Marybeth Feather Talon has been a pharmacist for her adult lifetime. She began to question the philosophy of Western Medicine culture. Some of the remedies she prepares are refilled month after month, then year after year and she wondered if that ritual really qualifies as healing. Did the body move past the illness and become healthy?

After all, those patients – MOST patients, need the chemical substance constantly to change the lab measure the doctors said was normal. But, if their bodies are healthy, would they need continued treatment?

Antibiotics reduce the load of bacteria and the immune system has less work to do in clearing out and mounting a defense against the infection. The body actually does the healing! The drug helps.

In another example, we give chemicals to people who have difficulty managing their mood, or happiness balance. Under the influence of the drug the system is tricked into producing or limiting levels of substance that alter the mood.

But does this count as healing? Is the body healed? Has there been a correction that does not require further treatment?

In the Modern Western Culture we think of illness as something that has invaded us physically, such as a bacteria, virus, or poison, in the ancient ways of the Shamanic world, it was not really very different.

Shamans work within realms of the natural world. They think of illness as an infection or infiltration of an energy that can cause havoc with the invisible system around our bodies.

In our Western thinking it seems deceptively simple, improbable – impossible, even!

Regardless of whether it makes sense to logic or science, nature still holds healing for us.