A client asks about her partner’s dementia symptoms: “Would a diagnosis concretize his belief in the condition making future divine healing ineffective? Why is it still getting worse? Is it due to his choosing to check out early on a deep level?”

Obtaining a clinical diagnosis would be reassuring for you in helping you feel you understand what is happening, but it is not relevant to what we do, from a divine perspective, to provide healing for this dilemma he is experiencing. Human science at this point has a misguided understanding and misperception of the true causes of dementia and even the workings of the brain in terms of the epiphenomena they see and attribute as a causal factor, such as Lewy bodies, plaques, and tangles, and so forth. We understand in a practical world having medical support can be helpful and meeting the needs of the system for diagnostic workups, and so on, is just part of the process. Our work need not be in conflict with anything you might seek to have pursued medically, but will only be an asset to extend the possibilities and perhaps provide some greater safety and amelioration for any possible downside of invasive strategies that might be employed. You, indeed, are putting the finger on the pulse here intuitively to see that he is growing more leery of experiencing life, and this has set things in motion for him to lose connections more and more with the day-to-day details of what is happening to him and as that continues, it adds to the confusion and stress of his experience and becomes a kind of feedback mechanism to speed the downward slide. This is not conscious, it is simply a desire to escape torment from facing all of the inner turmoil as well as the past history of external manipulations and karmic influences, as everyone must deal with during the course of their life, which can be a considerable chronic burden and result in a kind of burnout and resignation, in the end, to simply shut down. So he is in that category and this is what is happening to him—it is a kind of contest between his desire to be a part of things and a desire to separate. Keep in mind that decision is not a rational one or a well‑informed one, but a more primitive part of the mind seeking relief from pain and not fully comprehending what it is getting itself into if it truly does disconnect in a more profound way. So, in some respects, this is a race against time.