A friend of Stella’s, I’ll call her Kate, rescued an injured raven and was nursing it back to health. The raven was living in her home. Right around this time, Kate was having memory problems, headaches, and disorientation. She consulted the doctors and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Being holistically oriented, she tried various herbs and cleanses to no avail. The symptoms worsened. Finally she decided to try a radical treatment called escharotic therapy.
Hey everyone, I'd like to add an invitation to share raven and crow stories here. Or stories about other birds too. When people speak of "saving the planet," do they include the birds? Can we do it without them?
Amazing. I have a friend who did the same thing. A paste on her head drew and drew the tumour out until it dried up and fell off. She had to do it again and again twice more in different places over a couple of years. It was a long and painful process but she quietly administered her medicine and trusted it. It happened. This kind of healing is derided or quietly ignored by mainstreamers and when it doesn't work, savaged. Yet when chemotherapy and radiotherapy fail , which they often do - and more than that, hasten death in agonising circumstances - there is no open questioning of the treatment. Mainstream 'Science' cannot be held to account.
I have tried this “therapy” several times. It’s not that radical, it’s older than the western medicine we are programmed so loyally to follow. It takes bravery to be autonomous.
Animals always held powerful knowledge. I hope we can learn from them one day. Beautiful writing Charles. May all our hearts open to the miracles of life 💗
Thank you Charles. Needed this. Story #2 for the win. Not even close. And I’m a recovering secular materialist! How far I have come to enter my toddlerhood. 🙏
Sometimes experiences find us, if we're willing to be lost enough in the surrender of the unknown. Despair is a known variable, and so are probabilities that a medical treatment will work. Whereas hope, even though it's a faint emotion, carries a grace that maybe, just maybe, the fairies will hear if we whisper our heart's grieving loud enough.
I love this story! For a lot of reasons. One is that, my daughter-in-law actually did use that exact formulation (under the guidance of an experienced herbalist) for the reasons given and it worked. Blood root is a very powerful herb, not to be used lightly. So that’s one thing. But the main reason I love it is the discussion of miracles. And once you’ve experienced what is termed a “miracle”, it totally does change your perspective - if you let it - on everything. It opens us to the reality of living within a living Earth. We may not rationally “understand” all that entails, but we can feel it, intuit it, give it credence in our lives and thus it will change us.
My father showed me blood root on our farm in northern Illinois around 1960. He told me when he was young, which would have been around 1930, he could meet a man at the train station who would buy blood root he gathered.
The feature documentary film "Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime" was made by Kenny Ausubel. Blood root is a primary agent in Hoxsey's cancer treatment which was building a great reputation for success in Hoxsey's first clinic in Taylorville, Illinois around 1930.
I first heard of Charles Eisenstein maybe 12 years ago when a friend returned from Bioneers, which was founded by Kenny Ausubel.
"Just give me one thing that I can hold onto." -- John Prine
So, beautiful, reminds me of the story in the Bible where ravens daily brought food to the prophet Elijah while he was hidden for years in the wilderness. I can recount so many marvelous tales in my life of synchronicities, unusual phenomena, healings, answered prayers. Jesus said, "The wind (pneuma in Greek, also translated spirit) blows where it wishes" Science is useful for repeatable matter/energy phenomena that can be corralled at will, but there is a fuzzy, wild, free, nonrepeatable aspect of reality that your raven healed friend met which the methods of science finds difficult, even perhaps impossible to pin down.
I know at least one other person who has healed herself of cancer (multiple times) using the escharotic (black) salve. I've also seen the polaroids of the tumor's time-lapse exit from her body.
Authoritarian medicine and officialdom like to entertain the straw man of some irrational faith in alternative cures, a desperate hope that drives people away from science. For many of us, it is the knowing of personal experience or witnessing such healings and knowing they can happen again that liberates us from fear of disease, pain, or death.
Two Comments: 1) This story also speaks to "another way of knowing", an acknowledgement that meaningful information comes to us in many ways, not just through rational, logical, linear thought processes. 2) That many people disregard this information due to having been born into a mind set of "Separation". So yes, I am signing up for another way of being in the world.
Remarkable synchronicity here. Just last night I was in a deep conversation with a new friend about the remarkable capabilities of corvids. They're far smarter than we credit. I suspect they're a lot more than mere clever beasts.
i would meet with a group of people for 10 days, in the forest and we would do these plant dietas, as herbalists, the group intention being to listen to and learn more from the plants and often we would be gifted songs which we would sing together everyday, for an hour or more. in the morning, in circle.
hah. we had to hold so many different versions of a story in our head. so many different people and all of us with our baggage and gifts, likes and dislikes and different stories about why and what we were singing to and for.
slowly and intractably we would all end up holding the one story together, the incredible love that the plants had for us and the gifts they gave. if felt miraculous. and was so many tears.
Hey everyone, I'd like to add an invitation to share raven and crow stories here. Or stories about other birds too. When people speak of "saving the planet," do they include the birds? Can we do it without them?
I just want to hug you, Charles. Words don't express how wonderful it is of you to have written this story.
Amazing. I have a friend who did the same thing. A paste on her head drew and drew the tumour out until it dried up and fell off. She had to do it again and again twice more in different places over a couple of years. It was a long and painful process but she quietly administered her medicine and trusted it. It happened. This kind of healing is derided or quietly ignored by mainstreamers and when it doesn't work, savaged. Yet when chemotherapy and radiotherapy fail , which they often do - and more than that, hasten death in agonising circumstances - there is no open questioning of the treatment. Mainstream 'Science' cannot be held to account.
I have tried this “therapy” several times. It’s not that radical, it’s older than the western medicine we are programmed so loyally to follow. It takes bravery to be autonomous.
Animals always held powerful knowledge. I hope we can learn from them one day. Beautiful writing Charles. May all our hearts open to the miracles of life 💗
Thank you Charles. Needed this. Story #2 for the win. Not even close. And I’m a recovering secular materialist! How far I have come to enter my toddlerhood. 🙏
Sometimes experiences find us, if we're willing to be lost enough in the surrender of the unknown. Despair is a known variable, and so are probabilities that a medical treatment will work. Whereas hope, even though it's a faint emotion, carries a grace that maybe, just maybe, the fairies will hear if we whisper our heart's grieving loud enough.
I love this story! For a lot of reasons. One is that, my daughter-in-law actually did use that exact formulation (under the guidance of an experienced herbalist) for the reasons given and it worked. Blood root is a very powerful herb, not to be used lightly. So that’s one thing. But the main reason I love it is the discussion of miracles. And once you’ve experienced what is termed a “miracle”, it totally does change your perspective - if you let it - on everything. It opens us to the reality of living within a living Earth. We may not rationally “understand” all that entails, but we can feel it, intuit it, give it credence in our lives and thus it will change us.
My father showed me blood root on our farm in northern Illinois around 1960. He told me when he was young, which would have been around 1930, he could meet a man at the train station who would buy blood root he gathered.
The feature documentary film "Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime" was made by Kenny Ausubel. Blood root is a primary agent in Hoxsey's cancer treatment which was building a great reputation for success in Hoxsey's first clinic in Taylorville, Illinois around 1930.
I first heard of Charles Eisenstein maybe 12 years ago when a friend returned from Bioneers, which was founded by Kenny Ausubel.
"Just give me one thing that I can hold onto." -- John Prine
I choose story (2) for these two reasons:
(1) Animals, most usually dogs, have been known to pinpoint where cancer resides in a person’s body; and
(2) The majority of pharmaceuticals have their basis in herbal medicine.
So, beautiful, reminds me of the story in the Bible where ravens daily brought food to the prophet Elijah while he was hidden for years in the wilderness. I can recount so many marvelous tales in my life of synchronicities, unusual phenomena, healings, answered prayers. Jesus said, "The wind (pneuma in Greek, also translated spirit) blows where it wishes" Science is useful for repeatable matter/energy phenomena that can be corralled at will, but there is a fuzzy, wild, free, nonrepeatable aspect of reality that your raven healed friend met which the methods of science finds difficult, even perhaps impossible to pin down.
In the (soon to prevail again) story of Oneness, caring for the plants and the animals is caring for ourselves.
I know at least one other person who has healed herself of cancer (multiple times) using the escharotic (black) salve. I've also seen the polaroids of the tumor's time-lapse exit from her body.
Authoritarian medicine and officialdom like to entertain the straw man of some irrational faith in alternative cures, a desperate hope that drives people away from science. For many of us, it is the knowing of personal experience or witnessing such healings and knowing they can happen again that liberates us from fear of disease, pain, or death.
Two Comments: 1) This story also speaks to "another way of knowing", an acknowledgement that meaningful information comes to us in many ways, not just through rational, logical, linear thought processes. 2) That many people disregard this information due to having been born into a mind set of "Separation". So yes, I am signing up for another way of being in the world.
Remarkable synchronicity here. Just last night I was in a deep conversation with a new friend about the remarkable capabilities of corvids. They're far smarter than we credit. I suspect they're a lot more than mere clever beasts.
i would meet with a group of people for 10 days, in the forest and we would do these plant dietas, as herbalists, the group intention being to listen to and learn more from the plants and often we would be gifted songs which we would sing together everyday, for an hour or more. in the morning, in circle.
hah. we had to hold so many different versions of a story in our head. so many different people and all of us with our baggage and gifts, likes and dislikes and different stories about why and what we were singing to and for.
slowly and intractably we would all end up holding the one story together, the incredible love that the plants had for us and the gifts they gave. if felt miraculous. and was so many tears.