Medicine: in Search of a Soul: The Healing Prescription

By Pamela J. Maraldo

We are taught that external conditions or people are to blame for our illnesses and pain. While other people and situations can affect the quality of your energy field---it is within your power to train your mind and emotions, and adapt your inner feelings, to let go of whatever is hurting you.

Essentially, all you have to do is raise the frequency of your energy field. You are---we all are---an energetic reflection of your own attitudes and feelings.

Whatever you focus on is brought to life. Our brains are holographic, living in a holographic universe. Our physical world is made solid by our senses, as if you put on 3-D glasses. New scientific studies tell us that the observation of a particle is what makes it solid. The tangible is born of the intangible: our thoughts, attitudes and feelings, as well as our physical bodies, are a reflection of the quality of our energies, our vibrational resonance....our consciousness.

There is nothing that can’t be healed, if you can change your frame of mind, and the way you feel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Sep 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504366069

Pamela J. Maraldo

Dr. Pamela J. Maraldo currently serves as the CEO of Girls Inc. of New York City. She has also served as President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the National League for Nursing. Dr. Maraldo has served as a consultant for many health care concerns, including: The National Cancer Institute, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, United Health Care, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, National Association of Women’s Health, the Centers for Radiation Oncology, and the New England Medical Center.

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Copyright © 2017 Pamela J. Maraldo, PhD

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Served as CEO of several organizations including: Planned Parenthood Federation of America and The National League for Nursing. Currently CEO of Girls Inc of NYC. Author of Women’s Health for Dummies. Serves on the Board of the Center for Soulful Living

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CONTENTS

Mastery Part One

I      Meeting the Master

II     The Health-Care Dilemma: It’s the Model, Stupid!

III    The Experts: Often Wrong, Never in Doubt

IV    Soul Stories: Redefining Illness As the Wake-Up Call

V      Anything Can Be Healed

VI    Healing: The Power of the Mind

VII    Emotions: Your Body’s Reaction to Your Mind

VIII  According to Your Belief It Shall Be Done unto You

IX      It’s All about Energy

Mastery Part Two

X      Beyond the Mind

XI    The Healing Prescription

XII    Healing in the Quantum Hologram

XIII  You Are the Light

XIV  On God

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A famous philosopher once said, In life, do that which you cannot, not do. That’s what this book was for me. Many people gave incredibly helpful insights and i would like to thank them. Most of all, my friend Elaine Garzarelli, who took extraordinary care in reviewing the manuscript, and giving constant insights, feedback and encouragement.

Also extremely helpful were my sister, Donna, Scott Erikson, Dianne Osgood, and Sue Schoenberg.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart, and last but not least, my deepest gratitude to Bill Bauman, without whom I would never have had the awareness or the inspiration a work like this entails.

Pam Maraldo

MASTERY

PART ONE

Learning the pathways to healing: how mastering your thoughts, emotions and beliefs will allow higher frequency healing energies to flow through you; listening to your soul’s direction and how it speaks to you through illness.

I

MEETING THE MASTER

The sturdy fair-haired man stood on the red mountains looking over the valley. The soul of this is taking shape, he thought. He didn’t move. He was deep in thought. Then he heard the bell ring. Ding … ding … ding … It was time to get started. All here? he bellowed.

We’re ready to go, his assistant called out. Inside, everybody was buzzing. An array of people were perched in their seats—many highly educated with mystical leanings—from unexpected places like the State Department, Health and Human Services, the FDA, and other branches of government, in addition to leadership positions in the ranks of corporate America. Some were doctors. Some were nurses.

The gathering was on mastery. Human mastery. The participants had one thing in common: they wanted help in fulfilling their highest destinies. Anxiously awaiting their first foray into the depths of the energy this man was radiating, they sat in anticipation. Spiritual masters radiate energy. When they enter the room, the room shifts to a higher place. The presence of the Master draws out darkness and almost immediately opens the way to spontaneous feelings of joy. This is a powerful, powerful person.

In this age of high-minded science and technology, we have been so convinced of the importance of the intellect and the supremacy of reason that any talk of the soul or any power that lies beyond the mind seems borderline crazy—until you experience it. Nobody in the group could’ve anticipated the lightness, the joy, the absolute giddiness that they were now feeling. Destiny had ordained their meeting with this man.

More and more highly educated prominent scientists are telling about similar experiences. They dare to stand out in a world of scientific conformity. As beyond the mind experiences transformed them, their lives would never be the same again. Among them are the following: Edgar Mitchell, PhD, Apollo astronaut, and the sixth man ever to walk on the moon; David Hawkins, MD, PhD, a psychiatrist and prolific author who became enlightened through a near-death experience; Herbert Benson, MD, founder of the Harvard Mind-Body Institute; Eben Alexander, MD, the neurologist who wrote about his near-death experience in Proof of Heaven; Greg Bradden, PhD, an engineer who worked as a scientist and an engineer at Martin Marietta and Cisco Systems and authored The Divine Matrix; Bruce Lipton, PhD, cellular biologist and former professor of medicine at Stanford and author of The Biology of Belief; my own teacher, psychologist Bill Bauman, PhD, author of Soul Vision.

Then there are physicists such as Amit Gotswami, PhD, who wrote The Self Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World; and physicist Lester Levinson, who wrote No Attachments, No Aversions. Lester was sent home after a near-fatal heart attack, on the verge of suicide because of the severe restrictions his illness placed on his life—no stairs, no lifting groceries, no sex—yet he was completely healed.

These scientists and many others sparked a new pinnacle of understanding the secrets of the universe and realms beyond the mind. Their stories enthrall us. The best part? They speak from personal experience. Their experiences have opened up new territory that science has dared not tread in the past. Scientific discoveries leap from their expansions in consciousness, from the spiritual realms beyond the mind.

I was a member of the Mastery Group. Mastery meant a series of seminars designed to lift us up; to teach us to master the human experience by getting to know our true nature, our souls. That includes healing, the province of the soul. I myself would have laughed hysterically had someone told me ten years ago that I would not only experience that realm but also write a book about it. Yet I did have many peak experiences. One in particular, a healing experience, led me on a search to find the underlying cause of what was happening. That experience led to writing this book.

Everything is purposeful. My mind, steeped in the social sciences, became like a big searchlight looking for answers everywhere. I needed to make sense of what had happened. The amazing thing: repeatedly, I saw that science is headed in the direction of a world once reserved for mystics—people who are otherworldy. But let me step back for a moment and tell the story of how it all began.

One Saturday night I climbed into the bed of my Manhattan apartment after coming home late from dinner and a show. As I lay awake taking inventory of my day, I began to feel a strange sensation in my head—first a pressure on the top-right side and then a soft tingling energy burst into my awareness. Oozing over me, starting at my head and working its way down, it eventually cradled me. Like many, I was in the habit of reviewing the day’s events before I drifted off to sleep. Mentally ticking things off, my to-do list started to take shape for the next day.

But of all the niggling things that would have normally created waves of fear and anxiety—a deadline coming up, a project I didn’t have time to get to, a phone call I forgot to make—none of it fazed me. The oozy energy lifted me above those mundane worries. In the wake of my usual fretting, a warm blanket of energy settled in like a presence, enveloping me and making me feel blissful, protected, and at peace.

My thoughts flashed back to a conversation with my younger sister earlier in the week. Pammie, Jodi and I are going to Baltimore this coming weekend to see a man that they say is a guru. But he’s not Indian. He’s American and has a PhD. Do you want to come with us?

Donna mentioned the PhD knowing I would be skeptical of anybody referred to as a guru. But I had plans for the weekend. Thanks anyway, Sissy, as I called her. I would love to, but I’ll be out of town.

To which she quickly offered, "It’s okay. We’ll invite you in."

Invite me in? Was she kidding? Was this a joke or had my sister gone off the deep end? Meanwhile, back in my bed, afraid the blanket of delicious energy would leave, I filed the conversation away, settled in to enjoy my dreamy state, and drifted off to sleep.

Late Monday afternoon she called me. The weekend was amazing. His [Bill’s] energy is so powerful that a lot of people just fall asleep. But most feel elated, incredibly happy and full of zest. Kind of like you have a new lease on life. She went on and on, with more and more enthusiasm. The weekend sounded off the charts. She loved this new guru. Bill Bauman was his name. She described a variety of participants in whom transformations had taken place. Bill is the real deal, she concluded, meaning she could tell that he was enlightened.¹

When she finished, I told her about my Saturday night experience with the energy. I reluctantly posed my question: Do you think there might be any connection to your weekend with the guru?

I’m quite sure there is, she shot back confidently, emphatically. Clearly sensing my ongoing skepticism, she added, Don’t take my word for it. He’s going to be in New York in a few weeks. See for yourself.

Maybe I will, I muttered halfheartedly. I had been a seeker, someone looking for answers to all the big questions in life, and I was quite proud of my own intellectual abilities at the time. I had a PhD myself, and I did a lot of public speaking on the mind-body-spirit connection, so I wasn’t highly motivated to go hear someone else speak on subjects I thought I knew about.

I was in for the surprise of a lifetime. As things transpired, on the weekend of Bill Bauman’s seminar in New York City, I had absolutely no plans. I was completely free. This in itself was highly unusual, and I wondered if the universe might be orchestrating this whole thing. So I went.

The weekend was transformative. I saw for myself that Bill Bauman seemed to be authentic, indeed, the real deal, as my sister had said. How could I tell? He emits an energy that is palpable and has a kind of magical effect. It’s the way you feel when you’re floating on nitrous oxide at the dentist, only you’re not! All weekend, in this man’s presence, I felt the same energy I felt that Saturday night pouring into me, through me. Even though I didn’t understand what was happening, I felt giddy, happy, and alive, as well as confident and enthusiastic about everything. Answers to questions that had been gnawing at me came spontaneously.

I immediately made a decision to study with Bill. I wanted more. I wanted to bathe in this energy, this juice, as we playfully referred to it, permanently. I wanted to learn more about the energy, the light, that this very kind, gentle, and loving man was emitting. Being in the presence of this awakened man felt fabulous—a feeling bordering on ecstasy. But then when you go back to your own day-to-day surroundings, the helium escapes from the balloon. Gradually, the breezy, happy feelings give way to punctuated periods of all-too-familiar annoyances and anxieties coming to the surface to be released. It is a time of expansion and contraction as you grow and then shrink back to face the core issues that are still unresolved and holding you back. Your higher self designs your circumstances so that you can face them and finally be completely free of them.

One summer for the Mastery Class, Bill held a weekend retreat in Dallas, Texas. Huge evergreens, spacious grounds, and sprawling buildings at the University of Texas created a welcoming enough space for us, but the steamy heat hanging from the trees dampened my enthusiasm. Besides feeling as if I were in a sauna, I was limping. Nursing a painful knee injury from slipping in the New York subway on a rainy day, combined with July heat and humidity, really put a damper on the whole thing.

However, I felt obligated. I had made a commitment to attend. Before long, it became clear to me that I made the right decision. Bill was, as usual, spectacular. As an enlightened soul, the energy that streamed out of him was particularly radiant that weekend. Determined to have its way with us, the energy traveled through each participant in different ways. It was overwhelming for some, and they nodded off to sleep as if they had taken a sedative. It ripped through the mentally resistant energy centers of others. Visceral reactions, like gastrointestinal upsets or backaches, often resulted. As the energy charged through their systems, aiming to dissolve any areas of resistance, their bodies reacted.

Eventually, everybody went through a dark night of the soul. To achieve mastery, you have to confront your demons: the demons that created the energetic blockages in the first place.

The goal: clearing the unconscious. Clearing cellular debris that accumulates over a long time paves the way for higher energy frequencies to flow through. Old debris is loosened and released—an apparent prerequisite to becoming lighter and relieved of the energies of old repressed emotions. The extremely high frequency light he emitted accomplished all of this. Sometimes Bill referred to himself as a light technician and what he does as surgery, metaphors that were somewhat tongue in cheek. However, in less material ways, on an energetic level, these terms were quite apropos, as we would come to learn.

On the first day of the Dallas seminar, limping into Bill’s opening session, I sat a few rows from the front of the room. He talked about things he usually talked about, ranging from the nature of the light that we are all made of to some of the recent discoveries in quantum physics. One of his favorite things to talk about was that we are mostly composed of empty space (sort of—it’s really not empty but teeming with energy you can’t see). We are free to shape the space as we choose.

As I was listening intently to Bill continue speaking about our being interconnected in that space, like lattices of subatomic particles that reach across unlimited distances, something magical was happening. When I got up from my chair at the end of the session to walk out, I immediately noticed that there was no more pain in my knee. No pain at all. No limp. My knee felt completely normal. It was healed.

Healed on the spot! How in the world did it happen? It left a powerful impression on me. I was driven to understand it and find out what had happened. Educated as a nurse with a PhD and very familiar with all the procedures and paraphernalia that would normally be required to heal my knee, I wanted to understand the science behind what seemed to be a miracle. I hadn’t prayed to be healed. I hadn’t asked Bill to heal me. In fact, having my knee healed was the furthest thing from my mind when I entered the session. Yet I knew what I knew. When I walked in, I was limping. When I walked out, I wasn’t. I was walking straight, and my knee no longer hurt. As I reflected on what happened, I remembered hearing—though I hadn’t paid much attention to it at the time—that Bill had healed others. Now I wanted to know all the details. Exactly how did he do it?

THE LIGHT THAT HEALS

It didn’t take long to discover the source of the healing. A power we all have in the form of high-frequency energies—light, really—does the healing. Everything is light. But way more light than usual, high-frequency light that we can feel but cannot see, emanated from Bill. Yet he kept telling us that it was something present in every one of us. Eastern teachings say that the light of our souls becomes more and more pronounced, even visible to some, as we are cleansed of old energetic layers of fears, anger, doubt, and guilt. Through light, purification and healing can be achieved. When we repress emotions we don’t want to feel, they weigh our cells down with their heaviness. The more we stuff them, the more they eclipse the light. If we don’t release them, they weigh us down more and more. They gradually diminish our light. They can also create illness.

As these layers are shed, more and more light seeps in and more healing occurs. Many have written about their healing as they release repressed negative emotions. Physicist Lester Levinson’s autobiographical account No Attachments, No Aversions is an extraordinary story of healing. Sent home by his physician after a severe heart attack, he verbally attacked the physician for saving his life. Facing life as a cardiac cripple, he thought, I would rather be dead. On the verge of suicide, he decided to take inventory of his life before he killed himself. Why not take a little time to think about what it all means, what happiness is all about?

First he poured over all the books an educated man like himself had accumulated. One by one, he tossed them aside, realizing they had no light whatsoever to shed on what makes someone happy. He spent several months taking inventory of when he was happiest. As he thought about past love relationships, successes, and failures, he experienced all the emotions he had repressed over a lifetime and allowed himself to feel pent up-painful emotions from those past events. Tears poured out of him. Feel and release. Feel and release. After he felt them, crying and feeling the anguish, he would release them, just letting the painful feelings go, over and over again, off into the sunset.

At the end of a period of a few weeks, he felt light and full of energy. A happiness he had never thought possible permeated his life. And there was an unanticipated benefit: he was completely healed. Besides being healed, continually releasing the negative emotion buried inside him produced a profound awakening experience, described in his book and in many other accounts. He went on to become the founder of the Sedona Method, a systematic methodic of releasing negative emotion. Lester’s mantra: if you want to badly enough, anybody can be healed. He had a powerful motive—staying alive—but the approach is the same for anyone who wants to heal.

DO YOU WANT TO BE HEALED?

There is one caveat. It must be said at the outset that healing must be something that a person desires, something you really want. Many people say they want to heal, but they have split intentions, split energy about it. I have a friend that says she really wants to lose weight, but she orders ravioli as an appetizer. A part of her wants to lose it, but if she were serious, she would forgo the ravioli. It’s the same with healing. You can say you want to heal and then spend a lot of your time doing things that work against you, like complaining and rehearsing everything that’s wrong or binging on Twinkies or potato chips.

Some are here for a soul purpose that may not include physical healing. Consider Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most brilliant theoretical physicists. His mind is obviously of paramount importance to his work. Who’s to say that if his body was healed, the focus of his mind’s energy wouldn’t be diluted or dispersed in a way that wasn’t as conducive to his genius—that is, to the energy devoted to his mind? He may well have created a lifetime through which his purpose was achieved through the use of such a physical challenge, and to live this lifetime in a wheelchair with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.²

Less famous examples include situations where a person may choose a short life span for reasons that may be helpful to others. A child, for instance, who dies at an early age of a rare disease may be the catalyst for a family’s emotional reunion and reconciliation.³ What looks bad may, from the soul’s perspective, be just what was called for to heal an even bigger set of circumstances. In other situations, a person—like my dear friend Amber, who recently passed away—may feel as though her time here is finished. Then physical healing is obviously not a primary aim.

One evening while I was there for dinner, Amber said something that I didn’t want to accept. It revealed her feeling of having concluded her time here. It came up when we were discussing her physician. Unhappy with her current cardiologist, a woman I had recommended, she lamented, I think my doctor is losing interest. She doesn’t seem to be paying attention anymore. She was a capable cardiologist, and Amber had seemed pleased with her for a long time. But now she required more medical attention and a different expertise.

I quickly offered to find a new physician. I’ll get you a new cardiologist, I offered. Maybe she’s really busy or doesn’t know what to do. It’s easy enough to get a new physician. I know someone who is excellent. I’ll call him for you on Monday.

Amber immediately railed against my suggestion. She was incredibly resistant to going to anyone else. She knows me. I don’t want to have to get used to anyone new. They’ll ask the same questions, and there’s nothing they can do anyway. She went on with more and more objections. Her resistant attitude reminded me of her husband’s, who had died twenty years earlier.

You sound like Dean did, I protested. He had been misdiagnosed by a prominent specialist who was the chief of the thoracic surgery department at a major medical center in New York. Dean had lung cancer, and his specialist missed it completely.

Dean was still in his fifties. When we found out he had a lung tumor, we were shocked. In no time, he was having trouble breathing. When I heard the news, I immediately offered to find a new specialist, thinking Dean would jump at the chance to see someone new, someone more thorough. After all, his specialist had just made a grave mistake. Instead, he got angry and indignant and refused. Hitting a brick wall, I dropped it. Dean died six months later.

When I mentioned to Amber that she was acting like her husband, I expected she would see the error of her thinking and consent to seeing a new specialist. But she didn’t. Instead, she said with chilling clarity, I understand how he felt. He wanted to die. My friend passed away soon afterward. You often see similar behavior in many who are seriously ill; they resist any suggestions that might be helpful in healing, only to succumb to the illness. Often it’s a sign that they are ready to die.

In the final analysis, healing is a journey of the soul and the soul must be willing to take it.

Every time Bill held a seminar, he would ask the person who had requested his attention to whatever problem or distress or disease, "Do you want this to be taken away? Do you want to be healed?" I always thought it seemed somewhat gratuitous. My mind reasoned, If these people didn’t want to be healed, why in the world would they have come to the seminar? Why would they raise their hands to ask for help? Of course they wanted to be healed.

However, I eventually realized it’s an important thing to ask. It’s important because it calls people’s attention to a focus on healing so they don’t simply respond mentally. The act of posing the question "Do you want this," calls upon a person to focus their full intention on responding emotionally, deeply, and authentically as well as mentally. In this way, they can begin to make their choice to heal a very conscious one, and with that choice, they can begin to bring into their consciousness all that may be standing in the way. Because healing usually requires new attitudes and behaviors, it’s important to be aware of what choices are helping and which are hurting. In the final analysis, healing is a journey of the soul, and the soul must be willing to take it. Taking the journey will inevitably mean change: changes in beliefs, attitudes and patterns of behavior, as well as lifestyle—maybe even a change in a job or a relationship.

For most of us, healing is a desirable thing. As I’ve delved into the science and the spiritual sides of healing, and experimented with it more and more on my own since my experience in Dallas several years ago, I have seen that we have much more power within us to heal than we know. We especially have more power to heal than we have been taught to believe. If the desire is there and is great enough, anything can be healed. Further, healing is effective not because we have used one specific method or another but because the method we use allows the higher laws of nature to come into play.

If you are interested in healing,