Dr. McCoy: My god, what is this, the Dark Ages? Here, you swallow that. If you have a problem, just call me…
Intern #1: Weintrub said radical chemotherapy or she’s gonna croak… Dr. McCoy: Unbelievable. Intern #1: You have a different view, Doctor? McCoy: It sounds like the goddam Spanish Inquisition!
McCoy: My God, man, drilling holes in his head isn’t the answer! Now put away your butcher knives and let me save this patient before it’s too late! … We’re dealing with medievalism here! … Chemotherapy!
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, (1986)
The voyage home here in healthcare and medicine, is towards biocompatibility and body respect, a reintegration of nature, turning away from violent methods and including enlightened modernism. I’m thankful for the popular visionaries such as those of Star Trek, because they envisioned a harmonious combination of ancient energy medicine and technology.
The medicine of the future is indeed here now, with sound or acoustics, optics or light, electromagnetism and ancient earth or plant medicine. This stands in stark contrast to primitive and toxic treatments, such as chemotherapy. In a way they seem vestiges of medievalism, conquest and Victorian fetishistic neuroticism, that brought about the likes of “scientific” animal testing and breaking people’s jaws to make the teeth straight.
In fact, sound, light and vibration treatments are relatively safe to test on humans and have proven beneficial. However, you still see in case studies published online, researchers testing something innocuous like vibration for neuropathy on damaged and confused rats.
Vibration and Vibroacoustic therapy is definitely an example of a test that people such as those with neuropathy would want to participate in! Vibration and massage, as well as light such as LED Blue, have also proven effective in dentistry, along with herbs and minerals of earth medicine. If one has to have deliberate treatment for something, or maintenance, it’s important to be just as aware of the body / biology respectful choice instead of a painful, invasive choice that could adversely affect overall health, function and longevity.
Invasive methods can exacerbate and mess with immune response. A body attacking itself leads a body attacking itself from the inside. It’s confusing. (Cell: “Okay, I did that voluntarily, some levels up… Soo, I have to defend myself from myself? ) From this viewpoint, more harmonious non-invasive methods are absolutely necessary for medical progress and helping eradicate some (possibly artificial) lifestyle-induced ailments, as well as environmental factors such as fossil fuel exhaust and proliferation of other known to be harmful chemical substances. Other destructive habits send confusing messages as well. It’s important to emphasize from a health standpoint the importance of indeed more self love, listening to the body as the self, and cultivation of peaceful behavior, because of the emotional/mental and physiological connection, and what happens on a deeper cellular level. You’ll see some people deteriorate more while others continue with vibrancy. And in part the difference is the programming, the behavior and so the evolution.
Fortunately, non-invasive methods and therapies of various kinds have penetrated the mainstream. This includes but is not limited to: massage, vibration, vibroacoustic therapy, deliberate exercise, sound frequency (entrainment, binaural, bath, etc) therapy, light therapy (such as Red LED) , electromagnetic field therapy, targeted adaptogenic plant medicines (such as astragalus and lion’s mane), meditations for mental health, etc. All of these amount to making gentler, more coherent changes of patterning and movement that are synergetic with body processes and systems. Some of them are more natural and ‘diy;’ others involve beneficial technological intervention, the type of wise utopian tech that we all deserve. One bright avenue is light and acoustics for cellular regeneration.
And here’s an excellent recent example of non-invasive going mainstream: the FDA approval of Focused Ultrasound or “MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS). Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston now offers this and it’s a combination MRI to target deep tissue without incisions or potentially harmful radiation, and focused ultra sound to treat the issue. This methods combined show tremendous promise for the treatment of a variety of disorders, including cancer. Another bright avenue is cellular regeneration.
Looking at the electromagnetic frequency and acoustic frequency spectrum diagrams above, you can see how ultrasound would be useful in reaching the nanoscale levels and not necessarily effecting the larger topical tissue. There is of course much more exciting research to be done in this area, of non-invasive and energy medicines, and more lifestyle oriented modalities.
Concerning safe ordinary use, there’s a lot of tools available outside of the doctor’s office, such as sauna and steam room, vibroacoustic and light therapy tools, and different kinds of massage apparatus like a Thera-gun, which have fortunately become relatively common. It helps a lot to take proactive, preventative, and enjoyable self care approach.
I’m thankful and intrigued by the intersectionality of my projects lately. That is, the crossover between music and sound, light and health, physics and chemistry. As an aside — I think the small narrowband (flashing) amount of exposure I’ve had to UV light while testing the ‘black pearl’ photocatalysis process has cleared up a skin irritation I had — there’s existing scientific case study evidence for that kind of phototherapy too. In trying to create the ‘trash can of the future’ (see previous posts) I am encountering other beautiful and effective phenomena like that and entrainment, lights or oscillators syncing with each other, which I mentioned before.
