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Sacred Feasts & Healing Massage Are Connected

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James chapter 5 mentions a process of "elders laying on hands for healing".
This concept is completely misunderstood by the modern church.
Todays religionists have abandoned both sacred-feasting and health-work.
The healing arts are today the near-exclusive domain of a neo-pagan sorceror-priest-class.
These medical doctors see bodies as disconnected parts to be β€˜treated’ by knives, poisons or radiation.

By contrast, in ancient Israel, priests served as both meat-butchers and doctors.
Preparing meat gave the priests a first-class understanding of both functional and positional anatomy.

The controversy between mechanical anatomy and systemic anatomy plagues massage schools.
Often a physical therapist, chiropractor or nurse teaches the anatomy course.
Thus most massage therapists get medical school anatomy training.
They know where the parts are, but not how the parts inter-relate.
If you start with medical school anatomy, you draw medical school conclusions.
Most therapists do not get into healing arts to become low-rent doctors.
You want to be real holistic healers.
To achieve holistic healing, you need holistic anatomy studies.
You need deep understanding, beyond the isolated mechanistic principles of medical anatomy.
Cadaver study can help.
But cadavers are dead.
One of the best anatomy lessons is to slaughter a sheep or a lamb for a feast.
Then immediately take the sheep apart with your fingers.
(If this seems disgusting, realize that it's not fundamentally different than pulling apart a chicken leg at dinner.)
You see the attachments of the organs.
Everything is warm.
Put your hands on the connected tissue.
It β€˜melts’ in front of your hands.
You see what is actually happening when you touch a living body.
Med' school cadavers show you mere positioning of human physiology.
You can get positioning information from a 3d model.
Cadavers give no sense of what's going on with living connective tissue.
Cadavers are so damaged by embalmment that they don't feel or respond like a living body.
So, to comprehend human tissue, you should behave like an ancient Hebrew priest.
Go down to your butcher shop.
Buy the freshest leg of lamb you can, with the skin still on it, not one that's been frozen or sitting around for days.
Jet home as fast as you can.
Dissect the tissue with your fingers, not a knife.
Immediately you sense how muscle and connective tissue respond in a living human.