Medical Machines

JUNE 26, 1981, 5:40 AM
PORTLAND, GLEN’S STUDY

You invited Me to call you if I wished you to come and be enlightened this morning. Here you are, a credit to My capacity to bring awareness and your willingness to be here rather than in bed. You shall be in transition today from this familiar field of alcohol education to the less familiar one of community health. This teaching shall give some insights toward the latter.

The medical establishment in your culture, the major influence still for what is called community health, is increasingly one dependent upon machines. The “things” of medicine are machines and machine made. More and more decisions will be left to machines. And this seems to symbolize that the human patient or (worse) “consumer” is also just a machine… of just a slightly different sort.

The human “machine” can malfunction, and this is illness. Call in the medical machines to restore order and function. Your mother had such an incident, and now the machines are functioning. I shall not give you a prophesy about her recovery. Just know that they may restore her brain to some more rational consciousness, and her spirit may be able to show forth again for a time. But also hear again that her spirit is ready and willing to go on to its next appropriate realm. The medical machines cannot hold her spirit. They only manipulate the body and mind so that the environment is more favorable to spirit. This can be quite a positive contribution. It also can be an abomination… the expensive maintenance of a body from which the spirit has already flown. (Expense is not of major interest to Me, or course, but I see how money can be used in service of many in true need… instead of used to maintain the machines that postpone death.)

All of this is prologue to the important teaching. The chief concern in community health must increasingly be on spirit rather than on machines. The true health of a community is to be seen in the aggregate spirit of its people rather than in the sophistication of its hardware. Some will talk of history and tell how, in times past, all doctors could do was to show loving concern for a patient, while now true relief and cures are available, with or without caring.