Spiritual
Aspects of Healing from Cancer
Mystics insist that spontaneous remissions
occur as a result of intense faith or divine intervention, grace
offered by a loving God or saintly intermediator. Scientists try
to discredit as many of these cures as possible. They can do this
if they determine that chemotherapy was administered years earlier
and finally kicked in to cure the patient or if the diagnosis could
be disputed on the basis of insufficient evidence.
The patient gets a quick tour of
heaven and then is shown what life would be like if he returns
to earth. Most people do not want to leave because heaven is obviously
so much nicer than earth; but the patient is shown unfinished work,
often revolving around relationships with others that need to be
more loving. Some are shown destinies as persons who can help relieve
the world of its fear of death or who can explain heaven to those
who lack faith.
There may be as many approaches to
the illusive part of our own psyche as there are paths or people
on the Planet, but I think all of the efforts fall into two broad
categories. These might be called receptive and active.
If there is a healing, it
is because the patterns have shifted. If no healing has occurred,
it is because the measures used to address the disease failed to
touch the causes. The question of whether or not anything
actually extends life is unanswerable.
Ingrid Naiman
15 Augustl 2006