The SHN #93: Is Cancer A Psycho Emotional Disease?

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February 24th, 2024. Greetings from Da Nang! I’ve been on a learning, reading, writing binge which is why I’m sending out an extra letter a week. Today’s edition was inspired by a recent podcast conversation that resonated deeply with me and my exploration into the true causes of illness and disease. If you have any thoughts about the material presented today, I would absolutely love to hear them!

🎗️ Paul Leendertse on the Root Cause of Cancer

Paul Leendertse’s 16-year quest to understand cancer began in 2008, after losing two loved ones to the disease. Despite their efforts with conventional and holistic treatments, they succumbed—prompting him to question everything society believes about cancer. “I stopped searching for cures… and spent two years meditating and pondering what is cancer,” he recalls, launching a journey that reshaped his life and work.

In 2012, Leendertse published The Root Cause of Cancer, initially theorizing that psychoemotional stress was a key driver. As his work evolved through direct experience with hundreds of cancer patients—many of whom lived with him for weeks at a time—his understanding deepened. A framework emerged that ties cancer to emotional suppression, energy flow, and spiritual disconnection, with major implications for how we approach not just cancer, but all disease.

This blog post explores his evolved theory, supported by his own words, and highlights the potential benefits to humanity if we embrace this knowledge, take charge of our health, and move beyond the myths we’ve been taught.

What Is Cancer According to Leendertse?

Leendertse initially tied cancer to psychoemotional stress, observing tumors’ glucose absorption and lactic acid production. His view evolved through experiences like black salve killing tumors (only to regrow) and talks with Doug Kaufman, who saw cancer as fungal. Today, he theorizes:

• Cancer stems from emotional suppression, not merely stress. “It’s not just stress in our life—it’s specifically emotional suppression,” he explains. While stress is universal, cancer arises when emotions like anger, shame, or grief are buried rather than processed.

• Suppressed emotions disrupt the body’s energy field. These unexpressed feelings become “stuck” in specific regions, blocking the flow of life force energy (akin to prana or chi) that sustains cellular health.

• Blocked energy leads to cellular death. Where energy stagnates, cells lose vitality and enter a “death state,” akin to fruit detached from a tree.

• Fungus emerges as nature’s cleanup crew. “Mother Nature’s cleanup crew comes in and starts to clean up those dead cells,” he says, likening tumors to mold on a decaying apple. Fungus doesn’t cause cancer—it’s a response to tissue already compromised by emotional suppression.

His apple analogy is apt: “If you cut out the fungus from an apple... one day later there’s another bad spot... eventually the whole thing decomposes. That’s literally what’s happening to people because they’re trying to destroy the cancer.” This reframes cancer not as a foreign invader but as a natural process misdirected by our failure to address its emotional roots.

The Emotional and Energetic Connection

Leendertse’s work maps specific cancers to emotional patterns, often aligning with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which links organs to emotions. His findings, honed over 16 years and hundreds of cases, include:

• Lung Cancer: Tied to significant loss (e.g., death of a loved one or a dream), with grief and guilt as primary emotions. “Every time I’d talk to someone with lung cancer, they’d say, ‘I’ve experienced a major loss,’” he notes.

• Breast Cancer: Linked to personal sacrifice in love relationships, fueled by guilt or rage. Example: a woman giving excessively to others, losing herself in the process.

• Prostate Cancer: Rooted in shame about manhood, often feeling like a failure as a father or provider.

• Colon Cancer: Connected to survival, security, and tribal/family issues, with shame as the core emotion. Leendertse cites cases tied to financial failure or familial rejection.

• Skin Cancer: Associated with boundary violations, driven by worry and rage.

• Bladder Cancer: Stemming from suppressed fear or terror, often from childhood bullying.

• Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: Linked to tribal rage and shame, with rapid tumor onset post-suppression.

• Leukemia: Tied to tribal stability, where safety depends on attachment to an unstable group.

• Testicular Cancer: Linked to “sex and trust or safety issues.” Leendertse healed his own by addressing these roots.

These correlations suggest cancer is a physical manifestation of unresolved emotional wounds, stored in the body’s energy field and expressed through nerve plexuses tied to specific organs.

The Spiritual Dimension: Cancer as a Call to Evolve

Leendertse’s framework transcends biology, framing cancer as a spiritual crisis and opportunity. “The deeper understanding of cancer is that it’s related to love and real spirituality,” he asserts. “Cancer is very spiritual because it’s calling us to evolve in the way that we need to, where we’ve got stuck.” He views it as a signal to reconnect with our soul, shed limiting beliefs, and align with our true selves.

The Healing Process: A 15-Step Path to Transformation

Leendertse’s 15-step healing process, developed through years of trial and error, empowers individuals to address cancer’s root causes. Key elements include:

1. Reconnecting to the Soul: A person has to reconnect to their soul,” Leendertse emphasizes, requiring solitude—“spend more time alone” in nature —over social immersion. Many assume loved ones help most, but he counters, “To heal we have to… go into our aloneness… connect to our soul and emotions”. This isn’t a quick fix but a rebirth: “You have to rebirth yourself… shedding layers of our ego and coming home to our heart,” he says. “The goal is to transform everything into lessons.”

2. Self-Love: Healing must be for oneself, not just others. “It needs to be for something that’s just about you,” he says, countering the self-sacrificial patterns linked to cancers like breast cancer.

3. Freedom: “Freedom is one of the most powerful healing forces,” Leendertse argues, noting that fear often blocks us from choosing it.This freedom, he suggests, liberates individuals from the constraints—whether external (like oppressive relationships or jobs) or internal (like fear-driven self-sacrifice)—that fuel emotional suppression. By breaking free, one can realign with their soul’s authentic desires, reducing the energetic blockages that lead to cellular compromise.

4. Processing Emotions: Acknowledging and safely releasing anger, shame, or fear—e.g., screaming into a pillow rather than at others—is crucial. “We need to acknowledge our anger,” he stresses, placing it early in the process.

5. Forgiveness: A later step, requiring prerequisites like empathy and compassion. “You can forgive from the mind, you can forgive from the heart—those are two different things,” he explains, advocating for heartfelt resolution over intellectual bypassing.

This process is a lifelong tool for spiritual evolution, transforming pain into peace and lessons. “The goal is to transform everything into lessons,” he says, noting its success in helping clients heal themselves.

On Conventional and Alternative Treatments

Leendertse doesn’t outright dismiss conventional treatments like chemotherapy, which he’s seen shrink tumors rapidly. However, he critiques their failure to address the root cause: “I’ve seen tumors destroyed by chemotherapy, but I’ve also seen their cancer come back one month later.” He cites studies showing a mere 2-3% long-term success rate, despite billions and billions spent on research focused on destroying cancer rather than understanding it.

Alternative treatments like ivermectin, fenbendazole, or black salve fare no better in his view. “They’re trying to destroy the fungus,” he says, but since fungus is a symptom, not the cause, cancer regrows. His apple analogy underscores this: cutting out mold doesn’t stop the fruit from rotting if the underlying decay persists.

Evidence Beyond Anecdote

While Leendertse’s work is experiential, he points to rare studies supporting his thesis. A 1988 study on adopted children found no genetic correlation between biological parents’ cancer and their offspring’s, but a 500% increased risk if adoptive parents developed cancer before 50. “What’s being passed on in families is something deeper,” he concludes—patterns of emotional suppression, not genes. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study further bolsters this, linking early trauma to later disease, including cancer.

These findings hint at a truth mainstream medicine overlooks—so why the silence? With billions and billions poured into chemo trials, how has so little been spent exploring what Leendertse calls “the real issue”? Is it ignorance, profit-driven bias, or something else keeping this buried? What is going on?!

The Potential Benefits to Humanity

If Leendertse’s insights were widely embraced, the implications for humanity would be transformative:

• Empowerment Through Self-Responsibility: Understanding cancer as a signal of emotional suppression shifts the locus of control inward. Instead of awaiting external cures, individuals could take charge of their health, fostering resilience and agency. Imagine a world where people ask, “What’s going on in my life?” rather than “What pill can fix this?”, when dealt a health complication like cancer.

• Prevention Over Reaction: Teaching children and adults tools to process emotions—anger, shame, grief—could drastically reduce cancer rates. “We’re not taught in school how to deal with our emotions,” Leendertse laments. A society equipped with these skills could break cycles of suppression passed down through generations.

• A Health Paradigm Rooted in Truth: Moving beyond the “war on cancer” myth—that it’s a random enemy to be eradicated—would redirect billions from band-aid treatments to holistic education. Cancer’s 1-in-2 incidence and 27,000 daily deaths could decline as we address its spiritual and emotional roots.

• Collective Evolution: “If humanity can turn [cancer] into a gift, the world will change in massive ways,” he predicts. A culture prioritizing love, forgiveness, and soul growth over competition and suppression could heal not just bodies, but relationships, communities, and the planet. Reconnecting with nature—God’s creation—could amplify this shift, restoring harmony lost to modern disconnection.

• Dismantling Fear and Illusion: Recognizing there’s no singular “cure” hidden by governments frees us from victimhood.

Leendertse’s work prompts a rethinking of cancer—not as a battle to be won, but a message to be heard. By addressing emotional suppression, reconnecting with our soul, and embracing nature’s wisdom, we can heal ourselves and transform society. His 15-step process offers a practical path, but the real revolution lies in adopting this knowledge collectively.

If we move past the BS—genetic determinism, toxic treatments, and quick fixes—and understand how the body truly works as a reflection of our inner world, we could usher in an era of health, harmony, and spiritual awakening. As Leendertse puts it, “The real issue is that it’s not addressing the root... That’s why cancer comes back.” It’s time to dig deeper—for ourselves and for humanity.

⚙️ The Development of Cancer According to Paul Leendertse's Framework

As somewhat of a TL:DR to the whole previous segment, here is a breakdown on the development of cancer according to Leendertse— it’s a framework that resonates strongly with me and my research into the emotional root causes of illness over the past several years.

When someone goes through an emotionally charged event—like a major loss, betrayal, or boundary violation—they might push down the feelings that come with it: grief, rage, shame, or others. Instead of processing these emotions, they bury them.

This act of suppression creates a kind of "logjam" in the body’s energy field, specifically at certain points tied to nerve plexuses that link the brain to different organs. For example, feelings of loss and grief often affect the cardiac plexus, which connects to the lungs.

When energy gets stuck like this, it starts to stagnate, carrying what Leendertse describes as "anti-life" frequencies. Over time, the cells in that area begin to struggle. They lose vitality, becoming compromised, and eventually enter a state of decay. The body, sensing this cellular damage, kicks into gear with an inflammatory response—its go-to defense mechanism when tissue is injured. This inflammation is the body’s way of trying to heal, but because the root issue (the energy blockage) hasn’t been addressed, the inflammation becomes chronic, and the cellular death continues.

At this point, nature steps in. Dead or dying tissue has to be broken down—it’s one of the fundamental laws of life. Fungus, which exists to decompose organic matter, moves in as part of this natural process. It’s not an invader or a mistake; it’s simply doing its job as part of nature’s cleanup crew. This fungus feeds on glucose and produces lactic acid, forming what we recognize as a tumor.

If the person keeps suppressing their emotions and the energy blockage remains, the cycle continues: more cells die, inflammation persists, and the fungus—or cancer—keeps growing. But if the person confronts the emotional root cause, processes those buried feelings, and heals the spiritual wound, the energy blockage dissolves. Cells stop dying, the inflammation can finally do its job and resolve, and the fungus, no longer needed, recedes. The body, freed from the cycle, returns to balance.

🤪 So Is He Right or Is He Crazy?

Mainstream medicine often dismisses ideas like Leendertse’s as pseudoscientific, but is that dismissal justified—or is it a reflection of the limitations of the current medical paradigm?

Cellular biologists peg cancer as just genetic glitches involving mutated cells dividing uncontrollably. Oncologists would point to their radiation machines and chemotherapy protocols as the only "serious" approaches. Medical researchers would demand double-blind, placebo-controlled studies proving emotional suppression creates energy blockages that cause cells to die and attract fungus—studies that, conveniently, would never receive funding.

But here's what's fascinating: for all their dismissiveness, these medical professionals haven't actually disproven these ideas in any meaningful way. They haven't disproven them because they refuse to even consider them worthy of investigation. The materialist paradigm that dominates modern medicine simply doesn't allow for the existence of energy fields, spiritual dimensions of health, or emotional causation of disease. If it can't be measured with their current instruments or explained through biochemistry, it must not exist.

This rigid materialistic framework is, frankly, a kind of fundamentalism that's just as closed-minded as any religious dogma. The irony is palpable: the same scientific establishment that prides itself on "following the evidence" has enormous blind spots when that evidence might lead outside their comfortable mechanistic worldview.

How is it that a medical system can spend billions researching new cytotoxic drugs but almost nothing exploring why adopted children have a 500% higher chance of developing cancer if their adoptive parents get cancer—despite no genetic connection? Why is there virtually no funding to investigate the consistent emotional patterns associated with specific cancers that practitioners like Leendertse observe in thousands of cases?

The truth is that modern medicine's insistence that every disease must have a purely physical explanation isn't science—it's an ideological commitment to materialism. And that commitment continues to leave millions of cancer patients with treatments that poison their bodies while ignoring the wounds in their souls.

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