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Healing and the Creative Response

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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).

Rev. Cay Randall-May provides us with an excellent overview to the many forms healing can take. Her comprehensive guide makes the various modalities accessible to us all, encouraging us to be open to the belief that we can heal and be healed. In addition, she offers great support for the notion that we are all innately creative and that creative expression is often a vehicle for healing. This is a great resource to read and retain, so that when the need for healing occurs, you can be ready with a myriad of options.

Exercising your mind may be the most important aspect in restoring your body and soul. "Healing and the Creative Response" discusses the relationship between creativity and healing, and how they affect the creator and those around him or her. Working through the pain, whatever that may be is what Cay Randell-May suggests, and this advice makes "Healing and the Creative Response" is a strong recommendation for creative people.

Cay Randall-May's wealth of experience and her sweet and open spirit shine through in her book and CD, Healing and the Creative Response. In her very personal style, Cay covers the interrelationships between four steps to healing, creativity, healing approaches used by Cay and others, art, and intuition. This book shares insights into various ways to be a healer and inspires the creativity and healing power we all carry within ourselves. Whether you want to be a healer or just connect with healing, creative, intuitive forces, this book is for you.