Preface
Human health has been going in the wrong direction.
In short, the thinking, methods and techniques of health care are all wrong! And the thinking has erred the most by looking outward instead of inward for health solutions, thus leading to catastrophic errors in medical education, diagnosis, treatment, and investment.
The health industry is like a giant ship with holes. People busy themselves getting out the water that keeps leaking in, but do not know how to plug the holes, not to mention change the ship.
Without holistic, transformative thinking and a method derived from contemplation on human history and civilization, humanity will continue to be led astray by Western medicine, causing health systems to fail, whether government-sponsored or business-oriented. People are rushing to a dead end, as long as the focus and investment are still on medicine, medical appliances, medical insurance, and medical institutions. Many people have realized that the current health care model is a bottomless pit that no investment can fill up. Only a revolutionary philosophy and method can make a breakthrough, ignite innovation, and resolve the crises.
I. Status Quo of Humanity’s Health Care
Now much of the world is undergoing the crises of an aging population, unaffordable medical expenses, and lack of quality health care for all citizens.
Many countries follow the medical model in the West, and their health care reforms are reduced to a tug-of-war amongst various interest groups. Their interests are based on a premise: The more patients and the higher the medical bills, the better. The so-called healthcare reforms are a redistribution of patients’ money among hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and medical insurance providers. They have nothing to do with healing. It may sound extreme, but it is indeed the case. The stakeholders in any given country’s medical reform talk incessantly about
money, budget, etc., yet seldom about efficacy.
If health care means universal, long-term
inefficacy (not short-term exceptions) and even deterioration of a patient’s condition, but jaw-dropping medical bills, is it “health care” or an “industry”? Here is a conflict of interest: The medical industry is most concerned with making money, whereas patients yearn for actual curative effects, i.e. better health. From an economic point of view, humanity’s health care attracts huge investment, but yields minimal return of a very poor quality.
Disease treatment is not an end in itself, but a means to the end of good health. But now, it has somehow become a means to the end of making money.
The medical industry invests enormous social resources in the final stage of a person’s life, when a person is very sick and even dying. Doctors busy themselves rescuing drowning people in the downstream of a flooding river, while disregarding soil and water conservation in the upper reaches of the river. Humanity’s health care reforms have basically been going in the same direction.
Why has health care been wrong for hundreds of years, and still roam in the wrong direction?
Because the problems with health care have never been purely technical, but involve cultural and ideological issues as well. Over the past two hundred years, humanity has been continually westernized, largely due to colonization. And the field of medicine has been affected by westernization the most.
In terms of both scope and depth, medicine has a significant cultural impact. It affects our body and mind. All individuals and families are under its influence. When Western medicine is the mainstream, it indicates that Western culture has become the mainstream, for Western medicine is representative of Western culture.
Western medicine has significantly influenced our lives, because humanity has become accustomed to and indulged in its way of thinking and living without knowing it. We have fully embraced the education, products, and services of Western medicine. We think, study, work, and live our lives in the “compartmentalized” mode. And powerful interest groups are formed in countries across the world.
The medical crises we face today mirror the cultural crises. Western culture has many merits and has been contributing enormously to human progress, particularly through technological innovation and material abundance. And we have no desire to reject it as a whole. However, apparently humanity has not absorbed much of its nutrition but has already been contaminated by its toxic wastes.
Western medicine has been dominating the medical world mainly because of the Industrial Revolution*, which in turn is the result of a religious reform and the Renaissance. Clearly, the progress in Western ideology and its economic development have gone parallel. Although Western countries colonized much of the world through the use of force, Christianity followed, with its churches, hospitals and schools. They not only spread Western culture, but also were closely related to people’s livelihood, and thus penetrated into people’s everyday life.
*[When was the industrial revolution?
This process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world. Although used earlier by French writers, the term Industrial Revolution was first popularized by the English economic historian Arnold Toynbee (1852–83) to describe Britain's economic development from 1760 to 1840. Industrial revolution is defined as the changes in manufacturing and transportation that began with fewer things being made by hand but instead made using machines in larger-scale factories. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines. Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. Origins of the Industrial Revolution. The first Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain after 1750. There were several factors that combined to make Great Britain an ideal place for industrialization. First, the Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century created a favorable climate for industrialization.
Why did the Industrial Revolution happen?
All of these factors came together in the late 18th century to create the unique conditions in England that culminated in the first-ever Industrial Revolution: The Agricultural Revolution discussed earlier resulted in increased food production and increased population in England first.
What happened during the Industrial Revolution in America?
An early landmark moment in the Industrial Revolution came near the end of the eighteenth century, when Samuel Slater brought new manufacturing technologies from Britain to the United States and founded the first U.S. cotton mill in Beverly, Massachusetts.
What started the Industrial Revolution in America?
The start of the American Industrial Revolution is often attributed to Samuel Slater who opened the first industrial mill in the United States in 1790 with a design that borrowed heavily from a British model. Slater's pirated technology greatly increased the speed with which cotton thread could be spun into yarn.
When did the industrial revolution in America end?
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
What comes after the industrial revolution?
The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid industrialization in the final third of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
What is the 4 industrial revolution?
Industry 4.0 is a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing and cognitive computing. Industry 4.0 creates what has been called a "smart factory".
When did China start to industrialize?
This was the plan used from 1958-1961 to transform the People's Republic of China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through the process of agriculturalization and industrialization.]
Western medicine has its obvious advantages, such as antibiotics and surgery, but they are most needed during wars and epidemics. Indeed, people have been much plagued by wars and epidemics over the past two hundred years, which is why the alias of Western medicine is “wartime medicine”. However, in the parts of the world where there are no wars and epidemics, there is not a great need for Western medicine. It is not as effective in curing common ailments and chronic diseases.
Progress in thinking and technology has always gone hand in hand in human history. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Europe had been through endless wars and medieval darkness. Then the steam engine quickly fueled industrialization in European countries, which went on to conquer much of the world.
However, nothing can go too far. Today’s medical and other crises are also results of over-industrialization. We urgently need a transformative, universally applicable health philosophy and method to balance and offset the subsequent disasters.
The steam engine and the Industrial Revolution originated in Britain. This seeming coincidence is an evitable result of cultural and religious reforms in Britain. Although the religious reform started in Germany, Britain was the first country to convert from Catholic to Protestant belief. It shows that technological breakthroughs are in essence results of culture advancement.
Thus, Britain led human civilization for several
hundred years. And America further developed Western culture.
Flowers wither after full blossom. Western medicine has made its due contributions to humanity, but its golden era has passed, just like Western culture. It is time to re-examine the direction of Western medicine: Is disease treatment the purpose of medicine? Is it right to develop a huge medical industry for making profits?
Without a whole set of revolutionary thinking and methods, Western medicine will continue to define the direction of humanity’s health care. A preventive, healing philosophy and method is not revolutionary when it does not have an amazing efficacy; nor is it universal when the method cannot be popularized on a large scale. Medical reforms that do not change the very nature of healing will fail prematurely.
But is there a revolutionary healing philosophy and method?
Yes. In fact, it has always been there, in humanity’s blood and culture. Sadly, we have failed to make good use of it. Right at this critical age when people’s minds are westernized to the extreme, a seed lying dormant for millennia has sprouted. This is the seed of self-healing.
II. Brief Introduction of PaidaLajin Self-Healing Method. (click here)
Human health has been going in the wrong direction.
In short, the thinking, methods and techniques of health care are all wrong! And the thinking has erred the most by looking outward instead of inward for health solutions, thus leading to catastrophic errors in medical education, diagnosis, treatment, and investment.
The health industry is like a giant ship with holes. People busy themselves getting out the water that keeps leaking in, but do not know how to plug the holes, not to mention change the ship.
Without holistic, transformative thinking and a method derived from contemplation on human history and civilization, humanity will continue to be led astray by Western medicine, causing health systems to fail, whether government-sponsored or business-oriented. People are rushing to a dead end, as long as the focus and investment are still on medicine, medical appliances, medical insurance, and medical institutions. Many people have realized that the current health care model is a bottomless pit that no investment can fill up. Only a revolutionary philosophy and method can make a breakthrough, ignite innovation, and resolve the crises.
I. Status Quo of Humanity’s Health Care
Now much of the world is undergoing the crises of an aging population, unaffordable medical expenses, and lack of quality health care for all citizens.
Many countries follow the medical model in the West, and their health care reforms are reduced to a tug-of-war amongst various interest groups. Their interests are based on a premise: The more patients and the higher the medical bills, the better. The so-called healthcare reforms are a redistribution of patients’ money among hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and medical insurance providers. They have nothing to do with healing. It may sound extreme, but it is indeed the case. The stakeholders in any given country’s medical reform talk incessantly about
money, budget, etc., yet seldom about efficacy.
If health care means universal, long-term
inefficacy (not short-term exceptions) and even deterioration of a patient’s condition, but jaw-dropping medical bills, is it “health care” or an “industry”? Here is a conflict of interest: The medical industry is most concerned with making money, whereas patients yearn for actual curative effects, i.e. better health. From an economic point of view, humanity’s health care attracts huge investment, but yields minimal return of a very poor quality.
Disease treatment is not an end in itself, but a means to the end of good health. But now, it has somehow become a means to the end of making money.
The medical industry invests enormous social resources in the final stage of a person’s life, when a person is very sick and even dying. Doctors busy themselves rescuing drowning people in the downstream of a flooding river, while disregarding soil and water conservation in the upper reaches of the river. Humanity’s health care reforms have basically been going in the same direction.
Why has health care been wrong for hundreds of years, and still roam in the wrong direction?
Because the problems with health care have never been purely technical, but involve cultural and ideological issues as well. Over the past two hundred years, humanity has been continually westernized, largely due to colonization. And the field of medicine has been affected by westernization the most.
In terms of both scope and depth, medicine has a significant cultural impact. It affects our body and mind. All individuals and families are under its influence. When Western medicine is the mainstream, it indicates that Western culture has become the mainstream, for Western medicine is representative of Western culture.
Western medicine has significantly influenced our lives, because humanity has become accustomed to and indulged in its way of thinking and living without knowing it. We have fully embraced the education, products, and services of Western medicine. We think, study, work, and live our lives in the “compartmentalized” mode. And powerful interest groups are formed in countries across the world.
The medical crises we face today mirror the cultural crises. Western culture has many merits and has been contributing enormously to human progress, particularly through technological innovation and material abundance. And we have no desire to reject it as a whole. However, apparently humanity has not absorbed much of its nutrition but has already been contaminated by its toxic wastes.
Western medicine has been dominating the medical world mainly because of the Industrial Revolution*, which in turn is the result of a religious reform and the Renaissance. Clearly, the progress in Western ideology and its economic development have gone parallel. Although Western countries colonized much of the world through the use of force, Christianity followed, with its churches, hospitals and schools. They not only spread Western culture, but also were closely related to people’s livelihood, and thus penetrated into people’s everyday life.
*[When was the industrial revolution?
This process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world. Although used earlier by French writers, the term Industrial Revolution was first popularized by the English economic historian Arnold Toynbee (1852–83) to describe Britain's economic development from 1760 to 1840. Industrial revolution is defined as the changes in manufacturing and transportation that began with fewer things being made by hand but instead made using machines in larger-scale factories. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines. Industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. Origins of the Industrial Revolution. The first Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain after 1750. There were several factors that combined to make Great Britain an ideal place for industrialization. First, the Agricultural Revolution of the 18th century created a favorable climate for industrialization.
Why did the Industrial Revolution happen?
All of these factors came together in the late 18th century to create the unique conditions in England that culminated in the first-ever Industrial Revolution: The Agricultural Revolution discussed earlier resulted in increased food production and increased population in England first.
What happened during the Industrial Revolution in America?
An early landmark moment in the Industrial Revolution came near the end of the eighteenth century, when Samuel Slater brought new manufacturing technologies from Britain to the United States and founded the first U.S. cotton mill in Beverly, Massachusetts.
What started the Industrial Revolution in America?
The start of the American Industrial Revolution is often attributed to Samuel Slater who opened the first industrial mill in the United States in 1790 with a design that borrowed heavily from a British model. Slater's pirated technology greatly increased the speed with which cotton thread could be spun into yarn.
When did the industrial revolution in America end?
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
What comes after the industrial revolution?
The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid industrialization in the final third of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
What is the 4 industrial revolution?
Industry 4.0 is a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing and cognitive computing. Industry 4.0 creates what has been called a "smart factory".
When did China start to industrialize?
This was the plan used from 1958-1961 to transform the People's Republic of China from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern communist society through the process of agriculturalization and industrialization.]
Western medicine has its obvious advantages, such as antibiotics and surgery, but they are most needed during wars and epidemics. Indeed, people have been much plagued by wars and epidemics over the past two hundred years, which is why the alias of Western medicine is “wartime medicine”. However, in the parts of the world where there are no wars and epidemics, there is not a great need for Western medicine. It is not as effective in curing common ailments and chronic diseases.
Progress in thinking and technology has always gone hand in hand in human history. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Europe had been through endless wars and medieval darkness. Then the steam engine quickly fueled industrialization in European countries, which went on to conquer much of the world.
However, nothing can go too far. Today’s medical and other crises are also results of over-industrialization. We urgently need a transformative, universally applicable health philosophy and method to balance and offset the subsequent disasters.
The steam engine and the Industrial Revolution originated in Britain. This seeming coincidence is an evitable result of cultural and religious reforms in Britain. Although the religious reform started in Germany, Britain was the first country to convert from Catholic to Protestant belief. It shows that technological breakthroughs are in essence results of culture advancement.
Thus, Britain led human civilization for several
hundred years. And America further developed Western culture.
Flowers wither after full blossom. Western medicine has made its due contributions to humanity, but its golden era has passed, just like Western culture. It is time to re-examine the direction of Western medicine: Is disease treatment the purpose of medicine? Is it right to develop a huge medical industry for making profits?
Without a whole set of revolutionary thinking and methods, Western medicine will continue to define the direction of humanity’s health care. A preventive, healing philosophy and method is not revolutionary when it does not have an amazing efficacy; nor is it universal when the method cannot be popularized on a large scale. Medical reforms that do not change the very nature of healing will fail prematurely.
But is there a revolutionary healing philosophy and method?
Yes. In fact, it has always been there, in humanity’s blood and culture. Sadly, we have failed to make good use of it. Right at this critical age when people’s minds are westernized to the extreme, a seed lying dormant for millennia has sprouted. This is the seed of self-healing.
II. Brief Introduction of PaidaLajin Self-Healing Method. (click here)
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