I had a conversation recently about the QHHT theory of disease, which is that all disease is the subconscious attempting to alert the conscious mind of a problem in your life, using the only tool it has, physical discomfort. (This is not a new idea, by the way, it dates back further than I can find.) My colleague didn't like that, saying that it's not fair to get sick because of something you don't know about. "You can't tell people that, some people won't like it." The discussion right about there when I realized that we'd reached an impasse. I suspect that the actual issue was that my colleague has equated 'consequence' with 'punishment.' I'm not saying the illness is a punishment, it's a consequence of the choices you have made, just like lung cancer can be a consequence of smoking. The QHHT model says the illness is a possible consequence of not following the path you agreed to when entering this life. Another thing to think about is, what would be the ultimate outcome of not dealing with fundamental problems in your life? Could it be that severe might actually be a kindness, given the alternative?
Beliefs are tricky things. If you believe that knowledge is power and the best way to live your life with the most ease and effectiveness is to understand, to the best of your ability, how the whole system works, then you need to both look at what's in front of you and to accept what you see. If you head into that process with certain notions of what ought to be, and what you see calls those into question, you must either modify them, discard them, or deny what you see. Anyone who's traveled very far in this life will fine plenty of people who take the latter course. I have chosen to try and understand what is, rather than deny it, and then wring my hands over the state of the world, saying "Why can't people just get along?"
In this case, my position, as the president once said, is still evolving. On the one hand, there's the idea the illness and disease 'just happen' to you, you have no control over it, and you rely on doctors and the medical industry to fix it. On the other hand, there's the theological view that illness, and bad things in general, are God's punishment for your sins. I find that idea personally repugnant, if only because it leads to a life of fear and guilt. But wait, you say, what about science? We can now understand disease, which leads to prevention and cures. True, we can now successfully treat a large number of conditions and minimize disease. But the underlying causes disease are still unknown. Why, under identical conditions, do some people get sick and some not? Why do some people get cancer and some not? Even with this Ebola outbreak, in the worst places, with the worst conditions, not everybody gets infected, and not everybody infected dies. Why? Ask and you will get various answers, but the stone cold fact is, nobody knows. Nobody can predict exactly which people is an infected village will get sick and which won't, or which of the sick will die. Nobody can tell who will get cancer and who won't. Your doctor can't even tell you, with any certainty, whether you'll get a cold this year. Yes, you can do things that have been shown to lower the probability of getting sick, but we simply don't know why some people get sick, even though the do everything right, and other don't, even though they don't follow the rules.
Throughout human history we've had healers, and today we have the well-document placebo effect. Both demonstrate that what people believe can have a significant effect on their health and even cure disease. And this is among Westerners who have been taught to believe that the mind and body are completely separate. How much more powerful could be effect be if people expected it to work and were trained in specific techniques that enhance it's effectiveness? We only have tantalizing hints from the science side of things because science, by and large, will not go there. Which leaves the gap to be filled by people like Dolores Cannon, Dr Brian Weiss, Dr Eric Pearl, and many others, who have been researching this field for decades and learning what they can, given the lack of resources and the persistent opposition of the scientific community.
What they have found is that reincarnation exists and that every person comes into this life with certain goals and obligations, which they generally have no conscious memory of. These goals and obligations are not imposed, but are freely chosen and agreed to by the soul before birth. Although every person has a 'contract', of a sort, they don't have to abide by it, that's free will. But the thing is, the things that each person choses are not arbitrary, they selected their particular collection of talents, limitations, tendencies, situations and obligations for a specific purpose. A purpose important enough to endure the pain and suffering of an incarnate life to accomplish. Given that, it makes sense that there would be some mechanism to help guide each person along the path they have chosen, without taking away the experience of making their own decisions. That mechanism is called the Subconscious, but a better term is Higher Mind, or Higher Conscious. Not that it's superior to the conscious mind, exactly, but that it's at a 'higher' vibrational level that allows it to act as a kind of intermediary between this reality and the place where the soul came from, and will return to, after death. (I use the term 'vibration' loosely because nobody knows where consciousness, let along the subconscious, resides or how to detect it. I speculate that the reason our technology fails to detect consciousness is that instrument designers, when they see these unaccounted for signals in their instruments, work diligently to remove that 'noise' from their systems, so that when researchers use those instruments, they see nothing.)
This Higher Mind is the source of intuitions, gut feelings and insights. It's, that subtle voice in our head that some religious people think of a God. (Or the devil, if you're so inclined) All things that scientists like to say don't exist. Notice that I said scientists, not science. Science, the process, and science, the body of knowledge, have no problem with alternative states of conscious and psychic phenomena, it's just more grist for the mill, it's the scientists that get up in arms about what can and can not exist.
I, personally, am doing my own explorations and checking out these ideas, and I'm leaning in the direction of acceptance, at least of the parts I can understand, anyway. I find it really sad that each person must repeat this process for themselves, because our society relentlessly beats this knowledge out of you from the day you are born. What would our world be like if we were taught this from day one and we took even a fraction of the money we spend on music and videos to find better ways to heal people from the inside out, and to help them live purposeful lives?
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