Healing and the Creative Response: Four Key Steps Shared by Healers and Artists

by Cay Randall-May

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Scottsdale, AZ:CayMay Press 2010.  $19.95  129 pp. Notes 4 pp.  References 4 pp.  Glossary 4 pp. Includes CD with voice discussion of many of the points considered in the paperback

Cay Randall-May is a highly unusual person, combining spiritual healing, art and science in her studies, work and personal life. She trained as an entomologist and for many years earned her living working with venomous scorpions. Her skills in the graphic arts were initially applied to drawings of insects, but have (literally) flowered and borne fruit in much more creative outlets. For years, Cay Randall-May has been a painter herself and teacher of painting for others. In parallel with her artistic abilities, she also developed her considerable intuitive abilities – to the point that C. Norman Shealy, MD, one of the pioneers in researching medical intuition, considers her among the top medical intuitives in the US.

In this excellent book (her fifth), Cay Randall-May discusses four steps involved in spiritual healing: Setting an intention; relaxing and clearing; engaging and blending; and attuning to the highest love. Her writing is clear and helpful to anyone wanting to understand the processes involved in healing.

This list of steps closely parallels those defined and taught by Lawrence LeShan, one of the earliest pioneers in studying healers and healing (LeShan 1974/1977). He found that the common denominators among healers were the steps of centering; joining with the healee; and joining with the All.

What Cay Randall-May offers us here adds substantially to healing awarenesses as taught by most healers. She points out how very similar steps and processes are involved when people engage in the creative arts. Illustrating her points with examples from painting, pottery, woodcarving, dance and more, she shows how creativity includes not only very similar processes, but also may produce similar healing outcomes.

This book is warmly recommended for anyone interested in the overlaps of healing and artistic creativity.

Reference:

LeShan L. The Medium, the Mystic and the Physicist, New York: Ballantine 1977. (UK edition: Clairvoyant Reality, Wellingborough, UK: Thorsons 1974).

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