Sun, Beach, Ocean, and Grounding are tools for cancer healing

 I began to listen to “Christ beat Cancer” podcast because I recently had lost weight at an alarming rate and I am afraid of that cancer in me might be the cause of rapidly losing weight.  Today’s podcast s about Rob Prior’s success healing of his Stage 3 kidney cancer.  Before his diagnosis, the kidney cancer had given him many symptoms including swollen arms and ankles, headache, and fatigues, and tremor. A CT scan showed a 6.5 mm right kidney tumor.  His best friend, 10 years older than him advised him not to take surgery and chemo route.  Instead, he directed him to see an integrated oncologist who advised and convinced him that his own immune can heal the cancer giving the right conditions.  This is what Rob did in the next 13 months. Starting with diet, he cut out sugar, all processed food, and animal food.  He began to swim 1 km along the shore under the sun and jogged back 1 km on the beach.  He felt that the Sun, the swimming, the jogging, and the grounding had given him the healing he need. Additionally, the infrared sauna helped him detoxed the body.  

The most important message of the podcast are: mindset, Sun, ocean,beach, grounding, exercise, sauna and other detox help Rob to heal from the stage 3 kidney cancer without the brutal surgery and chemo therapies.  

Helping other people could be the best therapy for survival

 The following notes came from the book, “Love, Medicine, and Miracle”.  

When Louise then was a teenager was told by her doctor that her metastasis ovary cancer could kill her in 6 months even with chemotherapy, she told her doctor that only God can tell her how long she could live.  She was an exceptional patient.  First, she moved out of the old home and rent an apartment  This way, she could move away from a stressful environment.  With only $10 left, she put an aid in a newspaper that she is willing to help any cancer patient who answered the aid.  Six months later, all her tumors disappear.  

What does this true story tell us?  

1. Do not allow the doctor to tell you how long will you live.    Only God can give us this number.
2. Leave the stressful environment behind.  If you have a toxic relationship while you are sick, don’t get stuck with the old toxic relationship.
3. Willing to help other people while you are still sick is a great therapy.  

Virgin with child and St. Ann

The Bible had inspired many artists.  With the subject about baby Jesus, Virgin Mary, and Mary's mom, Saint Ann, there were more than 1000 paintings.  Yet the painting showing in this blog by Albrecht Durer is quite unique in its simplicity and haunting devotional painting of Saint Ann.  Anne's hand on her daughter takes on a consolatory meaning.  Anne's distant gaze suggests a premonition of Christ's Passion.

Praying Hands

 The drawing of the "Praying Hands" by Albrecht Durer (1508) is not only an art work by a famous German artist in the 16th century, but also a show of sibling love.  

Albrecht Durer grew up in an impoverished German family with an elder brother.  Both Albrecht and his older brother showed artistic talent when they were young.  By the time for finding an art teacher for the talented young artist, the parent said to the children.

"Even I love to send both of you to art school, we can only afford to send only one to learn from the master.  The other needs to stay home and work."

Albrecht's brother said to his young brother to take art lessons from a master and he would stay home to work and make money for the household.

Albrecht's paintings became very popular and made sufficient money.  He said to his elder brother to take classes from art master.

His brother told him that he was not able to do the painting because of his hands, after many years of hard labor and lost their fine skills to do the paintings. 

One day, when his brother was praying before an altar, Albrecht caught this moment to draw his brother's praying hands.  With  his brother's praying hands with many signs of hard labor, Albrecht showed both gratitude and his respect to his brother.

Eliezer and Rebecca. by Nicolas Poussin

The story is from Genesis, Chapter 24.  Abraham exiled at Canaan wanted to find a wife for Issac.He sent his servant, Eliezer with. 20 camels to his homeland, Chaldea/Haran. at Mesopotamia.  Abraham instructed Eliezer to the center of the town where there was a well.  Village young women would gather to fetch water. Eliezer would ask among the young women to give him and 20 camels to drink.  Whoever give Eliezer and camels water, Eliezer would ask the lady her name and her parent to see if the lady came from the same ancestors of Abraham.  Among the ladies, it was Rebecca who gave  Eliezer and his camels drink. Rebecca was the daughter of Bethuel who was the son of Nahor.  Nahor was the brother of Abraham.  Eliezer then presented to Rebecca with a ring and the bracelet and told Rebecca that she was chosen to be Issac’s wife. The painting by Nicolas Poussin in 1648 showed the reactions of Rebecca and other ladies upon hearing the news.  Enjoy yourself with the painting.

Sleepy Hollow

 My wife and I were at my brother’s home and visited the Sleepy Hollow and refreshed the story by Washington Irving, “The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow”.  The story began with the haunted Sleepy Hollow, and the headless horseman who as the story said that the horseman would rise up from his grave in the cemetery and would ride his horse in search of his head.  In the village, came with a lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut, named Ichabod Crane.  Crane was very superstitious, and would love to listen to ghost stories by the Dutch women in the village as Village Dutch women would love to befriend with Crane.  In the village, there was a beautiful and rich woman, named Katrina van Tassel, to whom Crane wanted to earn her hands.  Yet, Katrina had another suitor, a local hero, named Abraham van Brunt. Both Ichabod and Abraham were invited to a harvest party hosted by father of Katrina.  In the party, Abraham told Ichabod another ghost story.  Ichabod planned to propose to Katrina but did not succeed.  Feeling depressed, Ichabod rode his very temperamental horse called the gunpowder home.  On the pitch dark night, and on an intersection, came with the headless horseman who threw things at Ichabod.  Ichabod fell from the horse, and the next morning, Ichabod and his horse gunpowder disappeared from the village.  All they could find are the broken pumpkins, Ichabod’s discarded hat, and the trampled saddle of Gunpowder.  Now, it is up to your imagination on what was really happened on that night.

The story of building 200” reflective mirror telescope at Corning

 The story was noted on August 17 while my family was at Ithaca, New York.  The telescope was conceptualized by a famed astronomer, George Hale in 1928 who wished to build the largest telescope to be situated at Palomar Mountain.   He commissioned Corning to build the telescope with the Corning Pyrex technology.  Corning engineer, Mr. George McCauley took the challenge.  One great challenge was not to break the mirror during the cooling.  With this gigantic glass mirror, avoiding cracks during cooling was critical.  At Corning, they first build a honeycomb-like mold so that the mirror could be annealed slowly and uniformly.  Their first attempt was not successful.  In the 2nd attempt, the mirror was annealed for a year.  The mirror was then transported to Palomar, California in a train with a train speed of 25 miles/hr.  The mirror was then installed at Palomar, CA in 1948.