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One of the more profound
experiences the author had in his life was when the author held the
position of the Emergency Response Coordinator for the US Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Region 1, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
In this position he was tasked with developing and maintaining the
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission response to a nuclear accident in
the North East United States. Although the job itself was
interesting, it was not the experience of the job that was so
profound. It is the experience that came as a result of the job.
Having a diverse medical, research and commercial nuclear
background, training background, and having been a the primary
health physicist on the US Defense Nuclear Agency Nuclear Weapons
Accident Response Team when in the military, he was asked to take
the position of the Emergency Response Coordinator. His task was to
fix and upgrade a myriad of issues existing in the program including
some issues that lingered from the Three Mile Island Nuclear
Accident. However, although the job look interesting, he hesitated
to take it. One rule the author always followed was to take jobs
that looked interesting and fun. He learned many years earlier that
he could not sell his life for money or job because of its power and
influence. He had to take it because he felt he could enjoy doing
it. Although this job look perfect in many ways for his background,
he hesitate because of the individual who would be assisting him in
the job.
The position was primary a management position with an assistant
where the assets that were manage were not own or controlled by the
Emergency Response Coordinator. Rather they were managed through
agreement and assigned responsibilities. Since true nuclear
emergencies are infrequent and the Commission has limited money to
oversee and regulate nuclear operators it could not afford a full
time emergency staff in the way one would fund a full time fire
department and ambulance. The assets could be made available in an
emergency but at all other times the assets were deployed else
where. It was up to the Emergency Response Coordinator with the
assistance of the organizational management to figure out how to
have everything that was needed when it was needed but with little
standing and waiting to be called upon to response. This included
having a sufficiently trained and qualified cadre of individuals
when needed when you never really knew what the mix was that you
needed. Yet it is the way many emergency management responses are
managed.
Emergency management is a very peculiar type of job. You can sit
back, do nothing and make yourself look very successful. Or you can
do everything that needs to be done and never be seen as successful
because you are never called upon to respond. The only proof that
you did your job effectively is in an emergency and how all the
pieces come together or don’t to mitigate the accident. It is a
challenge to know what to do and have it be done when you can’t
practice it. It is even more difficult to see who is doing an
effective job when you can’t fully test what is developed let alone
practice it. So one of the biggest challenge learned after Three
Mile Island by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was to ensure
whatever was put in place would work when needed. The country could
not afford to have an inadequate response to such an event in the
future.
The problem the author saw in the job wasn’t ensuring a successful
response. He knew how to ensure that from his years of experience
responding to radiation incidents as a Health Physicist. What he saw
as the challenge was his assistant. The job depended on him and his
assistant. He knew he would have to have a very successful working
relationship with them. However, he knew the individual who would be
his assistant from a previous job that had also required startup
and/or reengineering.
The individual who would be his assistant was a nice, pleasant
individual. But she had a characteristic perceived by the author
which in hindsight which he can only describe as a toughness
relative to the creativity that would be needed. It was a
characteristic not readily perceived by most individuals for it was
more about freedom of her creative spirit. Yet at the time, the
author did not know enough about the creative spirit to understand
this is what he was perceiving. In any case, this characteristic did
not make for a pleasant atmosphere for the author. He felt what
could only be described as an uncomfortableness when working with
her. That in turn would not create the atmosphere that would be
necessary to ensure a successful response program. At the time, it
was hard to explain what the author saw and experienced in her. By
all criteria she was an exceptionally good candidate for the job.
Yet there was something the author felt very unsettled about but did
not consciously know what it was. He had work with her previously
and they worked well together. But there was something about her
that did not seem to fit what was, or would be, asked of her.
In any case, the challenge of the job itself was too much to resist.
Besides he was getting bored with what he was doing. So, he took the
job. Two days into the job his assistant in her late twenties was
diagnosed with breast cancer. Having spent several years as a
radiation physicist in the Navy Medical Service Corps supporting
clinical and research nuclear medicine, radiation diagnostics and
radiation therapy, he was aware of cancer treatment protocols. So he
knew what to expect with the diagnosis that she received. But the
phone call she received in the office about the diagnosis as he
watched her reaction began the most remarkable experience the author
could ever have requested in which to participate.
For the next two years, he shared a small office with her eight
hours a day as she underwent her treatment. They worked side by side
together on almost every issue the response program faced. He could
not be any closer to any one individual given the day to day contact
than with her. What he saw and experienced provided him with an
understanding that he could not receive in any other way. He needed
to have the opportunity to sit and what a flower unfold much the way
he
first learned to observe in comparing the weathering of two sets
of railroad tracks as a young child. The magnificence of the
opportunity and the gift that she gave the author was that he could
observe the starting conditions of her creative spirit and watch the
unfoldment of that spirt into its flowering and radiance. He was
able to see every step in the unfoldment and, in some case, the
instantaneous transformation as her awareness changed.
The medical condition she faced offered him nothing new. He saw all
of that previously. What is saw and experiences was the unfolding of
what is
symbolized by the heart and how that unfoldment was translated
into a healing of her body. He saw the essence of the
healing ability of the creative spirit as it becomes free within
an individual He literally saw a flower unfold. He saw what is
symbolized in the heart blossom into one of the most beautiful
creations he could even have the opportunity to experience. He was
amazed at the change in her entire being and in everything that she
did. That experience in itself was a experience to be cherished. But
something else more powerful came of it.
In time, what the author came to understand, is that he only needed
to spend a little time with an individual and he could quickly
determine where that individual’s creative spirit was in its
unfoldment. He also would get a pretty good insight as to what
needed to be done to free a bound creative spirit and to create the
space for its unfoldment and blossoming. In essence her unfoldment
and the feel of her unfoldment was imprinted within his being. He
will not necessarily consciously know what needs to be done for an
individual but he can feel it. That feeling then gets translated
into an intuitive insight and he will act on that insight. It is as
if he absorbed her healing process and it was
imprinted into his being.
This experience also changed his whole perspective as to what
healing was all about. As discussed in the topic, “The
Experience as a Healer,” the author was seen as a healer and
experience creating the space for people to be healed. Yet he never
saw the connection between what was done in a spiritual context with
physical changes in the individual. Prior to this point, he did not
see the interconnection between healing with the freedom of the
creative spirit. He knew the unseen realm of spirit was somehow
causing the physical changed experienced in an individual but he did
not see healing associated with freedom of an individual’s creative
spirit. It was this experience of this individual’s transformation
as a result of what she needed to do to address her physical
condition that he saw the inner work that ultimately must accompany
any healing. If the inner work is not done, the physical condition
may be cured of the condition but the individual will not be healed.
Ultimately it is the difference between processing bound energy
within one’s being through an accident illness or disease and
creating a condition of health. Processing a bound energy through an
accident, illness or disease does not address what caused the energy
to be bound in the first place. If conditions again exist for the
root cause to reappear then one can expect one’s creative energy to
again become bound. That, in turn, may force a reoccurrence of a
past condition or it may be expressed in some entirely new way.
Nevertheless, the bound energy will need to be released. Healing, on
the other hand, addresses the root cause. So that even is conditions
again exist in an individual’s life which gave rise to their
accident, illness or disease, they will not create some accident,
illness or disease for the root cause is gone. In some ways it is
like an inoculation. Without the inoculation, one is susceptible to
an illness or disease. With the proper inoculation, one can be
expose to the illness or disease and not get it. The “trick “ is, of
course, to get to that root cause which is often very difficult for
it is so masked in other conditions.
This experience of the “unfolding flower” open the door to
understand how our internal world affects our physical world.
However, only in time did he come to realize the unseen realm that
cause physical healing did not lie in the unseen world of the
spiritual and what lied outside the individual. Rather it lied in
the unseen world of the individual and how free or unfree their
creative spirit is to express itself. It is what is
symbolized by the heart, our creative spirit, which both created
and sustains us. How free our creative spirit is to follow its truth
is what determines what healthy or unhealthy conditions it creates
in our life. That understanding is discussed in the “Creativity
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