Green Souls. About the Wisdom of Nature

"The abolition of the alternative medicine profession, which is currently being pursued by the Big Pharma lobby and its servants in politics, particularly affects us seniors, because alternative medicine practitioners are (usually) the only ones who still listen properly and look thoroughly for solutions. Thomas Schöberl describes in great detail in his book how carefully he listens in order to understand his patients and their suffering, and what methods and tools he uses to do so. In the last chapter, 'Get active!', affirmations, meditations and breathing exercises are also presented, as well as his suggestion for a seven-day fast including liver wraps. (...) 'Green Souls' is worth reading - and not just for 'green souls'."
Eugen Pletsch, Blog"myepzone”, 6 March 2021

“(...) You don’t just flip from chapter to chapter, you read enthusiastically page by page from the beginning and feel inspired.”
Mainhattan Kurier, 23 March 2021

“Move in nature, learn from its wonders and give more space to the holistic view of the world and people – that is the author’s advice. (...) As a naturopath, he sensitively shows the immaterial wealth and the countless perspectives of a holistic world view.”
Bavarian Review 6 April 2021

"(...) a detailed reflection on spiritual growth, holistic living and learning from the wisdom of nature, which inspires thought and from which you can certainly take something away personally. You also learn a lot about phytotherapy, ethnobotany and cultural history related to plants."
sharp-links.de, Michael Lausberg, May 28, 2021

Poem by Thomas Lambert Schöberl from the book "Green Souls"

Of hope and dreams

You can only understand life
If you give yourself hope.
He who curtails dreams to escape fears,
He will be like the dead and will never see many things
Of all the incarnated celebration.

Allow yourself to surrender,
To what drives you to dream.
It is human nature
So may hope show him
How everything always depends on dreams.

Book excerpt: Thomas Lambert Schöberl on the "witch hunt" on the alternative medicine profession, our medical system and the planned alternative medicine law

From the chapter "Witch hunt – alternative practitioners are indispensable"

You will certainly not have missed the fact that alternative practitioners are repeatedly pilloried as dangerous quacks in media reports. It is clear that a holistic worldview, in contrast to a materialistic social system, has a strongly polarizing effect. Unfortunately, the discourse is not about arguing and arguing with one another, but rather about one-sided reporting and deliberately misinformation. The history of healers and alternative practitioners is marked by persecution, defamation, abuse of power and patriarchy.

It doesn't surprise me that conventional medicine has been a male domain for centuries and continues to be so today, and has always had the vehement goal of eliminating the predominantly female, self-determined natural medicine. This witch hunt is not about the well-being of patients, but about maintaining power and the rebellion of a slowly crumbling, eternally hungry capitalist system that craves endless growth.

There is no doubt that many women are involved in this system, but it is clear that occupying positions of power in a male-dominated social system requires a high degree of conformity and denial of female values ​​and temperaments. Within the established power structures, women also have to "stand their ground" if they want to take part in the game.

Let us assume that the decades-long efforts of the medical profession to abolish the alternative medicine profession were to prevail in the political process at some point. What impact would this have on the more than 128,000 patients who rely on alternative medicine treatment every day? The consequences are obvious. Alternative medicine practitioners live from the recommendations of satisfied patients. Their recipe for success is the noticeable and lasting recovery of their patients. If you examine the average amount of professional liability insurance for alternative medicine practitioners, you will find that it hardly exceeds an annual amount of 200 euros. This shows how few patients are actually harmed by naturopathic treatments. If alternative medicine practitioners were abolished, hundreds of thousands of chronically ill patients who have exhausted all conventional medical treatment options would lose their trusted contact point.

Alternative practitioners relieve the burden on our health system and are essential to the system. Our health system suffers from undersupply in rural areas, while in the cities a wave of privatization of specialist practices is emerging, making a visit to a specialist unaffordable for ordinary citizens without months of waiting. Doctors are mainly settling in the best locations. Who wants to practice in a socially disadvantaged area? The profession of doctor promises prestige, high financial income and influence in political and economic circles. Too many members of this profession have lost sight of the moral and ethical perspective. Research nature and ethos, love of humanity and belief in the Hippocratic Oath have given way to greed and self-profiling - humanity has given way to reduction in numbers and measurement in figures.

In addition to the right to a free choice of therapy, many patients would also be deprived of sustainable and resource-saving medicine. (...)