Why Open Heart Shocks People
My open-heart surgery shocked me. Many are startled by the workings of the heart, for its secrets are hidden and its trials unknown. What is seen as surgery or intervention is but a manifestation of knowledge that humbles the unaware and enlightens the seeker. MODERN INVENTIONS, MODERN ILLNESSES, AND MODERN MAN: In today’s world, new inventions emerge each day, and things once unknown now shape every life. With the advancement of civilization come new afflictions, and physicians often describe them as chronic yet undiagnosed. In earlier times, these ailments did not exist, for the human body had never been exposed to the materials and substances that fill modern households. As a result, these conditions remain largely unnamed and poorly understood. Yet in those simpler times, there was no plastic, no flood of synthetic poisons. Now, chemicals invade every home, i n kitchens and bathrooms, in fields and farms, absorbed by plants, by crops, and carried in the very air we...