Modern civilization is plagued by three powerful afflictions, war, disease, and poverty. Of these, disease is the fundamental cause of human miseries. Poverty will disappear on its own accord once the other two problems are resolved. War is a sickness of the soul, a spiritual failing, which can be remedied only when disease is understood and eradicated. Disease, war, and poverty all originate from the same, condition, and all three will vanish forever when people everywhere become perfectly healthy both in spirit and in body. How simple it seems, yet how difficult to realize. Nevertheless, it is possible for everyone to achieve genuine, total health. God has revealed to me the one certain way to banish these afflictions, and it is my mission to spread the divine message. What I have written here represents a first step toward that goal.

Today we tend to think of disease as a physical thing, but that is a misconception. Disease of the spirit is as real as physical disease, and it is the spiritually unhealthy people who are the cause of war. Until we all become both physically and spiritually whole, true civilization, free from war, disease, and poverty, can never be possible. How can people attain genuine health, the kind of health I call wholeness? We must understand the essence of true health in spirit and body and then discover how to achieve that state. Having been shown what lies at the heart of human perfection, I now can explain how others can find it.

First of all we need to explore the truth about the universe we are born into. Modern science regards existence only in terms of finite matter. It acknowledges nothing beyond matter. The assumptions of science are seriously misleading, as they take no account of the level of existence most important for humanity: that which is spiritual and eternal. That there might be something beyond matter has not been recognized in modern societies because people have depended solely on the material sciences for knowledge. Scientific theory may appear to have advanced in recent years, but it is all based on the premise that nothing can be proved to exist outside the physically demonstrable.

Thus, scientists have developed a dogmatic way of thinking which tends to disregard all phenomena that are not scientifically verifiable. They show by their own attitude how easy it is for prejudice and narrowness to enter scholarly endeavors. modern science fails the most elementary test: it has not increased human happiness, even though technological civilization has continued to advance. Why should this be so?

We know that the goal of true medicine is to make people humanly perfect, whole in both body and spirit, and yet medical science is moving in exactly the opposite direction. Rather than helping, it is creating more invalids and more disease. To understand why it is going so wide of the mark, we need to examine the premises of medical theory. Ignorant of the real cause of disease, the science of medicine has interpreted most aspects of sickness in narrowly physical terms. Based on materialism, medical science has focused on treating the physical symptoms and alleviating suffering. Progress in medicine is gauged primarily by the effectiveness of temporary pain-relieving measures.

The accepted methods themselves are physical. The use of drugs, medical instruments, radiation, and so forth will often lighten pain. Unfortunately, however, successful pain-relief has been misconstrued as healing. Few people recognize that alleviation of pain and healing of disease are different altogether.  The former is temporary, the latter is permanent. Medicine becomes infinitely more dangerous because its methods to relieve distress not only fail to cure permanently, but they also create new diseases and exacerbate existing ones.

Medical science being basically materialistic, practitioners naturally regard the human body only as a physical entity and treat people as though they were no more than animals. Trying to discover or prove some new medical theory, researchers use animals in their experiments. They then make the mistake of applying their findings to human beings. Medical scientists do not understand that humans and animals are essentially different in spiritual qualities, as well as in form and emotional and intellectual capacities. Because they are different, human disease must be studied with human Patients; otherwise, we cannot even hope for a true medical science that will guarantee genuine and complete healing.

Furthermore, a person, unlike an animal, has psychosomatic reactions that can greatly affect the condition. For example, when someone is told that he or she has an incurable disease, the shock alone may cause startling deterioration. Many of us as well as doctors frequently encounter such cases. No similar developments occur in animals, because animals react to knowledge about their bodies in a completely different way. Medical science today, then, has two fundamental failings that disqualify it as genuine science: treating people as exclusively physical beings at the expense of their spiritual being, and not making rigid distinction between humans and animals.