Liberating Yourself From Lyme:
Book and Press
There is a deep and ancient wisdom to be learned here...An indelible contribution to the spiritual science of this bourgeoning illness". Dr. Steven Harris, M.D.
This is a book for not only Lyme sufferers, but for doctors, healers and anyone dealing with chronic disease.
"If you are willing to free your mind a little, tap into your heart, and really trust yourself, then this is a book that can truly help liberate you from disease." Dr Angelica Lemke
Vir McCoy (with Kara Zahl) not only tells the story of his complete recovery from Lyme Disease, after suffering for nearly 10 years. Vir and Kara set a roadmap, not only on what they did to heal, but provide the self help tools to empower you to liberate lyme disease forever.
From the spiritual to the scientific, Vir writes a well researched and up to date compendium of remedies, as well as new breakthroughs and discoveries never before presented. Thorough references.
BOOK:
Liberating yourself from Lyme. Inner Traditions/ Healing Arts publishing, Vermont 2021
A comprehensive guide to healing chronic Lyme disease and co-infections with a unique intuitive approach. From the spiritual to the scientific, this book presents powerful new insights into the nature and healing of Lyme disease as well as tools for healing other diseases. This is a self -help book to discover your healing power within. After struggling with Lyme disease from 2001-2009, Vir McCoy (and Kara Zahl) made a miraculous and full recover by developing his intuition and creating a protocol based around this guidance.
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PRAISE FOR LIBERATING YOURSELF FROM LYME:
After contracting Lyme disease in the summer of 2001 in Marin county, California, Vir McCoy (Kara around the same time) embarked on a healing journey that culminated in a profound and complete healing for both. After standard antibiotic medical protocols, both Kara and Vir began to have intuitive or sensory impressions about the nature of the disease, the immune system, and why they were chronically ill. They developed their own protocol based on intuitive sensory perception in the way a medical intuitive might. By backing up the intuitive impressions with scientific evidence, a unique protocol was developed combining western and alternative medicine. In addition, and most importantly, a conscious shift in the way they related to the disease emerged. This brought them a full recovery in 2010 after a near 10 -year journey for both. Then in 2020 Vir dealt with Long Covid. By applying the same intuitive tools he was able to heal again. Both Healing Therapies For Long Covid and Liberating Lyme are products of that journey, by bridging the spiritual with the scientific.
Midwest Book Review: http://www.midwestbookreview.com/lbw/feb_21.htm#HealthMedicine
"Thoroughly 'reader friendly' and comprehensively informative in organization and presentation, "Liberating Yourself from Lyme: An Integrative and Intuitive Guide to Healing Lyme Disease" should be a part of every community, college, and university library Health/Medicine collection. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of health care professionals and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject.- Library Bookwatch: February 2021 James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
"Liberating Lyme is, merging of intuition and intellect. He shares his own journey not to suggest that you replicate it, but to inspire ideas and seeds for your own unique growth towards health and balance". - Dr. Angelica Lemke (From the book forward)
This immensely practical book takes the science and art of healing Lyme disease to a totally new level...The authors provide insight into the great power of intention and the greater power of love to use illness as an opportunity to learn, heal and get physically, emotionally, and spiritually stronger than ever." Dana Ullman M.P.H.,C.C.H., - Author of The Homeopathic Revolution
EXCERPTS
Inner Self Magazine:
https://innerself.com/living/health/healing-disciplines/25629-the-great-mystery-how-to-heal-from-lyme-and-other-diseases.html
Conscious Life News
https://consciouslifenews.com/excerpt-from-the-book-liberating-yourself-from-lyme/11200615/
After contracting Lyme disease in the summer of 2001 in Marin county, California, Vir McCoy (Kara around the same time) embarked on a healing journey that culminated in a profound and complete healing for both. After standard antibiotic medical protocols, both Kara and Vir began to have intuitive or sensory impressions about the nature of the disease, the immune system, and why they were chronically ill. They developed their own protocol based on intuitive sensory perception in the way a medical intuitive might. By backing up the intuitive impressions with scientific evidence, a unique protocol was developed combining western and alternative medicine. In addition, and most importantly, a conscious shift in the way they related to the disease emerged. This brought them a full recovery in 2010 after a near 10 -year journey for both. Then in 2020 Vir dealt with Long Covid. By applying the same intuitive tools he was able to heal again. Both Healing Therapies For Long Covid and Liberating Lyme are products of that journey, by bridging the spiritual with the scientific.
Midwest Book Review: http://www.midwestbookreview.com/lbw/feb_21.htm#HealthMedicine
"Thoroughly 'reader friendly' and comprehensively informative in organization and presentation, "Liberating Yourself from Lyme: An Integrative and Intuitive Guide to Healing Lyme Disease" should be a part of every community, college, and university library Health/Medicine collection. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of health care professionals and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject.- Library Bookwatch: February 2021 James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
"Liberating Lyme is, merging of intuition and intellect. He shares his own journey not to suggest that you replicate it, but to inspire ideas and seeds for your own unique growth towards health and balance". - Dr. Angelica Lemke (From the book forward)
This immensely practical book takes the science and art of healing Lyme disease to a totally new level...The authors provide insight into the great power of intention and the greater power of love to use illness as an opportunity to learn, heal and get physically, emotionally, and spiritually stronger than ever." Dana Ullman M.P.H.,C.C.H., - Author of The Homeopathic Revolution
EXCERPTS
Inner Self Magazine:
https://innerself.com/living/health/healing-disciplines/25629-the-great-mystery-how-to-heal-from-lyme-and-other-diseases.html
Conscious Life News
https://consciouslifenews.com/excerpt-from-the-book-liberating-yourself-from-lyme/11200615/
The following is from https://issuu.com/essentialwellness/docs/vol_i_2021_ew
Liberating Yourself From Lyme book excerpt:
It began in the summer of 2001 when I was living in Marin County, in a rural area North of the San Francisco Bay.I was taking a shower after returning from work and found a tick embedded in my armpit. I work as a field biologist, that is I work outside doing surveys for rare plants and animals, as well as wetland delineation and restoration. I had been bitten by a tick before, so I didn’t think much of it.
Back then I had heard of Lyme disease but it was like a distant echo from an old class on biology from UC Berkeley where I had attended 10 years before. About two weeks later I noticed a rash on my stomach (many don’t get a rash and the rash of present can occur anywhere on the body). I showed my girlfriend and she didn’t know either. Mabye it’s Poison oak I thought? But it didn’t itch. I let it go.
About a month after that I began to notice a creeping arthritis starting in my right hip. An itchy arthritis. Then one day not long after, I was playing guitar with some friends and my arm would not move as commanded. “Move hand, move hand now”. Nothing. Uh oh. My friend said “dude there’s something really wrong with you!
I went to a doctor friend of mine and flipped through his book of diseases. When I got to L, I knew what it was. I went to the local clinic, got tested for Lyme (borellia). It came back positive. I was prescribed 30 days of the antibiotic doxycycline. It cleared out all my symptoms and I thought I was done. Little did I know it was just the beginning of a near 10 year nightmare.
Lyme it turns out can lay “eggs” or encyst. The cysts can lay dormant for months. Then when they hatch they mutate. Not only that but the tick often dumps a whole bunch of other garbage in you including other bacteria and parasites you have to treat differently.
It goes on and on and on as any long term Lyme suffer will attest to. If you don’t knock out Lyme early, it gets away to transform into these “persister” cells and creates an autoimmune situation where your immune system is trying to play catch up.
After the initial antibiotics a few months later, all the symptoms and much more came raging back. Six months later, I was hospitalized, receiving intravenous antibiotics because Lyme had developed into a kind of meningitis that was ravaging my brain.
During the 40 days of IV antibiotics and prescribed by a doctor, I found myself one day in tears, laying in bed with an IV in my arm, delirious and weak (I nearly died after 10 days of 104 degree fever) With a brain that no longer functioned. Feverish and twitching,
I was in a state of utter despair. What in the hell was going on? Why was I sick again after taking antibiotics? What is the matter. Sobbing I tried to calm myself down. I focused on my breathing and tried to relax . Lyme was jumbling my brain, I couldn't think, but I could feel. If I can still feel and breathe and love I had to try to do something. I had an insight. I "felt" into my brain and asked, What's the matter? as if my brain were a tiny baby. With all of the love and tender feelings I could muster, I "cradled" my brain and asked again: What's the matter? I love you, brain. What's wrong? Just the way a mother knows when baby makes a sound what it means, I used my sensory perception to feel into what was going on.
I had a vision. I saw a beautiful large oak tree, and up the side of the trunk, shelf mushrooms were spiraling up the tree toward the sky.
I recognized two kinds from my work as a field biologist. The third I looked up after the hospital. They were reishi, turkey tail, and Chaga mushrooms.
I need these, I thought.
It was if my brain, my body was craving these, showing me what was needed to heal.
I researched the mushrooms after the hospital and discovered reishi mushrooms used as an immune booster for thousands of years by the Chinese. Turkey tail mushrooms are also immune boosters and are part of an anticancer drug currently being developed and tested called PSK. Chaga turned out to be another incredible immune booster. These mushrooms have become quite popular these days, but in 2002 pretty unheard of. The antibiotics helped but after a few months Lyme came raging back again, and put me in the hospital once again, where I nearly dies from a co-infection - Erlichia.
But what became curious to me, was the process in which I was able to “see” into myself. What is this? I read up on “medical intuitives” or shamanic intuitives who use this same practice to look into illness, remedies, and cured. I wondered if perhaps I don’t need to be a shaman in the rainforest, that Mabye we all can do this.? I began to work on this intuitive access like a muscle. I wrote down down everything i sensed. What did the pain feel like? Look like? Taste like? Smell like? What was the pain saying? What was my body needing. I wrote down everything I could, no matter if I didn’t understand it.
Then I had another important breakthrough. While “inward viewing” I saw the Lyme cysts inside my body, those nasty little "eggs”. I saw rows of them like peas in a peapod. They were coated with a slimy biofilm, but over them were with what looked like a pencils. I couldn't understand what this image was. Pencils? Carl Jung says that spirit speaks in symbology. But what’s a pencil? Lead? Did I have lead poisoning? Did I eat too many pencils as kid? I didn’t know so I wrote it down for another day.
About a week after this pencils and cyst vision, I wandered into the supplement section in Whole Foods Market. In the homeopathic aisle, I saw a little blue tube called "Graphites." Graphites, I thought. That's pencils. Holy Moses! What do Graphites do exactly? According to the homeopathic pamphlet: "Graphites can dissolve toughened skin, scars, boils, and cysts." Pencils over eggs! My intuition was telling me I needed pencils, but in very small amounts! It turns out that graphites and similar homeopathic remedies are essential for dissolving Lyme cysts. Graphites became a crucial component of my healing.
This was a huge breakthrough, no more cysts, no more babies to hatch, no more Lyme. I wrote down a multitude of foods, herbs, antibiotics, exercise and things my body was telling me. In addition I started seeing underneath into stuck feelings, and other things that were dampening my immunity. I started to develop my own protocol based on what I was intuiting.
I used the intuitive information I received and then would do the scientific research to back up the remedies I was intuiting. I worked closely with a few doctors like the Lyme MD dr Stephen Harris. I would cross reference Lyme treatments with my intuitive protocol. Many were the same. It’s like being an inner Sherlock Holmes. Fortunately I have the brain of a scientist and the soul of an Artist. This place is where science and spirit meet.
By utilizing my intuition, I am not invalidating science; I use both sets of "knowing" to collect information and facts. This method helped me validate what I was seeing and sensing. In addition to many common antibiotics and herbs, I discovered several unusual medicines and techniques for Lyme that I had never heard of.
This created the basis of my book “Liberating Yourself From Lyme”, not only a thorough presentation of the remedies and methods I did to heal, but how to become your own medical intuitive and dig deeper into underlying emotions and pysychospiritual reasons why one might be chronically ill.
But the deepest healing for me came later in my near 10 year journey. In 2008 I decided to go to the desert by myself and get to the bottom of things. I went to the mono basin in the eastern Sierras in California on a vision quest.
Any Lyme suffer knows there is a tremendous amount of fear and anxiety with Lyme. I would often wake with panic attacks in the middle of the night, not being able to sleep.
So on the 8th day in the desert I went into a massive panic attack there in my tent. I thought I was going to die and lose my mind. Why was I so terrified of this bacteria? I asked myself. How could a little piece of life devastate my life? (Sound familiar with Covid?). Anger and fear swirled around me. But then I had the thought that changed me forever
What if I love the Lyme? What if I love the monster?
It’s was like a million light bulbs went off.
Isn’t this what Jesus said? “Bless the enemy”. What Gandhi said, what Buddha said what MArtin Luther King said when he said you can only conquer hate with love?
So with all the love I could muster I cradled an imaginary worm like bacteria there in the desert. I blessed it all I could. It struck me that Lyme, although at the bottom of the karmic totem pole of life, is still alive, still considered life. I thought to myself what if I was Lyme? A lowly evil little creature, just trying to survive? In that moment I had a Sense of compassion for the Lyme, a moment of sadness for its life.
Then it lost its power over me. I realized by blessing the enemy it no longer had control. I had weakened it. And just like in Martial arts when you bow to the enemy first, acknowledge thier presence, then you kick the crap out of them. You burn them out.
You Liberate them back to kingdom come. This was the real healing. The Lyme became my teacher showing me how to reclaim my power.
After the desert my whole attitude switched, and within another few months I was completely done with Lyme. I have been symptom free for 10 years now.
Thank it, bless it, burn it.
Vir McCoy works as a healer and a field biologist and botanist, focusing on endangered species. He lives in Los Angeles, California.Liberating Yourself from Lymeby Vir McCoy and Kara Zahl is published by Healing Arts Press. For more information, www.InnerTraditions.com.
It began in the summer of 2001 when I was living in Marin County, in a rural area North of the San Francisco Bay.I was taking a shower after returning from work and found a tick embedded in my armpit. I work as a field biologist, that is I work outside doing surveys for rare plants and animals, as well as wetland delineation and restoration. I had been bitten by a tick before, so I didn’t think much of it.
Back then I had heard of Lyme disease but it was like a distant echo from an old class on biology from UC Berkeley where I had attended 10 years before. About two weeks later I noticed a rash on my stomach (many don’t get a rash and the rash of present can occur anywhere on the body). I showed my girlfriend and she didn’t know either. Mabye it’s Poison oak I thought? But it didn’t itch. I let it go.
About a month after that I began to notice a creeping arthritis starting in my right hip. An itchy arthritis. Then one day not long after, I was playing guitar with some friends and my arm would not move as commanded. “Move hand, move hand now”. Nothing. Uh oh. My friend said “dude there’s something really wrong with you!
I went to a doctor friend of mine and flipped through his book of diseases. When I got to L, I knew what it was. I went to the local clinic, got tested for Lyme (borellia). It came back positive. I was prescribed 30 days of the antibiotic doxycycline. It cleared out all my symptoms and I thought I was done. Little did I know it was just the beginning of a near 10 year nightmare.
Lyme it turns out can lay “eggs” or encyst. The cysts can lay dormant for months. Then when they hatch they mutate. Not only that but the tick often dumps a whole bunch of other garbage in you including other bacteria and parasites you have to treat differently.
It goes on and on and on as any long term Lyme suffer will attest to. If you don’t knock out Lyme early, it gets away to transform into these “persister” cells and creates an autoimmune situation where your immune system is trying to play catch up.
After the initial antibiotics a few months later, all the symptoms and much more came raging back. Six months later, I was hospitalized, receiving intravenous antibiotics because Lyme had developed into a kind of meningitis that was ravaging my brain.
During the 40 days of IV antibiotics and prescribed by a doctor, I found myself one day in tears, laying in bed with an IV in my arm, delirious and weak (I nearly died after 10 days of 104 degree fever) With a brain that no longer functioned. Feverish and twitching,
I was in a state of utter despair. What in the hell was going on? Why was I sick again after taking antibiotics? What is the matter. Sobbing I tried to calm myself down. I focused on my breathing and tried to relax . Lyme was jumbling my brain, I couldn't think, but I could feel. If I can still feel and breathe and love I had to try to do something. I had an insight. I "felt" into my brain and asked, What's the matter? as if my brain were a tiny baby. With all of the love and tender feelings I could muster, I "cradled" my brain and asked again: What's the matter? I love you, brain. What's wrong? Just the way a mother knows when baby makes a sound what it means, I used my sensory perception to feel into what was going on.
I had a vision. I saw a beautiful large oak tree, and up the side of the trunk, shelf mushrooms were spiraling up the tree toward the sky.
I recognized two kinds from my work as a field biologist. The third I looked up after the hospital. They were reishi, turkey tail, and Chaga mushrooms.
I need these, I thought.
It was if my brain, my body was craving these, showing me what was needed to heal.
I researched the mushrooms after the hospital and discovered reishi mushrooms used as an immune booster for thousands of years by the Chinese. Turkey tail mushrooms are also immune boosters and are part of an anticancer drug currently being developed and tested called PSK. Chaga turned out to be another incredible immune booster. These mushrooms have become quite popular these days, but in 2002 pretty unheard of. The antibiotics helped but after a few months Lyme came raging back again, and put me in the hospital once again, where I nearly dies from a co-infection - Erlichia.
But what became curious to me, was the process in which I was able to “see” into myself. What is this? I read up on “medical intuitives” or shamanic intuitives who use this same practice to look into illness, remedies, and cured. I wondered if perhaps I don’t need to be a shaman in the rainforest, that Mabye we all can do this.? I began to work on this intuitive access like a muscle. I wrote down down everything i sensed. What did the pain feel like? Look like? Taste like? Smell like? What was the pain saying? What was my body needing. I wrote down everything I could, no matter if I didn’t understand it.
Then I had another important breakthrough. While “inward viewing” I saw the Lyme cysts inside my body, those nasty little "eggs”. I saw rows of them like peas in a peapod. They were coated with a slimy biofilm, but over them were with what looked like a pencils. I couldn't understand what this image was. Pencils? Carl Jung says that spirit speaks in symbology. But what’s a pencil? Lead? Did I have lead poisoning? Did I eat too many pencils as kid? I didn’t know so I wrote it down for another day.
About a week after this pencils and cyst vision, I wandered into the supplement section in Whole Foods Market. In the homeopathic aisle, I saw a little blue tube called "Graphites." Graphites, I thought. That's pencils. Holy Moses! What do Graphites do exactly? According to the homeopathic pamphlet: "Graphites can dissolve toughened skin, scars, boils, and cysts." Pencils over eggs! My intuition was telling me I needed pencils, but in very small amounts! It turns out that graphites and similar homeopathic remedies are essential for dissolving Lyme cysts. Graphites became a crucial component of my healing.
This was a huge breakthrough, no more cysts, no more babies to hatch, no more Lyme. I wrote down a multitude of foods, herbs, antibiotics, exercise and things my body was telling me. In addition I started seeing underneath into stuck feelings, and other things that were dampening my immunity. I started to develop my own protocol based on what I was intuiting.
I used the intuitive information I received and then would do the scientific research to back up the remedies I was intuiting. I worked closely with a few doctors like the Lyme MD dr Stephen Harris. I would cross reference Lyme treatments with my intuitive protocol. Many were the same. It’s like being an inner Sherlock Holmes. Fortunately I have the brain of a scientist and the soul of an Artist. This place is where science and spirit meet.
By utilizing my intuition, I am not invalidating science; I use both sets of "knowing" to collect information and facts. This method helped me validate what I was seeing and sensing. In addition to many common antibiotics and herbs, I discovered several unusual medicines and techniques for Lyme that I had never heard of.
This created the basis of my book “Liberating Yourself From Lyme”, not only a thorough presentation of the remedies and methods I did to heal, but how to become your own medical intuitive and dig deeper into underlying emotions and pysychospiritual reasons why one might be chronically ill.
But the deepest healing for me came later in my near 10 year journey. In 2008 I decided to go to the desert by myself and get to the bottom of things. I went to the mono basin in the eastern Sierras in California on a vision quest.
Any Lyme suffer knows there is a tremendous amount of fear and anxiety with Lyme. I would often wake with panic attacks in the middle of the night, not being able to sleep.
So on the 8th day in the desert I went into a massive panic attack there in my tent. I thought I was going to die and lose my mind. Why was I so terrified of this bacteria? I asked myself. How could a little piece of life devastate my life? (Sound familiar with Covid?). Anger and fear swirled around me. But then I had the thought that changed me forever
What if I love the Lyme? What if I love the monster?
It’s was like a million light bulbs went off.
Isn’t this what Jesus said? “Bless the enemy”. What Gandhi said, what Buddha said what MArtin Luther King said when he said you can only conquer hate with love?
So with all the love I could muster I cradled an imaginary worm like bacteria there in the desert. I blessed it all I could. It struck me that Lyme, although at the bottom of the karmic totem pole of life, is still alive, still considered life. I thought to myself what if I was Lyme? A lowly evil little creature, just trying to survive? In that moment I had a Sense of compassion for the Lyme, a moment of sadness for its life.
Then it lost its power over me. I realized by blessing the enemy it no longer had control. I had weakened it. And just like in Martial arts when you bow to the enemy first, acknowledge thier presence, then you kick the crap out of them. You burn them out.
You Liberate them back to kingdom come. This was the real healing. The Lyme became my teacher showing me how to reclaim my power.
After the desert my whole attitude switched, and within another few months I was completely done with Lyme. I have been symptom free for 10 years now.
Thank it, bless it, burn it.
Vir McCoy works as a healer and a field biologist and botanist, focusing on endangered species. He lives in Los Angeles, California.Liberating Yourself from Lymeby Vir McCoy and Kara Zahl is published by Healing Arts Press. For more information, www.InnerTraditions.com.
