On Teachers
As webmaster of a site dedicated to the study of Carey A. Reams and his Biological Theory of Ionization, I am often asked, "Well, what do you think about so and so?" Quite often the real question is a feeler to see if I think that a particular RBTI teacher is "OK".
Frankly, what I think is not all that important. This website speaks for itself. It is a collection of essays, articles, opinions, and facts about Carey Reams and the RBTI. Obviously, teachers must be mentioned by necessity. Egos being what they are, it is only to be expected that an individual teacher may not see every word about himself as glowing.
Having said that, it should be very clear that there is no way to independently report on the status of RBTI and its associated teachers without ruffling feathers from time to time. That is because none of the teachers wish to subject themselves to independent evaluation.
Dr. Reams departed this earth almost three decades ago. Much that is currently being taught in his name might not pass muster if he were with us today. Interestingly, even a cursory examination reveals that each of the teachers claim Reams would 100% approve their offerings, perhaps their offerings alone.
The RBTI for human health has its roots deep in soil testing. Reams discovered early in his career that when the environment of a plant was within narrow parameters, the plant was free of disease and also free to reach the limits of its genetic potential. In a few words: with proper conditions, health prevails and disease never has a chance.
As time went on, Reams found that those narrow parameters (plus several more of no value to plants) were applicable to animal and human health. Again, he did not think in terms of "defeating" disease nor of "magic bullets" in the sense of destroying pathogens. For instance, radiation he viewed as always harmful. Similarly, chemotherapy he felt could have some possible use, but he never found actual chemotherapy as practiced in the US to have anything but negative value. Let there be no question that drugs he deeply discounted: the very essence of drugs are that they must be suppressants in the body and they always have side effects. Surgery he approved as a last resort when disease had been allowed to run rampant until bodily parts were damaged beyond repair.
Instead of heroic medicine, Reams discovered, practiced, refined, and validated a nutritional approach that enjoyed astounding success. Like the soils science that preceded it, the Reams RBTI approach to human health centered on basic remineralization of the body to the point that digestion was perfected. This digestive perfection creates a setting that allows the body to not only benefit from ingested food, but to also literally pull ionized minerals from the air. Going hand in hand with that digestive perfection was a comprehensive program to remove old cells, undigested residue, and waste materials from the body.
All the above is understandable by both the healthy and the sick when posed as an equation laying out urine and saliva values. Leaving nothing to murky interpretation, depending only on careful analysis, the formula never fails to point toward either perfect health or some definable illness---right to the point of death. The message is simple and superb: do those things that move your numbers in the right direction and you can laugh at illness of whatever name.
However, not all of the RBTI teachers think entirely this kind and benign way. Some threaten the possibility of bacterial "attack". They warn against parasitic "invasion". They frighten with talk of viral "infection". They confuse with tenuous explanations of "free radicals". Perhaps most damaging of all is a failure to deeply teach their students that these dreadful "invaders" are nothing more than God's cleanup crew sent to dispose of waste matter. Further, our wayward teachers are sometimes slow to teach (with or without the chuckle that Reams employed) that the temporary misery of healing is merely the welcome path back to superb health. His "chicken & dumplings" diet (a fast of water and water plus lemon) continues to this day to mark the beginning of health restoration for many.
Reports repeatedly surface of students grumbling privately that they are being taught to use piles of supplements, of both type and amount, that Reams never knew of, or recommended. They fuss that colonics are ordered, not as Reams wished, merely to clean the intestinal wall to allow better mineral assimilation, but instead to wash away legions of "parasites". Students must turn to others to express frustration that their teachers seem more interested in pushing personal variations on the original Reams program than in teaching what can only be called "straight Reams".
However, teachers are not always to blame for their apparent shortcomings. Many both work as consultants and teach. It is quite understandable that over 10, 20, or 30 years they would find certain semi-RBTI protocols to work "better" in some cases. It is only human that teachers who also treat might find their teaching of pure RBTI theory modified. That may seem a good thing, but if their modifications don't work the first time (and every time) for others, more research is needed. Finally, every teacher needs to be on constant guard that they don't confuse the building up of someone's health with the symptom changes brought on by drugs, enzymes, or even minerals and vitamins used at drug mega-dosages.
This "what I think" page is really a call to teachers to practice constant standardization. This same call is to reach teachers and let them know that they should provide their workbooks and manuals to anyone at reasonable cost. Further, this call openly states that any teacher who doesn't constantly reach out to the RBTI community at large with a plea to help them with editing, proofreading, revision, and oversight may be doing harm to RBTI even as they fervently think they are only helping. Quite rightly there is little room in RBTI for locked-in-the-safe proprietary material. The building of RBTI into a 21st century viable alternative to drugs, radiation, and surgery depends on openness and cooperation.
Dear teacher, please do your part.
Sincerely,
Rex Harrill 09/28/2009
Frankly, what I think is not all that important. This website speaks for itself. It is a collection of essays, articles, opinions, and facts about Carey Reams and the RBTI. Obviously, teachers must be mentioned by necessity. Egos being what they are, it is only to be expected that an individual teacher may not see every word about himself as glowing.
Having said that, it should be very clear that there is no way to independently report on the status of RBTI and its associated teachers without ruffling feathers from time to time. That is because none of the teachers wish to subject themselves to independent evaluation.
Dr. Reams departed this earth almost three decades ago. Much that is currently being taught in his name might not pass muster if he were with us today. Interestingly, even a cursory examination reveals that each of the teachers claim Reams would 100% approve their offerings, perhaps their offerings alone.
The RBTI for human health has its roots deep in soil testing. Reams discovered early in his career that when the environment of a plant was within narrow parameters, the plant was free of disease and also free to reach the limits of its genetic potential. In a few words: with proper conditions, health prevails and disease never has a chance.
As time went on, Reams found that those narrow parameters (plus several more of no value to plants) were applicable to animal and human health. Again, he did not think in terms of "defeating" disease nor of "magic bullets" in the sense of destroying pathogens. For instance, radiation he viewed as always harmful. Similarly, chemotherapy he felt could have some possible use, but he never found actual chemotherapy as practiced in the US to have anything but negative value. Let there be no question that drugs he deeply discounted: the very essence of drugs are that they must be suppressants in the body and they always have side effects. Surgery he approved as a last resort when disease had been allowed to run rampant until bodily parts were damaged beyond repair.
Instead of heroic medicine, Reams discovered, practiced, refined, and validated a nutritional approach that enjoyed astounding success. Like the soils science that preceded it, the Reams RBTI approach to human health centered on basic remineralization of the body to the point that digestion was perfected. This digestive perfection creates a setting that allows the body to not only benefit from ingested food, but to also literally pull ionized minerals from the air. Going hand in hand with that digestive perfection was a comprehensive program to remove old cells, undigested residue, and waste materials from the body.
All the above is understandable by both the healthy and the sick when posed as an equation laying out urine and saliva values. Leaving nothing to murky interpretation, depending only on careful analysis, the formula never fails to point toward either perfect health or some definable illness---right to the point of death. The message is simple and superb: do those things that move your numbers in the right direction and you can laugh at illness of whatever name.
However, not all of the RBTI teachers think entirely this kind and benign way. Some threaten the possibility of bacterial "attack". They warn against parasitic "invasion". They frighten with talk of viral "infection". They confuse with tenuous explanations of "free radicals". Perhaps most damaging of all is a failure to deeply teach their students that these dreadful "invaders" are nothing more than God's cleanup crew sent to dispose of waste matter. Further, our wayward teachers are sometimes slow to teach (with or without the chuckle that Reams employed) that the temporary misery of healing is merely the welcome path back to superb health. His "chicken & dumplings" diet (a fast of water and water plus lemon) continues to this day to mark the beginning of health restoration for many.
Reports repeatedly surface of students grumbling privately that they are being taught to use piles of supplements, of both type and amount, that Reams never knew of, or recommended. They fuss that colonics are ordered, not as Reams wished, merely to clean the intestinal wall to allow better mineral assimilation, but instead to wash away legions of "parasites". Students must turn to others to express frustration that their teachers seem more interested in pushing personal variations on the original Reams program than in teaching what can only be called "straight Reams".
However, teachers are not always to blame for their apparent shortcomings. Many both work as consultants and teach. It is quite understandable that over 10, 20, or 30 years they would find certain semi-RBTI protocols to work "better" in some cases. It is only human that teachers who also treat might find their teaching of pure RBTI theory modified. That may seem a good thing, but if their modifications don't work the first time (and every time) for others, more research is needed. Finally, every teacher needs to be on constant guard that they don't confuse the building up of someone's health with the symptom changes brought on by drugs, enzymes, or even minerals and vitamins used at drug mega-dosages.
This "what I think" page is really a call to teachers to practice constant standardization. This same call is to reach teachers and let them know that they should provide their workbooks and manuals to anyone at reasonable cost. Further, this call openly states that any teacher who doesn't constantly reach out to the RBTI community at large with a plea to help them with editing, proofreading, revision, and oversight may be doing harm to RBTI even as they fervently think they are only helping. Quite rightly there is little room in RBTI for locked-in-the-safe proprietary material. The building of RBTI into a 21st century viable alternative to drugs, radiation, and surgery depends on openness and cooperation.
Dear teacher, please do your part.
Sincerely,
Rex Harrill 09/28/2009