THE VIOLET FLAME—HELPING OUR BODIES TO HEAL THEMSELVES
We aren’t surprised when our body begins
manufacturing new skin to heal a cut or when it starts creating new bone to heal a fracture. But we are surprised when something like cancer disappears from our body for no apparent reason. Doctors call this spontaneous remission. Some doctors who have studied such cases have concluded that it happens when the body is able to access a state in which the cells can use their natural ability for selfrepair. They speculate that these healings happen when mind, or consciousness, directs the body to heal itself—the so-called mind/ body connection. What is “mind”? Candace Pert, a molecular biologist who studies the process by which we begin to feel emotions, calls the mind “some kind of enlivening energy in the 49
