This Is Anarcho-Herbalism
March 15th, 2013Via: Alchemy Works:
A society of people who are responsible for their own health and able to gather or grow their own medicines is a hard society to rule. These days we are dependent on the power structure of industrial health care – the secret society of the doctors, the white-male-dominated medical schools, the corporate decision makers with their toxic pharmaceuticals and heartless greed and labs full of tortured beings. That dependence is one more thing keeping us tied down to the State and unable to rebel with all our hearts or even envision a world without such oppression. With a new system of healing, based on self-knowledge and herbal wisdom, we will be that much more free.
Offering a real alternative health care system will help to calm some people’s fears about returning to an anarchistic, Earth centered way of life. There is a false security in the men with the big machines, ready to put you back together again (if you have enough money). What is ignored is the fact that industrial society causes most of the dis-eases that people fear. Living free on a healing Earth while surrounded by true community and eating real food will prove to be a better medicine than anything you can buy.
Research Credit: Pookie
Southwest School of Botanical Medicine:
http://www.swsbm.com/HOMEPAGE/HomePage.html
This just blew my freakin mind. I am a regular reader of cryptogon et al, an amateur herbalist, ex-vegan, healthy, intelligent/educated, blah blah blah… in other words, I think about anarchic abdication regularly. And yet, somehow it has never occurred to me that the average person CANNOT “rebel” or even envision (let alone desire) real freedom because:
THEY NEED THEIR MEDS. holy goddess and little grey men, where have I been?
The idea that freedom is, however subconsciously, a tradeoff with health for the majority of people… I shudder to think. These Alchemy folks get major spiritual kudos for attempting to dispel the illusion of pharm necessity.