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Science and Christian Healing.
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It is certainly possible for a society to establish its social regulations on a platform that reflects moral values and spiritual reality. Then the society's prosperity and stability will reflect the effects of an increased understanding of fundamental principles. The result from this will be necessarily positive, for, then, the human scene is brought into harmony with the natural conditions of reality, rather than is pitted against it. In the course of this intelligent advance towards understanding reality, the application of penalties that are so heavily attached to legal regulations will lesson until they are no longer drawn into focus at all.
The same applies to the healing of disease, or should I say: to individual lawful spiritual living. Healing is a process of getting into conformity with what is fundamentally normal. The great question, however, is: What are these fundamental laws according to which men need to shape their lives into lawful living? What creates, and supports, health? In other words, if God alone (Truth or reality) makes laws, what are these deeper laws by which we can find health and healing, both individually and collectively? This simple question opens the door to a whole world of scientific investigation, which investigation, being based on reality, is not only related to the healing of bodily ills, but is also related to all the other facets of life and the dynamic nature of life in its unfoldment in human civilization.
Laws that do exist: Laws that reflect Truth.
For centuries, healing has been sought through physical, chemical, biological, or plain mechanical modifications of the body. Of late, genetic engineering has been added to the list. While these methods are useful to some degree, they have neither eradicated the occurrence of disease, nor in fact stemmed the rapid proliferation of diseases. They have become little more than tools to manage the symptoms. In some cases the tools are applied with remarkable success. Still, these tools afford no fundamental aid in dealing with the forces that become manifest as disease.
In a very crude way, some progress is being made towards this end. For instance, efforts are made in today's world to maintain a less destructive environment, to provide more nutritious and sufficient foods, to avoid stress in order to help people keep their bodies strong and healthy. These efforts acknowledge a certain dignity in human living, indicating a faint recognition of underlying spiritual facts. The more advanced thinkers in the political sphere, such as Lyndon LaRouche, like others throughout history, are becoming aware that no one on this globe can live in impunity from diseases while portions of humanity are depressed into poverty, slum living conditions, slavery, and homelessness. Thus, global development efforts are proposed to raise the status of man on this planet. All this indicates that the laws of being are becoming recognized to some degree by the disastrous effects that man's transgressions of them incur.
Of course, spiritual laws can also be recognized by their healing effects. If this is done intelligently and scientifically, the resulting spiritual understanding cannot help but bring to light processes of treating disease based on the operation of divine laws which are valid and effective regardless of the physical circumstances that we may find ourselves in. This is the realm of metaphysics taking the place of physics.
Metaphysical healing results from dealing with the underlying cause of disease on the spiritual level, in accord with spiritual law. To explore this realm, it may be wise to proceed along the paths that the pioneers of old had already proven in their own healing work.
In most cases the pioneers have been individuals through whose efforts whole societies have surged ahead. The results are still apparent. One such case was the Golden Renaissance. It became a literal explosion in spiritual terms. The question should be researched today as to how it was possible for mankind to achieve that enormous transition that was accomplished a few centuries ago, for mankind to pull itself out of the darkest of the dark ages in Europe - the barbarism of the fourteenth and fifteenth century - into a Renaissance of cultural, scientific, and technological achievement which is still regarded as the greatest period of progress in the existence of man, in spite of the advances we see today. How was the transition achieved?
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