A dear friend of mine was recently diagnosed with a slow-growing form of cancer that apparently responds very well to the traditional allopathic route of chemo and radiation therapy.
She’s handling the situation about as well as any human being could possibly be expected to handle what the vast majority of people on planet Earth basically regard as an almost inescapable death sentence.
She’s wise enough to know that cancer is NOT a death sentence. She’s also tuned in enough to genuinely know that death-by-cancer is NOT a part of her life trajectory. But still. The “C” word carries an intrinsic terror to it that few things do in this world. And she is, after all, still human.
Information overload
I’ve seen it before with other friends and acquaintances in this situation … the minute cancer is mentioned everybody immediately chimes in with their opinions about how to handle it. Which doctors to see or not see. Which tests to take and which to avoid. Which therapy to use and which to refuse. The medications to use and the ones to shun. The most supportive diet to adopt. Which supplements, alternative treatments, meditations, visualizations, chants, and prayers to adopt.
It’s a tsunami of information. A blitzkrieg of opinions as stunning as the diagnosis itself, arriving from every possible direction and angle. And pretty much everybody delivering the advice is adamant this is what will work best. “My sister, my brother, my mother, my father, my husband, my wife, my friend, my boss, my minister, my chiropractor, etc. used __X__ product/approach/diet/doctor (fill in the blank) and they were cured within a matter of weeks! It was amazing!!”
And then there are the doctors to consider. The heavy hitters with Ph.D.s wielding the bat of clinical studies and (unknown to them) highly limited science. The men and women in white coats the vast majority of people turn to in the face of a serious health challenge, willingly—nay eagerly—surrendering to the “experts” all sense of autonomy and personal responsibility.
After all, the doctors KNOW what is best for us. Right? To gainsay their knowledge and go against their advice is … well, more fool you if you do.
The only viable option
What a nightmare trying to figure out which path leads back to total health and wellbeing! Even if you put your faith in allopathic medicine alone … which voice to trust? Which doctor?
And if you decide upon a complementary approach or a completely alternative route, the forest of question marks and choices becomes exponentially thicker.
How to sanely navigate this labyrinth?
The only truly viable option in this situation is choosing the one path few of us want to take even at the best of times. And that is the path of accepting total personal responsibility.
But hold on. Wait a minute … what does that really mean? And how is that even possible when the fairly standard mainstream attitude about cancer is, “It’s not my fault. It just … happened. You know?
“It’s just a matter of statistics and me having the lousy luck of the draw.”
How can somebody take responsibility for that? And why should they? And how, in God’s name, can people be expected to take personal responsibility for their own healing as well???
We’re not doctors or miracle workers. It’s just not possible!
A global comparison
The more I think about it, sitting here in the middle of the night writing, facing cancer and living on planet Earth right now are basically the same thing.
In the first situation the cancer manifests inside the body, whereas in the other the cancer is projected outside the body. But it’s the same cancer. A steadily growing malignancy that overwhelms life, suffocating and starving the cells of the body and the citizens of every nation, eventually making even one more sweet inhaled breath impossible.
And then … bye bye … exeunt stage right.
Fortunately, my friend, bless her cotton socks, knows she is responsible for her current health situation. But—and herein lies the key—she knows she is not at FAULT.
She’s not bad and wrong. She’s not blaming herself. She knows she didn’t do anything wrong to cause cancer to appear. She realizes the whole situation is based in a fundamental lack of awareness about certain things vital to sustaining her health and wellbeing—like having made unconscious choices as a little kid to block her emotions and any awareness around early childhood abuse and neglect.
Unexpressed pain. Unexpressed rage. Unexpressed sorrow. Unacknowledged despair and suffering—all of it unconscious—all of it vibrating to the same level of sickness of the spirit that all perpetrators of abuse and their victims suffer …
… an unsung song of pain and suffering and despair passed down generation to generation to generation.
That’s what cancer is.
And my friend knows it. She’s singing, screaming, shouting her pain—seeing it, freeing it, acknowledging it and letting it go. She is taking response-ability. Waking up and appropriately responding—decades later—in a healthy fashion to experiences she couldn’t understand or cope with as a little girl.
She thanks cancer every day for bringing her the gift of awareness and the opportunity to heal the formerly invisible, suppurating soul wounds inside.
OMG … if only the whole world had the wisdom and the courage to turn inward like that and face the cancer driving us all—completely unaware—to self-destruction!
Blessed wake-up call
Nobody I know thinks the current world situation—bad as it is—is anything other than a blessing in disguise. A wakeup call like my friend is experiencing, and an opportunity for healing and total transformation.
But intellectually knowing that our global cancer is a gift is not enough to help us navigate the path back to health. We can’t think our way through the coming years any more than my friend can think her way through her own healing.
So, what do we do instead?
The most frightening thing of all …
We turn inwards—not outwards—for guidance. We trust ourselves to listen for, and then listen to, the still small voice within.
The voice, the feeling, the sense of simply KNOWING, that needs no words.
This is the scary path of surrendering what we think we know in order to discover what we don’t. This is the scary path of surrendering our dependence on what others think they know. Listening deeply instead for the whispers coming from the source of life itself, which is the only thing that can guide us to safety in the face of our own extinction.
But to actually do this?
To acknowledge to ourselves that we can know? That we can trust life and ourselves to know what is best for life and health on an individual and global basis? Facing the jaws of possible death the whole time?
THAT is a leap indeed.
Not a leap of faith so much as a leap of self love.
The answer
Jesus once said, “the kingdom of heaven is within.” And what is heaven but certainty? Not the tenuous confidence propped up by external facts and a Ph.D. hanging on the wall. But the sublime peace of inner knowing that can only be found by opening up to and embracing our unbreakable divine spirit that knows all, is all.
Jesus also said we—meaning you and me—would do even greater things than he did. That we are miracle workers who can move mountains with a single word. Not as Cate Montana and John Smith and Jane Doe wielding crowbars and hammers, technology and AI … but as the Spirit Beings of Pure Love we really are.
Much more recently, another great truth was spoken: “Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”
To that statement, I would add that humanity, as a whole, has been assiduously programmed to doubt and fear itself. You and I have been taught to focus on our darkness and to ignore our light. To believe that the light is not in us and of us, but rather outside of us, far away and basically unreachable.
This deadly deliberate programming is why we don’t turn within: We’re afraid of what we’ll find there.
But “Fear not!”
Isn’t that the first words the angels always say? “Fear not!” For what lies within is beauty and grace, purity and a power currently beyond our comprehension.
Yes, our light is temporarily covered up by a lot of unconscious material. A lot of horrifying programming and fear has been unleashed upon us, driving the cancer within and without that threatens our very survival.
But the spirit within is a miracle worker and our unerring guide.
Fear not.
Much love and aloha ~
And … thank you, my dear and courageous friend, for giving me permission to write about your journey as an inspiration to others!
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I hope your friend gets well!
The chemo route is dangerous.
It's basically a toxic cocktail that has a single digit success rate. I would suspect the success rate is actually negative. Not having chemo gives you better odds.
Of course, you'll never hear that from the doctors or medical research. They also won't tell you about drugs and supplements that have a much better success rate.
-Higher than typical doses of vitamin C (5-10grams/day)
-vitamin d3+k2 10000 iu a day, or more depending on how depleted one is
And the most interesting one which I have heard of for a while and is cheap and safer than painkillers lol.
https://fenbendazole.substack.com/
So wise. You have a true gift with words. Thank you, Cate.