by

PROFESSOR JENS JERNDAL

M.D.(MA), M.Sc., D.Sc.h.c., B.A., F.W.A.I.M.

Most people think that the medicine of the future will consist of genetic engineering, more transplants, more drugs and more surgery. They are wrong. All those methods, based as they are on the Newtonian materialistic-mechanistic paradigm, are fast becoming outmoded and will only stay with us as marginal complements to a new wholistic medicine based on the emerging phono-photonic, electro-magnetic, holographic paradigm. Some of the knowledge and techniques of this medicine in the making are brand new outcrops of the latest scientific discoveries in electronics, radio technology, cybernetics, nuclear physics, bio-chemistry etc., while others are as old as Humanity itself.

The knowledge and skills required are already available and reach much further and deeper than the medicine Governments are offering us today. As soon as we decide that we want the new medicine made available to everybody, we can immediately start introducing it into our institutions.

1) First of all, the medicine of the 21st century must be holistic in the true sense of the word. This includes the ecological concept of universal interrelatedness and limitless interaction between every component and facet of Creation. A man may be an island, but go below the water, and you will find that all islands are just hills rising from the bottom of the ocean, and they are all part of one continuous mass of land in spite of their apparent isolation.

On the one hand, the holistic concept means that every human being is an organic part of his or her environment. The environment is more than most of us realize. The food we eat is part of our environment. On the same intimate micro-level we must also remember all the micro-organisms that pervade and surround our bodies in a functional symbiosis.

The environment further has a middle level – and this is the only one most people are aware of, and then only partially – of physical, emotional and intellectual interaction with society, family and other individuals, as well as with local conditions of the Earth and its Atmosphere. Finally, it has a macro-level, where we are influenced not only by the climate, but also by the everchanging force fields of the Earth, the Solar System and the Galaxy.

On the other hand, zooming in on an individual human being, the holistic concept then perceives each one of us as an integrated Whole in all our unique complexity, where each part and function is intimately linked with and dependent on every other part and function, in ways that often cannot be detected when looking at us exclusively from a physical point of view. So, for instance, will 21st Century Medicine eventually be able to understand how thoughts and emotions relate directly to the glandular system and affect physiological functions through the hormones.

2) Doctors and other health care professionals of the 21st century must learn to recognize that illness, seen from a spiritual or transpersonal point of view, is part of an individual development or growth process. They must not primarily try to “cure” the physical aspects of the illness by superficially suppressing the patient’s symptoms, as nearly all of them do today, but they will above all help their patients work out the deep causes and the purpose of their illness. They should be qualified to help the patient interpret the message of the illness and to make required adaptations. Only when this is accomplished will the patient be able to heal in a real sense.

3) We should expect doctors to communicate better with their patients. All health practitioners should take more time to talk to the patients, and the patients should be invited to participate in the diagnostic procedure and in decisions with regard to the treatment chosen.

Improved communication technologies and professional computer networks will also make it possible for doctors in a matter of minutes to access data banks and consult expertise anywhere in the world.

4) 21st Century Medicine must become patient-centred and more individually supportive in a way that we have not seen too much of so far. How the patient feels must be more important than what the doctor concludes from statistics and laboratory tests. In short, we should pay more attention to the subjective quality of life than to quantitative expectancy of survival. We might do well in remembering that some of the greatest contributors to human culture and development have lived short but intensely productive lives.

5) Future Medicine will have to become much more dynamic. It will be process-oriented and very conscious of the importance of Nature’s rythms and Cosmic cycles for human health and development.

Presently used static parameters like blood counts, X-rays to analyse structure, bioscopies to assess histological changes and determine whether tumours are present and whether they are benign or malign etc., will all be of secondary importance or even useless, since new non-invasive investigation methods are able to register, and trace back to their origins, the ongoing biophysical processes which, if unchecked, would eventually lead to structural, organic or functional pathologies.

6) Medicine will routinely integrate new knowledge in biochemistry and become instantly aware of the role and function of food components such as amino-acids, enzymes, minerals and vitamins.

Even more dramatic will be the breakthroughs in biophysics, which will show how toxic substances, metals, biological micro-organisms etc. influence intercellular communication and cellular energy fields – and thereby health – through resonance or interference at specific frequencies of vibration.

7) Our 21st Century Medicine will, as a matter of course, learn to pay attention to the patient’s social and emotional interactions. Relationships, whether of an intimate, family or professional kind, often play a decisive psychological role for the development of illness, and they should be included in the clinical pictures.

8) In the near future, with enlightened use and proper application of holistic medicine, there should be very little need for most types of surgery, and especially for organ transplant surgery. The conditions that lead to failure of organs should in the vast majority of cases be remedied long before the organs become deceased and ineffective.

At the same time, those patients who have exhausted the potential of their bodily presence on earth should be assisted in the all-important process of dying. They should be given moral, emotional and intellectual support and they should be allowed to make the transition in as harmonious, supportive and loving an environment as possible. People should certainly not be kept alive artificially in degrading circumstances, helplessly plugged into all kinds of intensive care equipment in a hospital at exorbitant costs, just to prolong a physical existence void of human dignity.

I am not advocating euthanasia, just that people who are ready to die should be allowed to do so naturally, in a peaceful and dignified way, if possible at home, surrounded by their loved ones. At the appropriate time, Death is as natural, necessary and positive as Birth. Learning to see the larger holistic perspective of Man, we will also learn to accept – and even welcome – Death as a vital (sic!) part of the soul’s experience and development.

The horizons and scope of Science is expanding dramatically with the new paradigm, and this will enable us to approach Death and the spiritual dimension from a scientific – not religious – point of view. It is particularly important that this perspective be brought into the curriculum of future medical training. In the 20th century very few medical doctors have been capable of helping a patient face death in a natural, positive manner.

9) The anecdotal Chinese acupuncture doctor of ancient times may serve us as a model of sorts. He is said to have been paid regularly by his patients as long as these remained in good health. Should they fall ill, then payment was withheld till he had cured them.

To understand the logic and practicality of this system we must remind ourselves that acupuncture lends itself particularly well to prevention of illness. Through Chinese pulse diagnosis it is possible to detect subtle irregularities in the flow and equilibrium of energies within the acupuncture meridians before these produce any noticeable symptoms. Such irregularities in the energy system, if not corrected, may lead to malfunctioning glands and organs with the eventual appearance of the corresponding symptoms of illness.

So our ancient Chinese doctor wasn’t just sitting back, rolling his thumbs and passively collecting his fees. He had to work for his pay, regularly checking the pulse, face, tongue, eyes etc. of his patients. In other words, he sold and honoured a maintenance contract for his patients, much like we do today for certain equipment or machinery.

As soon as he detected any abnormality, he then had to treat the patient, before any symptoms had time to develop. And if a patient developed symptoms in spite of regular checks, then the doctor had not done his job properly, and this is when his fees were withheld until the patient was cured. From this point of view Chinese medicine is a good deal more advanced and practically useful to the patients than the medicine practised in the West during the 20th century is for all its scientific pretenses.

In ancient China it was in the doctor’s interest to keep his patients healthy. In our Western society, doctors only make money when their patients are ill.

Modern Western school medicine with its materialistic, static outlook usually addresses itself exclusively to looking at established physical and chemical structures. Therefore it is only brought in when far-reaching visible changes have already occurred. At this late stage in an often long process, it is becoming increasingly difficult to correct the problem. Physical measures, such as surgery, only eliminate the physically manifest long term result of such processes; they do not stop or reverse the process. And we should not forget the discomfort and risk to the patient that these invasive methods entail.

Holistic medicine, properly practised, is therefore far more cost effective – from several points of view – than today’s Western school medicine.

A principal feature of 21st Century Medicine must be an emphasis on prevention. Western school medicine pays very little attention to prevention. One might even suspect that it has chosen this attitude from fear of becoming redundant. But it need not fear. By taking it upon them not only to treat patients for already manifest physical symptoms, but to assist their patients in coming to terms with their overall life unfoldment processes, 21st century holistic doctors will be more in demand than ever. The aim will then be set much higher, namely to assist patients in functioning at an optimal level of efficiency and wellbeing, in harmony with their environment and in consonance with their spiritual goal; Body, Mind and Soul must be seen as an integrated Whole.

10) Among the most common complaints in today’s society are back or spine problems, one of many areas where orthodox school medicine has very little to offer.

21st Century Medicine will integrate chiropractic and osteopathic knowledge to deal with the spine and skeletal structure and its finer implications for energy circulation and communication through the nerve system. In this way it will be able to correct, without surgery, most functionally disturbing dislocations in the skeletal system, especially in the spine and skull, even when so subtle that they do not show up on X-ray photographs or more advanced types of scanning.

But this knowledge will also have to be put into a larger holistic perspective, which is often lacking now. It will realize how problems affecting muscles and tendons may cause dislocations in the skeletal system, which therefore cannot be permanently corrected by manipulation alone. The cause of such problems may be found in nutrition or metabolism. It may be found in toxic interference or in circulatory deficiencies. It may be found in psychological tension or stress. And therefore skeletal-structural problems may often need nutritional adjustments, acupuncture or homoeopathy, to just mention a few possibilities, in addition to – or instead of – chiropractic or osteopathic treatment, in order to produce a permanent cure.

11) Our future medicine must become conscious of the crucial role of invisible energy and information interactions in the human organism and uncover their deepest causes. It should avoid suppressing acute immune defense responses without addressing the root of the problem, a grave error which conventional 20th century medicine today is committing as accepted routine.

A horde of electronic instruments will come into widespread use, by which the practitioner in a matter of minutes can find out exactly which toxins, viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites etc. are affecting the patient, and also from what deficiencies the patient may suffer with regard to minerals, vitamins, amino acids, enzymes etc.

The late German physician Dr. Reinhold Voll’s brilliant discoveries and research over more than four decades has dramatically expanded our knowledge and understanding of the sciences of acupuncture and homoeopathy. And make no mistake about this: They are sciences. A tangible result of this has further been the development of various electronic instruments able to register and measure the balance, flow and energy level of the acupuncture meridiens. These instruments are also used for actual treatment of patients by electronically stimulating the relevant acupuncture points.

Several instruments are further able to test which homoeopathic remedies, down to the potency, combination, sequence etc., will give the best therapeutic results or bring about homoeostasis through biophysical resonance. The same applies to colours, sounds, herbal remedies, flower essences, crystals, and nutritional supplements. Some of these machines can even electronically generate and introduce the relevant therapeuticly effective frequencies into the bio-field of the patient, e.g. those of a homoeopathic remedy, a colour or a mineral crystal, without the presence of a natural vibrational source.

One kind of instruments is able to identify disease-producing vibratory frequencies present in the patients energy field, and then produce the opposite “anti-frequency” that cancels out the harmful vibration. A similar technique has been commercialized for the control of unwanted noise by neutralizing the offending soundwave.

12) The role of subtle biological energy and information systems will finally be recognized and understood, which will lead to the general acceptance of therapies such as homoeopathy, radionics, psychic healing, crystal, colour and sound therapies.

The holographic principle will become accepted as a valid scientific basis for the effectiveness of many modalities which are now ignored or ridiculed by the established medical authorities. Among such modalities are iris diagnostics, ear and scalp acupuncture, “ECIWO” biology, “Spagyrics” and “Su Jok” Korean hand acupuncture, all based on the postulated existance of a holographic 3-dimensional morphological field as basis for the structural development and maintenance of living organisms.

The most popular holographic therapy, foot reflexology, is already becoming a widely practised self-healing modality among the public at large.

Hypnosis should become more utilized in inducing natural healing processes. Perhaps more important still is that people may learn to reprogram their unconscious in order to change destructive or unhealthy habit patterns and set about natural healing processes.

13) By charting the individual development processes of patients and opening up to the holographic and electro-magnetic dimensions of Man, 21st century medicine will be able to prevent or cure practically all known illnesses, including cancer, arthritis, diabetes, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, ME and AIDS, all of which are poorly understood today, and treated without much success by present-day mainstream medicine.

14) All that I have descibed here is real, tried and proven, and it has been with us for a long time. Why, then, has it not been made available to us long ago through our official providers of health care? –

The answer is that institutionalized modern medicine has for the last 100 years become totally dominated and controlled by the increasingly powerful and wealthy pharmaceutical industry, which also – directly or indirectly – funds and controls practically all research and most medical publications. Based on an interested and inappropriate reductionist and materialistic scientific paradigm, the pharmaceutical industry has succeeded in discrediting, if not outlawing and penalizing, all effective holistic healing methods in favor of its own very profitable – and expensive to the consumer – drugs+surgery model, which often causes more harm than good in those exposed to it, without ever producing a true permanent cure.

Since prevention is contrary to the profit interests of the business of medicine, our manipulated authorities have all but ignored the crucial aspect of prevention of illness, and of health policies that generally benefit public health.

Any change of the present system must come from the grassroots. The prevailing financial and political structure will not voluntarily introduce the needed reforms. The question the general public should ask themselves is to whose interests should the government give priority: to those of the general public with whose tax money public health care expenses are funded, or to the interests of the shareholders and executives of a particular profit-based industry?

In this connection it is encouraging to observe that over the last several decades the general public has increasingly voted with their feet, so to speak, in favor of holistic and alternative medicine.

On both sides of the Atlantic it is estimated that now more people choose to consult an alternative practitioner as their first choice, rather than first go to an orthodox medical doctor. And this in spite of the massive propaganda from health authorities and the pharmaceutical industry against so called alternative medicine.

The fact that these people have to pay the entire cost for such consultations or treatments out of their own pocket, since neither public health care nor insurance companies accept to pay for alternative treatments, makes this trend doubly remarkable. The only reason alternative medicine appears more expensive for the individual consumers is that it´s not subsidized by government or insurance.

All told, alternative medicine is far, far less costly than officially endorsed “orthodox” medicine, while at the same time much more effective, less invasive, and with practically no side effects.

However, most politicians doggedly refuse to listen to the silent message based on personal experience of their constituents, yet seem to listen very attentively to the hard-pushing lobbyists of the pharmaceutical industry and their flawed and manipulated scientific arguments.