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ARE [the Association for Research and Enlightenment]. "I've by the size and number of tumours, and her appetite had been at
been diagnosed with breast cancer," she said, "and I need to come subsistence levels for several months.
and talk with you about the Cayce approach." I replied, "As a From the beginning of our sessions, the physical symptoms
matter of fact, I recently developed Animated Ash, which was the associated with the condition began to reverse. I was elated with
substance the readings recommend for treating cancer." I gave the regularity with which she came to see me and at the slow,
her a flyer with my phone number and felt sure this was divine steady progress we were making. Several times we discussed the
order taking place. In retrospect, this was indeed divine order, as eventuality of her returning to her oncologist for follow-up
here was a woman who not only worked for the organisation, she X-rays, and as the weeks went on I was convinced that this would
understood and practised other suggestions Mr Cayce discussed come a landmark study which would revive interest in this for-
for maintaining a balanced lifestyle. Certainly this would be an gotten treatment method. Her appetite and her strength were
excellent opportunity to try the ash in a somewhat controlled situ- returning, and her range of motion increased as her pain dissipat-
ation. ed. Emotionally she was riding a roller-coaster which dredged up
As the days and weeks slipped by, several curiosity-seekers the issues which had afforded the condition sanctification in her
came to try this new blood oxygenator, but the woman who I ody in the first place. As time went on, I asked her why she con-
thought would ultimately call never did. My personal code of tinued to postpone a return trip to her doctor. She was visibly
ethics forbids me from soliciting her, and she chose instead to go stronger than she had been in many months, and her attitude
the conventional route. I learned tidbits of information from the seemed upbeat during each session.
seekers, but the more important lesson here was that I continue to About three months into the study, with about 50 sessions under
learn patience—a commodity I would need in vast amounts to er belt, she finally agreed to go in for a check-up. For two days I
endure the rigours of introducing a new idea patiently waited for the verdict. On the
into the grid system of human consciousness. morning of the third day, I received a call
About three months later, a friend called. from the cancer ward. "I'm going in for my
This was a woman who had dealt with breast first radiation treatment in 45 minutes," she
cancer a couple of years previously. During . said. "My doctor said that if I didn't start
the process she had gone through a lumpecto- To this day, | am treatments immediately I would die."
my and surgical removal of a large number of Flabbergasted, I searched for something to
lymph nodes under her arm, as well as the at a loss as to say. "But what about the X-rays? What did
standard chemo and radiation therapies. The . they look like?" "We didn't take any," she
surgical procedure had left that region of her how the oxygen responded. "Don't you think a second opin-
body completely devoid of feeling. Upon a 1 ion would be helpful?" I asked. "I'm sorry,"
routine check-up with her oncologist, an ele- enriched blood was all she could muster. "I'll call and let
regenerated
vated white count in her blood was so you know how it's going." To which I
severed nerves.
dramatic it could mean only one thing: responded, "My prayers are with you,"
her body was again preparing to do bat- as she hung up.
tle with cancer. I told her about my
work with the ash and she decided to
give it a try.
During the very first session she expe-
rienced shooting pains throughout that
region of her body; and within the next
three weeks of visits every other day, of the readings on this modality.
the sensory awareness was almost com- Michael Jordan, the greatest basket-
pletely restored. To this day, I am at a loss as to how the oxygen- ball player of all time, did a TV commercial which was filmed in
enriched blood regenerated severed nerves. A week later when silence with just his narration. Shot in black and white, and
she returned for a follow-up check, her white count was almost played back in segmented super-slow motion, Jordan strides into
normal. A year later, she has had no further indications of any the players' entrance of the arena and proceeds down the hallway.
ile been six months since the call, and
somehow I don't think I'll hear from
her. Needless to say, this took the air
out of the project, and no one else has
approached me since to test the viability
problems. Acknowledging a couple of security guards and a janitor pushing
Finding inspiration in this initial study, I reached out to another —_a broom, his monologue begins. He speaks about the number of
woman who had been through a similar situation. Since her shots he has unsuccessfully attempted during his career. He talks
recovery she had wrestled continuously with the stress of daily about the number of times he was asked to make the game-win-
existence and the influence it had on her body. During the course ning basket, but missed. As he reaches for the locker room door,
of the next two to three months she came in for several sessions, he recites the most profound words in sports-related history: "I
but it remains unclear how much influence they had on her condi- have failed, over and over and over again..." Then a short pause
tion. She did invite me to speak to her support group of perhaps follows as he finishes his thoughts while disappearing: "...which
ten women who gathered in her office once a month. is why I succeed." I take great comfort in those words. oo
One of these ladies called me a few days later and decided to
come in for a series of sessions. Middle-aged and coming from _ Editor's Note:
an emotionally trying childhood, she was dealing with inoperable — This article was first published in the Townsend Letter for
liver cancer. In my mind, she was an excellent candidate as she © Doctors & Patients, May 1999; 911 Tyler St, Pt Townsend,
had not been through either chemo or radiation therapies. Since | WA 98368-6451, USA, tel (360) 385 6021, fax (360) 385
the cancer was at an advanced stage, I suspected that this would 0699, website