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Light:
The Final Frontier
by
Jacob Liberman, O.D., Ph.D.
Where
No One Has Gone Before
 The
journey to bring in the light began with the
discoveries and intuitive knowledge of our
pioneering ancestors, who, based on their
writings, seemed to perform magic with light.
Their wisdom laid the foundations for many of
our modem scientific discoveries.
The
sun was once used as a general tonic to heal
almost everything. Today, light and its
component colors are being utilized in almost
every aspect of science and medicine.
Physicians, who once believed that only
powerful, invasive drugs and technologies
could have value in healing, are now beginning
to appreciate the noninvasive power of
light.
Our
other so-called "leading edge
technologies" in healing may soon be seen
as "barbaric", as "Star
Trek's" Dr. McCoy would say. Invasive
medical approaches to treatment will become
outdated as we enter the light age.
Scalpels will be replaced by lasers,
chemotherapy by phototherapy, prescription
drugs by prescription colors, acupuncture
needles by needles of light, eyeglasses by
healthy eyes. Cancer will be a disease of the
past; health and longevity will be the norm of
the future.
The
educational environment will change from
windowless, colorless, and inappropriately
illuminated classrooms to colorful, playful,
stimulating classrooms with plenty of fresh
air and sunlight. As a result,
our children will be physically and
emotionally healthier, more creative, and
excited about learning.
Our
working environments will become healing
environments, as businesses and industries
learn that happy, healthy people are more
productive. Typical fluorescent lighting will
be replaced by sun-lamps. Sunshine will be
recognized for its health-giving properties,
and daily exposure will be recommended and
scheduled into our work activities.
Our
present psychotherapeutic approaches to
emotional healing, such as traditional
analysis, counseling, and medication, which
are often designed to "make the pain go
away" will be replaced. Instead, light
therapy, designed to bring unresolved
emotional issues to the surface, will be used
to generate healthy expression and release of
long-held pain, leading to self-respect,
greater creativity, healthy relationships, and
a new level of bodily health.
The
mind and body will no longer be looked upon as
two separate entities. Our therapeutic
techniques will treat the mind and body as one
functioning whole system. This integration
will propel humankind into greater feelings of
wholeness, unity, and common purpose.
This
decade is a time of accelerated awareness
about all phases of human evolution. It is a
critical period. Concerns over the
environment, human and animal rights, health
care, and world peace are forcing human beings
to open their eyes, hearts, and minds further
than ever before. It is time to stop raping
the Earth and each other, and time to realize
that we are all connected. Chopping down
forests, killing animals, and treating the
human body as a piece of equipment with
replaceable parts are no longer acceptable
actions.
One
hand must assist the other. The issues are
bigger than any of us individually, yet by
individually becoming living examples of what
it means to be whole, healthy, caring, and
loving beings, we each play a profoundly
important role in the healing of our planet.
The
real medicine of the future will recognize the
connection between mind, body, and spirit, and
treat them as one. Our technology will speak
directly to the core of the body, so that its
own wisdom can be the foundation for its
healing. This new medicine will not treat
disease -- it will treat people. It will not
focus only on the part -- it will focus on the
whole.
Rather
than directing our eyes outward,
looking for external causes to our internal
imbalances, it is time to look inward
at the parts of us that have been unreceptive
to certain aspects of life, causing us to
close down and become ill. The new medicine
will not be invasive. It will challenge the
body and mind, energetically, to reawaken. It
will wake up those areas of ourselves that
have been sleeping, and in so doing, it will
impart the tools that our bodies need for
healing.
The
study of light affirms the interconnectedness
of all things. It is a paradigm of the balance
between the outside and the inside and is not
much different from cellular physiology or,
for that matter, human relationships. Dealing
with an energy source that is both visible and
nonvisible is also a reminder that both sides
of life -- what we can see and what we cannot
see -- are equally important to our
development, growth, and evolution. That which
is really going on in our lives can frequently
be understood only by taking an illogical
look.
Much
pain and joy have been the substances washing
the wounds of my life and clearing my eyes. We
have entered an age when we must took at
things from nowhere rather than
experiencing them from only our own points of
view and, thus, artificially coloring our
realities. Years of personal experience have
led me to this vision.
The
eyes were meant to see with.
Give them a chance.
Let them go.
Let them see. Let yourself live.
Let the light in!
 This
article is excerpted with permission from the
book "Light: Medicine of
the Future", by Dr. Jacob Liberman, and published by Bear &
Company Publishing.
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