The other night I was telling as story about something inexplicable that had happened when my friend piped up and said, “weird stuff always happens to you!” I laughed and heartily agreed with her. It’s true! Apparently I was able to navigate growing up with my wide-eyed inner child still very much in tact. As such, I am prone to magical happenings. Perhaps, as someone else once suggested, I am a “powerful manifestor.” Or maybe crazy things happen to everyone but go unnoticed. Whatever the case, here’s the story.
Someone very dear to me has cancer, and I recently spend several weeks in Seattle helping to take care of her. Part of being sick is accepting that everyone has an opinion about what you should do. Amongst the flood of suggestions was one that she consult with Dr. Michael Lam - a Los Angeles-based physician who uses natural healing methods in synergy with allopathic oncology. However, too many cooks in the kitchen tend to ruin the soup, so she settled instead for a local clinic that also uses an integrative approach.
Meanwhile, back in London, another friend was having an interesting experience. She had purchased several copies of a book written by a psychic she knew, including one for me. One evening she picked one up, opened it at random, and was surprised and confused to find that it was a book about healing cancer naturally – she thought it was going to be the author’s life story! It didn’t take her long to work out that the wrong book was in the right cover – a mistake by the publisher. In a panic she phoned the psychic author and asked, ”Is this a sign? Do I have cancer?” She was assured that she did not, but was told that obviously there was a reason that she received the wrong book. “Hold onto it,” she was told, “and you will know whom it is for.”
The next day she learned that I was in America with my friend. “Ah ha!” She thought, “This was Tricia’s copy all along!” She phoned me, told me the story, and promised to send the book tout suite.
Several days later it arrived. I was full of anticipation as I ripped open the package. The paper cover was indeed for a psychic’s memoir, but when I got to the title page I broke out in goose bumps as I read the words, Beating Cancer with Natural Medicine by Michael Lam, M.D.
I was, and still am, amazed! What do you suppose the odds are that a psychic in Great Britain would have her book mixed up with one written by the very same doctor in California that had been recommended, and that it should just happened to make it’s way to me in such a round-a-bout way? A million to one?
That, to me, is the definition of magic.
As adults it’s easy to turn cynical and dismiss such occurrences as mere coincidences. But where’s the fun in that? The flip side of cold logic is the stuff that makes life juicy – the miraculous, the unexplainable, the magical.
Mind-boggling things happen everyday in a thousand ways, but unless we view life through the eyes of our inner, magical child it's easy to miss the wonders that abound. May this tale remind you to peek at the world through his or her eyes from time to time. I’d love hear what you see.
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