God's healing prostate
I was perusing the drugstore today, waiting for an elderly woman to develop pictures I took of Jeff and I, when I saw a copy of God's Pathway to Healing: Prostate on one of the featured mini-shelves. After a moment or two of flipping through, I could swear it had been written by two kids who spent an afternoon smoking pot and taking pictures of it. On the first page, after the leaf-shaped introductory clip art, the author mentions a line from Ecclesiastes, which roughly states that no man shall be brought down by disease unless it's the Lord's will, or something like that. The gist was that a person with cancer can welcome the healing power of God through prayer and worship. That sounds like a lot of work, God. He's got cancer, remember? Remember when you gave him cancer?
Kidding aside, I'm a believer in the human ability to overcome serious health landslides. The laws of quantam physics suggest that we create our own realities and the laws of brain gunk back that up by promising that our bodies will continue to create neuronal pathways and chemicals based on our choices of habit. If you habitually feel like a loser or a victim, your body will continue to form neuronal associations and chemicals that recreate that experience because you've done it so many times. The reason you've done it so many times could be related to your experiences as a child, but holding on to those patterns, albeit unconciously, will literally create your reality as one plucked straight from hell when it truly isn't a force outside your own body. Our relationships, our senses of self, our memories, our fears, and our experiences are all subject to the trenches we allow our bodies to dig over a period of time. Thus, a person suffering from cancer could probably heal on a cellular level with a whole lotta positive thinking and positive emotions. This gets tricky because anyone can try thinking positive. No, it would have to be a genuinely positive neuronal trench, an association that fires over and over again, which we all have the power to create over time, given a little knowledge and maybe a little help. Shit, he still might kick the bucket, but I'd be willing to bet he degenerates at a slower pace and dies a happy man with memories of a rich, full life.
Which is why that little book gives me pause. I feel that most people in this country unconciously associate God with negative emotions like guilt, anger, and shame. Not to cast favor on certain groups, but the only people I've met with positive relationships to a Creator are people who don't ascribe to a particular denomination or text, but just let God go as something fantastical and mysterious. Damn dirty hippies and college professors, basically. (Wait, are those two synonymous?) It could be that those people simply have no real association and therefore appear positive, but I'm holding on to conversations I've had over a period of, say, five years or so, which feel like positive proof.
If a person with cancer decides to rely heavily on God and the Bible after nursing a lifetime of mostly negative personal experiences with religion -- I'm not talking about Sundays at Grandma's; I'm talking about the inescapable fact that denominational, Bible-based religion is a wholly negative religion -- won't the brain continue to travel the familiar pathways and keep the body trucking along as usual, dumping negative chemicals that only appear positive because the sufferer is used to them?
I guess it all depends, but I wonder if agenda-riding preachers and stiff priests and manipulative presidental administrations are corroding the possibility of experiencing a deep, hopeful, loving spirituality. I wonder if they're giving us cancer.
Kidding aside, I'm a believer in the human ability to overcome serious health landslides. The laws of quantam physics suggest that we create our own realities and the laws of brain gunk back that up by promising that our bodies will continue to create neuronal pathways and chemicals based on our choices of habit. If you habitually feel like a loser or a victim, your body will continue to form neuronal associations and chemicals that recreate that experience because you've done it so many times. The reason you've done it so many times could be related to your experiences as a child, but holding on to those patterns, albeit unconciously, will literally create your reality as one plucked straight from hell when it truly isn't a force outside your own body. Our relationships, our senses of self, our memories, our fears, and our experiences are all subject to the trenches we allow our bodies to dig over a period of time. Thus, a person suffering from cancer could probably heal on a cellular level with a whole lotta positive thinking and positive emotions. This gets tricky because anyone can try thinking positive. No, it would have to be a genuinely positive neuronal trench, an association that fires over and over again, which we all have the power to create over time, given a little knowledge and maybe a little help. Shit, he still might kick the bucket, but I'd be willing to bet he degenerates at a slower pace and dies a happy man with memories of a rich, full life.
Which is why that little book gives me pause. I feel that most people in this country unconciously associate God with negative emotions like guilt, anger, and shame. Not to cast favor on certain groups, but the only people I've met with positive relationships to a Creator are people who don't ascribe to a particular denomination or text, but just let God go as something fantastical and mysterious. Damn dirty hippies and college professors, basically. (Wait, are those two synonymous?) It could be that those people simply have no real association and therefore appear positive, but I'm holding on to conversations I've had over a period of, say, five years or so, which feel like positive proof.
If a person with cancer decides to rely heavily on God and the Bible after nursing a lifetime of mostly negative personal experiences with religion -- I'm not talking about Sundays at Grandma's; I'm talking about the inescapable fact that denominational, Bible-based religion is a wholly negative religion -- won't the brain continue to travel the familiar pathways and keep the body trucking along as usual, dumping negative chemicals that only appear positive because the sufferer is used to them?
I guess it all depends, but I wonder if agenda-riding preachers and stiff priests and manipulative presidental administrations are corroding the possibility of experiencing a deep, hopeful, loving spirituality. I wonder if they're giving us cancer.
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We all have cancer.
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