Mystical Angels

I am writing a book about HEALING EXPERIENCES. I'm gathering honest stories and experiences and taking sugge

I am preparing to write a book about healing experiences. Although I am a primary care physician (Internal Medicine, Board-Certified) by training and temperament, I have over the last few years found that the current medical model of tests and treatments and “pill for an ill” leaves a lot to be desired. I think that the better way of healing already exists; it is inside each and every one of us, waiting to be tapped. Your participation, submissions; advice, and suggestions are invited and sincerely valued. Here’s what I’m looking for: “Miracles”. Recovery of illnesses or any conditions – physical or mental, emotional or social -- through spiritual experience of any kind, prayer, meditation, yoga, chanting, education, philosophy, discipline, breathing, contemplation, 12-steps, church, temple, ashram or anything else I missed. The kind of action on your part that could only come from something new happening inside, an evolution of thought or understanding. Mark A. LaPorta MD

Public Comments

1. Congrats on the book. It's an excellent idea, and I think a very, very important issue. I went through a bout of depression when I was 16. I was angry, rebellious, got lousy grades and just felt generally numb and turned to cutting in secert, in order to feel something. As many teens do, I felt completely alone and like nobody could possibly understand me. I had always been a horse-crazy kid and had started taking lessons off and on when I was 8. My parents saw me in need of something that I could feel good about, so they signed me up for regular riding lessons. I was paired with the horse who would later become my own first horse, and we started learning dressage. The discipline of the sport required that I form a strong bond with my horse, and that we work closely together as partners both in saddle and on the ground. In riding, I found something that I was good at and could be proud of, and it taught me a lot about respect, both for other living things and for myself. I still ride and still (and will always) have horses.
2. I understand that a lot of "healing" can be explained by psychosomatic or placebo effects. I think that miraculous healing does happen. My father is dead now, but when he was alive he and my mother couldn't go to doctors (some people get horrific bad luck with doctors who make dangerous mistakes, and get put off for life). My father at different times had symptoms of divarticulitis (sp?) and testicular cancer, as well as other less major things. It wasn't like he could go and get healed on tap, but each time, when things were really bad something happened after someone (different each time) prayed. At one point he was going into a decline, probably going to die of an ongoing heart condition, and my mother secretly prayed for God to give him 15 more years of life. Well, a year and a half ago the time was up, only she didn't remember at the time. My father was going into a decline again, with everything just slowing down and odd things like skin ulcers that just showed that his whole system was very, very old. He had this strong conviction that everything that had ever been wrong with him was about to be healed permanently. My mother heard in a dream at night, "Go on praying for him every night, and one night I will take him and heal him". At the time it didn't enter her head what "take" might mean, but one night he died. And all of us, when we entered or even just stood outside the door of the room where he died, were hit by an unexpected and almost tangible feeling of love and peace, and a complete irrelevance of anything that we would ever have worried about for him or between him and us. (What he died of, by the way, was not something preventable; it was written down as atherosclerosis. If he had been registered with a doctor and had been in hospital, it would only have prolonged the nastiness of death, so I have no worries about this.) I realise I'm writing as though the biggest healing was the one that happened at his death; well, it was. And, as I said to my mother, the fact that he had been healed of various things before should reinforce our belief that God had got him. My sister had dreams about seeing him with someone he called "my Friend" and also seeing him holding the two babies that my mother had lost in early miscarriages. There has been a sort of healing all through our family in various ways. For myself, I feel as though anything I left unsaid to my father is no longer needed; it's all understood now, and if I could see him I'd have nothing except to listen to the things that he now knows. One of my other sisters had also had a recent experience of miraculous healing (at a healing service) of a problem due to head injury; she'd been to doctors and was getting no result. She said that the first thing she learnt about healing was something I don't quite grasp, something about knowing you are healed from day to day just by Jesus having control of the situation, and then the physical healing happened after this trust. But with her, too, it was a no-go situation; she was really desperate as it was hard for her to even hold down her job.
3. I underwent radiation treatment for toxic nodules growing in my thyroid, 8 years ago. As a result, I suffered radiation poisoning. I have always been extremely sensitive to medication and chemicals of any kind. Anyway, the radiation poisoning almost killed me... in fact, I expected to die from it. I began a rigorous routine of prayer, getting closer to The Lord, first of all (since I expected to be meeting Him soon) and I began a raw organic food diet. I juiced raw fruits and vegetables, and faithfully drank my juices everyday. I decided to honor God by caring for my body and the life that He gave me. Long story short, after about 6 months I was not only well, but am now healthier than I've ever been in my life. I look better, feel great and have more energetic than I did 30 years ago... I'm in my 50s now. I still think that God's medicine is the best. When He created us, He put on the earth everything these bodies would need to stay healthy. Good luck with your book.
4. Good luck on your venture! Have you considered diet in your depression studies>??
5. In survival , there is a time to fear death, and a time to give up life . Until this point is reached a person questions all this . There is a point beyond life, where judgment and death , give us our reason to continue in life, or die . Its our life , and our pact with god. A statement at this time is issued in this fashion . You can return to your body, or never return again . Some call these guides angels . If the body is too battered to crawl , how many return , without someone whispering in their ear to return to a body ,too wasted to return to . Playing god is not smart . Was this a doctor or a priest ? what can be the difference then ? There is no whispering in the ear when someone else is forcing someone to die . They are telling them to die . Cursing them to die . Chanting them to die. Is the moment of doubt in the killer, or killers formed, when they panic and think they didn't want to kill the victim? Is this the time the victim has to commune with judgment and death , to make the decision to live ? How can this activity be the victims fault ? Who will blame them for survival, or dying at this point ? How can the victim make someone else kill them ? Does judgment or death issue the statement of return , or leave ? Wouldn't the people responsible for this crime be considered insane , as the people who knew it happened , and continued to allow it and cover it up ? What is the purpose of this criminal activity ? Is it proper to incarcerate and torture a person for saying this happened ? In spiritual matters , sometimes the question is the answer . The law is supposed to protect the victim . Sometimes only the spirit will give protection and comfort . The boy is laying on the ground naked and dead . Is he insane , or are the killers, and those who allowed it to occur, or covered it up normal ? Ask anyone anywhere until you run across someone who approves of this monstrosity of life and care. The autopsy showed heart attack in the teen. Sometimes judgment keeps the victim alive ,when the boy returns to life , only to have the life taken again and again . Was the boy , out of his mind ? saved by god ? abandoned by justice ? Could the possible fact his mind was out of his body , keep him alive ? Where was his spirit ? Can this mean insanity is good to keep the body alive ? ______________ The law would say this . Stay away from this victim the rest of his life . If an internal organ is hit so many times and continues to work , why want to take it out to study it to see why it continues to work ? If your Superior said take the organ out now ! Would you question his authority ? This covers many of the issues above . How many reading this will protect the boy , or the killers ?
6. Wow, how cool it that? I would love to help you. I have not been permantly healed, but definitely had a spiritual awaking through a 12 step program(quite a healing experience)! I am not going to tell my whole story on this Q&A, but would be more than willing to help you via email. You can contact me and I will be more than happy to tell you about overcoming a heroin/crack addiction, and living a new life one day @ a time. I have been clean for 21/2 years, feel free to contact if you're interested.
7. I am a smoker and I don't excersize. For the arthritis in my shoulders and hips I lay in bed on my tummy and stretch 1 knee up as far as I can comfortably tolerate and stretch. Sometimes it will crack/pop and feels much better for a day or 2 For my shoulders about the same treatment I bend elbow and will rest my heahead on same side pointing elbow upward they will pop often some times I have to wait 20 mins or more for the pop. I get more relief from this than 4 different meds I had. or even the pain pills.
8. Wow...I wish I had time to contribute but the day is not that long. Ha! Let me just say; once I got over myself (meaning: who others make me "think" I was) the healing began. I had to stop making others' issues [with or about me] MY issue. I had to love myself. Just because someone has a problem with me, I am not obligated to concur regarding their opinion. I accepted my faults and shortcoming, why couldn't' they? Now, I've never felt better! I love me and plan to do all I can to continue I'm positive this book will be a healing for you and I say Go with it and God, Allah, etc...speed! I hope all goes well and people read it. I'll be sure to look for it!