Revelation 12:9-11 KJV
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
My journey to Arukah, holistic health and healing, began in college. I was diagnosed with manic depression, or bipolar disorder, and hospitalized for 2 months. This is when I found God…or maybe I should say, when He found me, or even better – when I realized He was always there for me.
Depression
What lead me to that place and time? I can probably trace it back to my childhood. Although I grew up with Christian parents, I did not have very much personal faith. I believed in a God, and thought the Bible was a good book, although I had not read it much for myself. Prayer was something I did in passing every so often, and by the time I was in middle school, going to church was something I did only on the major Christian holidays. In the mean time, my family life was troubled. There was constant arguing and strife. In middle school I became very rebellious towards my parents as well as teachers.
In high school I fell into all sorts of sin, including the common ones for that age in my public school (this is partly why I choose to homeschool my children). I attempted suicide in the 10th grade through over-the-counter drug overdose. I was then diagnosed with depression. I remember one day, riding in a car, reflecting on my life, and thinking "This is life? How pointless…"
Spiritualism & Manic Depression
In college I continued in my path of sin, to meet people who eventually lead me to spiritualism. I had always believed in the spiritual world, but now I wanted to experience it. However, not being as discerning as I ought to have been, I experienced the darkness first instead of the light. I said an evil prayer, and immediately afterwards I started having impressions in my mind of extremely evil thoughts. Immediately following could not sleep or eat for 3 days except for (strangely) a few mangoes.
My First Sincere Prayer
On the 3rd day, as I felt I was going over the edge, I started hallucinating and seeing snails all over the grass, unnaturally aligned in perfect a grid. I knew something was terribly wrong, and started running back home frightened. It was around noon, and the sun was bright. As I was a few hundred feet away, the sky suddenly turned black as night to me – it was complete darkness. I fell to my knees and said what was probably the first sincere prayer I had ever said in my life. I said sorry for all the bad things I had ever done and asked God to please make the sun come out again. It did. Temporarily relieved, I ran home.
My family could tell I was still not in my right frame of mind. They called the police, not knowing what else to do, and when the police came, they interviewed me for a while and determined that I needed to go to the hospital. Our next door neighbor, a pastor, accompanied me and my family to the hospital. When I arrived, they tested me for drugs and gave me a shot to induce sleep. I had no trace of drugs in my system, so I was simply diagnosed with manic depression.
The Beginning of Healing
The impressions and hallucinations ended the first day at the hospital. I began reading the Bible and praying for healing and forgiveness. I was transferred to a section in the hospital for recovery. The pastor and wife of the church my parents attended at the time came to visit me. It was the first time I had met them. They were very loving, prayed with me, encouraged me to read the Bible, and told me to start coming to church. Of course I agreed.
A doctor was soon assigned to me, who told me that I had to start taking medication – valium, for my condition. I told him I was fine, and that I didn’t need anything, but he insisted. The debating went back and forth for a few weeks, until finally he threatened that either I start taking the valium or that he would get a court order to force me to take it intraveinously. I consented, and for a few weeks more he monitored me as I took the valium. After almost 2 months of being in the hospital, the doctor decided it was time to let me go. He warned me that if I stopped taking the medication, that I would have another manic experience again within 6 months and be back in the hospital.
Healing Tested
So, I went home. I took the valium. After a few days I drove to my college to re-enroll in classes. On the way, I started hearing voices. It was so clear and audible. It was perhaps a worse experience than before, because the first time it was just impressions in my thoughts, but this time I felt like it was as real as someone next to me talking to me. The voice said "You can’t become a Christian, you’re a fallen angel, you belong to me." I was extremely sad, and went home crying and devastated.
The Great Physician
I went home and locked myself in a room to pray. I asked God to take the voices away from me, and He answered! He told me, not audibly, and not in a way that I could even describe, but surely He told me, that I was to throw away the medication that the doctor had given me, and know that my healing came from Him. Surprised, I came out of the room and told my mother about my prayer and God’s answer. She being a woman of faith, told me to do what I needed to do. I threw away my medicine, and have never needed it since. I never had hallucinations or voices ever again, and never returned to any hospital, or doctor, or psychologist, etc. for depression or manic depression or any other mental illness every since. The Great Physician had healed me.
Learning Arukah
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
The Heavenly Father began to lead me to people who, as Revelation 14:12 says, "keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Yeshua (Hebrew name of Jesus)." They taught me health principles based on the Bible and science. I was immersed (baptized) on April 7, 2001.
Psalms 111:10 KJV
10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
I learned from 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 that my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and from 3 John 1:2 that God is concerned with physical and mental health and healing just as much as my spiritual health and healing. This is what finally convinced and empowered me to stop doing drugs & quit smoking. Truth in books such as “The Maker’s Diet” and “Why Christians Get Sick” awoken me to the power of eating a Kosher and Edenic diet. I began eating only clean meats as perscribed in the Torah, and then eating a mostly vegetarian diet somewhat like the original diet of Creation or Daniel’s special fast in Babylon. The Holy Spirit began to teach me so many things. I started learning about the Biblical foundation for nutritional supplementation in this age. I learned about the Heavenly Father’s natural remedies. He began teaching me about the fruit of the Spirit, character principles to help me function as a child of God. I learned about "the peace that passeth all understanding," as the Messiah said:
John 14:26-27 KJV
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
I learned (and am continually learning) about how to be spiritually, mentally, and physically, whole. Arukah! I have since been blessed to be married to a loving and supporting husband, and have 3 beautiful children that I now homeschool.
Disillusionment
In 2008, I had the first headache I can ever remember, and it was the worst headache I’ve ever had since. It was a terrible, throbbing, and increasingly painful migraine. It progressively became stronger for about a week. In the middle of the week, a neighbor gave me some Tylenol, which provided a little numbness from the pain, but only for a few hours. I tried taking it again and it had no effect on me.
About the 6th day, I could not sleep because of the terrible pain, and I thought that I had some sort of tumor. My husband rushed me to the emergency room at the hospital. They questioned me, ran different tests on me, but the doctor said there was nothing wrong with me that they could find. She said I could get a CT scan for my head, to rule out the possibility of tumors if I wanted to, but said it wasn’t necessary.
I decided to do the scan, not being fully aware of the dangers, and again the results indicated there was nothing wrong with me. She prescribed some valium for my headache. (Valium seems to be the drug of choice when doctors don’t know what else to give you.) I knew that valium was not the cure, and that it would only numb me for a while. I wasn’t having a terrible migraine because of the lack of valium in my system!
We had no insurance. The scan plus the hospital visit cost us about $4000, only to be told there was nothing wrong with me! I became disillusioned with the medical system. I went home, and began researching natural remedies for migraines. I came across a recipe of vitamins and herbs to take. Finally relief came after a couple hours. And this time it was not short-lived. The migraine went away completely after a day or so. Now whenever I get headaches, I take the same vitamin-herb concoction to stop it. But the pervading question became, "Why couldn’t the doctor tell me about these simple vitamins and herbs?"
Sharing Arukah
Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless…The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease…Surgery, diet, antiseptics — these three are the vital things of the future in preserving the health of humanity. There were never so many able, active minds at work on the problems of diseases as now, and all their discoveries are tending to the simple truth — that you can’t improve on nature. ~ Thomas A. Edison
Shortly after my disillusionment, I decided to begin sharing the things that I had been learning. I felt that the medical system had failed me each time I needed healing, and that God’s true remedies were too little known by most people – especially Christians. Although I had graduated in Computer Information Systems, Systems Programming and ran a successful web design business, I decided to take a new role in life. I enrolled in a natural health college to be a nutritionist, herbalist, and holistic health practitioner. I have combined my computer skills and health knowledge in this website, and hope to be a channel of heavenly blessing to others in their path to holistic health, Arukah.
3 John 1:2 KJV
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
May you prosper and be in health of mind, body and spirit!
Sincerely,
Coralyn Vega
Holistic Nutritionist & Herbalist
http://arukah.com
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