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from Jesus:
You are correct that in many cases the use of drugs to treat psychological
conditions can have the effect of hindering or preventing the soul's
spiritual growth. Many drugs simply numb the mind so that the person
no longer feels the symptoms. Therefore, the person has no incentive
to discover the psychological cause behind these symptoms. Consequently,
a person can live with a psychological problem for a lifetime without
ever making an effort to truly resolve it and therefore grow spiritually.
It is necessary to question the use of such drugs, and I am sure you
are aware that recent scientific studies have shown that when children
are treated with certain drugs, they tend to become suicidal or even
more depressed than before the treatment. In some cases, the cure is
worse than the disease.
I can assure you that there is much that is out of balance in the modern
pharmaceutical industry. Many large drug companies are driven by a profit
motive that springs from greed. Although these people have a typical
business attitude of maximizing profit, they never stop to question
whether it is appropriate to profit from people's illnesses. And in
their eagerness to make a profit, such companies actually do not want
to truly cure disease, be it physical or psychological. After all, no
person who is driven by greed would want to kill the goose that lays
the golden eggs.
Nevertheless, the approach to health care taken in many Western nations
is not exclusively driven by the pharmaceutical industry or greed. It
is also fueled by an attitude that people are supposed to be able to
live however they want. When their lifestyles lead to unpleasant symptoms,
be they physical or psychological, we need to find a drug or some surgical
quick-fix that can remove the symptoms without requiring the person
to change his or her lifestyle.
This is a completely backward approach to health care. Both physical
diseases and psychological diseases are messages sent by the soul to
the outer mind. The essence of the message is always that the person
needs to change his or her lifestyle and approach to life. If a person
is willing to do so, genuine spiritual growth will be the result. If
the person is not willing to change, and seeks to remove or mask the
symptoms, then the person will become more entrenched in the lower state
of consciousness, and this will only create worse symptoms in the future.
I can assure you that this approach to life and health simply is not
sustainable. Over the next decades, it will surely change, and you can
already see the beginning of this change in terms of the growing interest
in natural remedies. I greatly encourage the interest in most forms
of alternative or holistic healing, including many of the new therapies
that are being embraced by so many people that are New Age or on the
cutting edge of traditional religions.
However, I do not encourage people to take a black-and-white approach
to this issue. There is indeed much of value in modern medicine, and
even though changes will happen in the coming decades, many of the advancements
of modern medicine will endure. I foresee that in the coming decades
the entire health care industry will go through a transformation that
will refocus it on preventing disease and finding a true cure instead
of simply masking the symptoms. Finding a cure, even for physical diseases,
must involve a holistic approach that seeks to heal the person’s
psyche or soul. This will inevitably require a change in the persons
approach to life and his or her lifestyle.
I also want to say that even though there are many cases in which drugs
simply mask the symptoms and prevent the person from growing spiritually,
there are also many exceptions. There are severe cases in which a person
simply would not be able to recover through psychological healing alone.
When the psychological ailment has gone beyond a certain point, the
person will need relief from the symptoms in order to be able to deal
with the underlying cause. It can therefore be valid to use certain
drugs as a treatment in order to bring the symptoms down to a level
that enables the person to go into the deeper causes behind the symptoms.
Yet this should be a temporary remedy that should be followed up with
psychological healing.
In terms of whether spiritually minded people should choose a career
such as the one you mention, this should not be decided by the outer
mind, and it should not be decided based on a black-and-white approach.
I know there are many spiritual people who reject all of modern medicine,
but I do not encourage this extreme approach. So therefore, I encourage
you to seek to gain insights from your Christ self as to what is the
right career for you.
There is indeed a need for people in the medical field who are spiritually
minded and open to receiving directions from their Christ selves and
the Ascended Host. So you might consider whether your education can
give you the opportunity to work for other companies than big multinational
drug companies. Could you work for research institutions, nonprofit
organizations or universities?
In terms of how you can heal psychological diseases, I have already
spoken on this elsewhere in this section. I recommend that you begin
by reading my discourse on schizophrenia
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