(12-11-2011, 04:53 PM)Tenet Nosce Wrote: My partner relates to me the story of a man in her yoga class today. 17 years ago he was diagnosed with colon cancer. Had it removed. Since then, he has been living a "pure" lifestyle, including a "clean" diet and practicing yoga regularly.
He just found out that the cancer returned.
What do you guys think? EMFs? Not enough colonics? Or maybe did he never take care of the underlying problem, thinking that diet, exercise, and faith would be sufficient?
What does that say for his guru or practitioner who may have encouraged him to take on such an attitude?
Well first of all, if he managed to stay cancer-free for 17 years - 17 years!!! - that's pretty damn good!
Statistically, those who choose conventional cancer 'treatments' (sic) typically have a recurrence within, what, 5 years?
And between 5 and 10 years, their mortality rate is no better than those who did...nothing.
So already, if this guy remained cancer-free for a whopping 17 years, then WOW, that's impressive!
I'd consider that a success, not a failure.
Now, as far as why the cancer returned, it's impossible for any of us to say, not knowing all the details, and even if we did know all the details, we still couldn't.
Cancer is a very complex issue, with many contributing factors.
I agree with both Diana and Pickle...maybe he didn't resolve the root issue...maybe he had underlying anger issues that were never resolved.
Or, maybe he did resolve them, but later fell into the trap of new issues! Like, maybe he was angry at his first wife, forgave her, then later his 2nd wife cheated on him and he fell back into the same anger pattern. Who knows?
It's not just about diet and exercise!
Furthermore, just how 'healthy' was his diet anyway? It's amazing how some people claim to have a 'healthy' diet just because they eat lots of chicken instead of beef!
Where did he live? Maybe he was exposed to environmental toxins. It's been proven that there are increased incidences of cancer in certain areas due to chemical spills and stuff like that.
Did he buy all organic? What kind of pesticides were used on the produce he consumed? What kind of water did he drink? Water alone can make a person acidic, and cancer thrives in an acidic environment.
Maybe he just seemed to have a healthy lifestyle, but was a closet methhead or junkie. Who knows?
Maybe he was nice on the surface but in private was a rageaholic. Or maybe he had suffered an extreme trauma in the last few years which never got healed, and the cancer came back in the area he was weak in.
Or maybe he even got cocky about having defeated cancer, and it came back as catalyst to get him to have more compassion on those still struggling with it. Who knows?
There could be any number of explanations. There is no magic cure for cancer and it's impossible to analyze it even with full knowledge, much less so with nearly zero knowledge.
I've met women who healed themselves from advanced stage breast cancer by going raw vegan and doing lots of juicing and sprouting.
I also knew a woman who did all the 'right' things - juicing, wheatgrass, etc. - but even on her deathbed still had a lot of unresolved anger towards her husband, as well as unresolved grief at having lost a baby (who, incidentally, died while suckling the very same breast that later got the cancer). Clearly, in that case, all the wheatgrass juice in the world wasn't going to help her. She never got to the root issue.
Her 'guru' (a Christian pastor who happens to have been the same person who told me to drink distilled water forever) meant well but was very controlling. She took it upon herself to dictate what the poor woman was to do. I watched all this in horror. It seemed not much better than a mainstream doctor insisting that she do chemo!
Why? Because the sick woman wasn't given much opportunity to find her own strength. She was just tossed around from the doctor to the pastor. The pastor even said one time that there was "a lot riding on getting this woman healed" which I found nauseating - she and the other pastor had big plans of announcing that all their prayer had 'worked'. It would have been a feather in their caps, for sure.
After the woman died, the pastor preached at her funeral that the Christians had 'failed' to heal her. Apparently they hadn't prayed hard enough!
Sadly, this woman has become a statistic of "vegan diet and juicing failed."
So you just never know what's going on behind the scenes. To assume that this man's 'healthy' diet and lifestyle failed him, is to oversimplify. His diet might not have been so healthy, and/or there might have been many other factors we don't know about.