Regarding Cancer In Spiritual Masters

[Ray711]

In the line of what Patrick said, Ra didn't say that anger was the only cause of cancer. I'm sure in certain cases the reasons are completely different. A very obvious example where anger is probably not a factor at all is the case of children who develop cancer.

I have no doubt that these spiritual teachers mentioned in the thread achieved great states of consciousness, but it's possible that some of these people suffered from the consequences of what Ra mentions here:

“Much of the mystic tradition of seeking on Earth holds that belief that the individual self must be erased or obliterated and the material world ignored for an entity to reach ‘nirvana,’ as it’s called, or enlightenment. What is the proper role of the individual self and its worldly activities in aiding an entity to grow more into the Law of One?”

Ra: I am Ra. The proper role of the entity is in this density to experience all things desired, to then analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them. Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed falls away.

The orientation develops due to analysis of desire. These desires become more and more distorted towards conscious application of love/light as the entity furnishes itself with distilled experience. We have found it to be inappropriate in the extreme to encourage the overcoming of any desires, except to suggest the imagination rather than the carrying out in the physical plane, as you call it, of those desires not consonant with the Law of One; this preserving the primal distortion of free will.

The reason it is unwise to overcome is that overcoming is an unbalanced action creating difficulties in balancing in the time/space continuum. Overcoming thus creates the further environment for holding onto that which apparently has been overcome.

All things are acceptable in the proper time for each entity, and in experiencing, in understanding, in accepting, in then sharing with other-selves, the appropriate description shall be moving away from distortions of one kind to distortions of another which may be more consonant with the Law of One.

It is, shall we say, a shortcut to simply ignore or overcome any desire. It must instead be understood and accepted. This takes patience and experience which can be analyzed with care, with compassion for self and for other-self.

I feel that it's so easy to fall into this trap, though, so I don't mean to judge. Even if this is truly what happened to these spiritual teachers, much of spirituality is extremely confusing and paradoxical, so it's nothing but understandable that this would happen.

EDIT: This too might offer some clues as to what may have happened, if we consider that these teachers, through meditation and other practices, no doubt developed their will to great levels:

There is great danger in the use of the will as the personality becomes stronger, for it may be used even subconsciously in ways reducing the polarity of the entity.