Gilbert Sesinyi makes an assertion that in some quarters would amount to heresy.
“It’s so difficult to be sick,” he states.
His argument is that nature provides for an individual’s wellbeing, and sickness is a byproduct of the changing lifestyles that go against the dictates of nature. This is one of the basic assumptions that guide his branch of alternative medicine, whose principle is to adopt a holistic approach towards healing. It is based on the work of Dr Hulda Clark, the Canadian author and practitioner of alternative medicine who died in 2009. Even in death, mention of Clark’s name continues to generate controversy ÔÇô dismissed as the ultimate quark on the one hand, and extolled as a groundbreaking scholar, on the other.
“We don’t believe in the pill approach,” Sesinyi says. “We don’t believe in curing symptoms. We believe to cure, you need to focus on the cause. If focus is on the cause, and someone has diabetes, we would not give them insulin. Instead, we would wean them off the insulin.”
And how is that done?
“Cleanse the system,” he answers. “Revive the organ, then the organ would give you the insulin you need.”
He shows me an instrument that looks like a simple electric circuit ÔÇô so simple in appearance that it could easily belong to my 10-year-old son’s toy kit. A zapper, it is called. An invention of the aforementioned Clark, the zapper is a battery-operated gadget that is said to kill parasites, bacteria, viruses, molds, and fungi in the human body electrically.
“I can go into hospitals and create many changes with this,” he says holding the device in midair to demonstrate its use. “Most of those people can walk out of hospitals in a few days.”
Naturally, I want to know why, if the thing’s efficacy is as claimed, it has not been embraced by the medical world.
“They have been ducking and diving,” Sesinyi says in reference to the big commercial interests in the health industry. “But in the United States they have started introducing them. There is an element of threat to the status quo. We can’t expect those who benefit from the status quo to help us come up with things that make healing ourselves easy.”
He says there is always a bigger picture towards disease, yet we have been made to always think of the obvious ÔÇô the pill. He goes back to the principle of cleansing the entire human system, especially organs like the liver and kidneys.
“Our foreparents knew about the importance of cleansing. But with our western education we shunned what our foreparents taught us. The principle shouldn’t have been done away with,” he says. “A liver cleanse is a very simple exercise, and the best thing you can do for an old person. They would just gain a boost.”
He puts emphasis on cleansing because of the “pollutants and contaminants we are assaulted with everyday”, which make an average person’s body a cesspool of worms, bacteria, and parasites. The logic, therefore, is that like any machine, if the human body is not cleaned, it’s bound to give in ÔÇô sometimes way before its time. Evidence of that, he says, is in the young people who have various illnesses like high blood pressure, cancers, and diabetes.
“This is a result of the chemicals around you,” he says. “The cosmetics, deodorants, and the food that we eat because we have been taken advantage of. It’s the inferior products that go to the villages, and the western way of life that bring death and disease. The lifestyle that is not deadly is the lifestyle of nature….The hospital doesn’t even ask about what you eat, or apply to your skin.”
He talks of the need to create a new reality. And the starting point is to go back to simple and unprocessed food. To continue as if it’s business as usual, he points out, is to continue to ingest the sprays, dyes, and metals that are part of the food production and processing chain.
“All things that are unnatural create disease,” Sesinyi says. “A body that is fed natural food would operate naturally, and a healthy body would never contract HIV.”
He blames the corporate greed of the pharmaceutical industry for what has exploded into an AIDS crisis. To start with, Sesinyi, expresses doubt that HIV singlehandedly causes AIDS. In this, he points out, he is not alone. He states that even Luc Montagnier, a co-discoverer of HIV and a Nobel Prize laureate, has expressed some doubts at what has become the convention.
“One virus can decapitate the whole human body immunity?” he asks. “For a single virus to do that it needs a lot of help; that is the lifestyle of pollutants and contaminants. Africa is afflicted with inferior products, and pollutants. If nutritionally balanced, a human body can get rid of the HIV. But the industry doesn’t want to hear that simple truth. The simple notion of health is to deal with the body holistically.”
He calls for a stop to what he calls an obsession with HIV.
“The big secret is that the virus wouldn’t live in your body if you are healthy,” he says.
Then he relates how he intervened when conventional medicine had given up on a friend who was bed-ridden in hospital. Apparently, the man had asked his brother, who is his next of kin, to allow Sesinyi “to do everything he wants to do”.
“A week later, they found him sitting and reading a newspaper in the sun,” he says. “Two weeks later he was home.”
He says the setting in hospitals in not conducive for healing. If anything, he finds the whole arrangement depressive ÔÇô from the wards to the food.
“People in hospitals must be given pure and energized water. They shouldn’t give patients food with toxins, yet that is what people are being fed,” he says.
He suggests that each hospital should have an organic garden, “and the need for drugs would be dropped to almost non-existent because the body would be given a break from constant assault”.
I point out to Sesinyi that skeptics of alternative medicine always question the safety of herbs on the premise that very little scientific research has been done on them. He dismisses that as just one of the tricks used by the opponents of alternative medicine. In any case, he states, herbs are only a bridge, while the emphasis is on a clean and natural lifestyle.
“For me it’s non-consequential. I can put away the herbs and maintain the principle that we need to clean up. Herbs are a bridge, not a mainstay. They are not like high blood pressure pills that you have to take for life, or the insulin that diabetics have to take for life. The conventional approach makes you enslaved to pills for life, but herbs only take you out of a situation. In any case, we are not promoting herbs. We are selling a principle. Even if we stopped using herbs completely, we would still require that the body must be cleansed; we would still require the removal of toxins and processed food from supermarkets. That alone would help us achieve longevity and vitality. You owe your health to good practices,” he says.
He reads mischief in the doubt expressed about herbs.
“They spend a lot of time on herbs to destroy the bigger message, and undermine a principle so big, so deep and much bigger,” he states.
Sesinyi has a word to describe cynics who brand alternative medicine a hoax. Pharaoh’s magicians, he calls them.
“They can’t tamper with the principle that we need to change the environment that is harming us. The testament of this culture and way of living is the mortuaries and graveyards and the sick people in the wards. We have been reduced to live on pills; it’s not natural. It defies common sense that we have to live on pills. Every disease has a cause that can be removed. It is a principle rooted in nature. It’s not rocket science. It’s a cause and effect scenario. Sickness is the effect. Society and lifestyle are the cause,” he says.
Here is what you probably did not know about Sesinyi. In his other life, he is a land surveyor who runs a successful private practice. You wonder about a trained scientist who scorns another branch of science? Well, if you ask him about this apparent contradiction, he’d tell you that he is not alone in questioning what others have been programmed to accept as the gospel truth.
“There are doctors who question this sponsored science. Luc Montagnier is not proud of this madness. The world is based on a lie. Many other doctors don’t know what they are doing. They are so weak that even when they find out the truth they are afraid to speak. Everything is based on pseudo-scholarship that is controlled by conglomerates. Research is financed by conglomerates. The poor are being deceived, and they are lived off. The rich are getting richer. It’s a bad joke. A sick joke, if you ask me. The rich want to cure the poor? I guess even slaves were taken with the promise of a better life,” he says.