Hello, Readers! I just finished this book about an East Indian woman who went into a coma from Stage 4B cancer, had a near-death-experience and then returned to a magnificent life without cancer.
This passage is too good not to share. In it Moorjani speaks of flying past ideology and even past "positive thinking" to hit on how we feel about ourselves. It's a ground-breaking new spiritual book and goes without saying that Wayne Dyer was healed of leukemia around the time that he read it. He couldn't recommend Dying to be Me, or Anita herself, more highly. She writes with such grace, too.
It was a book my mother strongly recommended along with Homer's Odyssey about Gwen Cooper's journey owning a blind cat whose behavior stole the spotlight from other cats, and To Heaven and Back, another NDE story byspine-doctor and extreme sportswoman, Mary Neal. these are just the adult books. The children's list goes on and on! From wonderful art to heartbreaking rites of passage.
Please enjoy this passage from Anita Moorjani's sublime book Dying to Be Me:
"I WANT TO CLARIFY THAT MY HEALING wasn’t so much born from a shift in my state of mind or beliefs as it was from finally allowing my true spirit to shine through. Many have asked me if something like positive thinking caused my recovery, and the answer is no. The state I was in during my NDE was way beyond the mind, and I healed because my damaging thoughts were simply out of the way completely. I was not in a state of thinking, but a state of being. It was pure consciousness—what I call magnificence! This state of Oneness transcends duality. I was able to get in touch with who I truly am, the part of me that’s eternal, infinite, and encompasses the Whole.
This definitely wasn’t a case of mind over matter. I don’t advocate that if we “believe” a certain way, we’ll eliminate disease or create an ideal life. That can sometimes be too simplistic. Instead, I’m more focused on self-awareness, which is different. Becoming entrenched in beliefs that no longer serve us can keep us locked in a state of duality and put us in a constant state of judgment. What we endorse is considered “good” or “positive,” and what we don’t believe in is not. This also puts us in the position of needing to defend our beliefs when others don’t agree. And when we invest too much of our energy in defense, we become reluctant to let go, even when ideas no longer serve us.
That’s when our beliefs start to own us instead of the other way around. Having awareness, on the other hand, just means realizing what exists and what’s possible—without judgment. Awareness doesn’t need defending. It expands with growth and can be all-encompassing, bringing us closer to the state of Oneness. This is where miracles take place. In contrast, beliefs only allow what we deem credible while keeping out everything else.
So no, it wasn’t my beliefs that caused me to heal. My NDE was a state of pure awareness, which is a state of complete suspension of all previously held doctrine and dogma. This allowed my body to “reset” itself. In other words, an absence of belief was required for my healing. In the moment that I completely let go of my strong desire to stay alive, I experienced death. And in dying, I realized that it wasn’t my time.
When I was willing to let go of what I wanted, I received what was truly mine. I’ve realized that the latter is always the greater gift. Since my NDE, I’ve learned that strongly held ideologies actually work against me. Needing to operate out of concrete beliefs limits my experiences...."
Moorjani, Anita (2012-03-01). Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing (pp. 136-137). Hay House. Kindle Edition.