100 Years in Medicine

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means

congratulations and thank you

all right i’m a hundred years old you

know

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and people ask me how does it feel to be

a hundred years old

well it feels like being a hundred years

old

and you know what folks it’s great

i feel like i’ve been so blessed

to live these years not that they’ve

been not

you know there are the hills and the

valleys

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in fact i’m very grateful to be a

hundred years old

you you know it happens

it happens

so i’m so pleased to be here with you

folks this

i’m honored to be here but you know

in 1914 right in the middle

of world war one my parents who were

who were osteopathic physicians left

new york with a four year four-month-old

baby

to go to india and there were u-boats in

the water

and there were blackouts all the way

through

got across the atlantic went into india

went across land to northern india and

started their practice in the villages

of north india now this was

not an easy task because they had

their work was done in the jungles of

north india

and for me that was just wonderful but

it was

very hard they took their medical work

back in and moved from one place to the

next

throughout the time in 1918 the pandemic

struck

the pen flew you know something about

that

and i asked my mother how they got

through it

and her one response was

we were very very careful

and we lived through it

so then in 1920

she went into labor with me at the taj

mahal she kind of a

drama queen

i loved my early childhood i thought it

was the best thing in the world

in and out of the jungles and so on

but in 1926 i started school

and my life changed because all of a

sudden

i was a dummy of the class

i didn’t i i didn’t know how to read i

couldn’t read i knew the alphabet i knew

abc’s i knew

one two three and all of that stuff but

i couldn’t put it together we didn’t

know about dyslexia at that time

so i had to repeat first grade but i got

through it

and i don’t know how i learned

in 1978 or something like that i was

with a group of

holistic physicians sitting around a

table and we were talking

there were 10 of us and six of us were

severely dyslexic

and we looked at each other and we said

well maybe that’s why we had to find an

alternative way of looking at medicine

because we don’t know how we learned we

don’t know what

how this thing came together but we did

and we got through

school through

medical school i started at women’s

medical college

in 1941

in september and when we started there

were 50 members

of our class and only 25 of us graduated

because we were told that we had to be

stronger and tougher and brighter than

the men and so anything that we did got

us out of there

so i made it through there and the

interesting thing too

was that in december 7th of 1941

world war ii started

and all of my medical education was

during the war

and what we learned about was the

medicine that we were learning

was a killing machine we learned how to

kill bacteria

we learned how to get rid of we thought

we tried to

get rid of pain everything that we did

was focused on getting rid of and

killing stuff

but we had amazing tools during this war

time

we learned about energy we learned that

the mind had something to do with

with the work that we were doing and we

were just beginning to learn about the

mind

but we didn’t learn anything about the

spirit

but we got through medical school i got

through medical school

and in december of 46 i started my

internship at the deakness hospital in

cincinnati

but they’d never had a woman and an

intern there so they had no place for me

when i was on call

from friday morning to monday night

so i had the x-ray table with a pillow

and a shirt and a

blanket which worked quite well

you know you’re so tired you have to

have something

until finally another woman came in as

an intern and then we got a room

women women’s medical college was the

only medical school in the

in the country at the time anyway so

that’s where we were

i got married during that time and uh

had my first son

and then my husband and i he was a

physician too

we went to wellsville ohio for our

practice

and still the whole concept

of diseases being our enemy and working

against it was what i was taught and

what i was working with

but something kept getting to me there

that wasn’t quite right i’d watch my

parents

deal with the very very sick people in

india

with lepers with people who had nothing

in the villages

but how my parents worked with the

patients

in the villages with almost

no technology very little to do but they

had healing going on

and i knew there was something more that

that was part of the whole healing

process

but you know i

i didn’t have a name for it but when my

eldest son who is

a retired orthopedic surgeon now

came through phoenix he stopped and he

said mom

he was going down to del rio to start

his practice

he said mom i’m real scared he said you

know

i’m going into the world i’m going to

have people’s lives in my hands i don’t

know if i can handle that

and i said well carl if you think you’re

the one that does the healing you have a

right to be scared

but if you can understand that it’s your

job to be what you’ve been taught to do

to the very best of your ability and

then

support the patient as they do their own

healing

you have nothing to be afraid of and i

realized

that what i was talking about was the

physician within each patient

that as a physician if i could contact

the physician within each patient

we’d have a relationship and things

would go better

and it helped me all the way through and

so we moved to phoenix in 1955

started the are clinic worked with

got acupuncture started and did a

number of other things but in 1978 we

started the american holistic medical

association

the reason for starting that was we we

were those of us who started it realized

that we had to bring the spirit back

into

the spirit of healing back into medicine

but took us two years to figure out how

to spell

holistic

with a w or an agent it wasn’t until we

realized

that we were talking about health and

healing and holy

as a root word for holistic so that’s

when it became that

and then sometime in the home line in

about 1996 i was in the grocery safeway

grocery store down the street here

pushing my cart and i heard over the pa

system the hardware store down the

street announcing itself as a holistic

hardware store

and i stopped my cart and i said well

there you have it

they don’t know what it means but it’s

become a household word

so we had to come up with another word

not

to to do what we were doing

and i’d been talking about for some time

about the concept

of living medicine because when i had

been taught was all about

killing and so

i had found out that what i really

needed to do

was do what the native americans talk

about

which is that life itself

is medicined so the medicine we needed

to talk about

and work with was whole process

of living medicine and then through the

years i’ve become aware

of the way that that medicine

works as it’s been working and it’s been

manifesting

itself you know to manifest something

you have to

it’s sort of like jacob’s ladder you you

get to one leg

and then you get to another and then you

get to another and this is a masculine

masculine

aspect of manifesting things and it

needs to be we need that

but i have a friend who said to me not

too long ago

you know i think we have another word

and that’s femifest and i’ve taken on to

that because i like that word

if manifesting is climbing jacob’s

ladder

femifesting is climbing a spiral

and if you femifest you can be on the

level five

and know what’s going on in level two

the feminine knows these things the

masculine doesn’t

we have been looking away from each

other and fighting each other and trying

to figure out

why things are but

what we really need is to work together

like the right hand and the left hand so

feminifestations

i think is a really good word

and that’s part of living medicine

and you know what we don’t have

five races on this world we have one

human race

and as one human race we need to really

know

how to work together

all aspects of ourselves and so

i’ve come up with five l’s that i call

the

five l’s at the foundation for living

medicine

the first one is life

without life nothing else counts but on

the other hand

life by itself is like a seed that’s

sitting there with all the energy

within it but what it needs is a spark

of love which is a divine

spark to activate it so love

active is the second l it activates

life the third l

is laughter laughter without love

is cruel it’s mean but laughter with

love

is joyful and it’s happiness

the fourth one is labor

labor without love is drudgery

it’s hard but labor with love is bliss

it’s why a singer sings it’s why i’m i

do the medicine it’s why it’s it’s what

makes

our hearts sing and the fifth

l is listening listening without love

is empty sound but listening with love

is understanding so

the concept of living medicine

i’m using the this as the foundation for

the con

concept of living medicine and somebody

said to me

a while back so okay what about

gratitude what about hope

and the fruits of the spirit i said well

those are the building blocks

with which we build on the foundation of

living medicine

so our whole

focus on healing from the feminine point

of view

is is mixed with the masculine

we we have to work together and as we do

that

and look for life as living process

we may find out that all kinds of things

happen

so here we are all of a sudden 2020

comes along and

bam we’re in the middle of another

epidemic

and right in the middle of the worst one

that has ever been around

and it’s an energy we can’t see we can’t

hear

we can’t we can’t even shoot or bomb it

you know there’s no way we can’t even

find a family

our pharmaceutical that’ll kill it

we’re really stuck but you know what we

can do

we can reclaim our family units

and our homes

and while we wait to manifest the

vaccine

we can femifest the simple things

which we know how to do to save lives

these simple things i have a

daughter-in-law who’s who’s a

pediatrician in flagstaff

and what she tells her patients

is do the three w’s

the three w’s are wear a mask

wash your hands and watch your distances

you know when these simple things are

presented to us

they’re we’re so used to having

you know hard things to do these simple

things sound like

they’re not going to work or they’re not

doable or they’re

silly or whatever but when you do these

simple things

people don’t get sick isn’t that amazing

so we the three w’s i think are along

with the five l’s are things that we

really can work with

in the in in the process of the whole

healing

but then i got to thinking about it you

know

the whole world is involved with this

virus i mean it’s everywhere there isn’t

any any country that isn’t

facing it but

what we have done to mother earth

has been to kill in the process of

of trying to find all the things that

we’re looking for

we’ve almost killed her

we’ve worked we’ve bled the oil

out of her and made her anemic

we’ve used the minerals that she has

and made osteoporitic

we have then done to our soil

so much damage that we can’t even plant

food that nourishes ourselves so there’s

something that

we need to do to to stop

killing mother earth we’ve been doing

that and doing that

and then i got to think you know when a

surgeon

when a surgeon goes into the surgery

the first thing he does is or she does

is put on the mask

the second thing they do is wash their

hands

the third thing that they do is find

their place

and their place is a space

their own space now mother earth

has given us this amazing

arena surgical arena or life

place it’s it’s it’s our earth

and there it is and if we

think that we can just go

running around and destroying her

that’s that doesn’t help anybody and

and certainly doesn’t help us but if we

can

take back the simple things

which i have learned

my parents worked within the jungles of

india

that and i may not know how to well i do

know how to read and write now but it’s

it’s you know it’s rude

we may not know all these things but we

know these simple things

and they’re so simple that we don’t

really understand how important they are

because they’re the very very essence

of what healing is all about we have all

the medical things we have all the

instruments and all of that which are

really important

but those instruments don’t do anything

unless we have the

touch and the ability to work with

people

so bringing this whole concept

of healing i think that’s what this

virus has done for us

it’s because we have to do that we don’t

have any other way of doing it

sure the the the

vaccine will manifest some place along

the line

but in the meantime we’ll do these

simple things

that she understands and that we

understand because she knows how to

manifest and like

work with manifest and all that stuff so

let’s win this war against this virus

by learning how to live with mother

earth

and when i was a child there were i knew

a hymn

i’m not going to sing it you wouldn’t be

happy that i think

says what we need to do

and it goes lead on o king eternal

the day of march has come for not with

swords

of loud clashing nor roll of stirring

drums

but with deeds of love and mercy

thy heavenly kingdom comes

thank you