What can be learned when a great healer dies of cancer? The Barbara Brennan School of Healing has the reputation of being among the best healing trainings in the world. Back in the 1990s, one of the great delights at BBSH was the harp music "channeled" by Marjorie Valeri during whole-school meditations.
But in the spring of 1999 Marjorie died of cancer. Her passing was a great loss to the school and posed a difficult question for some people – why had so many healers been unable to save her life? This was a great learning for the students who came to see that it is childish, wishful thinking to impose the responsibility of life and death onto a healer. It is more helpful to be aware of the possibility that death is a very different thing from the view of the immortal soul.
Doctors and Healers Have Different Ways of Seeing Things
Western medicine aims to ward off infirmity and death using empirically tested procedures with reasonably predictable outcomes. Healers also regularly assist in bringing about miracles of recovery, sometimes where medicine has failed; but the healer’s approach is fundamentally different from that of the doctor.
A healer’s work extends into dimensions that exist beyond the physical world. One of the prime requisites for the spiritual journey into the non-physical realms is to be open to the unknown. Unlike a doctor, a healer, at the beginning of a session is mindful that they do not know the outcome of the healing.
Instead, the healer will avoid preconceived expectations and allow whatever happens to be just as it is. A healer makes deep contact with their own and another person’s inner light and opens to guidance from angels, ancestors and the infinite fields of light and love, the source of all that is. Discovering the inner light of the core star and learning to receive the love of the divine brings untold relief to human existence but it does not always mean the reversal of the dying process.
The Gift of Hope Even from Motor Neurone Disease
In 2006, social worker Diane Shepherd died from Motor Neurone Disease. She gave the greatest gift of hope to those who were with her in her dying months. Diane reached a point where she could no longer speak but communicated by flicking her eyes around an alphabet frame. When a friend said that this had been a terrible year Diane quickly signalled, "No, a wonderful year!" Diane communicated that such profound healing had occurred in all her relationships that the love that flowed to her from friends and family had allowed her to transcend the pain of her disease and death.
Freedom and Expansion in Life after Death
From human awareness, death will never lose its dread and the grief of bereavement does not end, one can only cope. But from the view of the soul there is life after death, which is not final but a passage into a different state of being. So the end of a life is both a moment of the most poignant grief and a moment of great freedom and expansion.
Healers can be tempted to avoid painful issues by escaping to a heavenly rainbow-land, a "spiritual bypass." Real healing requires courage to be with exactly those aspects of the self that trigger pain and fear and to bring them to light.
The Great New Adventure for the Human Race
Many people now have awareness of the non-physical realms. Like Christopher Columbus, sailing to the edge of the world, the new explorers approach the portals of "the undiscovered country" and return to tell of the realms where light and shadow, life and death become as waves passing through the unending ocean of life.
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