As the renowned psychotherapist, Lawrence Le Shan, pointed out in his speech to the Bristol Cancer Help Centre in November 1085, 29 out of 30 medical textbooks before 1900 associated cancer with suppressed emotions.

"if you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you" ...Jesus of Nazareth, according to the Gospel of Thomas, known as one of the apocryphal gospels. The important point is not whether Jesus actually said this or not, but whether there is any truth in the teaching. For thousands of year Great Masters and mystics have been saying that we create our physical environment with out beliefs, anticipations, ideas and attitudes, and that the most concentrated power we have at our disposal is our imagination and emotions. Not our will-power, not our positive or negative thinking, but our emotions. What we think, and allow ourself to feel, becomes out experienced reality.

In the Gospel according to Thomas it is alleged that Jesus spoke a parable which alludes to the mind. He speaks of a chariot, beautifully made, but it lacks grace because it has no movement. So a team of horses is hitched to the chariot. Now it has movement, but is dragged against the trees, over rocks and into ditches and in no time at all it is shattered. It needs a diver. Now it can be kept on the road. It lacks only one thing, a destination.

The motionless chariot is the mid stilled in meditation. Many people, especially Buddhist monks, struggle to achieve the resultant bliss that comes with such tranquillity. However, they fail to recognise such bliss as being a denial of life.

The horses in the parable represent the emotions. When we are swept away by our own emotions we also are in danger of a breakdown.

The driver, obviously, represents control. The primary purposes of meditation is to get to know and understand your own mind. With understanding comes control.

Finally, one has to have a destination. Though there are many places to visit, many sidetracks, many adventures, the only real destination is our journey back to God. All else is illusion. All things physical are thought forms objectified. The thoughts are real, the effect illusory. In this way we are, in reality, unable to cause death or destruction to ourselves or any other forms of life. Within the illusion we create great suffering, individually and collectively. for this reason the illusion had better be taken very seriously.

The journey we are on is for the purpose of knowing God is all that is. From thought into energy, into matter, into this physical aspect of eternal life. Through the transfiguration of your Great immortal Self, or Soul, into the physical plane, you take the risk of losing your true identity, becoming embroiled in survival. Sadly, that is what most of humanity has indeed done. Happily, it is not a permanent condition.