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Epilepsy: 'I Have a New Son'
A dramatic story evolved recently at the A.R.E. Clinic when a 37-year-old man--afflicted with epilepsy--saw his life changing for the better in only four weeks. It not only involved a degree of physical healing, but he came out of a 20-year drug-induced fog and regained much of the clarity of thinking and awareness that characterized him as a teenager.
When Tommy (not his real name) arrived, he was under the influence of some 26 medications daily, some listed as having dangerous side effects. His brain function was so low, it would take him 10 to 15 seconds to answer a simple question, and his mother said he acted more like a "zombie" than the brilliant young man he had been.
He was not only taking 300 mg. of Dilantin each day, and 2 mg. of perphenazine three times daily, but he had been placed on 14 Depakote tablets a day, each 250 mg. Perphenazine is used to treat anxiety and depression, the others to control seizures. His doctors apparently were most interested in controlling seizures, but even at that level of medication, the young man still had seizures periodically.
In the Physician's Desk Reference, there is a warning (emphasized by being boxed in) dealing with Depakote that says in part: "Hepatic [liver] failure resulting in fatalities has occurred in patients receiving valproic acid and its derivatives...These incidents usually have occurred during the first six months of treatment." In fact, Tommy already had abnormal liver function tests even though he had been on Depakote only a short time.
Tommy was gradually taken off all three of these medications over a four-week period; and came alive more and more as the days went on. During his time at the Clinic, his liver function tests went from elevated to nearly normal.
Edgar Cayce gave numerous readings on epilepsy. A suggested treatment regimen of therapy included a special diet, keeping up good eliminations, osteopathic manipulations, hot castor oil packs, olive oil (following the packs), massages, and Passion Flower Fusion, an herbal formula derived from the Passion Flower intended to quiet down the body's nervous system in a gentle but effective manner. A detailed commentary by Dr. Walter Pahnke is included in the Circulating File on epilepsy, available from the A.R.E.
Over the four-week period, Tommy was given the full course of treatment, plus herbal and homeopathic remedies, and was treated in our Energy Medicine and Neurological Improvement departments, which help those with nervous disorders to gradually improve in nervous system functioning.
As his medications were systematically eliminated, and replaced with Passion Flower Fusion, he rapidly came out of the drug-induced fog and took major steps back toward normal. He had fewer seizures when off the medicines than when he was taking them. His mother aided him the whole time, and was thrilled at his response.
Added to the therapies listed above, however, were the mental and spiritual suggestions that Cayce always recommended as essential to true healing. Each therapist who worked with Tommy saw in him the results of memory patterns harvested from a multitude of past lives, where eternal lessons were frequently learned but sometimes lost.
Each of the therapists, part of a team, urged him to recognize himself as One with the Creative Forces of the Universe, to become aware of God's presence abiding within. And to begin acting as though that were indeed a fact--for it is a fact.
What are the rules, then, that let one become aware of His Presence? These are the rules:True healing is not, then, a simple thing. We can heal a disturbed nervous system, or any part of our bodies, really. But, unless we reach deeper, into the very nature of the patterns, the consciousness, that activates the physiology of the body into creating the problem, then start to reverse the process, and then manifest those fruits of the spirit that the readings talk about so much, we have not begun the healing of the whole person.
When ye manifest love, patience, hope, charity, tolerance, faith; these be the manners. Not in thine own self. These as words, these as expressions, these as visualized objects may be within thine self. But when ye as a soul, as an entity, as an individual, make such manifest to those ye meet casually, to those that ye contact day by day--in conversation, in example, in precept; these the attributes of the Spirit--ye become aware of that Consciousness, of that Christ Spirit, of that Christ Consciousness as He gave, "Ye abiding in me and I in the Father, we--the Father and I--will come and abide with thee."
When the Spirit of the Father, when the activities that the Christ--the man--gave to the sons of men--are made manifest in thine own life day by day, then ye become aware of His presence abiding in thee. (272-9)
It has certainly started with Tommy, and we are hoping it continues to become manifest in his life, and in the lives of others he may touch as the years go by. He will need some counseling, certainly, as he gradually re-enters what we call normal life. But that is on its way.
Tommy and his family came here apprehensively, having been warned by their surgeon and neurologist that he should not be taken off medications. They ignored warnings against coming to the Clinic, all the way from the East Coast, because we were the only medical clinic they could find that would take Tommy off his antiseizure medications, but his parents were fearful. They got over it in quick order, however, as his healing progressed. Tommy left here a different person, and his stepfather, who had never seen him as a "normal" person, said "I have a new son!"
This article was taken from an article in Venture Inward and has been used by permission.
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