We Need A Renewal Of Science, NOT A Restoration
The institutions that got us here - to an era of chronic disease, chronic pain, rampant mental health disorders and corrupt environmental, political and economic sciences - will never help us heal.
Join me in Colorado this February for an in person Kinetix workshop.
Early bird pricing ends November 20th.
Dear friends,
Here in the united states of America we have a new president-elect, as of November 6th, 2024. With him comes a new team of political leaders that - so we are told - have a mandate to “make us healthy again.”
Fueled by a deep love for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as a human being, I am moderately hopeful that some good will be done if he’s confirmed as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services. But I’m not holding my breath, as I have no faith whatsoever in “The System” to change itself.
Moreover, he wants to restore America’s scientific institutions as a means of restoring human health. And the entire MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) team seems to believe that if we could end the political corruption of scientific institutions, and the corporate capture of government regulatory agencies, and if we could just get the poisons out of the food…then we would all be healthy again.
Don’t get me wrong. If it is possible to do all of the above, then we must. And we will be better for it. Unraveling the unhealthy enmeshment of state and corporate powers is a central theme of The Human Freedom Project.
But there is an important truth that is being overlooked:
It is impossible to “go back” and restore a previous state of health to a currently sick organism.
▶ Not to a body we inhabited before a certain injury or illness.
▶ Not to a society before it was plagued by culture wars.
▶ Not to an economy before the Fed.
▶ Not to the scientific institutions of a golden age long gone.
Instead, we need the courage and humility to see all of our symptoms - individually, and collectively - as the painful wake up call needed to show us the errors of our ways so we can course correct, and evolve.
Either we face our challenges forthrightly and take responsibility for the role we’ve played in the painful reality of disease, and then commit to voluntarily sacrificing the aspects of our nature that have given rise to the disease - thereby transforming ourselves into something healthier - or we can grasp for relief by any means, and prolong our suffering.
The scientific method, with its atomized materialistic mindset, will never help us understand why we get sick, or how to heal. If it could have achieved that, it would have.
No matter how many cadaver dissections we do; no matter how many laboratory mice and monkey studies we conduct; no matter how many brains we cut open and nerves we “excite” (electrocute); no matter how much we know about black holes, atoms, molecules, calories, ATP, mitochondria or the abstracted energies of light, water and magnetism…we will never find the human being.
Modern material science kills the human being - the living essence animating the organism - with its mode of thinking; and then studies the dead corpse it has erected as a mental construct that is then projected onto the living organism it attempts to study.
Only when we find the human being, and restore the human being to all of our sciences, will we begin to make serious progress in the fields of medicine, economics and government policy.
Modern material science played an important role in human evolution. But it is now making us ill, just as we would experience illness if, as physically mature adults, we insisted on acting like emotionally immature children hell bent on gratifying our every hedonic whim.
The last four years have ushered in an obvious need for a renewal of science as a way of knowing that can guide us through our current crises. NOT back to a previous era.
Attempting to restore “the institution of science” will fail just as spectacularly as our attempts to restore adults to the era of childhood, or human bodies to previous conditions of health.
We aren’t meant to go back in time.
What does the evolution of science look like?
This question has occupied my mind for years. Someone I turn to again and again as a guide on this path is the 19th century scientist and philosopher Rudolf Steiner.
I believe what is needed today is a science that all individuals who feel inspired to can participate in. Not a science reserved for institutions, or the pulpit of scientists who, for the past hundred years or so, have replaced the priests of old as the bearers of Truth.
No.
We need a science that satisfies the human spirit; the individual.
“An energetic shift is being made to shake off every kind of authority. Nothing is accepted as valid, unless it springs from the roots of individuality. Everything which hinders the individual in the full development of his powers is thrust aside.
A truth which comes to us from without bears ever the stamp of uncertainty. Conviction attaches to what appears as truth to each of us in our own hearts. Truth alone can give us confidence in developing our powers. He who is tortured by doubts finds his powers lamed. In a world of riddles which baffles him, he can find no aim for his activity.
We no longer want to believe; we want to know. Belief demands the acceptance of truths which we do not wholly comprehend. But the individuality which seeks to experience everything in the depths of its own being is repelled by what it cannot understand. Only that knowledge will satisfy us which springs from the inner life of the personality, and submits itself to no external norm.
Each of us claims the right to start from the facts that lie nearest to hand, from our own immediate experiences, and thence to ascend to a knowledge of the whole universe. We strive after certainty in knowledge, but each in his own way.”
Rudolf Steiner
It is my mission with the School for Living Science to usher in a new era of science that places at the heart of all its studies the whole human organism of body, soul and spirit.
Stay tuned for new written articles, podcasts and free classes as I grapple with these ideas and do my best to lay a foundation for this new era to emerge. More importantly, please know that your contributions are needed, because the Truth requires many of us working our way up to it together.
After Thanksgiving I will begin offering a free course on living science as a way of knowing.
Join me in person in Colorado this February.
If you’re inspired to take up this way of knowing and apply it to yourself, please consider joining me in Colorado this February for a special workshop.
Early bird pricing ends November 20th.
Who it’s for:
The workshop is perfect if you experience yourself as whole organism made of body, soul and spirit, and you are seeking insight into any of the following:
✔️ Chronic pain
✔️ Anxiety and other mind-body issues
✔️ Fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome
✔️ Difficulty detoxing, or chronic illness related to toxic exposures like mold, heavy metals, and non native EMFs
✔️ Chronic inflammation, sluggish blood, slow cellular regeneration
✔️ Sclerosis, cold hands and feet, circulation issues
✔️ Degeneration of joints, bursa, discs, nerves and tissues
What to expect:
Using Kinetix partner fascia release as a tool for assessing the whole human organism, you will learn how to identify four distinct types of internal terrain:
▶ Fascia
▶ Nervous system
▶ Blood
▶ Lymph
Over the course of 4.5 days, you will have an embodied experience of contacting all of these terrains, so you know what they feel like and what kinds of messages they are communicating to you about why you are sick or in pain, and what you can do to respond from a place of wisdom.
Some of the practices we will use include:
Guided self inquiry
In the moment body work (Kinetix partner fascia release)
Having a visceral experiencing of your physical, social and emotional boundaries
Identifying your “YES” and “NO”
Learning when and how to pause instead of react when stress occurs in your body
Listening to your wise body and learning to speak its language
Practices for self-containment, completing stress responses and tending to your social terrain
Living science practices that help you make sense of pain and disease
Expressing your needs relationally
Developing co-creative powers with your body, other humans and this planet for healing, regeneration and freedom
Nourishing food (healthy lunches are included in the cost)