an aggressive brain tumor. He undergoes surgery and wakes up blind and is told he will be blind for the few months he has left to live. A week later his sight returned and he went to the medical library to research his disease. He said every book said recur- rence is inevitable and death occurs within a year. Now a good student would have gone home and died but Jordan was not a good student. He said, “How dare they say inevitable?” Jordan also suffered from ulcerative
colitis and noticed that when he decided to change his lifestyle and not die of a brain tumor that his colitis also responded. He combined traditional medical therapy with other modalities and his tumor never re- curred.
I also had a patient with a pancreatic
cancer who went home to die and returned to the office with no palpable tumor mass and feeling well. Her comment, “I went home and left my troubles to God.” Like- wise, Susan Duffy was diagnosed with Scleroderma decades ago and told what would happen to her. Everyone in her fami- ly committed suicide and her parents asked her to also. Well, thirty years later she is still kicking, has found God and said, “When I let love into my prison it changed every negative item, meaning the experience in my life, into something meaningful.” Our attitudes, mind and body are one. Medical students are never told that. De- cades ago Carl Jung interpreted a dream and correctly diagnosed a brain tumor. Bru- no Klopfer deceived a patient into health who was in a study of Krebiozen. The man had responded dramatically but when the reports came out saying it didn’t seem ben- eficial, Klopfer told him a new supply of super-refined Krebiozen was coming. He waited a week to build the man’s intention and then gave him a saline injection. Of course his tumor melted away. A year later the final report concluded Krebiozen was of no use in the treatment of cancer and the man died within the week.
Oncologists started a new protocol with four drugs and called it the EPOH protocol, using the first letters of the four drugs. One doctor noticed if you turned it around it spelled HOPE. He started calling it the HOPE protocol and had three times the success rate with exactly the same treat- ment. Another oncologist in Chicago said he noticed that patients who lived over fifteen miles from the hospital did far bet- ter than those who lived near the hospital when he started a new protocol. That is a
big reason people respond to trips to vari- ous parts of the world to see healers or go to shrines. It is their belief and expectation. To quote physicist Fred Alan Wolf, desire and attention alter the physical world causing things to occur which would not normally occur if they were not desired. Yes, there is intentional reversion. That
is a term a botanist used describing how plants alter their genes to survive climate changes and disease. So do bacteria and viruses because the mechanism is built into us so we will survive. Bacteria make intel- ligent genetic changes to survive antibiotics and turn them into food in time. The problem is creating the state that lets that happen as we have a far more complicated life than bacteria, viruses and plants. So what is the answer? We know from studies that actors alter their im- mune function and cortisol levels related to whether they are in a comedy or tragedy. The answer then, is to act and behave as if you are the person you want to be and for doctors to teach survival behavior and coach their patients in that endeavor. The inspired will always exceed expectations. I know from experience.
I will close with an interesting thought
that Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science and Science of Mind, mentioned: What if Jesus was the only normal person who ever lived? Think about that and real- ize the potential we might all have. Most of us feel inadequate, and so hope to be normal in the sense of feeling better about ourselves and similar to other people. But what if normal really allows us to accom- plish
incredible things and remarkable recoveries? I can accept this even though
I don’t have all the scientific answers, but I do know our genes do not make deci- sions. Geneticist Bruce Lipton discusses this in his book, The Biology of Belief. Genes are stimulated into activity by their environment and the messages they get. So be born again into a new life you love and watch what happens to your body!
For many, Dr. Bernard Siegel—or Ber- nie, as he prefers to be called—needs no introduction. He has touched many lives all over the Planet. In 1978, he reached a national and then international audience when he began talking about patient em- powerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a physician who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose mortality has been threatened by illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our Society grapples with today. In May 2011, Bernie was honored by the Watkins Review of London, England, as one of the Top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet. He continues to break new ground in the field of healing, supporting changes in medical education to “human- ize” medical practice. Read Bernie’s regu- lar blog posts on his website where you will also find his books, articles, and CDs:
http://www.berniesiegelmd.com.
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