Thank you again for your lengthy analysis! You've certainly spent a lot of time thinking this all through.
I've been suffering from a broad-spectrum autoimmune condition for about fifteen years. It was triggered by long-term exposure to formaldehyde fumes coming from a new sofa we purchased. It took years for me to figure it out, mostly because we travel from home so infrequently. But on those occasions when we did, I began to feel better, and then I began learning about toxic environmental fumes in the home, etc. I realized there was an odor coming from the sofa after my body heat warmed it, so I purchased a test kit, which confirmed that the amount of formaldehyde was extremely high.
But even after stripping the sofa to the frame and rebuilding it with safe materials, the damage was done. The worst of the symptoms is a chronic "migraine" (though technically not a migraine) as a result of inflammation inside my skull. I know this because I can feel it, as do others who suffer from this type of specific inflammation. Everyone describes it the same way. It does respond to treatments geared towards migraine.
Having lived with this for a number of years, I can feel what's happening inside me preceding an attack. I can feel the histamines/cytokines going berserk after being exposed to certain triggers. Some of the symptoms mimic lupus, although I test negative for that. As a matter of fact, one of the triggers is being studied here in Florida, and is associated with red tide.
I never expected this condition, never knew about it, and am not a fearful person by nature. After I discovered it, I found out about the class-action lawsuits by airline stewardesses exposed to formaldehyde via their permanent-press uniforms, and the class-action lawsuit against Lumber Liquidators for their laminated flooring, among others.
More recently, I seem to have picked up Grover's Disease, diagnosed by my dermatologist. It's an odd, basically untreatable chronic rash. However, after I had it a few months, and went gluten-free (after confirmation of another problem) the rash went away almost instantaneously for a few months, then returned. (This made me suspect that the rash was connected to the gluten. Now, I suspect that it is autoimmune in origin and an outgrowth of the original autoimmune condition, although this is apparently disputed by researchers.) Again, I had no knowledge of this condition, and didn't have a "name" associated with it until after having it for 5-6 years.
All this gives me perhaps a unique insight into at least the autoimmune angle of things. Two of the medications in my arsenal are immunomodulators...and they work in precisely the manner you would expect them to. I know when I need to use them, and for how long. (It's actually an off-label use for both of them.) But I still haven't been able to "pop the cork" off my understanding of the truth between germ vs. terrain theory. Both sides of both arguments just don't seem to ring true, and I've tried to read and listen to as much as I can that seems credible.
Most of these can be chalked up to either self-devaluation or separation conflicts, but without more specifics, I can't offer much more.
The worst of the symptoms is a chronic "migraine" (though technically not a migraine) as a result of inflammation inside my skull.
I know many people who suffer from migraines. They arise during the epi-crisis of the healing state. If they are chronic, then you can liken the cause to an "allergy" of sorts, where something in your environment triggers the memory of your psyche to an event in your past, directly preceding your migraines. Typically these originally arise as the result of a powerless or frontal fear conflict. The former is self-explanatory but the frontal fear has to do with the fear of something "out ahead of you", "in the future". In short, something triggers your memory and you re-start the dis-ease process each time. Discovering and resolving your original conflict would bring an end to them.
I'm all too familiar with all the terrain theory stories of fumes, molds, household toxins, food toxins, etc. etc. While it's all quite intriguing, it always lacks specificity in the end. Why was only one person in the household effected by the fume/toxins/mold but not everybody? There's no sensible answer to this question. The same goes for alleged boogeymen-viruses. The "why doesn't everybody" question can never be satisfactorily answered in either of these theories.
More recently, I seem to have picked up Grover's Disease, diagnosed by my dermatologist.
All skin rashes of the epidermis are the result of a separation conflict. Either due to you not wanting to be separated from someone, or wanting to be separated from someone. When you are feeling the not or wanted separation, your psyche desensitizes your epidermis nerve endings in the regions that you associate with being close to this person. Grover's affects the trunk area, so this is likely related to you missing somebody you hugged often. The psyche does this so that when something or someone touches your trunk skin area, you don't feel it and are not reminded of your separation. When you have resolved the conflict in your mind, the psyche restores the nerve endings in the epidermis and this results in rashes, bumps, pox, etc. If you have recurring bouts and the condition is chronic, this means that you are reminded of this person from time to time.
autoimmune condition
Once again, our modality rejects all notions of these. We obviously acknowledge the symptoms and pain, just not the irrational theory that your body "attacks itself". Skin rashes like psoriasis, dermatitis, hives, measles, rubella, chicken pox, etc. are all a result of the separation conflict. The differences between the diagnosis are a question of intensity, duration and which stage of the dis-ease process you are in, for example, psoriasis is actually the result of two active separation conflicts. Conditions like eczema, shingles and melanoma afflict the deeper skin layer, the dermis, and are a result of an attack or feeling soiled/dirtied/sullied conflict. Your psyche attempts to strengthen your protection from the outside by hardening the deeper layer of the skin.
Both sides of both arguments just don't seem to ring true, and I've tried to read and listen to as much as I can that seems credible.
Your gut is correct. Neither are true.
Tissue samples were saved from 1918, and this helped unravel how the disease originated:
Did you read my piece on the Spanish Flu? I agree that pneumonia played a big role, but the question is how and why? It's not "contagious, so something else must have been going on. I explain it all in detail in the linked thread.
It's discussions like this that really help us to dig deeper...
if you're ready to dig deeper, here's your next adventure. It will take you some time to learn, but if you are motivated, you'll pick it up quickly enough. I like to start people on this "Search A-Z" page where you can look up some 500 or so common dis-eases and start to get a sense of things. https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/sbs_index.html#M
Unfortunately, I can't rectify what you describe with my own personal experience, but I don't doubt that it could be relevant with others. Thanks again for sharing a bit of your thoughts!
It requires a dedicated analysis and some deeper understanding of what mainstream medicine calls "allergies". We call these "unconscious associations".
Let's take the example of a young boy named Billy who becomes allergic to cats at age 8 for instance. Billy's family does not own a cat. One day Billy is over at his friend Mikey's house playing, and Mikey's family has a cat. They're a bit too rambunctious this one day and accidentally break an expensive vase in the living room. Mikey's mother enters the scene and begins to scream at both boys and scold them equally, perhaps even smacks around her son a bit. Billy has never seen anything like this. His parents do not behave in this way. He is shocked by the whole situation. Make sense?
Now, during the scolding event, while he is shocked, his psyche (subconscious mind) is recording all information it can take in. The sights, sounds, tastes, smells, etc. All this information gets recorded as "potentially dangerous" to his psyche. One such smell which is outside his normal experience is that of cat dander.
Now, every time Billy gets near a cat, his psyche recalls the shocking event at Mikey's house, and doing its best to protect Billy from another similar shock, it begins to make his eyes water and get bloodshot, his nose gets runny, he starts sneezing, etc. His psyche has associated cat dander with another potential crisis. And the leading medical experts of the world tell Billy he's got a "cat allergy".
Fast forward now and Billy is 50 years old. I tell Billy why he is allergic to cats. I have no idea what the trigger was, and he almost certainly won't make the connection right off the bat either. He's going to have to think back to when he first noticed he was allergic to cats. That part of the equation might be easy for him. However, the next part is typically not so easy. He then has to think back to the weeks/months prior to him first noticing he was allergic to cats and then recall this event at Mikey's house that he's all but forgotten about. And he naturally does not make any connection between it and the fact that they had a cat. And in some cases, if the event was highly traumatic to him, his psyche has buried his memory of the event until such time that it deems him ready and capable of finally processing it.
I lived in Austin, TX for 20 years. 25% of people that move to Austin are said to become allergic to the cedar pollen, which is unique to central Texas, within 5 years of moving there. 33% after 10 years. What's going on? You would think the instant you moved there, or at most 8 months from moving there in April, you would be "allergic". Why does it take so long?
Cedar pollen season lasts for about 4 months each year (Dec - March). If a person has a conflicting event during these 4 months, their psyche records the thick pollen as a potential danger, and now they're "allergic" to it. Like clockwork. It's the same story. And the same thing works with foods. If you're eating or have just eaten a certain food and get caught up in an unexpected conflicting situation, you're now allergic to the dairy, gluten, chocolate, pizza, etc. you were eating at the time.
The short-term resolution is to discover your trigger - a sight, sound, taste, smell and avoid it as best you can. The long-term resolution is to do the work as mentioned above. Think back to your first experience with the chronic dis-ease or "allergy". Then start evaluating unexpected negative events in your life in the weeks/months preceding it. For those who do this work, with some prompting of their psyche/soul, the answer will eventually pop into their head.
The longer ago that the event happened, the more likely the resolution will be fairly simple to achieve. In Billy's case, he's no longer friends with Mikey and he's never going to be playing at his house again. The conflict is resolved on the spot and he can consciously let his psyche know to no longer consider cats to be a danger. His "allergy" or chronic dis-ease disappears in that instant.
So this is the process for how you uncover and resolve chronic issues. In your case, skin is related to a separation conflict as I mentioned above. Something in your environment, or on TV, or in a book, or whatever, reminds you of being separated from someone you care about and this re-triggers the skin response on your trunk. And likewise with the migraine. You are reminded from time to time of an event where you lost something, felt powerless, were worried about something coming up in the future, etc.
My teacher told the story of how he would get a migraine every weekend for almost 5 years. His job required that he was on the road giving seminars Monday through Friday. But when he got home, because he drove so much, he didn't want to drive on the weekend. He went through dozens of possible triggers all through this period until he finally remembered that he had gotten into an accident a few months prior to his migraines beginning. While he was largely uninjured, he was pinned into his seat for a few hours before he could be removed. And it was during this time that he felt "powerless". And there was his conflict. Each Monday he was triggered back into conflict when he started the car. During the week he was fine because he remained conflict active. When he got home each Friday he resolved his conflict and typically on Saturday night, his migraine would kick in.
All this to say, even when you this material, it's not that simple to discover the trigger nor the event. It takes some earnest effort for most people.
You seem like a reasonable person, and as such, you must admit that what I've shared does make some sense, at least in relation to what the establishment and terrain people have to say. They don't have any explanation for why one person is allergic, or has an "auto-immune" issue, or a chronic issue, etc. while other people don't react in the same way. They've simply got no explanations on offer. Not to the cause, and therefore not for any cures.
More often than not, we naturally "cure ourselves", sometimes quite accidentally and unconsciously. And if we were taking supplementX or herbY or vitaminD at the time, we assume that it worked for us. There are a bazillion stories out there from people swearing therapy/supplement/herb/vitamin X cured their cancer, resolved their auto-immune disorder, fixed thier allegy, etc. They're a dime a dozen. FWIW, the placebo effect is very real too. So if you found something you think works for you, by all means, stick with it!
Anyway, good luck with your issues and thanks for your questions.
Thank you again, very much, for taking the time to dive a little deeper into what you describe. My life is fairly unremarkable with respect to the types of possible correlations you allude to, and I've been happily married for twenty-five years, with no separations, etc.
I actually spent several years studying intensively the spiritual side of effecting healing via identifying erroneous thought, which is starkly similar to the practical analysis you discuss with only relatively minor differences. I finally gave up and walked away from that philosophy, after making some realizations and observations. Frankly, I got weary of chasing a rainbow that never got closer, while my own condition continued to deteriorate. There are thousands of individuals around the planet practicing this spiritual angle of sickness vs. healing, and yes, some are successful in experiencing healing by correcting their thought. There are even a handful of gifted practitioners who can heal others by correcting their own perception of the patient, which in turn causes healing of the patient. (I was never able to find one of these legitimate practitioners myself, however.)
I don't deny that this is possible. But the thousands of adherents hang onto the fairly random achievements of relatively few (of which there are records kept for study), to fuel their faith that it is possible and they just have to study a bit longer until they, too, can do it as well. In twenty years, never once did I observe any healing in myself or others (despite receiving personal instruction), who would all gather together twice weekly. It started becoming oppressive to me to see all the sick people in need of help, suffering, and no one getting any better. Those who gave up to seek medical help were sometimes looked down upon for their choice. I finally decided to distance myself to preserve my sanity. That said, my wife continues to study this, and I fully support her efforts.
I could actually write a book about this, but no one would buy it! lol I support what you describe because I know there is value in it, but I also know...for whatever reason...that not all can benefit from it. Thus far in my life, the only times I have predictably been able to get relief from various maladies is through medical intervention or medication. At least I can make some sense of the decision-making process in choosing the best treatment, and how that applies/interacts with the condition.
I'm still trying to find answers, but haven't uncovered the holy grail as of yet...
Thank you again for your lengthy analysis! You've certainly spent a lot of time thinking this all through.
I've been suffering from a broad-spectrum autoimmune condition for about fifteen years. It was triggered by long-term exposure to formaldehyde fumes coming from a new sofa we purchased. It took years for me to figure it out, mostly because we travel from home so infrequently. But on those occasions when we did, I began to feel better, and then I began learning about toxic environmental fumes in the home, etc. I realized there was an odor coming from the sofa after my body heat warmed it, so I purchased a test kit, which confirmed that the amount of formaldehyde was extremely high.
But even after stripping the sofa to the frame and rebuilding it with safe materials, the damage was done. The worst of the symptoms is a chronic "migraine" (though technically not a migraine) as a result of inflammation inside my skull. I know this because I can feel it, as do others who suffer from this type of specific inflammation. Everyone describes it the same way. It does respond to treatments geared towards migraine.
Having lived with this for a number of years, I can feel what's happening inside me preceding an attack. I can feel the histamines/cytokines going berserk after being exposed to certain triggers. Some of the symptoms mimic lupus, although I test negative for that. As a matter of fact, one of the triggers is being studied here in Florida, and is associated with red tide.
I never expected this condition, never knew about it, and am not a fearful person by nature. After I discovered it, I found out about the class-action lawsuits by airline stewardesses exposed to formaldehyde via their permanent-press uniforms, and the class-action lawsuit against Lumber Liquidators for their laminated flooring, among others.
More recently, I seem to have picked up Grover's Disease, diagnosed by my dermatologist. It's an odd, basically untreatable chronic rash. However, after I had it a few months, and went gluten-free (after confirmation of another problem) the rash went away almost instantaneously for a few months, then returned. (This made me suspect that the rash was connected to the gluten. Now, I suspect that it is autoimmune in origin and an outgrowth of the original autoimmune condition, although this is apparently disputed by researchers.) Again, I had no knowledge of this condition, and didn't have a "name" associated with it until after having it for 5-6 years.
All this gives me perhaps a unique insight into at least the autoimmune angle of things. Two of the medications in my arsenal are immunomodulators...and they work in precisely the manner you would expect them to. I know when I need to use them, and for how long. (It's actually an off-label use for both of them.) But I still haven't been able to "pop the cork" off my understanding of the truth between germ vs. terrain theory. Both sides of both arguments just don't seem to ring true, and I've tried to read and listen to as much as I can that seems credible.
Tissue samples were saved from 1918, and this helped unravel how the disease originated: https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2020/02/06/spanish-flu-of-1918-was-really-a-bioterror-attack-on-humanity
Excellent discussion about polio: https://rodneydodson000.medium.com/what-you-didnt-know-about-polio-26d20cba98e5
Thank you again for your input. I appreciate it! It's discussions like this that really help us to dig deeper...
Most of these can be chalked up to either self-devaluation or separation conflicts, but without more specifics, I can't offer much more.
I know many people who suffer from migraines. They arise during the epi-crisis of the healing state. If they are chronic, then you can liken the cause to an "allergy" of sorts, where something in your environment triggers the memory of your psyche to an event in your past, directly preceding your migraines. Typically these originally arise as the result of a powerless or frontal fear conflict. The former is self-explanatory but the frontal fear has to do with the fear of something "out ahead of you", "in the future". In short, something triggers your memory and you re-start the dis-ease process each time. Discovering and resolving your original conflict would bring an end to them.
I'm all too familiar with all the terrain theory stories of fumes, molds, household toxins, food toxins, etc. etc. While it's all quite intriguing, it always lacks specificity in the end. Why was only one person in the household effected by the fume/toxins/mold but not everybody? There's no sensible answer to this question. The same goes for alleged boogeymen-viruses. The "why doesn't everybody" question can never be satisfactorily answered in either of these theories.
All skin rashes of the epidermis are the result of a separation conflict. Either due to you not wanting to be separated from someone, or wanting to be separated from someone. When you are feeling the not or wanted separation, your psyche desensitizes your epidermis nerve endings in the regions that you associate with being close to this person. Grover's affects the trunk area, so this is likely related to you missing somebody you hugged often. The psyche does this so that when something or someone touches your trunk skin area, you don't feel it and are not reminded of your separation. When you have resolved the conflict in your mind, the psyche restores the nerve endings in the epidermis and this results in rashes, bumps, pox, etc. If you have recurring bouts and the condition is chronic, this means that you are reminded of this person from time to time.
Once again, our modality rejects all notions of these. We obviously acknowledge the symptoms and pain, just not the irrational theory that your body "attacks itself". Skin rashes like psoriasis, dermatitis, hives, measles, rubella, chicken pox, etc. are all a result of the separation conflict. The differences between the diagnosis are a question of intensity, duration and which stage of the dis-ease process you are in, for example, psoriasis is actually the result of two active separation conflicts. Conditions like eczema, shingles and melanoma afflict the deeper skin layer, the dermis, and are a result of an attack or feeling soiled/dirtied/sullied conflict. Your psyche attempts to strengthen your protection from the outside by hardening the deeper layer of the skin.
Your gut is correct. Neither are true.
Did you read my piece on the Spanish Flu? I agree that pneumonia played a big role, but the question is how and why? It's not "contagious, so something else must have been going on. I explain it all in detail in the linked thread.
if you're ready to dig deeper, here's your next adventure. It will take you some time to learn, but if you are motivated, you'll pick it up quickly enough. I like to start people on this "Search A-Z" page where you can look up some 500 or so common dis-eases and start to get a sense of things. https://learninggnm.com/SBS/documents/sbs_index.html#M
Good luck!
Unfortunately, I can't rectify what you describe with my own personal experience, but I don't doubt that it could be relevant with others. Thanks again for sharing a bit of your thoughts!
It requires a dedicated analysis and some deeper understanding of what mainstream medicine calls "allergies". We call these "unconscious associations".
Let's take the example of a young boy named Billy who becomes allergic to cats at age 8 for instance. Billy's family does not own a cat. One day Billy is over at his friend Mikey's house playing, and Mikey's family has a cat. They're a bit too rambunctious this one day and accidentally break an expensive vase in the living room. Mikey's mother enters the scene and begins to scream at both boys and scold them equally, perhaps even smacks around her son a bit. Billy has never seen anything like this. His parents do not behave in this way. He is shocked by the whole situation. Make sense?
Now, during the scolding event, while he is shocked, his psyche (subconscious mind) is recording all information it can take in. The sights, sounds, tastes, smells, etc. All this information gets recorded as "potentially dangerous" to his psyche. One such smell which is outside his normal experience is that of cat dander.
Now, every time Billy gets near a cat, his psyche recalls the shocking event at Mikey's house, and doing its best to protect Billy from another similar shock, it begins to make his eyes water and get bloodshot, his nose gets runny, he starts sneezing, etc. His psyche has associated cat dander with another potential crisis. And the leading medical experts of the world tell Billy he's got a "cat allergy".
Fast forward now and Billy is 50 years old. I tell Billy why he is allergic to cats. I have no idea what the trigger was, and he almost certainly won't make the connection right off the bat either. He's going to have to think back to when he first noticed he was allergic to cats. That part of the equation might be easy for him. However, the next part is typically not so easy. He then has to think back to the weeks/months prior to him first noticing he was allergic to cats and then recall this event at Mikey's house that he's all but forgotten about. And he naturally does not make any connection between it and the fact that they had a cat. And in some cases, if the event was highly traumatic to him, his psyche has buried his memory of the event until such time that it deems him ready and capable of finally processing it.
I lived in Austin, TX for 20 years. 25% of people that move to Austin are said to become allergic to the cedar pollen, which is unique to central Texas, within 5 years of moving there. 33% after 10 years. What's going on? You would think the instant you moved there, or at most 8 months from moving there in April, you would be "allergic". Why does it take so long?
Cedar pollen season lasts for about 4 months each year (Dec - March). If a person has a conflicting event during these 4 months, their psyche records the thick pollen as a potential danger, and now they're "allergic" to it. Like clockwork. It's the same story. And the same thing works with foods. If you're eating or have just eaten a certain food and get caught up in an unexpected conflicting situation, you're now allergic to the dairy, gluten, chocolate, pizza, etc. you were eating at the time.
The short-term resolution is to discover your trigger - a sight, sound, taste, smell and avoid it as best you can. The long-term resolution is to do the work as mentioned above. Think back to your first experience with the chronic dis-ease or "allergy". Then start evaluating unexpected negative events in your life in the weeks/months preceding it. For those who do this work, with some prompting of their psyche/soul, the answer will eventually pop into their head.
The longer ago that the event happened, the more likely the resolution will be fairly simple to achieve. In Billy's case, he's no longer friends with Mikey and he's never going to be playing at his house again. The conflict is resolved on the spot and he can consciously let his psyche know to no longer consider cats to be a danger. His "allergy" or chronic dis-ease disappears in that instant.
So this is the process for how you uncover and resolve chronic issues. In your case, skin is related to a separation conflict as I mentioned above. Something in your environment, or on TV, or in a book, or whatever, reminds you of being separated from someone you care about and this re-triggers the skin response on your trunk. And likewise with the migraine. You are reminded from time to time of an event where you lost something, felt powerless, were worried about something coming up in the future, etc.
My teacher told the story of how he would get a migraine every weekend for almost 5 years. His job required that he was on the road giving seminars Monday through Friday. But when he got home, because he drove so much, he didn't want to drive on the weekend. He went through dozens of possible triggers all through this period until he finally remembered that he had gotten into an accident a few months prior to his migraines beginning. While he was largely uninjured, he was pinned into his seat for a few hours before he could be removed. And it was during this time that he felt "powerless". And there was his conflict. Each Monday he was triggered back into conflict when he started the car. During the week he was fine because he remained conflict active. When he got home each Friday he resolved his conflict and typically on Saturday night, his migraine would kick in.
All this to say, even when you this material, it's not that simple to discover the trigger nor the event. It takes some earnest effort for most people.
You seem like a reasonable person, and as such, you must admit that what I've shared does make some sense, at least in relation to what the establishment and terrain people have to say. They don't have any explanation for why one person is allergic, or has an "auto-immune" issue, or a chronic issue, etc. while other people don't react in the same way. They've simply got no explanations on offer. Not to the cause, and therefore not for any cures.
More often than not, we naturally "cure ourselves", sometimes quite accidentally and unconsciously. And if we were taking supplementX or herbY or vitaminD at the time, we assume that it worked for us. There are a bazillion stories out there from people swearing therapy/supplement/herb/vitamin X cured their cancer, resolved their auto-immune disorder, fixed thier allegy, etc. They're a dime a dozen. FWIW, the placebo effect is very real too. So if you found something you think works for you, by all means, stick with it!
Anyway, good luck with your issues and thanks for your questions.
Thank you again, very much, for taking the time to dive a little deeper into what you describe. My life is fairly unremarkable with respect to the types of possible correlations you allude to, and I've been happily married for twenty-five years, with no separations, etc.
I actually spent several years studying intensively the spiritual side of effecting healing via identifying erroneous thought, which is starkly similar to the practical analysis you discuss with only relatively minor differences. I finally gave up and walked away from that philosophy, after making some realizations and observations. Frankly, I got weary of chasing a rainbow that never got closer, while my own condition continued to deteriorate. There are thousands of individuals around the planet practicing this spiritual angle of sickness vs. healing, and yes, some are successful in experiencing healing by correcting their thought. There are even a handful of gifted practitioners who can heal others by correcting their own perception of the patient, which in turn causes healing of the patient. (I was never able to find one of these legitimate practitioners myself, however.)
I don't deny that this is possible. But the thousands of adherents hang onto the fairly random achievements of relatively few (of which there are records kept for study), to fuel their faith that it is possible and they just have to study a bit longer until they, too, can do it as well. In twenty years, never once did I observe any healing in myself or others (despite receiving personal instruction), who would all gather together twice weekly. It started becoming oppressive to me to see all the sick people in need of help, suffering, and no one getting any better. Those who gave up to seek medical help were sometimes looked down upon for their choice. I finally decided to distance myself to preserve my sanity. That said, my wife continues to study this, and I fully support her efforts.
I could actually write a book about this, but no one would buy it! lol I support what you describe because I know there is value in it, but I also know...for whatever reason...that not all can benefit from it. Thus far in my life, the only times I have predictably been able to get relief from various maladies is through medical intervention or medication. At least I can make some sense of the decision-making process in choosing the best treatment, and how that applies/interacts with the condition.
I'm still trying to find answers, but haven't uncovered the holy grail as of yet...