Science wasn’t always God. For me, high school science class was drawing cartoon animals with my friends (think: Andy Riley’s The Book of Bunny Suicides) or secretly reading a novel tucked between the pages of my oversized textbook. I never enjoyed science class in Alabama, at least not the way the gym teacher taught it. And I didn’t enjoy it until a friend gave me a book on metaphysics and quantum physics. Now this, I thought while reading, is an interesting world. These fields show connections; an interrelated universe pointing to the possibility of other dimensions. Okay, science, I’m in.
Just to review our vocabulary like we did in class, science is a systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
Today, it rules the educated world above all else. Science has become God.
So when I want to figure out why scientists in Australia have reengaged the climate change debate due to this summer’s record-breaking heat, while simultaneously the advocates of climate change across the world are booed because the Northern Hemisphere experienced the coldest winter in decades…(or why natural disasters have increased fourfold since 1970, or why Alaskan glaciers have whittled down to speed bumps, or [insert your own observation here])…then I should turn to science for all the answers, right?*
But scientists, at least when it comes to topics like climate change and whether or not humans are responsible for it, always seem to disagree.
Nevertheless, science sometimes points us in the right direction. That is, unless politics reign Supreme, or unless a new discovery pops our flat vision of the world into something spherical.
Let’s not forget that modern science was born relatively recently, and prospered to Godhood because of the demands of technology. Before that, for thousands of years our ancestors accumulated knowledge not only through observations of the physical, but through the examination of the spiritual as well.
In this interview, all textbooks closed, Siberian healer Galina Vladi, who is also a professional acupuncturist, explains her alternative, spiritual theory of global warming, based on the science of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
* Another vocabulary review: “climate” and “weather” are not always interchangeable.
TG: Can you tell us about the article you wrote on your theory of climate change?
Galina Vladi: If you’re looking at climate change through the eyes of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) you would see that the planet has been going through the flu, or “External Invasion” in TMC lingo.
TG: The planet experiences symptoms like a human would?
GV: Yes. If a person has been affected by severe weather like wind, cold, dampness, and also might be going through some emotional distress, the protective mechanism of the system gets weak. The external invasion enters the body through the pores and settles in the meridians, which are the pathways of energy flow. This blocks the natural flow of energy and results in chills, fewer, sweating, coughing, and sneezing.
TG: So how does this translate to the Earth?
GV: Since our planet is a living organism, we can apply the theory of external invasion to explain climate change. Our ancestors treated the natural world around them as their relative, and they took good care of it. Thanks to this awareness, they were able to maintain equilibrium with their environment for thousands of years. In any means, they were not creating an invasion.
TG: So what changed things?
GV: With the beginning of the Industrial Age, as the majority of people moved away from nature to cities, they eventually lost their intimate connection with the natural world. They began to see nature as separate from themselves, and, as a result, they viewed themselves as superior to nature. This led to an excessive exploitation of natural resources, pollution from the cities, and toxic waste, which is how humans became THE INVASION. Earth’s energy flow became severely impaired, and since the invasion persisted, the planet eventually lost her ability to heal herself and went down with sickness.
TG: Chills and fever?
GV: Yes. There are unusually low temperatures in some places, and unusually high temperatures in other places. Also, devastating flooding, which can be interpreted as sweating.
TG: If you believe that humans are part of this “sickness”, then how can we remedy the situation?
GV: One of the ways TCM addresses sickness in humans is by stimulating selected body points with pressure, heat, or insertion of needles. These points are called Qi points and they are “portals” where energy is gathered and transported through the body’s energy channels. Earth has also Qi points.
TG: So you view the Earth as a giant human body?
GV: Yes, it is a living organism. The earth’s Qi points are ancient sites where people used to hold healing ceremonies for the earth. But in this technological age, many of these sites have been abandoned, so healing for the planet hasn’t been happening as much. If we want to heal the Earth, then we have to rediscover these ancient ceremonial sites and start performing the healing ceremonies of our ancestors.
TG: How would you recognize the Earth’s energy points, which, as you said, are ancient ceremonial sites?
GV: By talking to local people, especially elders. If you listen carefully to their stories, you can learn things.
TG: Do you know any particular stories?
GV: In Russia, I learned of a prophecy based on a Siberian legend. The legend goes that 33 shamans* had to enter a contest with a newcomer. The shamans died in this contest. This contest took place at the sacred site of Podkova, which means “horseshoe”, located in the Southern part of Siberia, about 40 kilometers from Mongolia.
TG: Have you been to Podkova?
GV: In 2001, I visited the site and experienced those intense energies. The prophecy finishes by saying that if 33 “white” shamans, or shamans who are engaged in healing work, come together in a ceremony of peace to honor the 33 diseased shamans, then the spirits of the shamans would be pacified and open the energy portal there, and we would receive access to higher knowledge, including wisdom of how to help humanity and the planet.
TG: How did you learn about this prophecy–the prophecy of the 33 shamans?
GV: From a local healer in the area. I’ve come across a few energy sites in Siberia. Podkova is one of them. There is another one in the Altai Mountains.
TG: Do you think these sacred sites have been charted or mapped, much as acupuncturists have mapped the energy points on the human body? Or is the information only available through oral histories?
GV: The meridians and points for the human body were mapped through thousands of years of observation, through experiments and experiences, and also through trance, through shamanic work. So I believe that mapping the planet’s meridians and points could also be done in this way. Also, through connecting with the Akashic Records, which is the library of the universe. There are people with very strong abilities to tap into these sources.
TG: Could you provide an explanation for those of us who don’t know about the Akashic Records?
GV: It involves clairvoyance. I do not consider myself a strong clairvoyant. I’ve only done some remote viewing at a school in California called The Foundation for Spiritual Development.
TG: There are a lot of conspiracy theories about American and Russian governments conducting remote viewing experiments. There’s a recent film about psychic spies, called The Men Who Stare at Goats.
GV: Yes, I read a great book on this subject. This is just one of the many ways we could identify these healing sites. If a group of people were devoted to learning about them and initiating ceremonies, it would be a great healing movement for the planet.
TG: What’s involved with a healing ceremony?
GV: In Mongolia and Siberia it involves a traditional offering to the Earth and to the Eternal Blue Sky, to the Sky Spirits (Tengeri) and to the local spirits that reside in the area, and also singing and drumming. There are many other ways to do a healing ceremony. For example, in a Native American Sun Dance ceremony, participants dance under a blazing sun for four days, with no food and no water. They sacrifice their own blood, their pieces of skin as offerings to Mother Earth while sending their prayers to Father Sky. Another example is a Native American sweat lodge ceremony.
TG: I’m reminded of the sweat lodge catastrophe in Arizona, where a woman who had paid a large sum of money died of heat stroke.
GV: I spoke on the air with the Native America Calling radio program that was talking about this same event. I shared my experience with a ceremony in Ecuador, during which I almost died. None of the traditional ceremonies should be done for profit. Great damage can be done when ceremonies are led by people who are ignorant and greedy. But even if they’re done by traditional healers—shamans or medicine people—they can bring a great damage if the intention of the ceremony shifts from healing to making a profit.
TG: How did you find yourself on the path to becoming a Doctor of TCM and someone who practices shamanism?
GV: I have always been fascinated with both Chinese Medicine and shamans. However, as a product of the industrial society of the Soviet Union, I’d grown to believe that shamanic practice doesn’t have a place in the modern world; it used to belong to primitive cultures only and had long gone. This is what I’d been taught in school.
As a young adult, I thought about myself as a modern and intelligent person. I had an Engineering degree, and worked as a Cinema Engineer for a decade. However, it wasn’t my true path. Chinese Medicine, meditation, and Qi Gong eventually brought me to the shamanic path. It was a surprise for me. I’d gone through major changes and had become a different person—more aware, more compassionate, and more humble.
My spiritual work washed away old programs and false beliefs, and what stayed was the real me, the core of who I was. Only much later, I learned that on my mother’s side we had a Mongolian ancestor who was a shaman. This path can’t be interrupted. Sooner or later, descendants of shamans are called to continue this path.
TG: Is this why there has been an increase in shamans in Mongolia lately?
GV: Not only in Mongolia, in Siberia too. And probably all over the world. The planet is in a critical state now. It needs shamans. If we want to see some positive changes in this world, we need to go beyond science. It means that we have to look at our problems not only from the physical prospective but also from the spiritual one–to open our minds to the possibility of the world that lies beyond our physical senses. We have to not only allow, but also support shamans as they do their part in keeping the world in balance.
*Shamans are mediators between the physical world and the spiritual world.
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Nice article.. I would say, as a Scientist, that Science does not “rule the educated world”. Rather, it is Law (Liers/Lawyers), politics (the best liar is the most popular), democracy (mob rule), economics (materialism) etc etc which are all far off away in another dimension from real Science (Which as a result of the above does not really exist in today’s market place or Universities). C’mon, we have the technology! Let’s use it to build and heal things!
my father, the geologist, said the earth has great restorative qualities. he often told me of the recovery it made during different eras. I wonder how it will react to the humanoid era?
It’s a fascinating concept…energy meridians in the earth like those in our own bodies. Thank you for a good read.
I am an Alaska Native person who has traveled extensively throughout Alaska and other places in the world where I meet and talk with indigenous elders. What Galina is saying parallels what the indigenous elders are saying. They say that Mother Earth has a fever. Our bodies mirror that of Mother Earth as we are made up of the exact same elements of Mother Earth. As we have fevers, she does too. And a fever is simply the body’s way of dealing with illness or disease and the bodies defenses come into play. Given this, Mother Earth’s defenses are coming into play with down pours, droughts, earthquakes. If the fever worsens, so will the defense mechanisms. The elders across the world say we must pay attention to this, and to return to ceremonies at sacred sites if we are to avoid extreme suffering in the world.
Very important discussion. If the Earth is not alive organism, how could it produce life, create life? And then, how this whole life that is created on this planet can be possibly separated from the Earth itself? The Earth needs healing and care as any alive body would. If we forget this, we cut our life force off that will lead to disaster. Thank you for this read.
Very interesting article,its nice actually knowing Galina and connecting to her while reading this. It is amazing how many people from different backgrounds and disciplines see the problem similiarly just using different terminology and understandings. I feel the solution to not only this problem of climate change but all the manifold problem afflicting mankind is finding a unified vision of how to solve it using the reflections and knowledge of all the world’s peoples. This might be a lengthy and difficult process but ultimately I feel will create the means of finding a solution . The following is a Baha’i quote by Baha’u'llah which He revealed over 150 years ago which I would like to share” We(Baha’u'llah) can well perceive how the whole human race is encompassed with great, with incalculable afflictions. We see it languishing on its bed of sickness, sore-tried and disillusioned. They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy. They have conceived the straight to be crooked, and have imagined their friend an enemy.” It goes on but I think this is long enough for now.
Thanks to all for your insightful comments…I appreciate the depth they add to this interview.
Thank God for the joke about the gym teacher teaching high school science, otherwise I wouldn’t have made it past that introduction to get the real meat of the interview.
Talk about natural disasters: Haiti, Chile, and now today in Cali. Earth sounds sick doesn’t it?
The title seemed like a “hook” and not really descriptive of the article.
On earth the soul may grow in awareness in many planes simultaneously (physical, emotional, mental, etheric, and even into soul). Science is a mental plane awareness – part of but not the whole.
The analogy of sickness and symptoms of the earth’s suffering with a human’s cold is good.
I believe that each one of us can awaken the “shaman” within. I believe that the point at which I offer my healing loving into the earth will be for me and Earth a sacred point. The cumulative power of each person awakening into her loving god-self can only bring forward the highest good for all concerned. Sometimes disease and disaster has a purpose, and until that purpose is fulfilled, it will manifest. It helps me to remember God’s promises given down to us through our spiritual heritages. They strengthen me and encourage hope (emotional level).
I’m not certain that I wish to have the Akashic records read during this incarnation. They are unclear from this level, so open to interpretation and possible misuse. There is divine symmetry in creation. I am grateful for knowing that God is the Creator.
I enjoyed your interview and agree with it, except for one area. I believe the earth has the ability to heal itself. The idea that the earth needs us humans to help it heal itself is just too much anthropocentrism for me. I would suggest that some of the symptoms we see on the earth today are just ways in which the planet is adapting and reducing/eliminating the human infestation.
I enjoyed your interview and agree with it, except for one area. I believe the earth has the ability to heal itself. The idea that the earth needs us humans to help it heal itself is just too much anthropocentrism for me. I would suggest that some of the symptoms we see on the earth today are just ways in which the planet is adapting and reducing/eliminating the human infestation.
Galina speaks truly and from an inherited, most ancient tradition. Knowledge is but a facet of human learning. Wisdom is the distillation of human experience across millenia expressed in words. All life shares this wisdom, expressed in many ways. When the Sunami approaches the shores of a land, the animals “speak” their wisdom. Elephants scream and turn tail, running for the high ground. Wolves sing their pain and make for the mountains. Human beings stand on the seashore and stare into space, wondering what all the excitement is. The sky is clear blue, the sea is calm. Nothing is wrong until it is too late to run! Mother Earth speaks but we don’t listen. Mother Earth drops a “bombshell” and we wonder why. She shudders and we frown. She shakes and we scream, we die, we are wounded, we lose loved-ones. We strip Mother Earth of her gifts but offer few, or no thanks. Of course she is angry, as any mother must be when she is perpetually ignored, always taken for granted, abused. Not until the power of the feminine is restored in all aspects of life can this pain be brought to an end. And one of the great restorers is the ceremonials of which Galina speaks, something for which we humans are uniquely responsible, as sentient beings. Listen to her call!
Hello Galina,
thank you for your email. I read the interview. Many people did or are doing similar things around the globe in their own ways. I did a trip with Bryatian Bo and Utgan in 1994 around the power places of Baikal and year before, in Tunka. On those trips the tailgans were performed for the first time in 60 years or so after the Bo Murgel was persecuted by the Communists. These trips and rituals done in those places re-established the links with Tengeriin, Haat and Zayaan and opened the gates for the subsequent revival of Bo Murgel and shamanic traditions in Siberia as a whole.
Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche has also activated many power points around the globe through Tibetan rituals.
One thing is: the rituals done on the sacred spots must be done correctly and at the right time otherwise instead of benefit there might be negative consequences. So I wihs you good luck and clarity regarding your project.
Take good care,
Dmitry
A balance of giving and receving is a crucial part of every relationship. We take constantly from our Mother Earth, but what do we give back? This is my reply to the comment if it is neccessary to provide healing for the Earth.
Galina
Greetings Galina and All interested! This interview has certainly hit a deep-felt spot in many hearts. May it continue to do so. Time is running ever-faster and becoming ever-shorter. All of us seem to be becoming ever-more aware. We must learn from this, and try to understand the message being given. We, as sentient beings,carry an enormous responsibility. How do we respond? What is the best way for each of us to play our part? Sit in silence and listen to the heart. Reach out to the Cosmos which is trying to communicate with us. If possible, hold a Crystal in your hand, however small. Mother Earth has given us the Crystal from the depths of her womb, millions of years in the creation. It is not by accident that the inherent qualities of the Crystal have become available to us. It is the means by which we can be connected to the WHOLE COSMOS and become ONE. That is the healing we now need and must seek, for self, for each other, and for the Cosmos. Blessings ALL.