If you read my first blog
post back in July you'll know that Morrissey’s illness was the focus of my
analysis of his astrological chart and the possible basis for his illnesses and
some of the difficulties that he had been having. It would seem that he has provided another
segue into a topic that is very close to my heart again, namely natural
healing.
I have been reading the press
releases regarding Morrissey having been treated for cancer, and while I admire
his attitude of “If I die, then I die. And if I don’t, then I don’t." It is something that I
have seen time and again with people who find themselves faced with a
devastating diagnosis like this. I do
not know the type of cancer that he is suffering from and what other kinds of
illnesses he may be facing along with that problem but I do know that many
times the prospect of the medical procedures involved in a cure are as bad or
worse than the illness itself. Most of the time, the illness is actually
secondary to what is going on with someone as a whole being. Many things have been going on in Morrissey’s
life that are enough to push a person to the brink and make them want to say to
hell with everything. I do hope that he
is not truly at this point because Morrissey is someone who is in a position to
make such a difference in the world with his music and his philosophy and he
has even more potential to contribute to the world if he is still willing to be
a spokesperson.
When I began my blog I was
not sure where my own philosophy would fit into the world at large. I made the (seeming) mistake of putting a link to my blog
on the fan site Morrissey Solo which
got me some pretty nasty comments from a few of its people. Not many, fortunately, were hateful. The post actually got a few people to look at
my essay on Morrissey’s health and his birth chart. Many of those initial lookers were from Europe
and a great many of them have returned for second, third, and more looks at
what I had to say. I appreciate that,
even if I had to walk through the slaughter house to get there. I am fairly sure that none of my European
friends would have ever discovered my blog any other way, so I am grateful for
what manifested as a result of a few hateful remarks and the Morrissey fans who
gave my blog a chance.
Natural healing was not
something that I set out to learn and that
I practice it now started out quite by accident.
I was in a local health food store looking for a remedy that someone had
mentioned to me in passing one day. The
owner of the store,(who was quite psychic, I later learned) presented himself
to me and took me to the homeopathic section of his store. He picked up a bottle of one remedy and
offered it to me free of charge if it did not work for me. I hadn’t actually told him anything about my
physical health, he just offered the bottle.
What is interesting is that I was
having some health issues that were pretty non-specific, but they were keeping
me lying on the couch most of the day because I didn’t have any energy and I
was quite depressed at the time. Since I
don’t believe in random occurrences, I took the remedy and a book called the Biochemic Handbook, (that he generously
loaned to me) home and began taking the remedy which was called Lycopodium
Clavatum, and sat down to read the book.
I was fascinated by the theory behind homeopathy and it seemed that I
needed all of the twelve tissue salts
that were described in the book. By the
time that I finished all of the pills, (about a month later) I was feeling
better than I had felt in quite some time.
I actually had the energy to get up off the couch and my rear end and
get some things accomplished. When I
went back to the health food store and offered to pay for the remedy, because
it had made such a difference in my mental and physical state, he refused to
let me. I wanted to know everything that
I could find out about the practice of homeopathy and he helped me every step
of the way, even getting a 30 remedy kit for me at a heavily discounted price. That set me on a path that I never expected
to be on and I have been grateful for this for the past 15 years. I have not seen a physician in all that
time. I am proficient in taking care of
my health issues myself and I would not have it any other way. There is such a sense of peace that goes with
taking control of your own health and well being that I would not trade for anything. It is challenging and sometimes it is
frightening to be totally on your own with the responsibility for your own
mortality, but there is nothing like the freedom from the medical establishment
and the freedom to be in charge of your own physical destiny in the world. I would not say that this independence is
right for everyone, but it has been right for me and I have never been sorry
that I set out on this path. I owe a lot
to the man who showed me the way and offered his mentorship to me free of
charge and free of obligation. It takes
an independent soul and an independent thinker to embark upon a life like this
but if you have that type of spirit in you, it is like being set free from a
cold and distant healthcare system like we have here in America, which can
bankrupt you within a short amount of time.
I won’t go into the particulars of how the healthcare system here has
changed since the recent laws governing it were established, I will save that for another day when I am
feeling more like ranting about it. What
I will tell you is that the universe has provided us with miracles of healing
in many different forms and they are there for the taking if you will just take
that step toward independence and working with them. Homeopathy, herbology, and a wealth of other
miracles of life exist for us if we will just seek them out. A belief in yourself is a necessary component
for the working of a miracle but I can assure you that miracles do indeed
happen if you are willing to believe in your own worth and your potential.
The real issue that I want to
address here is Morrissey and how his brand of making a difference in the world
still actually can, if he wants it to. I
can see why he might feel like “what the hell is the use?” since he was dropped
from his record label and he has been experiencing so many difficulties, but as
I said in my first post on this blog, illness is nearly always a call from the
universe to do something different.
Morrissey has had some very public kicks in the head recently in his
life and career but he has a voice that is listened to by a great many
people. Even if they aren’t buying the
philosophy that he is selling it is being heard, and that is what is important.
I hope that he wont let this difficult diagnosis stop him. Being an open minded and liberal thinking
person I hope that he will look into his own soul and find the new way that the
universe is trying to get him to see. I
cannot believe that it is saying let whatever happens happen. Not when he is in such a position to be seen
and heard and can inspire in ways that most of us will never be able to.
I wish for Morrissey the
ability to recognize what life is trying to tell him. If he can take charge of his own destiny
again like he did in the 1980’s when he had the foresight and the initiative to
put together the Smiths, he may yet create something that can change his world
again and that of countless others who care so much about him and what he has
contributed to the music world by just saying what he thought about some very
bad things and some very good things that he knew about first hand.
Take care of yourself,
Morrissey. The world isn’t usually
capable of doing it for you. The answers will be found in you and you alone.
Find them in the past or find them in the present, but do keep looking. People need you.
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