our medical system treats symptoms

[zenmaster]

You've merely found and identified with a source which has associated the term treatment with doing something to another to FIX them. Thus the concept stuck, like a robotic patterning.

Is that not what the entire medical establishment is all about? How is it not?

I find it amusing that you accuse me of robotic programming; me, who seeks and thinks outside the box, and has traversed a long journey of healing which you know nothing about; while you defend the mainstream, which depends totally on robotic programming to survive.

I don't see any evidence of thinking outside of the box, whatsoever. Indeed you are and have been hand-waving and parroting what that subculture apprehends, using the same terminology and themes. Mere regurgitation is hardly a pioneering effort.

You seem to have your mind made up that alternative therapies are bogus and anyone pursuing them is brainwashed. (Please correct me if I'm misinterpreting you.)

Ok, you're wrong.

I can only conclude that you've never actually gotten to know people who've been healed via alternative therapies, because if you had, you'd know that many of them have been seeking for a great many years, and have tried a great many things, and view each one as another piece of the puzzle, with emotional and spiritual components playing a very important role. The idea that such a one would trust a single source, as though authoritative like the mainstream medical system, is laughable.

Indeed, you easily amuse yourself, being caught up in your own mind battle. As I said before, anecdotal evidence of effectiveness does not create a reliable choice. And of course, that is all you have to offer.

Please explain to me how you view the term treatment.

Addressing the trouble. Some treatments will be more effective than others, for various reasons.