The western approach to medicine has lead us down a path in which we either:
A. treat the body as a machine - aka spit out the bone.
or
B. medicate the body to a point it is "comfortably numb."
or
C. Some combination of both of the above.
However, in the last 50 years we have lost an element of the human experience of pain and suffering.
We have chose to use the western approach of medicine in which we treat our body like a machine and when it stops working, we medicate to the point that we virtually feel nothing.
No emotions.
No pain.
No "suffering."
In fact, this is causing one of the greater pandemics of this day and age.
A pandemic in which we believe we can avoid death itself by treating our bodies this way.
In this weeks podcast, I dive into why the comfortably numb approach in conjunction with treating the body as a machine leads to one of the greatest detriments of human history: a loss of what it means to be human.
