When Healing Becomes Educating, Vol. 2 - Waldorf Research Institute
When Healing Becomes Educating, Vol. 2 - Waldorf Research Institute
When Healing Becomes Educating, Vol. 2 - Waldorf Research Institute
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This is the aspect referred to by the fifth physician, who had maintained<br />
that diseases are sent by God. It could be a pointer to the destiny aspect.<br />
The life and work of a number of great people can make us aware of this:<br />
Dostoevsky and his epilepsy, Van Gogh and his madness, Beethoven and<br />
his deafness, Paul Klee and his sclerodermatitis that is revealed so movingly<br />
and with such greatness in his later works. Many great things have developed<br />
in people who have been forced to come to terms with a disease. It could<br />
become part of the task of a physician who trusts in a great scheme of things<br />
to promote this personal growth in a patient.<br />
Finally we have to say that anthroposophic medicine, founded by Rudolf<br />
Steiner in 1920 when he gave his first course of lectures to members of<br />
the medical profession, is a young science. It has spread considerably since<br />
then, and in Germany about 30,000 patients are treated in anthroposophic<br />
hospitals each year, but this is only a beginning. With reference to ether<br />
body, astral body and ego, it will take a long time for professional knowledge<br />
to be developed that can compare with the admirable science achieved in<br />
conventional medicine in regard to the physical structure of the body.<br />
You will therefore find much conventional medicine in anthroposophic<br />
practices and clinics. Indeed, anthroposophic medicine currently poses<br />
more questions than it can answer. But they are questions well worth asking.<br />
Thomas McKeen, MD (1953-1993)<br />
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