The changable aspect of genetic conditioning

Looking to one's own internal resources for an adequate response to the diagnosis of cancer yields many benefits. Things appear clearer, emotional responses change their hue, and the will to change becomes stronger. 

Internal and external forces try to destroy belief in the possibility of individual freedom. The internal preferences for pleasure, and the inertia of habit patterns, keep the mind occupied to the extent that it becomes unaware of its true nature.

The external forces are relentless, additions of new hooks to entice and distract the mind. TV adverts tell of the latest gadgets, the lures of delicious prepared meals I must buy, annual must-have settees, the tempting baits of exotic holidays. Weekend magazines tell me what I need to watch or where I need to go, what books I must read, etc. 

The big new, life-changing one was the draw towards chemo- and radio-therapy: after surgery, these being the only answers supplied by the wonders of modern-day medicine. 

I heard once, someone say that life then becomes a life of two parts, one before the diagnosis of cancer, and the other after. 

It may seem strange, but for me, the life after is richer than the one before. To view it in any other way would draw a pall of negativity over it. That's not to say that I delude myself. The diet I'm on, which was initially enforced by my own, personal act of will, has yielded such benefit that I feel more awake now than I have for many years. 

Physically, my weight has stabilised, hovering, no matter how much I eat, at around 67 kilos. Although there is still the odd moment of lapse of memory, the mind is clearer and life has regained its child-like freshness. And the deep personal conviction that the body, given plenty of nutrition, and starved of toxins can rejuvenate itself, has restored my faith in the internal intelligence that everybody has, if they only stop what they're doing for a moment and listen to it. The body may be bruised or broken, but given the right conditions, motivates its own natural defences, and heals itself.

To unshakably believe that this is so, and to act upon it, is to become healthy not only in body, but also in mind and spirit. 

Initially, the diagnosis cut me off from everything, I didn't feel any longer as if I were a happy member of the human community. I was now afflicted by the oh so unfair pronouncement. A glass wall came down and separated me from 'you happy people'.

Now, things have changed so much for me. I don't feel any longer as if I am subject to the materialist's perception of reality. Things aren't as black and white any more. Apart from uncontrollable external toxicity, whatever chronic degenerative conditions occur in the body, designated medically as a virus or bacterium, are a direct result of choices made in life, or choices made by ancestors which still operate in the body. It's for this reason that some people die of a viral infection when a person sharing the same room, exposed to the same virus, remains healthy.

Materialist scientists call these choices made by ancestors 'genetic conditions', as if there were nothing we could do to change them. So convinced are they of this 'truth' that they can in turn convince intelligent women to have breasts removed because of the arrangement of the genes in the cell DNA. Epigenetics, changes in life conditions which alter the structure of the DNA code read by the body, are inadmissible possibilities to such 'written in stone' materialists.

Thinking that freedom is a myth, that we are complex machines, and that we don't have a choice in what happens because choice itself is just an error of thought, is like running away from the ultimate cure.

Which brings me to a deeper consideration. What is this internal body intelligence that is so capable of healing the body when adequate nutrition is provided and toxicity is refused? Despite the incalculable complexity of the process, the materialist scientist might call it simply a series of bio-feedback mechanisms without any governing intelligence to guide them. 

To my mind there is a very real intelligence, an internal intelligence with this capability. A lovely chap who incarnated a couple of thousand years ago, with the vocabulary available at that time, had this to say of it: "The kingdom of god is within."