I am currently (for the next few weeks at least) living in Arequipa, Peru, and working on a translation of the Theory of Cure, into Spanish.
Actualmente vivo en Arequipa, Perú, y trabajo en una traducción de la Teoría de la Cura al español. ¿Puede usted ayudar? Necesito ayuda de personas que hablen español e inglés para que me den sus opiniónes.
Can you help? I need help from people who speak Spanish, and English to give me feedback. You can provide feedback here in the comments, or by emailing me at tracychess@hotmail.com.
The draft paper, in Spanish, can be accessed at this link: Teoría de La Cura. If you wish, you an also view a version that contains both Spanish and English for each paragraph.
Any feedback you can provide is important to me. It might be useful to understand some of the challenges – even in the English version of the theory.
The first problem in creating a theory of cure is simply the meaning of cure. In English, most medical references have no definitions for cure, cures, curing, and cured – much less any standard medical definitions. Most medical references do not even provide a definition of cure. It turns out the same is true in Spanish.
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Have you ever been cured by an illegal medicine? I’m looking for stories. I know there are thousands of illegalicines, illegal medicines that can cure. Tell me your story.
I have begun a study of illegalicines: illegal cures. I have written about illegal medicines in the past, in several blog posts – without using the name illegalicines.
In 2010, I published the post Health Protection vs Health Freedom, in which I discussed how the producing and selling a Teddy Bear constructed with a microwavable rice warming pouch to comfort children was made ILLEGAL. All of the medically illegal Teddy Bears were confiscated by Health Canada. Shawn Buckley, who I heard speak on that issue continues his battles today, against the insidious growth of illegalicines. At the time, he was also speaking about True Hope nutritional supplements, which had managed to survive an legal court challenge due to a judges ruling that said “‘The Defendants were overwhelmingly compelled to disobey the D.I.N. regulation in order to protect the health, safety and well-being (of their clients)“.
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Modern medicine suffers from many different and severe cases of curanoia, fears of cures based on failures to understand cure. It’s not cure phobia, a phobia is an irrational fear without blame. Curanoia is easily and often rationalized and curers are often blamed. Curanoias exist in many forms, in every layer of our systems of modern medicine.
Modern medicine has no functional definition of cure, no theory of cure, and is simply unable to cure most diseases – unable even to recognize a cure when it occurs. Doctors are often not permitted to cure, restrained to a Standard of Care which makes no attempt to cure. Few diseases or medical conditions have a Standard of Cure.
A cure is a change in status. An illness or disease was present, and now it is not present. We often think of an illness as a thing, but no. An illness is more like the wind. Illness is something we can neither see nor touch – we might only see or touch its causes and consequences.
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Is healing curing? Is curing healing? Does caring cure? Does it heal? With the conceptual framework of the New Theory of Cure, we can look at these questions in a new light. In October 2023, I published a post on the differences between curing, caring, and healing, which – as often happens – led me to a much deeper thought. This resulted in a published paper that presents a complete framework for viewing and analyzing curing, caring and healing actions.
The paper is titled The Natural Evolution of Healing, Caring, and Curing and is published on Academia.edu as well as Researchgate.com..
The paper draws clear lines of distinction between
healing and curing – curing is intentional, healing is unconscious. Healing and curing are a gradation between conscious and unconscious actions.
caring and curing – curing requires addressing cause, caring generally addresses the consequences of illness and concerns of the ill person, only rarely addressing cause. When illnesses causes illness, curing the secondary illness is addressing the consequences of the first, even if the first is past or never cured.
healing and caring – healing comes from the individual acting upon themselves caring comes from their communities. All life forms live in communities and to some extent care for each other.
The paper compares different healing, curing, and caring actions based on these definitions and explores gradations between each pair. Healing, for example is always a curative action, but curing is not healing, although it often supports and almost always requires healing for completion. Caring is sometimes curing, sometimes not. Curing – is sometimes a caring action, and sometimes not depending on the case, the goals, and the actions undertaken.
The paper also notes that
The paper concludes with a diagram that brings healing, caring, and curing into a single framework that illustrates the relationships between the three and how they overlap.
What do you think? I’d love to read your thoughts about these ideas and the paper.
to your health, tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure
