Introduction

I have spent over a decade immersed in the alternative health care world, starting from mine and my family's venture into vegetarianism and health care through herbs and nutrition in '96. What we found was not only a better understanding of health and the body, but a whole new understanding of many different things in our lives. As if the mere choice to refrain from meat eating and junk foods really did open up 'treasures of knowledge'. Many of the things I've learned have become more widespread in the past decade, though many things are still hidden from mainstream society and only found by those who go out of their way to seek it.
The title of this blog is Seeing Through a Glass Clearly, a play off of the scripture that talks about 'seeing through a glass darkly'. It seemed fitting because so much of what we grow up learning in our society is just a social programming and not necessarily the full truth or correct understanding of things. Those who go along with the way society runs may have it easier in some ways, they have those around them to support and agree with their understanding of things, but in other ways they are not entirely free. One example of this is their understanding of disease and the body. If disease happens by chance, and their health is entirely in the hands of doctors with limited treatments, the person doesn't have full control over this aspect of their life. They are dependent upon the doctor in many ways, and on the belief that prevention of disease is entirely out of their hands. Where I am going with this, is to show that society's mainstream beliefs and programming can actually put a veil over our eyes, whether intentionally or not. To 'see through a glass clearly' is to look into the other side of things we are taught, and to have truth unveiled in many forms, allowing us to grasp understanding that we never had the chance to grasp before because it wasn't taught to us.
To follow this blog may take a stretch of the mind, or a willingness to let go of some tightly held beliefs, if even just to open up to something that you'd never thought of before, or been willing to think of.
For those grounded in solid religious beliefs, I am still grounded to my own. I see no conflict in the understandings I have gained, in fact they resolidify my beliefs and bring greater understanding of them. Truth is truth and never conflicts - except in the world of quantum physics, where the seeming impossible can happen. But even then, one doesn't negate the other. Two opposing truths can co-exist. I won't get into quantum physics right now though.
I don't claim to know the truth of all things, but that which edifies, enlightens the understanding, and frees the soul to follow it's purpose counts as truth to me, and is what I wish to share.
I feel that it's time to teach and to share what I have spent years learning. I hope to bring understanding or at least some new thoughts to the surface. I am not seeking to be controversial just to be controversial, but in these matters, I don't expect to be received without some resistance.

Thanks for reading!