Part 2: Healing of Major Bear using Alternative Approaches

Bears, Blog | May 26, 2011

When an animal is sick we use all possible approaches to healing, because in our experience, wild animals are very receptive to energies. What we did do (actually we started as soon as we saw how poorly he was feeling) was contact people who loved Major Bear and asked for them to pray for him. Several of our friends are energy healers and they sent long distance reiki and other healing energy. One friend and admirer did a long distance shamanic healing ritual for him. Interestingly, she said in the process of going on a shamanic healing journey she could find no cancer masses in him…later verified by the vets at Washington State. Another healer, who had done something quite unfathomable to me in healing Teton Totem the grizzly bear from his paralysis when conventional medical care could not help,  (see Teton’s stories on the web site)  said whereas Teton had been willing and eager to receive the energy, Major Bear had flatly refused it, basically blocking it all off. She respected that feedback she did not even do an intuitive body scan. She gave us some hope though, saying that sometimes an animal will go into deep withdrawal, and starve themselves as a way to try to heal.

Day after day we offered him food which he refused. Though he was uncharacteristically secretive and we never saw him leave his box, we realized that he was drinking, as in the mo rning the water in his bucket would be down. Regarding the food, we had an onrush of very happy plump ground squirrels who discovered a bear enclosure full of food with no bear guarding it. We found apples and kiwis and watermelon nibbled to a nubbin by tiny little teeth.

Major Bear’s Auntie came to visit and sit with him, bearing gifts of organic grape juice, apple juice, blueberries and liquid probiotics in honey to help his digestion. A trained nurse herself she had followed the medical aspects of his care with absorbed interest, offering helpful suggestions along the way. We pondered together- could he somehow have never woken up from hibernation? He had already been 5 months without food during hibernation…did his appetite somehow never get awakened? Allergic reactions to parasites?  Other possible reasons for the increased calcium in his blood? We pestered the vets with our ideas. She stood by the enclosure talking to him. She told him she loved him. She offered to peel him grapes.

I invited K’Lea, an energy healer trained in the use of Tibetan singing bowls to come help….it couldn’t hurt and perhaps it would bring him some ease. Despite her very busy schedule she immediately agreed to come the next day. It was cold snowy and wet weather, but she packed up and brought her 100 pounds of bowls and paraphernalia to his enclosure prepared to sit in the cold for the hour the healing would take. She had meditated deeply before in preparation on what healings to use.

It was drizzling, sleeting, muddy, gray and cold. Jean set up a piece of plywood just outside the enclosure so she would be off the ground and the wood would help carry the vibrations.  Thus ensconced, she meditated again, and began. She did a healing for whatever would be for his highest good; a healing for depression, and once for peace. Major Bear was lying in his box, on his side, Jean just outside. His eyes opened at each new sound as she sounded different bowls with different vibrations. It was hard to tell what effect it might be having, but a sense of peace pervaded the whole scene, K’Lea sounding the bowls deeply concentrating, Jean and I feeling the vibrations and sending loving energy to Major.

A day later we noticed the grape juice with the probiotics was gone. Unlikely the little squirrels had drunk it all. A little lettuce was gone; then more grape juice.  A little of his favorite very high quality dog food. The squirrels?  Except………there was small pile of bear poop. Indubitable proof. The first food he ate in a month.

K’Lea came again one more time before she left on a trip. It was even more peaceful than the first time; she more connected now she had met him and had time to think about it.  We had the feeling no matter what happened, if he was preparing to leave, or to heal, either way the bowls would ease the passage; support whatever the transition would be. I hope she can come again.

That is where we are now. He is not eating enough to sustain himself but at least he has an interest in food, which means an interest in life. Was it the loving gifts and visit of his Auntie and the love behind her offer to peel him grapes? The Tibetan bowls?  Less romantic…a delayed reaction to the steroid?  All the love combined, from visits and from people sending him love and healing long distance?

For now we wait, hoping against hope that something has changed inside him and he has found a way to heal himself along with all he loving support he has received.

Thank you all for your interest and help,

Susan, Jean and Major Bear.

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