And they know they're dying, but to get over the fears involved and to maybe gain some insight and understanding of what it is that they want to verbalize, that empowers them. I mean, all of us are going to die, we're not going to get out of this world alive. They may not have been able to cope with that or find the words to express that, but after we work together, they go home and have, instead of what might have been a very fearful and agonizing death, a very pleasant death with loved ones surrounding them. I think it's healing of the spirit and the individuality even though the physical body dies. My work has been mainly with chronic illness and cancer because traditional medicine is quite good at taking care of the sore throats, hastening the outcomes of illnesses that are limited anyway and allowing the patient to get over it faster.
Traditional medicine shines, in the intensive care units and in the emergency departments.
It doesn't shine so much with the chronic illnesses that we don't have answers for. I view myself as a bridge between two worlds, and maybe I've got feet in both worlds. I really respect them both, and that's one thing that drew me to anthroposophy, to Steiner. He always had the utmost respect for what the conventional physicians of his day were doing. He just said that if we enlarged that perspective we could do even better.