The “Cancer Paradigm” as a Social Blunder

by nielskunze on January 5, 2012

As above, so below… and in the middle too.
Or, in other words, our individual challenges are mirrored in society and the cosmos at large… as well as microscopically.

What I refer to here as the “cancer paradigm” is the strategy of cut, burn and poison any unwanted, troublesome bits which appear to undermine the integrity of the whole. That is the primary “solution” to the cancer problem. Whenever abused or neglected body parts revert to “going cancerous” we are taught to immediately go on the warpath.

Get rid of it! Cancerous cells are unwanted! They must be destroyed!

But where did they come from? From you. They are you. A part of you has been compelled to express itself as cancer. Are you at all curious as to why?

Every cell is programmed with very specific tasks which are essential to the proper functioning of the organism to which they belong. When environmental pollutants overwhelm the cell, or when essential nutrients are denied to the cell, it can no longer adequately perform its programmed tasks. But the program is insistent. These tasks must be accomplished. Life depends upon it! What’s a poor cell to do?

The cell, in its diminished capacity, has one viable option to meet its obligations. It makes copies of itself. Now, the copies are imperfect and suffer from the same disfunction as the parent cell because they too are either nutrient deficient or equally polluted. After a time it may take 20 or 100 cells to perform the assigned tasks of a single healthy cell… and that is the beginning of a tumour.

Cut, burn and poison! The tumour is the problem; it must be disposed of!

No, the tumour is actually the solution. It is a symptom of a deeper issue. Getting rid of it does nothing to address this deeper issue. Above, I categorized this issue as one of either deficiency or toxicity, or more likely a combination of the two. But what is the singular issue here?

To answer this question I’d like to shift focus. Years ago when I was on the road with my band Missing Peace, we went out on tour to the West coast. Our bass player had just lost his father to a prolonged “battle” with cancer. He was understandably upset for much of that trip. On one of our free days in Parksville, he went for a stroll along the beach to clear his head. When he rejoined the rest of the group he looked much more at peace and shared with us a minor epiphany. He explained that he had received a message from his recently departed father. The message was “Love yourself.”

I tend to give a great deal of credence to messages received from Spirit. “Love yourself”– was that the cure for cancer? Ever since then I have believed that it is. If a Spirit can get only one simple message through to us dense flesh puppets, wouldn’t it strive to impart the most important message it could? I think “love yourself” fits the bill nicely. He had died of cancer (or the “treatment” of cancer) and the single teaching he wished to pass along to his grieving son was “love yourself.”

Just two words… and no costly research required. We just need to ponder it, contemplate it to fully comprehend the vast implications of what those two words mean.

Do we love ourselves? Always? Do we administer the loving care required for our own immaculate health? Are there parts and portions of our bodies and psyches which we rather dislike? Do we starve certain aspects of ourselves? Do we sometimes poison ourselves?

And what are these selves? Can the universe (uni=singular, verse=song) be logically divided into “self” and “other”? Where does “self” end? Where does “other” begin? Are we all one?

My understanding of love is that it is the feeling of oneness. Love is indivisible, indiminishable. It is the expression of and the impetus toward wholeness. Love is all-inclusive; it knows nothing of denial. To Love, all is self. I’ll say that one again… to Love, all is self.

So as we learn this most crucial lesson, our bodies become healthy, cancer-free. And as we look around to the turbulence in our modern societies, the very same lesson applies. Society, love yourself! If any of us appear as cancerous tumours, we are not to be cut, burned or poisoned. We too are a part of you. No one may be excluded… for then by excluding us, your society would be based on something other than love, wholeness, health.

2 comments

Thank you! Beautifuly said…

by Debbie on January 13, 2012 at 5:18 am. Reply #

It has come to my attention that some have objected to the idea that “loving yourself” is the cure for cancer. They feel that it trivializes and demeans the efforts of researchers, caregivers, and patients. I am willing to make the following adjustment which hopefully clarifies my position somewhat:
Through loving ourselves we will arrive at the cure for cancer.
NK

by nielskunze on February 19, 2012 at 1:30 am. Reply #

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