest that zeolites may be able to counter the effects of excess iron and conducted a mouse model trial to gauge the utility of this notion. In some of their studies, the authors (Ibid) revealed that “a common zeolite, clinoptilolite, is able to maintain the general health and well‐being of mice and prevent iron‐induced deleterious effects following iron overload. When zeolites are given with iron biweekly as intraperitoneal injections, mice showed far less macroscopic visual organ discoloration, along with near normal histology, under iron overload conditions when compared to mice injected with iron only.”
They further indicated how the purposes of the laboratory pilot studies were to examine possible substitutions to then existing iron chelation treatments. And the results had indicated an advantage to using zeolites in illnesses of iron excess. They had also, in the result confirmed their conclusion that Zeolites may have translational potential for use in cases of human iron overload.
One is kind of surprised though that these researchers were still hesitant regarding the use of zeolite to chelate metals from humans. This is because Dr. P. Henquin, my antiaging specialist, who once worked with the SOLAL compounding Pharmacists in Johannesburg, had long used zeolite for her own chelation and mine from as far back as around 2006. And it works perfectly, and she is one of the very few medical practitioners that targets underlying causes and not mere symptoms in treatments. That is why a proper consultation with her:
• Commences with the examination and understanding of history and symptoms presenting;
• Ordering of a specific list of blood tests based on the suspected possible underlying causes;
• Analysing the underlying causes at the biochemical and endocrine levels; once the blood test results are received from the laboratory; and
• Prescribing appropriate curative interventions; to address identified underlying causes; as well as any symptoms that might still be presenting.
In the case of Dr. Henquin, the medical attention is ideally to maintain and be preventive, rather than treating symptoms and causing new ones with deadly medications. This is the method I am sticking with and which presented a breath of fresh air, and still does, when one looks how many others do not care about cures.
When I visited China (on business) for a month in 1996, the air pollution consisted of haze and fog that was so thick, you could not see more than 100 metres ahead in the main streets of Beijing on a bad day. These heavy metals are responsible for many illnesses, autism, senility, Alzheimer’s and other debilitating conditions. I make it a point to remove them once every 24 months. The problem is there is no other way to remove them except through chelation which is no longer available.
The problem with heavy metal toxicity is that such metals cannot be eliminated by the body naturally. They cannot be metabolised by the human body. Even those who eat shell fish consume a lot of them as these creatures like crabs and cray fish; scavenge from the bottom of the ocean floor - where all the mercury pumped by mines from old mining sites, ends up. While those creatures eat that poison and live, the humans who eat them take some of it into their own systems. Then it manifests in nerves and brain connection cells that are not properly functional. That is why some people after eating dairy, red meat, peanuts and a few other staple foods, get such chemical reactions and allergies; that they become raving mad. They manifest in massive incidents of murders, thinly provoked violence, impotence, stress, depression, delirium and delusions of grandeur.
When I had developed arthritis in my knees, joints, and hands, I quickly researched, and refused going to the doctors. The first that I had approached had told me that I needed some medications that when I checked had its own side effects which were going to inflict more medical problems to me going forward, to the benefits of the medical and pharmacological industries. I had also visited a chiropractor on several occasions in White River – Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. Tired of my relentless questions as to what was causing that debilitating pain in the joints, he had relented and let me in on the secret that I should stay way from dairy and wheat products. I never needed him after that. His worst fears were confirmed and those of other doctors too. Keeping us sick benefits them and curing us keeps them broke. That is how the system is currently structured. It is that system that needs to be reframed, reformed and transfigured to really serve and promote health not devastating treatment.
So, from more research, I noted a cheaper but more effective curative option. That option was to secure MSM powder or capsules. Those regrow the bones, bone cartilage and muscles tissues, teeth and gums etc. It worked like a charm in a matter of a week or so, and cost less than R200 at most. Meantime doom Sayers including doctors, expect you to shrink up with age and curl up and die at a given age. I do not subscribe to this thinking, it is the stuff made up of nocebo peddlers and their consumers and believers to that negative faith.
Noah lived to be 950 years of age – Genesis 6. Moses lived to be 120 years of age. That was already a huge decline in age. That could have been owing to the years of slavery in Egypt as Jews were at that time. And Moses had actually led a bunch of scared, oppressed and victims of injustice that had never tasted war or leadership outside of task masters who had to clobber them to put in a two days’ work within a day. It is understandable therefore, that Moses could live so short a life compared to Noah. Enoch was 365 years when he was translated and never tasted death – Genesis 5. And in 2 Kings 2:3-9 Elijah was taken up and never died – which means he is alive to this day. Jesus defied death and resurrected after 3 days (Mark 16) and also had raised people who had died centuries earlier (Matthew 27).
The listening and autohypnosis and death talks from medicines people are responsible for the early deaths as their word has a deep penetrating force in the minds of those who see doctors as God. The nocebo is a powerful as the placebo, except it works in reverse, but the power at work is the same. Any diagnosis made by a doctor, correctly or incorrectly, properly or erroneously, intentionally fraudulent or mistaken, has the same effect to the patient as being sentences by a court of law to whatever jail term. It enters the hypnotic highway to the inner psyche of the hearer and makes them die or live – depending on its content. They are no longer prophets of doom where I am concerned. I defy all their pronouncements as I double check them and find ways to circumvent whatever finding they have made and it shocks the daylights off them - when they see me years later; stronger than when they sentenced me to diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis and stuff like that.
My conviction is that if a person, word, or belief system or marketing narrative like propaganda, can be so powerful as to make a healthy person sick, when strategically articulated and aimed at their soul, (subconscious mind), then the same power should be able to do the opposite like the 40 dental patients of John Lavin MD, PhD, alluded to in Chapter 12 below.
In my research, I noted how Braverman (2011), describes gluten as a protein found in wheat, barley and rye causing Celiac disease. That disease was described as an allergy to gluten. It is supposedly responsible for causing an unwelcome irritation in the small intestine which can in turn cause skin rash, diarrhea and depression. Other symptoms associated with gluten allergy include an upset stomach, lethargy and joint pain.
Wallach (2019) claims also that gluten blocks nutrients that you have consumed from being absorbed by the body through the digestive and metabolism processes in the body. But very little is said by the medical practitioners and pharmaceuticals about that as it is bad for their business.
With regard to gluten and its impact on the human body; Anderson (2019); is of the view that it affects the body especially by ushering in celiac disease. Anderson (2020); also describes it as an autoimmune disease, in which your white blood cells attacks your small intestine until it is worn too thin and smooth. Then she fully explains and confirms what Wallach (Op Cit.) has already intimated, that once it attacks, “People who have untreated celiac disease often cannot absorb nutrients from their food, and this can lead to serious health complications, such as malnutrition, osteoporosis, infertility, and even cancer.”
Anderson (2020) also cautions that common symptoms that celiac disease sufferers may present with include: “Diarrhoea and/or constipation (sometimes alternating); Bloating; Abdominal pain; Fatigue; Headaches (including migraines); and Skin conditions (including the so-called "gluten rash" dermatitis herpetiformis)”.
She also cautions that other medical conditions that gluten may cause a sufferer would include peripheral neuropathy, epilepsy vertigo ; schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. And the simplest way to deal with gluten related complications is simple avoidance of the food stuffs that contain in such as barley and wheat - Anderson (2019).
And when asked about eggs as to their nutritional value, his eyes brightened when he lyrically waxed about their perfection for our diet. He reminded us all of what we already know about stem cells - especially embryonic stem cells, from which all various parts and organs of the body are made from one substance. From the same egg, bones, cartilage, blood, feathers, the beak, brain, eyes and innards of the poultry are made. So eggs are a perfect diet as from them everything can be manufactured by the body as it renews itself naturally. From my (LLB) medical law module at the University of South Africa, I also leant that stem cells are acquired from any DNA bearing part of your body and not only in the embryonic ones.
Zeolite also helped remove the gluten that I had already accumulated from eating a lot of baked wheat foods to which I was by then addicted. I am no longer addicted to this wheat produce. I lost that addiction after suffering these joint and stomach lining pains and acute attacks. The day I discovered what the cause was, and compared that to the amount of wheat products I was consuming, I immediately stayed off it and detoxed with Zeolite. I also had to reconstruct the gastrointestinal tract to reverse the damage caused by the Celiac disease with colon ecology and digestive enzymes over the counter medicines. My gut is now at its healthiest. Thanks to Colon Ecology (supplement).
But medicines that I took leave from; prescribed by doctors prior to that step, had covered very aggressive prescription drugs that targeted ulcers and food poisoning. So, once I went the route of healing and not treatment of symptoms. The colon problems and inflammation disappeared for good, even when eating mild to hot curries.
I do not make a habit of these hot foods though, for that halo effect and fear of the pain that was once excruciating when I was adjudicating consumer matters in Klerksdorp – Northwest town of the Northwest province in South Africa (around 2016 or 2015). That experience had been so traumatizing that the court clerk who was assisting me on site (Elliot Nyoni), had to drive me in his own car back to the Oliver R. Tambo International Airport (ORTIA) in Johannesburg, on my way back, to Mpumalanga then. This was for fear of the attacks coming back. The car hiring company had to send a driver to fetch the car from Klerksdorp; as I could not drive myself back. I could not trust myself with such ability at the time, and neither did my wife; nor the then Executive Chairperson of the National Consumer Tribunal (NCT), Ms. Diane Terblanche; think it a good idea.
One of the medications, which I have been on for much longer than others, for hypertension since 2017, is pritor or micardis. This is medication for the dilation of blood vessels like arteries and enables the free flow of blood in the body that ensures that hypertension is under control. When during this difficult journey, one had found it no longer adequate. In my personal experience, they were listed to include headache, swelling feet; dizziness; light-headedness; drowsiness, and tired feeling; nausea; and abdominal or stomach pain. This was the latest in my battle with the medicos. Here when the doctor had prescribed an additional variation / addition to my micardis, she had added ridaq. And when included with the micardis, they call it co-micardis or co-pritor.
At one point the doctors prescribed it to escalate my treatment to chronic hypertension to Co-micardis / co-pritor. I found out from my research that Co- in Co-micardis or Co-pritor refers to that ridaq or hydrochlorothiazide. I found it to have 62 listed side effects which occur in different frequencies in laboratory tests. Even infrequent side effects are side effects to me. If that rare side-effect choses to manifest in your body, it will appear, and that is that. Its rarity does not assist a patient afflicted by such toxicity from a medication. What worsens things is that such medication will be fully paid for, and administered by a trained and highly paid and regarded professional. That is what I take umbrage to.
After being placed on the co-micardis / co-pritor prescription for a while, I developed those unnatural gout like symptoms that had defied the absence of uric acid in my blood tests. In one week I had run to doctors both in Cape Town, Twice in Centurion and a third one in centurion as I was travelling between Centurion and Cape Town in South Africa at the time. When all the doctors were baffled that there was no acidity in my blood and yet I displayed very excruciating bouts of unending gout, I took the matter into my own hands and did the research.
I found an astounding confirmation in Mandell, B.F. (2014, p. 83); a PhD Professor and Chairman, Department of Academic Medicine; Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic; Editor in Chief, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, indicating that:
“Many patients with gout also have hypertension, perhaps due in part to the same hyper-uraemia that caused their gouty arthritis. It is well documented that thiazide diuretics can raise the serum urate level. In some studies (but not all) , patients using thiazides had a higher incidence of gouty arthritis. Thus, it is reasonable to ask if we should avoid thiazides in patients with coexistent gout and hypertension.”
I immediately took myself off this co-pritor, and insisted at Dischem that the pharmacist should separate for me the hydrochlorothiazide from the pritor / micardis. I pretended that I would take them separately. But I made it a point to stay off it completely. I was getting tired of paying consultation fees to tell the doctors the same old same old in a space of about a week. And the gout symptoms had persisted even beyond the joints this time, but were attacking my legs and burning my skin from the inside in ways I cannot even begin to describe. The symptoms immediately stopped. I did not disclose to the doctors immediately that I had already taken myself off the hydrochlorothiazide. The scare they throw when talking about hypertension treatments consists of real horror stories, scaring enough to raise the dead. I instead, monitored the situation until I was sure I had found and isolated the problem.
But now I was back to the elevated hypertension that had necessitated the addition of the hydrochlorothiazide in the first place. And that is when I decided to personally seek other alternatives to lowering my blood pressure than relying on the licensed drug dealers pumping drugs into my body – which is all they know and are licensed and incentivised to do. It also became clearer and clearer that I needed to take matters into my own hands and not rely on doctors. Those are people who bury all their mistakes after all. And I was not about to be another failed experiment to inform medical schools, if at all.
Eventually, after close to a year of taking micardis without the hydrochlorothiazide; I stated informing the doctors when renewing my chronic script on the pritor that I am already off the hydrochlorothiazide. I did not want to keep fighting them while my nerves were on fire of the excruciating pain anymore. And that was when this one doctor back in Centurion, had tried another drug to control the blood pressure which was hovering around 158 systolic and he was trying to bring it to about 135 Systolic at least. I told him in no uncertain terms that I was not going back to the pain of the hydrochlorothiazide. He tried to sell me to additional diuretics. I told him point blank that this time I no longer wanted any further chemicals with their unlimited side effects coming into my body. He should rather try another good but user friendly treatment that he was aware of if any. And this alternative should replace and not be additional to the co-pritor which was overwhelmed by the condition in my body.
It was at this point that he had said let us try a drug called twynsta. While it was supposed to help alleviate hypertension, the side problems it brought with it consisted of an astounding mountain of side effects including, but even limited to dizziness or light-headedness; swelling hands/ankles/feet, flushing (warmth, redness, or tingly feeling), drowsiness, tired feeling, back pain, nausea, diarrhoea, or vomiting; fainting, fast/pounding/irregular heartbeat, unusual changes in the amount of urine, or symptoms of a high potassium blood level (such as muscle weakness, slow/irregular heartbeat); impotence, increased sweating, flushing; allergy, fever, and leg pain.
It also included malaise; palpitation, dependent oedema, angina pectoris, tachycardia, leg oedema, abnormal ECG; insomnia, somnolence, migraine, vertigo, paraesthesia, involuntary muscle contractions, hypoesthesia; flatulence, constipation, gastritis, vomiting, dry mouth, haemorrhoids, gastroenteritis, enteritis, gastroesophageal reflux, toothache, nonspecific gastrointestinal disorders; gout, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus; arthritis, arthralgia, leg cramps; anxiety, depression, nervousness; infection, fungal infection, abscess, otitis media; asthma, bronchitis, rhinitis, dyspnoea, epistaxis; dermatitis, rash, eczema, pruritus; micturition frequency, cystitis; cerebrovascular disorder; and abnormal vision, conjunctivitis, tinnitus, earache; and angioedema (which was said to have been reported once in a sample of 3781 patients treated).
Within a week I had already experienced side effects such as fast/pounding/irregular heartbeat; dry mouth; swelling hands/ankles/feet; flushing; redness, muscle weakness; increased sweating; palpitation; insomnia, and light-headedness. I probably had more, but some of them I do not know what they are and how they present. But those that were already manifesting were more than enough to put me off. I immediately in a matter of days went back to the doctor and showed him my heavily swollen stomach, hardened stomach, swollen feet and even fingers. My Gold wedding ring had pinched me so badly I had to remove it and it was discolouring my wedding ring finger.
Needless to say, again, we agreed that I be placed back on micardis and I undertook to reduce the incident of the uncontrollability of the hypertension with non-pharmacological ways like brisk walking, lots of liquids, diet control etc. He tried to interest me in even cheaper generics from micardis, but I refused. Micardis had already been tried and tested to me and had no given me the hassles that all the other drugs came with. This has been the status quo at the time of writing this material. And I was already accumulating a wad of these notes by this time after having earlier resolved to share these atrocious experiences at my own expense in the hands of these would be good people.
For the sake of interest, leading causes of death in South Africa compared to the world in 2016 alone, showed the following record:
Leading Causes of death
% Non-Communicable % Communicable %
Injuries %
Mixed
South Africa 2016 (456 612) 57.4 31.3 11.2 0
World 2006 (56.9 million) 42.0 8.8 1.9 47.3
The Case of Mercury poisoning, where heavy metals are concerned, deserves special treatment in this work. This is on account of its very devastating impact on the health of an otherwise healthy and active person, who could acquire such toxicity even from the environment. Heavy mercury from mine dumps for instance is very rife in Johannesburg and its surroundings. Gold mining involves mercury when separating the metal from the rest of the mine rubble.
So, just sleeping over in Johannesburg, from a cleaner atmospheric environment; like the Mbombela side of the Mpumalanga Province; or the Western Cape, causes one serious respiratory challenges. It is because we inhale this toxic metal from the atmosphere- especially in winter months, when it is windy. This is also from personal experience. It is for this reason that, now that I and my family live in the Gauteng Province (between Pretoria and Johannesburg), we chelate all heavy metals at least once a year. This is done in order to prevent an acute accumulation that would result in shortening our physical lives on yen planet.
Mercury is a chemical element in the periodic table used by al students and scientists in Chemistry. It has a silver looking colour and its atomic number is 80 on the periodic table. Its standard atomic weight is 200.592(3). Its chemical symbol is Hg. It has a density of 13.534 g/cm. it has a boiling point at 629.88 K (356.73 °C, 674.11 °F) and a melting point at 234.3210 K (−38.8290 °C, −37.8922 °F). That just gives you the idea why it is a heavy metal and why your body cannot 234.3210 K (−38.8290 °C, −37.8922 °F)burn it like starch and proteins and other lighter minerals. In short your human body cannot on its own natural accord eliminate mercury as a metal from your body. And since it is not necessary in the body, it damages it, by its mere existence there – Wikipedia (2020).
It occurs in deposits throughout the world mostly as cinnabar (mercuric sulfide). The red pigment vermilion is obtained by grinding natural cinnabar or synthetic mercuric sulfide. Indigenous people who collect certain soils and grind them to a powder for face and body masks may be in the risk route for applying and ingesting mercury and poisoning their bodies unwittingly with this terrible chemical and heavy metal. Witchdoctors and allied so-called healers also prescribe and supply those substances to people. It is a trap to kill the consumers off with those heavy metals (Ibid).
Mercury is one of the chemical elements that appear as metals on the periodic table. All students of chemistry, as far back as High School will know that much. It is a naturally occurring metal that is in many everyday products, albeit in tiny amounts. While this limited exposure is usually considered safe, a build-up of mercury is highly dangerous - Johnson (2018).
Mercury is a liquid at room temperature and readily vaporizes into the air around it. It is often a by-product of industrial processes, such as burning coal for power. Vaporized mercury can make its way into the rain, soil, and water, where it poses a risk to plants, animals, and humans (Ibid.)
Ingesting or coming into contact with too much mercury can cause symptoms of mercury poisoning. And as Johnson (2018), indicates, once accumulated in the body of a victim, this metal may attack the nervous system, and causing neurological symptoms such as nervousness or anxiety; irritability or mood changes; numbness; memory problems; depression physical tremors.
These are all the symptoms that the witchdoctor will blindly declare as acts of witchcraft. But he would most probably be glossing over or shielding the fact that his very prescription is responsible for this. This clearly shows that if the poor patient is not being zapped by allopathic (western) medicine men and women, she will be zapped by the witchdoctors and shamans from various other “healing” systems of the world. The Fallen ones (in Enoch Chapter) are behind all these systems of the world since their great fall – see Chapter 16 for the fallen ones.
Other symptoms that betray the presence of mercury poisoning include muscle weakness; metallic taste in the mouth; nausea and vomiting; lack of motor skills or feeling uncoordinated; inability to feel in the hands, face, or other areas; changes in vision, hearing, or speech; difficulty breathing; and difficulty walking or standing straight.
In children, mercury poisoning is also credited with symptoms such as impaired motor skills; problems thinking or problem-solving; difficulties learning to speak or understanding language; issues with hand-eye coordination; being physically unaware of their surroundings and similar challenges.
The wicked people who do witchcraft related acts of punishing opponents and enemies and rivals include collecting shells of millipedes, grinding those to a powder and releasing the mercury in those, and then feeding it to their opponents surreptitiously, to “teach them a lesson.” This is not an attempt at providing a recipe for paralysing people with the above symptoms of mercury poisoning.
But it is rather the intent in this section of the book to indicate why I stopped taking drinks and teas that some serve to me already open and poured out from other people’s kitchens. I also don’t visit homes of both friends and foes to avoid refusing their drinks and foods so presented. People have a habit of dishing for others instead of serving in bulk and let all present dish for themselves from the same bulk, for safety.
As Johnson (2018) points out, “Mercury poisoning tends to develop slowly over time if a person comes into frequent contact with mercury. However, in some cases, Anyone who experiences a sudden onset of mercury poisoning symptoms should call a doctor or poison control.” I chelate with zeolite for instant results. No debates, No guess work.
The saddest thing is that in the event that one gets mercury overload and approaches an allopathic doctor who is only interested in the consultation fees, and peddling the symptom masking medication which they qualify to do, this health professional will pump them with painkilling and masking drugs that come with their own side effects. This compounds (as well as delay) the removal of the mercury. And if; by the time a caring professional such as Dr Pasquale Henquin and the SOLAL doctors in Johannesburg arrive in the scene, the other non-caring professionals (especially surgeons), will have amputated the poor person’s limbs. Neurologists will have sentenced him to a life in a mental asylum; or confined him to debilitating mental drugs - to numb and calm them from the psychotic symptoms that will have presented.
Chapter Five
Problems Caused By Treatment (Iatrogeny)
According to Permpongkosol (2011); the word “iatrogeny” originates from Greek and denotes any pathologic shift triggered to an afflicted person by the disastrous conduct of health professionals, which results in detrimental results for the patient’s health (Pereira 2000). He further cites the World Health Organisation (WHO), in defining iatrogenic disease as “adverse drug reactions or complications induced by nondrug medical interventions” (Atiqi et al. 2010).
Darchy et al (1998) defines “iatrogeny” as an illness brought about by a drug prescribed by a physician, after a medical or surgical procedure (excluding intentional overdose, nonmedical intervention) unauthorized prescription, and environmental events (such as falls, defective equipment). Nevertheless, we have to be conscious of the fact that by description, “an adverse drug reaction differs from an adverse drug event, in that the former is an outcome attributable to a drug, whereas the latter, while associated with medication intake, is not necessarily” - Cresswell (2007).
Permpongkosol (Supra) defines it thus, “Iatrogenic disease is an important cause of both death and illness among older people, and occurs in all aspects of medical practice, starting with the patient-doctor relationship, and including diagnosis, treatment, and, finally, prevention of disease.”
It is clear from the above text that in medicines, research indicated that there are doctor and medicine caused illnesses and other complications called events in medical parlance. This is obviously calculated to mask them from the awareness of the sick market, but used as coded language for the professionals. This is obviously for purposes of concealment to reduce chances of being sued. These are debilitating and crippling and at times fatal conditions (events) - caused by medical treatment, the medicines administered by the medical experts and negligent conduct of such practitioners - when attending or neglecting those whom they charge fees for their professional care. These are the sicknesses, diseases, and deaths caused by the would-be healers and their medicines. We patients open ourselves to these people because we blindly believe in them and their integrity as we mistakenly believe that they actually care. But most of them really just do this for a living. If they had anything better to do that would pay them as well, they would sooner do that. The statistics speak for themselves.
Lakshmanan et al. (1931–[1934]), reveal, in their abstract alone, that after studying a tiny sample of 834 admissions, caused by distinct iatrogenic events; to medical services in public teaching hospitals; they had established that:
• 47 distinct iatrogenic events came out of 834 admissions;
• 45 iatrogenic admissions (5.4%) were found in the 834 admissions;
• 35% of the iatrogenic cases were caused by medications; and
• 50% of those iatrogenic events were avoidable and could have been avoided.
These authors also revealed that they “… did not find relationships with age, number or type of diagnoses, or number of medications on admission. Study of other patient and physician characteristics may be more rewarding in reducing the number of iatrogenic complications.”
The above findings were corroborated in evidence established in further research conducted by Jahnigen et al. (1982). The latter established that:
• They had studied 48 patients aged below 65 years, with an arithmetic mean (average) of 50.3 years;
• They had also studied 174 patients aged 65 years with an arithmetic mean (average) of 73.1years;
• The researchers had followed these patients during their stay in hospitals and carried out daily monitoring routines;
• The study had shown that around 90 per cent of all 222 patients in both age categories were had complication rates of 29 per cent for patients under 65, but of 45 per cent for those over 65 years. This means that for ages 65 and above, a patient who undergo treatment, especially in a hospital setting, are 45% most likely to suffer from medical treatment related complications than the diseases that brought them to hospital in the first place;
• In the ages under 65 years category, between 17% and 42% contacted medical and surgical patients issues, respectively;
• In those over‐65 patients, the rates were 40 per cent (medical) and 43 per cent (surgical). And the researchers deduced that “This indicated a major increase in complications among medical patients more than 65 years old. Procedure‐related problems were most common among surgical patients under 65. For over‐65 patients, the complication rates for procedure‐related, trauma, miscellaneous, infection, and drug toxicity categories were fairly evenly distributed within the range of 16.8–12.8 per cent, in that order; “and
• With regard to other categories of patients, along the lines of ailment streams, the researchers exhaustively concluded, that “Major psychiatric deterioration was observed in 10.7 per cent of patients over 65, but in none of the younger subjects. Drug toxicity and traumatic complications were also more common in the older patients. These data confirm the disproportionately high incidence of iatrogenic disease in hospital patients over the age of 65. Several of these complications are amenable to control.”
Wallach (2019) also told Benny Hinn in an interview that in the USA alone, 1.5 million people die every year from medical treatment such as botched operations. Doctors prescribe certain drugs based on age, when they should prescribe based on body weight – which makes better sense really. And since doctors are among the brightest individuals on earth, one would have thought that this would have been common sense to them and their senders. But, no, if sense would be common, hunger is more common. The golden rule applies, namely that “he who has the gold makes the rules” (Omlik, 2015).
Wallach (ibid. ) even went so far as give illustrative figures he had already computed in his own studies, which concluded that nutrition is secret missing link being marginalised by pharmaceuticals and their proxies who call every nutrient curing and prevention apostle (Medical doctor) quacks. In his calculation at the time, in the medical practice in the US alone, when a doctor provides or prescribes a cure, they would only get $300 in consultation fees. But if the same doctor follows the pharmaceutical industry’s strategy of scrounging patients, he will treat the symptoms with the allopathic medicines and introduce as many side effects (future diseases) as the pharmaceuticals have embedded in the expensive treatment. Then the compliant doctor (to his manufacturing handlers) will then be guaranteed $750 000 over a number of years from the same patient.
It is about time that consumers organise and have solidarity structures and movements that can even monitor the life of a person when undergoing treatment as there is still room for treatment. The call to action recognises the observation once made by Albert Einstein in “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
But going for treatment and ending up maimed or outright killed; should not be countenanced. There are sufficient digital monitoring devices that can be won by the experts as they work on a minute action of the practitioner. These records can later be visited and explored or even interventions from remote monitors ensue just-in-time, to stop these serious injustices as they occur. And each time a doctor acts, they should respect the task at hand much like the day they underwent their practical exams and internships. This is already applied as a black box to pilots.
Permpongkosol (2011) also indicates, with regard to the extent of the epidemiology of iatrogenic diseases; in the elderly has not been extensively reported. This, in my view is because society (including the elderly themselves and their loved ones) remain in the waking trance I speak of. This trance is the brain washed belief that humans must fall sick before dying and that they must die at a certain age like 80 and 90 at all costs. Anyone who lives longer than that is regarded as having a full ripe life. I woke up out of that trance a long time ago and no longer entertain such fatalistic notions.
He (Permpongkosol, Ibid.) also cautions that “Risk factors of iatrogenic disease in the elderly are drug-induced iatrogenic disease, multiple chronic diseases, multiple physicians, hospitalization, and medical or surgical procedures. Iatrogenic disease can have a great psychomotor impact and important social consequences. To identify patients at high risk is the first step in prevention as most of the iatrogenic diseases are preventable. Interventions that can prevent iatrogenic complications include specific interventions, the use of a geriatric interdisciplinary team, pharmacist consultation and acute care for the elderly units.”
Here; he targets the areas where any intervention should be directly and narrowly targeted. This is a good person seeking a genuine solution to this “killing-fields” phenomenon of the drug-induced iatrogenic diseases or events (as they call them).
I disagree with the view expressed by Permpongkosol (Supra) that the elderly agonise from a couple of chronic conditions, which make it challenging to differentiate unmistakably; a sign of iatrogenic disease in the context of contemporaneous harms. My disagreement stems from the argument I hold; that because of the allopathic pumping of medicines; having been pumped into people by health practitioners, in the long run (old age), the side effects will have taken their toll. There are no two ways and can be no two ways about that fact.
Permpongkosol (Ibid) further admits that the crippling effect of the combination of the side effects of allopathic medicines, and the advent of iatrogenic disease, can happen to anyone, especially amongst the elderly. He further acknowledges that it may have traumatizing psychomotor and social consequences, which can lead to the patient becoming dependent on third persons. Such victims of the double jeopardy may no longer be able to leave their home.
Gøtzsche (2014) bluntly reports that “Our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States and Europe. Around half of those who die have taken their drugs correctly; the other half die because of errors, such as too high a dose or use of a drug despite contraindications. Our drug agencies are not particularly helpful, as they rely on fake fixes, which are a long list of warnings, precautions, and contraindications for each drug, although they know that no doctor can possibly master all of these. Major reasons for the many drug deaths are impotent drug regulation, widespread crime that includes corruption of the scientific evidence about drugs and bribery of doctors, and lies in drug marketing, which is as harmful as tobacco marketing and, therefore, should be banned. We should take far fewer drugs, and patients should carefully study the package inserts of the drugs their doctors prescribe for them and independent information sources about drugs such as Cochrane reviews, which will make it easier for them to say “no thanks”
This writer stumbled and realised what Gøtzsche (Op Cit) is referring to, as a matter of fact. This book is, therefore, an addition to that growing clarion call, shaking awake, fellow medical consumers from the west and in Africa where allopathic medicine is produced and peddled, resulting in mass killings of the users. This is taking place under the sick pretences of treatment when the very treatment is designed and devised to maim and kill - after stripping the consumer of their dignity, hard earned cash and quality of life; where it can still be found.
Social media is now enabling consumers, who are ordinary users and sorry target victims of the pharmaceutical murders and exploitation, to communicate directly with and among themselves - without the filtering of messages by the elitist media owned by the crooks in part or in full. Their hands are in every pie when through the stock markets. And their influence is ubiquitous, which makes them the cheeky bullies that we have created over the years - by simply allowing them to prosper at our expense and demise. First it was the feudal kings in Europe and all over the world. Then it was the emperors and mow it is the multinationals run by the same human haters who hide behind these corporates. See who they are in Chapter in Chapters 14 and 15 below.
Wright (Ibid) further reports how corruption is anticipated to become eviler in the future. The American Medical Association (AMA) has predictably and reportedly produced new guidelines to gag physicians who do not follow the mafia dictates, as well as those who speak out against pharmaceuticals. The report by Dr. Edward Group, founder of the Global Healing Center points out that:
“There’s a great deal of dissent among medical professionals when it comes to natural health, and many refuse to entertain the idea that healing involves more than pharmaceutical chemicals. The American Medical Association has recently set forth new guidelines that will: “create ethical guidelines for physicians in the media, write a report on how doctors may be disciplined for violating medical ethics through their press involvement, and release a public statement denouncing the dissemination of dubious medical information through the radio, TV, newspapers, or websites.”’
According to Wright (2015), the “AMA represents only 17% of medical doctors, many of which are medical students who were given a free membership. And yet, the organization is the fifth most powerful special interest group on Capitol Hill, paying out a staggering $19.7 million for lobbying efforts in 2014 alone.”
These obviously appear to be a few unscrupulous and broke lot; who need the financial muscle of the mafia manufacturers to sustain the scam used to extort money from patients while brutally, but surreptitiously sending them to their early graves. The reason for the sending to the grave must be the insane contempt and loathing which their spiritual masters, have for humans. For more on that, revise the chapters on the Bohemian Grove and the one on the book of Enoch – Chapters 14, 15 and 16.
Similar rabid and insane disdain for humans is also displayed by human traffickers from certain well known countries and also every country in the world. When training the South African Police Managements at various levels in South Africa (2002-2010), I gathered anecdotal stories of how these filthy killers steal babies and sell them to barren millionaires who want children. They also sell others to paedophile rings; and teenagers to child pornographers. After the violent rape and sex market has depreciated them, the victims get drugged and addicted to drugs and turned into drug mules by traffickers. Then the traffickers pass them on to each other across continents, running and ferrying drugs. Once they are no longer useful for that either, their body parts are harvested and sold to the rich who need those in varying degrees or even sold to the more blood thirsty underground game of snuffing. This is some murder porn where the snuffers get off watching girls being murdered on underground websites. Wright (2015) also quotes former Vice-President of Pfizer pharmaceuticals saying that:
“It is scary how many similarities there are between this [pharmaceutical] industry and the mob. The mob makes obscene amounts of money, as does this industry. The side effects of organized crime are killings and deaths, and the side effects are the same in this industry. The mob bribes politicians and others, and so does the drug industry …”
Wright (Ibid) also reports that the public should reconsider how we regard the activities and motives of the pharmaceutical corporations. Thinking and believing that they hold the health of the members of society in veneration needs to be revisited urgently. She accuses pharmaceuticals of “wrongful deaths, extortion, fraud, corruption, obstruction of justice, embezzlement, fake journals, harassment and hit lists that would make even the most hardened Mafia godfather blush.” She further reports how the industry has been fined billions of dollars by the U.S. Department of Justice, and the dismal failure such fines have had as possible deterrents, since the industry merely writes them off as “the cost of doing business.”
The consumers of medicines must organise and mass mobilise to such an extent that we will just be too many for the killers to bribe or take hits out on. After all; for the consumer market; this is literally a matter of life and death. And it is only a matter of bullying and murdering on the part of the perpetrators. This writer hates bullies. And since bullies are also cowards who operate under the cover of darkness, surreptitiousness and secret murders, the best way to yank them out and publicly spank and wallop their ears, is to do the very thing they fear most. We have to mass-mobilise, mass educate and mass act. Once they see that they have nowhere to hide as we will be everywhere gunning for them, legally, administratively, and in many other ways such as effecting citizens’ arrests, they will run. The hunter will be the hunted; we need to turn the tables against them. These are people who are known enough that they can have nowhere to hide when we circulate their names and pictures and addresses on social media. They cannot bribe all of us and still live.
If and or since they have been priding themselves with the known ability to surreptitiously bribe, blackmail and threaten or murder executives from media houses, to suppress this information about them, social media like twitter, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp will bypass all those barriers and get the cowards running for dear life. Their time is up. The time for the victims to pay back is here and has long been overdue. The mountains that used to hinder us are now no more since the world has just become flat.
Friedman (2007:p.5); posits that “the world is flat.” One notes that the “world” is not the “earth.” The world is the operating system of human life – Negula et al. (2019); while the earth is a physical planet - Xua; et al. (2019). Friedman believes that the playing field was being "… levelled." Friedman; (2007:p.7). Flattening the wold for consumers of credit and goods and services, even at the lowest bottom of the market pyramid, should, therefore; include empowering such stratum of the market to also acquire the means by which they acquire those goods and services available to the rest of the pyramid.
To that end, Wilson (2019); is quoted as saying that “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” He also says that it is no longer enough to be an expert in only one filed. He argues that we need to know a little about a lot in our lives to live effectively, going forward.
And the World Economic Forum; 2018; p.7) also laments that “The social contract between business, government and society seems to be broken. The legitimacy of corporations has reached a new low point, and they run the risk of losing their licence to operate. We are seeing growing people are demanding more collaborative, sustainable and inclusive ways of creating values.” The same can be said for governments and the concept of the nation state. The very number of already failed and failing nation states is alarming. It is no longer sustainable to have a nation state. It looks like liberalism is taking on a brand new form that has never existed in the experience of humans before the digital era. One is not so sure any longer as to how long governments as we know them will continue to exist or be necessary.
Apartheid was partly demolished in that when the anti-apartheid movement grew beyond the imagination of the minority oppressive regime (and its western supporters) had been severely discredited. By the time the international community was done with that regime, the regime was already begging to release Mandela and negotiate terms of democratisation going forward. Cowards are always brutal like the current human traffickers. But when the masses get fed up (“gatvol” in Afrikaans) and take matters (not the law) into their own hands, the cowards melt like ice in a hot summer’s day. And it is not the government leaders in countries that help; as these by and large tend to be already employed by the perpetrators and funded by them – Kiyosaki (2008). It is the ordinary man and woman and boy and girl who wake up like a sleeping giant and produce thunder and lightning (“Bliksem en donder” in Afrikaans) that makes all the lasting difference.
Since there is an element of killing off, mob style, those who expose the rot in the pharmaceutical industries and their proxies, the one way to deal with them is to mass mobilise against drug manufacturers. We can simply boycott their products and refuse to be abused another day. This can put them out of business. It is also about time the governments know which side their bread is buttered. It is the voter that theoretically puts governments in power and not the criminal and other funders behind them.
Chapter Six
Packs of wolves in Private Hospitals
Public sector medical facilities have been in shambles for some time. State capture, now made famous by the Zondo Commission, has largely to take the credit of that state of affairs. So, this statement is not an affront or seeking to embarrass the authorities as they utter the same observations themselves. In the Mpumalanga Province about 30 ambulances were ordered, delivered and then totally lost without a trace. Hospital employees in some hospitals like Rob Ferreira have had to go on strike protesting lack of medicines, tools, safety and the like. And this is a referral hospital for the Province. And that is just a mere tip of the ice berg. Instead there was a clinic of hospital proportions around Badplaas constructed for millions of Rands, but blackballed as a white elephant because it was placed in an area where it could not serve any patients. There are just no residents in the area where it was built. It then was obviously merely constructed to trigger off tenders that were the aim of those who conceived, proposed, funded and commissioned it. At least that is what the recent TV news would have us believe. And a Government official confirmed it on screen.
So, while the public hospitals were reduced to a rubble of embarrassing empty shells or places of dying, the private hospitals thrived and became lucrative to packs of medical and related hounds of prey; preying on unsuspecting and yet desperate and cornered patients (consumers). The public hospitals frustrated them all the way to the private sector suppliers, after paying exorbitant taxes for such public medical facilities.
The private hospitals are very expensive 6 star hotels. You have to pay in advance to access them, even if you have a fractured femur of a 4 year old child. I should know. This happened to my own last born son in June 2018. I had to find the full amount for the operation running into the region of R300 000 at that Private Hospital in Centurion. I have meticulously kept all the evidence for these allegations, in case some nincompoop decides to challenge the veracity of this information. This was a time when the minimum wage had just been set at R3000 per month. So this cost of treating a child who had a terrible accident, the equivalent of the monthly pay of a domestic servant for 83, 33 months or 7 years. And all this happened when my son was in excruciating pain and X-Rays had shown the fracture. I still have the X-rays and the proof of quotations and receipts thereof.
The various professionals embark on a feeding frenzy like starving hyenas at the Kruger Park when you come in deep distress after suffering such an emergency. When the hospital fraternity quote for the upfront payments, they call in to be included in the feeding bonanza, nurses, physiotherapists, anaesthetists, surgeons, psychologists, and their dogs and their dogs’ own dogs too. The next set of costs, belong to the hotel (hospital) quite for an estimated number of days in that facility. And these also charge for everything from coffee, tea, toilet paper almost, drinks, food, desert, equipment used etc.
What tells one later that it is a pack of hyenas that one is dealing with, is when on follow-up checks, which are valid, and based on prior quotations approved by the patient or guardian, some of the hungry hyenas come creeping out of the wood work with fraudulent invoices. Such invoices were never part of the quote and were not ordered as emergencies by any of the main actors such as the surgeons in our example of 2018. I had to fight tooth and nail when some tried their luck as I was already extremely vigilant after seeing the game being played. Needless to say, they never returned with the proof I had demanded that they were included in the approved quote and or that they were called by our bone surgeon in an emergency which that surgeon would have vouched for.
A psychologist had visited us in the ward without invitation, to market her services. We politely sent her packing with her tail between her legs like a real mongrel. Who would have told that psychologist that there seems to be a paying victim ready to be fleeced? Obviously somebody in that hospital and who was on the lookout for such. We only took seriously the role players decided by the main providers – surgeons in this case, not all the other preposterous salivating lions were allowed to feed on our carcasses. But it became clear that they pray for tragedy to strike so that they may find prey. When they find that they have missed the band wagon; they simply generate fraudulent invoices, backed by no work done, no order, no instruction and no pre-approval. One could also consider laying charges at the HPSCA. But we had no time to waste chasing debaucheries of educated and licensed, but obviously starving imbeciles.
At some point; when I was already in my 60s, I had to get a tooth extraction. The lady dentist who extracted that tooth did a wonderful job. Then because she picked up that I had further problems with receding gums and teeth sensitivities that were a huge nuisance, she referred me to a periodontist in Pretoria for further attention on the other teeth. That specialist allocated me for tooth polishing to his very impatient and rather nervous assistant called an oral hygienist. This cleaning was necessary to precede treatment in order to avoid infections from plaque and other microbes during treatment. After telling her how sensitive my teeth were, she went on to grind on them without any anaesthetics.
Needless to say, I writhed in pain until I stopped her and physically stood up to leave and avoid the torture. When the orthodontist seeing money about to, leave came, he tried to anaesthetise me with some non-injectable substance. It worked about 90% of the time. But because I was still too sensitive, I opted to leave. But that was not before he had promised to refer me to another specialist called an orthodontist. Making the long story short, the combined quotation that I got from both of them for tooth implants and rejuvenating bridges in my mouth, amounted to more than half a million (R500 000). With this amount, I could buy a brand new Volvo S60 and still get change. And it was all for mere teeth. Again, needless to say, I never went back to both of them in Pretoria. Once they think they have found a likely cash cow, they all combine to milk it and eat its beef once done with the milk.
The same doctors and dentist apparently perform the services for less reward at Government hospitals for free to the indigent. Yet they fleece other patients who seem able to afford medical costs at private hospitals. My Executive Assistant had taken all her six children to such public hospitals where they were all treated for free by the same doctors that charge an arm and a leg in their private practices. These are supposed to be the most ethical professions that humanity values and holds in the highest esteem. God help us all.
Chapter Seven
The Consumer Protection Law
In its Preamble, the Consumer Protection Act alludes to:
“The people of South Africa recognise—
That apartheid and discriminatory laws of the past have burdened the nation with unacceptably high levels of poverty, illiteracy and other forms of social and economic inequality;
That it is necessary to develop and employ innovative means to—
(a) fulfil the rights of historically disadvantaged persons and to promote their full participation as consumers;
(b) protect the interests of all consumers, ensure accessible, transparent and efficient redress for consumers who are subjected to abuse or exploitation in the marketplace; and
(c) to give effect to internationally recognised customer rights;
That recent and emerging technological changes, trading methods, patterns and agreements have brought, and will continue to bring, new benefits, opportunities and challenges to the market for consumer goods and services within South Africa; and
That it is desirable to promote an economic environment that supports and strengthens a culture of consumer rights and responsibilities, business innovation and enhanced performance.”
Section one of the Act (CPA), defines a Consumer as “in respect of any particular goods or services, to mean:
(a) a person to whom those particular goods or services are marketed in the ordinary course of the supplier’s business;
(b) a person who has entered into a transaction with a supplier in the ordinary course of the supplier’s business, unless the transaction is exempt from the application of this Act by section 5(2) or in terms of section 5(3);
(c) if the context so requires or permits, a user of those particular goods or a recipient or beneficiary of those particular services, irrespective of whether;
(d) that user, recipient or beneficiary was a party to a transaction concerning the supply of those particular goods or services; and
(e) a franchisee in terms of a franchise agreement, to the extent applicable in terms of section 5(6)(b) to (e)…”
According to the Consumer Protection Act No. 68 of 2008 (CPA), in South Africa, a consumer has got certain rights to certain qualities and guarantees to goods and services consumed. And the suppliers of such goods and services have legal responsibilities to observe these guarantees and warranties which are statutory and jurisprudential in nature and no longer based on mere common law.
Some of the bullet points in the preamble of the CPA are expressly to:
• promote and protect the economic interests of consumers;
• improve access to, and the quality of, information that is necessary so that consumers are able to make informed choices according to their individual wishes and needs;
• protect consumers from hazards to their well-being and safety;
• develop effective means of redress for consumers;
• promote and provide for consumer education, including education concerning the social and economic effects of consumer choices;
• facilitate the freedom of consumers to associate and form groups to advocate and promote their common interests; and
• promote consumer participation in decision-making processes concerning the marketplace and the interests of consumers.
This book is geared at meeting the contents and aims of these bullets in the preamble of the CPA. And, as a consumer of medicines and allied services, you are all duty bound to learn more and more about those rights and participate in actualising them instead of being sheepishly fleeced by the professionals. These people fund their own life styles on our miseries.
Section 5 (1); of the CPA; deals with its application. It renders the CPA applicable to:
(a) every transaction occurring within the Republic, unless it is exempted by subsection (2), or in terms of subsections (3) and (4);
(b) the promotion of any goods or services, or of the supplier of any goods or services, within the Republic, unless:
(i) those goods or services could not reasonably be the subject of a transaction to which this Act applies in terms of paragraph (a); or
(ii) the promotion of those goods or services has been exempted in terms of subsections (3) and (4);
(c) goods or services that are supplied or performed in terms of a transaction to which this Act applies, irrespective of whether any of those goods or services are offered or supplied in conjunction with any other goods or services, or separate from any other goods or services; and
(d) goods that are supplied in terms of a transaction that is exempt from the application of this Act, but only to the extent provided for in subsection (5).
Section 5 (2); on the other hand, provides that: “This Act does not apply to any transaction—
(a) in terms of which goods or services are promoted or supplied to the State;
(b) in terms of which the consumer is a juristic person whose asset value or annual turnover, at the time of the transaction, equals or exceeds the threshold value determined by the Minister in terms of section 6;
(c) if the transaction falls within an exemption granted by the Minister in terms of subsections (3) and (4);
(d) that constitutes a credit agreement under the National Credit Act, but the goods or services that are the subject of the credit agreement are not excluded from the ambit of this Act;
(e) pertaining to services to be supplied under an employment contract;
(f) giving effect to a collective bargaining agreement within the meaning of section 23 of the Constitution and the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995); or
(g) giving effect to a collective agreement as defined in section 213 of the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995).”
Section 5 (3) of the CPA also allows room for a regulatory authority to “apply to the Minister for an industry-wide exemption from one or more provisions of this Act on the grounds that those provisions overlap or duplicate a regulatory scheme administered by that regulatory authority in terms of:
(a) any other national legislation; or
(b) any treaty, international law, convention or protocol.”
With regard to those exemptions that the Minister has already granted, to date, under the provision in section 5(2) of the CPA, in the 2016 SCA case of Eskom Holdings Limited v Halstead-Cleak ZASCA 150, the Court referred to the definition of ‘consumer’ in the CPA. The Court stated that a consumer is a person who buys goods and services, as well as persons who act on their behalf or use products that have been bought by consumers.
The Minister of Trade and Industry and in terms of Government Gazette No. 34181 – Notice 294 of 2011, the Minister has determined that the monetary threshold applicable to the size of the juristic person in terms of section 5 (2) (b) of the CPA is R2 000 000.00 (Two Million Rands). The CPA does not apply to any transaction as per section 2 (b) in terms of which the consumer is a juristic person whose asset value or annual turnover, at the time of the transaction, equals or exceeds the threshold value. Further, in terms of section 5(7) of the CPA the threshold does not apply in respect of franchise agreements.
However, the threshold for a juristic person in terms of the CPA has been set by the Minister. The Minister has exempted certain industries from certain sections of the CPA for a limited period of time. These are:
(1) the Collective Investment Schemes Industry which was exempted from various sections of the CPA including the provisions of Chapters 3 and 6 of the CPA. However, this exemption applied from 1 April 2011 for only a period of 18 months;
(2) the Pension Funds Industry, which was exempted from various sections of the CPA including the provisions of Chapters 3 and 6 of the CPA. And it is noteworthy that this exemption also applied from 1 April 2011 for 18 months; and
(3) the Securities Services industry which was exempted from various provisions including chapters 3 and 6 of the CPA from 1 April 2011 for an indefinite period .
I do not get the sense that medical services could be exempted from the CPA application. The medicines supplied by the supply chain also qualify as goods that a consumer purchases and is entitled enjoy them. The consumer should also be able to invoke the provisions of the CPA. The existence of the HPCSA should not detract from patients enjoying the protection under the CPA. The side effects that consumers suffer when they had come for medical attention could always be subject of law suits both under the CPA and in civil delictual matters.
Chapter Eight
Protections in Medical law
Section 1 of the Health Professions Act 56 of 1974, defines ‘‘Unprofessional conduct’’ to mean ‘‘disgraceful or dishonourable or unworthy conduct or conduct which, when regard is had to the profession of a person who is registered in terms of this Act, is improper or disgraceful or dishonourable or unworthy’’. Section 41A of the Health Professions Act 56 of 1974 vests a professional board of the HPCSA to investigate alleged unprofessional conduct by practitioners. Such disciplinary inquiries are carried out by the professional conduct committee, because the council delegated this authority to the professional conduct committee (in terms of s 15(1) (f) of the Act).
In Louwrens v Oldwage (case 181/2004 unreported), the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in South Africa, heard the matter of a surgeon, who completed vascular operation on the Mr Oldwage, after he had suffered unbearable pain in his right leg. In this case, the patient had submitted, among other things that the doctor (surgeon) had failed or omitted to warn him of claudication occurring. The patient had further asserted that there was no adequate consent to the ensuing surgery and that this omission had rendered the operation a criminal assault.
In Castell v De Greef 1994 (4) SA 408 (C) the court held that a doctor has an obligation to warn a patient of any material risks intrinsic in the anticipated treatment, where a risk would be material in the particular circumstances. In Richter and Another v Estate Hammann 1976 (3) SA 226 (C) at 232G-H, the court had approved the “reasonable doctor” test in deciding what is material and what is not.
In an English case of Sidaway v Bethlehem Royal Hospital Governors (1984) 1 All ER 1018 (CA); AC 871 (1985) 1 All ER (HL), the court had held that a doctor should act “in accordance with a practice accepted at the time as proper by a responsible body of medical opinion, even though other doctors adopt a different practice” (1030h). This is the tricky part that still leaves the final decision to the doctor and their popular opinions. And the concern is that since they are capable, some of them at least, of colluding with each other as they also hunt in packs and fleece the patients in distress, what would stop them from formulating opinions to cover for each of their own atrocities?
In an Australian case of Rosenberg v Percival [2001] HCA 18, the court approved the requirement for medical treatment to be patient centric. This was already following an earlier decision in Rogers v Whitaker (1993) 67 ALJR 47. The brief gist of this finding was that in consumer centrism, it is not so much the opinion of the doctor and other doctors, that matters, but that of the Court. This then would substitute the “reasonable doctor” test with a “reasonable judge” test. But this approach would still have to take in South Africa if it has not already done so.
In the case of South Africa, seeing that this book will be read across the world, after a number of individual consumer complaints have been received by the NCC, the latter can decide to chase a residual issue regarding prohibited conduct. This would occur if the NCC surmises, from a number of real complaints from consumers, against a given supplier, that the latter has engaged in prohibited conduct under the CPA. This then becomes a separate issue from the individual complaints themselves and is prosecutable directly by the NCC in its own capacity. When and in the event that this occurs, the individual consumer complaints could be used as evidence.
Judgments from the Tribunal; finding against the given supplier could also be used and judicially noticed by the Tribunal even if coming as submissions - as opposed to direct evidence. Even the civil courts are statutorily required to recognise Tribunal findings against a supplier as prima facie proof that a prohibited conduct has been determined against a supplier.
This is because, in terms of the law, if the Tribunal finds that the Respondent has engaged in conduct that is prohibited under the CPA, the Tribunal will be entitled to impose any order that gives effect to a consumer right as contemplated in the CPA.
It is trite law that the Tribunal is a creature of statute. As such it is empowered to only hear matters that it is specifically empowered by statute to hear. The Tribunal was established in terms of section 26 of the NCA (as amended) and had its functions and powers extended with the enactment of the Consumer Protection Act, Act 68 of 2008 (CPA.) It derives its jurisdiction from these laws.
Other laws that protect consumers are numerous. In the case of South Africa, section 18 of the National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003), provides the right for any user of health services to lay a complaint about the manner in which he or she was treated at a health establishment. According to its Annual Report for 2018-19 of the Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC), its purpose is that of protecting and promoting the health and safety of users of health services. And one of these services is ensuring that complaints about non-compliance with prescribed norms and standards are considered, investigated and disposed of in a procedurally fair, economical and expeditious manner.
Kahn (2018) reported how the OHSC having seen an increase in grievances to its consumer hotline in the wake of the Life Esidimeni. This was based on a report that OHSC had presented in parliament. tragedy‚ “The OHSC - is a statutory body charged with safeguarding standards at healthcare facilities - inspects hospitals and clinics‚ and launched a call centre in November 2016 for members of the public to lodge complaints they had been unable to resolve.” South Africa also has a Health Ombudsman (Siphiwe Mndaweni was its Chief Executive Officer in 2018).
The Minister of Health promulgated the Norms and Standards Regulations on the 2 February 2018. These came into operation on the 2 February 2019 and apply to the Public sector hospitals, as set out Government Gazette, No 35101; Public sector clinics; Public sector community health centres; Private sector acute hospitals; and Private sector primary healthcare clinics and centres.
The National Health Insurance (NHI) is established informed on the underpinnings of universal health coverage, equity, right of access to basic healthcare and social solidarity, irrespective of a person’s socio-economic status. The OHSC report (Op Cit.) also highlights the assertion that in concurrent with health-specific policies and legislation, the Batho Pele principles govern all public services, including healthcare delivery.
The Batho Pele (“People First”) principles encourage service-orientation, excellence and improved delivery among public servants. It has eight (8) principles aimed at enhancing public service delivery (since 2007) which consist of Regularly consulting with customers; upholding high service standards; Increasing access to services; Ensuring higher levels of courtesy; Providing more and better information about services; Increasing openness and transparency about services; Remedying failures and mistakes; and Giving the best possible value for money.
Just looking at the foregoing Batho Pele Principles alone, it is clear that even at its best, the pharmaceutical and health services industry and profession cannot be said to be meeting any of the above standards. At least no single person who has snapped out of the waking hypnotic trance can make such a claim with a straight face- even if forced to do so at gun point (bribe, black mail or threat to their lives).
Other statutes that the report lists that are worth considering in dealing with the contents and assertions in this book include:
• Medical Schemes Act, 1998 (Act No. 131 of 1998); it regulates the medical schemes industry to ensure alignment with national health objectives;
• National Health Laboratory Service Act, 2000 (Act No. 37 of 2000); which registers medicines and other medicinal products for safety, quality and efficacy and provides pricing transparency;
• Pharmacy Act, 1974 (Act No. 53 of 1974); which acts as a statutory body for laboratory services to the public health sector;
• Medicines and Related Substances Act, 1965 (Act No. 101 of 1965); which regulates the health professions, specifically medical practitioners, dentists, psychologists and other health-related professions, including their community services;
• Health Professions Act, 1974 (Act No. 56 of 1974); which; as already covered in Chapter 8, above, regulates the pharmacy profession, including community service by pharmacists;
• Nursing Act, 2005 (Act No. 33 of 2005; which regulates the nursing profession;
• Allied Health Professions Act, 1982 (Act No. 63 of 1982); which regulates health practitioners such as chiropractors, homeopaths and others, and for the establishment of a council to regulate these professions;
• Dental Technicians Act, 1979 (Act No. 19 of 1979); which regulates dental technicians and the establishment of a Council to regulate the profession;
• Hazardous Substances Act, 1973 (Act No. 15 of 1973); which Controls hazardous substances, particularly those that emit radiation;
• Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act No. 54 of 1972) which regulates foodstuffs, cosmetics and disinfectants and sets quality and safety standards for their sale, manufacturing and importation; and
• Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, 1973 (Act No. 78 of 1973); which provides for medical examinations of persons suspected of having contracted occupational diseases, especially in mines, and for compensation in respect of those diseases.
The report (OHSC, 2018-19, p.55) indicates that the Complaints Centre and Assessment registered 1904 complaints in the OHSC Complaints Management System during the reporting period. Of these complaints, 1588 (83.4%) were resolved; 16 (1%) of which were resolved after six months. Resolution of low-risk complaints in the Call Centre accounted for 77.84% (1082/1390) and those resolved through screening accounted for 49.42% (43/87).
The distribution of complaints received by source of such complaints was as follows:
Budget Year Public Private Municipality Military Emergencies NGOs Total
2017/18 819 225 71 3 1 3 1122
2018/19 1322 430 120 11 7 4 1904
The distribution of complaints received by mode of such complaints was as follows:
Budget Year Email Telephone Walk in Post Social Media Total
2017/18 632 452 19 11 8 1122
2018/19 1535 344 15 8 2 1904
The foregoing table shows that while there is a modest increase in the number of complaints, the method by which they are lodged is increasingly more formal and carefully throughout, the 2018/ 19 reporting period.
Chapter Nine
Professional Ethics
As already indicated elsewhere in this book, the Council (HPCSA) in the case of South Africa; registers and attaches ethical codes on registered practitioners; determined and monitored through their various professional boards. But these are peer based rather than court based, save for those cases where the court has determined otherwise. This has also been covered under the chapter 8. It is the research aspect, where for instance, the efficacy and safety of certain drugs and treatments are being laboratory or otherwise tested before being reported upon.
According to the Cambridge University Dictionary, a principle is a basic idea or rules that explain how something works or happens. It also describes it as a moral rule or standard of ethical behaviour or fair dealing. Furthermore, research, on the other hand, is defined as “careful consideration of study regarding a particular concern or a problem using scientific methods.”
The narrow meaning of ethics “the use of the right rules of conduct essential when carrying out research…” (Unicaf University; 2019. p.1). The university also highlights the moral accountability of researchers to shield research partakers from detriment, deference their rights, discretion, privacy, autonomy, and dignity (Ibid.). While the lecturers couch the concern about ethics in their relationship also with the law, this has the validity that Winston K.I.; (1988) speaks of.
The law deals with mundane issues. It prescribes minimum standards for society to adhere to for the common good. Ethics, on the other hand deal with the higher standards or the law as it ought to be (but is not yet so). This assertion does not take away that enacted laws at times elevate the violation of ethics as unlawful, delictually, and criminally. Expert witnesses in the field of that profession, however, have to assist courts in determining matters on such obscure issues. Researchers, by their very nature, would feature more on the latter category of experts in their fields, which are generally inaccessible to the general lay public in an area (Winston, 1988).
The lecturers correctly point out the function of research ethics principles in the formulation of “human …and… animal experimentation, academic scandal, including scientific misconduct (such as fraud, fabrication of data and plagiarism), whistleblowing; regulation of research…” (Unicaf University; 2019: p.1). In this list, they also include concerns with transgressions and delinquency of the researchers with examples of fraud, plagiarism, and regulations (Ibid.). Here, the overarching feature is the question of conflict between the interests of the researcher and those of the participants in that research (Ibid.).
The five main ethical principles to research correctly spelled out by the Unicaf University (2019) are those, inherited and extrapolated from the field of medicine, which includes:
(a) Autonomy—free-will or agency;
(b) Beneficence—do good;
(c) Non-maleficence—do not harm;
(d) Justice —social distribution of benefits and burdens; and
(e) Adherence to legal provisions that may apply in a field. These provisions could include those prescribed by the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki (British Medical Journal, 1996).
One now examines each of these principles individually and occasionally in pairs and contrasts. In this part, one unsympathetically and judgmentally analyses, scrutinizes and evaluates these other ethical principles.
Autonomy—free-will or agency
Principle 9 under that Declaration requires and ethically compels the researcher to sufficiently inform and educate the human subject on the expected benefits of the research, the likely and possible dangers of the study and any distress, disquiet, and discomposure, and awkwardness that may ensue during or after the examination.
The obligation of the researcher is to inform the participants of their right and option to exit the study or experiments at any time when they feel like. And this must be without any punitive measures or repercussions to their integrity and comfort. The researcher should keep written consent in this regard.
The criticism that we can level at this requirement could explain perhaps that there appear to be no safeguards as in the building and construction profession. In such fields, the builders are required to obtain inspection certificates from neutral and independent, state-sanctioned, monitoring authorities, after certain vital phases of the project, before they can proceed with the next stage. This checking ensures that no latent defects that are difficult to pick out; later fall between the cracks. Undue influence should also be absent in the relationship between subject and researcher.
Essential Principle 2 in that Helsinki Declaration mitigates this concern by requiring that “the design and performance of each experimental procedure … be formulated in an experimental protocol which should be transmitted to a specially appointed independent committee for consideration, comment, and guidance.”
The criticism that this principle could attract would perhaps be that of inadequacy in language. The everyday language usage is on its own a barrier between subject and researcher. Nevertheless, this barrier becomes more pronounced in cases where the researcher has to translate from Science to layperson’s language, from Lay English to an indigenous language. In the case of South Africa, a trial of a tuberculosis vaccine, for instance, being tested at a rural village at the remotest provinces; could need one to first translate from science to plain English. The next step would be to translate from English to Zulu. After this, one has to finally translate from Zulu to the urban or contemporary slang spoken by the villagers – owing to urban decadence and illiteracy. Consent in such areas can certainly not be real unless all these series of translations can be specific.
Informed consent cannot be present where the human subjects have merely signed carefully crafted instruments where the translation is not as exhaustive as indicated above. The consent also marries itself to the need for infants (infantes) and minors (impubere) to possess the assistance of an adult and guardian when taking part in such experiments (Principle 11 of the Helsinki Declaration).
Beneficence—do good
Concerning this principle to beneficence, Principle 4 of the Helsinki Declaration prohibits biomedical research involving human subjects from proceeding unless the worth of its purpose is in fair balance to the inherent risk to the subject. Principle 5 in the same declaration also requires that such research should follow a thorough examination of foreseeable risks in comparison with anticipatable benefits to the subject or others. Apprehensions for the wellbeing of the subject must always trump that of science and society. In this regard, given the dozens of side effects that each western drug carries, every drug that pharmaceuticals manufacture and sell and doctors prescribe, should not make it past this principle.
Non-maleficence— “do no harm”
The principle of non-maleficence flows from Principle 7 in the Declaration prohibits human-based research from proceeding - unless the researcher and the standing committees, where applicable, satisfy themselves that foreseeable risks and threats that could imperil the human subjects; do not outweigh the possible benefits to the subject.
Justice —social distribution of benefits and burdens
Article II, on the Medical Research Combined with Professional Care (Clinical Research), and paragraph 1 of that Helsinki Declaration, requires that “The potential benefits, hazards, and discomfort of a new method should be weighed against the advantages of the best current diagnostic and therapeutic methods” World Medical Association (1996).
In its introduction, the Declaration also impels that researchers and their associations should keep recommendations prepared by the World Medical Association to guide all physicians in biomedical research carried out on human subjects. It also declares further that “Physicians are not relieved from criminal, civil and ethical responsibilities under the law of their own countries.” This is an international bases from which such practitioners ca n and should be sued for their expensive and unwarranted insincerity.
Other general cross-cutting requirements concerning research ethics cover the need for Researchers to warranty that research subjects; will not suffer any harm, mentally, physically, or emotionally (embarrassment), fear, and the like.
Van den Hoonaard, W.C.; (2000) informs of the ethical thrust of research involving humans (and animals) emanated from the sound of the repulsions and terrors of World War II. This is at the time when medical try-outs advanced depressing societal aims (concerning Charbonneau, 1984: 20). What is known as the Nuremberg Code also attempted to project the use of such prominent experiments by classifying a set of feasible, ethical rules for medical, scientific. It also projects social research, with specific weight on educated permission.
The Nuremberg Code (1947) requires doctors to avoid activities that harm actively human patients. It also requires that the researcher concerned should have the legal capacity to give consent; in a position to exercise unrestricted control of choice, in absence of compulsion, fraud, treachery, duress, tricking, or other ulterior form of constriction or coercion. This must occur while possessing sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved. And that in turn, is to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.
Chapter Ten
Do pharmaceuticals bribe doctors?
It appears certain that Pharmaceutical companies do pay doctors as their agents of death. This applies even to those who opted for medicines as an altruistic ideal. They discover before they finish medical school that the dollar is the boss, not conscience. This gives meaning to what Albert Einstein observed and captured by the quip that: “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.” He also later said that “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
This is the death of patients who get killed slowly through the illness causing drugs – side effects – Thompson (2017). Thompson (Ibid) also reports how about 50% of pharmaceutical companies paid doctors and medical device industries about $2.4 billion in 2015 alone. And that is only in the USA. We all know that these companies exist everywhere else they can deliver their drugs. They are now the massive elite and egg nests of the 10% of the super-rich that use the poor as their own feeding fodder and Guinea pigs.
He also reports that doctors who work at medical centres tend towards prescribing cheaper generic drugs than the expensive branded versions. But this happens whenever their hospitals adopt rules restricting sales visits from Pharmaceutical companies. The results of the surveys that revealed those practices are more professionally and in an erudite manner captured by Lo and Grady (2017) and Fontanarosa P, Bauchner H. (2017). In the said reports, the authors reveal that:
“The federal Open Payments database makes public the amount and type of payments from drug and device companies to individual physicians. It seems plausible that very large payments warrant greater concern about conflict of interest causing bias and undue influence. The degree of concern will vary, however, according to the type of financial relationship and the nature of the physician’s advice or activity. In several situations, the existence of bias can be investigated directly, or the financial relationship effectively and simply managed.”
And regarding the conflict of interest, Fontanarosa and Bauchner (2017) report that such conflict of interest between drug manufacturers and the practitioners, covers the whole supply chain management. And this coverage includes medicine, including clinical care, teaching, and research. Conflict of Interests is defined by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors as:
“A conflict of interest exists when professional judgment concerning a primary interest (such as patients' welfare or the validity of research) may be influenced by a secondary interest (such as financial gain). Perceptions of conflict of interest are as important as actual conflicts of interest.”
And 48% of all the USA medical doctors in 2015 consisted of 449 864.
Ritchie, et al. (1996); iterate the fact that intellectual property rights ("IPRs") warrant the originator or the corporation which files a title on the inventor's behalf, the special right to use, and trade a new product or process know-how, frequently for a period of seventeen to twenty years.
Commonly, IPRs take the form of copyrights, trademarks or patents and customarily fall under the sphere of state law. Separable states all over the world have espoused different IPR laws, in an endeavour to balance the benefits of commerce's desire to exploit on its funds in scientific improvement with humanity's civil rights to profit from the knowledge and the assets of its country.
Under the new guidelines of the Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ("GATT"), all participant countries must obey their national IPR laws with certain necessities of the GATT agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights ("TRIPs"). The GATT's TRIPs provisions will change the method in which plants, animals, and other biological resources are used for agrarian and pharmaceutical purposes.
The TRIPs Agreement embraces an industrial model whereby the products of scientific research become the private property of its corporate sponsors. It also embraces new rules developed during the Uruguay Round conflict with numerous current national laws; customs of many agrarian and indigenous communities. These are where knowledge of the dietary and therapeutic uses of plants and the outcomes of plant propagation; are communal (as a public resource).
Ritchie et al (1996, p. 432); also signal that “the TRIPs Agreement threatens national sovereignty, Third World development, and human health.” They also submit that certain countries have permitted patents on processes but not products. In this way, hey ensure that domestic firms can cultivate merchandises of community value, such as medicines and seeds through a process of reverse engineering- Carolyn (1991).
Whereas these companies might not copy the principles of patented merchandises, they could generate their own recipes which yield matching outcomes. Countless states also use "compulsory licensing" laws to ensure that companies do not withhold useful products from the public. But the fact of the matter is that the natural products like spices, and minerals and diet are not for the companies to withhold. They do not own them. We have those things available from the grocery stores and supermarkets. Better still, we can just grow them ourselves even if we have to set up cooperatives to produce them and distribute them among ourselves.
Traditionally, India has staved off patents in pharmaceutical and agricultural products, on basis that these merchandises are crucial to public wellbeing. Of late its Parliament declined to pass legislation to conform its national IPR laws TRIPs. Argentina, on the other hand, has used its IPR laws to cultivate a solid pharmacological sector which has funded expansively to its domestic frugality and, developed as a great contestant in the worldwide marketplace. Brazil is seeking to mirror Argentina's success with its IPR laws.
Ritchie et al (1996, p. 435); also reveal that: “In developing new products, the first step consists of removing plant samples from the field and transporting them to the laboratory. Next, scientists move a single gene from one spot to another within a cell. Irrespective of whether an actual variation results in the next generation, a "plant variety" is created which is deemed sufficiently "new" to qualify as a patentable invention. But this is just like someone stealing your writing works by just rephrasing and not acknowledging that they used your idea. But we the public should not be vilified for continuing to use and share indigenous and ancient knowledge about certain healing and preventive plants, soils, minerals and practices they keep us healed, cured and healthy. This is extortion.
Ritchie et al (1996, Ibid) also report that in the United States, the Asgrow Seed Company, a subsidiary of the Upjohn Company, sued two Iowa farmers, Denny and Becky Winterboer, for harvesting and selling a variety of seed which had sexually reproduced in their field. This is an example of a pharmaceutical rogue bullying the small farmers, whose livelihood is farming, from exploiting what nature has provided them.
Ritchie et al (1996, p.437) also reveal how additionally to frightening national autonomy and the domination of vegetation and seeds, the GATT-TRIPs Agreement will hamper the third world from accomplishing self-sufficiency in pharmacological production. Third World drug manufacturers will be dissuaded from producing, or forcibly expurgated from business altogether; by pharmaceutical transnational corporations ("TNCs"). Since legal protection has moved in support of TNCs, the prominence of indigenous fabrication and expansion of home-grown know-how and wealth; has been disregarded. That is more the reason to fight back and regain this usurped human right to exploit nature without the permission of the rogue elements.
To deliberate honestly; the allure of transnational patent safeguard, both sides must admit that they have been engaging in intellectual assets theft, such plagiarising fuels expansion. The TRIPs agreement, however, simply seeks to widen the scope of antipiracy execution. The TRIPs Agreement affords patent shelter for twenty years starting on the date of filing. It later permits an added twenty years of patent protection to the manufacturing process; if that process is new. Once a product patent has expired, other industrialists are able to fabricate that product. If the engineering process is still under shield though, the novel competitor has to develop an alternate fabrication process. The burden of proof is on the secondary manufacturer to prove that its new method is in fact exclusive.
It’s about time we form cooperatives that can crowd fund research that will cure and heal and prevent (through inoculation and vaccinations), diseases. In so doing, we should start a movement that keeps us from the medical and medicine; butchers and herds us to cures, healings and effective treatments that lead to these (healings and cures). Once we dry up the feeding troughs for the voracious swine (creators and benefiters from swine flu); they might start competing to come and outdo us on real cures as well. That will be what can be regarded as “a healthy competition”, literally. (No pun intended this time). This will trigger that healthy move and growth towards medications and health care that supports life than aggressively obliterate it from the face of the planet.
This is better than going about it by politically or legally forcing the transnationals to all of a sudden contribute towards our lives and heath. Let them freely and democratically continue selling their poisons and killing those consumers that will still remain fools. Once they have finished them, we will be well on our way to a guaranteed good health. But the one thing certain is that they should find that they have run out of the market and gullible consumers of their death spreading substances and behaviours.
Failing the foregoing, due to this heavy burden and the fear of legal action, small firms may not be willing to enter the market. Without competition; present monopolies represented by TNCs, will become more powerful in the Third World pharmaceutical trade. This absence of competition will surge prices and reduce customer service. In order for Article34 to be fair, the onus of proof should rest on the wealthier accuser and not the accused Third World manufacturer. The present system of imposing the onus of proof on the accused will severely limit the capacity of the indigenous pharmaceutical industry to compete with TNCs. This is another example of laws supporting the super-rich at the expense of the poor minions.
The authors conclude at page 438 that:
“The present system of imposing the burden of proof on the accused will severely limit the capacity of the indigenous pharmaceutical industry to compete with TNCs.”
Since the pharmaceutical industry requires huge capital investments and expensive product promotions, indigenous industries are unable to compete and create a market share for themselves. But this could also just as easily be when they are competing to produce the same lethal medicines that kill faster and drastically than the diseases they are aimed at treating. What we are calling for here is the total 180 degree move from producing poisonous and lethal treatments that kill us faster than the diseases, but producing those that heal, cure and prevent illness. While the pharmaceuticals have come to steal, kill and destroy, we must come that all may have life and have it more abundantly - John 10:10. And unity is strength in this regard. The contributions that people are forced to make to medical aid schemes; will best be channelled to these healing schemes and divested from the killing scams. We can start slogans such as “from killing scams to healing schemes”.
They (Ritchie et al) also caution that in certain instances, TNCs apply for a patent in a particular country, but do not actually set up manufacturing facilities in the host country. This result in the existence of the drug manufactured, but not the fabrication process, being imported to that country. Such non-use practice reflects a North/South imbalance apparent in the fact that over eighty percent of Third World patents in Third World nations are owned by foreigners, mainly TNCs. Furthermore, over ninety-five percent of these foreign-held patents are not used in these nations. One also agrees with their conclusion that “this kind of patent protection blocks local competition.”
The phenomenon where manufacturers manufacture poisonous substances in one country but sell them to poor countries in Africa and Asia could be a clear indication that in the sophisticated countries, some of the users are half awake. They do check the efficacy of certain suspicious drugs with massive aggressive side effects and ban them. In the third world, the bribes revealed in the research means that the poisons are not only freely sold to the unsuspecting public, but are even pushed down their throats by governments. These governments will buy those poisons in bulk on behalf of the victims using tax payer cash, and the turn around and avail them; for free; in public programmes.
Lubick (2010) reveals, inter alia, how an assortment of urogenital aberrations in male babies born to women living in an area of South Africa where the potentially endocrine-disrupting pesticide DDT is still used. She was reporting on a research finding published online on 23 October 2009 in BJU International. The researchers had correctly concluded that, malformations were connected to the mothers’ DDT exposure. The Limpopo province is the one from which the top athlete and well publicised Caster Semenya hails. Semenya is known for her testosterone tests notorious in the media and who ended up marrying another female. But her own gender had been questioned when all the well-publicised and still new uproar followed. DDT is a pesticide which has been banned in the first world counties for a long time, but had still been used in South Africa, among others.
She further reports on the fact that the use of DDT ceased globally, when in 2004, a ban on it came to effect under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. However; South Africa; and other signatories; wherever the notorious killer malaria prevalence was widespread; continue to use DDT. This devastating pesticide decimates human lives under the guise that it controls the malaria carrying mosquitoes. This remained in use in the face of the World Health Organization (WHO) having estimated that it killed an estimated more than 700,000 African children annually. The marketing and hypnotic spin in favour if the continued use of the killer DDT is the notorious claim that it remains the most effective and inexpensive prevention against mosquito-borne malaria. This hype is touted despite of the other known fact that the malaria carrying insects do develop a resistance to DDT and other chemical control methods-including pyrethroid pesticides. This continued also despite the fact that Stockholm signatories still using DDT were vociferously urged to find replacements.
The victims of the DDT use and their families who are traumatised by the stigma that comes with urogenital aberrations should be assisted to sue those manufacturers, distributers and corrupt users of these dangerous and socially devastating DDT pesticides and their related substances. Churches should assist with the funding of such suits and take law suits. Pro Bono services of law firms and counsel that value human life should also chip in to some degree, and fight these evil rogues and stamp out their evil perpetrators as they amount to crimes against humanity. To underpin the marching orders under this call, one should take note of the scriptural call in Psalm 82:3-6 to:
“Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.”
Ritchie, et al (1996) further complain of the imported patented products that happen to be inherently more expensive and adversely affect the balance of trade in a developing country. Article 27 of the TRIPs agreement, which decrees equal patent fortification for imported and locally manufactured products; will worsen this imbalance. Consequently the world community should re-evaluate Article 27 and encourage local production to improve the balance of trade of Third World countries.
On the life harming aspect, the authors correctly claim, at p. 441 that:
“GATT-TRIPs provisions also will permit pharmaceutical TNCs to create monopolies resulting in extremely high prices of medicines in Third World countries. Low-income consumers will have to pay higher prices for essential medicines. Many life-saving medicines will simply be unavailable due to the problem of non-use of patents previously described in this Article.”
At p.446, the authors allude to India, for example, having peasant manufacturers cultivating about 50,000 diversities of rice, which have emerged through old-fashioned farming methods over the millennia. Such amazing diversity ascended from elusive dissimilarities in the topsoil and in the climatic circumstances, occurring due to modification, evolution, and the intentional submission of traditional preferences. The GATT-TRIPs rules, however, would prohibit these farmers from harvesting and reusing the seed of any rice variety which has been patented.
Chapter Eleven
Rewarding Medical Professionals
We have to reimagine our medical assistance focus and orientation. We are currently paying fire fighters for starting fires. As a result, the fires are increasing in number and are taking longer to put out. We are soon running out of forest and wood as a result, metaphorically speaking. In ancient China, village physicians used to be incentivised for the health of a village and not the treatment of disease. My firefighting example in Piggs Peak comes to mind.
The only challenge we have, though, is that while we are a more permanent payer, we are not the highest bidder for the surreptitious services and loyalties of the professional fraternity. The whole emerging picture indicates that those professionals are also under the employment of the transnational manufacturers and equally owned; like the politicians and gangs, by the members of the Bohemian Grove (Chapter 15). You will ask how this is so? But the answer is simple really and hidden in full view of all. Glibly speaking, one can even aver that before academics and researchers obtain our installations into professorships, we have doctorates conferred. And the process of conferring a doctorate conferred, (as do other graduates at lower levels), we are garnished with gowns and hoods. The public and we are all hoodwinked. First you get the hood placed on your shoulders as a ceremonial ritual and then the Chancellor of that university caps you. From that kneeling position, you get baptised and dubbed Dr. so and so.
But there appears to be something more sinister than that. The rich do not chase after these accolades. But they fund those displays of honour and social elevation of the brainiest among members of society. But the rich also control these brains and the brain power that reside within the fraternity. They are the ones that offer prizes for such achievements. They grant research funds and budgets. They even sponsor top scholarships to all the prestigious qualifications and faculties in various universities. They target with their funding; only the most brilliant minds even if they come from poor backgrounds. It’s a very sophisticated form of slave branding and shackling. The most brilliant minds are even bribed with grants to research obscure questions.
Answers to these research questions are rewarded with further grants to research even more topics. But what is worth noting is what happens to the research reports.
The sponsors usually end their “spy type handlers” to debrief; under the guise of extracting interim research reports, from the research teams or their leaders. And the interest lies in converting any findings of the research endeavour into products or technologies that can be packaged as intellectual property; to oppress the consumer with. If a product appears to cure HIV–AIDS for instance, but cannot be patented due the intellectual property and patents laws of a jurisdiction, then that research report will be suppressed by the funder. In such cases, 70% efficacy may be termed inconclusive. But when they want a product, the report writer may be persuaded to find that 40% is significant in proving that a drug works.
If for instance, the laboratory results may conclusively show that a certain herbal remedy used by the indigenous people of a literate society; cures certain ailments 90% of the time, the handlers will insist that the report be edited to show that the substance has been found to remedy the ailment in “some” cases or in “many” cases. This of its own is not untrue but misleading. They just tweak the report, and argue until the cows come home for such seemingly “minor tweaks” – ostensibly “not to raise hopes of the readership too high.”
And then when the same reputable and celebrated academic researcher performs some laboratory experiments, and concludes that a synthetic drug, with 36 side effects has managed to mask pain and relieve symptoms to 40% of the test sample, the report will be tweaked to indicate that a whole 40% has been found to be benefiting from this medicine. The complicated scatter graph variables showing data and the analysis of that data will be plotted in packaging inserts to convince the market that this substance does what it is touted to do. The 36 side effects that it packs as Trojan soldiers with the medicine playing Trojan house will be indicated in subdued tones. The narration will sound something like: “some side effects may be experienced in rare cases including …”
So, the one who pays the piper decides the tune the music will carry. If it fails, they can even terminate the project and fund another more pliable professor to carry out the experiment and rewrite the report. They pay for holidays, sponsorships for study trips. Where a researcher could have obtained answers from a desk top survey, the sponsors will insist that you travel overseas to make a field survey “in loco.” A spouse may even be allowed to accompany a researcher with 5 star hotel accommodation and business class flight tickets and VIP lounge facilities. To a poor but highly esteemed professor, this is everything. Academics do not have money you see. That is why they scramble over board appointments to run businesses of the rich and receive peanuts for their trouble. If, as academics, we are to learn how money works, and stop being slaves of the rich, albeit higher class slaves, we would be the ones that are rich. And we would truthfully write research reports that say what we found, and mean what we say.
In short, this above phenomenon is like in the matter of who counts the votes in an election. It does not matter how the electorate votes. Those that pay the electoral commission can simply mess up the entire voting population and take care of those who count the votes. Just as Joseph Stalin is credited of saying "It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes."
Joseph Staling, of the erstwhile Soviet Union, is also quoted as having once quipped, regarding the voting in the Central Committee of the Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, that: “I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how” (Bazhanov, 2002).
This quote has found many variations from https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stalin-vote-count-quote/ such as:
“As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it?” — attributed to William M. “Boss” Tweed in Thomas Nast cartoon, 7 October 1871).
“I care not who casts the votes of a nation, provided I can count them,’ Napoleon failed to remark.” — New York Times editorial (26 May 1880).
“There’s more to an election than mere votin’, my boy, for as an eminent American once said: ‘I care not who casts the votes of a nation if they’ll let me make the count.” — from Uncle Henry, a novel by George Creel, 1922.
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting, Archie says.” — From Jumpers, a play by Tom Stoppard, 1972.
“Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.” — Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (1896-1956), Guardian (London), 17 June 1977.
In the case of the medical concerns, and the product of research grants, it appears not to matter what the experiments and tests in the laboratory show. What matters is who the research tweakers manage to insert into these reports – while dangling grants. I didn’t say anything about twerkers. Though some researchers might as well twerk for their grants, the way the story goes.
Any substance that the companies cannot patent, even though it worked and the indigenous people have been living off it for centuries, the transnationals owned by the Bohemian Grove members will be suppressed as potentially dangerous. They will get the laboratories of the governments run by politicians they own, to supress it. These may even be listed under dangerous substances, with tax payer money used to campaign against them.
I was once appointed as a Personnel Manager for an Anglo American subsidiary company called Mondi Forests in Piggs Peak, Swaziland (as it was then known). The striking thing I noticed on arrival was the huge remuneration bill for employees being on a rotational standby and firefighting overtime. Those on standby were not allowed to leave the premises in order to be able to respond to fires once spotted. And a few fires were started by neighbouring rural communities robbing bees of their honey combs. But the rest of the fires became very suspect to me.
Paul Norris, who was my District Manager at the time, agreed for me to carry out a brief survey of this problem as I had perceived it. I was fresh from consulting as a Consultant for the then Coopers and Lybrand Associates. True to form, my study showed that the fires were a result of the company policy that forced employees to rotate on standby, even after hours, on holidays and weekends. I was told that it was standard practice in the forestry industry to have this arrangement agreed with individual employees and their trade unions.
As a result, all employees on standby were paid a standby allowance for these days on standby. But if a fire happened, they were paid extra cash for overtime while fighting the fire. And the amount paid for overtime was directly proportional to the length of time taken on the fire. The longer the fire took to put out, the more the overtime paid to every single employee involved. And that was where the problem laid. On the face of it, employees were playing party games at the offices; waiting for the fire alarms from the plantation lookouts; to go and fight spotted fires. But a closer look, at the payment history, showed clearly that employees, by and large, had realised that playing games at the offices, was less lucrative. It was much more lucrative, and therefore, desirable, for them to have fires to fight as they earned over and above the fixed standby allowances. Need I say more?
So after concluding my study, I came up with a proposal. This proposal entailed scrapping the overtime allowance and importing it into the standby allowance, calculated and averaged over the previous 6 months period for each employee. This had the net effect that the employees got paid more money for actually not putting out fires, while on standby duty, but getting no additional incentive for actually fighting any fires, whether genuine or arson based. As can be expected, the end result was that we started having less fires and more forest. And everybody was happy. Both Paul Norris and his Forest Manager, Frank Knight were extremely pleased with this unsolicited innovative intervention. I dubbed it, “from more fire, less forest, to less fire and more forest”.
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The moral of that story is that if we can structure the medical reward system to practitioners, in such a way that; they are incentivised for keeping communities alive and healthy, we would get more out of their knowledge and expertise, as consumers. And we all are consumers, from president to resident. The kowtowing to pharmaceuticals to fleece the consumers would end - like the Mondi Forest Fires.
With regard to the ethical question, it is clear that the western system of medical treatment is not of benefit to humans. It kills more than it treats. It also kills more than it does not heal. It never cures or heal, except in a very few examples such as those of wounds, fractures where applicable. But wounds do heal all by themselves in any event. So, what western medicine offers on wounds is too little too late in comparison to the pain it inflicts in every other respect. It appears like a perfect scam in that it has managed to hoodwink all humans to believe that it is the best thing that ever happened to humankind. And yet, in my experience, and the un-noticing public, it is the worst thing to ever happen to humankind.
Chandna (2019), reports in India, just to mention one, there had been evidence of pharma companies bribing doctors. These bribes took the form of foreign trips, expensive smartphones and even women. The report added that the bribes also included “purchases of cars, international conferences, online shopping vouchers and even female companionship for doctors”
Among the members of the associations, IDMA, IPA and OPPI; that the government P.D. Vaghela of the Indian Government had warned, were said to be drug makers such as Johnson & Johnson, Bayer, Astra Zeneca, Sun Pharma, Lupin, Glenmark and Novartis.
These are some of the largest multi-nationals that operate or sell in almost all countries of the civilised world. And since they operate in many countries of the world, India cannot be the only country in which these stunts are pulled. India is not the common factor in these issues but the multinationals are.
Wright (2015) also quotes former Vice-President of Pfizer pharmaceuticals saying that:
“It is scary how many similarities there are between this [pharmaceutical] industry and the mob. The mob makes obscene amounts of money, as does this industry. The side effects of organized crime are killings and deaths, and the side effects are the same in this industry. The mob bribes politicians and others, and so does the drug industry …”
Wright (Ibid) also reports that the public should reconsider how we regard the activities and motives of the pharmaceutical corporations. Thinking and believing that they hold the health of the members of society in veneration; needs to be urgently revisited. She accuses pharmaceuticals of “wrongful deaths, extortion, fraud, corruption, obstruction of justice, embezzlement, fake journals, harassment and hit lists that would make even the most hardened Mafia godfather blush.” She further reports how the industry has been fined billions of dollars by the U.S. Department of Justice, and the dismal failure such fines have had as possible deterrents, since the industry merely writes them off as “the cost of doing business.”
The consumers of medicines must organise and mass mobilise to such an extent that we will just be too many for them to take out hits on. After all for the consumer market; this is literally a matter of life and death. And it is only a matter of bullying and murdering on the part of the perpetrators. This writer hates bullies. And since bullies are also cowards who operate under the cover of darkness, surreptitiousness and secret murders, the best way to yank them out and publicly spank and clobber their ears, is to do the very thing they fear most. We have to mass-mobilise, mass educate and mass act.
Apartheid was partly demolished in that way when the anti-apartheid movement grew beyond the imagination of the minority oppressive regime (and its western supporters) that had been so severely discredited. By the time the international community was done with that regime, the regime was already begging to release Mandela and negotiate terms of democratisation. Cowards are always brutal like the current human traffickers. But when the masses get fed up and take matters (not the law) into their own hands, the cowards melt like ice in a hot summer’s day. And it is not the government leaders in countries that help; as these, by and large are employed by the perpetrators and funded by them. It is the ordinary man and woman and boy and girl who must wake up like a sleeping giant, After waking up, they need to produce thunder and lightning (Bliksem and donder in Afrikaans) that makes all the lasting difference.
Since there is an element of killing off, mob style, those who expose the rot in the pharmaceutical industries and their proxies, the one way to deal with them is to mass mobilise against drug manufacturers. We can simply boycott their products and refuse to be abused another day. This can put them out of business. It is also about time the government knew which side its bread is buttered. It is the voter that theoretically puts governments in power; and not the criminals and other funders behind them.
Chapter Twelve
The Placebo –Nocebo Dichotomy
In “You are the Placebo”; Hay House; Dispenza (2014), reveals that healing is in your mind, more than on the organic matter that forms your body. That is why only 30% of patients are alleviated by real medication with efficacy. Most of what doctors serve consists of placebos. The placebo heals even when a patient is told that it is a placebo.
He also reveals how John Lavin MD, PhD, once injected 40 dental patients with distilled water. Believing it was a pain killer, they all went through dental operations without any pain. He had run out of the correct pain killers at an army camp during war in the 1970s. This was because the patients thought they were given morphine – the real pain killer. Most reported relief. Much as a placebo is a real healing substance where accessed, in strict legal terms it would actually amount to fraud and charlatanism.
Then the researchers gave the patients an antidote to morphine called naloxone. This chemical also blocks the receptor sites for both morphine and endorphins in the brain. And the pain returned as if they had been injected with real morphine and it had just been blocked. This proved to the researchers that the placebo was not only in the mind / brain of the patients, but had been in their bodies as well. This means that a thought or belief held becomes a physical molecule and gets deposited from the brain into the body, for real.
This placebo phenomenon is the realm where the so called western scientific minds blend with theologists and actually even find that the theologists have beaten them to it by a few centuries. And it does not end there. There is also the “nocebo”; which is the opposite of the placebo. The Bible at Hebrews 11:1 will say that “faith is the substance of things hoped for and evidence of things not yet seen.” So, this means that it is the title dee of something that you already have but do not see yet. A title deed for a house for instance is not a house. But it is the assurance that a house is symbolically present behind it. Is it possible that what a theologian calls faith is what a scientist calls placebo? You, be the judge of that.
Somebody might say, if the scripture above was real and represented the truth, then all Christians would not need hospitals, and yet we all know that they do. That is not untrue. But it misses the point that going to Church weekly does not make one a Christian, as much as sleeping in a car for 6 months does not turn one into a car. The nocebo, has the opposite effect. A very healthy person; who believes that they have been bewitched, hexed, cursed or hated, will believe the negative to a point of death. Again there are numerous examples of this. But we will not focus on them as we do not want to promote the negative – there is just too much negativity going around, to last us a million years already; as it were.
There are two minds; the conscious -10%; and the subconscious -90%. The 90% consists of feelings, habits, embedded attitudes; which are emotional molecules that sit in the body until deliberately removed. The subconscious mind can only be changed in its own language:
(a) Conditioning;
(b) Repetition;
(c) Hypnosis; Autosuggestion and subliminal messaging. Vitale; J.; (2007) says that Repetition is hypnotic;
(d) Tapping or Emotional Freedom technique (Eft); and
(e) Placebo or nocebo etc.
Dispenza further avers that:
(a) Our bodies renew themselves;
(b) We can harness this aspect intentionally;
(c) We can mentally direct hormones in our bodies for our cells to synthesize;
(d) Our brains are teeming with creation and destruction of neural connections, with change, moment by moment;
(e) We can steer the renewal process intentionally, assuming the position of driver of the vehicle rather than a passive passenger;
(f) Use the epigenetics techniques of turning 75-85% of your genes on and off, by using signals from our environment:
(i) Thoughts;
(ii) Beliefs; and
(iii) Emotions – all of which are within our reach and control;
(g) We can change our internal state in order to impact and effect the change we want to see external to our bodies. This occurs though the physiological process in which:
(i) Your physical brain translates the mental (abstract) intentions that originate in your own brain, into chemical messengers (neuropeptides);
(ii) Sending signals through your body, turning genetic switches “on” and “off”; and
(iii) Translating thought into emotion using the placebo, which you are. It’s your thoughts, emotions and beliefs that are generating chains of physiological events in your body.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2019, p.3) reveals, inter alia, that the objectives of their work in mounting a workshop supervised by Brian Strom, of the Rutgers, State University of New Jersey; was to:
• Review the then obtaining state of data on the efficacy of non-pharmacological handlings and integrative health representations; for pain management, as well as offered data on use configurations and patient interest. Examples were touted to include acupuncture, manual therapies, physical therapy and exercise, cognitive behavioural therapy, tai chi, yoga, meditation, and non-invasive neuro-stimulation;
• Consider multimodal methodologies and potential synergies between pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to pain management;
• Consider multimodal approaches and prospective collaborations between devices and non-pharmacological approaches to pain management;
• Confer on research gaps and key interrogations for more research;
• Scrutinize health professions then obtaining approaches for enlightening learners, trainees, and active clinicians on nonpharmacological pain management, and discuss prospective next steps to advance training and education and across health professions; and
• Reconnoitre guidelines, such as those related to refund that would facilitate broader propagation and execution of evidence-based nonpharmacological treatments when appropriate.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2019, p.5), further highlighted the points that (the workshop participants contributing these points indicated in brackets):
• A significant crack exists between scientific data and clinical practice for pain and the judgments people make about how to manage their pain (Cherkin, Veasley);
• Practitioners, like patients, face a significant gap in measuring and understanding pain, and in assessing the effectiveness and potential harms of treatments (Ryan);
• Effective pain management necessitates accepting and discussing the multidimensional, including biopsychosocial, facets of pain (George, Turk);
• Placebo retorts and inter-individual capriciousness in pain verges and response to treatment may confound valuations of the efficacy of pain handlings (Kroenke, Turk);
• Presently offered approaches of evaluating pain do not fully capture an individual’s experience of soreness (Turk);
• Claims-based information show that nonpharmacological therapies for pain account for only a small fraction of entire costs (Elton);
• When a aching patient’s first point of interaction is a somatic therapist, chiropractor, or acupuncturist, the probabilities of early and long-term experience to opiates is strikingly reduced (Elton); and
• Low-income populaces experience higher rates of pain, disability, and comorbidities, but have fewer entrees to pain management resources, including nonpharmacological treatments (Thorn).
Other issues that emerged in that National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2019, p.7), workshops were that:
• The familiarity and managing of pain differs according to the causal disorders that are causative to a person’s pain. An example of this was said to be the managing of pain in a person with new-onset osteoarthritis which would be different from dealing with the pain of a person with diabetic neuropathy who also has portliness and a sleep ailment;
• It was perplexing to evaluate pain using the scale that asks a patient to rate their pain on a scale of 0 to 10, rather than using measurements that weigh comprehensive function, worth of life, or other pertinent facets of the pain experience. Doctors, like patients, face a substantial fissure in gauging and understanding pain, and in measuring the efficiency and possible harms of cures. Furthermore,
treatment in the early 2000s was virtually completely fixated on medication. The clue of integrative and inclusive care that comprises behaviour health and corporeal therapy was not incorporated as a portion of physician training; and
• In Richmond, Virginia, for instance, about 40 percent of new grown-up patients lacked medical insurance, and were covered by the system’s indigent care plan, and had limited admittance to nonpharmacological therapies.
The sad thing here is that it is the very nonpharmacological therapies that are safer and not iatrogenic; at least on drug related issues. And these are ones that are priced out of the reach of the people who need them the most as they have been elevated to the status of the impossible, in favour of the destructive pharmacological treatments.
Chapter Thirteen
The Consumer Perspective
This writer is not writing as a medical or allied professional player since I clearly am not. I also am not writing to render medical advice, which would be illegal. But the aim of this book in keeping with the above bullet points in the preamble of the CPA; is to raise awareness, educate, and share experiences, from the perspective of a lay consumer of medicines and their allied services and professions.
The expertise that one possesses in the light of medical treatment and medical products is that of being highly experienced consumer and treatment recipient (a veteran). It should be remembered that medicines are not only for the doctors and their fellow allied suppliers of such products and services. They do not exist for themselves but for us. So, it is about time that our collective voice arises above the cacophony of mumbo jumbo that is expressed in jargon, acronyms and plain scamming as in the case of placebos, nocebos, and secret coded language – like iatrogenic events. There is more about placebos later in this book in Chapter 12 of this book. And there is more on iatrogenic events in Chapter 5 above.
I am a lawyer. I am an admitted advocate of the Higher Courts in South Africa. But I can lay a claim on expertise in consumer rights and consumer protection law. I have been a member of a consumer court in Mpumalanga twice, and have also been a chairperson of that court for one term. At the time of writing this book, I am also an Executive Chairperson of the National Consumer tribunal (NCT). These are not the main reasons for this book. The main reason is to exercise my rights as a consumer in sharing and exercising solidarity with fellow consumers.
Dewey (1954 [1927, pp. 15–16]), defines “a community of affected interests whereby people gather together to form a common understanding and will to act around an issue of shared concern.” His view further states that “The public consists of all those who are affected by the indirect consequences of transactions to such an extent that it is deemed necessary to have those consequences systematically covered for…”
It should be abundantly clear by now to every reader that consumers of the world need to unite against the abuse in the hands of rogue suppliers who hate consumers and pretend to like them. They abuse our trust and respect for their professions which were probably once noble (though it Is extremely difficult to tell at what point that would have been) considering that their counterparts in the third world, following ancient practices still abuse this trust from their victims. Witchdoctors and shamans are one case in point. One should only trust them as far as you can throw them.
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We cannot always solve these problems politically. Boyte (2003) is of the view that “for people to engage in politics as a form of collective problem-solving they must learn a variety of civic skills and capacities. Such an education would develop people’s ability to negotiate diverse views, interests and power relations and take action to turn ideas into reality by cultivating ‘political citizens.” Politicians themselves have a credibility crisis when it comes to justice and fairness in the world. They get too partisan.
As a community of consumers, we have a common interest, including fellow lawyers like advocates (barristers), attorneys (solicitors) and judges throughout the civilised world, to ensure that we take charge of the maintenance of our health and financial interests that go with it. Our consumer rights are interlinked, and interlocked and mutually intertwined regardless of status, social class and educational level. The rogue elements do not discriminate between its victims. They victim all of the consumers indiscriminately, when it comes to making us all sicker; by siphoning our finances with the one hand, while pretending to bring us the relief we so much desire and deserve with the other.
This piece is therefore, produced in my private capacity as a consumer of medicines, medical and allied services. And the professional aspect in the legal profession is mentioned merely as a transparent attempt at showing the absence of naivety as I produce this work. This work comes after agonising about the need for such angles of writing about medicines. It is more essential to share how we experience its effect and impact on our lives. And needless to say, the verdict has been in the affirmative for reasons that will be apparent as this work is consumed.
Western medicines specialises mainly in shallow, quick and inconsequential fake solutions. The problem with that is that those quick fixes deal with symptoms of ailments. The absence of symptoms does not mean the absence of a medical condition. Medical conditions, by and large commence in the invisible level of existence and manifest in the physical or visible, not the other way round. The absence of sickness for instance does not mean that a person is not surrounded and infested with teeming trillions of microbes that can only be detected by powerful microscopes. So treating mere symptoms is even mentally bankrupt, to say the least.
This fixation with treatment (usually not even healing), of symptoms, seems to be profit driven by the pharmaceutical industry and the whole medical basket of professions who prescribe and dispense medicines. The very underlying root of this situation is the mistaken and misdirected guiding philosophy that life is physical and that people in the west believe what they see hence the ad nauseum refrain and saying that “Seeing is-believing.” Meantime, we consumers and all scientists know that there are a lot more innumerate life forms that are very physical and fall below the scope of sight of the naked human eye or perception. For instance, the air that you inhale and exhale is teeming with bacteria and viruses and spores and free flowing yeasts that are not making you sick due to your healthy immune system.
Even movement and leisure are critical to our general health. By sitting for too long on some of our rear assets, we get stiff muscles, poor blood circulation, which is like choking the body as it can only distribute nutrients and heal itself from movement. But while this is the cheapest form of prevention, it is also the most difficult. I also know this from personal first-hand experience. For more than 30 years, I have been trying to reduce 30 kg of weight to meet my BMI, in vain. When I get used to the walking and weight lifting over a week or so, I stop if I have to spend a week or so in another city on business. On return from that trip, the body will have resorted back to its old default of laziness and postponement of physical activity. This is caused by the fact that exercise becomes painful after being staved off for a time. And I loathe pain. If I had a choice, I would delegate my exercising duties to more enthusiastic individuals like my wife, Nthabiseng, who even runs the 21 km marathon for fun.
Chapter Fourteen
Who are the Exploiters?
Most people talk of those who are behind the rot and human degradation and exploitation in hushed tones. It appears that they are somewhere and nowhere at the same time. Are they a figment of our imagination? They are made to sound like phantom creatures that live largely in our imagination. Nobody mentions them by name and points a finger at them. Even those are mentioned may be too few and far apart. They might even not be as wealthy as the real wealthy do not attract any attention to themselves, but leave the attention and politicking to the politicians they employ and deploy and remotely control.
Political elites and organised crime rings are all working for the people in question as well as do financial institutions, insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, mining and similar institutions; in which high finance is embedded; are all working for the super-rich. These are the people that even drive and control the so called international organisations like the International Monetary Fund (Naylor 2004: p.6) and the World Bank.
Naylor (2004: p. xx); also points out that every economy today is running into debt faster than they are building reserves. The report indicates that in 1980 a US Internal Revenue Service and the Bureau of Statistics; had revealed how the bottom 90% of the population had been indebted to the 10% who are super rich. Even the internationally acclaimed bodies that are supposed to reward excellence appear to be fronts for shielding; aiding and abetting corruption.
The author claims (Ibid) that the Nobel Economic Prizes are granted to let the parasitic financial powers, pretending to be part of the host they devour, as financial powers, feed on those bodies; while tricking such governments into being perpetual victim s of the banks – which the super-rich own. The surreptitiously drained funds are said to be destined to North America, Britain, and Continental Europe and now Asia – all with the support of the US controlled World Bank.
It is not clear whether credit providers are designed to ensure that the debtor never recovers once hooked; or not. Naylor; R.T.; (2004: p.15) seems to justifiably think so. And both the domestic and international phenomena collude in sucking the monetary value from the bottom 90% of society to the superrich 10%.
Walker and Unger (2009. Pp.15-16); refer to what is known as the Walker Model; which assumes that “crime generates income in all countries; income from crime depends on the prevalence of different types of crime and the average proceeds per crime; sophisticated and organized crimes generate more income per crime than simpler and individual crimes; in general, richer countries generate more income per crime than poor ones; income inequality or corruption may support a rich criminal class even in a poor country; and that not all criminal income is laundered – even criminals have to eat, sleep, drive fast cars, and pay accountants and lawyers.”
Ghulam and Anwar (2007: pp. 1 - 2); are of the view that corruption, far from being new, has existed since the advent of organs of state. They also submit that its two dimensions span both the public and private sectors. Their considered view is also that in the public sector corruption consists of “misuse of public office for private benefits.” They see private sector corruption as occurring when “people misuse their offices (organisational position in a firm for personal gain.”
And; they also agree with the take of Transparency International that it is, “... one of the greatest challenges of the contemporary world…(that) undermines good government, fundamentally distorts public policy, leads to the misallocation of resources, harms the private sector and private sector development and particularly hurts the poor.” Ghulam and Anwar (2007: p. 2). They also relate (Ibid p.6) to the negative correlation between corruption and poverty, surfaced by other writers reviewed in that paper.
The scandals of the rich have been revealed by Baker (2005) in a book called “Capitalism’s Achilles Heel;” and also avers that:
(a) Western governments and banks are failing to police the monetary system, which is their duty; and
(b) Falsified pricing, haven and secrecy structures and the illicit movement of trillions of dollars out of developing economies breaks the social contract embedded within the free market economy.
It needs to be crystal clear that this writer has no qualms or objection to anyone making as much money as they can. In fact I myself am aspiring to make money and have already set myself on that path. I do not believe in the notion that all people should be rationed with parcels of cash or acquisitions, despite the variations of effort on their part. I believe in the old time tested notion and saying that “as you sow so shall you reap”. If you sow laziness or bankruptcy, you should not reap anything else. If you sow nothing, you should not reap something.
What I do object, and very strongly, to, is the method by which a person gets that wealth, if such a method is destructive to the lives, rights and welfare of others. I simply cannot see the difference between crime committed by a small time crook and that committed by a sophisticated and financially wealthy murderer, human trafficker, rapist and the like. Even white collar crime, to me, is as bad as blue collar crime. A criminal is a criminal is a criminal. The fact that the super-rich criminals hire other people called politicians, CEOs, Boards of Trustees; and the mafia to commit crimes; they are also vicarious criminals – perpetrators and co-perpetrators. That is how criminal law defines such behaviour.
Where criminal law is concerned, it can be proven even on a class level, and targeting specific actions of certain multinationals, that those entities, their surrogates and subsidiaries, are criminally liable for certain atrocities. Criminal law requires a higher standard of proof – beyond reasonable doubt. But civil actions require only about 51% proof which equates, by deduction, to 49% doubt permitted in evidence against the defendant / Respondent. And our courts in South Africa have already determined that there is no single specific theory of legal causation to a crime that is embedded as the only correct one, to apply in all circumstances.
In Daniels 1983 (3) SA 275 (A) and Mokgethi 1990 (1) SA 32 (A) 40±41; the Appellate Division held that “in deciding whether a condition which is a factual cause of the prohibited situation should also be regarded as the legal cause of that situation, a court must be guided by policy considerations.”
Policy considerations now are such that a criminal can act directly or indirectly – through the agency of another person, in committing the crime. The requirements for criminal liability would include the presence of the elemental requirements of the crime which include the causal link, factual causation, legal causation, and the act (which is the conditio sine qua non) – without which the result would not have obtained. Policy considerations would include:
• Proximate cause or direct cause;
• Adequate causation; and
• Absence of a novus actus interveniens (intervening cause).
At the moment, the defences that our perpetrators could still argue, in some cases (not all), could very easily include the plea of the Latin maxim “volenti non fit iniuria.” In this common law defence, the argument would be that “no wrongdoing is committed in respect of somebody who has consented (to the act concerned).” This is because many of our fellow consumers may be cajoled into agreeing to all sorts of “treatments” and succumbed; due to the excessive pain at the time of consultation.
Consumers need to therefore, be more circumspect when signing these consent forms when undergoing treatment by the medical fraternity, at any given time. As I have already experienced with my son’s painful fracture, they gleefully salivate at the prospects of charging you an arm and a leg - when you come in excruciating pain, seeking help. The more urgent and painful for you, the better it is for the providers, as there is no time to shop around, compare prices and even delay the engagement.
Criminal Assault, for instance, can be present in a medical operation or treatment when occurring without or with the use of force or the infliction of injuries. If there was no violence or injuries, consent may justify the act (D 1998 (1) SACR 33 (T) 39). Where the doctor has inflicted injuries; it must be ascertained whether the act was in conflict with the boni mores (whether it was ‘contra bonos mores’ or against the good morals of the community). If this was indeed the case, the consent cannot operate as a ground of justification (Matsemela 1988 (2) SA 254 (T)). For the consent of the patient to be valid, it must be:
• given voluntarily;
• given by a person who has certain minimum mental abilities;
• based upon knowledge of the true and material facts;
• given either expressly or tacitly;
• given before the commission of the act; and
• given by the complainant herself.
The patient must have given the consent voluntarily, without any coercion on the part of the provider or any other person. Any consent obtained emanating from violence, fear or intimidation is not voluntary consent. And medical providers are very high on scaring the patient with all sorts of possible things that could go wrong. And while some of these may be true, many could just as well be exaggerated, especially if they look at the patient or guardian and conclude that they can afford to be financially abused. Then they will go with the most lucrative option for themselves and add tails and tails of the tails to their tales of possible woes.
A generic example of false consent would be one where, for example, A aims a pistol at B, and at the same time, demanding cash from B; and B gives A the cash; for feeling intimidated, removes the possibility of a valid consent to giving the cash (Ex parte Minister of Justice: in re R v Gesa; R v De Jongh 1959 (1) SA 234 (A)).
When the person / victim merely submit, this also cannot be held to be the same as a voluntary consent (D 1969 (2) SA 591 (RA)). For instance if a woman, under attack, decided, as usually advised, that it is pointless to resist the strong, armed attacker attempting to rape her, and simply yields to the rape, the latter does to her (in other words she does not expressly manifest her objection verbally or by physical acts), her deportment does not amount to consent to sexual intercourse (Volschenk 1968 (2) PH H283 (D)). This was also followed in McCoy 1953 (2) SA 4 (SR).
It must be obvious by now that this section of the book must be read with the one on ethics. They overlap greatly. The person giving the consent must be endowed with certain minimum mental abilities. These abilities centre on the one to be able to give consent. Based on this principle, if a woman is mentally ill, under the statutory age of consent, intoxicated, asleep, in a comma, or unconscious, she cannot be construed to have given valid consent to sexual intercourse (C 1952 (4) SA 117 (O) 121; K 1958 (3) SA 420 (A)).
It is a legal requirement in South Africa at least, that the consenting person should cognitively be actively aware of the true and material facts regarding the act to which she supposedly consents. Case law has determined that a fact is material if it relates to the definitional elements of the particular crime. In the example rape, the person must be aware of the fact that it is sexual penetration to which he/she is consenting. It should not be to some dimly named process that could be interpreted in any number of other ways, like users of slang are prone to speaking.
Taking an example of English law, in Flattery (1877) 2 QBD 410, a lady was led to believe that A, a quack doctor, was performing a medical operation operating to cure her of her epileptic fits, while the quack was actively sexually molesting her. And also in Williams [1923] 1 KB 340, (another English example); a lady believed that A, her, music teacher, was carrying out a surgical procedure on her to mend her breathing ability when singing, whereas, the latter was having sexual intercourse with her. In both cases, the culprits were convicted of rape, as the court refused to acknowledge the existence of any ``consent'' to intercourse.
Error in negotio, in common law, refers to the type of mistake relating to the nature of the act to be performed. In C 1952 (4) SA 117 (O) a lady was sleeping and woke to find a man having sexual intercourse with her. Thinking he was her husband, she allowed him to continue. But she later realised that the attacker was not her husband, the court convicted him of rape. And in convicting him, the court specified that consent which prevents sexual intercourse from amounting to rape required not only a mental state of willingness in respect of the type of act, but also willingness
to perform the act with the particular man who in fact has intercourse with her.
This type of error is not one regarding the nature of the act, or omission, but about the identity of A. It is legally referred to in legal parlance as error in persona. And it means mistake regarding the identity of the perpetrator.
With regard to culpability, in our law, it needs to be plain and clear that the offender should be found to be liable in both the questions of criminal capacity and either intention or negligence. The formulae would be captured as culpability = criminal capacity + either intention or negligence
Some of the drug manufacturers, since they manufacture their products knowing exactly what they contain, and the side effects those things bring, they open themselves up to criminal charges under the criminal law offence dolus eventualis. The fact that they will claim that their overall aim was to alleviate pain as they always claim; and their medicinal systems target symptoms as a general rule, then dolus eventualis should result - after the drastic effect of their products until, they start making drugs that can heal – which they can.
I refuse to believe that the scientists in the west can land a man on the moon but still fail to make drugs that have no side effects. They continue to murder and maim us, dolus eventualis, because they can; and we let them. The moment we rise as a class of consumers, they will stop. This can be done through crowd funding in solidarity with each other. Mechanisms of establishing these funds can be brainstormed in each country and set up using blockchain technology; to ensure that only deserving cases are funded in court action against perpetrators. We also need to ensure that there is no intermediary controlling or regulating our funds in this regard; seeing as:
• the same perpetrators own the politicians who make the rules and regulate activities such as fund raising; and are therefore, prone to disrupting and sabotaging these mechanisms; and
• The same perpetrators own banks that record transactions and keep track of where funds flow.
This is not to promote anarchy, which I loathe and despise. But it is calculated to protect the current victims of the rich rogue elements in our society world-wide.
A person acts with dolus eventualis if the causing of the forbidden result is not his main aim, but:
• he subjectively foresees the possibility that, in striving towards his main aim, his conduct may cause the forbidden result; and
• he reconciles himself with this possibility.
Back to the question of who are our exploiters and killers? And to this question, the answer has already emerged above. And the next question would be what would make a normal smart good natured human being want to enslave another human being in human trafficking, drug and sell them drugs, steal their money, tie them to age old and centuries old servitudes and subservience; take their hard earned money and still inject tem with drugs designed to make them eternally ill, in pain, and the perpetrators getting rich all the way?
Where homicide and murder dolus eventualis, could be attributed to the medical fraternity and those who own them, the pharmaceuticals, we need to consider the example where say A disconnects sections of a railway track in order to derail a train. He does not desire to kill other people, because his immediate goal is to commit sabotage and in this way to express the resentment he feels against the state - a very bad decision. However, he is aware of the likelihood that people may die if the train is derailed, and he reconciles himself to this prospect. If he succeeds in derailing the train, and people die, it is fruitless for him to contend that he did not intend to kill people - Jolly 1923 AD 176).
The doctors and medico manufacturers are playing a game that is very dangerous even to them. The reason for that conclusion is that while their real true aim as an industry and as a fraternity, is to generate unprecedented levels of wealth for themselves, the do so at the expense of the health and quality of life (if any left) of the people who consume their contamination. This is the angle that law suits could and should and eventually will take. When manufacturer A produced a medical product to cure treat disease X, and patient B buys and consumes or administers it, since (not if) B will also get the 22 side effects it brings, and B dies or is crippled by them, then Manufacturer A is liable both criminally and delictually. That if convicted they should be jailed, fined and sued for damages.
The doctrine of common purpose also will soon catch the doctors and their medical suppliers and controllers – co-perpetrators. In Lungile 1999 (2) SACR 597 (A); three robbers; including A, acting with a common purpose, entered and robbed a shop. A policeman D, tried to ruin the robbery. In a wild exchange of gun fire between D and the three robbers, within the shop, a shop assistant X, died. On a charge of murder A relied; inter alia; on the defence of absence of a causal link between his conduct and X's death. His argument was that his personal conduct was not the cause of X's death because the shot was fired by D on X, and that killing X, constituted a novus actus interveniens. The court rejected this argument, holding that D's act was not an abnormal, independent occurrence.
Another criminal charge the perpetrators should be watching out for, as the world of consumerism grows more and more sophisticated, is that of the Aberratio ictus. It means the going astray or missing of the blow. It is not a form of mistake. This applies when the doctor correctly aims at decimating an illness, but through lack of skill, clumsiness or other factors, misses her aim and the blow or shot strikes and damages the patient - in our focus issue of medical treatment. It could be guns and bullets and targets - Khoza 1949 (4) SA 555 (A) and Khuzwayo 1949 (3) SA 761 (A).
Why would these perpetrators at the top level, hate humans so much? Where could this homicidal; murderous; anti-human; and malicious - jealousy be stemming from? I have some theory regarding these questions. And that answer would be located within the four corners of the Book of Enoch. More will be said about the Book of Enoch in Chapter 16. But the answer also lies in the most contemporary form in the members of the Bohemian club at the Bohemian Grove (Chapter 15 below). They are the ones that are the main source of our troubles in body form. What possesses them to do it is covered in the book of Enoch (Chapter 16) below.
Chapter Fifteen
The Bohemian Grove and God
My research and riveting enquiry, has scoured the fields of law, history, cosmic history, finance, science; medicines, philosophy; theology and religion, for what each of those are worth. The discourse sprayed within the pages and chapters of this book are not thumb sucked. Each is well documented as to source and origin and not products of the fertile imagination of this writer.
The infamous Bohemian Grove is located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, Monte Rio, California, in the US. According to Wikipedia, it hosts an about two weeks annual session of its members once every year in July. It is said to be an all-male club composed of artists, musicians, prominent business leaders, former US Presidents, senior executives, senior media executives and other people of power.
They hold what is called a Spring Jinx in June annually. The dictionary meaning of a jinx is “a person or thing that brings bad luck.” It is a Germanic word that originates from mid-19th century from Pennsylvania. It also means to cast a magic spell; by a witch; or a curse. This is not an innocent naming by the richest 10% of the human population on earth. It is not a joke. It is not a prank, but a deadly seriously intended atrocity. When used as a verb, the word means to “bring bad luck to; cast an evil spell on.”
Spouses (women) are not allowed at the Grove, except on private bookings when the club activities are not in session. But even then, the women are prohibited from remaining in the Grove property after 21h00 or 22h00. It is said to be a hugely homosexually charged affair where all the members of the brotherhood engage in homosexual acts – hence the strict ban on women. That ban is also equally not an innocent one. They have no respect or regard for women whatsoever – despite the rhetoric from outside the club, for public relations purposes – again hoodwinking women and the masses of humanity that fall within the 90% of the “weaving spiders”. The fact that women are generally the prettiest and most beautiful part of humanity is meaningless to these males. They clearly are possessed by human unfriendly spirits that seek to decimate the products of human women (Genesis 3:15).
The audacious motto of the club is that "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here." This motto seemingly ostensibly dictates that people who work for money and for others should not set foot in the Grove. It is strictly reserved for the initiated and inducted who subscribe to and have undergone all the rituals of being installed into its exclusive membership, like happens with slightly lower secret organisations like the illuminati and the freemasons. It is understood that members also conclude important business and political deals in that June session of every year. Wars can be seeded there. Countries can be sabotaged from there. Rulers can be deposed from there etc. some diseases can also be fomented there to wipe out a certain agreed category of humans.
Some industries can also be sabotaged and never allowed to surface from there. For instance, salt water (from the ocean) can burn engines as fuel for cars and other engine propelled contraptions - Willmott (2014). But the Bohemians have sabotaged it until the fossil fuel rec=serves have been exhausted because of the heavy investments they have already made. And these heavy investments guarantee their domination of the economies of the world as they also form huge entry barriers for non-Bohemian investors who would want to enter the industry. That goes for arms manufacturing and banking and manufacturing multinationals too. But pharmaceuticals and banking is by far their most lucrative domain since these are self-perpetrating sectors. Once you are trapped in treatment or loans, you are trapped for life. And you remain a weaving spider all your life and generations of your progeny.
Willmott (2014) reports how, according to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory “Flying a radio-controlled replica of a WWII P-51 Mustang, Navy researchers demonstrate how the liquid hydrocarbon fuel powers an unmodified two-stroke internal combustion engine.”
Apparently (Ibid), by means of a branded electrochemical means, researchers were able to wrench carbon dioxide from the water, extract hydrogen as a by-product, and then rebound the two gases off each other to produce the liquid fuel. The experts say they can wrench about 97 percent of the liquefied carbon dioxide from the sea water and transform about 60 percent of the removed gases into hydrocarbons that can be made into fuel at the cost of approximately $3 to $6 per gallon. “The low end is equivalent to today’s jet fuel costs, while the high end would be double the price. The fuel could be commercially viable in 10 years.”
Those weaving spiders that get too smart and could break the cycle of the sentencing to the life of a weaving spider, seeking only employment opportunities, get awarded with doctorates professorships and sent right back to author research reports that propagate what the Grove approves and orders. That keeps them busy with those prestigious awards which never make them enter the rich echelons, but mere saves in padded comfortable cells. They don’t mind you a smart person highfalutin in pride and ego stroking recognitions that yield no financial freedom. That is why they fund all the research that goes on but decide how much of it is allowed to see the light of day.
But we need not remain in that social and financial dungeon where every other human being has been lulled into the mass waking trance. Social media is that one carpet that has just pulled itself from under the feet of these ruthless rulers. The Arab spring is one case in point. The elites no longer rule the world. We now all do – if we just shake off the shackles of human suffering infiltrated in our everyday lives to keep us from waking up from that collective trance. We no longer need newspapers, magazines, journals, radio and TV to publish and popularise new developments. Even this book is self-published for that reason. If any other entity will take it up and distribute it, it will be a sign of a free emerging enterprise that is not under the control of these human haters.
Ospina et al. (2015) indicate that the collective leadership that we can all en masse, engage in would be like that of a swarm of bees. We need not have single leaders or a cabal that ends up dominating and looing out only for selfish interests of a narrow minority of rulers and secret rulers behind ostensible rulers. How this type of leadership presents is by:
• Requiring the connecting of people within diversity;
• Shaping the way the audience views their work and how they perceive themselves and others, and how they understand leadership itself;
• Committing to taking up leadership at all levels by people from all backgrounds, with varying perspectives and expertise;
• Enabling the combination and directing of behaviours and collaborative approaches; and
• Aiming to transgress boundaries that are often taken for granted.
This should be indicative of the fact that by the time the Bohemians come out of that annual July enclave, those world controllers and agenda setters and dictators, will then instruct; or command their pawns in the different industries (government, academia, media, art, entertainment, finance, crime rings, pharmaceuticals, mining houses, arms manufacturers , human trafficking rings, and the like, to carry out the orders in line with those Grove agreements.
That still sounds pretty much mundane but deep for now. Moreover the story does not end there. More sinister stuff is still being revealed to those who have been ignorant up to this point. The membership also reportedly practices gay relations within and among themselves, hence the derision towards their own spouses, for those who pretend not to be homosexual to the outside world. This could signals that they are definitely sexist and unapologetic about it.
Former US President, Richard Nixon is quoted as saying "The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time—it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine." This confirms what the British Film crew found when they sneaked in past the extremely tight security and filmed a documentary on that unholy grail of extreme debauchery. It was that video that first alerted me to the existence and secrets of that place, around 2017. But the video had already been compiled in 2011 - Jones (2011).
What the Jones (Supra), with his TV crew, reveals for all who watch the entire full length documentary, is that there are human sacrifices performed there annually. This ritual is labelled by the members as the “cremation of care.” We all know the meaning of cremation. And the ordinary dictionary meaning of cremation is incineration; burning; immolation; interment; entombment and burial. Care, on the other hand, is upkeep; Maintenance; Repair; Carefulness and the like. Since care is about caring and usually for others like the poor under the notion of being humane, and the Bohemians cremate it that should explain why:
• they lend you money they do not have in their banks; by law, made by their surrogates, the politicians whom they employ and pay in donations; bribes; peace prizes; and “investments” shares - Mizruchi and Schwartz (1987, p.109);
• Mizruchi and Schwartz (1987, p.109), records Wayne E. Baker in “What is Money? A Social Structural interpretation” intimating, inter alia, that “All the rest of the money you hear about doesn't exist. It is conversation money.” Baker goes on to illustrate his point in “When you hear of a transaction involving $50,000,000 it means that one firm wrote $50,000,000, on a piece of paper and gave it to another firm, and the other firm took it home and said, ‘Look, Momma, I got $50,000,000!’ But when Momma asked for a dollar and a quarter to pay the man who washed the windows, the answer probably was that the firm hadn't got more than seventy cents in cash;”
• According to Baker (Supra); (quoting Robert Benchley) “This is the principle of finance. So long as you can pronounce any number above a thousand, you have got that much money. You can't work this scheme with the shoe-store man or the restaurant owner, but it goes big on Wall St. or in international financial circles;” and
• Their pharmaceuticals pump more diseases and toxicity and poisons into the bodies of victims, while charging them exorbitant amounts under the false pretences that the victims are being treated medically. It is now clear that this is but a scam by these rogue secret rulers who “own” and control the world and anything of significance on it, which matters.
They don’t care. Once care has been cremated, care has been cremated. And this human sacrifice ritual is repeated annually with the loud screams of the human being sacrificed for that year, at the glee and cheering of all members present and their guests, who include future presidents. That tells us that even future presidents are decided underground in those secret enclaves. This human sacrifice apparently started as far back as 1881. It also invokes ancient rituals such as the so called “Druid Jinx” about pagans and druids and their clashes with Christianity. One of their texts even includes what they call "Touch their world-blind eyes with fairy unguents."
Synonyms of Unguents (as one had to look that one up) include: ointments; salves; balms; lotions; creams; oils; and liniments. It also clearly appears conclusive that the fat drained from the human sacrificed with shrill screams during the live cremations (as they incinerate them alive for maxim cruelty and pain inflicted, to kill their own sense of humanity; conscience; empathy and care, before they return back to their places of usual abode around the world. They are animals and beasts.
Just to be explicit to anyone who has not yet seen the video documentary, as Wikipedia describes the cremation of care, and try to mask it as some kind of theatrical display, which it clearly is not, and if it were it would be too ghastly and disgusting to justify from a decent bunch of humans, the whole murderous ceremony is described as follows:
“… the poling across a lake of a small boat containing an effigy (already captured and bound human victim, from God knows where, probably a kidnap victim or a human traffic victim) of Care (called "Dull Care"). Dark, hooded figures receive from the ferryman the effigy (captured victim) which is placed on an altar, and, at the end of the ceremony, set on fire (when the shrill screams can be heard clearly from the video footage). This "cremation" symbolizes that members are banishing the "dull cares" of conscience. At the time the script was developed, the primary meaning of the word 'care' ("anxiety, anguish") was synonymous with 'worry', having more negative connotations than in modern times when it tends to be associated more positively with compassion.” (My own brackets)
What lifted the lid on these ancient demonic activities perpetrated in postmodern times, by seeming modern humans, on humans, was the infiltration by Jones (Supra) with his film crew of the cremation of care satanic ritual. “On July 15, 2000, filmmaker Alex Jones and his cameraman, Mike Hanson, infiltrated the Bohemian Grove expecting to uncover the owl statue being worshipped as Moloch, with human sacrifices thrown into its fiery interior. With a hidden camera, Jones and Hanson filmed the Cremation of Care ceremony. The footage was the centrepiece of Jones' documentary Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove. Jones claimed that the Cremation of Care was an "ancient Canaanite, Luciferian, Babylon mystery religion ceremony".
One can reasonably surmise that these killers are invigorated in their trust and belief in the Satanism they practice, by the very successes it must be made out to bring. If by worshipping the devil, albeit in secret and sacrificing human life, by burning them as living sacrifices, to his order, they must be highly emboldened to think they are invincible. That should explain even the arrogance of seeing everybody else as a weaving spider who is not welcome in their midst.
My real interest in discovering these revelations was to follow through and open the further lid on this spirit called Moloch; who causes all this damage, from people, who should on the surface be content with life as they are the top crème de la crème of super wealth. So, the next question is who or what is this Moloch? We can no longer be fooled now into a pretension that this just a theatrical artistic make belief thing for entertainment. First of all it is not entertaining unless one has a sick sadistic and evil mind of a murderous criminal. And the research yielded answers to these two questions. Secondly, this is more of a religion like those of Masons who pyramid with direct devil worshipping and demons manifesting at the level of the 32nd den - when blood sacrifices are made and incantations used to manifest the devils.
According to Wikipedia, Moloch, also known as Molech, Milcom or Malcam is said to be the (not a) biblical name of a Canaanite god (read there demon), associated with child sacrifice through fire or war. That should explain why, in modern history when the world is supposed to have come full circle in recognising human rights, embracing peace and prosperity, we still have the richest humanoids on earth peddling wars, manufacturing killer viruses, incurable biologically propagated and distributed killing solutions that they wish to use to eliminate the poor with.
The Biblical references to this very hateful and aggressive killer demon; is located mainly in the Old Testament. This means that both Jews and Christians should realise that this is not an innocent fantasizing about these sacrifices, but a real satanic assault on humanity, by that spirit. And as Wikipedia, (Supra) correctly points out, these include:
• Leviticus 18:21 "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD." Persistence with these live sacrifices practiced with impunity under the guise of a private gentleman‘s homosexual club, is a clear opposition to this Biblical commandments, which is in direct opposition to God;
• Leviticus 20:2: "Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones." While the current domestic and international laws forbid the extra-judicial killing of criminals such as these of the Bohemian grove, these laws allow them to do the killings with impunity, given their own continued cremations of care, which could, just be a tip of the iceberg for all we care. The explanation should be that very open secret that they own politicians, government leaders and the so called business captains who actually work for these killers;
• Leviticus 20:3: "And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name." This actually testifies to the proof that the God of the Bible is against the superrich Bohemian Grovers; for their sins and defiling His Holy Name on His earth which these killers do not own and have never created, despite all the monies that they command; siphoned and forcibly extracted out of humans; along the lines and manners described in this book; and similar publications. That means that if you believe in God, you can be assured of the guaranteed protection against the brood of vipers (Matthew 12:34); and children of perdition (John 17:12); and
• Leviticus 20:4 - 5: "And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not; Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people." This one is perfectly self-explanatory as to the position of God regarding these killers of little innocent children.
In 2 Kings 23:10: "And he (King Josiah of Judah) defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech."Then In Jeremiah 32:35: it is written that "And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin."
It is clear therefore, that regarding the first question of what spirit is possessing and compelling these killers to proudly, albeit secretly but shamelessly persist in their killings, Moloch, the spirit and demon, is behind them. They are hell bent on weakening every human advancement system to cripple humanity in general while believing that since Moloch seem to be on their side; they could be safe from his wrath. But if they think Moloch is dangerous, they should try God. It is kind of idiotic to worship a creature and ignore and deliberately cork a snook against the one who created it, and think you are safe.
So, the still remaining question is why the demon Moloch would; and his brood of slaves; hate humans to such an extent that he uses other humans, or human like creatures, to decimate the same humans; and enslave them sadistically? Again the research here led to the Book of Enoch as already alluded to above. It is then at this point that the discourse moves to the next level in the deep roots of this matter.
Because of the many prominent references to God above, it behoves every scientifically enabled mind to enquire as to who are we talking about or Who are those references directed at, to those who may have those questions while reading. And in answering such a fundamental question, we have to trace the ancient meaning of that Presence. And what better way to do that than to explore what those who have studied and pondered the questions have concluded?
McInerny & O'Callaghan (2018) quote St. Thomas Aquinas as having said that “the truth of the proposition that a god exists is knowable in itself, because the predicate is included in the essence of the subject. But it is not knowable to us, because the essence of a god is unknowable to us.”
He is also credited by Gracyk, T. (2016) with the discourse on the five ways of proving that God exists to a philosophical mind using human philosophy. In this approach, St. Aquinas claims that: since “our senses prove that some things are in motion. Things move when potential motion becomes actual motion. Only an actual motion can convert a potential motion into an actual motion. Nothing can be at once in both actuality and potentiality in the same respect (i.e., if both actual and potential, it is actual in one respect and potential in another). Therefore nothing can move itself.” This is the way starting from motion alone
Then next comes the way starting from efficient causes, in which he holds that: “We perceive a series of efficient causes of things in the world. Nothing exists prior to itself. Therefore nothing [in the world of things we perceive] is the efficient cause of itself. If a previous efficient cause does not exist, neither does the thing that results (the effect). Therefore if the first thing in a series does not exist, nothing in the series exists. If the series of efficient causes extends ad infinitum into the past, for then there would be no things existing now. That is plainly false (i.e., there are things existing now that came about through efficient causes). Therefore efficient causes do not extend ad infinitum into the past. Therefore it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name of God.”
Under the reduction argument, St. Aquinas argues that: “We find in nature things that are possible to be and not to be, that come into being and go out of being i.e., contingent beings. Assume that every being is a contingent being. For each contingent being, there is a time it does not exist. Therefore it is impossible for these always to exist. Therefore there could have been a time when no things existed.
Therefore at that time there would have been nothing to bring the currently existing contingent beings into existence. Therefore, nothing would be in existence now. We have reached an absurd result from assuming that every being is a contingent being. Therefore not every being is a contingent being. Therefore some being exists of its own necessity, and does not receive its existence from another being, but rather causes them. This all men speak of as God.”
In the gradation of being approach, St, Aquinas argues that: “There is a gradation to be found in things: some are better or worse than others. Predications of degree require reference to the “uttermost” case (e.g., a thing is said to be hotter according as it more nearly resembles that which is hottest). The maximum in any genus is the cause of all in that genus. Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God.”
Finally, from his design argument, he avers that: “We see that natural bodies work toward some goal, and do not do so by chance. Most natural things lack knowledge. But as an arrow reaches its target because it is directed by an archer, what lacks intelligence achieves goals by being directed by something with intelligence. Therefore some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God.”
Chapter Sixteen
The Book of Enoch
Enoch appears and is recorded in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible that forms the rots of both the Jewish and Christian faiths. Much as the Book of Enoch is not one of the books that made it into the final version of the Bible known today, Enoch is not a mythical character. According to the Bible, he walked with God. His official and Biblical mention in the Old Testament appears in Genesis 5:22-24 [New International Version (NIV)] where it is written:
“After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.”
According to Holy Books (2010) ; The Book of Enoch is a Jewish work, attributed to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. Its contents were written between the years 300 and 100 BC. The Book of Enoch is not included as part of the Canon of Scripture as used by Jews, apart from the Beta Israel canon; nor by any Christian group, apart from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Eritrean Orthodox Church canon. But these are two churches that were never colonised by Rome. And this could just be a sign that the Roman sabotage of truly powerful scriptures with their powerful secrets managed to escape the attention of the Romans, who wanted to keep all secret but powerful knowledge for the ruling class.
It is worth noting that all the books in the Bible are also Jewish books. They were never Catholic, Italian or Roman Books. It was the Romans (Politicians) that took over the church from the Apostles, and converted it into a state religion, when Jesus never preached a religion. Jesus was a politician that preached a kingdom that a religious sect of religious people killed him - for misunderstanding this very fact (Matthew 4:17 and Mark 1:14-15). One can even go as far as to add that He still is, since He rose from the dead. Otherwise the more than 2000 years old annual commemoration of this resurrection would no longer be celebrated if this had been a Jewish invention or metaphorical resurrection. Jews were themselves still heavily exploited and colonised at this time as the New Testament and history shows. This is trite.
Any insinuation that Christianity is a Jewish or white religion is the stupidest thing one can hear. The Jews were central to the birth of Christ and also to His death. But they laid no claim to His resurrection. The Romans engrafted themselves to the church, not the other way round. They perverted its image and name, then, to the point that they did. They also gave it a world-wide recognition. This was because they kept citing it while carrying out atrocities and crimes. They also branded it as a religion, until the reformations and Protestantism rose and broke from the iron grip of those mafia-like politician murderers. But even the Romans, did not just buy into it overnight. This was after they had used Christians for stadia / colosseum entertainment - feeding them to lions, seeking to have them renounce the Way, as Christ then was still known (John 14:6).
The Book of Enoch was even known to Jesus; because “…upon closer examination, many of the key phrases and sayings recorded as Jesus’ red-letter quotes throughout the Gospels resemble the ideas and terms found in the Book of Enoch” Prophet; E.C.; (1977). Jesus had said them “I am the way, the truth and the life…” (John 14:6). The exclusion of the Book of Enoch; from the books that finally made it to the Bible; as it now stands; was not itself sanctioned by scripture. It was an act of the Roman rulers; who by this time; had invaded the church and colonised it for their ends. And this was after failing to decimate it through violent means.
According to Schaff; P. “There is ample evidence that Enoch’s lost book story and its 1500-year disappearance from Western Christianity revolves around a concerted effort made by the (Roman Catholic) Church to suppress and censure its distribution. In fact, in the 4th century, some influential Church theologians decried Enoch’s book as heresy.”
The real reason that one can deduct; from the way that royalty, which is what the Catholic Church was, when it decided which books to include and exclude from the Bible, must have been self-interest. The Catholics themselves believe in spirits even those of the dead people who they call saints, when the Bible calls all believers saints (Romans 1:7 and Romans 8:27). The Pope first has to beatify a dead person for them to be a “saint.” But that goes directly contrary to the New Testament calling believers in Christ saints (Philippians 4:21 and Psalm 50:5). The Catholics distorted too many things as they created their own dogma and superimposed it to their brand of Christianity. But that was out of self-interest. They wanted the governed masses to remain subdued and unaware of the spirits that controlled rulers at the time. These had to remain secrets of the rulers alone. The Bohemian grove type spirits were obviously involved in this exercise as it has their signature written all over it.
Jesus did not want them to understand the teachings of “the Way”. So He only unpacked the parables to his disciples in private. In Mark 4: 2-12 Jesus made it plain that he spoke in public places in the presence of the religious people and the Catholic Imperialists, in such a way that: “Hearing they may hear and not understand.” Evidence that they did not understand up to after His death and resurrection is in their concerted effort to kill the saints off. Through that unprecedented assault, people who were not armed or fighting a war of flesh and blood, were massacred to dissuade from following The Way. And they only came around long after Jesus had died and ascended after resurrection. He had known that they were going to misuse; misconstrue and also mislead; should they know the truth, because of their wickedness.
At times He even blatantly misled them in order for them not to know the truth as He asserted that if you know the truth it sets you free. And it was not His intention for the evil ones to know that Truth and their sins be forgiven (Mark 4:12). This confirms the fact in Enoch that they were no longer allowed even to, much as look in the direction of Heaven. And nobody has ever claimed that heaven was in the sky. Only that it is high or up. That could mean in realms not in cosmological terms which are external to the human body when Christ taught that the kingdom is in you (Luke 17:21).
And that wickedness is what we still see today in all these legalised scams in medicines, tax laws, investment laws and all the stuff that the Bohemian Grove deployed cadres of Moloch are doing. There is no doubt that they have an evil disposition and agenda and will brazenly push it no matter what.
It also explains why Jesus spoke in parables to rulers and unbelievers of the time, which the Romans were. In the special introduction to the Book of Enoch, Rev. George H. Schodde, Professor in Capital of the University of Columbus, Ohio, Draper; W.F.; (1882, p.11); points out that the book of Enoch:
“…did not, possess the sensus in malam partem in which it is now generally used. ...In contradistinction, read openly in a congregation, employed either to designate a book that was hidden, used only in private circles, or it is signified a book of which not only the origin was hidden or unknown, but whose contents were also …veiled in the language of allegory, symbolism and other figurative speech. Canonical and apocryphal are then not in themselves contradictory terms, and a book could be both at the same time. “
He also points out that while the early fathers of the Church recognised the Book of Enoch as one of the Old Testament books, only Jerome in a Prologus Galeatus to Samuel assumes an opposing position (Ibid.).
Enoch is first mentioned in the Old Testament in Genesis 4: 17-18. This verse says:
“And Cain had relations with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain built a city and named it after his son Enoch. Now to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methusael, and Methusael was the father of Lamech.”
A short section of Enoch 1: 9 is mentioned in the New Testament, even though the Book of Enoch in its entirety was left out of the Canonised Bible by the romans – Enoch 1: 9 records that:
”And behold! He comes with ten thousand Holy Ones; to execute judgment upon them and to destroy the impious, and to contend with all flesh concerning everything that sinners and the impious have done and wrought against Him”.
Jude 1: 14-15. It provides that:
“Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones. To execute judgment on everyone and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
Deuteronomy 33:1-2 also covers Enoch, which says that:
“This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, pronounced upon the Israelites before his death. He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.”
John Spenser wrote a seminal study on Molek, Lex transitum per ignem, in honorem Molechi prohibens in 1686, initiating the influential interpretation of Molek as a solar deity. He was a researcher (reader) in Corpus Christi College, over a period of the years, to 1588. He then left Oxford. In 1607 he had been appointed president of Corpus Christi College. And a solar deity, on the other hand (also known as a sun god or sun goddess) is a sky deity who represents the Sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solar deities and Sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms.
The Sun is sometimes referred to by its Latin name Sol or by its Greek name Helios. The “Ngwane / Thfonga” rulers in eSwatini, for instance, call themselves “Emalangeni” those of the sun. And they named their monetary currency by the same name. They have always been sun worshippers. They still are. Every December, their astrologers / witch doctors tell them when to perform their rituals to cement their stranglehold on the ruled of that land, through the “incwala” ritual in which the ruled also take part to cement together own subservience and renew their covenant with the spirit world. But it is all sun and moon centred.
The Kalanga (Kalaka in Tswana) who were left in present day Zimbabwe where the Ngwane trekked south, are also named after the sun as they were sun worshippers and could still well be. The Ngwane had continued their journey east, trying to locate the source of the sun, when the Indian Ocean stopped them in their tracks, forcing them to retreat back into main land – into today KwaZulu/ Natal province of South Africa.
The Tonga people “belong to the Bantu group of peoples. They are concentrated in southern Zambia along the Kafue River and Zambezi River. Most of the Tonga area has poor soil and irregular rainfall, which makes farming difficult. For the most part, the area is thinly populated.” They number 1.3 million in Zambia. There are about 300 000 of them in Zimbabwe.
So, the long story short, these spirits are real and control real lives of real people that are alive today. And this is where they come from. But key to this discourse is where these spirits come from. And then enters the history of the cosmos. There is still an even bigger and older source of their origins.
One has to study the content in the Book of Enoch, for aspects relevant to the hatred of humans by the demons and their surrogates. They will be devoured last by those spirits. This journey starts at the very content of the Old Testament as it stands. In Genesis 6:1–4, it is written:
“When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.”
On the other hand, Chapter 6 in Section II of the Book of Enoch captures the same recorded event as:
“And it came to pass, after the children of men had increased in those days, beautiful and comely daughters were born to them. And the angels, the sons of the heavens, saw and lusted after them, and said ‘Behold, we will chose for ourselves wives from among the children of men, and will beget for ourselves children.’
The same section and Chapter also reveals that those spirit beings were led by one Semjaza. They consisted of Urakibarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel, Ramuel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Saraqujal, Asael, Armers, Batraal, Anani, Zaqebe, Samsaveel, Sartael, Turel, Jomjael, and Arazjal, These were the leaders of the 200 angels who were with them in the conspiracy and rebellion. They are the ones that corrupted the Noah generation leading to God regretting having created humans; followed by the sanctioned flood.
But the section indicates that Semjaza told the other 17 leaders of the 200, that “I fear that that perhaps ye will not be willing to do this deed, and I alone shall suffer for this great sin.” But they had all answered him saying “We all will swear an oath, and bind ourselves mutually by a curse, that we will not give up this plan, but will make this plan a deed.” Then they all swore together and bound themselves and together they were 200.
What then followed, according to the Book of Enoch, is that Azazyel taught men to make swords, knives, shields, breastplates, mirrors, bracelets, ornaments, paint, make up products, and dyes. Amazarak taught sorcery and herbalism. Armers taught sorcery also. Barkayal taught observers of stars. Akibeel taught signs. Tamiel taught astronomy.
And as men were being destroyed, their cries reached heaven. Then arch angels, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Suryal and Uriel, looked down from heaven and saw the quantity of blood which was shed on earth and all the iniquity which was done upon it. They decided to refer the matter to the Lord of Lords, God of gods, King of kings, at the throne. They compiled a dozier of all the iniquities of the fallen ones led by Semjaza, detailing each one’s sins. They reported the abominable sex between the spirits and women and the resultant giants. This obviously confirms the account of giants of the Nephilim mentioned in Numbers 13:33, where it says:
“We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
So, God ordered Raphael to bind and detain Azazyel hand and foot and cast him into darkness and open the desert in Dudael to throw him and hurl pointed stones on him with darkness. One wonders if crystals and diamonds are not those pointed stones. Humans dig them out under the serious ruthless exploitation of the Bohemians super rich 10% of the world, who incentivise heavily anyone who can remove such stones from the earth. Is it possible that they could be trying to still rescue Azazyel from the dark underground as they mine the earth for such precious stones? One would postulate in this fashion as those spirits are no longer acceptable in heaven (Revelation 12:8); since the fall are running amok as vagabonds on the earth, until the Christians learn, en masse, to bind them an send them to the pit -Matthew 18 and Mark 16:17-18.
The Lord also commanded Gabriel to incite all the children of fornication born between these spirits and humans to fight amongst themselves till they destroy each other by their own hand. That could also explain why there is excessive aggression among the brood of vipers. And this corresponds exactly with the action recorded in 2 Chronicles 20; between Jehoshaphat and three armies of descendants of these creatures. God loosed an angel of death who caused them to forget Israel and turn on each other and decimated themselves to the last two warriors who stabbed each other and died by their own swords and at the hands of each other. Talk of a house divided (Mark 3:25 and Matthew 12: 22-28).
The record of that event is in 2 Chronicles 20: 22- 23 where it is recorded that:
“When they began singing and praising, the LORD set ambushes against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; so they were struck down [in defeat]. For the sons of Ammon and Moab [suspecting betrayal] rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, completely destroying them; and when they had finished with the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.”
The Lord also ordered Enoch, being a human, with flesh and blood, and ordered him to inform the Watchers of heaven who have deserted the lofty sky and their everlasting station, who have been polluted with women. Taking wives of men, and tell them that:
• On earth they shall not rejoice in their off-spring;
• They shall watch as their loved ones are slaughtered;
• They shall lament the destruction of their sons; and
• They shall pray forever to God, but their prayers would not be answered.
Enoch reports that when he relayed the decision to these spirits, they all became terrified and trembled - all 200 of them under Samjaza. The spirits asked Enoch, the human, to appeal to God for them. This is because they already could no longer do it themselves. They were not even allowed to as much as raise their heads towards heaven without being destroyed. Enoch was told that those supplications were not accepted. He was told to tell them that their request was never ever going to be granted as long as the world endures. They were even told that:
“From now onwards, you will never ascend to heaven. On the earth he will bind you as long as then world endures… you shall behold the destruction of your sons; you shall not possess them but they shall fall before you by the sword.”
It was from this point that Enoch relayed another message telling them from God, that:
• The off spring between the fallen watchers and women, would be called evil spirits from thenceforth;
• The earth was going to be their habitation;
• Evil spirits would proceed from their flesh;
• They were going to be evil spirits on earth;
• The place and abode of the remaining spirits of heaven shall be in heaven;
• The earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits who are born on earth;
• The spirits of the giants were to like clouds; which shall oppress, corrupt, fall contend and bruise upon earth; They shall cause lamentation. They shall eat no food nor be thirsty; and
• They shall be concealed and shall not rise against the sons of men and against women; for they come forth during the days of slaughter and destruction.
Uriel showed Enoch where the angels who cohabited with women were imprisoned for ever. He even told Enoch how these fallen angels had made men sacrifice to devils as to gods. And the humans still do to this day - Except they now call them their ancestors. In a way, they could very well be right; because they could just as well be descendants of those fallen ones; who raped human women. There is no consent to talk of with demons. It’s all rape, deception, violence and brute force. We all see this when they force a university student or celebrity to “thwasa” in Southern Africa.
It is total war until the human medium succumbs and surrenders, kicking and screaming. One case in point was Vusi Mahlasela, accepting an Ubuntu award (Celebrating Excellency in Diplomacy) on 15 February 2020 in Cape Town . He told all on national TV how his ancestors (the elders) had forced him and threatened his career if he did not succumb to being initiated as a witchdoctor. He lifted his hands to display the paraphernalia of the beads and skins wrapped around his wrists which is a trade mark of “ukuthwasa”- being initiated, into the craft. He even summoned the trophy and publicly dedicated it to the spirits. No body laughed. Nobody ridiculed him.
The president (Ramaphosa), diplomats and all other dignitaries were present. But in intellectual gatherings, people pretend that these things do not exist and that they are not evil. But all their adherents and mediums are forced. Very few actually go to these things willingly. They just do not know the formula for getting rid of such spirit bullies. He has a terrible limp and one could just tell that he was not well. In his case, it’s even known that he also suffers from epilepsy – which is not great fun. And his “elders” are not helping with that, and could well be fuelling and behind it; for all we know.
It is clear therefore, why these fallen spirits and their blood line – brood of vipers (Mathew 3:7 and Matthew 12:34); hate humans – especially those humans who are not born of the fornication of these demons. They maintain these old ancient notes of these events and share them in their secret societies; like the Roman emperors. These also kept the Book of Enoch secret; and sabotaged its popularisation on earth (as a super power of the time).
The conduct of those spirits in the foregoing passage was in direct conflict and defiance of the Genesis 3: 14-15, where it is written:
“So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
So, when those spirits fell for human women, it was already in direct defiance of Genesis 3: 14-15, and were asking for trouble, and they got it. Proof of this is in Genesis 6:5-7 where it states that:
The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the LORD said, ‘I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.’”
Then in Genesis 6:11-14 the record states that:
“Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, ‘I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth’.”
Another reference is made to the Nephilim in Numbers 13:33, where it says:
“We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
Then Judges 13: 20 – 21, indicates what happened before conception of Samson in the Bible. Regarding the angel who had appeared to Samson’s prospective parents, as they then were, the text says:
“As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground. When the angel of the LORD did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it was the angel of the LORD.”
Yet the position of man was characterised in Psalm 8:4-5 American Standard Version (ASV); where it states that:
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him but little lower than God (Elohim in Hebrew), and crownest him with glory and honor.”
The diagrammatical summary of the relationship between spirits and humans as captured in the chapters 14, 15 and 16, can be summed up in the following diagram.
The book is only concerned and pays attention to the left side of the hierarchy and does not unpack the other wings of the satanic fiefdoms and principalities (Ephesians 6). They should be a subject of another book and on another day.
Chapter Seventeen
Self-Monitoring
The other thing that I have finally managed to take more seriously, since my gout troubles, is monitoring my body condition from home almost daily. Monitoring one’s own body condition in my case has entailed checking my blood acidity regularly. I do not do it as a doctor, as it is clear now that I am not. I do it as a consumer of medical information and knowledge and health knowing of self. From http://www.oceanmilk.com/ I have learnt to check my own PH readings. These readings tell me the amount of acidity that is in my body at any given time. Gout comes with the uric acid, as already indicated above.
But the problems that come with acidity can affect many other aspects of one’s health. One can now purchase, as I do, PH litmus paper dispensers that can be used from home. I test either my saliva or urine. From reading up on how this helps, I have learnt that it is healthier to have your PH reading between 7.0 and 7.5. Once the PH falls below 6.0, in my case, gout is either already manifesting or is knocking at the door. What I have noted from just my daily use in monitoring my PH levels, is that, when I had been in deep sleep for say three or four hours without visiting the bathroom, at night, my PH might appear more acidic. But after being awake and having been to the bathroom for once, and lying awake, for about an hour or two, before drinking or eating anything, the PH becomes more alkaline again.
I do not know about the physiology behind that phenomenon. The medical care professionals will know. But the mechanics of that physiology are not important to me as I am not a health care practitioner. As already reiterated above, I am keen on curing; healing and maintaining medical challenges as they may obtain in my body and soul. But what I have also established is that it is better for my body to have a PH of minimum 6.5 and maximum 7.5. So, I am sticking to that target.
And the way to maintain this PH, where I want it to be, has been informed by one lady receptionist at one of the medical centres in Centurion, where I visited more times than other such facilities. After Seing me return for gout symptoms so many times in a very short space of time, she must have felt sorry for me. Without offering any medical advice, as she was obviously also, like me, not a health care professional, she had shared her own experiences and regime for avoiding gout. Her simple remedy was inexpensive. It consisted of taking a mere half teaspoon of bicarbonate soda, in a glass of water every morning on an empty stomach.
I have tried this remedy and found it more than potent for me. Because Bicarbonate soda is used for cooking, and is therefore, food, it is sold cheaply in ordinary supermarkets; general dealers and grocery stores - and obviously without prescription.
This bicarbonate of soda, has rescued me from another malady I suffered from for some time. That is the problem of sensitive teeth and gums in the mouth. After my first consultation with a periodontist, who did an excellent job, but later retired in Nelspruit, a Dr. Diamond, I had received his counsel to brush my teeth with sensodyn which is a gentler toothpaste, and then rinse my mouth with corsodyl.
According to its literature , “Not all mouthwashes treat gum disease, some are designed to freshen breath or provide cavity protection. Corsodyl Daily Mouthwash is formulated to help protect against gum problems, help remove plaque bacteria and prevent further build up when used twice daily and in combination with tooth brushing.”
So I had used corsodyl ever since then. But, unbeknown to me, while this liquid sorted out the gum and tooth diseases, it failed to remove the sensitivity. After a long prolonged usage, it appeared to even cause it f not abet it. But I had gotten over enthusiastic because of the remedy it had provided against my plaque for 20 years and the gum disease that had set in.
It is also marketed in its website as an “intensive treatment that's clinically proven to help treat the early signs of gum disease, (gingivitis). It's important to act fast to treat the symptoms of gingivitis, like bleeding, red or swollen gums.” Then when I was in one Cape Town, Blaawberg in-pharmacy clinic, a nursing sister gave different remedies. I had at that time suffered a serious sensitivity that made me fail to even eat food or drink anything. And I was away from home. I also had to work during the day in motion court.
So when I had already collected from the shelf; my highly favoured corsodyl and asked her what she would recommend for me to use until I could consult a dentist, she had snatched the corsodyl from my hand, went back to the shelf and took sensodyn and a pack of bicarbonate soda with salt. She had then advised me to brush with the sensodyn and rinse thrice a day with a solution of a half teaspoon of the bicarbonate soda and a pinch of salt; in half a cup of water.
So I literally had to take this advice with the proverbial “pinch of salt.” But the remedy worked such wonders that it saved me the consultation fees to a dentist who probably was going to remove all my teeth or refer me to another periodontist. I still have many of these teeth as I write this page in the book. And to this day, whenever my teeth and gums become more sensitive I resort to this remedy. But if they feel no longer polished, I go for the corsodyl to clean them up and return them to good health.
The nursing sister in the Cape Town example, much as she was not an oral hygienist, dentist, orthodontist or periodontist, was in some way a health service practitioner. Her advice was welcome, and still is. When I checked this remedy out on the internet, I found that Raman (2017), had shown that it also can be used to treat heartburn; as a mouthwash; soothe canker sores; whiten teeth; act as a deodorant; improve exercise performance; relieve itchy skin and sunburns; treat calluses; slow the progression of chronic kidney disease; improve certain cancer treatments; neutralize fridge odours; as an air freshener; whiten your laundry; act as a kitchen cleaner; eliminate garbage odour; remove stubborn carpet stains; act as a multipurpose bathroom cleaner; clean fruits and veggies; polish silverware; save a scorched pot; extinguish oil and grease fires; act as a homemade weed killer; and act as a shoe deodorizer.
Again the uses of the bicarbonate soda are numerous and helpful. They are almost as many as some of the side effects of the medicines that we, as consumers, pay a small fortune for - and still get as many diseases resulting from these. The pictorial relationship between the substances that cure underlying illnesses and those that create them can be summarised as follows:
Curative Substances Symptomatic Treating Drugs
Heal sicknesses Cause sicknesses called side effects;
Prevent sicknesses Cause deliberately embedded sicknesses;
Maintain health Destroy health and quality of life;
Belong to food family Belong to poisons and toxins family;
Cheap and affordable Expensive and yet could be placebos;
Have multi-uses which are beneficial Have single uses but many poisons;
Heals more than one thing Treats one thing and introduce more Toxins;
Deal with underlying causes Treat only symptoms while inducing toxins;
Need no professional prescription Only supplied by prescription which means additional cost of consultation even for poor consumers; and
Have no side effects Have almost 9:1 side effects ratio
Chapter Eighteen
War against Aging
Aging is not compulsory. It can also be controlled, slowed down, sped up and completely eradicated from my experience. It is all in the mind of the owner or resident of that body. Some people talk themselves into aging. Others talk and believe and wish themselves into it. Some even plan their retirement. This mildest comes from the professionals, including those of financial advisers whose job consists of scaring consumers to death, by rattling out statistics about positive and negative trends of one variable against another. These include the likes of inflation against incomes and a time when the consumer is no longer able to earn money.
This idea of diminished earnings, with age, is peddled by the financial planners and advisers who are only limited to the working class mentality. In their world, everybody is born to learn, work, retire and die. Your ability to earn an income only is scheduled and limited to an age bracket of say between 25 when you finish college and 55 or 60 when you retire. Your highest income is expected by those parrots to peak between these two points. If it fails to, you get scrapped as an old person or senior citizen who needs to be discarded and yield your position and role in life to some younger candidate who will start all over and repeat the same routine you have just completed.
The problem with this mentality and way of thinking is that it reduces the human spirit to a mechanical robot programmed to work as a drone bee from your youth to retirement. The one whose mind-set is based on working, eating, sleeping, making little ones and waking up, eating, working, sleeping and going to the bathroom and making little ones and starting the cycle all over again. This is a suffocating routine if you ask me. And just the thought of it is enough to age a thinking person who is more than a mere flesh and bone piece of equipment.
Who said people should retire at a certain age? And who said they should also earn less than they did during their working prime after retirement? Such a person should be rounded up and shot - with a camera of course, don’t be silly. If your gun has a camera attached to it, it is also welcome as well. But in my tutelage; received though his books; from Kiyosaki (2008), one’s income levels should be swelling all the time and not diminishing. But before one can ascertain this, one has to learn about investments rather than savings – which these retirement annuities are aimed at doing. And as indicated earlier, once I saw how foolish the retirement annuity pipe dream was a nightmare, I started converting everything into investments and almost emptied the retirement products that I had been counselled earlier to “build.”
Failure to plan a transition from a low earner to a higher earner by the time you reach and exceed 60, is reason enough to qualify as an underlying cause of hypertension, ulcers (through worry), fear of poverty and loss of self-dignity. It also leaves one feeling empty and losing any sense of purpose. The system for the working class is to pay you more while you are active as an employee - even those self-employed professionals. They may think they are in business, but in actual fact they are really employed. When a doctor treats a patient, he only earns for that activity. That is why when a doctor is off on vacation; that doctor stops earning. He works for money and money does not work for him.
The focus of our education, including the self-education, for all of us professionals, should be to invest as you earn while, working for money. And one should aim to be having money work for you by a certain age, at least before the age of retirement. It is acceptable to start off as a person who works for money, but it is a shame to die still working for money after the age of 60. It is even more shameful for one to retire and earn less than half of what one used to earn before retirements. That destroys the sensibility of even working in the first place. Work becomes a curse if that is all you ever live for.
Jack Ma of Ali Baba says that in order to get rich to the point that Kiyosaki (Op Cit.) calls having money work for you, you have to find a pressing human need and search and find a solution for it. Your billions are locked up in that solution when you unearth it and provide it to the public that requires an answer to that problem. By creating power to get wealth, you also therapeutically poverty-proof yourself and prevent worry (anxiety), fear of poverty (insecurity) and loss of dignity – which could translate into depression among other things. This is therefore, killing many birds with the same stone.
One other way would be to perfect what you have been doing all your life and sell that technology or expertise in the form of training, coaching, mentoring, publishing, and educating others. You could also innovate in that field as you know it better than most other people in your generation. You can finally design solutions that were always shot down by your former bosses, even though you knew they could work. Every business solution I have ever sold and earned a bundle from, has been rejected by some myopic undiscerning boss at some point in my life.
This is better than retiring as a CEO and then buying a butchery to sell meat. You will become a novice / new comer into an old field, at a later age when the market is already saturated with butchers with 40 years’ experience or more. This is the sort of move that results in massive failure, as if you just woke up after 60 years and decided you suddenly want to be a lousy butcher. Instead of a promotion, your move will resemble a demotion in the greater scheme of things.
It is extremely rejuvenating to find your assets / investments growing annually. It’s like owning the richest man in Babylon’s slaves who give birth to little salves that all end up working for you as they increase. This can only make your wealth explode into a fortune as opposed to the misfortune when retiring poor. If you are offended by that example, you are missing the point again. And if you are in the business or habit of missing the point, it is pointless sharing any experiences with you.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018) observes that “The law is interested in both bodies and minds, he said—what people do, of course, but also why they did those things, what they were thinking about at the time, and what their intent was. Neuroscience provides possible new lines of evidence to illuminate these inner aspects of behaviours.”
One would, however go as far as to suggest that when medical practitioners and manufacturers of drugs, peddle their trades, they do so with their minds fully aware that they enrich themselves at the expense of their victims. But they achieve this, while in all that time, they present this charade that they are helping the victims. It is this part that is deplorable.
This also appears now to motivate for the increased practice of studying across fields and not just specialising in one field of study even for academics. This is because it also looks lie the work of cramming information to be able to write examinations and pass tests is fast becoming obsolete. Computers can memorise more information and retrieve it much faster than the human brain. But it is the deciding of how to integrate that information across different fields of study that seems essential in the data analytics age.
Both lawyers and medical people need to therefore grow closer together as they must also raise their acumen when dealing with investments, financial matters and politics.
At the advanced stages of aging, some people, who may even be considered wealthy, live with chronic pain. They consider themselves fortunate that they can afford the medical attention. But then they lose out is in the repeated and continues medical poisoning they receive from allopathic medicine. In some cases; they are even sold the placebo. But their placebo is more expensive than that of a witchdoctor peddled to the poor in an African village.
Chapter Nineteen
Emotional Causes of Disease
Novelist Vicki Baum (1888 - 1960) once said that “You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.” That sums up the entire section of this book that needed to be written in a few words. Again, I know this from personal experience. If you have anything bugging you mentally or emotionally, it stops even you experiencing the best events in your life. Even the best meal from your favourite restaurant ceases to taste any good when you receive a report that a loved one has become deceased or taken ill in an emergency situation.
Barrett (2017, p. xii) says that emotions are not what we have previously, in the classical theory, been led to believe they were. They are “not built-in but made from more basic parts.” She talks of a theory of constructed emotion. She also indicates that “Even when your face seems completely still to the naked eye, your muscles are still contracting and relaxing” (Ibid at p.4). This would be subconscious involuntary activity such as continuing to digest your food after lunch, without actively making a conscious effort to do so. Your subconscious mind knows what to do.
She also reveals what she terms the degeneracy principle in which a mental activity like fear is created by more than a single neuron, but combinations of such neurons (Barrett, 2017, p. 19). And simply stated; degeneracy means “many to one” in which numerous mixtures of neurons can create the same outcome, and that the majority of them in our brains are versatile. It also means that we create the milieu in which we dwell. We also see not with our eyes but through them rather. We see with the brain. And what we see, much as it is projected externally, it is from within ourselves – just like in ten case of a data projector, which emits what it displays and therefore, sees – if it had the seeing mechanism.
The emotional feelings and the resultant experiences that follow them, in our bodies, are not mysteriously triggered by the events that precede them. But they are our creation. We generate these feelings. We decide to make them up subconsciously. Dispenza (2014, p.112) deals with the scientific core of this fact. In very crisp terms, he shares that the frontal lobe of the brain is neurologically connected to all the components of the brain. The frontal lobe is the one that changes your mind when you use it, by making it functions in different orders, arrangements and permutations – of neural pathways.
He says that once your frontal lobe makes up an interpretation of events, action, words spoken, conduct and communications, it concretises a mental picture of what it represents and means. One understands from this that a harmless situation can suddenly appear horrendous and elicit drastic and even fatal reaction from the perceiver. The frontal lobe then neurologically (like in electrical currency flow) selects various networks of neurons (nerve cells) in a neurochemical process of a mental representation of the interpretation of that frontal lobe. This is a process similar to when electrical circuits carry electrical current flow through a permutation of wiring networks.
My own illustration of this phenomenon, at an external and physical level, is that there is a difference of reactions to a neutral situation depending on the perceiver, the physical location of that perceiver’s experience; and the reaction that they will chose. This takes on the shape of the interpretivists’ approach, which regards reality as humanly contrived (Bryant, 2011). In this interpretivist’s philosophical approach, one will retain the inherent notion that we see things as we are; and not (they) things are (Bryant, 2011). Interpretivists are concerned with what things seem to mean and represent, filtered through the social construct (Cohen et al.; 2013). Then one will make up one’s mind and formulate the conclusions filtered through the prism of your own beliefs, fears, experiences (good and bad), pleasant and painful.
If an Amazonian tourist were to visit the red light streets of Amsterdam in the Netherlands where sex work is legal, and the ladies of the night openly and publicly display their nude assets, he would not be perturbed, given that his community dresses that scantily as a matter of course. Nudists by culture or hobby or preference, are not bothered by such traits as exhibitionism, which may be off-putting to a person with no such tastes, habits or preference.
A villager in a rural province of South Africa or eSwatini, finding a nude female outside his hut, at 03h30 in the morning, is likely to butcher her as he would be certain she was a witch, out to bewitch him and cause him harm. It would never enter his heart and mind (from his frontal lobe), that she could be a victim of human traffickers who might have escaped a terrible rape. But this later scenario could just be as true – since those monsters operate in every community, contrary to rural unbelief. And rural victims are always sold and bought in human trafficking circles as notoriously recorded in virtually all news media.
But if the same male from rural Limpopo province in South Africa, were to find himself in Hillbrow, where the human traffickers and prostitution and drug rings have colonised a whole section of Johannesburg, he would not think of the nude lady as a witch. This is because he would think she was a lady of the night as they parade half nude and propositioning men when one dares to as much as walk in Hillbrow streets. But even in Hillbrow, there is no ban on witches. However, despite this fact, instead of our male, attacking the would-be “witch” in Hillbrow he is most likely to ask “how much?” if in the market for “human flesh” as do those who seek such in those places. Hillbrow and Limpopo can be judicially noticed for these reputations, in South Africa, as they are notorious for same, just like one does not have to prove in court that Saturday always follows Fridays and not vice versa. In law judicially noticeable facts are considered as evidentiary material.
Schwikkard; et al, (2010) avers that:
“The law of evidence does; to a limited extent; allow a judicial officer to accept the truth of certain facts which are known to him (or her) even though no evidence was led to prove these facts. This process is known as judicial notice.” (My own brackets)
The use of the judicial notice doctrine is to expedite court hearings and avoid wasting time on all facts that have not been admitted, by laboriously subjecting it to evidence – Cross and Tapper (Ibid.). Some facts are judicially noticed without consulting any source. But other facts are judicially noticed after consulting a specific source. Judicial notice can be taken of an issue in dispute if there are no admissions, without the need to hear evidence on the issue.
There are limitations to judicial notice. Facts that are judicially noticed are either well known to all reasonable persons or to a reasonable court in a specific locality . In R v Tager 1944 AD 339-343-4; the court held that:
(a) It is not sufficient for a presiding officer to act on his personal knowledge of facts; and
(b) Parties may still lead evidence to dispel any erroneous impression under which the court may labour.
However, for the lawyer reader, one needs to take into account the fact that judicial notice cannot be applied to the issues to be decided. In other words, the court cannot decide that the parties should be seeking adjudication that neither party is interested in even though they are entitled to seeking adjudication over that matter. That oversteps the mark that a court should operate within. That ends up making the trial irregular and therefore the outcome invalid. So, for the lay reader, judicial notice is a real concept binding in law in our life time.
For instance, in a divorce case, it is not up to the court to enquire on whether there is also an issue of domestic violence, basing this on the judicial notice that most divorce cases are accompanied by allegations and counter allegations of domestic violence. That would be beyond what the court is called upon to decide. The court is therefore not allowed to go on its own witch-hunt or frolic and compel the parties to adduce evidence and present arguments on issues that the court and not the parties is interested in. The court in such circumstances would have misdirected itself and conducted some form or academic research or commission of enquiry and not court adjudication. This is disallowed may not be countenanced even under the guise of proceeding inquisitorially.
Dispenza (Ibid.) further intimates that once repeated a sufficient number of times, those mentally contrived thoughts and mental pictures painted by the fabric of the imagination of your frontal lobe; they become one’s experience. Fiction becomes reality. All our reality is our externalised imagination. The networks of nerves connected, where the thoughts neurochemicals travel, will then become more fixed and dominant when the signals that triggered and created them are ignited. Then he further points out, now, matter-of-factly, that:
“Once the thought becomes the experience, you begin to feel the emotion of how the event would feel in reality (remember that emotions are chemical signatures of experiences). Your brain makes different types of chemical messengers (neuropeptide) and it sends it (sic) out to the cells in your body. The neuropeptide looks for the appropriate receptor sites, or docking stations, on various cells so that it can deliver its message to the body’s hormonal centres, and ultimately; the cells’ DNA – and the cells get a new message that the event has occurred.”
The epigenetic work occurs at this stage in earnest. It is at this stage that the thoughts, which are mere software, become flesh, and influence genes, which then change your body. This is no longer medicine but epigenetics – a new upgraded quantum version of biology – at a physiological level where the biochemistry takes place from invisible activities to visible outcomes. Once the activation of cell receptor sites has occurred, and the DNA has regulated the cells and their proteins, life is expressed of that mental picture and the body becomes that picture. This is how the Word becomes flesh (John 1:14).
I personally liken this process to that of 3D printing. In this process, an architect can imagine anything, draw it on a piece of paper, programme its dimensions into computer digital representation codes, then feed them to a remote 3D printer via a cell phone or the computer signals; and have the printer at the remote site; print out an engine block, house or engineering part.
One day I wrote down, from the inner depths of my contemplating some of these questions, and taking into account all, that I was picking up even as I sought answers to these medically vexing realities and questions; I wrote to myself a note saying:
“Our bodies selfheal. Medicine only helps stop the increase of the infections in the wounds. Our souls / minds are also healing bound. Self-healing comes from allowing yourself to feel and permit yourself to experience that feeling - good or bad.
I do not know where this message came from. It just bubbled to the top of my head as I was thinking sitting in front of my laptop one Saturday morning on the 5th of August 2006. Then this got me thinking. Soon it was revealed to me that:
(a) Our minds are only complete when we can experience all that they are designed to experience in the form of feelings, knowledge, ignorance;
(b) When we harden our hearts towards some things or people due to past hurts, we squeeze that part of our being and make ourselves either mentally or emotionally disabled or both;
(c) When we suppress pain or pleasure, we rob ourselves of the functionality of that part of our minds or emotions that feel that pain or pleasure, and again handicap ourselves or perpetuate self-torture of a mental nature; and
(d) The totality of our minds and hearts must be allowed to experience the totality of our experiences and feelings for us to be balanced human beings the way the Maker intended for us to be.
Chapter Twenty
Dealing with Underlying Causes
I have learnt from the likes of Joe (Dispenza, 2014); that bodies are life-ward bound. Our bodies are self-healing, that is why our blood starts clotting the moment we get cuts on parts of the body. Our body cells are renewed all the time. The cells in your body change and are replaced many times over in your life time. Your body is not the same one that you were born in and with. Food and natural environmental elements like the air, sun and water, to name but a few, also help naturally in this regard.
Chamberlain (2020); commends that “the beauty of Chinese Medicine” as being that it encompasses a total life style. She also intimates how over a hundred years back, patients in China only paid the doctor when the patient had experienced wellness. When the patient fell sick, the patient did not have to pay the doctor as that was evidence that the doctor had not done his job. And yes, many were male. The job of the doctor at the time in China, “… was to keep you healthy.” So, the doctors treated patients for free until the patients were healthy again. The patients would visit the doctor regularly for acupuncture, herbs, diet and lifestyle guidance. This should be the ultimate model for preventative medicine in the rest of the post-modern world, given the shambles the medicine industry is in.
Sickness and illnesses are not naturally occurring. Nature is healing bound. It is life-ward bound. Natural things that are alive are self-replicating and self-renewing. This belief that when one is alive then one has to expect natural decay, is false and is part of the mass hypnotism trance that many live under as it has infiltrated religions, education systems and cultures, folklore and many other demon infested and infected systems. Such beliefs only benefit the sellers of treatment substances and activities such as drugs and medical care providers.
The higher level for these who are believers in the Christian faith is even far more advanced than the tips and experiences shared in this book. I just touch and go in this regard as separate fuller content is required for such an audience. But this book is for sharing with all consumers regardless of origins, race, class status, religion, faith, occupation; affiliation or expertise, those things that can free us from the slavery of the oppressive Bohemians-hiding behind corporate entities and destroying lives at the expense of the victims.
The easiest and shortest route for the believers of the Christian Faith is that they already enjoy authority whether they are aware of it or not, to deal with things far more effectively at root cause level or even before they arise. When the Bohemians laugh that faith to scorn, and ridicule it and make disparaging remarks about it, it will either because these cons are really blind and ignorant to that power or because they are forced and compelled by the fallen ones to do this. As Creflo Dollar says the devils true genius is when he convinces many souls to believe that he does not exist. And all this while the top echelons sponsoring the ignorance; revel in his darkness all the time. And all this is done at the expense of the “fools”, as the Bohemians describe the ignorant whom they have hoodwinked.
This supreme universal authority derives from Mathew 10: 1 and 8; where it is written:
“And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease... Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.”
King (2014) says that you have to pump up your natural healing ability which your body is already fully equipped with. It self-repairs and fights infections, eliminates toxins, repairs broken proteins, attacks cancer cells and retards aging. She informs readers that:
“Every 90 days, your body has a new bloodstream; every year, it manufactures billions of new cells; and every few years, it builds new bones. So let’s help it along! When you give your body what it needs to function optimally, it is happy to keep you healthy despite the multitude of infectious agents bombarding you.”
She further exhorts readers to:
• Avoid stressful thoughts due to cares of life such as deadlines; bills; fam and mishaps that occur as trivia. She cajoles you to relax and have mercy on your nervous system, which takes all the blows and in turn uses the endocrine system to shut other body parts down which causes the underlying roots to any sicknesses and diseases. Stress increases your heart beating rate and elevates your blood pressure, unleashes the “stress hormones” of adrenalin and cortisol, while deteriorating invulnerability—precisely what you don’t need or deserve. When you’re unperturbed, you have greater heights of the growth hormone that preserves cells and flesh;
• Consume lots of water. Keeping your body sufficiently hydrated is crucial to well-being, while sneering that such water is purified and not directly from the suspicious taps supplied by corrupt municipalities; who fail the civic duty to clean properly the water. Purification also helps remove the criminal chemicals that pharmaceuticals also infiltrate into our water systems to create business for themselves through the complications that these chemicals bring with them in their wake. She further cautions how caffeine and alcoholic drinks do not count as they worsen the dehydration that most of us already suffer from. The rule of thumb is to keep rehydrating even when one is not thirsty. By the time you feel the thirst, it appears that it is already too late and your body is by then already gasping for the proverbial “breath”;
• Ensure enough sleep, because lack of adequate sleep is associated with chronic colds; flu and a number of other health conditions including not limited to obesity. Your body cells work more efficiently when the body is relaxed in sleep - not depleting its fuels and energy. To get maximum benefits from sleep, she strictly advises that we should switch off the TV, computer, tablet, phone, and other electronic devices approximately an hour before bed. Light should also be switched off for melatonin to freely flow in the body during sleep. One has to make sure your bedroom is dark to help regulate your melatonin. She also recommends the same touted seven or eight hours of snoozing per day;
• Ingest the right nutrition. In this aspect, she recommends enough of fresh veggies; fruits, seeds; nuts, beans, healthy oils (like avocado, olive and almond), and some low-fat animal protein—preferably from organic sources. She also recommends the addition of some Vitamin D3 supplementation, to the diet “especially during the darker months;” and
• Think healthy thoughts. Here she highlights the ancient realisation of the epigenetic phenomenon that “your physical body responds to your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.” Scientists may call it the “placebo effect,” she vows by the knowledge that the mind can cure the body of its ills.
The epigenetic thesis is recorded as far back as Biblical times (Old Testament). We must recall that in those days, the Bible represented not religion, but philosophy, law and science. Its professors were the scribes and its philosophers were the prophets, while the politicians were kings and priests. The scribes were the equivalent of researchers whose work has been peer reviewed in terms of the 21st century scenario. It was the New Testament days (Roman Empire era) that ushered in the faith era. And it did this without abrogating, but rather augmenting the previous dispensation(s). In Matthew 5: 17, it is written that:
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them.”
But the epigenetic science was already applied in ancient times as recorded in the Old Testament. In Genesis 30: 37-39, it is written that:
“Now Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chest nut trees, peeled white strips in them (37), and exposed the white which was in the rods. And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink (38). So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted (39).”
In the Bible, Genesis 30:40 reports escapades of Jacob, seeking to outwit his crooked uncle, Laban:
“Some of the sheep that Jacob was keeping for Laban were already spotted. And when the others were ready to mate, he made sure that they faced in the direction of the spotted and black ones. In this way, Jacob built up a flock of sheep for himself and did not put them with the other sheep.”
In Verse 41, it is said that
“… Whenever the strongest of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods.”
The rest of the scripture shows that it was just by letting the plain sheep face and see, visualise, the freckled sheep that their own offspring came out freckled. That is epigenetics at work as early as BC days.
The Bible further instructs that we have to “… be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” (Ephesians 4:23). It is written in John 8:32 that: “… you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." So, it is not the medicine, political party, rich uncle and rich spouse or parents that sets people free, according to the eternal divine intelligence that created all things with wisdom and power. This was more than 2020 years ago. Science, by then was still not yet born as a separate distinct discipline from the womb of philosophy where the split occurred. Once it was it took as long to arrive at the same conclusion.
In “Is God in Our Genes” Einstein is reported (Ibid) to having said that “Science without religion is lame, Religion without science is blind.” He has since been proven right. When modern scientists like Bruce Lipton, recently discovered in laboratory experiments, that the environment is the one that switches genes on and off, and not the genes that control it, they were about 4 000 years too late. As can be seen above, Jacob had already beaten them to that knowledge without laboratory experiments, but from a superior spiritual revelation.
Epigenetics is the study of how DNA is packed into the cell and with which chemicals it is packed. The result of this packing regulates which genes are expressed and to what extent. Each time a cell divides, it is subject to new packing arrangements. Each cell is different and each cell packs in concert with every other cell; each doing its part. This is a miracle.
Epigenetics is a system of turning genes off and on. We humans have just over 20,000 genes in our body and each of these genes can be expressed or not depending on how tightly it is wound and with which chemicals it is packed. Therefore, with the butterfly, one combination of genes is expressed to build the larva and another combination of genes is expressed for constructing the mature butterfly. No matter how the DNA is packed, it cannot construct a moth, a bird, or a chimpanzee; it can only express the various stages of that species of butterfly.
In humans, it is said that “our personal DNA coupled with our environment determines how our DNA is packed.”
There are other concepts that work very well with epigenetics and related sciences. Morphic Resonance is one such science. In “Brain Science Has a Change of Mind” David Hulme reports that the capacity of the brain to rewire itself is termed its “neuroplasticity.” The first inklings of this phenomenon came with work on stroke victims and with people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
A paraplegic can also regrow the necessary muscles, body tissues, nerves, bones and other requisites of the body, through transmutation. This, at biological level, entails the evolutionary transformation of one species to another, as transmutation of species. It also entails conversion of base metals to another of greater value (for example into gold or silver). It also entails, in radiobiology; the transformation of one element or isotope into another by the process of nuclear reaction.
You can now mentally and emotionally, regrow hair, bones, tissue, and even vertebrae, by thought alone, without the aggressive and intrusive and crude surgical interventions. This can be acquired though intentional visualisation, faith, and intense focus.
Lyall Watson, a South African Botanist, in “Super nature” catalogued instances where cockroaches grow back their legs and heads even if these have been cut off. Now, it’s common knowledge , but, again, not to many.
We have a superior imagination that should enable us to grow our own limbs and beat the condition of being termed paraplegics, if we put our minds and “will” to it. Christians will quote the scripture that “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” – Philippians 4:13.
Nerves are cylindrical bundles of fibers that start at the brain and central cord and branch out to every other part of the body, according to the University of Michigan Medical School. It is further reported that:
“Neurons send signals to other cells through thin fibers called axons, which cause chemicals known as neurotransmitters to be released at junctions called synapses ... There are over 100 trillion neural connections in the average human brain, though the number and location can vary … a new study published January 2018 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that out of the 160 participants studied, the brains of highly creative people have more connections among three specific regions of the brain than less creative thinkers.”
Dr Dispenza has shown in brain scans; carried out live, and in real time, while teaching and coaching people that neuron connections increase by the moment, as the brain acquires new information. This occurs live on TV Scans and monitors, now well captured on DvD in Youtube.
According to the theory developed by Rupert Sheldrake, British biologist (b.1942) a paranormal influence by which a pattern of events or behaviour can facilitate subsequent occurrences of similar patterns appears.
In mechanistic biology, a sharp distinction is drawn between innate and learned behaviour: the former is assumed to be 'genetically programmed' or 'coded' in the DNA, while the latter is supposed to result from physical and chemical changes in the nervous system. And these changes can just as well be acquired through habit, practice, repetition and observation of others acting it out.
Ex hypothesi, the new behavioral field will be reinforced by morphic resonance, which will not only cause the behaviour of the trained animals to become increasingly habitual, but will also affect, although less specifically, any similar animal exposed to a similar stimulus: the larger the number of animals in the past that have learned the task, the easier it should be for subsequent similar animals to learn it. This is what Lyall Watson called the 100th Monkey phenomenon.
My own postulation would be that, each species is tuned to a specific frequency of vibration, at the energy level. So, when a new phenomenon or practice or experience, reaches one growing sample of that species, the frequency of that occurrence gets amplified loud enough of be detected by the rest of that species. This would be equal to the anecdotal belief that once an idea, song, poem, has its scheduled time arrive, it will express through the first chosen person or others in the taking.
This environment includes: diet, air quality, stress, friends, attitude, purpose, and spiritual beliefs. The environment triggers receptors, switches, hormones, and electrical signals: these triggers affect how our DNA is expressed. In summary, not only does your DNA regulate gene expression, but so does our physical and spiritual environment. There is a blog that shows both the physical and spiritual effects of epigenetics using laboratory tests of mice and rats.
Rigney (2020) indicates how sickness is actually even spiritual. She intimates how evil spirits, very ugly ones that hate humans, just as those in Genesis 6 and the Book of Enoch are said to do, torture people. Being invisible to the eye, but physically present, just like bacteria, the Ebola virus, the Corona virus and other invisibles, these hateful and very ugly spirits hang around people. They come with weapons to torture people. When you feel a sense of heaviness, you are actually carrying that spirit on your shoulders or back and it is sucking the blood and breath out of you. And when they want they inflict pain with instruments like sharp objects as shown in the illustration.
But since they are invisible, you can’t see them though you still feel them and the pain they inflict on your body.
Now, as an underlying causative agent, the spiritual attack presents as pain to the patient. The undiscerning patient will then approach a medicine man. The latter will, prescribe pain killers. These will come with their side effects. And even after the real and initial cause of the pain has departed, the side effects will then carry on destroying the patient from where the pain left off.
For believers, it is also important to remember that when the High Priests, who were the healers, inoculators and vaccinators of people against diseases, and Jesus and Apostles were doing their work, before the hegemony of the Romans, there were no hospitals. Only quarantine facilities were used by the non-believers of the time. But the believers were healed and catered for the plagues by such things as leprosy (2 Kings 5). But The Prophets, High Priests and Jesus and the Apostles are all recorded to having actually healed those diseases (even leprosy) and all other plagues that were deemed incurable by non-believers – Luke 17:11-19.
It is therefore, very clear that the health system as it obtains, is not meant for believers. It is meant for unbelievers. Its starting point is that sickness is a natural phenomenon to be tolerated. And the system as it now obtains does not only tolerate sickness. They promote it as it is very lucrative for the owners of the system. It also enables them to meet their other target – to destroy human life on earth, with the willing collaboration of the ignorant victims.
They have also engaged a strategy of superior brilliance and genius. They have over the centuries, turned the whole health question upside down. Healing, the way that humans have always been healed is now frowned upon and regarded with suspicion. Even real charlatans have jumped onto that band wagon and are exploiting the few that still believe in it. They do this by making them engage in all manner of disgusting activities in the name of spiritual healing. Examples are too many to enumerate. But fortunately, they need not be; since they are notorious enough for everyone to know of at least a dozen examples.
This phenomenon of discrediting healing, in favour of treatment, was meant to crowd out healing. But we who practice self-healing are experiencing its effects and benefits in everyday situations without fail. It is similar to the attack that Christians are now bad and devil worshippers are good. They have perverted the whole thing. Everything is now standing on its head and called normal. If you are a Christian you are now accused of being a bigot. Even when you claim to be heterosexual you are now seen as a bigot committing the greatest sin on earth. The Democrats in the USA seem to be pandering more to this approach which is now the broad church of all promoters of the things that attack humanity – all under the pretext of being progressive – which is actually 90% regressive.
So healing has been undermined in the name of science. But science is everyday finding out that what they used to believe was physical in the first place (matter) is actually nothing of the sort. Matter has been found to consist of mere atoms. Atoms are invisible to the eye. And the atoms are found to consist of sub-atomic matter. And that is even more invisible than the atoms it makes up. Here we are talking electrons, protons, neutrons, and their valences. When you get beyond invisibility, even to many a microscope, you find energy. That energy also cannot be gained or lost but changes from one form to another. And even before energy changes, we find that it actually lies in the eyes of the beholder. When you observe it, it seems to be a particle. When you don’t, it remains a wave. And all of this happens and exists simultaneously to the same energy at the same time in the same place. And it does not require the permission of the Bohemians, their apostles (of the science religion) and their allurers (if that is a real word. But if there is the verb of being “alluring”, then there must be an allurer. And if that is not a word, now it is).
But since all things that appear are made of molecules, made of atoms, made of the above (energy) and you cannot see energy, then it is clear that you can’t see what you can see – even though you may not realise this or think so.
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, even talks of leptons, which are supposed to be “a class of subatomic particles that respond only to the electromagnetic force, weak force, and gravitational force and are not affected by the strong force.” They are supposed to be “elementary particles; that is, they do not appear to be made up of smaller units of matter.” But they further consist of neutrinos and leptons. We better stop here to spare the minds of the reader who is not scientifically included; in the physics and chemical sense. That is why many opted for economics, law, politics and other far flung subjects and fields from science – my very early love before I diverted into law. But it never left me as I would never let it.
While the Bohemians, worship spirits and sacrifice human lives and blood to them in their secret diabolical rituals, such as the cremation of care, they deny their very existence in public. It is all a ploy to “hoodwink” the shallow minds and obsequious thinkers, who believe that propaganda. But their apostles (of science) have relented and agreed that is one spiritual field called energy and the unified field. That is what the theologians and believers have always known and called spirit world. And the key issue is that once one knows and acknowledges that there are spirits (persons or creatures without bodies), only then can they study their various types.
For instance, in Africa, the tendency is to flow with any spirit. So long as a person experiences that supernatural phenomenon, they believe it is good and therefore it is acceptable. But spirits, like creatures, can be good and bad, nasty and gentle, evil and holy, depending on what they are. There is even a packing order and hierarchy in the spiritual realm. But the greatest lie ever perpetrated by Satanists (in all their various labels) is that there is no spirit world. This pushed all believers (of both good and evil) underground to engage in the occult and call it sophisticated names like yoga, meditation, ubizo, ukuthwasa, culture, traditional healing, and similar labels, voodoo, Santeria, guides, gurus, reincarnation, transmigration, and others).
Many people have always gotten healed by rebuking spirits. It is even known that astral projectors and astral travellers project their spirit bodies into people’s bodies; use their brains and commit atrocities, jump out of those bodies and leave the victim answerable for their activities. And this is because CCTV cameras will record the poor victim whose body was possessed, albeit temporarily. Then people will keep repeating that they do not know what came over them. Some believe they were sleep-walking. Others say they saw it like a movie they were watching. Others even have real physical episodes of succubi and incubi attacking and raping them at will even in broad day light and in public places. Others call it somnambulism, using the new words to camouflage those spiritual torments.
But the scriptures are clear that these are all spirits of infirmity (Luke 13: 10-17), torment (1 Samuel 16: 14-16), unclean spirits (Acts 10:14), death (Psalm 68:20), necromancy, deception (Ephesians 5:6), and many others. Just like the deceivers have been deceiving the current humanity into thinking that heterosexuality is evil. And as they have also been declaring that good is bad. They twisted these roles over the centuries, as well as confused the knowledge of these spirits. That is why there are now beliefs in incurable diseases when nothing can be further from the truth.
There are ways of rebuking these tormenting spirits in all their forms and shapes and functions when you know them. This is effectively used to address underlying issues of a spiritual nature. And most are spiritual, because even accidents can be generated spiritually. For instance, if the spirit of insanity (Mark 5: 1- 20), were to show an invisible lion or truck to you while you are driving, you will get out of your way and run into oncoming traffic. And many of the mistakes made by drivers show that they are insane even if only for a brief moment. Nobody can that stupid and still breath.
Many Satanists of the witchcraft branch of that department of that spirit, in Africa, claim that Christianity is a white man religion. They do not mind Hinduism, they embrace it. They do not mind Islam, they embrace it. They do not mind Buddhism, they embrace it. They do not mind another religion or spiritual force and love them. They work with Wicca in Europe and Santeria in Mexico and South America and Voodoo in the Caribbean and West Africa. But Christianity, they loathe will all their hearts, if they can be accused of having hearts. That is how you can tell that it is just an international ploy from the greater Satanism in the world, to use that to fool Africans after freedom from colonialism.
If these people really hated Christianity because it had come with colonial masters, they would hate all these religions of Europe of pagans which they celebrate. But since paganism and witchcraft is one and the same thing only in different languages, they embrace these and even share healing methods. They only single out Christianity. This is because it is the only one that attacks the devil and is not from him. This is despite the fact that, as Billy Graham said:
• Christ was not white;
• He came from the Middle East, where people of his day were neither white nor black, but mixed stock – hence the terms of being Semitic and anti-Semitism – He was a Jew, for God’s sake. And that was before the advent of the Ashkenazi Jews who developed later due to the migration and the Jewish diaspora in Europe;
• Christianity came from Africa, not from Europe;
• Racial and ethnic hatred is a sin, and we need to label it as such. Jesus told his disciples to “love your neighbour as yourself” (Matt. 22:39); and in reply to the question “Who is my neighbour?” he responded with a pointed parable about a good Samaritan, a member of a despised race (Luke 10:25-37);
• Joseph of Arimathea, is the black man who heled Jesus carry the cross (Matthew 27:57), Mark 15:43 and Luke 23: 50-56);
• When Jesus died the earthquakes that were recorded and the activity in the temple and the ken of graves and the dead coming out well and resurrected, was enough proof that He was the Son of God (Mathew 27: 52); and
• Racism is a sin precisely because it keeps us from obeying God’s command to love our neighbour, and because it has its roots in pride and arrogance. Christians who harbour racism in their attitudes or actions are not following their Lord at this point, for Christ came to bring reconciliation—
reconciliation between us and God, and reconciliation between each other. He came to accept us as we are, whoever we are, “from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Rev. 5:9).
For years many black people south of the Sahara, were not historically aware of the roots of Christianity and Jesus. They had fallen under the spell of that deceiving spirit that He was white and that Christianity is therefore a white man’s religion. The real sharper edge of that stupidity is that it would not really have mattered anyway even if He had been white. It still would also have mattered even if Christianity had been a white man’s religion. The same Africans, including the witchdoctors who lead this attack, and those being initiated in demonic healing practices, drive cars and use computers designed by whites, speak English of whites, even wear clothes and foolishly expensive clothes imported from Europe (the whiter the better).
They even stretch and bleach their hair to resemble white natural hair. I need not go on. It is clear that their mission from their spiritual and human handlers is to deceive and mislead; for them to retain the control of humans. They do this by pretending to be on our side. They do all this when they are on the side of these demons that own and possess them (both mentally and physically).
This part was just for the believers. Those who do not believe will also find something they can relate to. But they are equally affected by the contents of this part; as they are no island in these matters. The wind blows for us all. The sun shines on us all. The deceivers also deceive us all without caring whether you are a believer or not. They are equal opportunity deceivers. But at times they just change tack and the point of entry of their deception. They do this by customising it for a specific generation, fraternity, racial group and class category etc.
For instance while the witchdoctor and budding witchdoctor in South Africa claims that Christianity is a white man’s religion, the same devil reminds every European witch, warlock, wizard and diviner that Christianity destroyed their paganism and is a Jewish religion. Witches in Europe were burnt at the stake, by the Catholics who were European. It was not Jesus or the Apostles who did that. Even the apostles were first killed off, tortured, in vain, before the Romans decided (if you can’t beat them join them). They had then proceeded to hijack the Christianity and used its name to kill the European natives and their indigenous religions which only went underground and are resurfacing now. And all the apostles were not even white.
So the critics are talking rubbish of the highest grade. But that is their mission. They know they are talking rubbish. They just can’t help it because the devil is a very harsh dictator. He does not tolerate disobedience. Once he cuts a covenant, he will collect whether you discoverer later that you were bamboozled and defrauded or not. He misleads those he enters into contract with; and enforces those contracts even after discovery that they were fraudulently concluded. And those imbecilic followers do not know that there is a higher spiritual court and a higher judge of that court who can nullify that contract. And these get nullified each time they approach that court. That is a subject for another day – Myles (2019).
Chapter Twenty One
Nutrition and Exercise
Regarding curing underlying issues or even curing (not merely treating them) Dr. Bob Demaria, interviewed by Marilyn Hickey and Sarah Bowling in a TV show on 3 January 2020, on DSTV Channel 342, called “Today with Marylyn and Sarah” indicated that carrots, Beetroot and red apples lower cholesterol up to 40%. He recommends the standard diet of Red apples, carrots and beetroot per day. They are a natural remedy for lowering cholesterol by 50%.
The liver stores up vitamins A, D, E and K. Carrots contain Vitamin A, good for our eye sight. Since when the liver finds a shortage of Vitamin A in itself, it will deplete the same from your eyes, to support liver function. If you experience some fuzziness in your eyes, it could be possibly signify a Vitamin A deficiency. And eating carrots daily, within a certain period your eyes will clear up. The liver processes toxins, bacteria, viruses and cancer cells, over and above its hundreds of other functions. It secrets or produces bile (gall bladder); used as a detergent in your body, to burn fat in your IG tract. It emulsifies fat in your body.
He emphasized exercise, posture and proper diet. The problem is how you do these things if you don’t know them? And there are no side effects to nutrition, exercise, posture when done properly. Even any side effects they may have will, never be anything matching even a fraction of those of laboratory manufactured drugs by shark multinationals. Those buy their way through every legal and intellectual barrier in their wake. He says for every pound of abdominal fat, which has blood vessels in it, and does cell proliferation, there are 200 miles of extra blood vessels.
Body signals that tell you to attend to liver function problems include queasiness above your eyes, right shoulder pain and bitterness in the mouth. He indicated that pain in the right knee can signify gall bladder issues. Even if the knee is replaced, it continues hurting when one has gall bladder issues. But, in my view, the western medicine person and medicine maker, who does not understand or deliberately turns a blind eye to nutrition, for personal gain, they will give a patient knee pain killers and eventually possibly amputate the leg. Alternatively they might keep pumping other drugs into the patient and kill that patient with side effects of those dangerous and unnecessary drugs. Moreover, all this will happen, while the gall bladder problems persist with the complications it creates.
Dr. Demaria (Supra) further proposes weight control and reduction where already excessive - using the Body Mass Index (BMI) which most sophisticated consumers are already familiar with in theory. It is at this point that the highlight of olive oil being an appetite suppressant; shone in the eye of my mind. He cries out “let food be your medicine or medicine be your food.” This concept was first attributed to Hippocrates (400 BC), and used to emphasize the importance of nutrition to prevent or cure disease. (Renger, & Witkamp, 2018, pp. 102-114).
He cautions against tomato, potatoes and eggplant and green pepper. He says while they are not bad foods, to somebody with a liver and gall bladder complications, these foods can cause digestive distress. White potatoes should at least be replaced by yams or sweet potatoes. White potatoes can cause mid-back pain. They and pineapple can add stress to your pancreas; which is responsible for processing your carbohydrates and it releases insulin to burn sugars in the metabolism process. These terse examples proved to me that we do not need medicines if we can sort out our food, exercise, sleep; nutrition and other basics of living. No medicines, no side effects. No side effects, no medical aid contributions or insurance premiums, no hospiplan baloney, and no deaths.
It is shocking how a whole scam can be perpetrated by so few against so many, over such a long period of time. Something has got to give here. It should not be allowed for crooked businesses to continue with business as usual. We should increase and invest in nutrition and life style teaching projects and civic organisations. All well-meaning people and organisations and even governments (if the latter can be found by some miracle), collaborate and start a new system and leave the killers and scammers to kill themselves and each other, while we live.
Wexler (2014 [2017]) considered two views from two experts with regard to the question of diet and exercise and which is best. Both diet and exercise seem to have an impact on health. But these two experts considered the question of which of the two was the most effective. Humans always seek a silver bullet to solve health problems or challenges. She quotes a Michele Olson, PhD, professor of physical education and exercise science at Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama as saying that:
• While you can lose weight with diet alone, exercise should augment such diet to be effective;
• If you cut out exercise and only use diet to control weight, the result will be a reduction in bone density and muscles;
• Exercise grows the muscle tissue and bone density;
• Exercise burns mostly fat;
• Exercise does not have to be gruelling;
• What helps most are such activities like brisk walking and weight lifting; and
• Push-ups squats and using your body against gravity are all effective.
Wexler (Supra) also quotes a slightly contrary view by another expert, namely, Shawn M. Talbott, PhD, nutritional biochemist and former director of the University of Utah Nutrition Clinic who avers, in summary, that:
• Weight loss is about 75% diet and 25% exercise;
• After analysing 700 studies written on weight loss, favoured smart eating;
• The smart eating yielded the greatest results in the short run than exercise over 15 to 23 week periods; and
• It is harder to burn calories off than to cut them off.
One can even tell, from the experience of an overweight person, that exercise is difficult to break into. It only gets comfortable with time of consistent indulgence in it. It is only once one breaks the threshold of exercise pain that the body starts demanding the exercise if you skip it even once. This means that once you get in the zone you cannot leave easily. But it also means that before you get into that rhythm, you suffer both mental and physical pain. This pain driven approach is negative by its very nature, unless you are special like my wife who gets sick if she does not jog (not brisk walk) for at least 10km at least three times a week.
Back to the personal experience again, it is better and more affordable to exercise and burn those calories even if you have a lower pain threshold like me, as it is a lot easier on the pocket. The smart eating could tend to decimate one’s pocket and leave you with ulcers over money problems if taken too lightly. Moreover, the effect of the latter would be similar to that of the very allopathic medicines I am maligning in this book – presenting you with some superficial benefit and doubly punch you with a decimating slugger on the other hand. Being broke is another problem I have (not tried out but) experienced. Being financially liquid is better.
In one extreme case I know, there appears to be a syndicate of surgeons that collect human fat from obese donors through liposuction. The excess fat is harvested from a live person, The collectors then sell these excess human fat to thin people who want to beef up certain parts of their bodies – if not other sinister uses than those performed by people in the secret ranks of the occult. Regarding the question of the bona fides as to what the extracted live human fat booty is used for, your guess is as good as mine. But the practitioners peddle their story and they are sticking to it. Obviously I don’t believe a word of it.
As already indicated above, this book consists of confessions of a professional patient rather than a professional health practitioner. I have been so sick so many times by all these manner of conditions. I qualify to the tell my story as it penned out, even if it may not turn out like those of other patients. It is this litany of nasty experiences with sickness that prompted me to write this book and tell the medical story through the eyes of a patient - on the receiving end of the abuse by those we trust.
Interviewed on BBC Newsnight (2013), James Quincey, Chief Executive Officer of the Coca Cola Company, admitted that there are six teaspoons of sugar in a 500 ml Can of Coca Cola (Coke). He also admitted on TV that the super-sized cup of Coke, which is not labelled with nutritional information, carries 23 sachets of sugar. In another container, sold at cinemas, also not labelled, he admitted that the sugar content consisted of 44 sachets of sugar. His offer, on the programme, was to reduce the size of the cinema cups and not the content of sugar in the coke. He admitted the contribution of his company to the obesity of people in the world wherever Coke is consumed.
Then in 2014, Jeremy Paxman, continuing the campaign against obesity creating businesses though sugar, listed, among other things that it causes:
• Extra pounds; and even “people who drink diet soft drinks actually don’t lose weight. Artificial sweeteners induce a whole set of physiologic and hormonal responses that actually make you gain weight;”
• Liver damage; and it damages one’s liver similar to those conditions induced by alcoholic beverages;
• Tooth decay, as the drink dissolves tooth enamel;
• Kidney stones and chronic kidney disease – because their high content of phosphoric acid which changes the urine and promotes kidney stone formation;
• Diabetes in that all acid drinks stress the drinker’s body’s capability to process sugar. As a result, Americans with type 2 diabetes has surpassed 6.6 million in 1980 to 20.8 million in 2014;
• Heartburn & acid reflux in that carbonated drinks are exceedingly acidic; and deliver excessive air - carbon dioxide, which distends your stomach;
• Soft Bones - Osteoporosis – because of the phosphoric acid content which lowers calcium levels in the blood of a victim. Apparently, it causes lower calcium levels and higher phosphate levels in your blood. “When phosphate levels are high and calcium levels are low, calcium is pulled out of your bones”;
• Hypertension (high blood pressure) – which results from regular and diet acid drinks;
• Heart disease – due to formation of metabolic syndrome consisting of a combination of obesity, high blood pressure, high fasting blood sugar, high fasting triglycerides, and low levels of HDL or “good” cholesterol; and
• Impaired digestion (gastrointestinal distress) resulting from elevated acidity levels resulting in stomach lining erosion.
Chapter Twenty Two
Healing Wounds and Bones
In my family, I have also learnt to use natural medicines for wounds and broken bones. These I first learnt from my mother who had known it since she was a little girl, in rural Swaziland. She came to marry my father in South Africa in an arranged marriage at the then ripe age of 15. That was the culture at the time. And they both met only when they had already been betrothed to each other. My dad was from a very wealthy family and my mother not so wealthy. So, when one of my uncles needed to pay a dowry (lobola) for his already pregnant girlfriend, as she then was, a quick approach had to be made to the Masekos. My father, who already by then was about 17 years older, had even been away at work, when he returned home to find a bride – courtesy the families from both sides. Then two sons and two daughters later, my mum had had enough. She trekked back to Swaziland. And ten rest is the story for another day.
This natural remedy is botanical. They call it Umhlabelo. Its scientific name is Drimia altissima; Liliaceae Hyacinthoideae Drimieae – Curtis (1808). This plant heals at great speed (in days) serious wounds and broken bones of humans and animals. Twice has it been used to heal me after two very major operations. In my family, when a bone breaks and when there is a Caesarean section birth, we use it. The patient gets healed in days (around 6 days). We only use surgeons to set the bones professionally and suture the wounds expertly, but speed up the healing with this bulbous botanical treasure.
On this one, I have learnt that before one consumes it, one has to first be certain that the flesh and bones are accurately well set. If not well set, since the healing is sped up and permanent, and the healed part gets stronger than its original version that had been hurt, once the healing has occurred. Then, if the bone is not correctly set for instance, the healing will be complete with a crooked bone. You could end up with a permanent deformity. There are ways of preparing it and consuming its juice. It is too hard for you to consume its leaves or bulbous shoots. But roots and stem as well as flowers are used. We now plant it in all our gardens where we stay as a living natural pharmacy – courtesy God through nature. No witchdoctors allowed or tolerated. We do not want to consume any plants dedicated to spirits in my family.
About Drimmia altissima, Hiern. and Brown (1909), indicated that Sea squill contains cardiac glycosides which are strongly diuretic and relatively quick-acting. Chevallier. (1996) is of the view that these bulbs do not have the same cumulative effect as those present in foxglove (Digitalis spp.). It also has reportedly been widely used by herbalists, mainly for its effect upon the heart and for its stimulating, expectorant and diuretic properties – Grieve (1984).
The fresh bulb is slightly more active medicinally than the dried bulb, but it also contains a viscid acrid juice that can cause skin inflammations (Ibid). The dried bulb is cardiotonic, strongly diuretic, emetic when taken in large doses and expectorant (Ibid). It is used internally in the treatment of bronchitis, bronchitic asthma, whooping cough and oedema (Ibid); and is a potential substitute for foxglove in aiding a failing heart - Chevallier (1996). The bulb is harvested in autumn, sliced transversally and dried for later use – Bown, 1995). Externally, the bulb has also been used in the treatment of dandruff and seborrhoea (Ibid).
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017), reports that by January 2017 a total of 28 states and the District of Columbia had legalized the use of cannabis for the treatment of medical conditions. One must confess upfront, the bias against and the use of cannabis for recreational purposes has made one approach the value of this substance with caution and suspicion. The users of such a substance in Southern Africa have not been highly regarded – even though some elites like certain lawmen have been reportedly spotted even in chambers; puffing away at their pipes filled with marijuana. This supposedly occurs under the cover of secrecy.
At page 13, the Academies found conclusive evidence that the plant (cannabis) or cannabinoids) are undoubtedly effective in treating chronic pain among adults, when used as anti-emetics in the treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (oral cannabinoids). It is also reportedly used for improving patient-reported multiple sclerosis spasticity symptoms (oral cannabinoids).
They also reported some mildly proven evidence of these substances refining short-range slumber outcomes in persons with snooze disorders related to obtrusive sleep apnea syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and multiple sclerosis (cannabinoids, primarily nabiximols).
The report further revealed a level of insufficient data proving that, in some cases, the cannabis plant and its products can impact health in boosting appetite, decreasing weight loss associated with HIV/ AIDS infections, boosting the clinician measured multiple sclerosis spasticity signs, improving the intervention against symptoms associated with Tourette syndrome, alleviating symptoms associated with anxiety, fear of public speaking for people suffering from social anxieties and alleviating symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (nabilone; a single, small fair-quality trial).
Where the study could find no evidence or proof of any effect of cannabis products to any of the conditions was on the likes of cancers, including glioma (cannabinoids); Cancer-associated anorexia cachexia syndrome and anorexia; nervosa (cannabinoids); Symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (dronabinol); Epilepsy (cannabinoids); Spasticity in patients with paralysis due to spinal cord injury (cannabinoids); Symptoms associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (cannabinoids) ; Chorea and certain neuropsychiatric symptoms associated; with Huntington’s disease (oral cannabinoids) ; Motor system symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease; or the levodopa-induced dyskinesia (cannabinoids); Dystonia (nabilone and dronabinol) ; Achieving abstinence in the use of addictive substances (cannabinoids) ; Mental health outcomes in individuals with schizophrenia or schizophreniform psychosis (cannabidiol).
When it comes to the recreational uses such as smoking marijuana, there seems to be too many adverse effects on the health especially (mental) and pulmonary) (lungs related) of the users. I do not want to analyse the negatives of such uses as I simply would not venture in trying them even if they would have had some curative impact with them. I simply do not want to pollute my lungs and brain cells by suffocating my oxygen intake to the brain through the blood and respiration, knowingly. It just looks too silly already without even having any medical sense. Common sense should be sufficient for the most obvious issues in life.
At the chemical level, cannabis has been reportedly found to contain upwards of 104 different cannabinoids (ElSohly and Gul, 2014). There are also other compounds such as terpenoids, flavonoids, nitrogenous compounds, and plant molecules (American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, 2013). The plant molecules include the likes of D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is associated with the intoxicated state chased by recreational users.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017, p.103), concludes that there is adequate evidence for the effective treatment of multiple sclerosis specify syndromes using oral cannabinoids, as reported by sufferers (patients), but as much from the side reported by clinicians. It is suspected that this could be a placebo effect than a clinical reality, therefore. And the effect of inhaled cannabis on nerve pain seems to be merely symptomatic and not curative even where recorded and observed in some studies. I therefore lost interest in chasing this option any further in my research for a silver bullet against peripheral neuropathy which was as painful as it was debilitating.
Chapter Twenty Three
The process of Mylenation
Crisply stated, “Myelin is the layer that forms around nerve cells. Its purpose is to speed the transmission of impulses along nerve cells” Vorvick (2019). This is complimented by Ratini (2019) who says that: “When the myelin sheath is healthy, nerve signals are sent and received quickly.”
Source: WebMD
Salzer and Zalc (2016); advise that Myelin is fashioned by Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS). They also indicate that each Schwann cell forms a solitary myelin casing around an axon. In dissimilarity, each oligodendrocyte forms numerous coverings (up to 30 or more) around diverse axons. Along the same axon, successive myelin covers are fashioned by unalike oligodendrocytes. They also report that Myelin itself forms by the coiled wrap around an axon of a hugely stretched glial plasma membrane that then compacts.
They also reveal how the topological deliberations, recently validated by live-imaging studies, show that the inside turn of this spirally encased glial sheath; spreads about the apposed axon to form the multilamellar, myelin covering. This occurs while it enlarges centrifugally, it also grows longitudinally. They also describe myelin as a unique among plasma peel counterparts in a high fat content (∼70%). It apparently, contains galactosphingolipids, certain phospholipids (correspondingly named sphingomyelin), saturated long-chain fatty acids and, cholesterol (required for myelin covering assembly). They also describe Myelin as being exceedingly augmented in fairly limited proteins; whose composition overlays but remains distinct between PNS and CNS myelin.
Dangond; F.; (2020); avers that when the Myelin sheath is damaged, the conduction of nerve impulses is compromised. Messages do not get over speedily and plainly from the brain to the exact body part. The more nerve sheath is wrecked, the slower and less effectual the nerve impulses become. Dependant on the severity of the immune system attack, the nerve fibres themselves may be damaged or destroyed. Damage to nerve fibres may play a significant role in determining how severe disability in multiple sclerosis is.
Source: EMedicineHealth
What has been extremely encouraging, despite doctors telling me that peripheral neuropathy is incurable, is the discovery that it consists of the damage to the myelin sheath of the nerves. And a further probe indicated that the myelin can be repaired. So, on focusing on the how part of this repair, I was gladly greeted by the discovery that (Polizzi, 2019):
(a) Myelin can be rejuvenated and as a sheath regenerated by exercising. Working out is one of the greatest methods to kindle remyelination and retain your neurons firing swiftly and powerfully. I can do this without any fear of any side effects;
(b) Myelin can also be repaired by diet. She reports that a gut bacteria research revealed how probiotics and prebiotics are able to alter the gene expression related to re-myelination. Also foods endowed in vigorous germs could help in attaining the ideal echelons of mylenation – Costandi; M. (2016);
(c) Vitamin D can also help in the re-mylenation of the nerves. So; one has to go steady at it. She says that Vitamin D aids in re-myelination given that it assists in regulating the starring role of oligodendrocytes (which aid in producing myelin). In particularly, vitamin D helps in the maturing of these cells. As a nutrient, Vitamin D is chiefly absorbed through the sun, but it can also be increased by consuming salmon, egg yolks, orange juice, and fortified foods. I can personally add the issue of the supplements which are also available without prescription from over the counter;
(d) Omega-3 Fatty Acids also Increases improves the tolerance of multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms too. Healthy fats play a vital role in long life and can be found in foods like salmon, chia seeds, flax seeds, soybeans, and walnuts. Healthy fats reduce demyelination because they replicate the fatty texture of myelin. I am happy to add the advent and discovery of the olive oil to this mix as it meets both the requirements of being healthy fat like the Omega 3 fatty acids as well as the containing the Vitamin D as already indicated elsewhere in this book; and
(e) Myelin repair can be cognitively stimulated (Comaford, 2018). The process that her clients follow in this regard through her coaching and mentoring, involve starting new tasks and practices, repeating them over time, increasing the energy of executing them in order to imprint these on the neurological systems. This creates new neural pathways that develop and form new Myelin sheaths imprinted with new growths. And in support of this approach, Polizzi (op Cit.) also quotes Einstein saying that “Imagination is everything—it is the preview of coming attractions.”
While I took my re-mylenation effort forward, I found out that I had also taken it to extremes trying to kill the effect if the peripheral neuropathy from my feet and legs. I had started guzzling down about a quarter of a glass (of olive oil) every morning for about three weeks. Then I started experiencing high cholesterol symptoms. If I stood up too fast, I would start feeling dizzy spells and giddy to a point that I would have to clutch at something and almost pass out. It is at that point that I started chasing the website of Dr. Brooke Goldner where they discuss olive oil among other things. The highlight I picked out there was that olive oil is first and foremost oil, therefore fat -Trichopoulou et al (2003).
The fact that is an oil from a plant does not detract from the fact of it being oil. I am indebted to those at Folks over Knives website for helping me come to my senses before it was too late in my bravado to re-mylenate. Needless to say, I sharply reduced my daily intake of that extra - virgin olive oil from Woolworths (I don’t trust certain other suppliers as some have been known to dilute it with other oils and pretend that it is olive oil). Moderation is still everything. So, as I was writing this line, I was already starting right back to one spoon every morning of high quality olive oil on an empty stomach, just targeting the peripheral neuropathy and re-mylenating my nerves – Vogel et al. (2000).
Chapter Twenty Four
More on the Oral Health
What I have taken forward from the oral health saga, was that over the years I had been lax in dealing with my oral health. And it appears that it is this very laxity that had gotten me into a lot of trouble at several stages. I was once coached at a private clinic in a neighbouring country, on how to floss my teeth. But it was not possible for me to spend that much time working on my oral health. At that time I was still younger, a drinker and social centre that was a social butterfly and wanted to be at all the host spots. If I ever really flossed before the age of 50, it must have been less than 20 times in all (Yuk).
This one is on me. As a result, my teeth were consistently developing holes on the sides where they touch other teeth on the enamel. Others were developing holes the kind that need drilling and filling etc. I was no too fond of fillings as there was that scare about mercury causing autism for people with mercury treatments in the mouth. I found autism less appealing to have and had an experience with it from a very close member of my own family. It took the financial scare when the periodontist and his orthodontist friend tried to scrounge me of half a million Rand. Then I started seriously taking my oral health and flossing at least once a day before I go to sleep, on these days when I do sleep.
I also found it easier now that flossing strings have evolved into tooth pick types, one does not have to struggle with a long string rubbed between and pulled between one’s teeth anymore. I now buy various types of these sticks and it shocks me to see how much direct between the teeth remains after one has brushed thoroughly even with the electrical tooth brush. That is the one thing I benefitted directly from that harsh polishing from the oral hygienist at the periodontist’s surgery.
I have also since realised for myself that what is healthy for my body is not necessarily healthy for my mouth. My teeth and gums have got a health system of their own. What might be good for my body may pass though the mouth and teeth, and bring nutrition that the body needs. But it is that very substance that leaves a devastating effect on the teeth and gums almost as fast as one finishes eating. A quick rinse after each meal or snack seems important even if the oral hygienists allow us to delay this until the evening or the mornings. But the plaque causing bacteria goes to work immediately you finish chewing and swallowing.
Food gets trapped between the teeth and lodges itself there. The ptyalin enzyme that starts the breakdown within the salivary glands that are manufactured and secreted in the mouth, immediately start breaking starch down into simpler sugars (maltose and dextrin), readying them for further processing in the stomach and small intestines). It is said to function better at the PH reading levels of between 5.6 and 6.9. It requires the likes of chloride, bromide and iodide to be present for its own functions. And that means that one should try to find all these chemical elements in the food that one eats, otherwise the ptyalin might also not do its work too well, resulting in the food being under processed on its way to the rest of the journey. The saying that you are what you eat comes to mind here.
The usual kitchen condiments and spices like salt and some peppers and vegetables are laden with those things. But if you avoid taking a balanced meal diet, you invite medicines down the line with its side effects as are illustrated in this book. I have realised this for myself and decided that my journey of taking charge of my own health should commence at the eating stage. Better still, it should commence at the buying stage while one decides what to collect from yen grocery store.
The breakdown of food in the mouth can leave it infested with bacteria. Plaque is some form of infection resulting from food traces trapped in the mouth and not cleaned or removed in time before enzyme break down commences. I have tested this theory by rinsing my mouth after each meal whether at work or at the office. Even without brushing, one finds some bits of food coming out from between the teeth gaps. Then since this happens, it is clear that brushing would remove even more. Then flossing would remove even more the crumbs hiding in deeper corners of the cavities. And mouth washing with germ killing substances like corsodyl would even eliminate more (not all) of the germs that would otherwise have commenced building up before even an hour is over.
Now, since one is a layperson when it comes to these matters, despite being a professional in other fields, one surmises that it would be best to just carry portable mouth cleaning devices and substances even at work. After each eating session, one has to do a thorough cleaning up, to prevent and forestall the need later on in life, getting dentists, periodontists and orthodontists ripping you off. Your medical and dental fees that could be the equivalent of a top of the range Volvo S60 can be saved. Prevention is better than cure. In dental health, it looks like the most popular form of cure is extraction. That is like curing an inflammation in a leg by amputation.
My greatest motivator to dealing with the oral health is motivated by the discovery and realisation that oral health does not affect my teeth and gums. It has got far more devastating effects on the other parts of one’s body. I do not want to poison myself any further, through ignorance as I have already done so in the past. I derive this conclusion from realising that plaque has many problems in the body over and above those in the mouth.
Frothingham (2019); reveals that an untreated tooth decay can, on its own lead to other complications in your body far away from your mouth. The list is as daunting and scary as are lists of side effects from the allopathic drugs of the west. It includes; headache; fatigue; dizziness; fever; skin flushing; sweating; chills; swollen face; swelling that makes it difficult to fully open your mouth; swelling that impedes swallowing; swelling that impedes breathing; dehydration resulting in reduction in frequency of urination; darker urine; confusion, an increased heart rate resulting in rapid pulse rate; light-headedness; increased breathing rate of over 25 breaths per minute; stomach pain; diarrhoea and vomiting.
It goes without saying that when one is suffering from any of the above symptoms of plaque infection that has gone untreated; the dentist is not the health practitioners one will go to. It is most likely going to be the GP, or other specialist such as an Eye, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist. And such practitioners are not going to examine your teeth and gums. They diagnose symptoms and treat them, remember! So, we can be 99% certain that they will check your temperature, heart-beat, pulse, blood pressure and immediately check the organs affected by the symptoms to note the extent of the symptoms. And the next thing they will pump you with allopathic drugs that will cripple your system whole addressing only the symptoms. But the cause (plaque) in your mouth will be remaining untouched.
It could be after several or many visits of failing medicines and returning symptoms; that they (doctors) might order laboratory tests and refer you to various specialists. And the dentist is very likely to be very last in 12 specialists that you may be referred to. And by the time they have eliminated all the packs of practitioners unleashed over your problems in succession, it will be time to now fight off the new symptoms of the side effects of all the drugs they will have pumped into your body.
Chapter Twenty Five
No Studying as a Doctor
One way of expressing an idea is to actually state what the idea is not. And in this case, I have to indicate what I am not saying. I am not saying that consumers should study and learn to be doctors. I myself, have studied and learnt to be many things, but becoming a doctor is not one of them. But taking charge of your state of health is yours and mine. I am for chasing every medical condition that one has; to a logical understanding in very thorough terms; seeking what it is and its underlying causes. One has to also understand how it presents in symptoms which are the main interest and result of western allopathic medicines.
Then, while one may not be sure if such symptoms are all present and need more confirmation and assurance from the trained people, one should by all means consult, even if only to be certain of the diagnosis and prognosis from a trained eye. I have no doubt that if our doctors were to be taught about nutrition, pain and curing conditions, they would do well. This is because they are; by and large; very smart people. But the system as it is dominated by the pharmaceutical industry is perverted. Then it makes their profession appear perverted too. This is because it is underpinned by such perversion. When a sober driver drives a drunken horse, it makes no difference that the driver was sober. The accident still happens. And the life it takes will still be taken. It is even worse where both the horse and driver are drunk.
Understand just this one problem as a patient so thoroughly, that where possible, a General Practitioner (GP) would have to look it up, as we discuss. This is because only a specialist would know upfront what you have found out. In this way, one is able to interrogate any assertions by the practitioners. He may be interested in my money, but I am interested in my health. And I have a right to this. Self-preservation is the supreme law. That is why even while the death sentence is banned in South Africa, but an individual is allowed to kill in self-defence when certain circumstances are met. While the death sentence would occur after an investigation, a trial, a conviction, a hearing of extenuation circumstances, and then the sentence, self-defence killing bypasses all of that and goes straight to the killing of the deceased to be – Head (2018) and held in S v Eadie (196/2001) [2002] ZASCA 24 (27 March 2002).
With any medical challenge, I would therefore, of late, approach the practitioner, just to identify what the diagnosis points to in professional terms, then direct and navigate my remedies from there onwards. The pain masking medicines are okay to me for the short run; while working out, with professional guidance and participation, of the long term cures or solutions. I am not interested in the usual permanent chronic nonsense that we get driven to at this point. And the sooner the consumer gets sophisticated; the quicker shall the culture of medical practice evolve to serve us (and no longer kill us off).
Abdicating our health to a person who makes a living by managing the sicknesses of others is not the wisest thing to do. It actually unwittingly, on the part of the patient, amounts to sponsored suicide. And this is not only about the rogue elements in medical practice that end up being prosecuted and sued for their malpractices. If you let the practitioner who makes money from your sickness, and not from destroying it, you will end up with medicines treating sicknesses caused by medicines; an empty pocket, a sinking and deteriorating quality of life and a very happy and rich pack of practitioners.
One would recommend, in totality, for a law to be passed that requires all allopathic medicine and related practitioners, to at least, if they cannot avoid altogether using poisons to treat and create more symptoms, then orally counsel patients with regard to the treatments they are about to administer on them. Such practitioners should archive the records which should follow minimum standards of authenticity assurance that can serve in a court of law. These recordings to be shared with the patient electronically for the patients’ own possibly future use in criminal and civil matters. The doctors should video record such conversations as a legal requirement.
The patients should be guaranteed fully informed consent, if assisted while sober. The only time consumers of medical services should be treated with the kind of current paternalism, should be if they are inebriated, in a comma, unable to talk, unassisted minors; and mentally challenged individuals without curators. And even that should be only allowed in situation of a degree of emergency. This is a case where the consent would be too late to obtain without the needed intervention.
While the professional health care workers are well trained and qualified in their fields, the worry is in what use they put their skills and why. It is for this reason and with these questions in mind that I decided as a consumer of the services and products; to take matters of managing my healing (and to some extent even the treatment) in my own hands. In managing my own medical care, from prevention, pre-emption, to diagnosis, treatment and curing, I am a “doctor of one.” I am the patient and the doctor of one. Every condition that becomes unfortunate enough to land at my door step, gets the fullest attention of one.
Without studying for five years and serving internship for two years, I study a very narrow subject consisting of only that condition. Once the professionals have conclusively diagnosed it, I take charge as to the remedies. I even go as far as allow them to conclude their prescriptions. But I refuse to follow them blindly from the terrible experience and financial loss I have suffered in the hands of some of these people. While the doctors know a lot about many things, and have many patients presenting with many symptoms; I am only a healer of one, attending to only that condition and charge myself nothing for doing it. And I do a much better job; since I am seriously interested in seeing the back of that condition, whatever it may call itself.
So, I become an expert in the one condition from researching medical journal and laboratory findings on experiments and related matters. When the clinician addresses me on their way forward, I scrutinise it thoroughly as many are generalists even in their specialties. But I make myself a fully informed on as much as up to the month latest nuggets on the subject, until I am cured. I am done being somebody else’s meal ticket whole being injected with all sorts of poisons under the guise of being professionally treated.
In the digital era, one can find any information under the sun. And it’s not even expensive if one is just chasing knowledge about one thing at one time for solving problem for one person. This digital era has opened and flung wide open all the doors to knowledge of varying depths. And this is not only with regard to medicine, but all other fields of endeavour.
I believe that any other discerning consumer can do the same. But those who are either lazy, have death wishes and want to live short low quality lives, and die broke and disgusted; can always stay as they are for the rest of their lives - Every choosing patient to their own. What the practitioners do actually amounts to medical extortion.
Chapter Twenty Six
RESEARCH PARADIGMS AND PHILOSOPHIES
I make reference to “my research” a lot in this book. This then requires that one canvasses thoughts on what such references enunciate. We need to unpack what is meant by research. The term tends to be used loosely in social intercourse. As Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty once said in “Through the Looking-Glass "When I use a word…it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." In an endeavour to make words mean one thing, we have to first carve them out of the general mythical and metaphorical meanings and bring them to symbolise the tangibles for our sake.
According to Unicaf University (2020), the main stages of the research process are the definition of the problem and objectives of the research; determining the type of information required and the calculation of resources needed; making the choices of the research method and the work plan to follow, and the actual collection and processing and analysis of the conclusions of the research.
In a bit more detail, the above stages would entail:
(1) Definition of the problem and objectives
This stage would map out the direction of the symptoms the researcher will have observed and the initial assumptions the findings would reveal. At this stage, there could have been symptoms and other tentative patterns that the researcher may notice, and that prompt the researcher to initiate the research.
The Researcher may also conduct a preliminary literature review to see if the symptoms that emerge are worth pursuing in any depth. Then, once convinced that the issue is worth pursuing, the researcher also has to formulate the objectives of the research in crisp and unambiguous terms. This stage would also be the point at which one composes the hypothesis and assumptions to prove or reject at the end of the study.
(2) Determining the type of information required
Due to the nature of the issue to investigate, the researcher has to decide whether this research is over a positivist (objective) issue or an interpretative (subjective) one. At this stage, the choice will be between taking the quantitative approach (if the item is positivist) or the qualitative approach (if the issue is qualitative). The qualitative approach may require further literature review, exploratory questions for structured interviews, which would most likely have to be open-ended and not narrowly pre-deterministic – to allow all possible answers/responses to emerge in the field of data collection (Alexander (2002).
Where the research will have to be quantitative, the researcher would have to compile and ready, structured forced-choice questionnaires, observation record sheets, or experiments with control groups/samples to gather data. Such a structured approach would even have to commence with a sampling exercise to pilot the efficacy of the forms to pick the correct information on the field (Alexander (2002).
(3) Calculation of resources required
At this stage, the researcher has to work out quantiles for materials, printing paper, transport costs required, and other materials and resources to complete the assignment. Where the above methods are combined, in varying degrees of proportions, the research plan must show budgets and degrees of involvement of each of these methods to avoid stoppages once the work commences (Morse, 1991).
This stage will also require the researcher to work out the sample size that will be of statistical significance, for reliability, if going to use the quantitative approach. If the researcher employs focus groups and anecdotal narratives, then they have to determine the numbers, places of such, and time frames within which they will occur as well as the duration of each and the participants/interviewees to involve.
If a quantitative approach is to play a role, then the researcher must, at this stage, design the detailed and final instruments for data collection. Briefing notes must also be ready at this stage. If the researcher plans to use assistants, she must train them at this point or complete their training materials.
(4) Making the choices of the research method and the work plan to follow
The final stage of having to physically collect the data, analyze the data once collected, and codified accordingly. Furthermore, once this is complete, the searcher has to compile a report which is structured and contains all the various facets that he should include in any research report. Such a statement should provide findings, conclusions and even recommendations where appropriate.
Data Analysis Stage
After the data collection is complete, whether qualitatively or quantitatively, the researcher has to analyse the data eventually.
In the quantitative approach, the data analysis must also take the quantitative approach Alexander (2002). Moreover, in this eventuality, the researcher must first identify an evaluative quantity of variables to enable the assessment and contrasting of mean scores Armenakis et al. (1990).
In the case of qualitative data gathered, the analysis must take the norm-based standards of codes the researcher has to perform (Potter and Levine-Donnerstein, 1990). Moreover, since qualitative data by its very nature does not lend itself to close capped answers that can lend themselves to alter qualification, it requires the researcher to consider them as they came and then categorize them for specific standards and broad-distinctions. The resemblance that this process would take would have to be that of informal exploratory factor analysis (Lee et al. 1999).
At the end of the data collection, the researcher also needs to undertake an evidence-driven process of diagnosing the issue or problem forming the need for the research in the first place (Rousseau, Manning and Denyer, 2008). In this process, the researcher assembles and interprets the data collected and analysed. Recommendations and theory formulation emanate, or the researcher distils such from this process.
This chapter dissects nuances between the "positivistic" and "interpretative" research models. However, first, we illustrate the different meanings of these concepts. Gambetta (2000, p.1) distinguishes between “Formal Structures and Social Reality.” He further differentiates between the importance of thinking, not in terms of non - recurrent events, in human endeavour, but rather, the general drives or temperaments that exist in a society. He also attempts to segregate between ‘impulse and solidarity.’ In this writer’s view, while the "positivistic" aspect could talk to the positivistic domain, the temperament aspects could fall directly in the domain of the "interpretative" model.
The formal structured approach in research paradigms and philosophical considerations could be the same interest as the objectivism (Unicaf University 2020). Furthermore, the social reality aspect would have to do with the interpretative element. And finally, the latter feature has to do with the subjectivist side of the dichotomy (Ibid.).
Differences between the two are that, while the realism aspect assumes that the universe lends itself to human observation and observable by all, the interpretative notion implies that the nature of the thing studied; depends on the observer. Observers change with time, norms, events, and beliefs. What may be considered a taboo in one society, at one time, maybe found conscionable in another community and another era.
More detailed differences as articulated by Weber (2004) and Bryant (2011) include those facts such as:
• While positivists regard truth realism as being separate from the single viewer (Weber, 2004);
interpretivists refute this view, by regarding all reality as humanly contrived (Bryant, 2011);
• While positivists regard clear and distinct separations between the researcher (observer) and the thing observed in the universe (Weber, 2004); interpretivists hold the view that we see things as we are and not necessarily as (they) things are (Bryant, 2011); and
• While the positivist view of nature of things; being and identity suppositions determine the choices of research methodologies, and that the perceptual construct of what things mean and are, generate interpretations; the interpretivists are more concerned with what things seem to mean and represent, in the eyes of the social construct (Cohen et al. 2013. P. 7).
There is also a belief in "positivism" that the nature of the thing studied can be objectively observed and analysed with all interested players arriving at the same conclusions about it. However, in the case of the "interpretative" approach, the subject interferes with the object studied to the point of altering the object (Bryant, 2011, p.46). The interference entails the interpretation of the outcome of the study will, like Plato’s beauty, lie in the eyes of the beholder.
Researchers need to be aware of these research paradigms while participating in their educational research journeys, because, the scientific approach in both models, requires that each researcher conduct the study in terms of whether the subject studied lend itself to the objective or subject approach. The objectivist aspect requires a different methodology, such as questionnaires and statistical analysis of data. The subjective approach lends itself to the qualitative approach.
Moreover, the latter cannot be based on quantification, but rather exploratory methodologies.
The quantitative approach can still be applied in a qualitative study even if only to plug a knowledge gap, where appropriate – resulting in the combination of these two research approaches. This conclusion is made in line with what Bryant (2011, p. vii); terms “pragmatic position.”
The need for researchers to be aware of both the "positivistic" and "interpretative" models while conducting their research would be that they have, at all times, adapt their study, format, and models to answer the research questions most appropriately adequately. Hovorka & Lee, (2010, p.2) have gone as far as observe, with authority (Weber, 2004); that: “…the position, recently advanced, (is) that positivist research and interpretive research are essentially the same…” (My brackets)
Chapter Twenty Seven
Conclusion
All these examples of ill treatment by supposedly messianic professionals with the presumed highest ethics, and value and dignity to the society, it is necessary for this to be arrested. Many Presidents, Ministers and Deputy Presidents in South Africa have been going to Russia, China, Cuba, UK and Europe for their own medical treatments. While there will obviously be more than one reason for this phenomenon is the case, it is also abundantly clear that the primary one is that of the mediocrity of the medical services and the ethics involved.
What was once a noble profession has become suspect. One can easily categorise these in the same shameful state as the so called “churches” in which small boys are sodomised and hushed tones applied to bury those truths used. Some of the most recent advent of these new generation renegade churches with no accountability, are established by human traffickers; pimps, rapists and drug dealers. These new brands of criminals also set up “churches” as fronts for their crimes. This has made it difficult to even distinguish a real church from these “screen saver” types.
Call me cynical, but all these assertions are backed up by facts that are in the news daily and personal experiences that are well documented should anybody want to challenge in a public forum to produce same. There is also no doubt that there will be many discerning individuals who have smelt a rat for some time, even if they could not put their finger on the problem. They still trust their victimisers like lambs being led to the slaughter. But this writing should encourage the culprits and would culprits to change their ways or close shop.
There is also this new phenomenon in South Africa. If a seemingly executive looking person amongst those termed from the previously disadvantaged communities (PDIs), approach certain professionals for an essential service, the latter has it in their minds to extract as much wealth out of this group as possible. They regard all such seemingly coining it PDIs as corrupt emerging elites that could be hoarding ill gained wealth. We do indeed have such corrupt mongrels that give all of us a bad name. They steal in millions and billions of Rands and use that money to pay for illicit sex, “girlfriend allowances” and what are now termed “slay queens” or girls who give corrupt elites their phone number for R40 000 apiece. Slay queens then get to be on call by those elites and travel near and far on call as sex workers, who only specialise on those crème de l crème of decadence.
The corrupt elites are new to power and money and the connections that bring both. They have access to the volumes of money the likes of which they have never seen even in their wildest imaginations and dreams. Money makes them mad basically. They buy the most expensive wines and use them in their baths, to prove that they are coining it. Easy come easy go. Some even join secret occult clubs and practice the sucking of blood from their slay queens, on a regular basis, and pay for it with cars and expensive apartments and overseas trips, with the belief that the money will keep flowing. Some even have alters in their mansions where located in rooms that only the owner walks in and out and not even the maid, wife, slay queen is allowed d in it lest they discovery the secret alters splatter with fresh and old rotting blood.
These revelations are made by some slay queens from a neighbouring SADC country that have only become the wiser when attempts at their lives in these secret societies came to their attention. They still tremble fearing for their lives that these things are done by very high influential levels and under noses of the justice system. They even refuse to lay charges when counselled to do so by the law abiding citizens that are concerned with such revelations. As a result, the rot continues unabated, because, there is no evidence raised in the justice system. Such prosecutions cannot stand in court. There can be no trial by rumour. And the justice system players would have themselves to be cleansed of any collusion that might exist between them and those decadent rings. And it is trite that crime as always have insiders in the justice system to succeed in concealing their activities. That is just elementary. Anybody who would want to dispute that; would probably be one of those people in those circles.
So, because of the obscenity of the corruption and the decadence it brings, professionals suspect every PDI of falling in at category if you look like you could be successful in one way or another. If they were rational, they would at least google each of us and see who we are and what we do and how we get to where we are, if we are anywhere at all. And they should even double check that we are where they imagine we are – usually just a fabrication of their fertile imagination. They would realise that we work hard and are not even where they imagine we are. We are not even moving in those circles they think we could be moving in; as we despise and loathe them ourselves.
There is now the popular saying, associated with Edmund Burke, the Irish Philosopher and politician, that evil thrives because good men do nothing about it (or something to that effect) - Cravens, D.; (2016). This book should stimulate that interest in investigating these assertions and actually doing something about them.
Social media is now able to bypass the influence of the elites in distilling the information and knowledge that makes it to the attentions of the masses. Otherwise we would still be fooled into thinking that kings and ancestral spirits represent God in our lives and be exploited by witch doctors and other crooks. We would also be still thinking that colonial masters are God ordained and that rebelling against their oppression is rebelling against God. We would also still be thinking that carrying the Bible and reading it in your own language was evil. We would also believe that only Latin speaking clerics appointed by politicians should read and interpret it on our behalf - All basically hog wash and bovine fertiliser of course.
The size of our knowledge will always be dwarfed by the size of our ignorance. The more we learn is the more we realize how little we know. An expert has been defined as one who knows more and more about less and less until he ends up knowing everything about nothing. The knowledge that we boast tends to be still limited to what we acquire between birth and death. That barrier will be broken only if we can be able to peep into the future and determine the kinds of families we want to be born in, the race, gender and even the countries and continents. So long as we find those things handed down to us, without our own predetermination, we will still be marking time on the same sport. There is a lot of motion and no movement. There is more haste but less speed.
One needs to be careful with the notion of normalcy though. It is said that one psychiatrist asked if there were normal people at all, since, in a lecture, he kept indicating various deficiencies in people’s behaviours to varying degrees of dis-functionality and for various reasons. His response to the question was: “Show me one normal person. I will hang on to him until he is cured”.
Napoleon Hill is credited with having said, that “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” One would go so far as to argue that whether you imagine negative (bad) or positive (good) you will end up bringing it to pass through the power of that thinking – good or bad; and placebo or nocebo. These thoughts that we habitually entertain because of the company we keep and the things we watch on TV, we epigenetically programme ourselves to either end up manifesting chronic underlying conditions that can never be fixed with allopathic medicines, but with a combination of treatments and curative endeavours that target those underlying causes.
Fighting symptoms the way of the western modern medicine, is insane. It is not different from treating the evidence of a burning, by containing the smoke and not the flame of the fire that causes it. The smoke is the symptom while the fire is the cause. Putting out the smoke is like what the English call “painting the fourth bridge”. That is the English of the natives of the United Kingdom. One has to know a bit about the fourth bridge that gave rise to the saying. If not aware what it is, google it.
I have since decided to personally, manage only what Branson (2017) would call managing the downside. This, in my case, consists of the approach where I only use western allopathic medicines. These are the meds prescribed by medical doctors and manufactured by pharmaceuticals to commence a bridge remedy for the symptoms, while I search for a long lasting solution to the problem. The long lasting solution should evidently consist of anything or changes in my life that will deal a mighty and lasting blow on the underlying causes. And that is just me as a consumer of medical assistance from wherever I can safely obtain it.
Tenopir, et al (2016, p.8) list among their key points to sharing information and knowledge, that: “sharing is intrinsic to scholarship; and sharing is done for both altruistic and personal interest reasons – building reputation and career.” In the case of this book, it is definitely for both these reasons, save for the fact that it is not so much for building one’s career – seeing as one is already at the top of one’s career. But, that being said, it is still for both altruistic and personal interest reasons, without a doubt. And as is the case with employment trade unions, since individual workers are like sardines, and the employers like sharks, it is wiser and safer for individual employees to band together with others to face the employers. The strengths in numbers ensure the balance of power between such parties. This holds true for the banding together of individual consumers to fight against an industry or collaboration of industries out to get them.
Consumer associations where these exist can take this approach and process it further at a practical level and within given geographical demarcations. Where such associations do not exist, they can be set up and recruit members. Failure to organise against the rogue elements who abuse consumers would amount to allowing and sponsoring such rogues to damage consumers and their health. Sitting back is not an option. We have already seen how, as Albert Einstein quipped, that: The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
These authors (Ibid. at p.8) indicate that the reasons for sharing research information at a higher calibre level, because it promotes the public good (res communes), stimulates the independence of material, and it is an extension and a part of democratic standards. Such sharing of researched articles is part of the obligation towards the scholastic and scientific publics as well as the general public. They also quote an unspecified or unnamed medical science interviewee from the UK putting it more succinctly in “You share because you care”.
Access to health care and the quality of that care is still filtered through the eyes of what is still obtaining. People are still fighting to get to the attention of the medical doctors and access to the medication assuming that all of these by themselves are aims to be gunned for. This resembles the feeling and aspirations one had when one first entered Swaziland (as it then was) in self-imposed exile from South Africa.
For some time one could not find work after my mother had dissuaded me from joining the African National Congress (ANC) or Pan African Congress underground in that territory. The first party I had approached (as activists were known), was the ANC. But my contact had told me that I first had to serve as a sympathiser before upgrading to a member with time. That, combined with the concerns my mother had expressed (only son, these people sell each other out and die like flies…), I abandoned the mission. I also realised that they were going to be suspicious because I had not come through the border through contacts and their routes. So, I could easily have had been an apartheid spy planted to infiltrate them.
But during the spell of unemployment and inactivity, one felt like just being able to work again, as I had done before leaving South Africa, I would earn money, buy beer and lead a good life. Just the thought of a cold beer then was to die for. But years later when employment was no longer an issue, I had realised that drinking beer was no advancement in life- it was actually more like a serious demotion on its own to what one could consider a good life. Fast forward 35 years later, I even can’t imagine what had possessed me to drink like a fish and live the life of a sordid and annoying drunkard.
I tell that short story to demonstrate that the medical attention that people would kill for, is not even what it is trumped up to be. The day they realise that, and hopefully, after reading this and similar books, they will realise that they were better off without those pain killers. The poor aspire to just put bread on the table. The enlightened realise that even bread is a terrible thing to aspire to feed on. The gluten does not make it worthwhile fighting to put that bread on the table. More about gluten is covered in Chapter four (4) above. The other example is that of people from rural areas who eat free range chicken. It’s the healthiest and tastiest. But they aspire to eat the artificially fed chicken because of its softness to the palate. But the wealthy and discerning people will always chose free range.
Poor people also talk about cheese as if it’s the best thing to happen to life. But discerning people sooner than later discover that lactose is the worst thing one can put in one’s mouth – self poisoning. I now keep away from dairy. I rather use almond or coconut milk for calcium and a rich, but heathy milky taste.
And now, as seen in the contest of this book, even the best of medical facilities and care that the west has to offer, as well as its medicines, it’s not better than that of the witchdoctor and can actually be even worse. At least the witchdoctor mostly misleads with mumbo jumbo and lying and cheating interspersed with some sleight of hand and hypnosis (suggestibility). But at the end of the day, they are both devastating with the dishonesty embedded in both systems. The years of training and apprenticeship forms are nothing but ways of teaching new dogs old tricks. It’s all about hoodwinking the poor victim (patients) who truly innocently and sheepishly swallow the lies, hook line and sinker.
Foundations of volunteer doctors and compounding chemists who are tired of and want to disentangle themselves from the evil system that also holds them at ransom, due to their wasted years of training, can participate. We need truly dedicated and honest and open professionals who will out the system and not fear the imminent and prevalent vilification that comes with confronting the culprits in the system.
The medicines that many of our people are fighting to receive, even free of charge, pack in mighty punches of dozens of side effects; while failing to even address what they are touted to remedy. And if consumers were any wiser, they would rather be celebrating the fact that they have no access to these poisons.
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