Not sure I ever had this question hit me so deeply before. I ran into a situation where one person was trying to tell me that something was “the truth”. It was opposite what I “believed” so the whole thing started to make my mind tumble.

I don’t think I’m talking about moral right and wrong here but that might be tied into the whole thing – I really don’t know yet. I might know by the end of this but I might not. So maybe I should have titled it “truth vs fact”

I have been in medicine in some form for over 50 years and have seen “right and wrong” move almost constantly based on new or different scientific facts. I have seen energy medicine and other forms of non-traditional medicine come into vogue. I was still a medical student when I came to believe in faith healing and that is an event I will never forget for I believe it changed the direction of my life. And of course, it’s not something I talked about with other doctors or medical people at all. I wasn’t completely dumb. And as I grew and learned about metaphysics (again more years ago than many of you have been alive), I expanded my ability to realize there were forces at work in the universe that we little peon humans weren’t meant to understand. This education has been recently updated by discovering and understanding mind-body medicine and neural circuit disorders. None of what I have just mentioned is embraced by modern medicine.

So, does that make modern medicine “wrong”? Or does it make the non-traditional medical theories “wrong”? And here is where I think we hit a wall. Why does either have to be right or wrong? Isn’t the whole goal to find what works? And I will tell you after all these years that what works for one person doesn’t always work for another and that is just a “fact” of life. When we try to impose our beliefs and our “realities” on others then we get into trouble. Live and let live in a sense.

You can present your thoughts and feelings about X to me but then don’t tell me I am wrong when I don’t buy into it or don’t believe it. I get just as upset when people try to push things down my throat as they do when I don’t automatically accept their ideas.

Am I right? Are they right? I think my seemingly sarcastic remark is “it depends on what week it is”. I have seen theories about coffee change on a frequent basis. Wine – same? Different medicines, treatments etc..

I know I’m only talking about medical things here but that’s what I’m familiar with. The basic concept applies to everything though. For instance, who decided that using marijuana/THC was “wrong” – so much so that they made laws about growing and purchasing etc.. No one has done that for alcohol and tobacco. And look at the medicinal effects they have found in THC. What medicinal effects are there for alcohol and tobacco? Is this where factual right and wrong mixes with moral right and wrong?

Why do we have to be right or wrong? Is it so you’ll accept me? Is it so that i fit in? Why is it so important to us?

Thoughts for another long walk.

Today’s gratitudes:
I am grateful for the rain we have gotten and that it’s come at night

I am grateful that my neighbor put in a new hot water heater so I can take longer showers

I am grateful that “Lily” seems to have children or siblings that may be coming into the picture slowly