Blessed by Illness

The prevailing attitude in modern medicine is that illness should not exist. Consequently, millions of research dollars pour each year into medical science and technology in the hope of eradicating various sicknesses and diseases. Patients and doctors alike suffer the terrible consequences of this impossible quest for material perfection. Yet, there is an alternate view—that human beings and human evolution are great enough to include "illness" as an essential part of existence.    In the first part of Blessed by Illness, the author traces the history of our changing concept of healing, from the so-called temple sleep of ancient Egypt—when spiritual science tells us that human beings still had a living connection with the spiritual hierarchies—through the herbal lore of ancient Greece and the healings of Christ, to the rise of modern medicine, based primarily on treating symptoms.    The practice of modern medicine focuses merely on removing discernable symptoms and ailments. The autho