Human organic life, from the very first breath, is dedicated to death, its beginning contains its end. The body’s nature is transient, it’s a brief appearance of structured molecules/matter in the vast realm of imaginary time and space, and it tells a story of life, of human life and experience. Its cells and DNA carry a record of human history, of collective trauma and karma, of the rise and fall of civilizations, cultures and societies. The body is the manifestation of collective consciousness, a messenger of mainly subconscious memory, of contemporary conditioning and programming and it has its very unique language to reveal it. Its subconscious manifestations often meet the contemporary mind, which is conditioned into separation, fear and control, and they may appear as symptoms and disease.
Such information often roots deeply in the (collective) trauma/karma of separation, which is frequently suppressed and hidden from the awake consciousness for generations, and expressed through applied ego survival mechanisms, as it may be too painful and overwhelming to face. However, at some point, it may start to surface to be revealed and released, and the body’s language can use intense and also shattering expressions to speak its “truth”, a “truth” that wants to meet the light of awareness.
As the body is mortal by nature, death becomes the strongest ally and force in its transformational and regenerative processes. The cells of the body go multiple times in a lifetime through the death process to be replaced by new ones. The body literally dies repeatedly in one lifetime without the fabricated personality even notices. However, the persona is deeply attached to the body and identified with it. So the concept of the death of the body is for the ego-mind one of its annihilation. It fears its termination into the unknown when the body ceases to exist, unaware that the body’s existence has already transformed into new shapes, continuously ongoing since its birth through perishing and growth.
Those new cells may get repeatedly imprinted by the information the subconscious mind/brain was conditioned into from its emergence; also they may carry epigenetic, collectively shared information. As long as subconscious and epigenetic programs do not become illuminated through the light of awareness they accordingly continue to program the organism into its life story of inherited trauma/karma and conditioning.
Illness and symptoms of the body can be read as its testimony. That way the body is not perceived as an enemy, as a hostile place of existence, but as a messenger and as such an ally to bring light into the hidden and unknown parts of one’s existence.
Symptoms and diseases that are diagnosed as “incurable” imply at first they are not entirely understood yet, hence not known how to be cured. Therefore they may invite to explore the somatized and manifested unknown and evolve response-ability. “Incurable” conditions often lack understanding about their roots, about their dynamics, about their unfolding, even if there may be randomly appearing pieces of “knowledge”. But what can knowledge be without understanding? (Understanding here doesn’t refer to a merely cognitive brain function, such as rational-linear understanding but one that is aware without “knowledge” about the interconnectedness of all there is, confident and fearless, the wisdom of the heart. This understanding is “love”.)
Prognosis of the “incurable” is often more about speculating about the unknown, trying to predict some possible future without really having a foundation. The unknown is usually faced with fear and doubt and tried to be treated with control. However, control has no power over the unknown, and its mechanisms like suppression, resistance, avoidance and denial finally fail and then, when facing the hopelessness and futility of doing anything, only surrender remains.
Surrender opens the door to the quality of listening and raw awareness. You stop doing. You give up resistance. You stop fighting. You dare to face whatever is, dare to face the unknown, the fact, that the body is a transient, mortal cellular organism, dedicated to the cycles of growth and decay. There’s a force, that fills the body with life, that makes it grow and regenerate, that makes its heart beat and its nerves sense, until the cycle naturally turns into decay and dying, like the leaves in autumn start to slowly fall off the tree.
When you’re identified with that mortal body, perceived as a separated entity, but don’t recognize the force that makes it vibrant, that is immanent vibrancy, anything the body has to endure, like a disease, may become a threat and a source of suffering. As identity is generally attached to the body, when there’s disease this becomes your identity, and suffering may become your identity and attachment. You literally become what is ill, incurable, and as identification is a limited state of consciousness your body becomes your prison, your life becomes a prison. In this state of limitation, life seen through the filter of disease seems to be determined by diagnosis and prognosis, and the doors to the vastness of possibility, vibrancy and expansion appear closed. You may start to fight against the story the body tells you, while it particularly asks you to listen to its message, and for understanding. Or the mind dissociates from the body and turns into denial, while It asks for recognition and unifying what seems separated. Possibly the mindset has an important influence on the body’s cells whether turning into remission or deterioration.
Understanding leads to peace and reconciliation, understanding is love. In the frequency of peace and love, healing can happen, and this kind of healing is not attached to merely the fragile and temporary functioning and health of the body. It recognizes that such state of peace, that pervades all that is, is the health that was sought. Even if the body’s final purpose is to transform its whatever imprints through death, allowing what is, being detached from what is transient by nature, while totally being in peace with what is, is the foundation of true healing. It’s the fear of death that becomes healed. The fight against death and for life ends, the war ends, the battlefields dissolve into vast, empty fields; and what appeared to be separated from life – like illness – becomes a natural expression and appearance of life that tells a story, like all life that exists.
Peace is the true state and foundation of healing of all conditions, no matter how they are labeled. There’s no escape from transience for matter, not for the body and the brain, either any reality created by the mind and brain. Becoming aware of death as a natural consequence of all organic life makes a strong attachment to the body and the stories it tells appear pointless.
Life is an ongoing invitation to explore the richness, vastness and variety of its countless colors, flavors, appearances, shapes and shades. Life doesn’t discern between good and bad, in its unfolding it allows all, between birth and death, between growth and decay. Vibrancy knows no boundaries, and beyond the imaginary separation line the brain creates through its processing and interpretation of perception, you may find and align with that pulse of life, that pervades all forms of existence.