What I Mean when I Say "Using Magic to Heal"

Part 2 of "Getting Curious About Covid and Magic"

Apr 11, 2024

This is a continuation of my previous article, “Getting Curious About Covid and Magic”. If you have not read that piece, PLEASE do so before continuing to read this one. In THIS article, I will not be repeating myself or including necessary context that I have already addressed in part 1. What you are reading right now will further explain the details and theory behind using magic to heal illness. Unlike “Getting Curious About Covid and Magic,” this article will mostly be a retelling of the theory, science, and history behind the type of magic I referenced previously. My OWN personal opinion on these modalities will not be given in unless explicitly made known otherwise. I will expand further on my opinions in part 3 which I will share with y’all in the near future.

Before we dive into the nitty gritty, I do have to shout out my amazing teachers and friends Qiddist Ashé and Maura Sternberg who both co-mother The Womb Room, an online space that supports “women in orienting to energetic sovereignty through body literacy, spiritual alchemy and embodied practice.” Basically, The Womb Room is where I was first introduced to the concepts I will explain here. If you live in a female body and feel deep resonance after reading this, then I encourage you to check the space out. ‘Chrysalis,’ the first year of the program, closes for enrollment before April 23, and need-based scholarship applications close this coming Monday (April 15). They’re hosting a FREE virtual open house this Sunday (April 14).

Put simply, German New Medicine is the study of how our emotional and relational experiences affect our physical bodies and psyches. In this framework, every body part and organ is assigned a typically ‘negative’ or less than ideal/pleasant emotion, experience, or relationship dynamic that logically corresponds with the function of said body part. The foundation of German New Medicine rests on these five biological laws:

Every disease (Significant Biological Special Program or SBS) originates from an unexpected, highly acute, and isolating conflict shock that occurs simultaneously in the psyche, the brain, and on the corresponding organ.
The content of the conflict determines which organ will be affected and from which area of the brain the ‘disease’ or SBS will be controlled.
Every ‘disease’ or SBS runs synchronously on the level of the psyche, the brain, and the organ.
Microbes don’t cause diseases but play instead a vital role during the healing phase.
Nothing in Nature is meaningless, malignant or diseased.

**There are exceptions to these rules like poisoning and malnutrition.

I won’t dissect all these laws as I am still very new to this framework. The German New Medicine website has a plethora of free resources to further guide your own studies if you are interested. GNM is still relatively new, as it was first created in the 1980s. However, the creator of the framework, Dr. med. Ryke Geerd Hamer and those who continue to study his research today all acknowledge that what GNM describes is nothing that indigenous medicine practices have not known this whole time. What GNM does is it takes many of those same principles we’ve known of forever and combines them with the ‘western’ understanding of the body to provide physical proof of what our ancestors knew, and to heal the root cause of ailments. You can research healing modalities such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Christian Science, indigenous healing modalities of the Bantu people, and many more to see the cross overs. What I continue to detail in this article is long held ancestral knowledge that lives in all of our lineages. To deny this would mean denying our ancestors. That is not an opinion. It is a logical fact given the surmounting evidence provided.

Dr. Hamer first theorized GNM when he developed testicular cancer soon after his son died. Since Dr. Hamer “had never been seriously ill, he postulated that the development of his cancer could be directly related to the unexpected loss of his son.” Soon after hypothesizing this, he began to investigate his cancer patients' histories and quickly learned that, like him, “they all had experienced an unexpected shock of one sort or another.” He then analyzed brain scans of himself and his patients and compared them with their respective medical records and personal histories. After analyzing his research, “he found a clear correlation between certain types of ‘conflict shocks’, how these shocks manifest themselves on the organ level as specific symptoms and how all this is connected to the brain. Until then, no studies had examined the role of the brain as the mediator between the psyche and a diseased organ.” Dr. Hamer would go on to discover that a procreation conflict, which can include the loss of a child, infertility, not becoming a grandparent, etc., can manifest in any sexual reproductive organs. This includes diseases of the testes, penis, uterus, and fallopian tubes. These same organs can also be where gender, sexuality, and intimate relationship conflicts express themselves. We can clearly see through this example that German New Medicine always connects the cause of disease to a logical part of the body.

Many of us are familiar with the book The Body Keeps The Score or the themes in it. The idea that our bodies carry our emotional and relational trauma which then manifests as symptoms is not new. Even our standard ‘western’ medical doctor will tell a patient with high blood pressure to reduce their emotional and work related stress. Why shouldn’t this also apply to cancer, diabetes, and other chronic diseases that seem almost impossible to actually rid the body of? If you’re currently struggling with chronic pain or illness, you can search for the body part the symptoms manifest in through the GNM index. Here you will find loads of case studies for almost every part and organ in the human body. For example, if you have chronic knee pain either search for the knee in the index or you can literally google “knee pain german new medicine” and see what kind of isolating, acute, and unexpected shock trauma it associates to your ailment. When searching for the meaning behind your disease or injury, try your best to think back to when you first experienced the pain and discomfort. That moment and its surrounding events will correlate to the isolating, acute, and unexpected shock trauma associated with the body part or organ that is exhibiting symptoms. Pay attention to your thoughts, activities, and surroundings when you experience flare-ups. Do you notice any patterns?

Incoming opinion:
Accepting that almost everything our bodies do is a message to us about the greater themes running throughout our lives opens us up to a world of personal intimacy with our bodies. We become much harder for the state and personal relationships to gaslight when we understand disease as the messenger it is. It’s not as easy for capitalism, patriarchy, and racism to make us feel ugly and dysphoric when we understand the true purpose and power of our flesh. We can’t be coerced out of our power when we have developed a trustworthy line of back and forth communication with our bodies. Bringing presence to disease, injury, and pain, and going back in time through our memories teaches us our body’s unique communication style. This orientation is also a direct line to our ancestors and the gifts, curses, and wisdom they have left for us, as our bodies were once theirs. We can learn to source power and control over our health from outside of white supremacist and colonial systems when we see disease as an intelligent ally to our highest good, instead of a devastating turn of events.

So, we’ve identified where the discomfort is in our body, and we remember the emotional shock that caused it, now what? There are two main solution routes I’ve seen with this framework. However, as I said I’m still new in my studies so there no doubt could be more. But from what I presently know, in GNM the two main healing routes are 1) simply bringing consciousness to the emotional shock and/or 2) changing the subconscious thought pattern that lingers from the original shock. In my own healing experiences, I have permanently resolved pain or disease with both methods. I will say it is a lot more satisfying when only consciousness is the solution. As I have found in that case, the discomfort usually resolves within the next 24 hours. Changing my thought process until I GENUINELY believe something different typically takes quite a bit longer. While it sometimes can be, GNM is not supposed to be a quick fix. We can identify the root cause and healing may still not come for days, weeks, months, or even years after. How tightly our bodies and psyches are holding onto the conflict greatly affects the time frame in which it will be resolved. In future articles, I’ll explain how I’ve been navigating my ailments that are ‘taking a long time to heal.’

Through this, we can see that in GNM and other indigenous healing modalities illness is understood to be our helper. We get sick or injured when it is time for us to become aware of and release habits and thought patterns that no longer serve us. Or we get sick to encourage us to seek community support, as the first biological law requires that the emotional shock is an isolating event. Getting sick after an acute, and unexpected emotional trauma where we felt alone or unsupported is the sign that our emotions and trauma need witnessing from our loved ones.

The isolating, acute, and unexpected shock trauma as a requirement for contracting illness is why I said in my previous article that illness may not be dangerous, and the need to isolate from sick people may be unnecessary. According to German New Medicine, merely being exposed to a pathogen is not enough to get sick. An isolating, acute, and unexpected emotional shock trauma must occur at the SAME TIME as exposure to a pathogen for anyone to get sick. This is why sometimes a person can catch Covid, the flu, or anything else and no one else who lives with them will get sick. This is also why two different people can chain smoke their whole lives and only one will get lung cancer, and the other will be perfectly fine. If we do NOT experience an emotional shock trauma that is ISOLATING, ACUTE, and UNEXPECTED at the same time of exposure to a pathogen, we will NOT get sick.

On the surface, this may seem like some flighty, dangerous, spiritual bypassing nonsense. But it is important to note the difference between ‘thinking happy thoughts’ and ACTUALLY changing our beliefs and orientation. Suppose we get sick after a fight with a friend that left us feeling bad about who we are as a person or what we did/said during the conflict. The illness is a very good indicator that the new thought pattern we have adopted post-conflict is NOT completely rooted in truth, and therefore is harmful to us on our life path. This is not just ‘think happy thoughts.’ This is ‘learn to not devalue ourselves when our relationships have turmoil.’ Do you see how one can be spiritual bypassing and the other is an invitation to practice and develop our self worth?

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In addition, when we know the root conflict of the disease or pain needs to be witnessed to fully heal, we open ourselves up to what it really means to be in community. If someone is sick, banishing them from the community in the form of “quarantine” or old fashioned, Biblical style, “force the leper to live in the evil forest” will make their healing harder and will not keep the rest of the population any safer from whatever the “leper” has. Because what the “leper” has is not leprosy. It is an acute, isolating, and unexpected shock trauma that has yet to be witnessed by others or made conscious to the individual. No amount of quarantine, masking, or vaccines will keep any of us safe from experiencing that. Sure, the Covid-19 pandemic (or really biological warfare. Let's never forget the true plot here) could have absolutely been 1000x less deadly if we all had masked vigilantly and observed a REAL quarantine. And it also could have never happened in the first place if we all knew how to recognize sickness as spirit’s earthly cry for holding and witnessing.
This orientation forces us to challenge the ways we keep our problems to ourselves. It demands we look critically in the mirror everytime we choose bottling up our feelings over asking a friend to hold space for us. If keeping my pain and trauma to myself will LITERALLY make me sick, then I have no choice but to expand into vulnerability, reveal publicly a moment of weakness, and surrender to the care of my community. Doing this requires us to shed all racist, capitalist, ableist, and patriarchal shame around needing help when we are deeply emotionally affected. That is why working with illness in this way is more liberatory than our current way of navigating sickness and injury. Of course living like this doesn’t mean we’ll never get sick. I actually think getting sick can be a good thing because of how it can point us back to community care and a more healthy self image. It does mean we can get sick less often and recover quicker. Good or bad for us, being sick is still never enjoyable.

This is a VERY simplified explanation of German New Medicine. It is a super layered and complex scientific field just like any other. Do NOT use this article (or my personal opinions) as your deciding factor for whether or not you will believe in it. PLEASE do your own research. I, again, am very far from a GNM expert (for now).

Along with GNM, Qiddist is also a huge quantum physics nerd (and so am I to a lesser extent. Astrology really takes up a lot of my nerd juice lol). It was her mentioning of this field that got me to dig deeper into it. I encourage you to of course research quantum physics yourself, but the main gist of it is that modern ‘western’ science has confirmed for a FACT that one singular electron can be in more than one place at one time AND that one electron over an unlimited distance from another electron can affect it. So, if we take two electrons created at the same time, and keep one on Earth and put one on the Moon, the one on Earth can affect the one on the Moon, and vice versa. It has also been confirmed for a fact that electrons alter their behavior when they are being observed. Electrons are probably conscious and are definitely not beholden to the same rules of space-time as humans are.

In my opinion, this factual understanding of how our smallest particles work (by defying all human logic) is pretty heavy evidence for the legitimacy of German New Medicine. Hamer’s framework is founded upon the theory that our psyches are directly linked to the physical manifestation of disease and healing in our bodies. If one almost completely intangible particle on Earth can affect another on the Moon, then of course the drastically shorter distance between our physical bodies and the source of an isolating, acute, unexpected, traumatic conflict should be treated with just as much potential for extraordinary phenomenon. If an electron can change its behavior when it is observed, then of course so can our cells when we finally see the source conflict. This explains why changing our thought patterns or finding consciousness, something that does not require one object to physically touch another, can heal and shift illness.

Then why call it ‘magic’ when it is actually science? Well, I don’t really think a true separation of the two exists. I’ve always believed that science merely proves the existence of magic, God, ashé, whatever you want to call it. But at the end of the day, the ability to manipulate anything without physically touching it is usually reserved for witches and wizards in ‘western’ media and culture. These concepts in GNM and quantum physics are very new and bizarre to most of us. They require much faith in the unseen, and a true belief in our birth right of individual power. If we were all to deeply embody this truth, many systems, specifically in the United States, would instantly crumble. If that is not magic, I don’t know what is.

Lastly, German New Medicine is great for pointing us in the direction of the original conflict, but its methods can fall short when we are unable to remember what happened to us. This is where I personally bring in the real magic through the practice of divination. In combination with GNM, I have been using astrology and Tarot (and sometimes bibliomancy) to help me remember the experiences my subconscious has hidden away. Likewise, I also rely on herbs, homeopathy, meditation, and journaling to ease symptoms and further help me identify the root conflict and change my running narrative about it. Reiki, massage, acupuncture, sound healing, and good ol’ pharmaceuticals can also help us manage symptoms and unwind the stories our bodies cling to. When we go into these practices already having an idea of what we’re looking for because of the direction GNM has pointed us in, they increase their power and efficacy, and true permanent healing becomes easier to achieve.

In my next article I plan to get a bit more personal and describe the details of my own magical healing journey so that this can all make more sense. I appreciate everyone who stuck around after my first article (there’s way more of you still here than I thought would be). And I’m grateful for y’alls patience in waiting for the second article. This topic is really important and obviously sticky. So, it requires that I go as slow as possible to ensure it is done right. If you still find that it is hard for you to play with these ideas, I invite you to read yesterday’s article “Mars Conjuncts Saturn.” What do you think of German New Medicine and quantum physics? Have your opinions changed at all since my last one? (Respectfully) let me know in the comments!

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