Heal the Heart, Heal the World

So what is so special about 2012? Well, funny you should ask that. They say that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear. I had been trying to contact a homeopathic healer and acupuncturist through a friend of mine, but first I got her e-mail address wrong, and then she didn’t reply to my telephone message. I discovered later from my friend that she never does reply to voice messages. So I got her e-mail address right, and tried that again, but still no response. However, my friend suggested that I could join her Monday discussion group, where they were focusing on the work of Gregg Braden. I googled him, and watched a video interview of him on the web talking about his about-to-be published book Deep Truth. What really grabbed me was what he said about the human heart, the range of the magnetic field around it. 

So if the heart can have an influence on the matter immediately surrounding it, could I facilitate the healing of my own heart, and how could I learn to do this?

Then I bought three books by him: Fractal Time, The Divine Matrix and Deep Truth.

Well, where to begin. I’d have to be the best editor in the world to encapsulate all the marvelous knowledge I have read so far in these books. First, I have to admit to a fair amount of skepticism about New Age stuff, because I wasn’t raised that way. My father was a doctor and a scientist. I am married to a scientist, and I grew up and studied “The Scientific Method” as part of my education. So did Gregg Braden. He trained as a scientist and worked as a computer engineer and around the age of 40 switched to studying the wisdom of the aboriginal ancients, new discoveries about human history, and then related all these to new understandings in quantum physics. His books follow the logical step-by-step argument style one would expect, but you don’t have to be a scientist to understand them.

Braden soon realized that new knowledge about the nature of time and the discoveries of ancient civilizations had not changed the way science was being taught in schools, 40 years after he was there, even though there was well documented scientific knowledge that contradicted a lot of what was in the text books. Why? Perhaps because of the entrenched culture of competition, war and economy by “survival of the fittest” that we live in?

In Braden’s first book, he moves from documentation of ancient civilizations that have been shown to exist well before the Sumerian age (previously thought to be the beginning of civilized Man); to the cycles of time revealed in the Vedic scriptures and the Mayan calendars; to how we can read cycles in our own lives. He takes us carefully through the Bible Code, and how it predicted the two great wars of the 20^th century and how both the attacks on Pearl Harbour and the World Trade Centre fit into a cycle in such a way that both could have been predicted. (Yes, he is American.)

He starts with the documented 26,000 odd year cycle we are in, which separates into 5 similar cycles, each governing one fifth of the earth’s wobble on its axis. We are in the last days of that fifth cycle, which ends on the Winter Solstice on December 21^st, 2012. Then the wobble turns and slowly heads back toward the centre of the universe. Does this sound crazy? You have to read the book.  (When I think about it, it’s also kind of crazy that when I had periods, they were governed by the phases of the moon, as are the ocean tides.) Braden takes you through the physics and his research so methodically that it all hangs together.

Apparently, the end of a cycle is a period of great chaos (Braden gives examples from history of previous cycles). We have global financial crises; wars, insurrection and demonstrations all over the world; scary climate change; desperate poverty and fabulous wealth: the world is indeed in chaos.

But there is a message of hope; while the conditions are set for disaster in December 2012, we can change things for the better, if we use our hearts. And this is where healing and the extraordinary new discoveries in quantum physics come in. Read the books!

Goal: Heal this Heart by December 2012

I have congestive heart failure. It was a shock when I was told this at the beginning of May 2011, because I am only in my early sixties, I am not overweight (well - maybe 15 lbs) and I have always been relatively fit. But apparently my left ventricle has just worked too hard all my life, and its ejection fraction is only 20-25%. This is in the really serious range - it should be between 55% and 75% - like get out your pen and put your name on the transplant list.

So, I was prescribed Apo-bisoprolol (a beta-blocker which keeps my blood pressure low), Coversyl (an ace inhibitor which keeps the heart rate down) plus Lasix as a diuretic to stop fluid retention. I spent the summer behaving and waited for an improvement. Nada, nothing, no change. I still eat a low sodium diet, drink only minimal amounts of red wine and no hard stuff at all, watch my fluid intake. I can't exercise much, so I watch the fats, although I do allow myself two chocolates a day. For my mental health. But I am not getting better.

I didn't like the diuretic at all, and one cavity later (I couldn't get to sleep because of the dry cough so I would suck a throat pastille after getting into bed) and a hemorrhoid (yuck), my doc said I could stop taking it daily, as long as I have some at the ready if I start to see signs of edema. So far so good. But now what?

I am an artist. I still have another 20 years of art to do, and I want to stay around to do it. So I decided to document what was happening to me and create some artworks that would speak about my journey.

So here's the first one, and it's called "Journey":

When the going gets tough, maybe the tough should get spiritual. So that's what this piece is about. Since I am into recycling, and using organic matter wherever I can, the angels are made out of wild cucumber seed pods, and there are actual rose petals in it. And the EKG chart is of my own heart (and boy I had to fight to get that!)

The nurse doing my nuclear medicine test said I couldn't take medical data out of the hospital without written authorization, but this printout couldn't be used because the paper was feeding crooked, so she was going to throw it away anyway. I said why couldn't she just throw it into my coat pocket, because I wanted it for a piece of art. But she still said no, it was against the rules. Then I said I would just raid the garbage when she left the room. She said that was even worse because I'd end up with some other patient's record, and that was against the privacy laws, and when I gave her a determined look, she just thrust this paltry scrap into my husband's hand and said "don't tell anybody." So I haven't, right?

Anyway, the text on this piece says "When the roses have faded and the heart is troubled, look for angels in the seed pods, for a heart that does not love the divine in all things will fail the test." I think I will put text on all of them. I have found some amazing bits of verse from Rumi and Khalil Gibran, and they will give me inspiration as well.

Have you heard "Affairs of the Heart" by Marjan Mozetich? If you haven't, you are in for a treat. A friend of mine heard this violin concerto on the way over to my place and she rushed in and said I had to turn on Radio 2 because it was so gorgeous. And it is. We both live in the country, and the way this music washes over you and then jags up and down is like the rolling hills and stark barns and silos we see all over the place. I went on line and found the playlist and immediately ordered the CD. It has already sparked off some ideas in my mind for another two or three pieces of fibre art.

Next time I'll tell you about some new reading I am doing on Fractal Time. This is all happening for a reason, I am convinced, and it has to do with 2012 being just around the corner. The other thing that I have started is a course of acupuncture treatment, with a diet change that incorporates many aspects of Chinese medicine.

More soon.