Dr. Ken Gilbert
Dr. Ken Gilbert is a naturopathic doctor who has developed a distinctive rapport with Fravarti in high esteem of her rare and brilliant use of homeopathy for healing and as a tool for self-realization and fulfillment. They both manifest a transformative approach to life's challenges and opportunities which is based in spiritual insight and practiced skillfully through an ability in common of knowing how to think about things.
Looking back, a unifying thread of Ariadne can be seen running through Dr. Gilbert's "long and winding road" of experience and training which led to the "good doctor" of today. He has always sought to combine the best of what both science and spirituality have to offer toward understanding and appreciating the wonder and meaning of our life in this world.
Ken was selected for a special high school in Detroit with an accelerated program for the gifted in Science and Arts, and was especially interested in biology at that time. He attended a National Science Foundation summer program, won first prize at the Metropolitan Detroit Science Fair with a fascinating project involving the just discovered process of extracting DNA from bacteria, and then enrolled at MIT with the Regional Alumni Scholarship.
While engaged in premed studies at MIT, Ken gradually found himself attracted by a course of study instituted at that time which expanded scientific training to include perspectives from the humanities. His association with his favorite professor of comparative philosophies and religions, Huston Smith, led to his selection as one of thirty U.S. university students to participate in the International Honors Program, an academic year of world travel and study exploring various societies and their utopian aspirations. Ken was beginning his search for a practical spirituality.
It was while visiting the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India on this extraordinary trip that Ken had a deja-vu experience in recognition of deep spiritual identity and purpose. Sri Aurobindo teaches that the spiritual path need not ultimately lead to leaving ourselves and our lives behind for a better set-up elsewhere, but that through increasing enlightenment we can evolve further toward fulfillment and expression here and now of the unique individual beings we all really are, as well as bring progress to the world around us. This defining moment has been a guide to him ever since.
After realizing on this trip around the world that true healing occurred in conjunction with universal and spiritual laws of existence, thus involving souls as well as bodies, Ken could not see just attending conventional medical school to learn about drugs and surgery as he had planned. A whole previously unknown world of homeopathic and natural medicine was then presented to him through a practitioner in Atlanta. With interest quickened, he proceeded toward his career in health care, going on to certification in homeopathy at Hahnemann School in London, plus naturopathic studies at Bastyr University and Clayton College of Natural Healing.
Ken saw the great potential homeopathy presented, and sought to combine it with the expanding capacities of the naturopathic profession and his concern for integrating the spiritual dimension. He studied with some of the best homeopaths in London, Seattle, and New Mexico but was still not satisfied with what he found.
When the thread led him to Fravarti, Ken recognized that this was a key to the deeper and holistic approach to health care he had been looking for. He also specializes in the use of nutritional support and botanical remedies of the highest quality available. The latest cutting edge naturopathic oriented lab work is utilized when appropriate, especially to evaluate digestive function and to measure hormone status with highly reliable and non-invasive saliva tests.
Dr. Ken has been in practice now for 14 years, worked with Fravarti for 10, and brings a wealth of extraordinary experience and knowledge together with innate compassion to provide an exceptional quality of care for his patients.
Holistic Naturals Wellness Center
Holistic Health Consultations, Modern Naturopathy,
Nutritional Therapy, Classical Homeopathy,
Sublingual Immunotherapy (for Seasonal & Indoor Allergies)
Botanical Remedies, Chelation Therapy, Integral Counseling
Dr. J. Mark Tillotson, N.D.
Dr. Kenneth I. Gilbert, N.D.
Telephone: 248-851-3834
Website: www.holistic-naturals.com
Email: drs@holistic-naturals.com
30705 Woodside Drive
Franklin, MI 48025