Drought and Heat Wave as Healing Metaphor
By: Bruce Dickson
Drought and heat wave as healing metaphor
High temperatures and multi-year droughts are waking people's attention to these phenomena. My hope here is to connect people with the healing metaphors present.
As a practicing Medical Intuitive, my job includes unraveling the healing metaphors of illnesses. It turns out, ALL illnesses are healing metaphors as seen from Spirit. The theory of WHY all illnesses are healing metaphors--from Spirit's point of view--can be found in my booklet, The Meaning of Illness is Now an Open Book, available at my site. Global warming, drought and the escalating scarcity of fresh water are simply healing metaphors on a larger cultural and global scale.
How much global warming is really due to human activity? An extra-terrestial point of view could be more objective. Michael Horn, an expert on messages given by human-like extra-terrestrials to the Earth, says the Pleidians believe 25% of global warming is NOT due to human activity. The solar system, led by the Sun, is changing. Many dramatic changes in the Sun and our sister planets are poorly reported in the news. See “The Sun Does a Flip” http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm for good pictures on some of the milder under-reported activity. If true, 75% of global warming is human-made.
The science of extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere creating an insulating layer, heating the Earth, is clear. However when we want to unpack a healing metaphor, we explore physical circumstances as SYMPTOMS, not as causes. What could the CAUSES be?
The utility of understanding disease as healing metaphor rests heavily on the insight that the fastest way to change any unwanted condition is to take personal responsibility for it.
If a Planet came into your office, as your patient, with an elevated temperature, what could you tell this Planet that would clarify how the Patient is responsible for their symptom, and—the good news—how they can remedy that?
The healing metaphor I see is this. Shakespeare said it, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Could it be the Earth is over-doing a lot of activity not aligned with taking care of itself in a sustainable way, leading it to a healthy ripe old age? We're looking at planetary culture here. Could it be there is excessive activity in some areas; and, deficient activity producing health, wealth, and happiness; abundance, prosperity and riches; loving, caring, sharing and touching?
The patient may protest, “Well, I have to make a buck, don't I?” Many patients are very good at finding reasons to continue their dysfunctional behavior. When the patient is not open to changing dysfunctional behavior, we let them be--because Spirit does not inflict itself. Choice is a precious capacity and must be preserved.
Our Patient, our Planet, may then switch to another symptom, “What about my dry throat and dry skin? Can you give me anything for this, doc?” Now we explore the growing scarcity of fresh water. We explain to our patient-planet that with an elevated temperature, fresh water is bound to disappear because in the past, much fresh water was conserved and portioned out gradually over a year's time, melting slowing from snow and glaciers high in the mountains. California, a state without much rainfall, is famous for the moderating influence of its mountain snowpacks that apportion fresh water to the rivers thruout most of the year.
A Planet with an elevated temperature melts the snowpacks much faster. A Planet who does little or nothing to lower its temperature is in effect saying “No” and “Goodbye” to mechanisms keeping fresh water available more year round.
But this again is only a physical mechanism. If all physical mechanisms are only symptoms, what is the healing metaphor?
Could it be that the flow of water is a metaphor for the flowing of love, forgiveness and generosity to those less fortunate than ourselves, expressions of a healthy heart?
Could it be the LACK of flowing fresh water is a healing metaphor for a planetary heart deficient in expressions of love, forgiveness and generosity to those less fortunate than ourselves?
Speaking of hearts, what about the clogged freeways in many cities, roads we often call “arteries”? Could this be a healing metaphor too?
What we have in roads and highways clogged with traffic, is an image of congestion. What could this be a metaphor for?
Could it be the intermittent massive congestion of our highways and freeways suggests a cultural congestion? What could this be?
Could it be that people need to get somewhere in their LIFE and are prevented from getting there?
Could it be people, especially young people, want to find their way to health, wealth, and happiness; abundance, prosperity and riches; loving, caring, sharing and touching?
Could it be our “crazy, sexy” mass culture, as the L.A. Weekly puts it, retards the progress people can make towards these healthy goals?
While we're here we may as well address our Patient's most pressing concern, as She sees it. “I'm running out of energy, doc. I'm running on fumes. What's wrong with me? My get-up-and-go got up and left.”
If the Patient will listen, we can suggest to them the pattern so visible with virtually all chronic fatigue cases. We can ask, could it be you need to stop and re-examine the direction of your life? Could it be you are running on auto-pilot when the pilot really should be charting a new course about where you are going? Sam Keen, a seminal figure in the human potential and men's movement said in the 1970s, “We don't have an energy crisis; we have a destination crisis.” The Patient does not know where She is going any longer.
These are all wonderful questions for a Patient to ponder. Within these healing metaphors, and more I'm sure readers can discover, are sign posts to action, to changing direction and turning the ship towards a new destination, which will be, in a phrase, healthier choices.
The Patient must decide for themself what changes they wish to make, in what order. All I can do is coach and encourage them to make as many healthy choices as possible. That's what I do.
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Bruce Dickson
Medical Intuitive
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