The Clarity Cleanse

Preface

While modern medicine has many benefits, it’s clear to most of us that it also has its limits. For all the advanced technology and billions of dollars poured into research each year, our approach to illness is mostly ineffective when it comes to curing chronic diseases and neurodegenerative disorders, in fact, many diseases. While diagnostics have greatly improved over the last 60 or so years, how we end up treating the diseases we diagnose has in many ways remained essentially the same.

It’s clear that if healthcare is to avoid stagnation and evolve to meet the challenges of the future, in addition to the diseases we’ve been dealing with for more than a century, we need to think about disease differently. We must reframe our understanding of everything from what disease is and why it occurs to how we interact with it. Given our aging population and the prevalence of chronic illness, we have no choice. We simply must find a way of approaching illness that goes beyond just surgery and drugs, or our children’s children will find themselves facing the same chronic killers their great-great-grandparents faced.

To think in this way requires going against many of the established, institutionalized ideas we have about biology and medicine. It means we must dare to question the unquestionable. There may even be sacred cows that, at risk of being called a nutcase or quack, should be called into question—an approach that, in countless areas of medicine, proved to be the key to major advances. If medicine is to move forward, we must become trailblazers in a profession where stepping even slightly outside the accepted lines can mean the loss of one’s reputation and even one’s career. Still, it’s a path we must tread if humanity and medicine are to progress.

Without question, the catalyst behind every great discovery of human civilization, especially with regard to science and medicine, has proved to be intuition. It’s the internal conviction, the inexplicable knowing, that possesses a researcher and convinces such an individual that the particle, process, energetic principle, or cure they are searching for actually exists, even in the face of no physical evidence or prior research. It’s the ability to see the unseen before it becomes obvious to everyone else, along with resisting the urging of naysayers to be “realistic” and live within the limits of what we can experience with our senses.

Only a person with an all-consuming intuitive drive and a fearless spirit can manifest the possible from the impossible and thereby change the way we experience life. Ignaz Semmelweis, a 19th-century physician, was just such a person. He firmly believed that an invisible factor, which we today commonly refer to as bacteria, was behind the deaths of thousands of expectant mothers. He insisted that the simple act of washing hands before either performing surgery or delivering babies could greatly reduce patient deaths from infection and puerperal fever. Initially he was mercilessly humiliated by the medical establishment, even losing his job for suggesting something that’s now common practice. Today the largest university in Hungary is named after him.

In the 1860s, Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev created the Periodic Table of Elements, which organized all the physical building blocks of the universe into a cohesive logical order. The table included the elements gold, silver, lead, argon, neon, helium, and every other known mineral, metal, and gas at the time. While the table was incredibly helpful to science, it had a problem. Wherever Mendeleev couldn’t find a transitional substance that connected two elements already on the table, he left the space between them blank. While his table worked well for certain kinds of research, his detractors were quick to point out the gaps in the chart. At that time, there were no known elements with the right atomic weights to fill those spaces and complete the chart so that it made sense. When questioned about these gaps, Mendeleev stated that while the holes in the chart did exist, it wasn’t proof the corresponding elements didn’t. He simply said we had to continue searching.

Down to the minutest detail, Mendeleev intuited the presence of elements for which there was no tangible evidence of their existence. Today every one of those elements has indeed been discovered and Mendeleev’s table is complete. He bequeathed to us a perfect example of how staying focused on the bigger picture and not getting hung up on the finer details is what brings a vision into being. Just because we don’t have proof that something exists doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

In 1865, German chemist Friedrich August Kekulé had a dream in which he saw atoms dancing around and linking to each other. Upon awakening, he followed his intuition and immediately sketched the image he had seen in his dream. In a further dream, he saw the atoms dance around, then form circular strings that appeared to simulate a snake eating its own tail. Instead of doubting the dream, he went with his gut instinct. Kekulé was to discover that his nighttime images were a near-perfect match for the chemical composition and cyclic nature of benzene.

Semmelweis, Mendeleev, and Kekulé trusted their intuition, believed in the unseen, and were proven right. Today there’s an equally powerful and invisible force at play in chronic illness that has yet to be recognized and incorporated into treatment. That force is consciousness.

Human consciousness varies from person to person but is made up of the thoughts and feelings, both conscious and unconscious, we experience regarding everything from our job to our relationships and the world around us with respect to how we feel about ourselves. Each one of us lives within our own energetic frequency, which is self-generated by individual thoughts and feelings. It’s this frequency that permeates every cell of the body and plays a major role in its physical expression, whether that be health, disease, or something in between.

At the same time, our personal frequencies are interacting with the energetic frequencies of other people and even the earth itself to create the collective energetic frequency of the planet on which all living things exist. It’s this collective energy, which we all draw from and interact with, that I call the “field.” Like fish in the sea, consciousness moves in, around, and through us, impacting our lives every day. Not only do we interact with it, we simultaneously create it individually and collectively.

It’s by accessing this unseen energy through our thoughts, then charging it in either a positive or negative way based on our feelings, that we influence our cells to develop in either healthy or diseased ways.

The idea that we develop our body and create our state of health or illness from unseen energy might seem strange at first glance—until we realize that creating physical matter from unseen energy happens all around us every day. A seed placed in the earth absorbs water, germinates, and sprouts. The sprout needs nothing but invisible energy from the sun to engage in photosynthesis and the production of carbon dioxide, a gas that’s also invisible, for it to grow its thin and fragile body into a massive tree. In fact the trunk and leaves of a tree contain little of the trace minerals from the soil in which it’s rooted. A tree literally creates its physical body out of thin air, utilizing the unseen energetic forces we know exist and yet cannot experience with our senses. In much the same way, we also create our physical bodies from the invisible energy of the field.

So when someone receives a medical diagnosis that informs them they have disease X, that the survival statistics are Y, and that the best treatment is Z, we’re dealing only in the concrete world of physical matter—the world of effects that arise from the elements of the unseen world, which in the final analysis is the energy of the field. It stands to reason then that if we are to truly heal disease, we must look beyond matter and beyond individual parts to the world of energy where thoughts and emotions created a negative frequency that eventually manifested as a diseased body.

Much of the current medical model is trapped in the concrete world, the world of effects, unaware there’s an entire unseen world of energy from which everything we observe is created. This leaves even the world’s most brilliant researchers sometimes chasing red herrings, while all the while imagining they are going to find the cause of physical diseases in the physical world, when the reality is that the opposite is often the case.

The approach is so reductionist that it continues to break the human body down into its thousands of separate parts, right down to the tiniest physical components such as molecules and atoms. And still we fail to find either the cause of or cure for chronic disease, which of course we never will because it doesn’t lie in our physicality.

With the understanding we have today, we can dissect a bird down to its smallest components, yet we’ll never be able to observe the forces that enable it to fly. The miracle of flight only happens through the synergy of a bird’s parts. Similarly, we can’t discover what makes water wet by tearing the molecules apart. Hydrogen and oxygen are gasses that have entirely different properties from water. It’s only when we examine and experience them together that moisture enters the picture.

Rationalists have a problem with the intuitive aspect of healing and insist on tearing the bird or the human body into ever-smaller parts, while in the process destroying that which they are attempting to heal. In the case of some diseases, it’s understood but unspoken in the medical community that it’s often the “cure” that kills the patient long before the disease. There are many examples where the reductionist approach of treating separate body parts through surgery or medication, instead of regarding the whole patient as a mind-body system, only makes things worse.

It’s been said that if you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get the same outcome you’ve always gotten. After more than 100 years of treating chronic illnesses with drugs and surgery with no cure in sight, is it time to consider whether the traditional approach needs to change? Surely it’s incumbent upon every physician who takes healing seriously to consider whether a more integrative understanding of healing that incorporates the patient’s state of consciousness into the process is needed at this time.

Of course, this would mean taking a more intuitive approach to healthcare, which would result in a broader understanding of how the healing process works. It would mean being aware of what we don’t know and being okay with this. Needless to say, admitting we don’t have answers can be difficult for physicians, given our deep commitment to helping patients who are suffering.

While certain physical symptoms and issues must be addressed with physical treatment, lasting healing, not mere symptom management, requires a shift in perspective from being preoccupied with the concrete aspects of disease to recognizing the larger and often abstract forces underlying the whole process.

Instead of only looking for which prescription or procedure can address a physical problem, as a patient you might ask yourself, “What is my body trying to say to me through this experience? What is it in my emotional world that might be contributing to this disease in my physical world? What is there that I can address in my energetic or emotional body to support the intervention my doctor is implementing in my physical body?”

This is what it means to achieve clarity. It requires an understanding of the deeper, unseen, and energetic psycho-spiritual aspects of the disease process as they pertain to your life, then consciously interacting with the energetic field both in and around the body to change the way it manifests physically in terms of your health. Because clarity works at the emotional and spiritual level, more than anything else it’s a mindset, the effects of which eventually appear in the body.

When it comes to healing, the individual who has the disease is far more important than the disease itself, since every person’s energetic frequency is unique and manifests in their body in its own way based on their history, relationships, and emotional state. Eventually everyone’s biography becomes their biology. So it’s not about being diagnosed, getting the same treatment everyone else gets, and expecting it to work differently for you. It’s about discovering why the illness manifested in you, in which particular part of the body it appeared, how your state of consciousness or personal energetic frequency played a role in it, and how doing the work to assist your body in healing by addressing your unresolved and often unconscious emotional issues helps create your personal cure.

This is why intuition is just as important, if not more so, than any procedure you have or medication you may take. It’s the unseen world of energy and emotion that creates the physical, and never the other way around. Because of this we can rebuild our own bodies with the energy of thoughts and emotions by interacting with the larger energy field around us, just as a sprout transforms its body into a tree from nothing more than the unseen energies around it.

Paracelsus, who is revered in modern medicine and considered the Father of Toxicology, himself said, “The spirit is the master, imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material. The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animal, and it may cure them… ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.”

Can you imagine a doctor saying this to a patient in their examining room? And yet much of modern medical theory is based on the ideas of Paracelsus. Perhaps following our intuition and using imagination, emotion, and energy to facilitate healing, in addition to treating the body, isn’t so crazy after all. In fact, no drug exists that can compete with the healing power of imagination and the energy it produces.

The way I have chosen to simultaneously treat a patient’s mind and body is through a process I created called Integrative Psycho-Synthesis (iPs). Through one-on-one exploration and prescribed exercises, I assist patients in recognizing and resolving emotional issues, many decades old or even long forgotten, that contribute significantly to their dis-ease process. The patient works with the energy within him-or herself, as well as with the larger field, to alter patterns of thought and emotion, thereby generating a new frequency that’s supportive of healing and initiates the anabolic process of rejuvenation.

In a very real sense, iPs is the photosynthesis of human consciousness, where we draw what we need to renew ourselves from the invisible energy within and around us. This involves much more than merely visualizing a healthy body. It’s about recognizing and releasing a way of thinking and being that hasn’t only become detrimental but unconsciously addictive.

Because each person’s circumstances are different, what’s more important than the fact that they became sick is why they became sick. In the future of medicine, the personal life context that precedes a patient’s illness will be just as important, if not more so, in the healing process as treating the physical aspects of the disease. Context is far more important than content when it comes to health.

So while it can be scary to get a serious diagnosis, I do my best to focus my patients on doing the deeper work rather than being preoccupied with the physical details of their illness. How we choose to relate to the issue of disease is the real issue for both doctor and patient, and it’s only by working together in this way that we’ll finally defeat the most serious diseases of our time.

I’ve seen hundreds of patients make miraculous recoveries from illnesses that were considered incurable by doing this kind of work. Some of their stories you’ll read in this book. I owe my own recovery from cancer over 20 years ago to techniques I discovered through following my intuition. These techniques, together with additional interventions I developed while earning my master’s degree in spiritual psychology with an emphasis in consciousness, health and healing at the University of Santa Monica is the program offered here.

There have been times when an incredulous patient has asked me, “How do you know this works? Why should I bother? Where’s the research?”

I know this works because I’m alive more than 20 years later, with no chemotherapy or radiation. I know this works because of the patients I’ve seen transformed before my very eyes over a few short years, and sometimes even months. No evidence can be more convincing than when dramatic healing power touches your life in a personal way.

You may be tempted to dismiss such cases as anecdotal, a fluke, as if to imply that one person is somehow more special than another and has some secret power that everyone else doesn’t possess. This is simply a fear-based reaction that seeks to dismiss anything we can’t fully explain or understand. But as great men and women of science have demonstrated again and again, just because we can’t explain or even see something doesn’t mean it isn’t real.

If you’re looking for volumes of research confirming the healing connection between the mind and body, you won’t find it here or likely anywhere, given that nearly all research is funded by pharmaceutical corporations for which, if there’s no financial incentive to develop a treatment for a particular illness and thus make a profit from it, it’s largely ignored. Why focus on a more holistic way of healing when there are billions in profit to be made from managing the symptoms of diseases with lifelong medication, rather than curing those diseases outright?

If you’re the kind of person who needs proof that this or that will work, with a guarantee of a specific outcome, you might consider the fact that even traditional allopathic medicine can’t provide that kind of promise. If, however, you’re the kind of patient who intuitively feels you might possess more healing power than you thought, even though you don’t know how to access it, and are the kind of person who takes a proactive approach to your health instead of expecting the doctor to simply fix what’s wrong the same way a mechanic fixes your car, there is much here that may well change your life.

What’s required at the outset is the suspension of disbelief and being open to the possibilities. When we attend the theater, in order to have an immersive experience we don’t have to understand, and may not care to understand lest they lose their magic, how all the special effects are achieved behind the scenes. In fact, the less we fixate on the finer details and instead focus our attention on the bigger picture and larger action that’s unfolding on the stage in front of us, the richer and more real the experience will be.

I encourage you to follow your intuition and step into the unknown, understanding that you don’t need all the answers. You just need to do your part. You are not alone on this journey, as many have come before you and achieved great success because, like you, they intuitively understood that healing isn’t simply a matter of a prescription or surgical procedure. It involves a way of perceiving yourself through trust, possibility, and most of all clarity.