As many NPD readers know, I greatly admire the extraordinary work of integrative cancer support and recovery specialist, Grace Gawler. Grace has been steering so called ‘palliative cases’ to life saving interventions for 30 years and her ability to analyze and suggest treatment options is the best I know and she has my highest respect and recommendation. If I ever got cancer, I would trust her with my life.

On a recent trip to Australia, I visited with Grace and met a young patient of hers with liver cancer who had received traditional chemo treatments and was told there was nothing more doctors could do for her. She was down to 80 pounds when she and her mother met with Grace who after analyzing her case, suggested she travel to Germany for hypothermia and low dose chemo treatments in addition to several other supportive ideas. She went to Germany, had the treatments and when I saw her, she was bright eyed and had gained back 30 pounds and has since returned for additional treatments and even rode a horse which is one of her favorite pastimes. Grace has found that at this time, Germany has the best cancer treatments – because of their sophisticated integrative approach

Grace offers Skype consultations for patients outside Gold Coast, Australia where her practice is located.

Listen to Grace’s short ABC interview and visit her website for more information.

Prepare to be inspired!

“Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man” by Salavador Dali

STATEMENT FROM BARBARA MARX HUBBARD

Our crisis is the birth of a cocreative universal humanity. We can see that we are outgrowing the womb of Earth-bound consciousness. We have naturally over-populated, polluted and begun to destroy our environment, before we even knew that we had an environment. We are the first species on Earth to know that we can destroy ourselves by our own actions. We are also the first to know we can evolve ourselves by our own creativity and compassion. This is the greatest wake up call that humanity has ever received. Despite the moral and spiritual teachings of all the great systems, none have been able to move humanity toward a shared awareness that we are all members of this one planetary body. The crisis of survival triggered by our planetary conditions, is having this effect.

There is timing in this planetary phase change. We are in the “chaos window,” as Ervin Laszlo puts it. We cannot go back to survive. We can only go forward. Depending on the nature of the “strange attractor” that moves us out of this disequilibrium, we will either decline rapidly in a more violent collapse…or we will converge, connect and resonate quickly enough to shift the consciousness field of Earth. We will have a more gentle birth to the next stage of human evolution.

My sense is that December 2012 is the marker for our consciousness shift on planet Earth. In my metaphor, day-by-day and minute-by-minute we are getting closer and closer to an actual real time “planetary birth experience.” This experience will open our collective eyes. We will smile our first “planetary smile.” Through own maturation to a higher consciousness we will have shared contact with life that is beyond us. We will literally be born as a very young universal species.

BARBARA MARX HUBBARD. Buckminster Fuller has called Barbara Marx Hubbard “the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” Widely regarded as his philosophical heir, Barbara is a social innovator, speaker, author, educator and leader in the new worldview of conscious evolution.

THE PURPOSE OF THE 2012 TIPPING POINT PROPHETS CONFERENCE VANCOUVER JULY 23-25, 2010 is to explore a radically different, more optimistic interpretation of the Mayan prophecy. This brings together JOSE ARGUELLES, FLORDEMAYO, ANDREW HARVEY, BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, JOHN MAJOR JENKINS, JOHN KIMMEY, JOHN PERKINS, LLYN ROBERTS, DANIEL PINCHBECK, RICHARD TARNAS, and MIGUEL ANGEL VERGARA into the beautiful setting of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Following the conference will be in-depth post-conference workshops JULY 26-27.

2012: TIPPING POINT
The Great Transformation
The Prophets Conference Vancouver
Simon Fraser University – Burnaby Campus

Conference 23-25 JULY 2010
In-Depth Post-Conference Workshops 26-27 JULY 2010

Conference Information: www.greatmystery.org/events/vancouver2012.html
Exhibitor Information: www.greatmystery.org/events/vancouver2012register.html

I just discovered a highly creative woman. Here is a film she made on Kindness. Enjoy.

And here is a link to Amy’s website.

by Pip Cornall

Pip Cornall is the author of Sustainable Masculinity and delivers a highly successful male violence prevention program. For the last three years, he has also worked closely with Grace Gawler and her cancer patients. Together, they write books and present workshops.

This article speaks to his experience and observations as a support professional in cancer work. He writes because he is terribly upset witnessing good people with cancer making bad decisions that have cost some their lives. His experience with Grace shows that clients who work closely with her have a much better chances of success.

Once upon a time I held very different views. In 1971 I owned a health food eatery in a small Australian surfing town. New to ‘health foods’ I proselytised everybody about the benefits of eating vegetarian. An avid Rodale junkie; in a few short years I became a ‘born again natural food fundamentalist.’ I soon sold my shop and bought a little plot of land in the mountains behind Byron Bay, to go ‘organic.’ I fervently believed in the power of nature to heal our bodies and I mistrusted western medicine. As much as I wanted to believe totally in the nature path, gradually evidence that came my way worked against it.

So I changed? Time is an amazing teacher—it mellows one like fine wine. With time I’ve seen that elements of the nature-health movement was about as fundamentalist as the western medicine I’d mistrusted. As an ‘older’ person you’ve been around a while—you’ve watched things against the backdrop of time—you see what works and what doesn’t. There is no substitute for time!

Three years ago my world changed requiring further adjustments to my ideology. I entered the cancer healing world. Assisting Grace Gawler with her cancer patients, I became privy to a fast growing trend. Many patients had put their faith in extreme diets widely promoted via books and the internet. I saw how they became lulled by nature-cure ideology while simultaneously their bodies were silently ravaged as the cancer spread. These diets included Gerson, vegan, raw and various combinations. They had become nature fundamentalists like me, ignoring contrary evidence and exceptions to the rule.

Because of my belief in nature I’d desperately wanted to see people curing themselves by following the natural path—but I haven’t—and it rocked my foundations like a force 7 earthquake. That was also Grace’s experience in decades of cancer work. In the mid seventies, at the tender age of 21, she’d become full time care giver for her boyfriend, later husband, Ian Gawler, after he lost his leg to bone cancer. Continue Reading »