The 7th Stage of Illness–Arrogance
Years ago I read a very important book by Michio Kushi titled “The Book of Macrobiotics–The Universal Way of Health, Happiness and Peace”. I thought it would be a book on eating a Macrobiotic diet but it was so much more. I highly recommend this book for its great wisdom and unknown information on how the body and environment work. I turn to this book to remind myself of how disease begins.
We have so much degenerative disease in our culture and it is easy to understand why when you read the progressive patterns of its development. He breaks it down into 7 stages. It is the 7th stage that really pauses you to think. As I move into my wisdom years, I watch so many leave the earth through cancer, heart diseases and a general breakdown of the body. In light of the routine reports of cancer …