An Update from David Simon
Dear ones,
Thank you for all your prayers, inspiring messages, and jokes, which I’ve been enjoying immensely. I have been deeply touched by the support and love you all have given me. Yesterday’s surgery went very well and I feel grateful for the amazing team of doctors and nurses here at the U.C. San Diego medical center. I expect to be home by Monday and look forward to returning to my work at the Chopra Center. I hold all of you in my heart.
Love,
David
Posted: June 18th, 2010 under Love for David Simon, M.D..
155 Comments to “An Update from David Simon”
Comment from Isabel
Time at 5:04 am
Dear David ,
So much for the power of intention…
after editing my last entry consciously … concisely … intentionally … I decided to post it to find that all the editing had been ignored …
tingling my head … what the hell happened here???
oh …
so much for editing…
hummm
unless there is this shadow thing lurking in the background …
oh well …
so it is …
have a lovely day … filled with love …laughter and magic…
without editing …
hee hee hee
that would be fun…
Comment from Isabel
Time at 2:15 am
Thursday – law of intention and desire …
after a night of astral traveling …
between Spirit and Earth …
like a messenger of sorts …
waking up to a program of ” Beyond Chance” …
a second time event on the same story …
a birthday gift of a romance published in 1910 by Florence L. Barclay called “THE ROSARY” …
a woman who so much wanted the book from her aunt since she was very young … to be turned down time and time again…
her daughters decided to seek a copy on the internet when she turned 80 …
they chose one copy for $8 and wrapped it. When their mother opened the gift she realised that it was in fact her late Aunts book … signed by her … given to her across time…
listening to this story reminded of my encounter with the ROSARY … its deep impact as a story of love and redemption when I was a teenager… writing about in my diary at the time … with tears I still recall …
Oh … the poem … how I wish I could read it again as it mirrored my souls call so deeply at the time …
decided to search in the internet and to my amazement I have been able to download it as a ebbook …
and there it is …
the exquisite poem I never forgot …
as if to remind me …
I always knew….
ah….
“The hours I spent with thee, dear heart,
Are as a string of pearls to me;
I count them over, ev’ry one apart,
My rosary,–my rosary.”
“Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer,
To still a heart in absence wrung;
I tell each bead unto the end, and there–
A cross is hung!”
“O memories that bless and burn!
O barren gain and bitter loss!
I KISS EACH BEAD, and strive at last to learn
To kiss the cross . . . to kiss the cross.”
ah …
a mystical voice …
burning …
across time …
as if reminding of a script …
carved into my soul …
a call for…
” expressing a strength of endurance
which would fail in no crisis, nor fear to face any depths of pain; yet gathering to itself a poignancy of sweetness, rendered richer by
the discipline of suffering.”
ah …
the smell of roses … from my younger days …
as if reminding me of my souls intention and desire …
beyond time …
written…
before I was born…
humm
how delightful …
and how funny …
as so much of my life force has been to fight it …
oh …
Gods laughter …
oh yes …
reminding me of a story with my beloved capuchin big boy – my first handreared …
for whatever reason I kept finding 2 of the capuchins in the garden … walking around as I panicked…
the set up is quite big which meant looking everywhere for an opening day after day … to no avail …with helpers going through each inch of net …
still nothing …
till one day I had a lavish fit of anger … one of those … in my impotence to find the way …
as I lingered on it I see Suki walking like an oragotango … as if laughing at me …
oh yeah ???? what is is your problem????
to watch him going to the front session of one of the cages (they are interlinked) … pull the wire from each other and pull his head out …
you dummy … he seemed to be laughing as he pulled it back once he saw my startling face …
oh dear … I would never been able to find it there …
hee hee hee
no different with Gods ways .. I would say …
as I can hear the laughter …
time and time again …
specially when I have one of these wild tantrums …
like sometime this week …
of dear…
do not remember screaming like this …
till I lost my voice …
and what happens ???
there comes the rosary …
laughing at me …
oh well …
some of us are slow learners…
hoping you are doing well …
Comment from Isabel
Time at 10:41 pm
today is Wednesday – the law of least effort…
ah… leading to possibilities of the now… without the ego….
one of the the greatest mystical challenges I would say …
as what seems so small is potentially …
ah!!! … the LadyBird message that keeps showing in my dreams???
suddenly so very aware of the multidimensional mystery where in truth there is no time …
wondering …
who am I in this effortless space – without beginnings or endings???
ah .. a powerful dream where I experienced thousands of butterflies emerging from infinity …across mountains and valleys …
to melt into my body …
ah … the impact …
as I opened my arms and breath them in…
“Welcome HOME” …
and then there is the DREAM that EFFORTLESSLY keeps coming up through “Ananda’s deaths and rebirths due to shock and loss of blood …
a dream where I experienced myself as a host inside a high cathedral altar shrine …
to become a river of blood running profusely towards the entrance of the cathedral …
to stop half way …as it became so streched only a drop was left …
and there I stood … reflecting … “I know I need to reach the entrance of the cathedral and yet I have no strength left to get there …I am only a drop….
to be told …
help will be sent to you and you will reach the entrance of the cathedral …
a process which keeps teaching me about the power of the now… where everything affects everything … profoundly connected to each other and with every living thing… as spirit guides .. like LadyBirds show up in the most mysterious ways … often as sacrifices… for the benefit of humankind …
evoking us… to see through the symbolic lenses … where everything becomes sacred …
ah … another recent dream …. entering a triangle where inside I saw myself seated in a lotus position with all my chakras perfectly balanced … a painting I got before receiving a frantic phone call from the Vet telling me that Ananda was in a very serious condition after a sudden deterioration …
as if reminding me that underneath it all there is a divine symphony being played by an orchestra of angels across dimensions … guiding us forth … in awareness and with a highly focused attention and intention…..
Ananda story is so profoundly mystical I feel challenged to write about it …
thus the eruption in my lungs …
and yet …
when I allow the symbolic to filter through it is magic and grace I see …
in every living moment….
shining me forth…
in ways …
I know …
I am everything …
and so are you !!!
ah …
would love to share pictures of my beloved Ananda which I can only do in facebook … and yet still feel too vulnerable to connect with it at that level…
will let you know when I do it …
as I find “Ananda” so very inspirational – as she can sit for hours meditating in the most strange positions …
as if she knows what I am talking about …
hee hee hee
oh yes …I have just restructured a new cage for her … connected to my bedroom where she can walk effortlessly high above with her 3 legs …
I also built her a bridge with her old cage so that she can reconnect with the other capuchins as right now she seems alienated from it all …
except that she loves her new cage so much she wakes up early and wants to go out … while before she would want to stay inside until 10 in the morning .. depending on the weather…
she just woke up now … so let me take care of her …
hope my sharing can bring you a smile…
THANK YOU…
Comment from Anita Rangaswami
Time at 11:58 am
Dear David, I am so glad to hear the surgery went well and you are home now. We pray that you recover very soon and are back to spreading the timeless knowledge of the ancients. You are definitely in our daily prayers – we send you lots of love, hope and peace as you heal the mind, body and spirit.
May the blessings of Lord Dhanvantri (the Healer) and Lord Ganesha always be with you.
Vakra thunda Mahakaya
Surya Koti Samaprabha
Nirvighnam Kurume Deva
SarvaKaryeshu Sarvada
With Love and Best wishes
Namaste
Anita
Comment from Isabel
Time at 1:29 pm
hummm
a fundamental spiritual law – everything affects everything…
calling for embodiment …in alignment of body, mind and spirit …
a strange reoccurring dream for the last 3 nights …before my body broke down with a deep lung infection … .
astral experiences burning inside my bones …
about the unified theory connecting us all …
beyond the alienation of the human experience…
The first dream was so very present as soon as I woke up from the impact I fell asleep again …as if struggling to come out from the high vibrational frequency cradling me in…
the last 2 nights it is as if the vibration is being called to transmute shadow mystical threads …hidden deep underneath ..
as there seems to be a dialogue back and forth … seeking some high level resolution to a very deep conflict…
oh yes … the dream…
floating across infinity I seemed to have no attachments to anything on earth… as if the umbilical cord had been cut off … and I let myself fall into a form of a black hole ….
a vision I had back in December…
yet … at some point I became aware of light vibrational forces coming through … like a mandala … highly focused they formed rainbow hues around my energy field …
so very light it felt like a feather when I hit rock bottom … helping me to pass through its needle … to the other side of the black hole…
to experience an absolute indescribable vibration of pure lightness… breathing me …as it took the shape of an exquisite lady bird …
which to my amazement had landed in Deepak’s hand …and family….
oh .. I heard my thoughts …
is this the place where we all meet ???
what a jubilant experience .. I laughed
in delight …
quite funny and so very vivid …
trusting that sharing of my experience will contribute to the healing of your journey , as you are doing to mine …
THANK YOU …
Comment from Miguelina Lugo-Horton
Time at 2:17 pm
Dear, Dr. Simon
You and your family are in my prayers,. I am very happy to know your surgery was a success. I will continue to pray for your speedy recvery., Miguelina
Comment from Isabel
Time at 12:20 am
Dear David,
I woke up from a very intense dream as Ananda recovers from such severity of traumas her bone marrow had shut down … leading to the last blood transfusion from my big boy Suki …
my first cappuchin and “Ananda” s father…a cappuchin leader so clever and so strong it took 2 experts, from the local zoo, over 2 hours to catch him… to their great amazement as he kept escaping… as the process felt so undignified to his leadership abilities(he sulked for 2 days afterwards) …
expert angels who simply appeared, supporting me when I most needed it, following the hit that I had to take Suki with me that day – to the expert hospital about 100 kms away, where I would travel everyday, refusing to leave Ananda on her own…
to find this time that Ananda’s red blood cells count had reached death level once again, despite the fact that she had received a blood transfusion a week earlier from another very kind soul who simply appeared … leading to very risky decisions … as once again she was given 24 hours to live…
Interestingly, as she entered the process of recovery, she started shaking her tail so strongly it vibrates through her whole body like a snake coming alive… to the point where her whole body responds like a violin of highs and lows … a process that is still going on … including fits of raw anger.. unlike herself as she is known as “The Zen monkey” …
as if liberating herself from those severe traumas, including daily levels of anesthesia in order to drain the wound from the gangrena that kept setting in …after each of the 3 amputations … now at shoulder level …
in my dream today I found myself in what looked like a safety pool inside the ocean … to realize that the waves had become so very high I was in danger of being pulled out and drown in the process… I thought of gathering my strength and swim to shore …
yet, I knew that the current had become so strong there was a real danger of being dragged by its force and drown in the process….
I prayed and asked for help as I did so deeply with Anandas process to find that I had a life vest around me that suddenly pulled me over the pool and took me safely to shore … like a propeller of sorts…
how could it be? I asked
If you smell your vest you will see that there is a bomb in it … a bomb that was about to explode … thus the residual smell… it is now disconnected and you are safe …
Who disconnected it???
ah … the mystery… as I received no answer…
instead I was told …
It would have killed you … instead, it saved you … as its power was used like a propeller taking you safely to shore …
as if reminding me of the illusionary sense of safety I was living in my “safe” pool…
hummm…
how profoundly meaningful … the mystery of the mystical journey …calling us to surrender to the guidance we are given while building the courage to follow the hits …
in trust and with faith …that our prayers are answered …
in alignment with our souls’ call …
beyond the ego’s expectations, accusations and demands …
ah … the power of mystery…
in the depth of the ocean …
leading us …
to shore …
to experience the grace and raw beauty of our naked souls…
in unity …
with every living thing …
and there you are …
ah!!!!
how can words express what we barely understand except maybe…
learning to bow …
and fall …
safely…
onto our knees …
to be awakened into new possibilities …
each time we choose to listen…
oh yes …
another recent dream …
where I was shown slides of my life … like a movie of sorts …
where the last one stood out … loud and clear …
LIVE … AS A PRESENCE ….OF THE POWER OF THE NOW…
hummm
THANK YOU…
Comment from LizaZ
Time at 6:32 am
Dear David & Family,
So happy to hear the surgery went well! I’ve never met you David but feel like i have because I receive the Chopra emails and read your words all of the time. So when I received your email about having been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor I felt like I needed to send you a message to share a few things: 1- you are an INSPIRATION! May I be able to confront any future life challenges with the same level of grace, gratitude and peace! 2- I trust that God and the universe are taking super special care of you and your recovery, 3- i’m saying healing prayers for you each day.
love and peace, liza
Comment from Isabel
Time at 1:00 am
ah… the power of invisible acts of love… through which we learn to dance in gratitude and with joy… at unity… cradled by Gods grace… across rivers of agony and ecstasy … calling us to become its centre …
beautifully expressed by St Theresa of Avila “Let nothing disturb me” …
ah … the grace of guiding dreams … where a recent one stands out…
across infinity… surrounded by a group of visible and invisible healing friends… including Caroline Myss… Deepak family… amongst others …
making a supporting mandala around me…
to notice my lower 3 chakras floating in front of my higher ones … severed …and pleading…
PLEASE HELP ME…
as if knowing the secret of healing and ultimate bliss that comes from within…
to find my beloved cappuchin “Ananda” with her left arm amputated as she struggled to set herself free from an entrapment …
an experience that led to moments of a most profound agony… to be transformed through grace I seemed to have forgotten ….bringing me to my knees… time and time again…
where your sharing, extraordinaire strength and focused visionary determination has become a catalyst for a new awakening and a deeper sense of purpose …in my commitment to write about “Ananda” …
across layers of a deep sense of isolation …and shutting down…
Dear David …
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU… IN ALL THAT YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU STAND FOR…
You have touched my life… in ways I have yet to integrate …
Oh yes … I woke up yesterday with the resonance of a silent prayer from yet another guiding dream ” Please give me the strength to give it back to life” … to watch a most exquisite gold lady bird in my hand…
hummm… how can I describe her golden beauty???
Comment from Mercée Doran
Time at 4:47 pm
We Thank God Very much for your recovery. With Love from Curacao.
Mercée Doran & Gersham Henriquez
Comment from Ernest from Monterrey ( Mexico)
Time at 4:06 pm
Dear David.
My heart is filled with joy, gratitude and hope after reading your post. So happy to hear the surgery went very well and that you are on your path to complete healing and recovery.
Although we wish to have you back at the Chopra Center in fully conditions, I wish you don´t rush recovery time and take as much as required to be at a 100 %.
You deserve this, and to be at your best !!…. time is not important, your wellbeing and health are !!!, so much…
I wish you to enjoy time with your family and feel the thoughts and precious moments that you face at your “new life”.
From Monterrey ( Mexico ), I send you a hug of Love & Light, also to your family.
Peace, Harmony, Laughter & Love, dear friend !!
Namasté
Ernest
Comment from Andreas
Time at 10:01 am
Very happy to hear all went well with your surgery and wish you nothing but the best for your recovery. You are gifted healer and the world is truly blessed with you in it.
Best in Health,
Andreas
Comment from Phyllis Kiefer
Time at 9:41 am
I am so happy to hear that the surgery went well and that you are recovered enough to be able to post an update so quickly!
Love and Peace,
Phyllis
Comment from bonnie heidel
Time at 7:17 am
interested on update of david’s health