A 70-year-old London pensioner, John Nolan, recently caught fire as he strolled down Orchard Place near Tottenham Hotspur’s football stadium, and he died subsequently from his burns. Was this an example of spontaneous human combustion, and what causes it?

This is truly an example of spontaneous human combustion and this is why no conventional explanation was found for this calamity. The phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion is an energetic transmutation of inner discord into a kind of physical expression, and this is showing you the power of consciousness to alter the physical world in a quite dramatic way. It is no different than applying your thoughts to make an object move or to alter the vibration of something, such as water, to impart a loving energy or to create an energy of turmoil and darken its influence on whoever might ingest the water into their body. When the inner turmoil of consciousness is directed at the self, it is much like holding a lens up to the sun to focus it on a single spot, and then that energy becomes so intense it can cause the surface to burst into flame if, in fact, it is a flammable material. This is a similar process, and we are using this metaphorically to help you understand how this might happen. It is the focusing of inner negativity to a fine point, which causes an energetic increase, and a great localized intensity that impinges on one part of the person with such force it generates heat, and this is acting to ignite the constituents of the body that are, in fact, truly flammable. Anyone who understands the physics of cooking will attest to the fact that any food can burn if heated sufficiently, and this is the basis of the expression “the fat is in the fire,” as the stored energy of the physical matter can be converted back into the heat of the original sunlight used to generate the organic molecules in its makeup. This conversion back into raw energy is what is on display with the bursting into flames, and is no different than what happens during cremation when the body is simply heated in an oven to the point of ignition and then bursts into flame and consumes itself. When spontaneous human combustion occurs, it is because of inner emotional turmoil and not an external force being brought to bear directly to achieve that. And it is a kind of random process that takes place, and just the wrong way at just the wrong time, to set this in motion. In some cases, it can be extinguished if the person acts quickly. In other cases, it will only grow in fierceness because the perception of the difficulty and associated pain will serve to accelerate things, much as you might do by using a bellows to stoke the fire in a fireplace by delivering oxygen to the flames more rapidly, so it is hard to overcome oneself. Fortunately, this is rare, but yet another negative potential outcome of people being out of alignment and not receiving the inner healing needed to raise them up to be in alignment with the flow of love and light.