A guest post written by Robert B. Clark, Committee on Publication for Florida
I saw a challenging political cartoon the other day. It showed the long line of Steve Jobs’ creations: iMac…iPod…iPhone…iPad. And then it showed Mr. Jobs in need of an “iCure” for his current struggle with a supposedly incurable form of disease.
After some initial dismay at what seemed like a mocking tone, I realized that the cartoon was actually asking a good question. If fearless and creative envisioning can produce a parade of electronic marvels that enrich lives, can it also produce a cure for the incurable and save lives?
Fortunately for Steve Jobs and others who appear to have what limited thinking calls an “incurable” disease, there is hope….lots of it….and ample precedent for believing that incurability is nothing more than a very persistent myth.
Myths are beguiling. We study them in school. We make movies about them. And sometimes we suffer from them. A myth can pose very convincingly as a fact and intimidate all but the most fearless thinkers. Let’s not forget, we used to look out from our flat earth and watch the sun revolving around us. Fearless thinkers challenged those myths until they collapsed, revealing the scientific truth that had always governed our solar system, even in the midst of widespread ignorance and fear.
Perhaps the earliest recorded challenges to the incurability myth occur in The Bible, where both Old and New Testaments offer some great examples. Leprosy, blindness, deformity, famine, plagues, slavery, natural disasters, dementia, and even death are challenged and overcome. Yet persistent myths tell us that curing the incurable was just a Biblical phenomenon that ended thousands of years ago and has no application in “modern times”.
If you google “healing incurable disease” you may find what I found. Half of the top ten results involved Biblically based prayer and offered examples of how that works. And for a challenging and fascinating dialogue about successful modern day challenges to the myth of incurability, here’s a great link. Healing Incurable Disease.
As a long time fan of Apple products, I’ve been the direct recipient of fearless innovation and unlimited thinking, and I’m probably not the only one to feel somewhat indebted to Steve Jobs for that. So when I think of him now, I’m thinking full recovery. I’m not thinking incurable. And I’ll bet he isn’t either.
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Thank you so much for this great insight. It gives encouragement for each of us to challenge the myths of the human condition and to not think “incurable” about anything. I went to the link “Healing Incurable Disease” and found an excellent transcription of a chat on the subject of Healing Incurable Diseases. It was a March 2010 chat with Rosalie Dunbar and Marian English. It brought out how to challenge and heal the many ideas that have been labeled “incurable”– from cancer & diabetes to employment and the environment. I would recommend it to anyone interested in this subject. Think “full recovery”– think nothing is impossible to God!
Thanks Don. It gives hope doesn’t it!
Thank you so much for the link “Healing Incurable Disease.” I even printed it out, all 15 pages! Yes, it is a great link! It addresses so many aspects of spiritual healing and how to pray effectively. I do hope Steve Jobs will see this post! Or maybe he’ll figure it out on his own…with God’s help of course. (= We’re rooting for you Steve!!! <3
Thank you Bob Clark of Florida. A friend and I were discussing the other day that it would be a good thing if Steve Jobs were given a Science and Health because he could certainly understand it. It seems that you thought so too.
Thanks again for the good thoughts.
Thank you, Bob, for the ideas and the link to the article “Healing incurable Disease”. I like to ponder the ideas that once the earth was flat and the sun revolved around us until we discovered differently. I wonder if anyone has sent the Christian Science Journal and Sentinel to Steve…..probably, but you never know so I’ll send them to him and tell him about the Christian Science Reading Rooms.
Because prayer as taught in Christian Science healed me of what today is still called an incurable disease as well as a lump in my breast some years later, I know without a doubt that disease is not incurable. I am so grateful to read Bob’s article and I trust we will be seeing more and more like this in mainstream magazines and news and special features programming.
Glad I found your comment Mr. Clark – I needed confidence that my assertions had merit. A comment I wrote since Mr. Jobs passing:
“Was wondering about Steve Jobs being pescatarian. What about mercury poisoning, and if farmed fish then what about antibiotics? Of course, I think he must have had the safest fish imaginable, but I’d like to read that, I mean, Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson or even Howard Hughes didn’t fair too well health wise with all their wealth, in fact, people closest to each of them had a hand in their deaths. And while Mr. Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer, I am constantly reading that cancer cannot grow in an alkaline environment and is in fact killed off. Furthermore, if a person simply (or with much determination) gets his pH level up to a wholesome 7.365 cancer cells become dormant. So what info did I learn about Mr. Jobs? Well, he took chemotherapy and radiation. Did I read rightly? I cannot imagine taking chemotherapy for any reason especially if I were already in a weakened condition. Does anyone know if he had ozone therapy or hydrogen peroxide therapy. I’ve seen videos where people actually have their blood cleaned by running it into some ozone then being replaced in the body like new super clean blood with all toxic sludge, waste, disease removed. People near death getting up in minutes feeling 20 years younger. What about Steve Jobs? The masses should know: if a billionaire can die of cancer, why am I making spirulina, chlorella and wheatgrass smoothies twice a day, or even trying to eat right foods? He passed on days ago and I’ve learned nothing about why he really died.”
I still believe we can cure cancer or any disease with food; fight fire with fire so to speak. The Hypocratic oath said “… let food be thy medicine”. If we get diseased eating too much acid foods shouldn’t reversing the process and eating “too much” alkaline foods be the remedy? I have read for a very sick/diseased person he should literally try to what would be considered “overdose” on alkaline foods until his pH level, that is his acid/alkaline level, has consistently reached a very healthy 7.365 level. I’m still a believer, and think even the smartest and most creative among us sometimes miss some simple answers that were most important.