I am running against a brickwall when I tried, for the past three weeks, to 
discover a practitioner of "Interactive Guided Imagery." This is a therapy 
designed to help people afflicted with autoimmune diseases. I have found, via 
the Internet, a large number of practitioners of guided imagery in Seattle, 
other Washington sites, and particularly in the Bay area.
I found is almost incredible that a place as large as greater Vancouver 
apparently has no guided-imagery practitioners. But whom do I blame?
Secondly, I joined a kidney-disease newsgroup originating in the U.S., where 
I posted a query, several times at that, about whether people with end-stae 
renal disease had ever tried alternative medicine (of which guided imagery is 
the most promising).
Imagine my surprise: Not a single reply. All these people with ESRD--who were 
either surviving with thrice-weekly treatments of haemo dialysis or had 
undergone a kidney transplant operation--had never tried an alternative 
solution to their kidney problems.
This brings up a favourite hot topic of mine: nephrologists lower the boom 
once a patient's creatinine count has risen beyond the kidneys' ability to 
clean the blood. These allopathic practitioners say: "You, the patient, have 
three choices, i.e. 1) you choose to die, 2) you accept dialysis as a means 
of staying alive, or 3) you line up for a kidney transplant. End-stage kidney 
disease is PROGRESSIVE  and IRREVERSIBLE." (My capitals).
Factually, they are wrong. There are known cases of spontaneous healing or of 
permanent remission is ESRD. 
Guided imagery is a therapy that acknowledges the power of the mind over the 
body, hence it seems to outside the ken of our arrogant medical practitioners 
who were trained in western empirical medicine (allopathy). They do not know 
why ESRD occurs, and they certainly cannot heal the condition.
So: question 1) do any of you readers know of an interactive guided-imagery 
therapist in the Greater Vancouver area? 
2) Should we contemplate setting up an alternative-medicine newsgroup?
Let us hear from you.
Jurgen Hesse
Thinkware Publishers
Vancouver Canada 
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