Maybe Bob Dylan Was a Prophet!
In his short-lived excursion into Christianity highlighted in his 1979 “Slow Train” album, Bob Dylan wrote, “You got unrighteous doctors dealing drugs that’ll never cure your ills.” Have you ever noticed that ever since that Dylan era, in America we have largely treated our cancers with cancer-causing agencies? We have employed chemicals–known carcinogens. Then, radiation–an admitted cause of cancer. Then surgery–somewhat akin to “getting rid of your headache by getting rid of your head,” while often spreading the cancer cells around. All the while, much of our symptom-treating approach to disease sprang from the philosophical promise of ”deliverance from the consequences of our sins without touching the sins.” What a glorious bargain! Our contemporary physician says to the hooker: “Here, take this pill for your STD and go on living as you will.” Jesus said to the harlot of his day: “Go and sin no more.”
Maybe Dylan was a prophet, and, thank goodness, some have heeded his message. Now we are told that 79 percent of our doctors and 82% of our nurses are recommending nutritional supplementation, and more appointments are being booked with alternative physicians than with the formerly “orthodox” allopathic ones. Even the U. S. Congress has weighed in with it’s Dietary Supplementation Health and Education Act, which states, “There is a link between the ingestion of certain nutrients or dietary supplements and the prevention of chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.” Even though we are still in the schizophrenic transitional period where modern physicians are still mixing immune-suppressing chemo and radiation with their immune-building nutritional cocktails, we can be encouraged that the new interest in wellness has begun to build momentum.
