赛斯谈现代医院之弊

摘译自《个人实相的本质》第661节

正如我以前说过的，你的思想就是实相。思想直接影响你的身体。看起来你们是高度文明的人，因为你们把生病的人送进医院，在那里他们可以得到照顾。当然，你们所做的是隔离了一群对疾病充满了负面信念的人，而信念的传染病却蔓延开来。显然，病人在医院里是因为他们病了，而病人和医生都依据这一原则来努力。

生孩子的女人也被放在这同样的环境中。你们也许认为这样很人道，然而，整个系统的结构使分娩看起来不是健康的结果，而是疾病的结果。

在医院这类组织里，与健康有关的刺激被有效地阻断了。病人被聚在一起，剥夺了所有正常而自然的生活条件，包括补偿性的动机——而那些动机，假以时日的话，有时候足以令人恢复健康。

在医院的这种隔离已经很不幸了，如果再加上旨在帮助病人，却常常没搞明白就用药的情形，那就更不幸了。亲人只被允许在某些场合探望病人，因此那些最希望他们复原、和他们最亲近、最爱他们的人，被有效地阻止做出任何自然的建设性行为。

出于所有实际的目的，病人等于被关进了监狱。他们被迫专注于自己的病情。所有这些更是加诸于其他非人性化的措施之上。例如，过度拥挤的状况，对人隐私的剥夺，往往还有对尊严的否定。

这一切使病人感到无力，感到任凭医生或护士摆布——他们常常没有时间和精力表现得和蔼可亲，也不能用他能理解的说法来解释病情，因此，患者被迫把自己的力量感转移到医生或护士身上，这进一步加深了他的痛苦，而这反过来又强化了引发他病情的无力感。

此外，病人也得不到阳光、空气和土地等自然元素。熟悉感带来的稳定性也被收回了。在你们那一套信念之下，情况严重时，你们的确多少必须要到医院去才行。在这里我并不是说，许多医生和护士没有尽最大努力去促进疗愈，当然，疗愈确实发生了——但不是因为这个医疗系统，而是即使在这个医疗系统下，病人也“居然”会复原。在许多情况下，医生对病人的信心使他振作起来，并重新唤起了他对自己的信心。病人对医生的信任又巩固了整个医疗过程，而后病人可能会对自己的康复充满信心。但就如动物体内有着自然的疗愈过程，你们人类也有。

用你们的话来说，疾病常常代表了没有被面对的问题，而这些困境所包含的挑战旨在带领你们走向更大的成就和满足。因为身与心在一起运作得这么好，其中一个会试图治愈另一个，如果不去干涉的话，就常常会成功。机体对健康有它自己的信心，而对你们来说，那是属于无意识的。

你们是环境的一部分，你们形成它。然而，那形成你们和环境的能量，通过你们与物质世界的交会，在你们每个人之内“活”了起来。太阳令你微笑，而微笑本身能激活愉快的记忆、神经的连接，以及荷尔蒙的运作。微笑让你记起你的生物性。

古老的巫医在自然环境中工作，利用大自然伟大的疗愈力，以创造性的方式运用大自然的实际特性及象征特性。

然而，在你们的医院里，你们将病人带离他们的自然环境，并且常常剥夺了他们生物性的安适感。在医院里也很少涉及情感。老年人在试图逃离疗养院的封闭房间时，往往以自己的方式表现出比监禁他们的亲属或社会更清醒的头脑。

因为他们直觉地认识到“对自由的需要”，而且他们感觉到缺乏与土地的神秘交流，那是他们被禁止接触的。

设于广阔土地上的小医院，除了卧床不起的人之外，所有人都有自由去使用自己的身体，这将远远超过你们现有的医院。但在你们建立的这种系统里，除了最富有的人，这样的环境是不可能的。

在许多动物群体里，生病的动物会把自己隔离起来休息一段时间。在这段时间里，它也可以自由寻找那些对其健康最有利的自然条件。它跑来跑去找到某些药草，或者躺在河边的湿泥里。它常常会得到同类的帮助，却是分文不花的。

如果，它被它的兄弟所杀，这并不是一种残忍的行为，而是出于一种天生的理解——理解这个生物再也不能毫无痛苦地活下去了。这涉及了一种十分自然的“安乐死”，在其中，“患者”也予以默许了。

在你们的社会里，这样的自然死亡是非常困难的，因为你们的权力结构使这种事几乎无法被提倡。然而，没有一个决定要死的人能被医学界救回来。用你们的话说，在更深的层面，相当正常的求生欲要求一个人迟早必须离开自己的身体。当那个时候到来时，这个人就会知道，心灵的伟大活力不想再被一个受苦的身体囚禁了。

然而在这里，医学界常常小心地应用每一个技术上的进步，来强迫“自己”留在他的肉身之内——当灵魂与肉身会自然分离时。有正常的连环机制让“自己”为死亡做好准备，甚至化学的相互作用也会使死亡在肉体上更容易发生——以你们的说法，爆发出来的一种加速会把这个人轻易地推出身体之外。而药物只能阻碍这一点。

某些种类的药物确实会有帮助，但是你们的医院里所用的那些药物，只会把意识“麻醉”得失去了自己的理解，并且抑制了使“过渡”变得容易的身体机制。当然，你们的监狱在做着同样的事，把一群有相同信念的人隔离起来——他们无法获得所有自然的刺激，这样，相似的信念就有了更大的传染性。你们让这些人脱离了与所爱之人的正常接触，也脱离了所有正常的成长或发展条件。

As I have said before, your thoughts are reality. They directly affect your body. It seems that you are highly civilized people because you put your ill into hospitals where they can be cared for. What you do, of course, is to isolate a group of people who are filled with negative beliefs about illness. The contagion of beliefs spreads. Patients are obviously in hospitals because they are ill. The sick and their doctors both work on that principle.

Women delivering children are placed in the same environment. This may seem very humane to you, and yet the entire system is structured so that childbirth does not seem to be the result of health but of illness.

Stimuli pertaining to health is effectively blocked in such organizations. The ill are gathered together and denied all of their normal and natural conditions, including the compensating motivations that alone would sometimes be enough to restore health if given time.

This isolation would be unfortunate enough without the application of drugs meant to help, but often given without understanding. Loved ones are permitted to visit the sick on but certain occasions, so those who wish them well in the strongest terms, who are closest to them and who love them, are efficiently prevented from exerting any natural constructive behavior.

For all practical purposes the ill are put into prison. They are forced to concentrate upon their condition. All of this applies quite apart from any other dehumanizing effects, such as overcrowded conditions, the denial of human privacy, and often the negation of dignity.

The individual is made to feel powerless, at the mercy of doctors or nurses who often do not have the time or energy to be personable, or to explain his [or her] condition in terms that he can understand. The patient is therefore forced to transfer his own sense of power to others, which further deepens his misery; this in turn reinforces the sense of powerlessness that initiated his condition.

Furthermore, the natural elements of sun, air, and earth are refused him. The stability of familiarity is withdrawn. Now with your set of beliefs you are indeed more or less obligated to go to hospitals in severe conditions. I am not saying here that many doctors and nurses do not try their best to promote healing, and certainly healings occur—but they do so despite the system and not because of it. In many cases the belief of a doctor in a person who is ill revives him and rearouses his own belief in himself. The patient's confidence in the doctor will then reinforce the entire medical procedure, and he may then be filled with faith in his recovery. But as there are natural healing processes within animals, so there are in your race. 

Illnesses usually represent unfaced problems, in your terms, and these dilemmas embody challenges meant to lead you to greater achievement and fulfillment. Because body and mind operate so well together, one will attempt to cure the other, and will often succeed if left alone. The organism has its own beliefs in health that are unconscious on your part.

You are a part of your environment. You form it. Yet the energy that forms you and the environment springs alive in each of you through your intersection with the physical world. The sun makes you smile. The smiling of itself activates pleasant memories, neurological connections, hormonal workings. It reminds you of your creaturehood.

The old witch doctors operated within the surroundings of nature, utilizing its great healing ability, directing its practical and symbolic qualities in a creative fashion.

In your hospitals however you take your patients out of their natural environment, and often deny them the comforts of creaturehood. There is little emotional involvement. The senile, in their efforts to run away from their closeted rooms in sanitariums, often show far greater sanity in their way than the relative or society who imprisoned them.

For they intuitively recognize the need to be free, and they sense the lack of the mystic communion with the earth that has been denied them.

Small hospitals on spacious grounds, with freedom for all but the bedridden to use their bodies, would far surpass what you have. But in your system as it is set up, such an environment is impossible except for the most wealthy. 

In many animal groups the sick animal isolates itself for a period of rest, in which it is also free to seek out those natural conditions most conducive to its health. It travels to find certain herbs, or it lies in the mud or clay by certain rivers. Often it is helped by others of its kind, but it is free.

When and if it is killed by its brothers, this is not an act of cruelty but an innate understanding that the creature can no longer operate physically without agony; a quite natural euthanasia is involved, in which the "patient" also acquiesces.

In your society such a natural death is most difficult, and because of the power structures can hardly be promoted. No one who decides upon death is saved from it by the medical profession, however. On deeper levels the quite normal desire for survival requires that the individual leave his or her body, in your terms, at one time or another. When that period arrives the person knows it, and the great vitality of the spirit no longer wants to be encased by a suffering physical body.

Yet here the medical profession often takes care to see that every technological advance is brought to bear to force the self to remain within its flesh, when naturally soul and flesh would part. There are normal interlocking mechanisms that prepare the self for death, even chemical interactions that make this easier physically—bursts of acceleration, in your terms, to propel the individual easily out of the body. Drugs can only hamper this.

Certain kinds of medications can indeed help, but those given in your hospitals simply drug the consciousness out of its own understanding, and inhibit the body mechanisms that make for an easy transition. In your prisons you do the same thing, of course, isolating groups of people with like beliefs— denying them all natural stimuli so that a greater contagion of similar beliefs ensues. You separate such people from the normal contact of their loved ones, and all usual conditions for growth or development.

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