Cancer – a friend indeed
In 2007, my husband Bryan and I paid a visit to Liverpool as guests of Phil and Rosa Hughes. Phil, a homeopath, had asked me to speak in front of his group, but couldn’t afford to pay me my usual speaking fee. I told him that I’d do it for a barter: show us two diehard Beatles fans where John, Paul, George and Ringo first rocked, and I’ll throw in your conference keynote, essentially for free.
Rosa’s journey
During our a Magical Mystery Tour through Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields and the Cavern Club, we heard about Rosa’s journey after developing a golf-ball-sized tumor in one breast.
Doctors, of course, wanted to do a mastectomy and throw both chemotherapy and radiotherapy at the problem. Rosa, young mother of a six year old, refused. Nevertheless, she and Phil couldn’t afford any expensive alternative treatments on offer, such as heroic doses of intravenous vitamin C, so they began to search around to see what they might be able to do themselves.
Through our publication, What Doctors Don’t Tell You, they’d read about the cancer threat in household chemicals, so they decided to filter their water, throw out all the chemical products under their sink, and also clear their bathroom of all toxic toiletries and makeup, substituting eco alternatives. They’d also followed our suggestions for diets against cancer and good cancer-fighting supplements like vitamin C. Phil, meanwhile, administered homeopathic remedies specially prescribed for Rosa.
That was it. That was all they did.
Rosa’s tumor was shrinking fast at the time we met them - a situation that stunned her doctors. Now it has disappeared.
Homeopathy against cancer
Phil has gone on to treat dozens of people with cancer, using personalized homeopathy and the same clean-up-your-act protocol with such extraordinary results that my husband Bryan Hubbard was prompted to research the evidence that homeopathy successfully treats cancer, particularly as this is being used in India to excellent effect.
The results of his research will be published in the March edition of WDDTY.
According to the best study, a randomized placebo controlled trial, homeopathy was able to kill cancer cells in 40 per cent of cases, compared with controls. That is one of the better batting averages of any known treatment for cancer.
I tell you all this because this experience – and indeed any successful alternative treatment for cancer that seems counterintuitive – begs a more basic question.
What is cancer? Or, more fundamentally, what is illness?
Most materialists, the people who believe in standard science, believe in an objective world out there, populated with things that exist independently from each other, complete in themselves, with their own inviolate boundaries. We too are wholly separate, self-contained entities, according to this mindset – just one more well-designed machine.
Illness is regarded as something that just happens to us at random, much like a stealth bomber, taking us unawares in the night. Otherwise, in this deterministic view of things, it is the result of bad genes, a bad hand dealt at birth.
Participatory relationship
I don’t see it that way. I view illness the way I view everything in life, as a participatory democracy. As I wrote about in The Bond, this self we call ‘I’ is a dynamic entity that is constantly in relationship, both creator of and actor in the drama we see being played out in front of us. We are nothing more than the sum total of our relationship with our world – of the air we breathe, the food, we eat, the people we surround ourselves with, and, most important of all, the thoughts we hold.
Most of the latest evidence about alternative treatments like homeopathy can be understood by adopting a paradigm of the dynamic and energetic plasticity of the body as a maidservant of both the ‘outside’ world and ‘inside’ world – that is, consciousness.
Of course environmental agents and nutritional deficiencies play a major role in causing cancer, but the kinds of alternative treatments with the best batting average against cancer suggest a type of causal agent that is possibly more profound.
Cancer appears to be nothing less than a spiritual crisis. Many of the most forward-thinking practitioners in this field postulate that cancer is the physical manifestation of hopelessness. It is a person who has temporarily lost his way, lost his faith, lost the inherent belief that every day in every way, I am getting better.
It’s hardly surprising that cancer is the body eating away at itself. It is the biological equivalent of suicide.
The soul of cancer
Much has been written about the so-called ‘cancer personality’. For me, the heart of the matter is the cancer in your soul.
Rosa’s inciting incident with her cancer was the deep betrayal of a friend. This betrayal knocked her sideways, causing her to lose faith in the world. Luckily, Phil understood that he was not simply treating bodily symptoms, but a sickness of the heart. The homeopathy he prescribed didn’t simply treat her tumor. It treated her will to live.
Because illness is part of this dynamic exchange between ourselves and our world, it is not static, any more than our bodies or our experience are static. Illness is also a dynamic entity that can be reversed, when we clean up our food, our air, our water, our relationships, our thoughts, indeed our purpose on earth.
Furthermore, cancer is not a single entity. Every breast cancer, like every woman, is a manifestation of a unique crisis. It is your individual relationship with the world gone wrong.
Lothar Hirneise, the head of the German People Against Cancer, who helps thousands of people with cancer, is of the view is that cancer is a ‘red-alert’ signal - a physical demonstration that something is wrong with the cancer victim’s life, which must change immediately.
Nevertheless, the conventional approach is to look upon the tumor as the foreign invader and attempt to chop it out, so that the patient can resume life as he has always known it.
And that advice, to live life as you always have, is the most dangerous treatment of all.
Spiritual shift
After interviewing hundreds of survivors of end-stage cancer, Lothar found one major similarity threading through all of their clinical histories: a major mental or spiritual shift, after a great deal of emotional and spiritual stocktaking. Most such patients had undergone a great deal of spiritual work, usually with trained therapists, and most viewed their cancer as the factor in their lives most responsible for snapping them awake.
The most successful therapies today focus on the patient’s spirituality, rather than his physicality. They demonstrate that once you find the source of the emotional stress or trauma, the tumour will no longer be needed and will disappear, as it were, of its own free will.
Far from being the enemy, cancer is the kind of friend we all need at one point or another, the kind with the courage to hold up a mirror to ourselves.
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Feb 10, 2012Posted By
I like this post very much. I just saw the movie "The Doctor" with William Hurt. I saw it a while back, but it was good to see it again. I would suggest everyone see it (again). The story is a bout a doctor, played by William Hurt, who develops cancer. While he undergoes treatment, he goes through a spiritual journey.
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Feb 10, 2012Posted By
Thank you for the article. I am fully aware that emotional issues can cause a person's death. But what about Dr. Hulda Clark's teachings that a body cannot develop cancer unless certain pathogens are in the system, including viruses, parasites, fungii, molds, bacteria and toxins? I imagine most of us host these unwanted guests and many do not succumb to cancer. Can painful emotions alone cause cancer? If so, then why is cancer becoming such an epidemic? Painful emotions have always plagues humanity. I'm just confused by all the teachings and wonder where, indeed, the truth lies. Perhaps it's a combination of pathogens, broken heart, personality, spiritul unawareness. I suffer with a condition myself, CFS. Nothing in my system is out of balance, according to medical tests. I have tried homeopathics, energy medicine, and everything I could, but still, I'm unwell. I wish there were somewhere one could go to truly find the answers.
Respectfully,
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Feb 10, 2012Posted By
Consider trying ThetaHealing. I've had great success with it. An excellent practitioner is Terry O'Connell who's based in Los Angeles, CA.
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Feb 10, 2012Posted By
Dear sufferer,
I am in the process of completing a course in Metamedicine, a ground-breaking appproach which enables you to understand exactly why the illness developed, how and when; with that information and the support of a professional health coach your chances of healing are good. You can find more information on the international site www.metamedicine.com. If you would like to know more please contact me or I can put you in touch with our course trainer. Very best wishes for your recovery, Claire Ballantyne, health-care counsellor, Metamedicine student, Italy
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Feb 12, 2012Posted By
"Disease will leave its host when it can not recognize it any more."
Shamanic quote
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Feb 13, 2012Posted By
I would recomend you to trie Reconnective healing. It helps you to get back in balance. It is a great gift that you can give to yourself.
With respect
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Feb 10, 2012Posted By
My husband passed away from Multiple Myelomia in June of 2011. I agree with much of what Lynn said but labeling cancer as "friend" doesn't seem quite right. My husband hadn't done much inner work or spiritual work and was living a life mostly on "auto-pilot" or at least that is just my perception of his situation. If someone isn't "awake" in their life, getting cancer is a huge wakeup call but whether the person will embrace the wakeup call is the question and some people's temperaments will perceive it as that call and others won't. No one chooses cancer as away to wake up if they don't perceive that they aren't awake. I do agree that the way we are living our lives and our choices and thoughts are connected to the well-being of our bodies. I just wouldn't want people to feel they are incomplete or bad by getting cancer. Changes in perception and how one lives their lives must come from within the person themselves.
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Feb 18, 2012Posted By
I totally agree!!
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Feb 10, 2012Posted By
Hi Dr Lynne!
"Everyone knows someone or some family that has the challenge of Cancer.
I was one of 4 speakers on the panel of the 3rd Annual Cancer Conference in Independence Missouri a few years ago. There was a Medical Pathologist, an Oncologist, a Naturopath and me (a Chiropractor who has been studying nutrition and lecturing on nutritional biochemistry for 15 years). The Oncologist said something that I will never forget when someone asked his philosophy on Cancer prevention. He said, “I am asked to remove the tumor mass (through surgery) and I most often tell the patient we got all the cancer that I could see, but I did NOTHING to stop what started the cancer to start in the first place, that is your immune system, from now on you need to focus on strengthening YOUR immune system!”
Go to www.reishi.com or PubMed to find out just how powerful this herb is.
www.mskcc.org/.../69353.cfm
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Feb 10, 2012Posted By
I have seen even the most spiritually aware people get Cancer,which is a little puzzling after reading this.
Namaste
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Feb 10, 2012Posted By
This is nuts! Spirit is important, yes, and people get cancer! One does not exclude the other. don't turn away from treatment for crying out loud! Be as spiritual, as you need to be; treat the whole body, remove the chemicals -absolutely! & get the freaking treatment!! You guys sound way too deep into the "Jesus heal me" revival under a tent in Missouri syndrome. Wake up indeed. Go see a doctor.
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Feb 11, 2012Posted By
My mum died from Chemotherapy, not from the illness. The nurse on the night she died confirmed it and said she sees it all the time. So don't worship the medical profession. I'd rather look at cures that don't threaten your life.
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Feb 10, 2012Posted By
Dear Liz
It is only puzzling from the point of view of the mind. Being spiritual doesn't mean someone wont have challenges in their life, but their perspective on them will be different. A person's soul may have chosen to experience cancer as a part of its journey in this dimension.
Om Shanti.
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Feb 10, 2012Posted By
I have the upmost respect for Phil Hughes for not only treating me through pregnancy but also empowering us to use homeopathy ourselves. My daughter is now nearly 8 years old and never had an antibiotic.
In some way his work with me has led me to be on my own spiritual path... and a great place that is!
Thanks Phil...
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Feb 11, 2012Posted By
Thanks for that article Lynne.
I went to an MD who also practised homeopathy when I had bronchial pneumonia in 1983. I was treated solely with homeopathic remedies and the recovery time was similar to that expected with antibiotics.
Recently one of my (Reconnective Healing) clients made a surprising full recovery from what was thought to be late stage cancer when she was not expected to come out of hospital at all.
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Feb 11, 2012Posted By
This post is spot on. There's seems to be a strong link between a major upsetting event(s)and cancer. There are many ways to clear out the emotional baggage ~ my preference is EFT. A practitioner is recommended for serious traumatic events and the real beauty is that a person can learn this simple technique to self apply taking them from powerless to powerful.
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Feb 11, 2012Posted By
This is a great post! Very uplifting. I just read a couple of recent posts by Deepak Chopra where this theme is also explored, and those posts are worth checking out too.
I find this message very liberating because it points to the control we each have over our own health destiny. Having said that, we each have to put more effort into this message than merely reading about it, which is a next step that is not as easily taken I think!
themindbodyspiritblog.com
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Feb 12, 2012Posted By
Great post and insights. One of participants of our retreat just send this link it our way. The whole retreat was based on the same principles using various approaches. There are some other important areas to consider. Watch the video on www.eft-emofree.com/.../ for more insights.
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May 08, 2012Posted By
Clare LincolnThe Homeopathic View of Cancer
Cancer is viewed by homeopaths primarily as a disease associated with suppression on one or more level of being and its prevalence today typifies the age in which we live. Today, much is legislated for or prescribed. The human organism is suppressed from birth by a plethora of vaccines and drugs such as anti biotics. hence our immune systems are not allowed to mature and develop through encountering challenge. just as it is essential that the physical body be allowed to fully express itself and mature this equally applies on an emotional and spiritual levels. having our personal expression subjugated by others or doing it ourselves to please others goes against the natural flow of life and leads to dis-ease. cancer is a disease where we lose control of our own life and its integrity.
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