Health is a topic that crosses
all boundaries; and increasingly, influences that may impact on our human health
may originate in any area of the globe.
In the late Twentieth Century,
orthodox medicine in the industrialized world is confronting a rise of public
interest in 'holistic' medicine, often involving modalities that have long been
traditionally utilized by human beings in less industrialized nations. This
provides particular opportunity to select from among many cultures those health
practices that work.
Holistic approaches generally
may not be well suited to emergency needs; allopathic approaches generally may
not be well suited to prevention of disease. Both are therefore needed, in
fitting proportion, and applied where appropriate.
Direction: Where We Intend To
Go
PHISOLAMA'S direction is to
work to empower those human beings who find themselves either by necessity or by
choice on a course of shouldering responsibility for their individual health and
the enhancement and support of the health of those around them; to provide
tools, learning materials, and direct aid and assistance for this
endeavor.
PHISOLAMA programs shall
include provision for matters pertaining to mental health as well as physical
health; shall include provision for those with apparently permanent disability
or impairment, as well as for those presumed more readily capable of full return
to wholeness and 'normal' living; and shall include provision for those working
to overcome substance or behavioral addictions. Compassion shall be the guiding
spirit, "First do no harm," the guiding principle.
Health and Healing
In conjunction with PHISOLAMA
FOUNDATION Community, Charity, and Education teams, PHISOLAMA will implement
Centers, ranging in size from 'village clinics' to 'teaching hospitals', for
human beings to avail themselves of the atmosphere and practices conducive to
healing. These Centers will include the services of natural medicine
practitioners currently outside the mainstream and therefore sometimes difficult
to find, as well as the best of technologies and modalities mainstream medicine
has to offer, with the express desire and intent of alleviating human suffering
and needless loss of human life.
The aforementioned centers
fulfill three additional related functions:
Staff members will be
approachable and accessible for sharing of information about the workings of the
human body itself, knowing that health maintenance and prevention of disease
depend significantly on the understanding of those workings on the part of the
individual.
Likewise, staff members will
offer education in both natural medicine and conventional modalities wherever
appropriate and within bounds of law.
And, staff members will
actively seek out local practitioners who are the repositories of 'expert
wisdom' in their fields of practice, first to honor and to learn from them,
second to insure their wisdom is (ideally) handed down to the next generation or
is otherwise preserved as the treasure we acknowledge it to
be.
PHISOLAMA will establish grants
for individuals in need of therapies not reimbursed by insurance or for unusual
requirements of disease management situations.
Health Education
PHISOLAMA will work to "rend
the veil of obscurity" surrounding health matters. We recognize that stress
itself is a non-trivial contributor to illness and to the progression of
illness, and that making the mysteries of health comprehensible to the human
being whose health it is can reduce stress, and thereby optimize opportunity of
full recovery and restoration to wholeness.
In conjunction with PHISOLAMA
Education efforts, we will work to introduce small, meaningful additions or
changes of perspective in school course offerings, intended to provide both
information and tools that work to supply a means for human beings to be
responsible for their own health. Similar efforts would be applied to benefit
the adult population, in conjunction with PHISOLAMA Arts & Media
teams.
Health Research
PHISOLAMA FOUNDATION will work
to identify, validate, and make known previously discovered approaches and
previously devised techniques that show potential to save human lives and
alleviate human suffering, right now. PHISOLAMA will work to resolve "on hold"
questions of research, knowing we are likely in this way to identify helpful
approaches to human health that have, for whatever reasons, previously "fallen
through the cracks".
PHISOLAMA will seek to
identify, illuminate, and make known existing impediments to health that are
"hidden in plain sight". PHISOLAMA will work with and support individuals and
organizations already involved in "sounding the alarm" on heretofore
unrecognized health factors.
PHISOLAMA, knowing the natural
state of Earth and the natural functioning of human bodies are inextricably
interwoven, will monitor for indicators of health-affecting shifts in
environment and ecology, study to understand them, and work to reverse them as
warranted. Much of this effort would be in concert with PHISOLAMA Science &
Technology and PHISOLAMA Agriculture teams, PHISOLAMA Ecology teams, and
PHISOLAMA Legal Affairs teams.
Health Freedoms
Identifying and publishing the
facts concerning any pending threat to the Health Freedom of human beings.
PHISOLAMA will participate with and support others already involved in raising
public and legislative awareness on these matters.
Working to reverse or amend
existing legislative or other hindrances to Health Freedom of human beings.
PHISOLAMA will work for the release of non-useful constraints while working for
continued ensuring of safety and authenticity of items intended for human
use.
The Heart of the Healer
We recognize and acknowledge as Civilization Treasures the
many 'health heroes' who have come before us. PHISOLAMA will seek to honor these
ones as we become aware of them, often including monetarily, and in some cases
through direct support for their ongoing projects and research.