People like Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr.: These were people who were flawed human beings just like we all are, but they were spiritually oriented, and had the courage of their convictions- and they acted. They were threatened and took risks and ultimately were killed.
I am asked in almost every lecture I give, "Aren't you afraid?" I answer: "Well, look. You have to understand that as an emergency doc- tor, I've taken care of I don't know how many people killed over a 50- cent beer. "
Two high school boys came in Code Blue, dead on arrival, that we tried to save. This happened because one of them had patted the other one's girlfriend on the fanny and they pulled out knives and sliced each other's guts and hearts open. I've seen people die over such ephemera and over such trivial things that if you understand what these issues are about and you're not willing to step up to the plate and take a bullet, you're a coward.
I've said flat out to some of these folks who are involved in these projects, "You want to whack me? Go ahead."
I'm on borrowed time anyway. I figure that everything past the age of 17, when I was clinically dead, is a gift.
The world needs people who understand what the task is and are willing to go the distance. The time we're living in right now is a real test for people to get that balance -- it's a yin and yang, male-female attribute sort of thing. We must combine the spiritual and loving with the active, assertive and disciplined. Change requires that we bring those qualities together. It's like two wings of a bird. And it's often said that in humanity, the male and female, are two wings of a bird. And
so long as one is impaired, the bird will never fly straight and will never stay aloft.
This is not only in terms of men and women, and basic equality, but it is also about the attributes that we have to evince and demonstrate in our life to manifest that kind of harmony.
We live in a world where women generally are taught not to be assertive and active, and men are not taught to be spiritual and loving. This is a perversion of human nature. It has nothing to do with male or female. There may be dominance in these areas in one sex or the other, but the task is to bring them into harmony. The duality of 'this or that' we have to transcend. We have to bring both of these qualities and attributes to bear in our lives.
Unless we do, we're not going to be successful in establishing the kind of civilization on this planet that will be enduring. Had we done so for 100 years , I have no doubt in my mind that we would have already had a permanently established peaceful world civilization here. I'm certain by the mid-1900s we would have had electro-gravitic transportation between cities; we would have had free energy and non-polluting energy forms running the Earth; we would have had all these things. People laugh and say, "Oh, it's like the Jetsons." Well, in fact, some of these cartoons and science fiction stories that were created were based on very well- known facts and prototypes of technologies that were up and flying around back in the '50s and '60s.
We have not collectively or individually exercised our powers through the operation of free will and the knowledge that goes with it that can create this new world. As soon as we do, we'll have it. And until we do, it won't happen.
This is why I encourage people to not look at this as some visionary, futuristic effort, but in reality, as doing a bit of a catch-up. We can talk about the real future, because the establishment of a peaceful civilization using non-harmful technologies to run our civilization is something that really could have been achieved decades ago. It's a total transformation of the way humans will live on Earth and explore the cosmos.
CHAPTER 9
Q^D
Information in Unconventional Ways
The love of higher states of awareness and the study and application of such knowledge continued even in my medical career. I've spoken to a number of physicians and others who are in high stress jobs. Believe me, a busy ER is a stressful place to be. Everything in our lives can be applied if we're open to keeping ourselves integrated to that experience, including these experiences with consciousness and higher states of awareness.
One morning, I was back in the call room at the hospital at about three o'clock a.m.. I was lying there, just sort of relaxing. There was no one in the ER at that particular moment after hours of non-stop patients. As I was lying there, in my mind's eye I saw very clearly a woman com- ing in with congestive heart failure, and she was dying. I saw it so clearly that I got up and put on my scrub top and shoes and went out to the ER.
The nurses said, "What are you doing here?" I said, "I'm expecting a congestive heart failure patient - an elderly woman - to come in." They said, "Well, there's been no call." And about two seconds later, the radio call came in from the paramedics: "We're on our way in with a woman with congestive heart failure, respiratory distress...."
This type of intuitive experience would happen frequently in the ER, but it wasn't appropriate to talk about, because our society wants to keep spirituality and this kind of experience separate from our careers, our families and, our politics and from everything.
Another time, a 26-year-old male came in during flu season who thought he was sick with the flu. The nurse triaged him and put him in a medical room. We were very busy - we had 14 trauma and exam rooms, and one doctor! I went in and saw this man. He had fever, chills, nau- sea, body aches and headache and all the symptoms that you would see with the flu. Normally, most doctors would examine him, do a couple tests and give him a prescription for Amantadine for the flu, and off they'd go.
I looked at this man and enigmatically sensed that he had a brain tumor. Now, there were no symptoms of a brain tumor. He did not have any neurological findings such as paralysis,numbness, seizure, etc. But I had the power of my convictions. So I turned to the nurse and I said, "I want a stat CT of the head." Well she looked at me like I was crazy and said, " Dr. Greer, he's only got the flu!" And I said, "Just do it."
Thank God I didn't have to go through an HMO or some insensitive bean counter, because if I had, this man would be dead today! ( Memo to the politicians and money whores ruining our medical systems: Medicine is an art, as well as a science.)
So, from this intuitive knowledge, I ordered a CAT scan. He really did not, objectively, meet any criteria for ordering one. But I said, "Whoever's on the table, yank them off. Get them out of the scanner; I want this one in, stat." So, he goes in, and the radiologist calls back, stat, and says, "Dr. Greer, this man has a massive astrocytoma" --a big brain tumor -- that was herniating the brain stem!
Now, here's what was happening: All of his symptoms were because the brain stem was being pushed through the opening at the base of the skull, the foramen magnum, and it was putting pressure on the area that controls temperature regulation, nausea, etc. So, he was having all these symptoms of fever and chills and nausea, but it was all due to this tumor and its strange presentation. The shape of this tumor was such that it wasn't affecting any specific sensory or motor function. It was a very atypical situation.
It was serious enough that, with this kind of pressure being built up in the brain, it eventually would have herniated the brain stem, cut off the respiratory and heart center, and he would have suddenly died. I immediately referred him to neurosurgery for stat decompression. We had to helicopter him, actually, to another facility.
"Dr. Greer, why did you think this patient had a brain tumor? I would have never suspected it with his presentation! I would have never even gotten the CAT scan," the neurosurgeon told me. "Oh, I just had a hunch...," I said. The truth is that it was a type of sensing -- the pop culture would say "remote viewing."