In the past forty years, the number of diseases and ailments afflicting human beings have been growing at an accelerated pace. What’s more – it’s not only traditional diseases and ailments that have a clear viral or biological foundation, such as AIDS or the Ebola virus. The past few decades have witnessed an explosion of afflictions that have bewildered the orthodox medical community. That’s because, even with their best efforts, medical researchers haven’t been able to find a link between known pathogens and the symptoms of the afflictions. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or CFS is one of them.
CFS is a debilitating disorder characterized by profound fatigue which the medical community estimates afflicts millions of people worldwide. CFS is not improved by bed rest and may become worse with physical or mental activity. The parameters of the disease accepted by the medical authorities have not been well-defined. Although there is agreement that, in order to be diagnosed with CFS, a patient must suffer from the ailment for six months or longer and have four or more of the following symptoms: impairment of short-term memory and-or concentration, sore throat, tender lymph glands, muscle pain, multi-joint pain without swelling and redness, headaches, restless sleep and post-exercise fatigue lasting more than 24 hours. In most cases, the fatigue associated with CFS is severe enough to restrict activity.
Some sufferers of CFS experience additional symptoms, including abdominal pain, bloating, chest pain, panic attacks dry eyes and-or mouth, earache, nausea, night sweats, depression, anxiety, etc.
Some researchers originally tried to link CFS to a virus, but no firm association has been established. Others theorize that stress or environmental toxins trigger the illness. Still others think CFS is caused by some sort of autoimmune response or a general immunologic dysfunction.
CFS is Nothing New
To date, the medical community has found no biological cause for CFS. That hasn’t stopped health professionals from treating the symptoms individually with antiviral drugs and medications designed to reduce pain, discomfort, fever, depression and anxiety. These remedies, though effective to a degree, often cause other symptoms or problems unrelated to CFS, which can be even more debilitating.
A study of historical medical literature turns up conditions similar to CFS, which were treated in a similar way. In 1869, a disease akin to CFS known as ‘Neurasthenia’ was described in a medical text and treated with herbs and pharmaceutical medicine.
Why Failure Makes Sense
Western medicine’s failure to find the cause of the disease makes sense for two reasons which hinge on one another. Medical practitioners, en masse, don’t accept that a cause-and-effect relationship exists between physical and non-physical dimensions like their brethren in physics (think Superstring theory), and they don’t accept that subtle diseases are contagious – and that people who’ve integrated distorted fields of energy and consciousness into their body, soul and spirit can project elements of these fields into other people – infecting them with the same ailments that afflict them. It’s these failings that lie at the root of orthodox medicine’s inability to treat CFS effectively.
It’s interesting to note that Chinese medical texts recognized that the disease had a non-physical connection, centuries ago. They describe a condition much like CFS, known as 'Yin Deficiency.’ Extreme fatigue and sensitivity to cold are symptoms of the disease. So are muscle weakness, fatigue after exercise, cough, decreased appetite and muscle pain. The main cause of Yin Deficiency was thought to be an intrusion of negative Chi (distorted subtle energy) that disrupted the flow of life-affirming energy, including chi and jing (the essence of chi), through the human energy system.
Traditional Chinese practitioners have treated Yin Deficiency with herbal and homeopathic remedies designed to build Yin essence (Jing) and enhance Yang function. Acupuncture and traditional Oriental dietary therapy and Yoga have also been used to treat individual symptoms and restore vitality.
In spite of the fact that orthodox medicine has little to offer patients and Chinese medicine merely provides a method to restore chi, some CFS sufferers experience a reduction of symptoms even without treatment. Others experience cyclic periods of illness and relative well-being. There are sufferers who recover completely with time and some who grow progressively worse.
Let’s Start with the Basics
To understand why the condition of some patients improves while others worsen, let’s begin with some basic facts: Each human being has a subtle field that interpenetrates their physical-material body. The subtle field is composed of a series of interpenetrating fields of consciousness and subtle energy.
These fields along with the subtle organs and systems that support them have functions which most people mistakenly believe are performed exclusively by the physical-material body.
The functions I’m referring to include transmitting consciousness and energy, interacting with other living organisms, participating in intimate relationships and reacting to both positive and negative stimuli on both the physical-material and non-physical dimensions.
In order to carry out these functions, the subtle field must be continuously nourished by natural foods, clean air and from the vast reservoir of subtle consciousness and energy that Perusha (universal consciousness) and Prakriti (energy with universal qualities) supply in abundance to every human being.
Perusha enhances awareness and the functions of the inductive and deductive mind. Prakriti energizes the subtle field, its organs and vehicles and the physical-material body so that they can perform their prescribed functions without interruption.
On the level of soul, these functions are performed primarily by subtle organs known as chakras (vortexes), nadis (channels) and auric fields (reservoirs).
On the level of spirit, they are performed by energy gates (vortexes), meridians (channels), dantians and their smaller supporting cavities, and auric fields (reservoirs).
When Things Go South
If the functions of these organs are disrupted long enough by the intrusion of distorted fields and non-physical beings, then a condition marked by the same symptoms as CFS can be observed.
In most cases of CFS, the disruption of the subtle field begins in early childhood with the weakening of subtle boundaries caused by physical trauma, sexual abuse and-or neglect.
Subtle boundaries surround all vortexes, cavities and auric fields. They have two main functions. They separate the subtle field from the external environment, and they defend the subtle field against the intrusion of non-physical beings and distorted fields of energy and consciousness.
Unfortunately, a buildup of distorted fields and the intrusion of non-physical beings will interfere with the ability of subtle boundaries to carry out these functions – and they will create symptoms that are identical to those attributed to CFS by the orthodox medical community.
This explains the confusion experienced by medical authorities who still attribute the symptoms of CFS to physical pathogens and-or some other unidentified physical influence.
Overcoming CFS
By recognizing the cause-and-effect relationship between the symptoms of CFS and the non-physical universe, it’s possible to develop a method that can heal the ailment where it originates on the subtle levels. The method has three essential parts.
Part 1: For many people, the first part of the healing process may require a significant life-style change. That’s because the victim of CFS must stop engaging in activities that are self-destructive and that trap them in negative patterns of behavior. The sufferer must also recognize that freedom is not a license to do whatever they want. Many of the things people want are motivated by the same distorted fields and non-physical beings that create the symptoms of CFS.
What’s Sartre have to Do With It
Sartre famously declared, ‘Hell is other people.’ In one respect, he was right because dependent and controlling relationships also contribute to CFS. For the sufferer of CFS, these types of relationships are clear no-goes; so are relationships that are exhausting, make the sufferer feel weak and incompetent or not worthwhile.
The symptoms these relationships create, which are often the precursor of CFS, have their foundation in distorted fields and non-physical beings projected by people who are trapped in self-limiting patterns and who, at least on the subtle levels, demand that other people participate with them in these destructive relationships. Since the victim of CFS must reduce the amount of distorted energy and consciousness that is projected into their personal space, the space occupied by their physical-material body and their subtle field of energy and consciousness, the sufferer must distance themselves from people who engage in these self-limiting relationships or who are emotionally or physically violent, vindictive or inordinately dependent on them.
Part 2: A regimen of exercises to enhance the flow of life-affirming consciousness and energy through the subtle field is the next part of the healing process. A successful regimen should include exercises that enhance the functions of the chakras, on the level of soul, and the energy gates, on the level of spirit.
Hatha yoga is useful – so is Pranayama (Yogic breathing exercises) and exercises that center the sufferer in their authentic mind. Shiatsu massage, acupuncture and mudras can also be useful. At least at the beginning, rest is essential, particularly periods of mental rest which can be achieved through meditation.
Part 3: In the third part of the healing process, the sufferer will need to strengthen their boundaries. Boundaries can be strengthened in several ways; the sufferer can take responsibility for their decisions and activities by trusting their own intuition and discernment instead of putting their trust in an outside authority such as the Church, government or circle of friends. Commitments to no longer interact with non-physical beings are useful and will have an immediate and permanent effect on the health of their subtle boundaries.
Removing subtle projections and intrusions will accelerate the process even further. Anyone suffering from CFS should meet regularly with a practitioner who has the knowledge and skill to release distorted fields of consciousness, energy and non-physical beings that have intruded into their subtle field.