Medicine is an art as much as it is a science. It is also a form of magick, another example out of many forms unknowingly practiced in our spiritually negligent world today. This post will serve as an introduction to my blog to give you a taste for the rest to come.
One could say that the science of medicine, perhaps even more broadly speaking science itself, has taken on the form of modern religion for the 20th and 21st centuries. This is not a new point and has been discussed by many such as Foucault, and that will be receiving a post of it’s own in the future.
But first, how is medicine an art, and a form of magick?
It must be approached from the following standpoint: the curing of illness and treatment of injury with a physical and materialistic understanding of the human body. This is undeniable. A good provider of medical care needs to have a superb and constantly growing knowledge of disease processes, courses of injuries, countless procedures, etc.
However, to be an *excellent* provider, that is not that’s required. Anyone with a good memory can pick up a book and study how to treat an illness. But what sets the excellent provider apart from an excellent one is the innate, unconscious ability to apply that knowledge through intuition, foresight, and imagination. Not every real patient is sick in the way you will read in a textbook. It requires imagination on the part of the provider to determine how to best apply the knowledge, and skills.
To me, this feels like magick. What is magick, if not the attempt at curing the ill through ritualistic procedure, applied forethought, and imagination of the course of illness? All of these seemingly simple actions on paper do not give these very difficult aptitudes the credit they deserve. How is one reading cards or casting lots to determine the future of their lives through synchronicity or divine foreshadowing (whatever your interpretation is) much different than meditation and attempt at future-seeing in the patient before you?
And that is how medicine blends the line between The Real and The Other. A provider of care is walking across the waters of intuitive thinking and physical understanding of science. Where would the field of medicine be currently if we did not abandon the spiritual nature of our state of existence during the Enlightenment? Next time you need to visit the Emergency Room or visit your Primary Care Physician, or call an Ambulance. Consider the sublime divination at work being applied through physical care.
More to come. May peace and good health be with you all.
