New Zealand's Greatest Doctor:
Ulric Williams of Wanganui
A Surgeon who became a Naturopath
By Brenda Sampson
Organised Opposition to Truth
In 1936, I think it was, I met Mr C.G. Scrimgeour (Uncle Scrim to most New Zealanders), Director of Commercial Broadcasting. Scrim was an ardent health and monetary reformer. So was I. Still am. By his arrangement I was allowed on the four ZB commercial stations, Sunday evening link up, to broadcast to the people of New Zealand the amazing success of Nature Cure. Scrim estimated the session's audience at a quarter of a million listeners.
Though my experience and grasp of Nature Cure at that time were still limited, the talk made quite a stir. For example, the Hon. Peter Fraser, then Minister of Health in the Labour Government, who had been listening, rang and requested an interview. Like all the Labour Ministers at that time, Mr Fraser was kindly sympathetic and accessible. At his office in Parliament House, he cross examined me for more than two hours, making frequent notes. Finally summing up, "I'm satisfied," said Mr Fraser, "that what you are trying to tell us is true; but in my position I have no alternative to doing as my Department experts direct".
A few months later, a second Sunday evening broadcast was arranged and advertised. "What about a script?" I asked Uncle Scrim. "Don't be silly," he replied, "I know I can rely on your discretion." But on Thursday less than three days before the broadcast, there came a telegram from the Director of Broadcasting: "Please submit your script." I did. But on Saturday evening there was another wire: "Script unsuitable, broadcast cancelled." And at the "Man in the Street" session on Sunday evening they played records right through the hour. No mention of my broadcast, or why it was off.
When Scrim returned from America, he showed me his latest directive: "To the Director of Commercial Broadcasting: Under no circumstances whatsoever is Ulric Williams to speak on the air." Signed F. Jones, Minister of Broadcasting.
All this was not the only, or by any means the worst of the organised opposition encountered in the next thirty years. Because of it, tens of thousands in New Zealand alone, who need and should not, have suffered damnably, and died pitiful deaths. Tens of thousands are suffering now. And hundreds of thousands more are doomed to the same fate.
It looks bad; but may not be as bad as it looks; because not till people have been plundered and massacred enough will they consent to think, and they are being comprehensively plundered and massacred today. Not by the medical system only. While hospitals are colossal, ever expanding glass and chromium disease factories, banks are debt factories, and churches sin factories. The only church I know of that makes a serious attempt to teach and insist on healthy as well as happy living is the Mormon Church.
The explanation is that, in his age-long climb from an animal consciousness towards the spiritual, human man is controlled, not as he supposes, by intelligence, but by his primary urges, and by the impressions, or suggestions that get or are put into his unconscious mind during this lifetime. Human man does not think; he acts and reacts, automatically and instinctively, in terms of conditioning, to the impulses that arise in himself or his environment. He is impervious to reason and inaccessible to intelligence.
Intelligence is a faculty of spirit, not to be found in the natural man. Only to the degree that we become influenced, enlightened and controlled by the spiritual are we any better than savage beasts. Even after the spiritual has become the dominant factor in our makeup, under pressure there is often an overwhelming tendency to revert to the animal. Human man is compounded of tiger, pig, sheep, gorilla, mule, snake and worm; with a dash of fox terrier thrown in. Making people religious does not necessarily make them spiritual. Too often, the reverse. It is said that, in the middle ages something like fifty million were burnt or tortured to death in the name of Jesus Christ.
Our world is at the critical point in its history. Hitherto human consciousness has been centred in the physical-intellectual, whereas the insistent, inexorable demand of the present spiritual world epoch is elevation of the centre of consciousness and response to the spiritually intelligent.
The power that animates the universe of which everyone and everything is constructed, and by which everyone is actuated, is intensifying and accelerating at an unprecedented momentum. But, like electricity which is a phase manifestation, it has two opposite potentials, negative and positive, evil and good. And according to our relationship with the power do men tend to become fiends incarnate, or filled with the fullness of Christ. This is the reason for today's erupting savagery.
Futile, blaming the collapse of our materialistic systems on medical men, bankers or clergy. They act as taught. This world order is in a state of frenzied upheaval and flux that explodes momentarily more hopelessly out of control. But before humanity finally exterminates itself and burns the earth to a cinder, there is coming a Divine intervention or superimposure. Then will emerge the new order wherein disease, disaster, brutality and violence progressively give place to dependable health, prosperity, security and deliverance from evil.
