[Dialogue] Healing Cancer/Heaven/Conquering Hope

[LAURELCG at aol.com]

I think I agree with the speaker that hopelessness kills people in the face 
 of a cancer diagnosis. Remarkable Recovery was an  important book to me in 
my lymphoma experience. It documents many people  recovering from terminal 
diagnoses. I don't agree with your  speaker's second statement. It is trust 
in your destiny, in this moment and  for the future, that is helpful. No one 
knows they're going to  heaven.
 
My memoir of my journey with cancer might be  helpful:Illness as 
Initiation: an unlikely heroine's journey at _http://booklocker.com/books/5100.html_ 
(http://booklocker.com/books/5100.html) .
 
Conquering hope, IMHO, is what I attempt when I sit in stillness to  
meditate and let go of my self, my personal history, my possessions, my  thoughts, 
my beliefs (e.g. in heaven), my hopes, my dreams, my fears. To travel  back 
to before the big bang and identify with the mystery that was present in  
nothingness. Watching Fred McGuire really let go of everything on his journey 
to  death taught me what meditation is for.
 
Blessings, Jim. May all of us, especially your daughter-in-law, be well and 
 free from suffering,
Jann McGuire
 
 
 
 
On Oct 27, 2011, at 9:49 AM, James Wiegel <_jfwiegel at yahoo.com_ 
(mailto:jfwiegel at yahoo.com) >  wrote:




   Listening to the Healing Cancer World Summit (daughter  in law has 
rectal cancer) as I read your message, Bill . . . 2  comments from the speaker:  


Hopelessness is the killer, not cancer.


Then, later, he said:  People who know they are going to  heaven have a 
better chance of surviving cancer because they know  where they are going . . .


So, what is the relation between "going to heaven"  and  "conquering hope" 
and "hopelessness"?

Jim Wiegel

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