In a recent correspondence with a dear friend who is a retired clinician and former Department Chair of Neurology at one of our country’s most prestigious medical institutions, he voiced to me his take on the transition of consciousness in our current timeline.
“Overall, the truth is dead in public discourse on all sides. Young people are being trained to be non-inquisitive and to live by emotion rather than critical thinking. Rational discussion has become impossible. Those who question emotional supremacy will be sidelined at best and turned to ash at worst.”
My friend speaks from a very enlightened perspective. I knew him peripherally when he was a young man working in the steel mills in Gary. Later we become close friends as undergraduates at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the late 1980’s. His wry humor and powers of deduction were legendary at the Ivory Tower where he worked. In a specific case involving a young patient of mine, just mentioning his name and the advice that he gave parted the stagnant waters of a consortium of specialists that could not find any consensus. They trusted his guidance implicitly, yet they did not have the wisdom to listen to their own. Continue reading “A Letter to a Friend”
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