From Monthly "Natural Food News"　自然食ニュース  September 2004 edition

FOODOLOGY 228

Monthy article that Ryu Ohta has been writing for this natural health magazine for several years under various sub-headings..

by Ryu Ohta

translated by Grace-Eki

last attempt: Novenber　１２　、２００４　　　　１１月１２日

 

Chapter 11 being "Foodology and Economics"

Part 6

            "What is the real identity of the West, the face of a one capable of

         　  burning nine million witches in a time span of five hundred years"

 

 After Meiji but especially after the post WWII loss/defeat, Japan has fallen under the blinding spell of adoration for the West and has shown unswerving loyalty to all Western phenomenum with total and unquestioning acceptence and embracement.

It is a behaviour of being from post-ludicrous to the obscene.

It is a behaviour peculiarily here and only here....(as far as I can notice...)

During the Medieval Catholic Europe, according to Michelet in his　"La Sorciere"-there was no such act as bathing for about a thousand years.

 For most Japanese people, as the daily ritual is bathing this must be hard to fathom or even imagine.

For this behaviour of not bathing,, not washing -borders on the insanity.

The roots of this deviation seems to have stemmed from the strict rules of Catholicism.

Michelet utilizes expression that sounds bellic.

That Medieval Europe declared war against the "cleanliness" of the flesh..

What is that....?

There was a schism between the soul and the body.

The soul, the spirit as belonging to God and the flesh, the body as belonging to the Devil.

These are the results of theosophical inquires that occured during these Councils.

So the concluding results from these debates and researches were the fact that the maintenace, the hygiene of the body implied an activity in communion with the Satan.

If this is not insanity, I wouldn't know what would be.

Once again according to Michelet, but from many other testimonies as well-medieval saints were often

appraised and applauded for not even washing their hands!

Is this Catholic self-illusion or self-delusion?

 

One can not and should not dismiss this factor as some bygone quaint trace of Medievalism that has nothing to do with the current modern and "Enlightened" West.

Even now bathing is neither a frequent or a daily issue for some Westerners.

I have also been told that there are some women who are satified with a monthly bath.

It has been said that the origin of perfume stems from this necessity to hide body ordours.

 

The origin of bathing stems probably from the natural spas that exist in Japan.

Underneath Japan and all around the Islands, about ten percent of the volcanic energy of the world is concentrated here.

Therefore it may be logical that too, by extension that volcanic energy is here producing these spas.

Eighty percent of Japan's land mass is mountainous.  Spas or natural hot springs are scattered all throughout Japan.

These can be found everywhere, even in Tokyo for example.

Japanese bathing style is based on these spas/public baths that were created wherever there were hot springs.

So it is a ridiculous step back, when Japan bends itself backward in order to copy the West along with some of its barbaric and absurd practices.

But it was not all barbarism at the beginning.

Michelet also states that at the beginning and continuing the tradition even now, in fact that the Christians cursed nature from the inwards of their bodies down to the cellular level, and found nature guilty, and to be punished....and that they were able to see the precence of a physicalized Demon even in a flower.

What kind of vision/interpretaion of the world, is that...

 

This absurdity-to curse nature.

And do not for a moment think that this is a finished and past concept of the West.

The binding rule of Catholicism forced poeple in to accepting the no bathing law.

But this is just an entrance into the labryinth of absurdity.

Christianity found women to be the portal for Demon, and found females by extention- to be agents of the Devil himself.

 The consequence of this was the initial toruture and subsequent death by burning of nine million women.

This was by no means a closed and finished case.

A blot in absudrdity, an anomaly in the history of the West that has all but been vanquished......

For the extention of this mentality can still be seen in the current history of the world.

 

By cursing nature for over a thousand years, the West finally has the confindence in conquering and subduing Nature to the will of mankind.

This is a crucial point for the shift in the mentality.

The English word "nature" means the baisc character, the innate characterisitcs of one/ of a being.

This was translated as "shi zen"　自然　in Japanese.

So when the Western world speaks about conquering nature/Nature, it implies altering the natural character of whatever in order to fit into the agenda of mankind. This means to change, coerce, control, and manipulate.

Human beings are also included in this scheme as part of nature.

There is an English term, "human nature".

The natural character of a human being,, natural behaviour, the basic instinct of mankind, standard pattern of behaviour for a human being, a common inclination in most of the mankind etc..-are implied in that expression..

After the intial assault by "Christianity", the Western world has been subjucated to these following patterns for over two thousand years.;

-the first one being the total and complete destruction of Nature

-the destruction and domination of the will of the universe itself.

 

As mankind changes itself, so does the ｒｅｓｔ　of the world..

As he refashions himself, so by force the whole enviroment becomes influenced and pays with consequnece.

The earth, the trees, mountains, lakes, sea, even the air....

The English penseur Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) in his "The Brave New World; Revisited" states....

 

( Unfortunately the book is not in my hands-translator's, currently to be able to give the correct quote but the content is expressed later on within this passage)

 

Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" (published in 1931) along with H.G.Wells"1984" (published in 1949) can be considered as a kind of blue-print guide as to the future, that the West is attempting to proceed by dragging the rest of the globe towards.  These books are both considered as a masterpiece and a kind of expose of the elite's intent.

The question here is what is this thing called "civilization".

This needs to be cleared.

As I have stated befrore the Western word civlization has little in common with the Japanese word for civilization文明

The roots, the premises are diametrically opposite to be considered the same word.

 

If one boils down Huxley's thoughts from his books, one can find the following

that the motive of civilization is to change the natural human order to that of the order of the hive....

The world of the bee, is their ideal.

 

These people are strange.

After declaring war against nature and immolating nine million witches (　among other human as well as countless animals), out from the ashes arises this new concept, that of the world as according to the order of bees......

 

In Medieval Europe, due to the combination of famine and lack of hygiene, pestilence raged constantly.

Medical care and attention was given most exclusively to the upper class.

The commoners were left and abandoned behind.

On Sundays, the Church door steps would be filled with beggars and sick people hoping for care and/or salvation.

But according to the very words of the Church these people were regarded as sinners and hence their suffering jusitified and not ought to be remedied or helped.

     Michelet's book  "La Sorciere"quoted here.

 

 

So these women who would be labelled "witches"worked for the populace.

These are those that helped and aided to remedy and alleviate the maladies with their hands and knowledge,,,,,,

They knew midwifery and natural medicine.

They had the knowledge for survival that has been distilled down generations for the well being of all.

The presence of such beings was unforgivable to the Church.

The Church declared war against them under the label of witch and witchcraft.

Another label for a witch was "femme-savants"or knowledgeable women.
These were creatures said to be in liason with the Devil and had to be burnt alive.

After this blind insanity that continued for several hundreds of years, this process finally created the space/vacuum possible for　the　emergence of a new type of war agianst nature, that of conquering and demanding it confirm to human agenda as there is no God, no spirit, only matter and material in this world.

It is the scientific technology ("technoscience"-science as the servant of technology of Paul Virilio, or "scientism"/ science gone mad as labeled by Michael Hoffman ) that enabled the West to become masters of this world.

The approach of this science is to first dissect Nature into bits and　pieces and to experiment its various parts/phenomena in a closed, contained and controllable enviroment of laboratory.

The main purpose is to torture it.

Or at least so it appears.

Then they proceed to pick and choose whatever data of convenience to their already thought out/pre-conceived conclusion and to disregard the rest as invalid, hence garbage to be thrown out.

This is what is known as a "scientific research".

It is definitely not objective.

The typical example of this approach can be seen in the animal experimantation.

Correctly termed or incorrectly termed "vivi-section" since they are usually alive only at the beginning.

 

Contemporary Western history is said to start around the end of fifteenth century with the "discovery" of the New World by Columbus. (1492 or so?)

Or it is claimed that the reconquest of Granada from Islam and the emergence of an unified Spain under Isabel and Ferdinand., enabling the formation of a powerful Spain with its imperial colonialism was the beginning of the modern world.

Also the Reformation of Luther, followed by Calvin, the emergence of capitalism, as well as the birth for the study of natural sciences.........all these are said to have paved the way for modernity, thus the basis of modern Western world.

The beginning of ths empirical approach to science may be seen with the study in human dissection.

 

(There is a lot of relationship here with the concept of a clock-work mechanical universe of Descartes as the foundation of modern scietific research)

Death at hospitals and medical centers ennabled the possibility to study cadavers.

Also the executions provided fresh corpses.
These classess were open to the public and some of the professors became super-stars of that period..

This course/approach became an intergrated part of study for any discipline related to science and the enthusiasm of the West for dissection seems unabated even to this day.

So from dissecting dead matter, i.e. cadavers, to dissecting live/alive matter -the step appears as if by logical order.

And it seems to be the process/ history of Western research.

It appears that the medical world seems to be only too happy to practice their theory by dissecting live humans but morals and ethics has forbade that, at least on the surface.

So the compromise was reached by applying the issue to the animal world.

But scientific researchers appears to be not satisfied and longs for a live subject that can be experimented with no moral or social interference.

Thus the need for the creation of genetically engineered animals and experiments at a more cellular /molecular level.

 

         {"The German doctors tried in Nurenberg by the Allied court for experimenting on prisoners explained that since they had practiced on animal viviseciton, it was "logical" that they wanted to experiment on human beings as well.  They were not SS Troopers but respected physicians, and the entire planning of the experimentation on prisoners was in the hands of such leading authorities as Dr. Sievers, chairman of the Reich Research Counci8l....Dr. Gebbardt, president of the German Red Cross(!)  among many others...

            "Slaughter of the Innocent" by Hans Ruesch   Civitas Publications pg. 349-50

 

HUMAN GUINEA PIGS.. Inevitably, the tortures society permits to be inflicted upon animals fall back upon society itself, as if by workings of some mysterious moral law.  So Pavlov's "conditioned reflexes" experiments, which caused pain or acute distress to thousands of animals, are now being completely repeated, with variations, on human subjects.  And, as usual, on such humans as are unable to protest, strike back or sue -the orphaned or abandoned children, the mentally handicapped, the destitute dependent on public welfare; in sum, all those who are as helpless as laboratory animals.

   Between the two World Wars, while Nobel laureate Psavlov's experiments on animals were eargerly being followed and imitated in laboratories the world over, a book titled Behaviorism  (Norton, 1925, and The People's Institue Publishing Company, New York, 1930) appeared in the U.S., by a Dr. John B.Watson, at one time director of the psychological laboratory of John Hopkins University.  He described dropping new-born children just when they were falling asleep, to test "loss of support"; robbing of toys; letting them be bullied; placing acid in their mouths; and it states the amazing (!) fact that burning or pricking or cutting produced crying and screaming and an attempt to escape the pain by withdrawing the body, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

　　"We were rather loath at first to conduct experiments in this field," sanctimoniously wrote this "researcher", who then overcame this qualms arguing "but the need of study was so great that we finally decided to build up fears in the infant and then later to study practical methods for removing them.  We chose as our subject Albert B., an infant weighing 21 pounds at 11 months of age...He had lived his whole life in the hospital.  He was a wonderfully 'good baby'.  In all the months we worked with him we never saw him cry until our experimnts were made!"

   To make Albert cry, a white rat, which had been his playmate for weeks, was presented to him, as just as he reached for the rat a steel bar was struck with a carpenter's hammer right behind his head.  Albert jumped violently, burying his face in the mattress.  The experiment was repeated until the infant was a nervous wreck: He bagan to cry as soon as the rat was shown, fell over, raised himself on all fours, and began to crawl away so rapidly that he was caught with diffriculty before he reached the edge of the mattress.  Finally the infant was frightened by everything he had played with.  The experiment came to an end because he was adopted.

   So here are more instances where a vivisector, under the pretext of "Studying practical methods for removing fears", just inflicts fears, submitting the hapless infants to such traumas that their psyches will probably be scarred forever, and that they might have grown up into adults as twisted as their torturers. (In 1923, a Rockerfeller money was granted to enable those new Pavlovians, the Behaviourists, to experiment on

70 children ranging in age from three months to seven years.) pg.351-353}

 

   The beginning of experimental science took place in 1637 with the publication of that Discourse on Method by Descartes which taught man a new way of thinking, and led to modern technology.  But who could foresee in this New World being born in the midst of widespread enthusaism the danger of an exclusively mecahnistic knowledge?  Hardly Descartes, who himself a negation of the arts and all human sentiments-his private life was a failure and who believed in a mechanistic biology, establishing the basis for what may well be mankind's greatest error.

   In his thirst for knowledge through experimentation, Descartes also practiced viviseciton, making it a symbol of "progress" to succeeding mechanists.  Descartes himslef, of course, had learned nothing form this practice, as demonstrated by his statement that aniamls don't suffer, and that their cries mean nothing more than the creaking of the wheel..  Then why not whip the cart insted of the horse?  Descartes never troubled to explain that.  But he gave us "proof" of his theory the fact that the harder one beats a dog, the louder it howls.  Through him a new science was born, deprived of wisdom and humanity, thus containing the seed of defeat at birth. pg 12-13

      Descartes, a geometer, had pushed the cage over new ground, teaching mankind another way of thinking, which is called after him Cartesian.  Thanks to Descartes, today's cage dwells on a territory that was unknown to Aristotle; but it has also moved beyond the range of certain notions and values which are at least as importent for the understanding of the world and of life as any chemical or mathmatical formula.

    While rapidly extending the borders of human knowledge, the Cartesian technique of thinking, spurning all intuition and philosophical thought, substitued a new, macroscopic error for all preceeding ones, an error whcih contained from the inception the seed of future defeat, because it led the scientists unawaredly away from the truth of life, and thus away from the scientific ideals.

　　　By denying the importence, and even the very existence, of anything that can not be weighed or measured, they divorced themselves away from reality. 

   So the idea of roasting in an oven live animals in order "to discover the secret of fever" could be conceived only by a caged mind, one rigidly limited by a mechanist conception of life and health, like Claude Bernard's.  The founder of today's vivisectionist method thus demonstrated that he was unable to distiunguish between cause and effect-had failed to understand that the raised temperature of a diseased individual was the consequence, not the origin, of a malady.  And in the same way modern medicine presumes to cure disease by masking their symptoms-which very often, as in the case of fever, are nature's way to restablish health."(pg.268-69)}"

 

  

 

 

 

Within the desire and the capability to decode the DNA and other genetic codes, lies this desire to control all life from a vivisectionist's/mechanist's point of view.

Literally engineering life at all levels....

Hence the dream of the scientists that started in the sixteenth century becomes reality, in the 21st century, with the triumph of man's will and ingenuity over Nature.

"Scientific dictatorship" is winning.

But what is this "life" that they hold in their hands?

So that they can decode the DNA and manipulate/create/engineer Life.

Despite that they are unable to comrehend the life force, the will behind the process, to grow, change and develop behind the codes and symbols.

 

For this will is neither matter nor energy.

It is a state before becoming that.

A state of空,　　of ether and of even before that, that of　無.

 

Mae Wan Ho s work," GENETIC ENGINEERING: Dream or Nightmare?"

Second edition, revised andupdated of 1999, by Continuum, New York

 

This is book is of a very high quality and full of pertinent questions that all laymen should be aware of.

Despite that, it has not received the attention it deserves here in Japan.

Here are some quotations from the book:

    {"Would anyone think of investing in genetic -engineering biotechnology if they knew how fluid and adaptable genes and genomes are?  The notion of an isolatable, constant gene that can be patented as an invention for all the marvellous things it can do is the greatest reductionist myth ever perpetuated..

 

   The fluidity of the genome is involved in actively maintaing the stability of genes and genomes.  This is what organic stability-as opposed to mechanical stability -is all about.

 

      Genomes are continuously changing as a result of many processes, operating constantly on developmental and evolutionary time-scales.  These process destabilize genes and genomes, move genes around, mutate, rearrange, recombine, replicate sequences, delete or insert sequences, and even exchange and convert sequences..

 

  It is becoming clear that the "fluid genome" processes are a complex regulatory system for carrying out the 'natural genetic engineering' on which life depends.  Natural genetic engineering is nothing if not precise.  The artificial genetic engineering done by human beings, by contrast, ends up being random, because it is controlled neither by the organism nor by the human being.  It is also dangerous, because it attacks the very mechanism that maintain the integrity and autonomy of living organisms, even as they are inextricably entangled within their ecological enviroment.."}

 

  She is absolutely correct here.

 

To adapt to the enviroment, there is here, the will of nature, of life.

And that "will" can never be detected among matter.

To search for it there is an excercise in futility.

For it is born from無

Perhaps one can say it is born out from the matrix of all polarity.

 

 

It is incredible to me, that a human being with a mentality like Hans Ruesch still exists in the West.

Here are few more of his thinking from the same book abovementioned.

 

     "Convinced that in the whole universe nothing is as importent as his life, his well being,, his pleasure, man , self-styled Crown of Creation, takes it for granted that he may inflict any suffering he chooses upon the dumb animals; and a Church that barely a century ago considered it normal to celebrate All Saints Day in Italy by burning barrels full of live cats in the town squares (young vandals still do it in Rome and other Italian cities today, and not only on special holidays), has contributed notably to such an attitude.  Strange charity , which excludes the most defenseless creatures, and sactions the atrocities committed against them on the contention that the torturer is made in the image of God.  Some Image!"

 (pg.320-21)

He is absolutely correct.

I feel there was an abundance of this kind of human beings before the five hundred years of witch burning that occured from approximately 13th to the 18th century, not to mention other kinds of suppression, torture and massacres......

 

This concept that nature could be evil....

This is a concept of absurdity, or worse of insanity and in essence, is a diabolical twist towards life.

And that human nature also could be so (evil) as well.

So that out of this ash of negativity and destruction, came the birth of science which chose Nature as its enemy and can not accept the existnece of nautral/wild creatures for who/what they are and consequently,

by extension of that natural/inate tendencies built within mankind.

No wonder that this is the science of death, imbalance and destruction.

One can comprehend and begin to see why such a science would eventually lead to the destruction of "human nature".

Hence the omnious signs that predict the end of humanity.

At least in the form currently known and active.

 

Japan is thoroughly intoxicated with the West.

It can not see thorugh its "magical"( 'magick') tricks for what they really are.

Rather it sees the West as a "Magic Lamp" or 'Light'/Lux of guidance and a goal to be approached.

Not even being aware that the West is not taking its attempts or even its presence ( Japan ) seriously.....

 

It ( Japan )  is a creature on the verge of expiration and to be pitied for not being aware of what it has really throuwn out and lost, and what kind of "Naked Emperor/Empress" it has replaced that with..

 It is joyfully heading towards extinction as it drags the rest of nature here along with it...