But cancer is a cunning and persistent adversary…

How many healers are there, traditional and modern who would claim to be able to attack and destroy this most debilitating and increasingly common form of disease?  Not many, if they are being truthful. 

So what of Brian? 

He continued to improve, rapidly returning to his former way of life – the long hours at work, the business deals, the focus on the future.  He was confident.  He was enjoying the life that had been given back to him.  I stopped seeing him.  We took a break for whilst the guides and surgeons had removed a significant proportion of the tumour, the virulent piece remained, dormant, yet so closely mingled with healthy tissue and brain matter that it was impossible to remove it.  There was nothing further the guides could do and with Brian becoming increasingly dependant upon our meetings the time seemed right to begin the process of weaning him away from his healer.

And then one day, the cancer returned. 

Brian set out on a rapid process of deterioration beginning with an inability to write or type, the onset of fitting again and an inability to communicate.  He came back to see me, longing for a cure, looking for us to work our “magic” and to cancel out the damage that had been undoubtedly done.  He was unable to speak.  Yet it was obvious what he was looking to understand. 

I looked at his tumour.  It had taken on a much more aggressive phase of growth and by now was interfering with those parts of the brain which permit co-ordination and speech.  His eyes begged me to give him good news.  He wanted to know the diagnosis.  Slowly, and quite matter of factly I began to describe to him what I could see.  I described his symptoms until slowly he began to realise where we were going with the diagnosis.

He had heard enough. 

He wanted to know but was unable to accept the knowledge that his time was coming to move on, to pass over, to bring an end to the suffering which he had been enduring.  That was the last time that I was to see Brian in body.  He returned home. 

His condition deteriorated rapidly from there and he died within a couple of weeks.  His cancer had won.  Or had it?  I see it in a very different way.  Over the period of time that Brian visited us and we worked on him, we were able to ensure that he was able to appreciate his life once more and for the final time.  He had been given a period of pain and debilitation free time in which to focus on the things that were important to him. 

My initial thought had been that this was a particularly cruel and insensitive way for him to be treated.  Here we had a man who knew that he had an incurable and fatal disease that would gradually rob him of life.  Yet we had given him hope.  We had reduced his suffering and returned his ability to move about, to communicate, to function only to snatch that from him at the last moment, just when he felt he had beaten the disease. 

Is that not more cruel than not offering any form of cure at all?  Would it not have been more humane to have left things as they were?  To have refused the small amount of comfort that could be brought? 

You decide.

But Brian was aware that he was unlikely to recover.  He accepted the time that he was given as a bonus.  He used the time to learn more about spirituality, about himself, about his family and about the journey he was about to undertake.  He enjoyed himself.  His quality of life and the quality of life of all those associated with him improved significantly over that period of time.  He began to prepare himself for passing over. 

Certainly the human side of him was in denial.  There are very few of us who actively wish to hasten our journey to passing over.  Yet he used the time wisely and well in terms of preparing himself for the next step. 

So what then was the role of the healer in all of this?  Very simply, it was the readying of the soul for the next stage.  The healer was working as the helper, assisting the journeyer in moving on to the next phase.  And the message for me in all of this was one that every healer should remember – that the healer is unable to prevent the soul from passing over at its duly appointed time.  Healers are not magical beings.  They cannot change fate for an individual.  They are helpers.

 Nothing more, nothing less.

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