Reflections
Apeldoorn, Netherlands, early February to March 8th, 2022
With the Akaija and our book ‘The Lady of the Rings – Opting for Free Choice’, it had to be that we too would speak out in this time of Corona and now also the Ukraine-crisis, in which Freedom of Choice seems to have become a relic of the ‘old normal’. This article is written from a relatively unexplored perspective, for we assume the existence of an invisible Spirit World from which we are born and to which we will return, a world from which guardian angels guide us and deceased loved ones support us.
The Earth has made itself available to be a learning school for our souls so that we may grow in Love and Consciousness. The most important exercise in this school consists of making choices, for here on Earth these choices do not materialise at the speed of thought; that delay offers us teachings to deal with their effects.
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Introduction
One of the most dreaded messages you can get sounds like: “Madam… you have cancer”. People are totally devastated after such an announcement, their world collapses because if there is one disease that frightens people, it is cancer.
After such an announcement, people are usually unaware that they still have a free choice. Of course, we all have no choice in what is on our life’s path, because we cannot look into the future and then cleverly avoid what we do not like. Perhaps cancer can be prevented by starting to live and eat healthier early in life. But once the disease has set in, it is a dead-end and you have to deal with it. The choice you do have after such an announcement is how to deal with it.
My friend Linda was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1999, and because of the impact of that message, she didn’t feel she had a choice at the time either. In today’s society we have been brought up to believe that we always have to go to hospital for medical intervention, so Linda also went almost automatically to the hospital in Apeldoorn and stoically let the tests pass.
Radiotherapy In Deventer (Mid-East part of the Netherlands) was the treatment the specialist finally proposed. Then Linda was offered the possibility of going to the Amsterdam Medical Centre for a second opinion, but something went wrong in the communication between the two hospitals. The AMC doctors were under the impression that the treatment was being transferred to them, as the Apeldoorn hospital had not mentioned the term ‘second opinion’ anywhere in the accompanying letter to the X-rays and scans we had brought with us.adden.
These AMC doctors did not even glance at that folder, and after only a few minutes of internal examination, they suggested an unusually heavy operation with six weeks’ hospitalisation, a year’s rehabilitation, the possible side effects of a stomach that would feel like concrete, incontinence, and perhaps also having to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair because important nerves might have to be cut. Linda and I, unaware of this communication error, were caught off guard and we asked for time to think about it. The doctors looked at her in amazement and said, “Why the delay? We have to operate, we are taking over the treatment now.”
But Linda, supported by me, persisted, and we were finally given 15 minutes to let this sink in. We used that time to go to the front desk and said we would let them know our decision within a week before we left the hospital. We were angry and had lost all trust in the regular medical circuit, a trust that had already been seriously damaged by other serious incidents in the family in the years before. It was precisely because of our anger that we then made a mistake: we did not want to have anything to do with these hospitals anymore and we chose to do everything alternative from now on.
Linda died two years later, after an intense period that touched us both to the bottom of our souls. 1 Now you could conclude that we had made a totally wrong choice and had acted irresponsibly. If only we had listened! You see, how stupid can you be?
Would you?
The theme of this article is Free Choice, an inalienable right of all people, a divine gift. Nobody should take that Freedom away from us, but when I look around me during the Corona crisis, it seems that many people have given away their Freedom voluntarily.
