The Spirit of Illness
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This book tells how of Claire Marie, psychologist and shaman, following her experience working in an NHS oncology and chronic pain service, sets off on a quest to meet the Spirit of Illness.
We follow her as she journeys from the British Isles through Sweden, France, and Greece and finally to Nepal, connecting along the way with the spirits of her patients who, in turn, offer their stories as gifts to us all.
Written at a time when the whole world was held within the energy-field of one particular illness (the Spirit of Covid), Claire Marie aims to show that behind each illness is a Web of interconnection. If we choose to open our heart to the sacred message that an illness is bringing us, the Web becomes light-filled and welcomes us into a new relationship with ourselves, our lives, and the world around us.
The Web of Illness offers a conduit for communication and healing.
Our fears – fuelled by the stresses of contemporary society – not only hold us back from being able to sense this luminous Web of Illness, but they can often transform it into what Claire Marie metaphorically calls the Dark Angel of Illness. Fear smothers the light of the sacred message and all that remains of our illness is darkness.
From the heart of French Christianity in the hills of Burgundian Vezelay, to Tibetan Buddhism in the Himalayas, from the forests of Sweden to the English cliffs of Cornwall, the illnesses are given voice, their words punctuating this travelogue, with stories that echo our own stories and those of wider humankind.
Through the metaphors that the spirits whisper to Claire Marie, we learn to dream again, to listen to the vibrations of our internal organs and our cells, we free ourselves of our blockages, untangle our suffering, our grief, and even our ancestral memories. The images that unfold before us open our hearts, nourishing the Angel of Light of illness to grow within us and between us.
By raising awareness of this Web of Illness, Claire Marie intends her book to be a therapeutic tool with two main ambitions at its heart.
To shake up thinking: opening new fields of research by encouraging doctors, scientists, care workers etc to listen to their patients and their study subjects in a different way.
To ease suffering: the images and words Claire Marie shares in this account are not intended to confine or define illness but are simple offerings to awaken new stories within us which, by untangling our internal suffering, can help to transform the suffering of the world.
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