The Prince of Wales has blamed the worst excesses’ of modern life for a deep malaise’ among humanity.

In a speech, at St James’s Palace in London, the Prince said modernism had carried out a deadly demolition job’ and pulled up the roots of traditions’. The Prince, a staunch advocate of holistic therapies, said ‘The question of how to integrate the best of the old and new is so important. The doctrine of man as a machine has held sway. The soul was declared a moribund and derided concept. Ancient traditions were abandoned and thrown away. ‘All my life I have been driven by a desire to heal festering wounds produced by what I believe is an aberration in the soul of humanity.

‘We must work in harmony with nature once again and reconnect man with the organic roots of his being, with the healing timelessness of a living tradition not a GM disruption. ‘To treat the whole individual not one part, to integrate the best of modern medicine with the best of ancient therapeutic wisdom.’

He was speaking at the Penny Brohn Memorial lecture as patron of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre. The centre represents the Gold Standard’ for complimentary care in cancer according to the World Health Organ-isation and offers therapy that works in tandem with orthodox medicine.

The Prince was speaking after an hour long lecture by author Dr Caroline Myss entitled, The Journey to Becoming Conscious, which he branded inspiring. He said the built environment had a profound effect’ on psychology and that agriculture had partly resulted in brutal vandalism for the sake of a gigantic social experiment.’

‘When I was a teenager, miles of hedges were uprooted, ancient woodland, in a matter of days. You try putting them back. Land was forcibly drained and laced with chemicals. Entire streets, complexes of copper mills, all swept away.

‘Education had the same doctr-ineÖ A complete wasteland of moral relativism. Unless we reintegrate these fragments that have been shattered by the worst excesses of modern life, then I think the process of healing can never actually occur.

‘The Bristol Cancer Health Centre has led the way. I was accused in 1983 when I visited, of encouraging people to go there to die. Obstacles and barriers were created all the time. Now there is hope. Practitioners are beginning to be more willing to learn about ancient therapies and improve diagnostic techniques for the value of all of us. I hope through this wonderful energyÖ We have a real chance of re-establishing the soul in its rightful place.