breakthrough philosophy that offers you the possibility to see past mankind’s understandable fears of cancer into the Darwinian ‘survival of the fittest’ message being broadcast by its DNA mutations.

The Heroic Steps philosophy states that life’s burgeoning malignancy is a clarion call from the depths of our archetypal unconscious, insisting that we as a species overcome our death wish (Sigmund Freud) by imitating cancer’s fervid determination to live.

Therefore… when your mind begins to grasp that cancer is not an alien invasion but rather an insistant voice emmanating from the pregnant root of all creation, your ancient memories will drive you past your fear.

And so… do not shoot the messenger; you can stop being the battlefield in humanity’s war on cancer.

 

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SPONTANEOUS REMISSION 

For those who are touched by cancer there is no sweeter, more mystifying sound than the elusive words spontaneous remission. But what if the miraculous disappearance of cancer from your body was not a spontaneous event at all but rather an entirely fundamental, even predictable endpoint on your heroic journey over the moat of fear and helplessness that surrounds your cancer?  Here at Heroic Steps, we not only accept as self-evident your ability to become the primary modality in your own healing, we are mystified that humanity has almost fallen off the edge of the world in its attempt to abrogate and deny its own responsibility to be a part of Life’s need for deep healing solutions.

We call our work heroic steps

Because those who work with us are those who have taken the heroic steps back from the edge of the world and the human collective sleep-walking that now masquerades as living.  Cancer is a collective, communal phenomenon of our species and truly those of you who now suffer from its intrusion into your body and soul are no more deserving of the profound hardship than are we all. CONVERSELY, those of you who are dealing with Cancer are suffering for the sins(so to speak) of us all. In your willingness to deal with the deeper ramifications of Cancer’s Coming, you are heroically forging genetic solution for us all. We who do not have Cancer, might never be able to thank you enough. An expression in the Albanian language expresses it best. Zoti ju shperbleft. (Only God can pay you the price for what you have given.)

THE REMISSION MISSION

Remission is like the valley between two distinct mountains. You have completed the climb of the first mountain using various means to overcome the shock and challenge of cancer. Your remission mission is to proactively choose your second mountain rather than passively waiting while cancer perhaps reemerges as that second mountain.
 
Use remission as a base camp, acclimating yourself to use your second chance at life in a revolutionary new way. Climb a second mountain of your own choosing. With the momentum you have gained from overcoming your first mountain, you are strengthened to face your life in an entirely new way. Don´t look back. As regards the human race, you’re in the lead now!

THE HEROIC JOURNEY

Not too many years ago there was but a single way to deal with Cancer and whether your outlook was grim or not, Western medicine considered you mentally unstable if you chose to abandon its perfect male logic. Not to be outdone by that patriarchal medical oncology, a competing view featuring 'alternative oncology' more recently grabbed the archetypal megaphone. It cajoles you to abandon medicine in favor of its matriarchal blend of mother earth's elixirs and herbs. Regrettably, the temptation to replace the mindless intake of pharmaceuticals with an equally robotic ingestion of herbs and vitamins often leaves Cancer patients with the same detached relationship to the storm brewing inside their bodies and souls. Furthermore, while patriarchal science and matriarchal alternative medicine often squabble, accusing each other of insincere intentions, it leaves you, the angels who hold malignancy within, to squirm like the children of bickering divorced parents. What then is the answer? Like the sub-title of the book, I CANCER, so insouciantly proclaims; The Semi-Buddhist Answer to Dancing With Cancer: YOU LEAD. That’s right dear and beautiful ones, you lead and Cancer will follow. I know this sounds so crazy. Here we all are, petrified by this ultimate powerful metastasizing yearning, and I am telling you that the monster will not devour you. I am telling you that when the swords are crossed down at the bottom of your soul, that Cancer will morph into its pre-destined manifestation. The third way, the heroic step that life was created to eventuate, will come and you will not only have healed Cancer in your body, you will have helped heal the Cancer that is egging on and begging our entire species to evolve.


Healing cancer as Hippocrates would have:
The Third Way

As previously stated Cancer is usually treated either medically or alternatively. These are your two basic choices and thankfully both ways do often bring some positive outcomes. But, oftentimes to follow a regimen, whether it be medical or alternative, creates a passive void residing directly next door to your mighty fear. Listen to what Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, said over two thousand years ago.

1. A wise man should consider how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
2. It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
3. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
4. Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Here at Heroic Steps we have taken a new Hippocratic Oath. Follow the intentions of Medicine’s originator and help lead your patients back towards themselves.

1. Yes, you can and must derive benefit from your Cancer.
2. If you are not yet, become the sort of person who uses Cancer as a heroic climb up your personal inner Mt Everest.
3. God helps those who help themselves. This is not a trite cliché but a genuine, imploring call for you to help cure your Cancer from the inside out.  
4. Find the natural force of healing in your own body, soul, heart and mind. Not only will you help cure your Cancer, you will forever more be blessed by your contact with this natural force.

The Third Way, therefore, is the path that originates in the depths of you

For those of us who worship at the alter of Integrative Cancer Care we must be grateful that complementary and alternative therapies are finally inching their way into mainstream Cancer Care Centers. BUT….even in the more progressive facilities there generally is still too faint an emphasis on the Mind/Body components of Integrative Cancer Treatment. Frankly, there is an albatross hanging from the neck of all Cancer Prognoses. FEAR produces chemicals in the body that diminish our feelings of hope and suppress Endorphins and other immune boosting compounds that our brain might otherwise produce in its efforts to help save our lives. The diagnosis of Cancer is a profound fountain of fear and thus by its very primal sound, the word inhibits our ability to heal. Before we proceed with your physical Cancer Care, be it primarily old school medicine, integrative oncology or alternative therapies, we must replace THE IRON CURTAIN OF FEAR. We must provide you with a realistic rooted reason for you to feel that the painful, heroic journey with Cancer that life has chosen you for and burdened you with, will provide you with a handful of mysterious gains, blessings to accompany the obvious curse of this challenge.

PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY

First Things First

Now that Western medicine has finally abandoned the out-dated Cartesian paradigm that separated the realms of mind and body, modern scientific logic has spawned Psychoneuroimmunology(PNI). The science of PNI unequivocally acknowledges that your deep psychological dominion directly affects brain neurotransmitters, which in turn establish the release of chemical secretions, which are the ultimate determinants of the strength (or lack thereof) of your immune system. Simply put, a chronically weak immune system begets Cancer and a newly robust healed immune system begets Spontaneous Remission.

At HEROIC STEPS our work with PNI and Mind/Body Oncology addresses not only your personal unconscious fears and emotional needs, but the deeper Collective Unconscious realms that Carl Jung once so eloquently described. Our experience is that this two-pronged method not only helps heal your Cancer now, but it plants philosophical healthy seeds in the core of your being where otherwise new Cancer might have sprung forth in the future.