Chapter 8 

The Need for a New Medicine 

All of this would not be necessary if the other way was working. Quite clearly it is not. This great diversity of ideas and thought forms, the complexity of detail and the rival claims of different viewpoints leave us bemused. But worse than that it leaves us adrift without map or compass. In the days when science could justify itself by demonstrating its successes we had the illusion of purpose but the fact is that things are going wrong, badly wrong. A catalogue of this year’s disasters will look mild set against the tragedy of what comes next. It is not going to get better in that way. The signs are writ so large how can we avoid reading them? 

What we need is a new medicine. Not a wonder drug, not a surgical implant nor a form of synthetic ego support. We need something that will help us wake up to see what is going on, so that we may see life for what it is. We need to regain our sense of discrimination so that we may once again recognise what is harmful to life and what is of benefit to life. We need something that will help us to understand what we are so that we may simply live. We need something that Is not dependent upon the specialist and fragmenting forces of intellectualism, something that works with life as we know it. Something is needed that will help us work with change for it is our inability to go with change that drives us away from life. We need something that will work with the life force within us to bring us to a healthy and happy living. Something that will work in harmony with nature and bring healing to the planet.