2. WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR?
Whose script do we follow?
What inner voices do we respond to?
Who is running the inner programmes?
What is health/disease?
What is ‘real’?
Whose ‘real’ is most real?
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3.
4. SIMONE’S LIFE
• Born – 12.9.87 5lb 6oz
• 400 gram placenta, very dried out.
ACUTE leukaemia – born to die
First visit 27.9.87
• Scrawny, sleepy scrap of humanity
• Liver and Spleen very enlarged,
Haemorrhaged from bowel
• Green poo very, very coloured urine
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5.
6. SIMONE’S PROGNOSIS
“There is no hope”.
“She will die within the next couple of weeks
– do you want to leave her here to die, or
take her home to die”?
What would you have done?
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7.
8. SIMONE’S STORY?
Gracefully live each breath to
the best of my ability
Maybe it is not up to me, or
you
Maybe we are just players to
assist the one who is my
dad/doctor/whomever here
listening today . . .
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9.
10. ONCOLOGIST’S STORY
Even if one chance in a million
that chemotherapy may help,
he would not do it as would
radically injure her developing
brain.
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11.
12. IS SHE TO LIVE?
What if that is not a given, & all we
have to do is follow the steps as they
appear?
What if this is all we EVER have to do?
What if all any of us need to do is to
follow, rather than lead . . . AND
Live more in our hearts and less in our
heads. . .
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13. QUESTIONS
What are we trying to prove by
performing any intervention?
That we are better than . . .
That we can conquer . . .
Is the will of ???? to be done,
or our’s, or their personality’s . . .
‘it hurts’ etc
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14. Asking the Obvious
Is death an enemy?
Is ‘life’ our friend?
Why has this being arrived with me,
now?
DO I DO ANYTHING?
What script do I need to access to
even start?
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15. WHAT DID DAD DO?
• Listen to a work colleague who said
that his wife may be able to
help . . .
• Decided to give her a go,
as there was not one thing to lose –
hope had departed, so why not try the
ridiculous?
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17. WHAT DID I DO?
Assume that I had no idea why/what
to do.
That she was with me, and dad had
agreed for some reason, and to just
follow
whatever happened next - it would
become obvious
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18. WHAT WAS I THINKING?
• Palliative care.
• Treat what was
in front of me.
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19. • What do we do instead?
• Hide behind a mask/façade?
• Look blank, and say nothing to be done?
• Try to ‘fix’ it?
• Give it our best shot?
• Let go and be a conduit for whatever?
• ACCEPT NO LIMITATIONS
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20. PLAYERS
• Mum - wants this horror to end quickly
• Dad - wants daughter to be perfect
• Baby - (Simone) ??????
• Heather - anything is possible
• Other healers – as required – bit parts
• Dianne (Reiki) – “absent” and on site
healing as needed/unconditional loving
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21. TREATMENT STRATEGIES
ASK FOR ASSISTANCE
In any area
Look to life
what SHOULD be happening?
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24. TIBETAN BUDDHIST MEDICINE
• All beings, whatever form, are exposed to
different forms of suffering.
• Whether ‘healthy’ or not, we all have latent
diseases awaiting.
• Origins of all – IGNORANCE – gives rise to
desire, gives rise to hatred, pride, jealousy,
harsh speech, more obscuration,
and around it goes . . . .
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26. DISORDERS/ “CAUSE”
1 - Actions pre ‘now’ (karma fruiting)
2 - Of this lifetime - earlier on this
lifetime, coming through later (this
now)
3 - Involving spirits
4 - Superficial – follow lifestyle and
behaviour patterns and will not need
external assistance.
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27.
28. WHAT ABOUT ALL OF
THEM
simultaneously?
Who says it is all or nothing?
What if the reason for it all has to
be attended to FIRST?
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29.
30.
31. YANG/resonant – density/YIN
• Souls in transit • Physical ‘real’ world
• Science/evidence
based/ ‘facts’/data
• Having a human
experience within a • Body is raw
mammalian wrapper material
• The journey IS the • Death & disease
destination are to be
eradicated
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32.
33. ACUPUNCTURE/TUI NA
As she presented
When clotting became unlikely -
Metamorphic technique
REIKI
Always – love, intention, & Dad’s
will to fight
PRIMARY PATIENT - DAD
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34. WHAT STIRRED DAD THE
MOST?
• Seeing her death certificate awaiting only
a date and signature, PLUS her near
bleeding out – at the same hospital visit.
• Her parents’ acceptance of her imminent
departure lead to her changing her script.
• Then we married east and west, until
remission – then west won
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35.
36. WHAT WAS MOST EFFECTIVE?
BEING PRESENT
& hassling Dad to accept what was going on in
the minute, & not accepting what anyone
else (even me) had to say.
What did HE what for HER?
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41. WHEN DID ‘HOPE’ SPRING
FOR THE MEDICAL
AUTHORITIES?
When she looked like she was
‘in remission’
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42. HOW DID WE GET THERE?
8 weeks after commencing twice daily
90 minute sessions with Heather, many
hands on, and more Reiki hands off
(absent) encounters with Dianne.
PLUS
Prednisone,
& numerous whole blood transfusions – all
against the medical advice, as they
thought it slowing the inevitable . . .
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44. MUM’S ULTIMATUM
Either you agree to starting
chemotherapy immediately, or you
leave & the medical lawyers will
take over Simone’s guardianship.
WHY?
Prednisone has never cured a case
of leukaemia. (She will die if we do
not try to save her . . . )
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