BASANTI, INDIA - JANUARY 17: Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Catholic Church in Basanti, West Bengal, India January 17, 2009. There are over 17.3 million Catholics in India which represents less than 2% of the total population.
Today's lesson will be short because it is designed to leave you with something to reflect upon, another way to look at disease, part of the total picture.
We have chosen the lead photo to be one of the greatest healers of all time, one who really understood a miracle, as well as the holistic point of view he learned while he once studied meditation and the Divine while in India. (It also coincides with our countdown to number 173, in counting down from one year, to a time when 'things will improve so much you can write it on your calendars' by the Council.)
The subject for our study is a patient who also happens to be Carla's Nana Angelina who grew up in Sicily.
All her life while Carla knew her, in her later years, Nana suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis. The medicines she took were very strong, like methotrexate and gold. There was no deformity of the hands, but there was lots of chronic pain and weakness in the hand joints. Arthritic, easy-open pill containers and adaptive kitchen tools were in the home. And also there were many joint replacements. Nana had her hips replaced twice on each side, neck surgery, foot surgery, and spine surgery. The shoulders too, one of the early replacements back when they just started to replace them.
Carla only knew Nana for her love. Only once did she raise her voice at her granddaughter--and that was when she was three years old, wrestling with her Uncle, and gave him a nosebleed accidentally. Apparently Uncle Ben had a condition which had been treated and was expensive--presumed to be treated completely--until the latest blow of a fist or kick to the nose from the small child. She had had enough.
Other times, powder all over the bathroom, or lipstick all over herself like war paint, brought surprise and trying to hide the laughter as well as patiently cleaning up the mess between Carla and her Nana.
What Carla knows about healing now, is that arthritis affects the bones and joints, it is destructive, it's a red chakra imbalance, one with survival, and has to do with unexpressed/unresolved anger.
Even Carla never put the picture together until an innocent question to her mother about the old country and the people who were family back in the day. She asked her mom about nana Peppina, Nana's mom and what she was like?
Nana Peppina was a terrible woman. So cruel that Carla's mom calls her 'my mother's mother' instead of the term 'nana' which is an endearment. In her opinion she didn't deserve to be called 'nana'.
She had only been to the woman's house two times in her twelve years while she lived in Sicily.
Peppina had been engaged to be married to her true love, and on the day before their wedding day, he suddenly died.
She was a little old to be single, she had to get married, so she married an older man instead.
They beat their first born, Angelina.
They let a baby die of starvation, much to Angelina's distress, who witnessed it happening slowly in the crib.
They pulled her out of school in the second grade, and forced her to take care of the other three children, two brothers and one sister, so the mother could go and work. This meant all the housework too.
Angelina was born to be a servant, a worker, not a beloved daughter.
Where the mother went to work was with the grandmother who ran a bakery.
In the fields, her father hitched Angelina up to a plow like an animal, and made her work the fields all day. When he wasn't using her, he loaned her to his friends to use in their fields, the same way.
Even when it wasn't her fault, when she did nothing wrong, her mother would beat her. And then when her father came home he would beat her too.
When she was fifteen she married Filippo and ran away. She was so deeply unhappy she was either going to run away alone or kill herself. Fortunately she got married.
HAVANA, CUBA - NOVEMBER 18, 2012: Oldtimer car on the street of Havana, Cuba. It is estimated that there are some 173,000 cars in Cuba and 60.000 of them are classic cars called Yank Tank.
Nannu Filippo was twenty-six years old. He was the bachelor in town everyone wanted to marry. He said he didn't want a skinny fashion model type for a wife. He wanted someone who was strong and healthy and could work.
They were deeply in love.
He joined the war, he was drafted. This was back in the time of Mussolini. Carla's mother was born and never met her father until she was four years old.
Carla's mother's early childhood was one of starvation, of hiding from air raids by running to the caves in the hills, and of Nana never eating because she said 'she was full' because as it turned out there was only enough food for the children to eat.
She remembers neighbors knocking on the door an asking for flour, Nana having to lie to them and say she didn't have any, and knowing that through her mother's mom there was always flour from the bakery for them to live upon.
They ate anything they could find, even rats.
After the war her brother was born. Nannu did his best to eke out a living in the fields, but it wasn't going well.
And Uncle Ben was so sickly he almost died. All the family resources went to his health. Carla's mother had to go to the store in the hot summer, and buy him an ice cream cone and run it all the way home before it would melt. She couldn't touch one drop, or she'd get in trouble.
Those were the times back in the day.
Angelina left everything she had ever known to come to America for a better life in 1954.
Later she became an American citizen, along with Phil (as Filippo was called in the states), and their two children.
Autoimmune disease is the body attacking itself. The theory of 'autoimmune' is controversial according to the Medical Medium. It's actually a slow virus he says.
Everything is in balance in a healthy body. The aura is a strong shield, it is protective. Abuse is the kind of trauma which creates holes in this shield, and temporarily weakens it. Attachments can form.
Carla's mom had Margaret clear the attachments both on Nana Angelina and Uncle Ben (who was a Vietnam war veteran). They had about the usual amount as adults, around five. (Attachments are another story, basically parasitic souls who are without a body but have not made the transition to the Other Side, they seek an energy source since their chakras aren't working once deceased, these are negative entities which are a little more simple and straightforward--it is the dark entities which are a little more complex too. That's another story).
Was the abuse a sad thing? Yes.
Did it make her strong and marriageable in the eyes of Phil? Yes.
Did it help her to guide her family through war-torn Agrigento? Without her realizing it, yes.
Did she break the cycle of abuse with her own family? It is not sure. Her children didn't really like her, they said she yelled a lot when they were growing up. But Angelina did lots of work and her son Ben, a 'mammon', never left the home. Was Angelina the recipient of abuse in her declining years when Alzheimer's struck? Yes. Her caregiver Peggy used to lock her in her room and throw parties in Angelina's house. Peggy later married Ben. And Ben disowned his sister and his nieces and nephew in law, and all their children.
Carla only knew love and tenderness and kindness from her Nana, who always had the patience to help the tiny girl who didn't like food find something delicious to eat.
It is a long story, where everything is connected.
And we are not talking about soul groups or pre-birth Life Contracts yet!
That is for another lesson!
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What is Disease?Some say it is an imbalance, a dis-ease and it will dissolve once the imbalance is corrected.
Some, like Carla, make a living through their profession of treating disease.
Everything will come to an openness and understanding--'soon' (Ross smiles as he has deliberately chosen the word).
There is more to it than anyone ever would have guessed, even more than toxins!
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Aloha and Mahalos,
Namaste,
Peace,
Ross and Carla
The Twin Souls
P.S. as an aside, the soul of Peppina is back into the family. It is Carla who made the connection. She is watching this soul with interest, and getting to know her. So far she is a delightful child who is bright and a little strong-willed. She has an excellent sense of humor, and enjoys being at the table with the rest of the family. She coos and babbles as if having regular conversation. It will be interesting to see what pre-birth contract she has created for herself, and what she will accomplish with this incarnation in terms of soul growth and reparation to other souls. Again, Love is the solution for everything. Every time. For every soul.
