“The enforcement of the compulsory smallpox vaccination law in 1867, when the death rate was already falling, was accompanied by an increase in the deaths from 100 to 400 deaths per million.”
― Dissolving Illusions
― Dissolving Illusions
“Belief and fear are powerful influences to the psyche. Because hierarchical powers have exploited these human vulnerabilities, they have unfortunately shaped the world. People are led to believe that because the world is a dangerous place, only governments and large institutions can provide protection because they are bigger and more knowledgeable than small communities. Rules and restrictions are put in place. Those who believe this lose trust in their own capability and thus surrender thinking and decision making to others.”
― Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
― Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
“What we have now is a population of increasingly unhealthy children—with rates of many chronic disorders increasing dramatically. Vaccination, for many, is a matter of swapping one set of possible risks for another set of probable risks, which are said to be “coincident.”
― Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
― Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
“It is necessary to take down the dysfunctional defense systems but we have to replace them with defenses that work.”
― Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
― Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls
“We can’t even be sure how to tell when the immune system’s not working right, let alone why not, because we don’t have good metrics of what a healthy human immune system looks like. Despite billions spent on immune stimulants in supermarkets and drugstores last year, we don’t know what—if anything—those really do, or what “immune stimulant” even means.{564}”
― Dissolving Illusions
― Dissolving Illusions
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