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In this episode of Simply Living Wellness, Donna Abreu interviews guest, Sunshine Beck, about her inspirational self healing story from breast cancer, and about her discovery of Spiritism which she considers a large factor in her healing.
If you are struggling with any physical pain, emotional stress or health issues, including cancer, we highly encourage you to listen to this episode and learn about how you can focus on more than just the physical body for healing. Your spiritual connection plays a bigger role that you may realize, as you will hear in Sunshine’s story.
Sunshine is a single mother of two boys, 19 and 21. She was born and raised in Germany and at the age of 22 moved to the United States where she now lives in Northern California. Sunshine is currently an in-home care companion for the elderly and she started her own Spiritist Center in December, 2017, in Meadow Vista, CA, called the Divine Light Spiritist Center, which you will hear about in this episode.
In 2006, Sunshine was diagnosed with breast cancer, stage one, and given the recommendation of surgery and chemotherapy. Instinct told Sunshine from the very beginning to not follow the western model of “cutting, burning and poisoning”, aka surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Yet what was her alternative? Listen to Sunshine as she shares her powerful story of her journey that lead to self healing and full recovery.
Brazilian Medium, John of God
Coincidentally (or not?), one year prior to Sunshine’s diagnosis, she had the instinct to travel to Brazilia to meet the medium, John of God. She loved her visit so much that she booked a second flight to Brazil the following year, and one month after she booked, she received her diagnosis.
John of God is not a healer, per say, rather has the capacity to let high level healing spirits work through him and facilitate healings. There are many others like John of God, he is not the only healer/medium around. He resides in South America near Brazilia, the capitol of Brazil.
When Sunshine received her diagnosis in November of 2006, she had visited John of God one year prior, and already had her flight booked for a second trip later that year. It was the first visit with John of God that gave Sunshine the strength to resist the strong pull from the doctors, who kept calling her for several weeks to schedule surgery and begin chemotherapy. “We have a spot for you right now”. “You have to take care of it”, the doctors urged her.
Fear sets in.
She began questioning herself. Maybe she should follow the allopathic model. Having been born and raised in Germany with holistically inclined parents, her family and friends were supportive of her decision which gave her more strength. And through meditation, when a much different vibration comes through, she got the strong message that she did not need the allopathic model.
But she had no idea what to do!
She trusted that the answers and guidance would come. She hopped on her flight to Brazilia the following month, and then continued to visit twice per year, staying approximately one month per visit. During each visit to John of God, her next step on her healing journey became entirely clear. She never knew the “plan” beyond that next step, yet each step faithfully led to the next.
Continue reading to learn a lot more about those “steps” to healing that Sunshine received one by one from spirit. We’ll cover that further on.
One Day Sunshine’s Inner Voice told her She had Healed
These visits to Brazil continued for five years. In her fifth year, she got the strong message from her inner voice that she was healed. Yet, her mind questioned her inner voice, once again. Her friends encouraged her to do a screening to know for certain, but Sunshine feared exposing this toxicity to her breasts. After struggling too much with this decision, Sunshine decided to BLESS this next mammogram and essentially “allowed” the radiation into her system.
On this day, five hears after her diagnosis, Sunshine received the amazing news that she was cancer-free! She felt so much gratitude on a level she had never experienced before. Her heart opened up so deeply.
That was seven years ago.
Spiritism in the United States
After Sunshine’s joyous negative screening, she got the message of a couple in her area doing spiritism. It was like having a local John of God.
John of God’s Brazilian Spiritual Healings are based on the practice of Spiritism. Spiritism is not a religion. Spiritism is a science that observes and studies the spirits. From its communications and teachings, arises a philosophy that leads to moral, religious and spiritual transformation in human beings.
Spiritism is very popular in Brazil, almost as popular as the religion, Catholicism. Yet, Spiritism is not commonly known in the United States.
And so Sunshine began attending the local Spiritist meetings every week, as opposed to flying to Brazil twice annually.
What Is Spiritism Exactly?
Spiritism is very open to the fact that we can communicate with spirits. This is known as mediumship. Essentially, mediums give spirits voices.
Many mediums exist today, and many famous ones have lived in the past. Moses was a medium for example, as was Jesus. But the fact is, we are all mediums. We can all receive messages. Some happen to have mediumship more developed than others and can actually have a voice for the spirit.
Spiritism focuses on where we come from as a soul, why are we here, and where are we going. This belief system is categorized into five pillars.
The Five Pillars of Spiritism
1. We are all a soul and our souls are immortal
2. Reincarnation exists; only our physical forms die
3. The purpose of all these lifetimes is to perfect ourselves
4. Life forms exist on all planets, and there five different conscious levels, Earth being second to last (not very conscious!)
5. There is a God who is the first cause of all things and primary intelligence. We can communicate with the spirit world including God.
We are all a part of God, and God expresses itself through us, but only to the level of our moral development. Some people, like you and I, know that killing is not acceptable, regardless of the situation. But there are many here on our Earth that kill today. And you or I may “kill” in other ways we’ve never thought to be considering “killing”. For example, criticism or character attacking on social media that inflicts pain is a form of killing on a less material level, because it’s a form of destruction.
On Earth, we learn primarily through pain and illness. When things go well, we live it up. We don’t have the consciousness yet to focus on our moral developments. Love it not yet the primary force on earth. Pain and suffering is the primary force.
When we as individuals reach a certain level of moral development, we can “graduate” to other planets where love is the primary force. At the highest level, there is only Truth, with a capitol “T”. Once we reach the Truth there is only one. We are all connected, we are all one.
The Law of Love
For the most part, on this planet, we are disconnected from love, because we are so filled with fear. When we disconnect from love, dis-ease forms in our physical bodies. When we live in love only, there is no Heaven and Hell. The concept of Hell originated from fear.
How do we connect BACK to love?
1. First, we must understand our goal. How do we want to change? Are we wanting to become more accepting? Forgiving? Patient? All virtues are a form of being more loving. These are all fantastic goals, but focus on one at a time, really master it before moving on to the next goal.
2. Second we must do the work to achieve our goal. How can I be more forgiving, for example? One must practice it every day. Attending study groups helps to learn practical ways of how to be more forgiving. Then practice, every day. Spiritist group meetings focus on just that… learning how to integrate these practical exercises into your daily routines.
Do Unto Others as You Would Like Others to Do Unto You
Jesus brought a lot of love to this planet. Christianity is based on good morals and on learning to be loving, charitable beings. When Christianity evolved, however, religion destroyed what Jesus brought to the world, because of our lack of consciousness here on Earth. People in power used religion as a way to control the masses.
As a result, some people today frown upon religion and throw out all religious models. But the study of Jesus and what he brought to this Earth is beneficial. Everything that Jesus brought to planet Earth was based on the loving model.
“Do onto others what you would like them to do onto you”, Jesus spoke.
“Love your enemies as you love yourself”. How many of us can truly do that?
We don’t need a church or religion to do follow these principals. It’s simply a matter of becoming a better person. Spiritism is one vehicle that helps us get there.
What Does This All Have to do with Fighting Cancer?
As we learned earlier, the body doesn’t actually create disease. A disconnection from love is what causes dis-ease, and therefore, disease. Our diseases reside on the soul level, yet they manifest in our bodies which is the densest part of us, our physical form. So, in order to heal the physical form, we need more soul connection and love connection to heal the soul which then allows the physical body to heal.
Most people don’t realize this connection. Most healing models, even the alternative models, focus on changing the body. Focusing on the physical body is important, but it’s just one aspect of healing. We are body, mind and spirit.
Traditional methods often provide a band-aid approach and suggest cutting out body parts. Alternative healthcare methods focus on resetting the body physically and energetically. Both approaches forget the spirit focus.
Good health is the perfect harmony of the soul, achieving the creator-creature connection. So, it’s critical to connect ourselves back to God and when we become more God-like, then healing starts happening.
What Else Did Sunshine Do to Heal?
As we’ve learned, Spiritism and connecting to spirit was a huge component to Sunshine’s healing. Connecting and following guidance for the next steps to take rather than using her mind to plan it all out.
There are so many paths to follow in alternative medicine to heal from an illness. It can be overwhelming and confusing and not every path or modality works for every person. You have to listen to your inner voice through silence to get the guidance of which path you are to take.
Sunshine recommends taking some time out to become clear, and the answers will come. You only need the next step. You don’t need the final, laid out plan. Her visits to Brazil gave her that time of silence.
Sunshine did make changes on the physical level as well. Hear Sunshine talk about all the modalities she used:
• Meditation, prayer and sitting in silence
• Significant diet change
• Anthroposophical medicine
• Mistletoe treatments
• Raw goat milk
• Visualization
• Hyperbaric chamber
• Clearing busywork and unimportant activities from her life
• Removed negative thinking
Your Life Is Your Thoughts
Sunshine understood that her thoughts became her life. If she dwelled on negativity, the darkness and critical thinking, then she was constantly placing bitter drops into her physiology. The feelings and emotions of resentment, for example, is SO detrimental to our health!
If she becomes more loving accepting, kind, patient, tolerant, tender, forgiving, virtuous, and overall a more “morally developed being”, then she becomes more connected to source, and more spiritually balanced which allows her body the space to heal. She surrounded herself with others who also have the desire to be spiritually connected, both in person and on social media.
She explains that when you have someone negative in your life that you are “stuck with”, so to speak, or if someone is rude to you directly or on social media, it’s best to pat that person on the back and send them love. Realize they are still a little ignorant and perhaps not as conscious as they could be.
“Forgive them for they know not what they’re doing”, in Jesus’ own words.
To clear the negative energy of others in these uncontrollable situations, you can also excuse yourself and listen to something positive to rejuvenate yourself or step into nature. Spiritists use http://www.kardecradio.com for uplifting audio, video and messages.
Don’t discount these people in our lives for they allow us to practice being loving souls! If we only surround ourselves with like-minded friends, we get no opportunities to practice.
Divine Light Spiritist Center in Meadow Vista, California
Sunshine recently opened her own Spiritist center currently in Meadow Vista, California, called the Divine Light Spiritist Center. It resides in the Sierra Nevada Foothills of Northern California. Meetings are held every Sunday from 3:30 – 5 PM. Attendees study together, learn how to become more loving beings, and drink some healing, magnetized water.
If you don’t live near Meadow Vista, then please visit https://www.spiritist.us/ to find Spiritist centers near you.
Sunshine has generously offered to speak with anyone struggling with cancer or another illness, or who simply would like to ask about Spiritism. She may be contacted at ilovesunshine@att.net. Feel free to reach out to Sunshine.
To learn more about Spiritism, You can also visit Sunshine’s FaceBook page: https://www.facebook.com/DLspiritistcenter/, and the national website https://www.spiritist.us/, and you may find inspirational recordings at: http://www.kardecradio.com
