For surgeon Bernie Siegel, “the knowledge that God is a loving, intelligent, and conscious energy” has come from dreams, drawings, and near-death experiences. He believes that: “first, there was consciousness and consciousness was with God” and “consciousness was God, because God speaks in dreams and images―the universal language.” From his experience with patients, Siegel has learned that consciousness can be healing. To a cancer patient Siegel proposed: “visualizing God’s light melting a tumor that appears as a block of ice.” To another: “Let go and let God.” Siegel tells his patients: “By accepting ourselves as God’s creation, seeing beauty and meaning in what we are, just as we are, we accept others as God’s creation too.”
Near-death experiences have led some to see the afterlife as offering reincarnation in this or another world. “I have had a near-death experience,” Siegel confirms, “and, through this, learned that we are more than our bodies. I have had past-life experiences and had messages from dead patients delivered to me through mediums. I have even heard the voices of the dead speak to me.” Instead of denying the reality of these anomalous experiences, Siegel affirms that consciousness, “as a universal field,” is “the source of all creation” and “communicates with our consciousness.”
Bernie S. Siegel, The Art of Healing: Uncovering Your Inner Wisdom and Potential for Self-Healing (New World Library, 2013), 198, 42, 36, 163, 92, 4-5, and 114.
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