Presence of Angels: A Healer's Life

by JC Hugh MacKimmie

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Eureka, MT: Knowing Heart Publishing 2005. 477 pp $19.95

James MacKimmie is a chiropractor who discovered his healing gifts spontaneously many decades ago. He has a keen eye for details, an awesome gift of pattern recognition, a wonderful wealth of experience in healing, a great sense of humor (laughing at himself as well as at the memory to recall ways in which healing has helped in his practice - or not. His view is that we are spirits incarnated for lessons; that illness is a message about disharmony in our lives; and that healing cuts through resistances to bring into awareness that which is asking to be heard, in order to restore balance and harmony.

The goal of the healing that flows through me is soul growth. The ego personality is made up of wishes, wants and desires, all clamoring for fulfillment. But that is not why we are here. We are born into this physical body for soul growth and to balance the great book of life. It is my belief that we all carry our own healing with us as we walk our path through life. My purpose is to facilitate that healing to the extent allowed within each person's karmic pattern to awaken people to the higher aspects of life. For once touched by the Creator's love, you, and the world as you know it, are forever changed. Your eyes see differently, your heart opens, and your horizons expand beyond all comprehension. Life simply begins living itself through you. God is ... You are ...
(p. xiii-xiv)

People have asked how he knows the many ways of helping people that he shares in this lovely book.

I just knew things. Watching people's thoughts and emotions was quite natural to me, but seeing into people spooked me. Not in the seeing itself, but in what I saw. People could lie, break their word, and were, in general, not to be trusted. Too often they said on thing, but thought another.

It never bothered me to see death take up residence in someone's energy. We all go through that doorway at the appointed hour. Our time on earth is well-charted, and when our contract is over, we take flight. But it did bother me to see how many people lived their lives in fear. They stayed in the mind, seldom visiting the heart where the infinite energies of the Creator reside. (p. 7)

I had long since learned that the healing energy did what it wanted and there was not much I could do about it. Some folks had evidently signed up for instant healing, while others had to work to achieve results, and others experienced just enough to impress them that "something" was taking place. (p. 118)

MacKimmie has a lovely balance of right and left brain awareness, matching awesome gifts of intuition with his above-mentioned intellectual gifts.

When intuition speaks, it is best to follow, for it is always right. However, personal desire, or any emotional attachment, stops intuition's true wisdom from coming forth. While the flow of intuition may appear to have no rhyme or reason, this inner wisdom knows all when we stand aside and allow it a free reign. Then, what we know vaguely, or not at all, is fully revealed to the intuitive senses. Intuition is judge, jury, and the verdict all in one without needing any evidence, coming to its conclusion with a speed, accuracy, and total knowing that are superior to all thinking. (p. 126)

MacKimmie also shares his personal healing lessons, as when he was faced with cancer of the liver. A wise, holistic doctor advised him to change his diet and to stop cooking in aluminum pots. He did so and saw great improvements in his health... at which point he started to doubt the advice he had been given. He reverted to his old dietary habits and was very soon ill again. He returned to consult this doctor.

Putting a reassuring hand on my shoulder, she explained, "You can either choose to live and fulfill your contract to heal, or die, and come back in another life and take up where you are leaving off in this life. The universe doesn't really care which option you choose since it has all eternity to bring perfection into being." Realizing the truth and wisdom in her words, I nodded and decided to get with the program. (p. 152)

This book is not only chock-full of healing wisdom, it is a good, entertaining read. Warmly recommended to anyone who wants to understand some of the mysteries of healing.

(See article by MacKimmie in this issue of IJHC, sharing more about his healing work.)

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