III. awakening the doctor within

"What great doctors do is awaken the doctor within."
--Albert Schweitzer

This is an invitation to awaken the doctor within you, and for you to awaken your family, and your planet. We can bring into existence a condition, which is just becoming available - a condition of wholeness. With the awakening of our higher selves, that wisdom of the heart that we all possess, we will heal one another's brokeness and dissolve the illusions of our separation. As Ken Wilber said,"Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think and everything you do is for your self, and there isn't one."

We are at the brink of an evolutionary leap and the opportunities to experience our wholeness have never been greater. The shift in global consciousness has begun. The breakthrough birthing method of French Obstetrician Frederic Leboyer is an example. Babies are born into a dimly lit environment in silence and then gently welcomed, massaged and placed in a warm bath. The baby smiles rather than cries as it stretches.

A French experiment studied 120 babies delivered by the Leboyer method, all from mothers who knew nothing of the new method when they arrived at the hospital for delivery. These babies scored higher on psychomotor scales than the average infant, had superior digestion, walked earlier, and were surprisingly likely to be ambidextrous.2 They come into life free of birth trauma, in a loving and nurturing way, with enhanced well-being.

The world is being born anew for us. When we surround the planet and our selves with wholeness, there is a point at which the world and the human begin to reflect one another. When your interior is cluttered or is in emotional chaos your environment reflects it. Therefore, when you create wholeness within you there is an automatic shift in the reality you create. As we see that our thinking creates our reality and shapes the way we experience our circumstances, then we can see that it also contributes to the planetary reality as well. As George Leonard said, "At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse and a perfect rhythm, a complex wave of forms and resonance's, which is absolutely individual and unique, and connects us to everything in the universe."

Three and a half billion years a go the first cells came into being and began the journey of evolving consciousness. We have lost touch with that evolution and have the opportunity to move into a new age as conscious participants in our evolution. In this way we become active partners in creation and in the unfolding of our human destiny.

This consciousness, this awakening the doctor within, is something that has been available and accessible to relatively few people on the planet up to now. As the boundaries between psychology, physics, metaphysics and philosophy dissolve, all of us are beginning to experience an ability to access a higher self.

We are moving into this realm of higher consciousness with a plan. We are becoming aware that we are not alone. We are discovering that there really is "An Aquarian Conspiracy," and we are aware that the World Health Organization is grappling with planetary well-being and we as individuals are also grappling with this same issue in our own hearts. We have not been able before this time to see the diseases that have plagued us for thousands of years as anything more than an individual experience. We are realizing that what we call disease has global implications. As Buckminster Fuller said, "The problem is we are all on one planet called 'Spaceship Earth' and most of us view ourselves as Passengers, when in realitv there is no man, woman or child who is not on the crew."

In the light of this wholeness, this expanded consciousness, we begin to see the world's problems from a place of vision. Archimedes said, "Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the world."

The stand that Martin Luther King, Jr. took, and the stand that Gandhi took, are moving the world today. The stand we are inviting you to take will awaken the doctor within you, your family and the planet.

The Planetary Shadow,

One of the issues facing us on a planetary scale is something we have for too long denied and refuse to see in ourselves, and that is what we call the Planetary Shadow.

T.S. Elliot wrote:
"Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow."

Jung said,
"Every part of the personality you do not love will become hostile to you."

If one part of the personality becomes stronger and stronger, such as the morally good and ethically principled side, then its complimentary shadow arises which often becomes an unconscious part of the personality. The more we suppress the dark side the more likely it is to take on a personality of its own. Robert Louis Stevenson's dream that became the story of Jekyl and Hyde is a dramatization of this phenomenon.

An old Hasidic Jewish tale provides an illustration: A son of a Rabbi left his father's village to attend a synagogue service in a village some 30 miles away. When he returned his family asked him, "Well, did they do anything different from what we do here?" "Yes, of course," said the son. "Well then, what was the lesson?" they asked. The son replied, "love thy enemy as thyself." "So it's the same as we say here. How is it you learned something different?" "There, they taught me to love the enemy within myself."

If we strive to live in the light, a corresponding darkness accumulates within us. We must strive, not so much for a forced goodness, but for consciousness, and to live, not out of ideals that we cannot keep, but from an inner center which alone can keep the balance. We need to move that inner balance, that center, to a global level.

In acknowledging our doubts and fears we move beyond fragmentation to a greater wholeness, greater responsibility and greater possibility.

IV. You are the World Health Foundation for Development And Peace
Invitation to Partnership
The World Health Foundation for Development And Peace is working for the End of Needless Suffering and Health for All via the expansion of consciousness in the field of wholism. Each of you is the whole project. You are the nucleus of a critical mass, you are the stewards of planetary transformation, you are The World Health Foundation for Development And Peace.

We invite you to take this transformational journey with us. We have already seen into the heart of the matter, into the heart of the atom, and into our own hearts. We have seen the fragmentation of our past. We now know that we can make new paradigms and new patterns. When we find our individual freedom through the achieving of wholeness, of health, and an end to the pain and suffering on our planet that goes on so needlessly, we will find that we have chosen a whole new destination for human evolution.

We are on the edge of the homecoming so often envisioned in our past. We are pressing more deeply into the forest toward new realms of being beyond anything we have ever imagined, toward freedom with, not from, each other. After a history of separation and mistrust we are finally converging upon a clearing. Our metaphors of transcendence have spoken to us more truly than our wars-the clearing, the end of winter, the watering of deserts, the healing of wounds, the light after darkness-not an end to our troubles, but an end to defeat.

Over the centuries those who have envisioned a transformed society knew that relatively few shared their visions. They felt the breezes from a homeland they could see in the distance but not inhabit, yet they urged others on to a possible future. Our human dreams are rich, unrealized history, and that legacy has always existed alongside our wars, our follies, and our suffering.

The question is always, "What can I do?" The World Health Foundation for Development And Peace does not exist by itself to provide that answer. We do exist to support you in discovering your ability to create wholeness, you and every man, woman and child in this world. You have the power to participate in this transformation through your support of this new entity, The World Health Foundation for Development And Peace.

Each of us has the power and potential to create our own individual and collective reality together. We are entitled to miracles, let us create them. We can choose to awaken, to abandon the imprisonment of our conditioning, to return homeward toward love.

We are the seeds of the realization of our own vision, we are the realization of the End of Needless Suffering.

In his inaugural address on January 20, 1960, newly elected President John F. Kennedy said, "Let us seek, for the first time, to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, tap the oceans depths and eradicate disease. Let us unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of the Prophet Isaiah-to 'undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free.

--Carlos Warter MD, PhD.References

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3Opening Address. Thirty-Fourth World Health Assembly, Indira Gandhi, Geneva, May 4' 1981.

4 Regina Sara Ryan and John W. Travis, M.D., Wellness Workbook (Berkeley: 10 Speed Press, 1981), p.34.

I. The Existing Conditions

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