By John Ohm, Certified GNM Clinician
For a long time, we have been taught to think of the body as an unconscious machine, subject only to the forces of chemistry and physics. In this model, we are compelled to map the body at the micro-level, to uncover chemical models and equations that might help us control biology in an effort to achieve health over disease.
No doubt, many important discoveries and revelations have been made, thanks to this mechanistic approach. However, it has always only ever been “one half” of the equation of biology.
The “other half” is the approach to biology beginning with an understanding of life from within the context of the psyche and our emotional/mental life experiences. In this context, the “body-as-a-machine” is a woefully limited analogy, where at the very least, the body should be understood as a “conscious machine,” quite aware, in its own way, of our experiences in life and what they mean for us as unique individuals and for our survival.
The Classical Approach to Health
We’ve all had the experience of driving a car, and as our destination approaches, the car begins to falter; it starts making strange noises that are of concern, or perhaps it is extremely low on gas. The problem, however, doesn’t warrant a complete stop to the trip… Along the way, we almost instinctively try to “encourage” the car with positive talk: “Come on baby, you got this, we’re almost there” or “only a few miles to the gas station, you can do this!”
I’m reminded of a scene from the 3rd Matrix film, when near the end, a female protagonist, Naobi, pilots a futuristic hover-ship on a mission with Morpheus and the remaining crew, to get to Zion in time to save the human species. The ship is taking heavy damage due to the frenzied rush to Zion, and captain Naobi speaks to the ship (always with female pronouns): “Hold on baby…” or “She can do this!” It’s an emotional scene because it’s so relatable. And the ship, an unconscious, inanimate “piece of metal” becomes something we begin to actually root for. We in the audience feel, along with the crew, an urge to inspire the ship with strength, and resolve.
We can apply this analogy to the body, and in fact this is in large part how we have related to the body in history, up to the present day. We, as conscious beings, feel there are times where we need to inspire and “root for” the body to improve its mechanical operations. Either we try to inspire the body with well-wishes and emotional encouragement, which some might see as “mystico-magical thinking,” or we take other approaches, such as chemical and physical measures such as injecting or altering the body with substances we believe will “help” the body succeed. No doubt, the body needs many things—food, minerals, water, movement, shelter. This is all common sense.
Within this context of supporting the body, chemically, physically, or emotionally, we can now begin to understand how the Germanic New Medicine (GNM) fits in as something that’s really fundamentally new. So much so, that it’s valid to call the GNM a major “paradigm shift” or evolutionary step in the human species’ understanding of life.
Instead of simply “supporting” the body, we are learning to “align” with the body, under the newfound recognition that the body expresses an intelligence that is profoundly attuned to the life experiences and story of an individual.
Conscious Biology
Keeping the analogy intact that we are conscious beings “in a body,” what the GNM is really showing us is that “we” have been the ones largely unconscious of what’s going on… while the body has been marvelously conscious and aware.
Thinking of captain Naobi on the hover-ship, the situation is as though Naobi has been asleep at the wheel (along with the rest of the crew) while the ship–the body–is the one who’s very conscious and aware that there is a specific, necessary goal in sight to be attained.
In the movie, it would be as though the ship were the one who knows that to achieve the goal (saving humanity), it is necessary to speed up, increase energy expenditure, scrape along the metal edges of a track, augment certain mechanical functions, etc, etc, even if it means compromising the ship’s integrity. The ship says, “I can hold… but boy I wish the crew were awake to help me!”
Imagine for a moment that this is the situation in biology. Your body is aware, and particularly conscious, of a specific challenge facing your life story, and it is attempting to overcome that challenge in your story by augmenting certain cellular functions, enacting organic changes that create a compromising advantage… all the while, “you,” who believed yourself to be the only conscious pilot in town, is really the one who has been unaware of the story; unaware of the underlying problem or challenge that is causing the cellular changes.
All that you know (like the rest of us, prior to learning GNM) is that there is “damage” or “turbulence” happening in the body which we may call “disease”.
In life, we may experience the body “filling up with fluid”; the lung alveoli “growing cells,” the thyroid forming a “nodule”…. We label these phenomena as pathologies: “Anuria,” “lung cancer,” “thyroid cancer”–each label a description of the organic changes happening. But we have been unaware (unconscious) of any intelligent reason for these changes. We have never entertained the idea that the body could be “doing” these things to serve an intelligent goal or purpose specific to us and our life experiences.
We, in our limited awareness have, until now, just interpreted these changes as “malignancies” or “errors” or “damage.”
The Germanic New Medicine is such a major paradigm shift, because it brings us to the frontier of consciousness about what is going on beneath the symptoms in our bodies. It is helping us “wake up” to the reality that the body is actually “doing” something intelligent, for the sake of something meaningful in our life! And, as a result of this profound revelation, we are waking up to become “conscious pilots” again in this story of ours.
The Greatest Gift of the Gods
If you simply imagine the difference between a ship “piloted” by someone largely unconscious, and the same ship piloted by someone who is conscious, then you’ll understand how valuable the Germanic New Medicine is for any individual. It gives each of us new consciousness, aligning us with the body’s intelligent goal! And being thus aligned, we realize how much we can do that previously would have gone unaddressed.
In all of this, we can come to realize what a pleasure and what an honor it is to be part of this “mothership” of conscious biology, and to take part in overcoming the challenges that are underlying our body’s intentional cellular changes. What a gift, to align and merge with the intelligence of Nature.
This appreciation for Nature stands in stark contrast to the previous paradigms, which essentially “curse” the body, enacting rituals that create war with the body (and greater dis-ease), under the belief that Nature is a faulty machine at odds with us.
To become conscious of the biological intelligence operating behind any given symptom, is, as Dr. Hamer described, “the greatest gift from the Gods.” It opens the door to a new horizon. And sometimes, just becoming conscious of this—gaining an understanding of the challenge we face and when and where that challenge began in our life story—is enough to make the necessary difference in biology, where by aligning our psyche with biology we engender a rebirth in our health expression.
Conclusion
Once we realize all that we can “do” when we are aware of the life challenges specifically underlying our biological shifts in expression, then we find ourselves standing at the threshold of something amazing: A new era in healthcare, and indeed, something much, much more… We are standing at the threshold of a reunion with Mother Nature, and a merging of ourselves with the power and the wisdom of the Earth.