BIO
Gerard Owmby
Teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique, recertified
Instructed March 1969 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Teacher Training Humboldt 1970 and Majorca 1971-72
B.A. Maharishi Ayurved
M.S. Vedic Science
Ph.D. Technologies of World Peace
Photographs by the author
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Ayurved ("the knowledge of life") is complete. It is an alternative to nothing. For those who view Ayurved as primitive medicine, as merely another form of oil massage and herbal formulas, consider that nadi vigyan, the Ayurvedic method of pulse diagnosis, can detect disruptions in the organ systems and detect imbalances in the most fundamental levels of the physiology to allow much earlier detection of imbalance before the disease arises on the surface of the body. Disease is a late-stage indicator that the physiology has been out of balance for some time. By using the ancient techniques handed down in the Vaidya tradition of India, we can restore the state of perfect balance in the physiology. These techniques have been time tested for millennia with thousands of physicians and millions of patients. If any other system of medicine works, then that system is Ayurvedic. Ayurved is the only medicine.
While it's true that modern methods of diagnosis using computers and complex stainless steel instruments have been of great utility in our present age, again these methods allow only for manipulation of late stage disease. Ayurvedic medicine doesn’t even concern itself so much with the disease itself, instead targeting a much deeper level of the physiology, to tendencies in the body, and then to the very basis of matter itself––pure consciousness.
The more deeply we examine the deeper layers of creation, the more power we discover, from the gross surface level, to the molecular level, to the atomic level, each stage revealing greater power of the laws of nature. The more we utilize those deeper levels of life, the more we bring powerful effects in the physiology. The deeper it is, the more powerful it is.
In spite of all of the problems with modern medicine, no one can argue that surgery and emergency care have progressed tremendously in our technological age. These are two areas where modern medicine excels. But even these two fields of medicine were once part of Ayurved, having been supplanted by modern physicians in India. Had it not been for the British invasion of India and the encroachment of western medicine, India would still be practicing Ayurvedic surgery today.
Contrary to modern views of Indian history, ancient India was a highly developed civilization. Ancient historical manuscripts picture surgical instruments identical to those used by surgeons today. Their ancient texts describe a highly advanced society with documentation of the interior of the atom, the speed of light, and the distances between galaxies.
In the typical Eurocentric view, William Harvey (1578-1657) was long recognized as the first to describe pulmonary circulation. More recently though, historians had corrected this perspective to give that honor to Michael Servetus (1511-1553) and then later to Ibn Al-afis (1213-1288). Historians should keep looking back. Although Egypt and other ancient civilizations used surgery, the most ancient precise description of pulmonary circulation comes from Sushrut in the 6th century BCE, and Ayurved existed long before. More fundamentally, ancient Ayurvedic physicians described three qualities of the body, the doshas (meaning decay), as manifestations of the five mahabhutas, which, according to Unified Field physicist John Hagelin, correspond with subatomic particle spin.
The ancient Vaidyas had a sophisticated view of healing encompassing not just the disease itself, but the patient’s diet, emotions, and environment. They constructed hospitals specially designed to nurture and promote life. They even instructed patients to live in precisely shaped homes. Builders constructed hospitals from wood from the immediate environment and each year they burned down the hospital and then rebuilt, partly to destroy microorganisms, and partly to dissolve the thoughts and emotions embedded in the walls of the building.
Over the centuries, the knowledge of these methods of self-healing and of strengthening the physiology faded almost to extinction. In the late Nineteenth Century, Louis Pasteur convinced most of Europe of the efficacy of the pathogenic theory of medicine, a warlike tactic of fighting outside invaders, the method embraced by all of modern medicine with the use of pharmaceuticals, synthetic compounds which in many cases only mask symptoms and have many dangerous side-effects. Even their invasive diagnostic procedures can be dangerous. The tragedy of modern medicine’s dependency on poisonous chemicals leaves them with only two valuable contributions––emergency care and surgery, which accounts of only about ten percent of what wellness should be. Ayurved provides us with the remaining ninety percent revived and corrected in this generation by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who brought it to the west in 1980.
AYURVEDA IS NOT ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Ayurveda, more properly called Ayurved, is often described as over 5,000 years old. In truth, it is eternal, sprung from the impulses of creative intelligence that underlie everything in creation, beyond time and space. The laws of nature that govern everything in the universe are the same laws which make up the knowledge of Ayurved and the human physiology. This is the foundation of Ayurved.
Ayurved ("the knowledge of life") is complete. It is an alternative to nothing. For those who view Ayurved as primitive medicine, as merely another form of oil massage and herbal formulas, consider that nadi vigyan, the Ayurvedic method of pulse diagnosis, can detect disruptions in the organ systems and detect imbalances in the most fundamental levels of the physiology to allow much earlier detection of imbalance before the disease arises on the surface of the body. Disease is a late-stage indicator that the physiology has been out of balance for some time. By using the ancient techniques handed down in the Vaidya tradition of India, we can restore the state of perfect balance in the physiology. These techniques have been time tested for millennia with thousands of physicians and millions of patients. If any other system of medicine works, then that system is Ayurvedic. Ayurved is the only medicine.
While it's true that modern methods of diagnosis using computers and complex stainless steel instruments have been of great utility in our present age, again these methods allow only for manipulation of late stage disease. Ayurvedic medicine doesn’t even concern itself so much with the disease itself, instead targeting a much deeper level of the physiology, to tendencies in the body, and then to the very basis of matter itself––pure consciousness.
The more deeply we examine the deeper layers of creation, the more power we discover, from the gross surface level, to the molecular level, to the atomic level, each stage revealing greater power of the laws of nature. The more we utilize those deeper levels of life, the more we bring powerful effects in the physiology. The deeper it is, the more powerful it is.
In spite of all of the problems with modern medicine, no one can argue that surgery and emergency care have progressed tremendously in our technological age. These are two areas where modern medicine excels. But even these two fields of medicine were once part of Ayurved, having been supplanted by modern physicians in India. Had it not been for the British invasion of India and the encroachment of western medicine, India would still be practicing Ayurvedic surgery today.
Contrary to modern views of Indian history, ancient India was a highly developed civilization. Ancient historical manuscripts picture surgical instruments identical to those used by surgeons today. Their ancient texts describe a highly advanced society with documentation of the interior of the atom, the speed of light, and the distances between galaxies.
In the typical Eurocentric view, William Harvey (1578-1657) was long recognized as the first to describe pulmonary circulation. More recently though, historians had corrected this perspective to give that honor to Michael Servetus (1511-1553) and then later to Ibn Al-afis (1213-1288). Historians should keep looking back. Although Egypt and other ancient civilizations used surgery, the most ancient precise description of pulmonary circulation comes from Sushrut in the 6th century BCE, and Ayurved existed long before. More fundamentally, ancient Ayurvedic physicians described three qualities of the body, the doshas (meaning decay), as manifestations of the five mahabhutas, which, according to Unified Field physicist John Hagelin, correspond with subatomic particle spin.
The ancient Vaidyas had a sophisticated view of healing encompassing not just the disease itself, but the patient’s diet, emotions, and environment. They constructed hospitals specially designed to nurture and promote life. They even instructed patients to live in precisely shaped homes. Builders constructed hospitals from wood from the immediate environment and each year they burned down the hospital and then rebuilt, partly to destroy microorganisms, and partly to dissolve the thoughts and emotions embedded in the walls of the building.
Over the centuries, the knowledge of these methods of self-healing and of strengthening the physiology faded almost to extinction. In the late Nineteenth Century, Louis Pasteur convinced most of Europe of the efficacy of the pathogenic theory of medicine, a warlike tactic of fighting outside invaders, the method embraced by all of modern medicine with the use of pharmaceuticals, synthetic compounds which in many cases only mask symptoms and have many dangerous side-effects. Even their invasive diagnostic procedures can be dangerous. The tragedy of modern medicine’s dependency on poisonous chemicals leaves them with only two valuable contributions––emergency care and surgery, which accounts of only about ten percent of what wellness should be. Ayurved provides us with the remaining ninety percent revived and corrected in this generation by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who brought it to the west in 1980.
