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“This”, says Maggie, “is the best place to be because, once you discover your possibilities are infinite, then you know your choices are infinite too.” “The challenge”, says Maggie, “is to get it into your head that it is possible.” So what prompted Maggie to write LoveCrazyLove? It seems that after a childhood devoid of love and affection, when this love thing was once discovered, she realised it was a power, which had enormous influence over peoples lives. However, because pragmatism is one of her strong points Maggie wanted to know all there was to know, not only about this thing called love, but also about life and living, what drives us and causes us to become what we are. Despite an unhappy childhood, Maggie had an inborn instinct that whatever happened to her, it would always turn out right but she knew few shared this kind of optimistic outlook. Also, no matter what happened, for the most part, she was always able to detach herself and maintain inner harmony and was quite young when she began to realise few people were able to do the same. At age eleven Maggie was rushed to hospital with a diseased bone in her leg and all attempts to treat it were unsuccessful. One night she awoke and heard several nurses discussing what was to be done with her, whe she caught an unfamiliar word. The next morning, curious to know the meaning of the word she waylaid a lady passing by her bed and asked her what the word amputate meant. “It means to cut off”, came the reply. Such a possibility was totally unacceptable to Maggie and she made her mind up there and then that it was not going to happen. She was neither frightened nor upset; she simply refused to take it on board. The next thing was, the hospital had to get permission to perform the operation. Because of the circumstances surrounding her at that time it was not possible to do this right away. It was around ten days later when her physician saw what he thought was a very slight improvement. At this point he kept a very close eye on her and within a few short days discovered that yes, there was a definite improvement. Then came the healing process and Maggie was told that one leg would be shorter than the other, again she decided that was not going to happen and it didn’t. Several such occurrences took place before Maggie began to notice that if you got your mind set on something you could make it happen or not. By the time she had a family of her own she was very sure of this phenomenon So it was that when her son Duncan was smitten with epilepsy the doctors told her the best they could do was to prescribe Phenobarbitone, which caused hyperactivity and proved problematic not only at home but also, at school. At this point Maggie had a little talk with Duncan and assured him he no longer needed phenobarbitone and proceeded with him and the tablets to the bathroom and flushed them down the toilet. Duncan was also informed he would now have no more of those horrid spells and so far as Duncan and she were concerned, that was the end of the matter. Maggie together with Duncan had a scheduled appointment with the hospital once a month in order to monitor his condition. At the next scheduled appointment Maggie went to the hospital alone. “Where’s Duncan” she was asked. “Well ” replied Maggie “he’s okay, so there’s no point him coming, I thought I ought to let you know”. “What do you mean, he’s okay?” asked the Doctor. “Well” said Maggie, “it’s like this, I decided epilepsy is not for Duncan and neither is the treatment, so Duncan and I flushed the treatment down the toilet along with the ailment and so far as we are concerned that is the end of it”. “But, that’s ridiculous, I have never heard anything so outrageous,” said the Doctor, who was clearly shocked and very annoyed. “Well it might seem ridiculous to you but it seemed quite sensible to me” replied Maggie. “Sensible, what’s sensible about what you have done and what may I ask, do you intend to do next,” demanded the Doctor “About what?” “About Duncan” fumed the Doctor who was by this time, quite angry. “There is nothing to do about Duncan because there is nothing wrong with him.” Replied Maggie “You are completely crazy, your son has epilepsy and you refuse to accept it and have flushed his medication down the toilet. Do you realise what you have done?” railed the Doctor, who was by now quite red in the face. “Yes I do,” replied Maggie calmly. “Well young lady you must do something and I insist you tell me what that something is?” demanded the Doctor thumping his desk. As she headed for the door Maggie replied, “Right now Doctor I intend to go home.” As she rushed out she heard the infuriated Doctor yelling after her “You'll be back, you’ll be back.” And with that she left the hospital. That was more then twenty years ago and her son has never shown any signs of the epilepsy that was going to affect the rest of his life! Because there were several such occurrences in her life, it eventually dawned on her that it was possible to deliberately cause things to happen or not, which was quite a discovery. But, more than that she soon realised we, in fact, cause EVERYTHING happen. This led on to the positive thinking syndrome, which was helpful, but she sensed there was a million miles further to go than that It was right there she began to ponder on the way that everything was interrelated, connected in some way. She wanted to know what was going on behind the scenes and if people were somehow connected to that. But more than anything else she wanted to know why we are here and what if anything we are supposed to be doing. She knew there was so much more to human beings and to life and living than was readily apparent. Also, born of an inherent sense, was the feeling there was a lot more to this thing called love than was readily apparent and that the love of ALL was a firm foundation for world peace. At this point Maggie decided to investigate the love thing and whatever else was connected to it, to the farthest limit. LoveCrazyLove is the remarkable result of her findings.
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