Now I’m sitting in a bathroom in another country at night while my beautiful wife is in a ward nearby. I just can’t take this any more, it’s breaking my heart. I don’t even care if my heart does break, but it’s watching the ones I love around me go through this that is unbearable. I keep hoping we’ll wake up from this nightmare any moment now. I keep hoping we will.

Sending you a warm hug. Stay flowing through the experience, don't resist life, it might be the way to don't get deadly hurt.

Sending Love and healing ♥ 🙏

Our pleasure!

Great to hear the positive regard you have for this work! Thanks 🙏🙏

Bernardo tha goat

Cancer is emergent? It breaks symmetry?

What did u do?🥹

Thanks so much for sharing this Craig! Amazing to hear the relationship you've developed with this

Where we be without Black Elk? Thank you for sharing!

Love you man! Sorry to hear about your struggles, but happy to hear about your growth. Bernardo is awesome for the logical and analytical types. Keep fighting, keep growing, keep loving!

@@JDTherrien Keep fighting? 😜

​@@SarahDale111If you read the original commenters comment you would understand the context.

Agree!

Great to hear that these are useful! Thanks for the feedback 🙏

thanks!

Thanks Susan 🙏🙏

Many thanks!

@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices A unique identity and history specific to the individual

@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices Not vague at all. You have a unique history which is not shared by any being in the entire scope of life on earth. That defines you to "consciousness" as uniquely as a barcode. I'd call that pretty un-vague :)

Thank you!

Thanks 🙏🙏

wouldn't believing that a certain treatment makes you better, as in the placebo effect, be an example of re associating back to wholeness? maybe in a round about way, but still, it's what a person is doing when believing that the activity taken is leading them back to health and wholeness.

@@wildnkarafree I think we would need to see evidence of a placebo effect curing cancer. Serious, properly controlled studies. At the moment, it looks like placebo might have some influence on levels of perceived pain or a modest influence on speed of resolution for illnesses that are already resolving. I'm not seeing evidence of placebo as an effective treatment for cancer though.

I enjoyed that conversation, but I've no idea how to complete your sentence!

Consciousness, or awareness, or being, or knowing... whatever name you may give to. Though science or language is not and cannot describe "it".

@@VRaj1 Yes, thank you; I take that as being 'without choice', or, that which moves you to press out into form.

@@elogiud Rightly said

Hello! Thanks for commenting. Can you elaborate on the question? For most people placebo is taken as evidence against materialism rather than a challenge to it

@@adventuresinawareness you can heal even for câncer with placebo effect , thats what the answer above explains! There is cases where a tumor just disappears without any explanation. So it's a really complex question.

Thanks for your comment My understanding is: whilst the placebo effect is real, we're not in control of it. So there's no contradiction 🙏

Thanks for commenting - not sure I understood your point - are you saying placebo is not evidence for a mind-body effect?

@@adventuresinawareness I think the mind-body axis is one pathway for explaining the placebo effect. The so called placebo effect is often conflated with the psychosomatic part of any response to a therapeutic intervention. Since the placebo is supposed to be inert or at the very least inactive any psychosomatic benefits - which can be above 50% in some trials - are equalised by the inclusion of a placebo in a trial. I’m sure you appreciate this but to call the mind-body axis a placebo as if it’s inert or inactive is what I’m challenging. Further, Bernardo saying that prior to the late 1600s medicine relied on the placebo effect ignores the thousands of years of documented empirical evidence for the therapeutic benefits of botanical medicines, e.g., Ayurvedic Herbalism and TCM. I brought this up because Bernardo is normally really tight with his application of terms and use of definitions.

I was sad to hear Bernado talking like that. People need to take care of their nutrition, heal their body and life, heal the trauma that hides as disease, and vibrate thr cells to high levels of natural chemistry- healing myself with laughter and frequencies of gratitude and love. Transcend Karma - what about épi genetics and the new research on the power of deep awareness? I believe taking responsibility is often the search of the soul. 🙏🏻

I think he is mainly talking about those cases in which cancer comes as a surprise to someone with a healthy lifestyle, which is common. But either way, the habit of smoking or eating a certain way are also mediated by the person's mind, drives that in some way dissociated from what most people know to be in their best interest

​@@adventuresinawareness Yeah so as for the latter part of your comment, you're getting into an area where no-one wants to go because it's easier and more comforting to believe that the terminal disease is random than it is to associate it with a bad practice or eating habit. Even most Drs. will shrug their shoulders when asked "how did I get this", when they could ask a simple set of questions to determine whether the person had put themselves at high risk. There are no studies when people are hospitalized such as learning their eating or other bad habits etc.. They might be able to isolate various foods, drinks, practices etc as having put them at higher risk. Simply put the medical industry doesn't want that data. Many of the chemicals that the FDA considers "Generally recognized as Safe" are toxic at higher quantities... where low quantities of said chem has no long term evidence to cause harm.. but there are no studies on it either way. FDA serving size does not match the American diet serving size. You see, we are our own health advocates. All you have to do is research the China-Cornell-Oxford Project and the book "The China Study" by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas Campbell and educate yourself on wherein lies the problem. BUt hey, no-one wants to give up their chicken wings and steaks. Saying there is never a "fault" is willingful ignorance. And no, I am not saying that every case of cancer has a fault, so don't misconstrue what I am saying. Thanks

Why do you say that? Could you elaborate?

@@adventuresinawareness I'm merely responding to Bernardo's comment that anything that happens to them is not of their doing, which runs counter to his contention that this is a mental Universe You may not draw a direct connection to anything that you experience, however it is surely your doing. There is only pure consciousness, it's not divisible

He goes on to describe the whole becoming segments. Just because the 'segment' has forgotten that it's the whole, does not mean that it is no longer the whole. One thing never stops being One thing even when it becomes individual variations. So cancer is happening to the whole, being drawn to itself and experienced by the 'segment', via intent, which ever form that takes.

​@@Dan-sr6oe I think he would say this depends on what you mean by 'you'. If you mean the underlying field of consciousness, then you are right, everything is 'your' doing, although he would also say this may not be done knowingly, planned, metacognitive. In this context I think by 'you' he means the ego, the apparent dissociated mental process that thinks it has control, and believes itself to be a seperate entity. Although everything is mental, much of what happens in any given life is totally outside even the illusion of control of the go, even those things that happen in the purely mental space - we normally don't control the content of our dreams, for instance, or which emotions come and go...

thanks for your comment. For what its worth, I really enjoy how Bernardo speaks, so I guess its subjective With appreciation

And these beautiful flakey people bring their experiences to us, allowing Bernardo to teach us more about who we are. You are shinning Bernardo, for all of us.

Thank you Bernardo. I was diagnosed with prostrate cancer 5 years ago. I hate this idea of a war against cancer. As you say it is part of us and we need to approach with compassion and love. What is it with humans and these twisted narratives around war. I follow my drs advice - radiotherapy and now oral chemo. However, O always check out what they want to give me very carefully and make my own mind up. Meanwhile I work holistically with Taiji, qigong and meditation in parallel with the medical treatment and try and use the placebo principal. So far so good ! Anyway thanks for handling this topic😊

I think Bernardo helps people with actual cancer.

Friends, I love Bernardo too but my comment was about the flakey woman. Why is it that little kids get cancer when all it take is a positive ego and happy attitude, as the flakey woman argues, for the cancer to dissolve? And there is no need for the rushing to comment how much you love Bernardo like you are trying to defend your guru. I am sure if I pinned Bernardo down with this logic he will agree with me