Do
you keep a dream journal beside your bed?
Here are some true life stories that
share important health reasons why your nightly dreams can be an important part
of your daily life.
As
a kick-off to October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I will be guest blogging
and sharing reciprocal blogs with some very impressive and world renowned
physicians, metaphysicians, fellow dreamers and cancer survivors. The theme of
these bogs is Dreams of Diagnosis and will focus on the detection and healing
power of your dreams.
Have you ever had a precognitive dream?
Precognition is referred to as future sight, and second sight. It is a type of
extrasensory perception. Precognitive dreams give precognitive, or future information.
Do you know someone who had a prophetic or precognitive dream that diagnosed
illness? That is the focus of Dr. Larry Burk’s blog.
My guest blogger today is Dr. Larry Burk who has had just
such dreams and experiences….
Let Magic Happen:
Cancer
Dream Diagnosis
I’ve been keeping dreams diaries on a regular basis since
1987. On two occasions I’ve had
precognitive dreams that corresponded to the diagnosis of cancer in someone
else. Until I met Pali Delevitt in 1999, I had never heard of anyone diagnosing
their own cancer in a dream as described in the excerpt below from Chapter 9 of
Let Magic Happen: Adventures in Healing with a Holistic Radiologist. Since then
I’ve discovered two other friends who diagnosed their own breast cancers in
dreams and have met clinicians who routinely use dreams for diagnostic guidance
in their practices. I moderated a panel discussion on the topic at the 2012 Parapsychological
Association meeting as described in the linked abstract, Medical Dream
Diagnosis. To learn my favorite approach to dreams see the May 2013 Let Magic
Happen blog, Interpreting Dreams in Multiple Dimensions.
Healing Dream Guidance excerpt:
In her book, Wyld Possibilities, she described how in
1987 she had a suspicious lesion on her tongue biopsied. It came back negative.
Soon afterward, she had a dream of a spider crawling out of her mouth through a
mass of cobwebs. Then two characters from the M*A*S*H television show, Charles
Emerson Winchester and Hot Lips Houlihan, showed up in a dream. They told her
(several times) she had a tumor in her tongue that needed to come out, despite
the initial negative biopsy. A repeat biopsy by her skeptical surgeon
eventually confirmed the cancer.
After surgery and radiation left her temporarily
cancer-free, she had additional dreams in 1991 of a spider escaping from a
cage. This was a warning of the first recurrence of her cancer. Shortly after
we met, she had another recurrence. It was recommended that she have half her
jaw removed for reconstructive surgery, but instead she chose to manage the
condition through less radical laser surgery and holistic remedies. She was
guided by her dreams until her death ten years later, outliving her prognosis
by a couple decades. Pali used her voice during those years to teach many
students. She also fulfilled her lifelong dream of writing and producing
Esther, her biblical musical masterpiece featuring 20 of her original songs.
Naturally, it was Pali who recommended Marc Ian Barasch’s
Healing Dreams to me when it first came out in 2000. He reported a similar
experience in diagnosing his own occult thyroid cancer in the book. He was
confronted by recurring ominous dreams filled with images of death. They always
focused on his neck. Finally, after an initial negative workup, he had a
terrifying dream that “torturers had hung an iron pot filled with red-hot coals
beneath [his] chin,” that drove him to push his doctors to find the cancer. As
documented in his book, such dream diagnoses are more common than you might
think.
by Dr. Larry Burk
Guest Blog BIO:
Dr.
Burk’s journey follows a path from his professional training in conventional
medicine and radiology to his alternative path into the world of holistic
medicine. Larry grew up in Pittsburgh,
finished his undergraduate chemistry degree at Duke University in 1977, returned
to the University of Pittsburgh for medical school & radiology residency,
pioneered MRI researcher at the Pittsburgh NMR Institute before going to the
University of Pennsylvania for a musculoskeletal radiology fellowship in 1986.
He was section head of musculoskeletal radiology at Duke University Medical
Center from 1993-1996 & Associate Professor of Radiology. www.letmagichappen.com www.orientalhealthsolutions.com
His involvement with the National MRI Safety Committee in
the 1980’s led to his interest in alternative medicine along with his Dad’s
seven- year journey with renal cell cancer. In 1990 he co-founded the Duke Center
for Integrative Medicine & acted as Education Director. In 2004 to set up his consulting business, Healing
Imager, Inc. He now does teleradiology for NationalRad & integrative
medicine for Oriental Health Solutions, LLC.
Bio:
Kathleen O’Keefe-Kanavos, Intuitive Life Coach, survived three breast cancers
missed by the medical community, wrote SURVIVING CANCERLAND: Intuitive Aspects
of Healing (Cypress House, Jan 2014http://tinyurl.com/p7cjfxa ) websites: http://www.survivingcancerland.com/
& Access Your Inner Guide, Hosts Living Well Talk Radio , Cancer Q&A
columnist CapeWomenOnlineMagazine, Dream Queen columnist- Wellness Woman 40
& Beyond, Your Dream Interpretation http://www.yourdreaminterpretation.com/about-us/,WakeUpWomen;
R.A. BLOCH Cancer Foundation Hotline Counselor. Represented by Steve Allen Media Join her in San Diego DREAM WORK SUMMIT http://newdreamwork.ontraport.net/t?orid=5795&opid=3
