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From time to time, people schedule an appointment with me because they're looking for a real miracle, especially cancer patients. I've never promised a miracle, nor performed one, but miraculous events have occurred in the lives of patients under my care. The most amazing of these miracles came into the life of Carmen, a long-time friend of mine whose sister, Anita, had died of ovarian cancer four years before my first official visit with Carmen. Anita had been given six months to live from the time she was diagnosed, but lived for four years by using a host of traditional and complementary techniques. Carmen was not worried about her lung cancer, which was so advanced by the time I met with her that her doctor had given her only one month to live. She was not afraid to die, but couldn't bear the thought of her mother losing her two daughters to cancer, so Carmen was interested in fighting the cancer for her mother's sake. I taught Carmen mantra meditation and some imagery techniques in which I had her imagine that she was filling up with healing golden light. Carmen imagined the cancer dissolving in the heat of the light. I also suggested that she take a variety of nutritional supplements. During that session, we spoke about Sai Baba and I gave her a bottle of "holy water." I had been the recipient of some very rare lingham water, which had been produced by pouring water over a lingham, an egg-shaped stone, which Sai Baba had materialized, or manifested, and which he had created expressly for the purpose of healing. Even though the water is rare, stories like the one that follows are common when it comes to the miracles surrounding Sathya Sai Baba. I told Carmen that I would stand by her whether she lived or died . . . and it seemed almost a foregone conclusion that she would soon die. Carmen was scheduled to have surgery a couple of days after our first appointment. Her surgeon had planned on removing her entire right lung, which was full of cancer, but when he "opened her chest" during surgery, he discovered that the cancer had spread across into her left lung and was wrapped around the great blood vessels - the aorta and the pulmonary artery and veins. They "closed" Carmen, gave her a single radiation treatment and sent her home to die. I didn't hear from Carmen for a few weeks after our session and I feared the worst, but was stunned to hear her sweet, energetic voice one day. "Dennis," she said, "I have had the weirdest, most amazing experience with Sai Baba. I was meditating a few weeks ago, right after our session. Suddenly I had a vision of Sai Baba. It was as if he were standing right in front of me. He began reaching into my chest pulling cancer out. I didn't actually see cancer coming out of my body, but I experienced it in this vision. And all day long, even with my eyes open, I could feel him putting his hand inside of me, pulling out the cancer. And you won't believe this. Or maybe you actually will believe this. My cancer has shrunk by 75 percent. My surgeon simply cannot believe it. I believe it but I don't understand at all why Sai Baba is doing this for me. I don't even know him, and hardly know anything about him. I was raised a Christian and I'm still a Christian. Why would he help me? Why would he save my life?" Because I've known of so many miracles surrounding Sathya Sai Baba and the people and circumstances around those miracles, I've learned not to try to explain the miracles. "Carmen, there is simply no way of knowing why this has happened to you. Perhaps, it was your good karma. Perhaps, it was because your motivation to live arose from completely unselfish motives. I have no idea. But I am so happy for you." Carmen called me a few months later to tell me she was continuing to improve. And then she called a year later to say that the cancer had entirely disappeared.
Reprinted from ARE YOU GETTING ENLIGHTENED OR LOSING YOUR MIND? How to Manage Everyday and Extraordinary Spiritual Experience |
