Medical doctors and psychiatrists share an ever growing concern for not only the exaggerated claims that psychiatric drugs will cure mental problems and conditions, and excessive prescribing of them but because of increasing evidence of their capacity to inflict irrevocable harm. Because of recent regulations in America and Britain regarding the treatment of children with mind drugs, all children are at risk.
Efforts to explore, to understand, and to heal the mental disturbances that many humans experience, have been left in the past to two separate mainstreams of science – neurobiology and cognitive psychology. The work on the former focuses upon the brain itself and the latter upon the science of the human mind and psyche.
At present the science of healing certain physical conditions through the use of particular aromatics is receiving considerable attention in aromatherapy, as in the more subtle sphere of mind-changing influences in conjunction with psychotherapy. The the science demonstrates that there are fundamental properties and chemical processes that provide reliable common results that allow us to use a range of aromatics for certain purposes.
The vastness of the universe is only gradually comprehended – our home, our country, the whole earth, other planets, our solar system and so on. That our whole sun and solar system is so minute a place in just our galaxy, the Milky Way and that there are literally millions of other galaxies, becomes increasingly a concept to grasp. To return to our system, our planet and our little personal home in contrast provides relief and should make us intent to use our energies to further human life quali
There are so many negative issues we recognize as associated with modern life in western countries. These matters and others also needing improvement, exist in the developing world. These issues make it impossible to rest in the sense that humanity is progressing in real terms and that we are safe.
