Hi Daniel,
You skipped completely over this aspect of Piers' question, and it has been something I've been meaning to ask you about ever since our conversation back in 2005. If you'd prefer not to make a public statement about this, I can understand. Feel free to PM or email if you would like privacy and have the inclination to respond to this question.
Piers Mackeown:
What (if any) aspects of what you have learned as truths (and not beliefs or speculation) about reality, are in direct contradiction to what is generally accepted in today's modern medical science? Is there anything that would be perceived as a "threat" by the orthodoxy?
More specifically, I wonder whether or not you have noticed areas in allopathic treatments that conflict (or perhaps are not as efficacious) with what you know about medicine and how the body works. One particularly vicious treatment that comes immediately to mind is the chemo-therapy used in cancer treatment as opposed to certain alternative (and perhaps more natural) treatments that might be pursued. I've been studying these things for the past several decades, and most assiduously in recent years (now that I've become older) and have been using some treatments (some with great success) that might be considered as "folk medicine" by some modern practitioners of the healing arts, simply because they were never taught it in med school or never experimented with it for themselves.
There are a few old-school docs out there who are doing groundbreaking work in keeping the old knowledge alive. One of the docs I listen to and follow in his daily email list is Dr. Joseph Mercola. Another is Dr. Al Sears, who has traveled the world in search of alternative natural healing techniques.
Just to give one example, I've been using garlic gel tabs for stave off common colds for years with a nearly 100% success rate (depending on when I first noticed the cold coming on and whether I did something about it at the time). The allicin compound in garlic is the active ingredient, it being a natural anti-biotic that has slayed many a cold virus attempting to take hold of my body. And just recently, I've successfully used it as an alternative to amoxicillin (the pharmaceutical alternative to penicillin) to handle tooth aches.
Anyway, would be interested in your observations if you are of a mind to reply.