Once upon a time...

About Half Light: My fantasy novel, Half Light, was named by Holly McClure, past president of the Southeast Writers' Association,"one of the best books I've ever read." Half Light is reviewed here on Goodreads; further reviews may be found at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The book is available in print, Kindle, and Nook editions worldwide. Please see my website at http://halflightthebook.com/ and if you read the book, I would love to hear from you!

On to the current topic. Besides writing and editing, I've been dealing with cancer for over four years. When I received the diagnosis, I knew that conventional treatment was not for me. (This is a very personal choice, as anyone who's had to make it knows.) I began researching alternative treatments, and the research carried me to places I never knew existed. I'm excited to be able to share some of what I've learned with readers here.

So - Once upon a time...

This story is about the beginnings of a change which will rock the human experience to its foundations. Much of what follows may seem like the stuff of fairy tales, but it is the reality that we are all living today. And nothing here violates a single law of physics as we know it...

Something remarkable happened on the way to the millennium. In the 1980s and ‘90s, a number of people in the United States and elsewhere seemed to experience peculiar connections or events that led to radical new experiences in the field of human health. In some cases these men and women intuited new ways of using older healing modalities to make them easier, more effective, and more teachable. In other cases these people suddenly found that they could heal themselves or others in ways that appeared miraculous, and only afterwards developed explanations for their newfound abilities.

Some of these healers have enthusiastically sought and found scientific validation for what they are doing by enlisting scientists in controlled studies of both healers and patients. The studies continue, but they aren’t crucial to the spread of the practices. It is results that are drawing more and more people to learn what these healers have to teach.

All of these new systems have certain things in common. One is that their founders are visionaries, and their visions are huge. These new healers believe that every human being has the innate ability to heal himself/herself and others. To that end, they envision teaching as many people as possible, who will then teach and help to heal others. All of them say that belief is unnecessary for their healing systems to work; skeptics, including medical doctors, heal as well as anyone else.

And, based upon what they have seen in their own practices, workshops, and seminars, some of these healers are now seriously imagining a world without pain or disease - not as a pretty pipe-dream, but as a practical reality in the near future.

Next time we'll be talking about the U.S. medical system, the most costly in the world.