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HOW AND WHY THE WEST SEPARATED THE BODY FROM MIND AND SPIRIT

12/4/2017

 
Western medicine is not holistic as it’s focus is primarily upon the body completely ignoring the mental, emotional and spiritual components. In fact, the Vedic philosopher and teacher, Jeffrey Armstrong, refers to the modern Western physician as a “body geek”. The separation of the body from the mind and spirit began gradually and then surged with the ascendancy of Christianity.

Fueled by both ignorance and arrogance, Christian clergy and their theologians began dismissing reason, logic, scientific inquiry elevating faith. The sixth century Pope Gregory warned that faith would be weakened and destroyed if reason prevailed: “Faith has no merit where human reason supplies the truth,” he stated.
To strengthen their view of faith over reason, the church taught:
  • Illness was caused by human sin, a harsh and distorted form of Christian Karma whereby God sent diseases to punish;

  • Mental illness was caused by Satan and his army of demons and it was the church which had the “cure” - exorcism.

  • Physical illness was to be treated by prayers of faith offered by the clergy.
As Christianity became a dominant political force all over Europe, the Church used and abused iit’s power to reign in scientists and physicians. Eventually, the church “criminalized” scientific and medical practitioners via the threat of a heresy accusation which would be followed by persecution, imprisonment and, in some cases, death.
Quickly, scientists and physicians distanced themselves from any metaphysical matters dealing with mind and spirit, focusing exclusively on the physical body. Armstrong writes: “Since independent scientific thinking was persecuted and often punishable by death at the hands of religion…. scientists divorced themselves from he spiritual questions of life that could challenge the ruling religious elite. But in India, no such persecution of scientific thinking every occurred.”

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