Abbott’s Preparation Week 26

This past week has been a nice week back home, and the beginning of a new cycle.

It’s officially a week since my return from Italy, and the end of the first week of my Medic cycle. I’ve started the traditional regimen of Great Courses classes and reading, already having finished my first book, Discovering The German New Medicine, which was an interesting examination of a type of holistic medicine that ties physical ailments to emotional trauma. I’m also continuing my flying and hoping to get my pilot’s license at the end of this month if possible.

First, my new Great Courses class is called Medical School For Everyone, and it delves into specific illnesses or injuries, structuring each lesson like a doctor’s appointment for the patient, and you are the doctor. It really shows just how people act and think when they have a sickness, as I learned from the German New Medicine book; physical illness and mental illness are much more connected than we think (I’ll talk about that more later), and sick people can act in ways which are very contrary to helping you as the doctor. So far I’ve covered a number of intriguing cases which range in scenarios from old people with bone cancer to kids with measles. This method of teaching really appeals to me, as I enjoy taking all of the clues and symptoms and forming possible diagnoses, so I’m definitely enjoying this course so far.

Circling back around to something I mentioned earlier, I finished the first book of this cycle: Discovering The German New Medicine. Written by Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer, the core premise of the book is that many diseases (even cancer) are not a malfunction or malady of the body, but rather a “Special Biological Program” triggered by an unexpected, violent psychological/emotional trauma. He called this phenomenon the Dirk Hamer Syndrome (named after his son who died after being shot in the leg, then passing away in the care of a hospital after three months). While GNM is a known ideology in holistic terrain-based medicine circles, it is widely rejected by big pharma, which classifies it as a hazardous malpractice of science. The book is broken down very clearly into some key principles which are as follows:

1. Every physical disease has an emotional trauma counterpart (Dirk Hamer Syndrome)

2. Every disease is connected on three levels: the psyche, a specific part of the brain (and this can actually be seen on CT scans of the brain) and the physical organ itself.

3. Microbes do not cause disease or harm the body, they are sent by the brain to remove unhealthy tissue in preparation of healing, but as they are often at the “scene of the crime” so to speak, they are usually accused of the sickness.

4. Every “disease” or “sickness” that the body experiences is actually an intentional, highly complex survival mechanism designed by the brain.

5. Before your body can truly heal any physical damage done to it, the brain must resolve the emotional damage done to it.

This form of medicine also rejects many of the commonly approved treatment methods of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, and states that this actually is bad for the body’s natural methods of healing.

Already, I’m feeling the strain of taking in all this information (pertaining to the topic of medicine especially), as I know everything in this field of knowledge is very heavily debated, with new information being offered online or in alternative forms at an unprecedented rate, and you’re going to have conflicting sources no matter what the topic of study is, whether it’s vaccination or prescription drugs. I guess I’ll just have to keep an open mind throughout my studying and take what works in the field as gospel, and most other things with a grain of salt.

But in other news, I’ve moved on from my youth group, and now am a founding member of a new young adult’s bible study group, or as I’ve taken to calling it: adult group (because I have such a way with words). I have been thoroughly enjoying this, as it is a means to connect with other people my age without the nuisance of younger (and more awkward) middle schoolers and junior high schoolers.

All in all, it’s been a good week, and I’ve been able to hang out with my friends a lot, which is nice compared to the social isolation I felt in Italy. Once again, thank you so much for reading my Substack this week, and until next time,

• Abbott Springston