Our session this week was entitled “Cancer and Spirituality”. Our guest speaker was the former speaker of the house, Ms. Occa Seepaul. Despite the fact that Occa was not a cancer survivor she was a survivor in her own right, having lost her only child and having had her fair share of life experiences.

She had embarked on a spiritual journey for some time now, one which she shared with us. She continues to study not only Hinduism, the faith in which she was raised, but also Christianity and many others. Her studies include readings of many of the great spiritual masters both of our times as well as those that have gone before us.

She believed that we were not to fear death. We are all on a spiritual journey and this is but one leg of that journey. The important thing on this journey was to recognize that we all have our lessons to learn and we all have a purpose to fulfill in this life. She emphasized that we must not blame others for our fate, in our case cancer, but must recognize the role that we have played in allowing this disease to enter our lives and take responsibility for that. She firmly believe that we possess the power to transform our bodies back to its original state but to do so we must let go of stress, worry and fear.