The Potential to Mistake One Aspect of One Part As the Whole

There is a great quote by Pete Escogue, which I do not recall, that says essentially this... if technology opens up a little window & we mistake what we see, through that window, for the whole deal, we can end up treating effects rather than causes. 

We would wow our ancestors with something like an X-ray. Yet we may place all of our energy into treating that bone, while ignoring musculoskeletal imbalances that lead to the problem, those generally caused by the same way of life that birthed the technology. 

In some cases we do radical things like remove gall bladders and replace bones and remove pieces from the back. The human body is full of intricate relationships. We are faced with complexity.

However, sometimes the basic heart of it is simple if we widen our view & figure out what radical drifts from good posture and muscle balance, diet & mental stability, have removed us from our baseline ability to function physically, psychologically, energetically as an effective whole. 

We have set in motion a way of life that is at odds with proper functioning and then we tend to latch onto the little old lady who swallowed a spider western method of treating disease. One day a person wakes up with a t-rex in his/her belly and realizes s/he was better off not eating the spider. 

The same applies, of course, to the earth as a system. The youth crew I worked with in Oregon partnered up with the watershed council there and we were taking dead salmon carcasses and placing then upstream. 

A relationship had been strongly indicated between the trees and the fish. This relationship had been disrupted by the damming of the salmon runs, thus removing the nutrients provided by the dead salmon. Ideally, this relationship would be restored by removal of the dams.

How strange and otherworldly to then carry fish by hand (that likely died by some strange means) that were provided by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. 

Technology, often made possible by our recent ancestors, is often mistaken as intelligence. In other words, you can build an elaborate castle, but what does that even mean... if that castle is built without sound structural support & the whole thing is on quicksand?

Its like creating elaborate moves but ignoring the game... an elaborate choreographed dance on thin ice. We are tinkering around with a very intricate and intelligent system and often mistake our amazing ability to even open a little window into it as, not only a complete understanding of it, but as a right to modify it. Can we even effectively peer into that window with our limited sight?

Just because we can reach into the quantum world doesn't mean we should set off a bomb and just because we can genetically modify foods doesn't mean we should. Just because we can move an overloaded and compromised body part doesn't mean we should. 

We are so busy fighting disease that we forget to regard it as a message from out of balanced systems, both personal and collective. Likewise when we remove aspects of the whole, we sometimes deaden our own senses with concentrates... sugar, drugs, information and intense amounts of time in unhealthy, foreign postures. 

We get closer and closer in to our fixation but further from the whole system, which often is sending signals through pain and other indicators that we should pay attention to... rather than simply kill... and thus we delve further into our imbalances. 

Sadly, I often wonder if all the pink dye produced in efforts to raise breast cancer has effects itself. It reminds me of high school fund raisers selling depleted foods. Girls scout cookies with hydrogenated oils. 

It isn't to be critical, though I suppose it is. It is to show interest in going upstream to see what's going on rather than just pulling dead bodies out of the river.