The Esoteric Significance of Cancer

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A CHALLENGE THAT FACES THE WHOLE PLANET.

This is an interesting subject at this particular time in the history of planet Earth. After 11^th September, when those two planes hit the twin towers, one of my comments was that this presented the most outstanding opportunity for the world to find a new way ahead. It was an opportunity that was to bring forward both the light and the shadow and would bring many issues to the surface, like bringing a saucepan of water to the boil.

     From my perspective the climax has not yet been reached; more and more challenges are going to present themselves, more and more opportunities are going to present themselves, and some of these will need great skill to resolve. I do not wish to comment in depth on the present conflict that is taking place in Iraq, for whilst on one hand there was an oppressive regime, in the longer term, this kind of situation cannot and will not be solved by the use of violence.

     When I first spoke through this sensitive nearly 50 years ago, one of the issues that I emphasised was that as we move out of the age of Pisces into the age of Aquarius, we are moving beyond the concept of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. This type of emotional response can only create more anger, more resentment and more hatred because deep down it is touching something so deep in each one of you, stirring up that light and shadow within every heart on the planet. Some will choose to ignore it because they are too frightened to even look at it or consider it; for it threatens the very structure of their understanding of how to deal with what they regard as evil.  Remember, the one thing that evil cannot deal with is love; it cannot deal with unconditional love.

 A WHOLE PLANET EXPERIENCE.   

What is happening on your planet is a proliferation of negative energies and cells; it is happening on every level of the planet. It is happening in your soil, it is happening in the animal kingdoms, the vegetable kingdoms, the mineral kingdoms; it doesn’t actually need humankind to find new forms of mutation - sorry, you call it genetic engineering, I call it mutation – it is already happening.  There is only one way for this planet to evolve and that is in a natural, open, organic way.

     Cancer, as you know it, is a proliferation of mutating cells, which begins to affect the other cells in the body and then take them over. It affects the whole structure and balance of the psyche.  This is why in the longer term the healing treatment of cancer can only come about through a body/mind/spirit approach.  It is not simply a cause and effect; it is about the whole person, the whole being, the whole planet.

     There are mutations taking place in your animal kingdoms, some of which have been inspired by man. The balance of energy in your soil is being affected, not only by humankind, but also through its own initiative. You must remember that all the kingdoms on your planet are complementary, they are each of equal importance to the planet, and whether they are animal,  vegetable or mineral, they are going through a similar form of evolution as you are.  In other words, it is a physical substance being motivated by spirit.

     Your spirit came into your body at the moment of conception and chose your body for the kind of challenges that were going to be presented. There is no right or wrong in this, there is not even anything good or evil about it; it is only what you are and what you have been. But what is important is the relationship between the various parts of you, the spirit, the subtle bodies, the chakras, the etheric body, the aura and the physical body. They are all part of the whole and it is necessary to find and maintain a balance between all these various aspects of your being; for, in addition, that balance can be affected by the overall polarity of energies in the universe.

 FREEWILL CHOICE AND BALANCE.  

One of the greatest gifts that each of you has is that of freewill choice; but it is also a gift that can lead you into some difficult, troubled waters. For unless you can face the fear in you, unless you can face the shadow in you, unless you can face the anger, resentment, jealousy and hatred within you – for that is all part of you - you will not find that balance.  It is not that you are good or bad; it is that you are a composite being made up of every thought energy that you have ever made in any lifetime, in any state of experience in spirit.

     Every spirit, to me, is beautiful; every spirit, to me, is wise; every spirit has the capacity to find love, even unconditional love that exists on the finest possible levels. But in finding that love one also finds the vulnerability and the weaknesses.  After all, if you were perfect you would not need to be in a physical body.  If you had that perfect balance you would be of such divine beauty and such exquisite energy and love that you would be part of God itself. Where I speak from, beyond the physical, I no longer have the need to incarnate and can see from a wider perspective.  But I am still light and shadow, I still have to face those aspects of my being.  And the light and shadow that I face is far more exaggerated than that which you face; because as I grow in wisdom and understanding, so my concepts of light and shadow become stronger and the challenge to find that sensitive balance between the two, greater.

     In addition, on your planet you have the collective consciousness of the groups with which you have selected to incarnate.  You have the collective consciousness of archetypes:  of races, tribes, religions, beliefs, and in addition, you have the collective consciousness of the planet.  And because the energy on and around your planet is becoming more and more intense, it is placing a greater emphasis on, a greater need, a greater challenge for each one of you to find and maintain that level of balance within yourselves.

     Cells mutate because there is a lack of balance. This is not a criticism or a judgement, it is an observation; because if you become out of balance between your spirit and all those levels of consciousness that make you up as a whole being, you will eventually attract some form of disease.  And the form of disease that you will attract will be one which has an empathy with your emotional and spiritual state. It may also have an empathy with the type of life that you lead, the type of foods that you eat, the type of work that you do. For if you allow your being to come out of balance, mutations will take place and a certain kind of mutated cell will cause what you call cancer.

     So what is the best way that you can help yourself or help others who find that this is the form of disease that they have unconsciously attracted? Well, of course, you will need to find out why you think you have it.  And it is really important to understand that it is not a sin to have cancer, it is not wrong to have it.  It is a part of the corporate growth of the planet at this time and all the energies that are being brought to bear upon it as it moves into the age of Aquarius in 2012.  Many things are going to happen between now and 2012, believe me, and that is why the amount of cancer on your planet is heavily on the increase and will continue to increase. The answer to it will not be through orthodox medicine alone.  It will lie increasingly with the ability of the person to deal with it themselves, to understand why they have it, why they have drawn this energy to them that is creating a mutation of their cells.

 A WONDERFUL CHALLENGE.  

Cancer is a disease which somehow has created the wrong kind of publicity, carrying a kind of negative energy even just to talk about it. Whereas I would see it as a most wonderful challenge for the recipient, something to encourage them to say to themselves: “This is a moment for me to look at where and how I am, to evaluate my life. Why have I got into this state of imbalance?  What can I do about it?”  It is not just about destroying the mutated cells, it is about understanding why they are there and how you can grow beyond the need of them.

     When disease occurs - and let us face it, in the construction and evolution of the human body as it is at the present time, imbalances are taking place all the time and manifesting in different ways – that disease is reflecting something in the person, both emotionally and spiritually.  Maybe there is hurt in this life or past lives - usually both - that has accumulated and reached a point within where on a very deep level that person feels they can no longer cope.  It may be that they want to find an answer, something that on one level they can even blame, something that is reflecting where they are and what is happening to their physical body, what is happening emotionally and spiritually within their physical body. What is the impasse?

     So it is a time to sit back and reflect, a time to open yourself as far as you can, spiritually and emotionally, to understand what is going on at a deep level within you that has triggered that mutation reflected in your body.  

 THE BEGINNING OF A NEW EXPERIENCE. 

 I regard cancer as one of the most interesting and, if I may say so, exciting challenges of your time. It is not the end of life; it is the beginning of a new experience. Deal with that experience, move beyond the need of it, and you can move into your next lifetime a free person, a free spirit unencumbered by the issues that have brought you to this state in your present life.  If you don’t face it, it could proliferate and bring up an uncontrolled and deep anger that will manifest in your next life, an energy  that might want to mutate society, that might want to mutate the people with whom you live and associate.

     So it is actually a very important challenge – one that needs to be looked at, not with fear, but with love, gentleness, understanding, acceptance and joy.  It is saying to you,

 “This is a moment in my life when I need to re-state who I am, what I am, where I am.  This is a moment in my life when I need to live my truth, to say what I really feel, to say what I really mean - a time to cast aside some of those fears that I have found difficult to face and difficult to talk about in the past.”

 And past lives come into it because in the mission that you have come into this life with, you are bringing issues that will attract the type of conditions in which you find yourself.

     For example, you may be attracted to a form of employment where you have to deal with substances that can give you cancer.  That doesn’t happen by accident; it is a very big challenge to move beyond issues of blame, guilt and resentment - all those kinds of emotions that get triggered.  Anyone who gets cancer must ask themselves ‘Why me?’ And I would like to suggest that ‘Why me?’ is a question that can be answered with confidence. It is because you have chosen this form of experience, for it is a form of experience that can uplift you, take you forward and help you release what has been ground down and stuck inside you.  And as I said earlier, I see cancer as not exclusive to the human race; it is reflecting the whole state of your planet at this moment in time. 

 A MORE RESPONSIBLE APPROACH TO PROCREATION

It also brings up an issue that I wish to speak about very sensitively.  When a man and a woman come together to procreate they are taking on a very big responsibility for they are allowing a spirit to come into incarnation.  Good, yes.  But they are also affecting the population of the planet, the resources and needs of the planet, and the balance between homo sapiens and other forms of evolution on the planet - the animal kingdoms, the fish kingdoms, the bird kingdoms, the vegetable kingdoms and so on.  The act of procreation – as distinct from the sexual act - was not meant to be done in an indiscriminate and irrational way.  And one of the big challenges that humankind will have to face in this coming age is:  how many children do we have, what is the sex act all about, what is love about and how can we bring all those issues together?  It is not only a man or a woman’s individual decision, it is something that has to be decided within a group energy and group guidance.  It is an area where spiritual teachings and religions need to start to understand what is happening on their planet and how they can affect the future. 

     In one sense, the way in which the human race is proliferating is a cancer in itself.  Pretty heavy symbolism, is it not?  That is not meant as a criticism or judgement on any belief system on the planet, because they have evolved to where they are now based on past life experience and understanding.  But we are now moving into another age in which the challenges are going to be very different and it is really important that those involved in spiritual teaching take a big look at what is happening, so that they teach in such a way that enables people to take responsibility for the children they produce. So, whilst I admire and express my heartfelt gratitude to all those wonderful people who raise money to send food to the starving masses, it is a situation that also needs to be looked at on a much deeper level.           

     So, dear friends, those are my thoughts on the symbolic significance of cancer on your planet. Yes, I believe it can be dealt with; but, in the longer term, it must be dealt with as a whole, on a body/mind/spirit basis.  If every cancer patient can be helped to understand their responsibility in having this disease and the wonderful opportunity it presents to them to look at their lives,  they will see how, through helping themselves, they can give out unconditional help to their fellow beings around them. 

     So my message tonight is not one of gloom and doom, it is one of hope and opportunity; and I feel that looked at in the right way, it can help carry this planet forward safely into the age of Aquarius. . . Thank you.

     I have made some fairly strong statements this evening, but they are made with love and without judgement.  They are made in the hope that the human heart within the human body can communicate with the human spirit to bring forward a more loving way into the future. As ever I am more than happy to answer questions you raise.

Questions and Answers

Q: I think there is a very difficult problem when it comes to the matter of a person looking for the reasons why they have acquired cancer.  I think that blame can come in so easily.  And I say this from first hand, from a point where I thought I had cancer and it took me into an unholy crisis.  I went into a whole self-judgement state of how I had caused this cancer and how bad I had been and I would hate anybody to go through this as I don’t feel it gets you anywhere.   And so to propose to somebody who has cancer that they should look for the reasons would, I think, require some enlightened guidance in order not to fall into the trap of self-condemnation, rather than self-discovery. 

     There is the beginning of a cancer group here that might be able to provide enlightened compassionate guidance.  But I was wondering whether you had any suggestions as to how people can help themselves compassionately to do this because it is not an easy thing to do.

H-A: Thank you for your questioning statement, I could not have expressed it more clearly, and I am sorry if you feel that my comments were too challenging .  As you know, my approach to all seeking is through unconditional love, it is not through judgement and blame.  Judgement and blame are destructive negative energies that could make the situation worse.  So it would be much more a process of understanding why there has been a need to be in this state and to understand the wonderful opportunities that it can give you. I understand also that one would need some exterior guidance to help you into that state of thinking because it is really important that a person does not just reach a state of self-condemnation. That is certainly not what I would advocate in any sense.  Maybe I could suggest to you, my son, that you consider why you felt it was necessary at that particular time to look at yourself in such a destructive way.

Q: Bad habit.  I understand that, thank you.

H-A: I think that as part of this group you will have an important role to play and much to offer others. Thank you.

     Seeking in a lifetime is about opening up, not closing down. It is about moving beyond blame and judgement, not moving into it.  So many factors come into it: the archetypal background of which you are a part, what you are taught as a child, the circumstances of your childhood, what you have brought over from previous lives, it is a very complex situation. And yet in the middle of all that there is also something I call simplicity. It is interesting if you look at God’s teachings, they are all simple, it is humankind that complicates, not God.  So my son, feel my spirit coming into your body, into your heart, try thinking through your heart and feel those energies flowing through you in a loving, gentle, embracing, strengthening way.  How’s that?

Q: I’ll do my best, thank you.

Q: As I understand it, cancer can run in families.  So if one of your parents have cancer, is it possible that you could get cancer? 

H-A: I think that cell mutations can run in families but a much more important issue is:  what has your spirit chosen in this lifetime and what makes your heart sing?  Are you able to think through your heart? Are you able to express yourself though your heart?  Very often labels are given and they can be very confusing.  One that I hear being expressed time and time again is:  smoking causes cancer.  Does it?  Then should not everyone who smokes have cancer?  They do not.  What is it within a person that creates the need to smoke, heightening the dangers of the disease?  I would be much more interested to find out what is within that person’s soul memory that creates the compulsion to smoke as being the only way of dealing with a problem.

     Simply because your parents had a particular disease does not mean that you will necessarily follow in their footsteps.  On the other hand, you chose a body that was a product of your parents, so it will obviously bring forward some of their needs, some of their fears.  Some of what they are is going to mingle with what you are and what you are seeking and wishing to find.

      There is a lovely spirit in your body, my son, one of wisdom and love and understanding. Cherish that spirit and hold it tight to you.  Allow that wisdom to rise up within you so that you can say to yourself, “How can I help others by what I am, what I believe in and what I do?  How can my experience help them forward and help me forward at the same time?”  I see in you a creative side that is very important for you to express.   So if it is possible for you to grow out instead of growing in, I think you will find it so rewarding to start to honour yourself, to value yourself and to respect yourself for all those wonderful, unexpressed qualities that are part of you as a whole being.  Allow yourself to stand up and be counted.  There is such beauty there and such wisdom.  Can you accept that?

Q: Well, I would like to.

H-A: I say to you all, take a deep breath, breathe in the divine energy around you  . . . feel it touching your spirit . . . feel it making your whole body want to expand in the most beautiful, loving way.  There is so much love in your heart, allow it to expand, allow it to grow outwards. Each of you has so much to give in your life.  Ask yourself how you would like to be able to give it. Can you feel it?  Can you feel that stirring within?

     You are each unique, as is every spirit on this planet.  Value that uniqueness. Respect it, honour it, feel the love, allow me and my colleagues to come to you, allow us to touch your spirit, to encourage it to express what it can express and what it will express with your motivation behind it.  You each need to acknowledge the joy, the expansiveness and the creativity within you and find ways of expressing it.

     Feel the energy going round in a clockwise direction, spiralling right up though the roof, reaching out with unconditional love to all parts of the planet.  Allow that unconditional love to touch the hearts of those who carry the most anger and those who want revenge and retribution.  Help them to understand that God is a God of love, unconditional love that means total forgiveness. . . .    My blessings to each and everyone of you.