Fighting with Love
When you chant and drum for a while you go into an ecstatic trance. When you are in the ecstatic trance state, your brain and body chemisty changes. The longer you chant and drum, the longer you remain in that state.
I read somewhere that
parasites thrive on the chemicals that are released when people are anxious, angry, frustrated and afraid. (This would support Shrooms observation that anti-psychotic drugs are helpful in controlling them.)
You can't be anxious, angry, frustrated or afraid when you are in an ecstatic trance.
Ecstatic trance state is what the Cherokees mean by restoring balance. Chanting and drumming for 12 hours in ecstasy gives the herbal medicine time to work on the
parasites while they are inactivated due to the trance state.
Chanting is kind of like drumming inside your own head. When you repeat certain words over and over, you are sending a vibrational signal to the brain. When the words are in praise of the Creator, you naturally think of the creator when you sing them. Focusing and concentrating on the creator, instead of dwelling in fear of
parasites trying to consume you, is a very important aspect of getting well. Rygar would probably agree with this.
Everybody is looking for the silver bullet that will eradicate parasites from their bodies. But what if the only thing that will make the body an inhospitable host, is creating a ceremonial lifestyle that allows people to live in an ecstatic trance?
What if we can't sit back and wait for the scientists to design a pill we can take to cure us and protect us? What if the only hope is to remain in a natural alpha state 24/7? Sure there are psychotic drugs that will put you in alpha. But, once again, they are patented and they have limitations.
Shamans use psychotropic plants to introduce people to the spiritual planes because psychotropics provide nourishment to the portion of the brain that is capable of spiritual perception and understanding. Shamans say that there is wisdom in the plant, and when you consume the plant, you gain the wisdom. Pharmaceutical psychotropics simulate a feeling of ecstasy, without imparting spiritual wisdom. It is like showing up at the wedding without a wedding garment.
Shamans teach people how to attain and maintain ecstatic state via chanting and drumming. Their students gain a feeling of spiritual ecstasy from having a psychotropic experience, and get the nutrition they need so their brain can begin to develop. Then they learn how to create and generate this on their on by chanting and drumming and meditating. The brain is like a dormant seed, psychotropic plants have the ability to cause rapid germination. But the individual has to water and care for the seed in order to cultivate it's fruit. Brains can and will "germinate" without psychotropic substances, but it takes a lot longer, and some will simply remain eternally dormant, because they lack enough of the proper nutrition, the internal chemistry to initiate comprehension. Pharmaceutical psychotropics are highy refined, unnatural and incomplete. They simply create dependency.
Scientists who "invented" synthetic vitamin C thought they had come up with a wonderful idea, too, but it didn't work. What they discovered instead was that vitamin C doesn't work without the associated bioflavinoids. Plants substances had to be added to the synthetic vitamin C molecules in order for the body to detect and use the synthetic vitamin C. It is same for all synthesized medicines. That is also why they have so many side effects. They are incomplete. Nature created parasites and only natural substances can eradicate them. Nature always programs for success. We are complex for a reason. If we begin to utilize and activate our spiritual potential, parasites will no longer be attracted to us. They are out to kill that which is already dead. Only spirit is eternal.
Yes it would be nice if there was a one-a-day that would put us into alpha state and keep us there, so parasites couldn't view us as hosts. But the only viable solution is to transform our ownselves into the highest form of human being, at one with the creator, impervious to parasitic infection. And no pill or plant will be able to do that for us. There is no way to get around doing our own internal work. In order to get well and stay well, we have to be eager to get up every morning and kiss the ground the creator has provided for us to walk on; we have to thank the creator for another day before we fall asleep at night; we have to chant and sing praise for the gift of life. It's grattitude for the gift of life that will ultimately sustain life and make us inhospitable hosts.
Guh Gay You Eee
A Dah Gay You Dee
A Dah Gah Ooo Aay
Chee Luh Quo Dee
Chee Chee Chee Chee
These are Cherokee Words for Love
Take a big dose of Anti-Parasiticals every day for a week and then Chant the words while you drum. Once the parasites are gone, chant 12 hours per day every day for the rest of your life and they will never come back. What if that is the only "cure"?
Most of us will continue to do routine maintenence and eventually succumb.