The world is at a crux. There is a shift in point of view and in the ways we perceive life and our purposes here.

We are going back to the "old" apothecary or place of healing that existed in the old days or the early 1900s, in this country, and in other places and times in the world.

It is time to pay attention to the ancient ways of healing — those forms of inner and spiritual healing that have existed for eons.

The so-called new medical profession is very, very new. Those who are trained as physicians, as well as other medical personnel such as nurses, respiratory therapists, physicians' assistants and pharmacists, are a new breed, but they need to open their eyes and be aware of the spirit of healing.

The medical profession, as seen by those in our country now, is very limited and narrow-minded, and very proud and insecure to lose its temporary position of authority, as supported at this time by our politics and current higher organizations that govern the licensing, registrations and control of chemical, medicinal, herbal and other substances that might be used in a healing way by a practitioner of any of the healing arts or sciences.

As evidenced by the debates in Congress, there are a lot of things to be discussed, new or old means of treatments to be investigated, ways that the costs will be covered in the future for our people, and decisions as to how those treatments and medicinal remedies will be dispensed to those in need.

God bless those who are making those major decisions now. Thank God we have reached the point in time where those things finally will be discussed and, hopefully, Godly inspired decisions will be made to treat our people in need.

Thanks are in order to President Barack Obama for helping to make it possible for changes to be made to the health care system — many much-needed changes.

The precedent has been set by the president. He is our leader in this quest for new forms of health care, a new system to include all those in need.