To emphasize why I think you will be doing yourself a service buying The End of Medicine, consider the following:
I have been involved in the quest to discover the origin, source, reasons, meaning etc., of disease since I was 16 years old. In the course of my quest I attended the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science of The University of Liverpool, from where I graduated in 1971, with the Degree of Bachelor of Veterinary Science. I then entered into the employment of Assistant Veterinary Surgeon and Clinician in Large Animal Practice in various veterinary clinics and practices throughout the United Kingdom for 7 years. It was during this period that I discovered macrobiotics.
At that time, 1975, I was 28 years old and suffering various chronic physical and psychological ailments - chronic painful lower back, sciatica such that some mornings I couldn't even get out of bed I was in so much pain, insomnia, depression, worry, fatigue, and was grossly overweight(200 lbs). And it was within three weeks of starting my macrobiotic life that all these symptoms began to disappear. Now, 25 years later, at the age of 53, I have been pain free the entire time, I have boundless vitality, enthusiasm, sleep like a baby, I weigh 130 lbs.
It was while I was practicing veterinary medicine and surgery while at the same time starting my macrobiotic life that I discovered that modern scientific medicine doesn't have a clue about either disease or health. Now, since I started living macrobiotically I have never seen a doctor, I do not have a doctor because I am my own physician, I do not have health insurance and I do not belong to any so-called Health (Disease) Maintenance Organisation.
In other words, I am independent and free of all the bogus scientific gobbledygook and modern medical propaganda masquerading as medicine today, as a result of living macrobiotically.
I went to the Kushi Institute in Brookline, Mass, in 1979. Then I came to the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife in 1981. Since 1982 I have been doing macrobiotic educational counseling and in that time I have personally counseled thousands of people and seen them heal of every known symptomology of the one disease we are all subject to. These symptomologies include, to name a few, AIDS, arthritis, asthma, allergies, endometriosis, chronic nephritis, breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, brain cancer, candididiasis, hepatitis B and C, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, multiple sclerosis, leukemia, tinnitis, diabetes and lupus.
Now, I have also seen people with these conditions NOT heal themselves, so there can be no question of macrobiotic living (or any other approach) being a cure for any disease symptomology. Therefore, if you choose to start living macrobiotically then you can expect it to be a difficult and exhilarating path on the way to health.
The End of Medicine gives you a map, a compass and shows you how to start walking on this path. However, the map is not the territory, you have to learn how to use the compass (yin and yang) and you have to do the walking. This is to say, there are no guarantees offered.
The following descriptions of this book were written for his Xlibris authors, kaarebursell.com, webpage no longer available.
A timely follow-up to The End of Medicine, Laughing with Doomsday takes readers past digestion and physical disease into the world of economics, politics, relationships and family structure. Written long before the era of COVID-19, this practical treatise gives the reader a valuable compass to help chart a course out of the wilderness of modern, mechanical thinking into a new, peaceful world of connection to earth, spirit and true purpose in living.
We are in a time of rapid changes that have unsettled the whole world, causing widespread disorientation. In this book, Kaare offers a practical means to work towards revitalizing the environment, becoming self-sufficient and renewing spirituality. He found himself faced with these questions after several years of veterinary practice, but found he was not prepared to answer them. Tha set him out on a quest to delve into human evolution, spirituality, and the cultural fabric of the modern world. Through the lens of macrobiotics and anthroposophy, this book lays out a picture of the heritage that should belong to all human beings.
A timely follow-up to The End of Medicine, this new book takes readers past digestion and physical disease into the world of economics, politics, relationships and family structure. Written long before the era of COVID-19, this practical treatise gives the reader a valuable compass to help chart a course out of the wilderness of modern, mechanical thinking into a new, peaceful world of renewed connection to earth, spirit and true purpose in living.
Laughing with Doomsday is a dream for a better world reminiscent of Thomas More in his Utopia. It differs in that its scope is immense and includes practical methods and goals for a way of life in a living, evolving world and universe. The suggestions are many and therefore offer different starting points for individual change making it possible to hope and begin as one is inspired.
The book covers the basic macrobiotic principles with some emphasis on the spiritual aspects. Anthroposophical views are explained as they relate to the subjects he discusses. the intent was to provide information on how to achieve a harmonious and healthy world by reviving spirituality suggesting modern approaches to ancient wisdom, and using ecological sustainable, farming practices while eating a healthy diet.
In these chapters, he tries to show what it wrong with our current world practice and explain his conception of a better way of life along with some practical suggestions.
A timely follow-up to The End of Medicine, Laughing with Doomsday: Work on What Has Been Spoiled takes readers past digestion and physical disease into the world of economics, politics, relationships and family structure. Written long before the era of global pandemics, this practical treatise gives the reader a valuable compass to help chart a course out of the wilderness of modern, mechanical thinking into a new, peaceful world of connection to earth, spirit and true purpose in living.
Patricia Bursell,
September 3, 2021I have around thirty eight 2 hour cooking class videos. These are taped live, so there is no editing, proofreading, etc., what I did and discussed is what you see and hear. The subject matter discussed, inaddition to the practical matter of cooking the meal in the classes is totally spontaneous. All subjects, issues, and matters discussed are from an anthroposophical and/or macrobiotic perspective and often start with aquestion by a student in the class. The classes are for beginners to macrobiotic cooking and include showing how and why the meals were prepared and the discussions range from spiritual to philosophical to technical.
Each class is done according to the season, so throughout the course of the year there are classes on Spring, Summer, Late Summer, Fall and Winter Cooking.
Thus, any Spring Class video emphasizes cooking for Liver/Gall Bladder.
Any Summer Class video for Heart/Small Intestine.
Late Summer Class videos are for Stomach/Spleen-Pancreas.
Fall Class videos are for Lungs/Large Intestines.
Winter Class videos are for supporting Kidneys/Bladder.Each cooking class shows a demonstration of a soup,grain dish, vegetable dish, leafy green and dessert.
I have a set of 12 Audio Tapes of lectures. These can be requested for cost of production and shipping. These lectures were taped in 1993 and they hold up well. The plan is to make them available online for free listeningsometime in the future.
One of the most important conceptual tools for the practice of macrobiotics. Since everything changes, including one's condition, it is important to understand yin and yang so that one can maintain one's health and vitality at all ages and in all climates and seasons.
Another important conceptual tool that is also eminently practical and also necessary to understand if one is going to practice macrobiotics.
How to see the various stages and dynamics of growth and development of any process, be it human development, the growth of a plant, our practice of macrobiotics, of civilizations etc.
Exploring the interconnectedness of the physical, etheric, and soul "bodies" of the human being and their relevance to a healthy individual and social organism.
Explains the radical macrobiotic theory of digestion as the transformation of food into blood and how it relates to disease, health and healing.
The large overview of the relationship of disease to an imbalanced way of life and how to consciously recover a balanced way of life and how and why that can lead to revitalization, regeneration and recovery on all levels.
A talk on the process of procreation as it relates to the physical, ethical and spiritual condition of the individual in our society in relation to the state of the soil in the practice of agriculture. The resulting condition of the food thus produced and its effects on the sexual activity of the population.
How to interpret your constitution as an aid to fulfilling your destiny.
How to interpret your facial features as an aid to knowing the condition of your internal organs.
A look at the history of humanity from 10,000 B.C. to the present to understand the forces that have permeated the historical process and what it suggests as possibilities for the next 1000-2000 years.
An account of the spiritual development of humanity based on Rudolf Steiner's An Outline of Occult Science.
A description and account of the active spiritual counter forces to the fulfillment of the true destiny of humanity and the earth.