Testimonials & Healing Stories

I met Phillip Scott just after I finished treatment for breast cancer, through a weekly sacred circle, a Sacred Hoops class that he taught at my oncologist’s office.

I knew nothing about spiritual healing at the time and nothing about Native traditions. My case had involved three separate tumors, with extensive vascular and lymphatic invasion. After a full year of chemotherapy, radiation and surgeries, my doctors had done all that western medicine could offer with no guarantee that it would help.

In attending Phillip’s class, I was focused on physical healing – the only marker of health I understood. Without fully understanding the purpose, I followed Phillip’s instructions and made an altar and began, awkwardly, to pray. In the first two class meetings we went on shamanic journeys and met spirit guides, and this was a foreign concept for me. I had an individual meeting with Phillip and during it he performed a soul retrieval. I liked the concept that I was regaining a part of myself, but I still wondered if anything had actually happened.

Then, three days after the soul retrieval I woke in the middle of the night. Information about my life – issues I had struggled with; forks in the road that I had taken – I suddenly saw with clarity. Over the next few weeks, magical things happened, as if I was being shown glimpses of another world. I fell so deeply and passionately in love with every living thing, I didn’t think about cancer.

Instead, I took a workshop Phillip gave on fearlessness. In the months that followed, I let go of a lifetime terror of snakes; I also bungee jumped off a bridge. During this time many patients I had met in treatment were struggling with post-treatment depression, insomnia, low blood counts, and frequent colds and flu, while I felt increasingly more balanced. I encouraged my friends to come to ceremony, but they were not always open to it.

That winter Phillip’s wife died suddenly. This was a time of real sadness and a time when I learned about prayer. I stopped thinking about myself and about words and just talked as if God were sitting next to me and I was asking how to make sense of the world. Many people I loved died that year. I was beginning to learn about nature for the first time even though I was forty-one years old – I began to see the cycles of life in a tree or an early spring butterfly.

Still a bit underweight and frail, I would crawl into the purification lodges Phillip led and listen to the songs and prayers in the dark. My physicians were uncertain as to whether I should be in such heat, but I found my strength there. In one of the first lodges I attended I silently questioned whether “there are really any spirits around.” A few seconds later they appeared in vivid form. I never discounted the lodge again.

Ten months after I had finished chemotherapy and radiation, Phillip put me on Vision Quest for four days in Chico, California. By then I had become one of his students in the Indigenous Lifeways Program, and I was attending workshops and ceremony regularly. Despite the possibility of recurrence and the deaths of fellow patients I had loved and known, I felt an inner peace. During this time I had started a business; I was involved with family and friends. My oncologist asked me to teach a class for other patients about re-inventing oneself after cancer, and since then I have given several different classes for other cancer organizations.

When I first met Phillip – in the first Sacred Hoops class I attended – he instructed us to sing every day, dance every day, pray every day, and meditate every day. I continue to do this. I have now been in remission for over five years. Someday I will die, but I will go having learned to listen to the rain and the wind and the bird, and the silence. I am grateful that my oncologist helped me find a spiritual doctor in Phillip Scott, and grateful that Phillip continues to help
me find a connection to the Mystery that is greater than mere survival. This is my story.

- Lynn S.
Image Consultant

I have walked through life waiting for time to pass, going through the motions. Fear has ruled my life and my circle of comfort got smaller and smaller day after day. I was scared of everything.

Meeting Phillip was nothing like what I was expecting. I figured that I would stroll in, hop on a couch, and talk about my childhood. Not quite. It was a ceremony. It was spiritual. It was meditation and it was enlightening. But don’t get me wrong, I was terrified (remember I was scared of everything, why should this be different?). The experience was so out of the box that it forced me to take the first step out of the routine I had neatly packed for myself.

Each time he pushed me closer and closer to being free of fear. Through a really non-traditional approach he addressed the foundations of my fears and took the necessary steps to bring them to light. He constantly surprised me and threw me off guard only to show me that there was nothing to fear from things I can’t control.

As I’m writing this remembering what it was like the first time I went to Phillip. I am totally amazed at how my world has changed. Everyday seems to get better. Now I have the tools to deal with my fear and any other emotions that come up. I don’t view the world as oppressive, dark, ominous place full of danger like I used to. Everything seems much more open, like there’s more opportunity, and things are more alive. My world is brighter, literally.

- David N.
Commercial Realtor

You are truly doing your part. Your honesty and sincerity serve as a model to your students and clients. The path of this – beginning transition from duality onto Oneness lifetime – is certainly a big one. So much fear to sift through. To be courageous enough to experience, name and heal. I appreciate what you are doing for all the Ones who read your words and for the part you are healing from the Human Soul.

- Ann F.

I have attended workshops, gone on an expedition and been in personal counseling with Phillip. I have found his approach to the world and life to be both deep and meaningful and I have benefited in many ways.

I have found Phillip’s teachings to be healing and to personally help me gain in emotional grounding and have a deeper and more profound relationship with the man made and natural world.

- Dr. Allan B., Ed. D.

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