What is Enlightened Medicine, Health, Healing and Spirituality?

Dhanvantari, the Hindu archetype of healing, health, Medicine, and Enlightened Spirituality



Enlightened Medicine encompasses the idea and affirmation that enlightenment is possible and that it can be attained through balance of body and mind to reflect the Spirit within.

Enlightened medicine recognizes that there is a vast hidden inner consciousness and field of energy that is locked within the human potential.  When awakened fully it manifests all of our hidden higher qualities including wisdom, bliss, light, love and peace.  It also taps into the potential to heal the body and foster this healing in others as well.

Enlightened Medicine is the awakening to the realization that the body, mind and Spirit are
interwoven and that health and healing are integral to our inner enlightenment.

Enlightened Medicine respects ancient medical wisdom and attempts to understand and apply its vast knowledge of the secret inner workings and forces behind and within body and mind while actively appreciating all aspects of Modern Conventional Medicine.  It fosters a marriage between the two to create the best in health, healing, Spirituality and Medicine.

Enlightened Medicine is a broad, expanding thinking and practice that penetrates to the root causes of disease by understanding and experiencing the inner life force, the way this force moves and activates the bodies and the mind and the manner by which these forces become unbalanced in various disease states.

Enlightened Medicine restores optimal health and healing by balancing these forces with many modalities: the 7 types of Yoga, Herbology/Herbal Medicine from around the world, focuses on mostly Vegan healing foods, natural supplements that one can derive more from nature rather than in pills, conventional exercise, manual and manipulative therapies, active and in depth creative pursuits including art and music healing.   It respects evidence based complementary and integrative medicine but also incorporates accepted principles in Chinese and Ayurveda Medicine that are currently being studied as well.

Enlightened Medicine  incorporates the methods of direct energy awakening and healing by those who are in enlightened states or on the road to enlightenment to confer vibrational energy to others to afford their healing of body and mind as well.

Enlightened Medicine uniquely captures the essence of inner kundalini awakening and in this unique time brings it directly into the arena of Medicine.  Long forgotten, the inner dormant kundalini, represented by the Medical Caduceus was actively awakened by qualified ancient physicians and healers.  Its awakening brings about hidden higher states of consciousness while spontaneously healing the body of many forms of ailments and diseases.

Enlightened Medicine stresses the deep inner theory of the inner workings of body and mind:  the subtle bodies, the chakras or energy centers, the movement and flow of energy, and all of the complex areas that are largely forgotten or unknown in the Modern Medicine environment.

Enlightened Medicine embraces the idea of the "Divine Feminine" and the return of the Goddess to health, healing, Spirituality and Medicine.  This means that its basis is rooted in the power of love and positive thinking rather than traditional issues in Medicine that are based in harsh rigid thinking, severe hard and fast rules, fear and control.  It reawakens the art and softer side of Medicine rather than just focusing only on rigid sets of symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments. It stresses the emotional well being and stresses deep Universal Spiritual principles that create a true deep atmosphere of healing, so missing in today's modern medicine clinics and hospitals.

Enlightened Medicine attempts to individually link one's diagnosis, symptoms and disease states with what is happening in a person's mind, heart and inner world, instead of just skimming the surface of what is ailing the person and providing medications to mask the problems.  It attempts to link inner blocks that consist of myriad issues of unresolved pain, grief, trauma, misunderstandings, lack of forgiveness and many other root inner causes that are creating the outer manifestations of disease, all the while respecting the need for complete conventional treatment and diagnosis as well.

Enlightened Medicine creates clinics that are actual living Spiritual Universal temples with ancient and modern healing and Spiritual practices that charge the atmosphere with subtle healing energy that affords an experience of inner peace and grace.

Enlightened Medicine recognizes the power of complete positive thinking.  It emphasizes Medical and Psychiatric wellness instead of the focus on the negative disease state.  It fosters many practices rooted in ancient knowledge and modern cognitive therapy based in Law of Attraction that allows a person to raise their consciousness into a positive healed inner world.

Enlightened Medicine recognizes the need for deep contemplation, prayer and meditation of any kind in a deep and ongoing basis as part of a healing prescription. It is not based in religion but in Spirituality of any understanding for all.  This Spirituality is recognized as the root of healing and enlightenment and its common denominator is the power of unconditional love and the expression of inner Light.

Enlightened Medicine actively teaches the practice of gratitude, contentment, and forgiveness, recognizes its pure healing power on all levels.  It stresses all of the positive aspects of healing including faith, trust, wholeness, contentment, practice of happiness and joy,  integrity, honesty, purity of body and mind, flexible thinking, compromise, balance, and altruism.

Enlightened Medicine does not just speak of these matters, its very basis is experiential to provide many Spiritual, Healing, and Health practices, suggestions, and methods designed to help people evolve their and heal their bodies on an ongoing basis, providing the atmosphere to return for structure, support, and ongoing guidance in all these matters, in addition to clinical visits. The practice of these methods ultimate goal is to foster a conscious state of enlightenment, described in ancient times (that still exists through many today) through optimal health.

Enlightened Medicine stresses the importance of intimacy and relationships that are often glossed over by Modern Medicine as well as many spiritual paths.  It creates the awareness and healing needed for expression of real intimacy and authentic feelings and deeply fosters the need that healthy relationships are integral to the healing process.  It actively roots out the issues of dysfunction in families and individuals so that new, healthier relationships can be created.

Enlightened Medicine seeks out those true spiritual masters, Divine Mothers, Spiritual beings, and gifted healers to share their gifts in an ongoing basis without competition and control in an environment that people can receive their Light, love, blessings and awakenings as part of their direct health treatments.  It fosters intensives, courses, group and individual sessions and healings for those open to receiving direct energy for healing and enlightenment as part of their health care.


Enlightened Medicine thus attempts to create a new paradigm shift in Health, Healing, Spirituality and Medicine in an already difficult and desperate medical system that has much conventional knowledge but lacks many tools, knowledge, and thought to create optimal enlightenment, wholeness, healing, and Spiritual development.

This blog post is not diagnosing or rendering treatment of any kind.  Dr. Rama is outlining his inspiration and vision of Medicine that is part of his knowledge and experience and part of the emerging body of knowledge arising out of Integrative Medicine with further insight into areas of energy healing, Yoga, and its practices on deeper Spiritual levels.

Consult your regular physicians for any and all treatments and medical questions at this time.  Thank you.

Deities are Mirrors of "US"!--Dr. Rama

Deities are Mirrors of  "US"-----Dr. Rama

Deities of all kinds from any religion or spiritual path are mirror images of ourselves.  There are many misconceptions about deities, images, forms and idols.  Remember this is not the only earth, there are countless trillions of physical, astral, causal, and supra causal realms of varying density and dimension.  And remember there are also trillions of Universes comprising each of these states of densities ---trillions upon trillions upon trillions of worlds that have no end and no beginning---

So as limited humans on this finite and dense planet we are also seemingly limited in body and mind.  We are trying to reconnect and remember the Divine Source, the Divine intangible infinite Spirit, the infinite unexplainable natural force, the Divine Intelligence behind and within creation, the simultaneous Supremely omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent force and Source.  We are trying to reconnect and remember because we came from that Source, we---are extensions of that Universal Spirit in condensed form.--it is part of our natural instinct, evolution and Nature, to ultimately go inside ourselves to listen to our inner prompting that compels to seek answers and experiences about the known and unknown, seen and unseen......when our mind fails to explain that which is seemingly mysterious and unknown to us.  That is part of the game of hide and seek between the eternal Source and created beings of infinite forms.

Why we are here in physicality is the subject of another discussion.  The fact is that we are here and as physical beings we need some point of contact with the Divine.

Most people, (like me) ha ha----need some kind of form to visualize to understand and relate to.  The infinite Divine Source is too big a concept to grasp at once unless we have become fully enlightened to hold the entire Universe consciously within our own being.

It is like a little child imitating her mother with a doll.  The child does not know all the subtleties and innuendos of motherhood, but she knows she can relate and communicate her love and intentions through a doll.

It is the same as with idols.  Most of us need some focal point with which to relate to the Divine that is well beyond most people's mind and grasp.

Even in secular life when you have pictures of loved ones and so on at home or at the office, does it not give one a sense of purpose? Do we not connect with their energy and hearts and with our being through a picture?  Many say they keep pictures there because it keeps them going and gives them a purpose for living.

When kids and others have pictures of movie stars, athletes, singers, heroes and others, do these all ignite and awaken a certain set of various feelings and powers inside us?


So just imagine what an idol, image, or deity representing the Divine can invoke inside us.


It  does not matter what culture you come from, every culture has some kind of form of the Divine with which to relate----even in Islam they have a book even if they claim no forms, is it not so?

The other few weeks or so I was silently and listening to the dialogue observing some of my own in-- laws --hanging onto their own rigid beliefs and conditioning and instructing their children to ignore and not value all deities, not even wanting any Indian artifacts and statues in their houses, even though they are or were married to Indians in the first place!  And I realized more how such conditioning and limitation is placed into one generation to the next......unless more enlightenment and understanding awakens for global humanity.......

Any deity, high or low, light or dark, and in any form represents primordial archetypal energies that exist within the unseen.

Do not people have images of Jesus and Mary?  How many people relate to Mother Mary even more than Jesus?  And yet other non-Western deities and images are often condemned and misunderstood!

Remember in Africa and America we see black Jesus image and icons.  In Eastern Europe we see dark or black Madonnas and there are millions of  Chinese looking Buddhas in the Far East even though he was from India.......  Indian idols look Indian, Thai deities look Thai, American Idols (haha)----look American on TV!  ----

So the same archetypes are present in all cultures----even off world planets---the deities there look like their inhabitants......


It is because we are creating a mirror of ourselves through the deities.  The deities are in essence a mirror of ourselves.

When you are in front of a deity you are trying to remember, reverberate and revel in your own Divine qualities. 

For example if you are in front of the deity of fame and fortune, it is because our Soul is already abundant and famous ---famous because we are omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient-already---but the problem is--is that most of us forgot this, so we go in front of the deity who personifies these qualities and do whatever we do--stare at the deity, dance around, sing songs, do ritual worship, chant, meditate and so on, all hoping to invoke those qualities in ourselves.  We are already perfectly abundant but due to karma and other negative law of attraction issues we may be trapped in poverty and myriad other problems.  So we go in front of the deity to awaken the abundant positive state within our own being.

The deity looks like us and is dressed in the culture that we are familiar with or hold near and dear. If we were on a planet of reptilians, raptor beings, insectasoids, Dinoids, or Lion Beings, then the deities would look like that. The deity holds symbolic objects that represent various powers that we already have and that we need to remember.  These powers exist as rays of light inside us all.

The same applies for any other deity or idol or statue.  If you are in front of the archetype of education, wisdom, creativity, knowledge, the arts, sciences and so on--then you are trying to awaken those brain centers inside yourself that will give you more or broader intelligence.  You ask outside for what is inside already, just buried and dormant through eons of karma that have kept us from remembering our Super Intelligent powers.

If we want more compassion, worship and study Quan Yin.  If we want to experience lust and passion, then invoke Cupid or Kama.  If we want more meditation then Shiva is the man for us! ---and it goes on and on....for anything and everything.

So in essence there is ONE LIGHT or Source that fractionates into infinite qualities, essences, lights, powers, and all to meet and suit infinite tasks and issues; this is another great hidden mystery of the Universe.

What is a great secret is that when you create a likeness of any person, saint, being, deity and so on you are creating a focus point to access their power in the Unseen, which is also our own power.

Remember when we are in front of real mirror, we look at it to see how we look and and how we are, is it not so?  We check our hair and makeup and so on.  If we had full remembrance of how we look and so on, then why would we need a mirror?  Yet we all look daily at a mirror to check anything and everything.  Some people talk to themselves in front of a mirror.  It is no different with a deity.

Another mystery is that the deities represent all qualities inside us; and yet, by creating various images representing various qualities, we are invoking the Power of Source.  Source will mold to any power we create through our will. This is another divine secret.  So in another sense, the deities represent Higher Powers, that we can appeal to help us with anything and everything even though we have those powers inside us already.

In our own world, even though we have these potential talents and powers, we have to consult various people as experts, is it not so?  We have to consult a doctor, lawyer, business expert and so on to conduct and handle even our mundane life.  We all have the power to learn what they know but we do not have all resources consciously to do so because we are in body and limited mind and each has a unique path of learning; we cannot do everything at once in our present state of evolution and in our limited body we are not "know it alls......."  Yet we all need each other as each person's job contributes to the whole planet. There is no work that is ultimately high or low, even though society places artificial value through money and prestige on various works.

Similarly we attract and worship and do whatever we do to access higher hidden powers, lights, gods, goddesses and beings to help us in the Light to remember the Light or any task, mission, goal, work, assignment, hobby craft or anything we desire.  When such beings descend from higher worlds, they can concentrate their power into the deity we set up or have----much like a telephone.  The statue becomes a telephone.  We pray, talk to , ask and so on to the statue, and if we are quiet we will get inner answers through our own intuition guidance and so from those powers we are focusing on.

Yet some people want nothing to do with these beings or idols they just want to go directly to the Source or the Light.  That is all wonderful if we can handle the enormous electrical voltage of Source.  If we can handle it by all means do so.  However do not be surprised if various beings come in dreams, meditation or show up in our lives to help us as living angels, light beings our own relatives and friends and new people we come across!  These are the ones that the abstract Light sends us in tangible form-----so we still have to deal with names and forms!--Even if we think we only want the abstract, invisible and infinite----  Is it not funny?

For those people who look down or judge the worship of deities and so on I ask to hold off on all judgments and allow each to do his own path and way of being. 


In India there is the story of the saint who thought he was listening to his Guru by remaining in the middle of the road when a mad elephant was running down the same road.  All the crowds shouted at him to get out the way, but the saint obstinately sat in the middle of the road, saying that his Guru said that God will always look after and protect the devotee.  So he sat there and the angry elephant stomped on him hurled over the village roofs with its strong trunk.  Bruised and beaten he went to this Guru and asked him why God did not protect him from the elephant.  Calmly the Guru told him that God was there protecting him ! God was speaking through the people to get out of the way!!


Dr. Rama

2013 Writings: What is the Essence of Enlightenment? Dr. Rama

Dhanvantari, the sacred archetype Deity for Health and Healing

What is the essence of enlightenment?  This question is the most profound question in the seen and unseen Universe.  It is the essential question that countless civilizations in myriad, endless worlds have pondered since the Dawn and time and even before and will be the most salient topic into the unending future.

The question is paradoxically simple, yet complex.  It is simple because we are already enlightened.  It is complex because most of us do not consciously know, understand or remember this.

Enlightenment can never be described in words.  It can never be discussed to realize what it is.  All that can be done is to use words that have some association or reference to enlightenment, and yet words fail because they are too limited.   It can only be experienced from within. our inner experience is what we realize to be enlightenment....No debate, talk, rampage, war or any other physical, mental and emotional endeavor will ever solve the question of what enlightenment is.  It is the greatest mystery-- yet enlightenment is closer than our own breath and our thoughts.

This experience from within known as enlightenment is our essential Higher Self:  called by thousands and thousands of names over eons of time and from countless civilizations from this planet and infinite numbers of beings known and unknown. 

There is no one who is not enlightened because we are essentially Source, we are the Spark of the original Divine consciousness. The only thing that clouded our inner essence are the antics and impressions within our own mind that veil our enlightenment,--- our Higher Self --and this has been going on century after century, lifetime after lifetime in an endless play of hide and seek between ourselves and the original Creator Source.

Yet, interestingly when we move into the state of enlightenment (which also has no ending and no beginning--it only expands in all inner directions and is greater and higher than before at any given moment)---our outer life becomes better and better, greater and greater--more and more productive, giving, loving, balanced whole, fulfilled, accomplished, renewed and refreshed.

Is it is not interesting?  There is nothing on the outside of us that will ever describe or create the state of enlightenment but when we consciously remember this inner state of Light our outer life automatically turns into an ever increasing positive and expanded experience, even while doing the most seemingly mundane tasks and chores, or even doing nothing at all.

That is is why it is worth exploring and remembering our enlightenment from within ourselves through any path of positive Light.

Until we do and rest in its essence all the time there is one thing that is guaranteed:  and that is more suffering for us mixed with life's pleasures and this dichotomy of experiences has essentially no end.  Even though we have bursts of happiness and our share of seeming good times, unless we consciously pursue our enlightenment and inner expanded consciousness, we will still always feel that something is missing, that there is something that is still not fulfilled and we will constantly search the external world for something that is deep within us already as our own spark of Divinity.

It is like a precious jewel that is sewn into our pocket but we do not remember it.  We thus search around the world and in outer space for buried treasure and go hither and thither on treasure hunts searching for joy and happiness outside of ourselves and use all kinds of maps that cause us to go down many roads:  some positive and some negative.  And  yet, we still have not remembered our inner jewel that is right in our pocket that we have had all along throughout countless milenia, our original Higher Self.

The great masters Spiritual Teachers, Avatars, Divine Mothers, Enlightened Workers and so on who have rested into their inner enlightenment or at least have had glimpses of expanded consciousness all attest that the joy and all other positive qualities that are experienced beyond and behind the mind are well worth the efforts ---we then gain and remember who we really are while in a body and mind right here on this Earth plane---something that billions have forgotten in the quagmire of this illusory world.

More next time.

DR. R