SECRETS OF ABORIGINAL HEALING

This is an account of a physicist with chronic (it always is) progressive (again normal) MS  who goes to Australian in 1994 in a wheel chair with almost no feeling left from the neck down .  He went to Australia acting on a synchronistic suggestion to live for two years with an Aboriginal healers who have a 60,000 year-old-healing system and are the world’s oldest continuous culture.  Which resulted in a remarkable healing transformation of body, mind and spirit.

1.  MS:  Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body.http://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS/Definition-of-MS

Commonly seen symptoms include:

• anxiety
• balance
• bladder dysfunction
• bowel problems
• cognitive changes
• depression
• dizziness/vertigo
• fatigue
• mobility and walking issues
• numbness
• pain
• Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA)
• sexual dysfunction
• sleep issues
• spasticity (stiffness)
• speech difficulties
• swallowing disorders
• tremor
• Uhthoff’s syndrome
• visual disorders
• weakness
• http://www.mymsaa.org/about-ms/symptoms/?gclid=CjwKEAjwkrmhBRD49Mbm_MvruWsSJAAEDt13kxntRn6VrVpKeY-PN3SRPhVhROfRFygetcNeeM2qnhoCzJfw_wcB
•   So his symptoms check

• 2.  Synchronistic Suggestion:  Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, where they are unlikely to be causally related. The subject sees it as a meaningful coincidence.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity  

Since I haven’t the book can’t really comment on this.

3.  Aboriginal Healers:    Traditional healers (known as Ngangkari in the Western desert areas of Central Australia) were highly respected men and women who not only acted as healers or doctors, but were also generally custodians of important Dreamtime stories  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_culture

While these traditional methods of treatment are well known natural cures,Australian bush medicine, much like the bush itself is still very much a mystery.  “A lot of information is lost,” says Dr Evelin Tiralongo a pharmacist and expert in complementary medicine from Griffith University in Queensland. “[In Aboriginal culture], nothing is written down; instead, it’s passed on through singing and dancing ceremonies, which are becoming increasingly rare.”  http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-culture/2011/02/top-10-aboriginal-bush-medicines/

So we don’t know a lot about the traditions etc.

4.  60,000 YEAR OLD HEALING SYSTEM

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ARE descendents of the first people to leave Africa up to 75,000 years ago, a genetic study has found, confirming they may have the oldest continuous culture on the planet. ACCORDING TO Professor Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, who led the study  http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2011/09/dna-confirms-aboriginal-culture-one-of-earths-oldest/

So the group has been around long enough for the year estimate.

Australian Aboriginal culture is one of the oldest and longest surviving cultures, that has dated back to at least 40,000 years. Some say it may date back as far as 65,000 years ago.  http://www.australianhistory.org/aboriginal-culture

Again a confirmation of the book.

All in all I can’t discredit the book, but it is noted that the condition has periods of remissions so that has to be taken into account.  I was unable to get any information on the author other than at sites that want to sell me the book so I don’t know if he has maintained his symptom free condition for the rest of his life (2007) or not.

Also reducing stress has found to be a great help with managing the condition and one would think that that is one of the major advantages you’d have with a remote tribe in the Australian Outback.

All in I can not say the book may be worth a read.

I will however add this warning:   that a condition as serious as MS should be managed by health care professionals at all times.

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