Page 369 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

THE SANCTUARY OF THE SILENT HEALING POWER

Civilization that had given the promise to man of a healthy, happy,
satisfying and full life has led him into the desert of fear and insecurity.
The present machine and power age has given to small minorities the

tremendous privilege of domination of the individual which, combined with a
monopolistic financial autocracy, has put in the hands of a few the power
of economic life and death over whole nations. The reaction of the individual is
towards the organisation of strong protective groups. Thus labour and other

councils have been born, heading towards communistic ideals.
Civilization, that has given this age advanced medical scientific knowledge,
is now striving to cope with an overwhelming breakdown of the health of

the peoples of the world.
The storehouse of the mind of man had promised a wealth of beauty
in word, thought and deed, but man has been deceived and misled and finally

deserted in the wilderness of confusion.
The failure to maintain mental balance in the face of stress and strain of
modern conditions is evidenced by the fact that one out of every five people

enters a mental hospital as a case and the breakdowns in health are double
that number.
The Spiritual aspect of human life has been broken up and confused
in the clash of personalities and is perplexed with the many dogmas and creeds

fighting each other in the pursuit of domination, like a raft of logs on a placid
river being overwhelmed and scattered by a blast of an invisible hurricane
and now caught up in a bank of mud of hate and superstition.

Civilization indeed stands accused at the bar of human suffering. Why is
this, and what of the future of mankind?
The solution is not to be found through conferences, blueprints or
through the substitution of new leaders for old and so on. The solution obviously

lies in the creators of the problems, in the creators of the mischief, of the hate
and the enormous misunderstanding that exists between human beings. The
creator of this mischief, of these problems is the individual you and I and

not the world as we think of it, for we are civilization, we are the world.
The world is your relationship with each other for the world is not
separate from you and me. The world society is the relationship that we

establish or seek to establish between one another. The world is the projection
of ourselves and to understand the world we must first understand ourselves,
no matter how we might try to excuse ourselves by putting the blame some-

where else the problem remains the same—the understanding of the self.

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