How to Spot Health Bullshit
Health information is everywhere. But how much of it is trying to help you, and how much of it is designed to persuade you, frighten you, confuse you, or push you into dependency? Here’s how to flip on your filter.
End-Stage: Why We Believe in Inevitability
Audio Recording of Call Notes Our theme for March is paradigm. “Stage 0.” “Stage 1.” “Stage 3.” “End-stage.” These look like medical terms, but they function as far more than neutral descriptions. They are cultural signals. They shape how people look at each other, how we look at ourselves, what we think is possible, what […]
Netflix Medicine: Breaking the Cyberchondria Trance
Audio Recording of Call Notes Core thesis Paradigm comes first The symptom is not the beginning of the special biological program. The installed script is the beginning, because it sets us up for the DHS, which we use to make a biological conflict, which initiates the special biological program. “Cyberchondria” The cyberchondria trance doesn’t begin […]
Biological Civil War: the Myth of ‘Autoimmune’
Audio Recording of Call Our theme of discussion for March is paradigm. Paradigm is our set of unquestioned beliefs, the framework of how we see and understand something. I’m choosing the word “we” here instead of the word “you,” because paradigm is the shared reality that we experience, because we’ve been trained to see things […]
The Upside of Being a Medical Heretic
If you believe your symptoms are caused by things outside your control – germs, genes, bad luck, stress, trauma, “the economy,” other people, or even your environment – you’re practicing the modern religion. That religion is determinism (materialism): the belief that the physical world “makes” you be what you are, feel what you feel, and […]
Do You Really Want to Heal?
Do You Really Want to Heal? 11/04/2016 12:35 AM Got a symptom you’ve “tried everything” to fix but nothing’s worked? Underlying your symptom is not an incurable condition but a belief. That’s a belief in the status quo. A belief that you are a statistic. We live in a culture that worships statistical averages. […]
What the Heck is a MindTree?
02/09/2018
How to “Downgrade” Programs (and Why It’s the Dumbest Thing You’ll Ever Do)
Call Recording: Audio Recording of Call Transcript/Notes: Our theme in the Quintessence Tribe for the month of March is “Paradigm.” Your paradigm is the set of beliefs, ideas, and assumptions that you find so self-evident and “obvious” that you only experience reality that matches the paradigm. It’s your “filter.” But paradigm becomes a problem when […]
“Just Shift Your Perspective!” (Wait…How?)
Call Recording: Audio Recording of Call Notes/Transcript: The Scientific Revolution is not yet complete. Some wisdom has been gained …and much lost. In the month of March, our theme for discussion is “paradigm.” So we talk about how we think, how we’re accustomed to thinking, how we’ve been trained to think, how we believe others […]
What is “Identity?” Your Conflict Starts Here
Call Recording: Audio Recording of Call Transcript/Notes: An active identity conflict is at the heart of almost every form of severe behavioural problem, personality problem, and relationship problem. It is at the heart of every political conflict. This is why, in order to practice Germanic New Medicine – especially the fourth biological law – we […]