Killing unborn babies, to use their cells to cure the current living case number, is the perfect example of the pit into which western medicine has fallen. It is no wonder then, that men and women are sensing this something that is now missing. Unfortunately, when the patient takes the seemingly logical next step, from a soulless western medicine into the world of alternative, holistic, or eastern medicine, and the admission of the spiritual aspects of man these alternative philosophies embrace, he often steps from the relatively known to the unknown. For all its failings, western medicine attempts to treat the body using rational scientific concepts. Alternative medicine largely refrains from making any such claims.
Anecdotal evidence replaces double-blind, standardized, and reproducible studies.
Many common maladies are believed not to be biochemical or genetic errors from a fallen human nature, but an unbalance of energies or powers, or bad karma from a previous life. The public, in essence, is turning away from science, and returning to that which so much of early man embraced, namely superstition and gnostic paganism. However, our western understanding of God s creation has no place for powers or energies freely floating around for us to tap into, use and manipulate. Western tradition has a simple word for the tapping into and manipulation of energies or life forces. Magic, in the western Christian world view, is a forbidden art.