MindFreedom Principles
We in MindFreedom envision a world where many useful, humane, empowering and competing models replace the dominance of the bio-medical model�where the resultant flourishing of services, groups, philosophies, and products allows for a genuine freedom to choose. In order to be listed in our planned directory, all individuals, groups, and agencies must agree to uphold certain principles. These principles set them apart from traditional services.
I don't think that it is incorrect to use valid knowledge of biotechnology to help resolve the issues generated by suboptimal HOST (Human Organic Shoulder Top) computer function. Also though, I think that the further de-optimization of HOST function due to the observations of the symptoms of suboptimal HOST performance is a symptom, itself, of either the application of a dysfunctional bio-technology, or the use of a functional bio-technology incorrectly and should be halted immediately, in either case and where desired on the part of the HOST in question's owner, only bio-technology that restores and improves HOST function should be competently applied according to the wishes of that HOST's owner to help resolve any suboptimal conditions that are detected in that HOST's function.
ON PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS
Our practitioners, groups, and agencies. . .
� Respect the rights of people to make an
informed choice about psychiatric drugs and
treatment. This includes making available to people
unbiased information on the risks and side effects
of any treatments and services.
Fine
� Offer support and encouragement for people to
discuss the side effects of psychiatric drugs.
Fine
If necessary, they will offer to advocate for them with the prescribing physician.
I haven't gotten that close
yet for it to be an issue. I say that bioelectric
technology is augmentative (additive) to
other medical technology's rather than
"Alternative." I don't care what the alleged
psychiatrists say. I just say add, as opposed
to alternate the Fortificational
technology of bioelectrichealth to whatever you as a
patient want to do to improve your HOST computer's
function to get it up to the level of function that
you, yourself desire for it to function at for your
own purposes.
� Never pressure people into taking psychiatric
drugs OR into getting off them. Services are never
contingent on a person being �med-compliant� (i.e.,
�I/we will only treat you, offer you shelter, or
allow you to participate in the program if you are
on/stay on your medications.�).
No Problem, I've got a lot
better things to do anyway. Who needs the hassle?
What a person does that doesn't effect anyone else
is in their own purview to me, not mine. I can
merely suggest and point out. If someone doesn't get
it, then, "Oh well," what can you do? I want to find
people that I can help, not get all torn up by
people that for one reason, or another I can't help
with BioelectricHealth Information.
� Respect the right of people to want to
discontinue using psychiatric drugs. If it is within
their scope of practice and the person desires it,
they will aid the person getting off drugs to taper
off the drugs in the safest way possible. If it is
not within their scope of practice, they will
proactively seek resources and practitioners who
will aid them in this process.
Fine, BioelectricHealth has
something to do with that though, because if you get
the HOST running well using BioelectricHealth
information, you will probably eventually arrive at
the conclusion that you are at least wasting money
on the psychotropic drugs and want to eliminate your
use of them for economic reasons alone. What I mean
is that if you fill in the potholes in the HOST's
bioelectric system using BioelectricHealth
Technology, it just might feel foolish to further
ingest psychotropic drugs on the parts of the
attending Psychiatrist as well as the patient,
themselves, so I can't really see an issue here at
all, but naturally, I concur with the above
statement in the case that withdrawal symptoms still
manifest. I wouldn't jump off one horse until I had
another to jump on to, because it doesn't make sense
to slow down when you are ridding towards a better
life, like peaceful Mongol hoards. And,
"Yes," I am saying that BioelectricHealth Technology
should be explored as an augmentative mount to
Methadone as the alternative steed where Heroin use
is involved, in the case of relevant "Double
Trouble" issues.
ON THE BIO-MEDICAL MODEL OF �MENTAL ILLNESS�
Our practitioners, groups, and agencies. . .
� Do not tell people that they suffer from
irreversible genetic and biochemical abnormalities.
Instead, they believe that recovery, growth, and
change are extremely probable, especially given the
right conditions.
Oh yes, certainly! The questions are now "What natural control elements guide the manufacture of the Genetic Blueprint?" and "What means can be used to improve the function of those control elements?" not "Oh, how can we mere mortals ever hope to resolve this overwhelming issue that other people have been solving like falling off a log for millennia?" Yes, enter the equation on a level high enough to affect a solution, rather than at one low enough to be the effect of an untoward condition found in it, here stated to be "Genetics."
- Question: Why can
today's athletes run faster, jump higher, and
react quicker than yesterday's?
- Answer: "The nurturing
of enhancements detected in the Genetic
Blueprint?" possibly.
- Question: Is it
possible that Genetic Blueprint enhancement can
occur via the competent augmentation of existing
non genetic biotechnology with
Bioelectrichealth and BiomagneticHealth
Technologies.
- Answer: From what I've been able to find out, I would say "Of course!" The key word all along the line would be "Competence" though... competence in research, interpretation and the application of uncovered information.
� Understand and are highly sensitive to the
effects and implications of diagnosing someone with
a psychiatric disorder.
Yes, may, first hand,
myself included, I regret to say, but for me things
are better again, so that's okay, to me, anyway.
� Do not use psychiatric diagnoses as the primary
way of understanding and relating to people.
Yes, what's the point of
that? The HOST computers serve their owners, not the
other way around. People should be thought of more
in the light of how they use their HOST computer�what
they do with it�rather
than being defined according to their HOST's
functional capacity.
� Are willing to have an open, collaborative
dialogue about the diagnosis if one must be given
for insurance or other purposes.
That's okay, I guess. What
must happen economically will occur with, or without
corroboration, but at this point financial phenomena
is a non issue for any possible bio-electricians
involved, because it seems to me that the connection
of BioelectricHealth Technology to material money is
somewhat counterproductive. I mean that the way that
money is like the utensils that are used to consume
productions pie , it can be used to eliminate the
eaters, themselves, which is, to me, the main reason
that more successful mental technologies than are
used presently are not better known and used
instead.
So my answer to any monetary
issues involved is "Whatever, the economists say is
okay, as long as it is agreeable to the person that
is submitting to the treatment, themselves."
ON FORCED TREATMENT
Our practitioners, groups, and agencies. . .
� Recognize and uphold the rights of people to
conduct their lives free from coercive treatments.
Yes, me too!
ON HONORING OUR KNOWLEDGE
Our practitioners, groups, and agencies. . .
� Collaborate with people they serve on the
desired outcomes from the service or product.
Okay.
� Allow people to make their own choice as to when to leave the service or discontinue using the product.
Fine.
Our agencies. . .
� Grant the people whom they serve an active role
in shaping agency policy.
I would say that
BioelectricHealth Technology is more of an
educational service than an Agency, per see,
so I don't think that there is an issue involved
with this point, but let me add that if someone
tells me something, I figure it into what I am doing
as long as I feel that they are being truthful about
what they are saying.
ON DISCRIMINATION
Our practitioners, groups, and agencies. . .
� Do not discriminate on the basis of race,
gender, age, religion, sexual preference,
disability, etc.
At this time
BioelectricHealth Technology is being made available
to anyone that can figure out how to use it
to improve and maintain the condition of the
bioelectric portions of their HOST computer and
physical body. Intentional discrimination on my part
does not exist. Where someone want's the
information, I do my best to give it to them, devoid
of their personal relationship with Humanity.
ON RESPECT
Our practitioners, groups, and agencies. . .
� Prevent the sexual, physical, verbal, or
emotional abuse of people served.
Yes, of course, I can totally agree with this.
� Preserve the mental and physical integrity of people served.
Ditto.
Closing:
I hope that this answer by me on behalf of my personal version of BioelectricHealth Technology as espoused on www.bioelectrichealth.org, to be usable for the purpose of the improvement of the function of HOST computers, serves to make it possible for the inclusion of its link on the "Alternative Psychiatric Services" page of www.mindfreedom.org as an "Augmentative Educational Service regarding a great breakthrough in the technology of the fortification of power supply of the electro-neurological component of the HOST computer."
Thank you for reading this post. Thank you again.
Best regards,
Philip
Author's Health Status Update Letter to the Veterans Administration
2008's July's 04'th
[Not here typed contact
individual's name and title]
Department of Veterans Affairs
PO BOX 11000
ST PAUL, MN 55111-0000
[Not here typed appropriate salutation],
It has been very nice of you to have paid my way via VA Disability Pension for this past score years. I would like to try to reciprocate by giving you back something which I believe is valuable. To accomplish this, please allow me to invite you to study a compilation of information, which introduces a new technology that can help the normal person of today gain an average of ten more years of peak life vis-�-vis this technology�s average non-user.
The military may win the wars but this technology will enable the people that use it to win both the wars and the peace. The more that people can win in peaceful settings, the less they will have to fret over war, because peace is a more desirable condition than war, thus it is worked towards much more than war. More effort is applied toward peace, because people like living in safety more than they do in danger. Because there is more invested in peace than in war, there is more power in peace than in war. Ergo, the war will usually go to the CELL (Complex Entity Living Life) that can keep winning the peace most effectively.
Wouldn�t you, or any other possibly mentally sound individual want to know how to live a healthier and more active life for a decade more on the average than people are making it these days? Have you noticed that the average intelligence and people�s physical strength and their durability has seriously declined in recent years? Don�t you think that allowing such a trend to continue for very long would fair poorly for the fate of the American population? If you could get physically stronger and more mentally alert than you presently are via your use of a technology that you could personally learn yourself, wouldn�t you want access to it to use it to help counteract your own physical decline, if you could?
One of the reasons that I am writing this letter is that I think that the VA should be all about peaceful victories. As people can win peacefully via the more successful perpetuations of their lives, we will not have to resort to war to maintain tolerable living conditions.
Back in his day, my father, Theodore Obsharsky, was a ball turret gunner on a B-29 and his plane crash landed in Switzerland while attempting to return from a mission. He sat out two years of the war there. When he got home, I see from his records, he had what was then called �Anxiety Syndrome.� He convalesced in a VA hospital in Upstate NY for six months, I believe. Then he went looking for employment.
My dad was pretty smart at some things. He used to play cards with the members of my mom�s family and say to them, �It�s time to take your money now,� and he did just that� every single time that they got to play. However, I think that he fell into the same trap that many people seem to get their selves stuck in. He thought he possessed more information than he actually did. I�m saying this, because he smoked cigarettes. I guess that that isn�t that bad, but his issue with them blossomed into political proportions. He seemed to use them as a means of asserting his rights, because he didn�t know that they damaged a physical body�s functions. His body only made it to 64 years of age. Actually, the secondary smoke involved may even have been a contributing factor to my almost older brother�s crib death and my mother�s death from cancer when her body was 45 years of age. Who really knew the truth about smoking back then? I quit smoking when the price went up to $1.65 and in the 1980�s. I called the reasoning involved a �Poverty Therapy Strategy,� as I was trying to live on SSI Disability benefits at the time�not a very great amount of money. Being so impecunious might have actually saved my life, though. If I smoked all this while, I�d definitely be a lot less healthy than I am now. My dad helped win the war, but he lost his own battle for his piece of the peace to cigarettes, because he didn�t know enough of the facts, prehumusly.
I think that some people do things that they know shorten lives just exactly, expressly, to shorten their lives, because they figure that there won�t be much for them, when they get to the far end of theirs�. I call what I think that those people are doing, �Organ Sacrificing (OSing).� A man that succeeds at killing their liver or their lungs doesn�t have to worry about being accused of malfunctioning mentally, because OSing puts them out of the picture totally. However, suicide never helps anyone win their own piece of peace in life either.
We can break the fall of the oil supply�s die off via returning personal bio-physical power to the people via insuring that their bodies� bio-electric power supplies are adequate via the material presented at www.bioelectrichealth.org (~.org).
On the one hand I think that we got very lucky finding out the so formulated information. I think that it is nearly miraculous that information on this subject is finally available to those English speaking individuals that have access to the Web that wish to avail themselves of this new way of fortifying their presently most weakened, normally speaking, link in their biophysical system. On the other hand, from researching the material that pertains to the situation, I�ve found the fact that the information that I�ve posted has been known by some people for the past fifty years, but has not been delivered to the general public, difficult to accept; especially when that information is not really that incomprehensible or that scientifically inaccessible.
Of course my allegiance is to America and the VA for being so gracious as to support me for these past twenty years with nominal questions asked. Now too however, I feel that America in turn owes its loyalty to the population of Earth for permitting it to perpetuate its free way of life. I remain alert to the fact that for every 20 twenty Non-Americans there is only one American. This 20:1 ratio makes me think that America should work towards obtaining the majority of Earth�s population�s willing support, if it wants to remain the planet�s leading country. I feel that as I neglect to work to win the stage�s (Shakespearian Reference) majority, I am neglecting my duty as American Veteran who was supposed to be fighting for the best interests of the majority of the people. This reasoning is what compelled me to develop ~.org. I thought that because of what I got to find out, through, by and for what America stands for, I, as an American should return the service via a means that would benefit the most individuals the most, thus www.bioelectrichealth.com, which was later changed to ~.org, first appeared on the Web in 2002�s June.
~.org is an educational site that discusses some of the components, properties, attributes and factors involved with a fresh new approach to human physical functionality, namely the bioelectric perspective. Looking at health as it is effected by the physical body�s bioelectric properties and means of those properties� derivation opens up a mother load of knowledge, whose exploitation can now gain for its beneficiaries, a decade more of desirable physical existence, at least, on the average. All of the cures that are supposed to be here in five or ten years then will be here while we are still alive to benefit by them. Actually, that last statement was tongue-in-cheek. I mean A) To predict a discovery requires knowledge of its existence, so a prediction of the existence of a cure is an admittance of a present cognizance of it, which means that it already exists and B) the only reason that five years from now will be this very day is because the people that actually have to experience the phenomena decide to make it so.
I don�t want to delve into my actions too deeply here if you aren�t interested in what I am trying to do to help out, but I thought that it would be good to check in with you to tell you that I am not really disabled any more, kind of anyway, at least no-longer mentally so, due to what I am espousing on ~.org. Since 2003 though, I have been attacked by pathogens that have yielded the symptomatologies of, some form of pretty strong Hepatitis (yellow eyes, white stool, etc), Meningitis (gas actually passed out of my brain from between its parietal lobes for a period of five second one morning with that one.), Multiple Sclerosis (I was laid out on the floor 20 hours a day for a period of two months straight while I felt the nerve junctions pop in my legs and my legs muscle mass drop about 40 %.) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (I practically totally lost my � hour short term memory for about a year and I have to really stay on top of my act now, nutritionally, to make sure my neurology stays in tact any more.) However, via what I am doing, which I post on at ~.org, I have been able to regain and maintain a reasonably tolerable health condition again and what is more amazing; I was able to accomplish this totally devoid of any direct professional intervention. I am even back to doing ten pull-ups again and 50 deep knee bends with 30 pounds of weights in my, now, semi regular physical workouts. My neighbors who got some of the same illnesses are now dead. Yes, I mean �physically terminated, gone, six feet under. They were all even helped by the American Medical System.
I�ve now found that I make my arthritis issues recede via the placement of magnets over the pains that I get. The placement of magnets on my legs and sleeping on a magnetic mat has helped me regain about 10 percent more power in my legs. I think that they are about 75 percent as strong as they used to be at this point. My discovery of the usefulness of magnetic power was made in the past couple of months.
I will post a copy of this letter posted at the �Letters & Email Out� page of the ~.org Web site to let people know what is going on in regards to its author�s financial status. If you don�t think that it is inappropriate to post this letter on the ~.org Web site, please contact me in regards to the issue.
I hope that you forward this letter to the medical section of the VA, to help them resolve PTSD issues, and other phenomena that the information posted at ~.org could be used to assist with.
If you have any questions for me, or if you think that my services as a bioelectrician would be useful to you, please contact me. At least visit the Web site to see what I am trying to tell you.
Thank you for your ample financial assistance and valued attention to this letter.
Good luck with everything that you attempt to do.
Try to stay as alert and as durable as possible.
Thank you again.
Best regards,
Philip B. Obsharsky
Inclusions: Copies of Bioelectric Health promotional material
A copy of the original �TABLOIDER� pamphlet