What If The Prodigal Son Had Been A Cancer outpatient Instead Of A Swine Feeder?

In the fifteenth lesson of the book of Luke there is to be found one of the most poignantly beautiful stories of redemption and resumption in all of literature. de facto all of you are familiar with this story of a younger brother who persuades his father to give him his legacy as though the father had died. As the story goes, he then went to a foreign land and wasted his funds in riotous living. His money ran out just as a famine gripped the land he had chosen and he was reduced to the role of a swine feeder in the filthiest of conditions. He then decided to go home and throw himself on his father's mercy and was, happily, very well received. This brings us to the central character of the story who was not the prodigal, but rather the older brother who was angered by the whole proceedings. He made it known that his first concern was financial and was based on his brother's handling of his money and the fact that he had come back for more. The story does not tell the extreme outcome. We do not know if the older brother was ever able to reconcile with his father with the humility that the younger, repentant brother displayed.

Now let us fast forward to today and a currently developing story that bears a strong resemblance to the bible story in view of attitudes found within the community. There is a man in Granbury, Texas by the name of Rex Covert who has just completed a very real journey to hell and back. This started for him with the discovery that he had colo-rectal cancer that had already metastasized to distant organs. Add to the complications that Rex is a 90 year old man and you have what industrialized as a rather sordid photo of our times. I can only suspect that there must have been a sense of both jubilation and haste when the hospital folks saw a 90 year old cash cow arrival through the door. They appear to have thrown every billable process, medication and policy at him that was ready at their premise with the result that by late summer he was bedfast and near death with hospice already on the scene. I had known Rex for many years and when he called me for help, I went immediately.

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He would not receive me at his bedside and insisted that he be propped up in a chair in his living room where we engaged in a rather lengthy conversation about my palpate in the field of mind/body medicine. Our conversation went very deep into Rex's personal life, at his leading, not mine. Before it was over, he broke down and cried his heart out as I held him in my arms. These were not tears of sorrow or self pity but rather, tears of joy at being released from some burdens that had troubled him for decades. He declared that he felt better and walked unassisted back to his bed. I had just received a package containing 5 proof copies of the new Alpha Wave modulated Cd of guided imagery for cancer patients and I left one with him which he assured me he would faithfully use. This pretty much ended my involvement with Rex as the rest was left up to him and this is his story, not mine. Within about 3 months, he had regained his lost weight, resumed his walking rehearsal schedule and tests could find no cancer. What a remarkable, expected story this turned out to be. Rex's story is, in fact, a story within a story as four other discs were sent to patients who all had definite responses that ranged from stable disease to full remission. Rex's story was by far the most dramatic. I concept it worthwhile to conduct a small "attitude survey" among any people from go for walks of life. It is sometimes tough to tell these stories as people generally are not curious in hearing them. I was animated to see if a common thread of response would run through all the interviews and, sure enough, it did. Here are the results of my puny survey:

1) A physician concept this was "interesting" but since it was not done under permissible scientific conditions could not be viewed as having much value. Again the use of the word "anecdotal" - this has become a favorable word as it has become an proper vehicle for dismissing that which we de facto don't understand. The Nci has never come up with an talk to the inquire of "What if the anecdotal evidence is true?".

2) A neighbor of deep religious conviction who naturally worried about me and cautioned that I might be in danger of putting myself up as equal to God and that I should be alert to any danger of my immortal soul. No interest in the details of what happened.

3) A man complicated in cancer investigate who was considerably annoyed that a layman such as I de facto had no enterprise playing in the professionals yard. Again no interest in the details or how they might maybe and comfortably impact his own work.

4) A cancer outpatient who felt that I was just not "scientific" sufficient to be doing this sort of work and felt that her physician would be offended if she got off into something like this. (she just Loves her doctor). She was not curious in seeing out more of what Rex had done to bring about this miracle. I think this was the most animated response of all considering that it came from man who had never had an traditional concept in her life, scientific or otherwise. I used to argue this point with the doctors on the Kca board. I always mentioned that in my own career in plasma physics and theoretical fluid mechanics I racked up a score or 27 patents in 9 separate countries while asking how many traditional scientific discoveries any of them had made - of policy the talk was no. It comes as no surprise that my term on the board was not renewed.

5) A young priest whose first concept was to counsel me on the concern that I might be interfering with God's work. He was not forthcoming as to the scriptural basis for this concern. He never once asked for details.

There is an astounding consistency of disinterest running through the above that bears a astonishing similarity to the parable of the Prodigal Son, who is, himself, de facto not the central character of Jesus' story. No. This story was about the older brother who just happened to be the only one of all the characters who was not happy with the outcome. He saw only the financial aspects. None of the people above were joyful at the report that, as the father in the parable put it, "The dead is alive and the lost is found". I suspect that there are with us today, many forward seeing oncologists who would find Rex's case of valuable interest. I hope so as meaningful discourse on this case, in itself, would be cause for celebration as it could whole to a definite indication that the oncology worm is ultimately turning from a locked in mindset that is solely pharmaceutical. We are not threatening their rehabilitation protocol -We Are Trying Our Best To enhance It!

The true essence of all science is expressed in three words "Observing and Inferring". The world is free of smallpox today because a man named Jenner, in the 1700's observed that milkmaids in his community did not seem to get smallpox. Inferring correctly from that observation he proceeded on a healing journey, no doubt over the ridicule of many of his peers in the healing community of his day and smallpox became history. Scientific observation is not puny to any organization or political system.

Let us take this astounding outcome of tests naturally for what it is - a Christmas miracle in the form of answered prayer. Rex, keep on doing what you are doing as you have made at least some of us very, very happy!!

Gerald White, P.E.

What If The Prodigal Son Had Been A Cancer outpatient Instead Of A Swine Feeder?

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