Protecting Health Properly and Helping Healing Adequately

For persons in distress, the indifference and abusiveness of persons in positions of power causes psychological trauma, or exacerbates existing trauma.

Cruel practices further erode the psychological resilience of the victims of earlier abuses, and of the victims of other misfortunes.

And indifferent individuals destroy the meaningfulness of democracy.

Yet such people are likely to have mental health problems of their own.

They lack control over their own lives. 

They are caught up in a corrupt system not of their own making.

Yet they contribute to the perpetuation of cruel organisational hierarchies, ridiculous ideologies, the deceptive distortion of perceptions and the associated corruption.

There is often very little difference, in terms of justice, between business activities and criminal activities, particularly when governments are corrupt.  

Perhaps you wish to be a war profiteer.

Perhaps you are happy not knowing whether you are a war profiteer or not.

Corruption continues to be at war against the good.

Perhaps you are interested in participating in violent revolutions, wars and societal chaos.

Industrial revolutions have been wars on nature, with time bombs laid in the atmosphere and oceans.  Those bombs are already exploding.

You may have experienced a weather bomb, a heat dome, a deluge or a drought.

You may even have contributed to their initiation and/or your great grandparents did and/or their great grandparents.

What were your ancestors doing in 1830, and where?

If you value genuine peace, the protection and improvement of health, authentic living, adequate justice, clear communication and appropriately high standards of living, how successfully or otherwise have you been insisting upon governments and other influential organisations doing likewise?

Corrupt politicians often claim that weather patterns have always caused extreme events to occur.  They may even cite events from 1634 and even from 1362.  Yet such politicians, and the people paying for them to have power, fail to distinguish between a natural occurrence, the societal events and built environment in times of disaster, and the contributions of humans towards changing natural systems.

Protecting health properly and helping healing adequately both require a world without corruption.

But is that possible?

Whenever unjustifiable aggression happens, including aggression towards nature itself, it is wrong, regardless of whether or not it is legal. 

Unjust social hierarchies often encourage incivility and cruelty.

What do you encourage?

There is very little difference between aggressive business practices, aggressive bureaucratic procedures, aggressive political communications, aggressive judicial processes, aggressive broadcasters and organised crime.

Governments are reflections of the culture upon which they are based.  When a culture is corrupt, so is the associated government. 

What happens in the world today will have an effect long into the future.  Similarly, events from previous decades and centuries are influencing the world in the present.

The burning of fossil fuels in the 19th century continues to have an effect on climate change in the present.  That will continue for the future, possibly for thousands of years.

Waiting until situations become totally intolerable to the people with political power is not an option.  Situations are already totally intolerable to many people, for many reasons.

How are you attempting to ensure all your expressions of love and politics remain healthy?

The beneficiaries of corruption and/or unjust societal privileges often regard real philanthropy as a threat to their own power.

Real philanthropists are entirely peaceful, regardless of the threats they face.

How are you protecting and improving life?

Wonderful witches are real philanthropists, regardless of their usual anonymity.  They spend much of their time protecting health properly and helping healing adequately.

What do you know about the year 1830, whether in terms of politics, industry, or otherwise?

Perhaps you prefer to explore history through satire and fashion.

How do you imagine Queen Adelaide in 1830, or soon afterwards?

What, if anything, would she have known about Dante's Inferno, Dürer's Knight, Death and the Devil, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Lydgate's Troy Book, Ovid's Ars amatoria, the history of medicine and the history of meteorology?
 


What does protecting health properly mean in practice?

What does helping healing adequately really mean?

How do you usually ascertain meaningfulness and distinguish it from meaninglessness?

How do you distinguish between an alleged witch and a real danger?

How do you distinguish between the necessity of fact, the art of fiction and the politics of disinformation?

What do you know about the history of uroscopy?

What do you know about being pissed off? 

What do you know about taking the piss?

What do you know about urine and urination?

What do you know about urea and beliefs about vitalism?

What is your preferred approach to debunking false beliefs?

What is your preferred approach to sharing factual information?

How do you distinguish between important moments in chemistry and the history of alchemy?

How do you distinguish between bigotry and artistry?

What is your acquaintance with chiaroscuro?

What is your acquaintance with artistic representations of liberty?

What is your acquaintance with the theory of evolution?

What have you discovered about alternatives to Darwinian evolution?

What do you know about superseded theories in science? 

What do you know about at least a few of the latest scientific findings?


 

While there are many possible interpretations of artistic conjurings and alleged romantic relationships, gossip is not healthy, and nor is jealousy.

Perhaps you are hoping to use this grimoire for the purposes of historical re-enactment.

Are you aware that it is very dangerous to re-enact past health problems, diseases and injuries, and purported remedies?

What do you know about authenticity in relation to healing?

What is your acquaintance with quackery?

What do you know about authenticity in relation to rural history, folklore museums and folk museums? 

What is your acquaintance with fakelore?

What do you know about authenticity in art?

How do you judge artistic merit, and for what reasons?

How do you interpret the workings of individual minds, in any context?

How do you interpret the workings of minds in groups and crowds and governments?



What is your acquaintance with the carnivalesque?

What is your acquaintance with the history of quarantine?

What do you know about pest houses, leper colonies and lazarets?

What do you know about preventing and controlling infections and encouraging the associated essential hygiene measures?

Do you usually assume that strangers may be carrying contagious diseases?

Do you usually assume that you could be carrying one or more contagious diseases?

Protecting health properly and helping healing adequately is associated with the development of a reputable, scientific consensus.

What is your acquaintance with the biology of immunity?

Protecting health properly and helping healing adequately is also associated with medical ethics, particularly in terms of public health.

What is your acquaintance with the prevention of illness and injury?

The difference between science and all other explanations of events is that science depends for its credibility entirely upon observable, verifiable evidence and the accurate analysis and skeptical assessment of methodologies and claimed findings.

Wonderful witches consistently practice the scientific method with adequate objectivity.  They do so to help improve quality of life, particularly for persons with very little, if any, quality in their lives.

How do you usually assess quality in terms of life and thought and feeling and meaning?

All protective activities are actually political activities, as are all harm-causing activities.

Protective activities are associated with knowledge and beneficence.

Harmful activities are associated with ignorance and malevolence.

Much harm is caused when gullibility and hubris are mistaken for knowledge and beneficence.

Gullibility is associated with ignorance.

Hubris is associated with malevolence.

Both are a consequence of delusion.

You are unlikely to interpret this grimoire accurately if you are gullible.  There are no superstitions associated with this work.

What is your acquaintance with the history of science?

What is your acquaintance with the history and ethics of herd immunity?

What is your acquaintance with the politics of ignorance and hubris?

How do you tell the difference between:

a) The relatively inclusive, intellectual and international scientific community, guided by the Spirit of Enlightenment, and 

b) The many specialist and exclusive scientific communities, influenced by their traditions and prestige and the careers of their past and present members?

How, if at all, have you been guided by the Spirit of Enlightenment?



What is your acquaintance with the superseded theories of luminiferous aether and miasma?

How do you tell the difference between the superseded theory of astronomical geocentrism and the most credible political theory and political practice of geocentric policy making?

Why are political election campaigns mostly carnivalesque?

What do you know about the history of germ theory?

What is your acquaintance with the history of epidemiology, particularly in relation to virology?

What have you discovered about public policy through the history of epidemics and pandemics?

Which techniques do you use for the analysis of policies?

Which techniques to you use for making important decisions?

How do you tell whether a decision is important or not?

How do you develop and maintain the necessary procedures when seeking particular outcomes and preventing unwanted ones?

When do you know it is necessary to assess authorial intent very carefully indeed and when do you know it is possible to disregard it?

The implied purpose of any enlightened practice is constant improvement in terms of knowledge and ethics.

Wonderful witches are not only scientifically aware but historically aware, socially aware, and politically aware.  Indeed, many wonderful witches practice polymathy.

What do you practice, and why?

Comments

Post a Comment