By Jean Baptiste Ndabananiye
What if everything we thought we knew about cancer were only half the story? Picture a world where healing isn’t just about drugs, radiation, or surgery—but about the unseen forces of our own minds, emotions, and spirituality. A world where the fight against cancer isn’t a battle, but a transformation. Scientists, doctors, and even former patients are challenging the old paradigms, revealing astonishing cases of recovery that defy conventional medicine. Could the key to reversing cancer lie not just in our cells, but in the depths of our consciousness? To respond to these questions, this article is built upon these major sections:
- The biopsychosocial-spiritual approach: understanding cancer through mind, body, and environment
- A renowned physician—Dr. Jeffrey D. Rediger and a former cancer patient miraculously healed—Brenda Michaels
- Conclusion and call-to-action
- The cure we fear to acknowledge
- Call to action: the invitation to experiment
The biopsychosocial-spiritual approach: understanding cancer through mind, body, and environment
“That the social environment and thoughts and emotions as expressions of the mind and soul, respectively causally influence somatic diseases, follows naturally from systemic models of human biology such as the biopsychosocial model which was originally proposed by George L. Engel in 1977, subsequently developed further and by some extended into a biopsychosocial spiritual model,” states Rainer Johannes Klement from the Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, Leopoldina Hospital Schweinfurt in Germany. Somatic diseases are physical illnesses affecting the body, including chronic illnesses, infections, autoimmune disorders, neurological conditions, and cancer, requiring medical treatment and management.
He adds “Within this model, humans are unity of body, mind and soul/spirit. Chronic psychological stress resulting from a failure to meet one’s basic psychological and spiritual needs in modern society and technological environments weakens the immune system, disturbs the endocrine system, elevates blood glucose levels, exhausts mitochondria and thus facilitates oncogenesis.
From this systemic perspective, both psychosocial spiritual and physiological aspects should be considered when developing strategies for preventing and treating cancer.” He says this in his extremely detailed article “Cancer as a global health crisis with deep evolutionary roots” which Science Direct accepted on 2 January 2024 and placed it online on 13 January 2024.
Klement is a scientist and health practitioner with multidisciplinary research interests who completed his studies at the University of Heidelberg with a Diploma in Physics in 2005 and a a doctoral degree in Astronomy in 2008. Since 2011, he serves as a medical physicist in radiation oncology. His research interests encompass tumor cell metabolism and its modification through diet and other lifestyle modifications, ketogenic and paleolithic diets, applied biomedical statistics and systems thinking.
Dr. Klement received his habilitation in medical physics from the University hospital of Zurich, Switzerland in 2021. He has written over 50 original peer-reviewed research papers in the fields of astronomy, nutrition. radiation oncology, applied statistics and philosophy of science.
Oncogenesis refers to the process by which normal cells transform into cancer cells. This involves a series of genetic and cellular changes that lead to uncontrolled cell growth and proliferation. The study of oncogenesis is crucial for understanding how cancers develop and for developing targeted therapies to treat them.
Uncontrolled growth and proliferation are indeed key factors in the existence of cancer. When normal regulatory mechanisms that control cell division and growth malfunction, cells begin to multiply uncontrollably. This can lead to the formation of tumors which can invade surrounding tissues and spread to other parts of the body. Additionally, mutations in genes that regulate the cell cycle, apoptosis, and DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) repair can contribute to this uncontrolled proliferation, making it a fundamental characteristic of cancer.
Apoptosis can be simplified to programmed cell death. It’s the natural process by which cells in the body intentionally die off, often as a way to maintain health or eliminate damaged cells.
Klement points out “The futile war on cancer. As you listen to the media presentations, the theme of resistance to perceived wrong doers and evil manifestations of disease, etc., for example, is spelled out as the ‘war on poverty, the war on drugs or the war on ‘?’.
It is amazing to observers that citizens have not realized that there is yet to be one stance against that has produced effective results. It does however provide a way to extort your money out of your pockets directly and from your national treasury. Among your common sayings are many truisms. ‘What you resist persists.’ ”
He however says “Modern lifestyles play a decisive role in making individuals susceptible towards oncogenesis. Adopting lifestyle factors and cancer therapy in accord with these insights holds substantial promise for reversing the current trend to increasing cancer cases and deaths. It is concluded [in his article] that individuals could substantially reduce their risk of cancer by respecting certain biopsychosocial-spiritual lifestyle factors.”
A renowned physician—Dr. Jeffrey D. Rediger and a former cancer patient miraculously healed—Brenda Michaels
Both figures provide the strongest defense of Klement’s argumentation.
Dr. Rediger
Once a skeptic of spiritual healing, Dr. Rediger has now turned into one of its most fervent advocates. Dr. Rediger, a well-known Harvard psychiatrist, spent 17 years researching ‘miracle’ cures and now declares “Western medicine has it all wrong.” He emphasizes that spiritual healing, despite its profound effects, is unfortunately largely ignored by the medical community; which isn’t however surprising since that was a stance he himself once shared.
Other renowned physicians are now embracing his findings, lending further credibility to the power of spirituality in spontaneous healing. The fact that such a trusted doctor confirms spirituality’s effectiveness represents yet another irrefutable blow to skeptics. Evidence abounds that spirituality and medicine are deeply intertwined.
“A physician in Ohio has a biopsy that reveals idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an irreversible disease that always ends in death. Weak and exhausted, she goes on disability. She has to carry a CPAP machine everywhere to force oxygen into her lungs. She starts seeing a faith healer, who is also a physician. He gives her acupuncture and prays over her. She begins to feel stronger, gives up the oxygen, goes back to work. A couple of years later, a chest X-ray shows no evidence she ever had the disease.
A woman in Oregon learns she has pancreatic cancer. She refuses the risky surgery her doctors offer and decides to live her remaining months as well as she can, among friends and family, doing what she loves. Five years later, a CT scan shows her pancreas is clean,” he explains.
Dr. Rediger has authored a book called “Cured: The Life-Changing Science of Spontaneous Healing” which is the result of 17 years of his work on this field of spontaneous healing. Dr. Rediger has written in the introduction of the book “Sounds impossible, right? No wonder doctors dismiss these outcomes — the original diagnosis must have been wrong. The very subject is taboo in mainstream medicine.
Faced with recoveries they can neither explain nor replicate, doctors tend to dismiss such cases as flukes [ what happens, as the result of chance instead of skill or planning; unusual chance event or coincidence], one-offs. It’s as if we’re embarrassed. This compelling book is the result of 17 years spent tracking these people down and verifying their stories.”
Nevertheless, he categorically refutes this concept of flukes. “These were irrefutable, documented diagnoses, which were then followed up — weeks, months, or sometimes years later — by documented evidence of complete remission,” he writes. Nonetheless, as already said, he also gave such a response when told about such cases of cancer healing. For more about him and this sector, you can read this article— and this one.
Michaels
Michaels contends that humans are spiritual beings. “ When we ignore the signals that the stressful events present or believe we are helpless to change our circumstances or fail to take responsibility for stress that is in our life, we become victims to that situation. Once this happens, our ego-mind takes over, promises us solutions. But the ego-mind is not equipped to find solutions. Solutions can only accessed through creative energy and an awareness of ourselves as spiritual beings.
The ego-mind loves to spin negative stories that offer countless band-aid solutions in support of our powerless victim mentality. Living in this limited capacity creates enormous stress on our bodies, which in turn triggers biological responses that can weaken our immune system’s ability to access its healing energy. Living this ways takes us down the path of heartache, disappointment and inevitably illness.”
Michaels, jointly with Marsha Mercant, has written the book “ The Gift of Cancer: A Miraculous Journey to Healing” from which we have drawn the words maintaining that we are spiritual beings. In her book she says “At age twenty-six I was given an unusual gift: cancer. I don’t say this to make light of what appeared to be an early death sentence. Cancer devastated my life. My marriage was ripped apart and our meager finances were drained away faster than we could have imagined. Over the course of fourteen years, cancer claimed my entire reproductive system, both my breasts, and left me with a prognosis of one year to live. That was twenty-four years ago. While cancer ushered in one of the most difficult periods of my life, it also ignited one of the most profound. Having cancer left me stranded in a place where no doctor had the capacity to save me.
But it led me to the truth of who I am and the realization that only I possessed the power to save myself. Forced to examine my life in new and challenging ways by the dramatic changes generated by my cancer diagnoses, I came to the understanding that if you are inclined to look for the silver lining amongst the dark clouds you will find it.”
Michaels was eventualy healed of her cancer, not using recommended chemotherapy, but instead employing profound body-mind-spirit connection; which she explains in these words “The third time I was diagnosed and told I wouldn’t survive much past a year without chemotherapy, I was devastated. But this time, instead of repeating the pattern of turning away from my problems and depending on doctors to cure me, the healer in me began to awaken. I needed to get real about what was happening in my life and set a course for wellness.
It was in the early stages of this diagnosis that I made the decision to embrace my cancer and allow it to teach me what I needed to learn. I made a commitment to heal my body of this disease once and for all. My desire to not only get well, but to create a harmonious body, mind and spirit connection became my passion. Once that passion was ignited, an internal shift began to take place.” Life In Humanity will come back to Michaels, because her case is extremely interesting.
The cure we fear to acknowledge
Again, what if the most powerful cure for cancer isn’t found in a lab but in the vast, uncharted territories of human consciousness? We marvel at spontaneous remissions, yet we resist their implications. We place our trust in medicine’s tangible arsenal—drugs, surgery, radiation—while sidestepping the unsettling possibility that the mind itself is a potent healer. Why? Because to accept this truth means we must change, and change is terrifying.
The human body is not a battleground. It is a symphony of interactions between cells, thoughts, and emotions. If we continue to wage war on disease while ignoring the forces that drive our very existence, are we not merely fighting shadows?
Call to action: the invitation to an experiment
Forget what you think you know about healing. Instead, consider this a challenge, a radical experiment in your own life.
Observe – pay close attention to your thoughts, emotions, and stress levels. How do they shape your body’s responses?
Engage – explore the techniques that those who are miraculously healed use and also apply them. Do it not as a skeptic but as an open-minded scientist testing a hypothesis.
Document – keep a journal of your physical and emotional state. Look for patterns, for changes, for possibilities.
Then, ask yourself “If healing has always been an inside job, what else have we overlooked? The cure might not be hidden. It might simply be waiting for us to recognize it.
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