Our Bodies Are Creations of Consciousness

Dawn Lester is a researcher and writer. She is co-author of What Really Makes You Ill (2019) and The Nature of Reality (2010).

The decade-long research and writing project that led to What Really Makes You Ill, involved taking a much deeper look into a whole variety of topics, not just health, and led to the inevitable discovery that so much of what we’re told is wrong. This in turn enabled Dawn to re-examine some of the more difficult experiences of her own life, including her cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment in the mid-1990s.

Through her understanding of the nature of reality, she has been able to gain valuable insights and view those painful past experiences from a different perspective, one that shows us that we are not victims of our past and that the future is not fixed. Instead, our past informs us about life, who we are, and what we can do right NOW to bring about the future we want.

Inspired by the famous saying to ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world’, Dawn shares her insights and understanding to help people identify, process, and resolve the challenges they face, and create the life they wish to experience.

I first connected with Dawn through Brandon Thomas and his amazing Expanding Reality community, and then via my recent podcast guest, Sol Luckman. I loved talking with Dawn and sharing our perspectives on illness, health, healing, consciousness, and the nature of the body and reality.

We talked about:

• How a diagnosis of cancer was a wake-up call for Dawn to make major changes and explore the esoteric side of life;

• The erroneous assumption behind the modern medical paradigm - that the body is like a machine;

• Why AI-based medicine is destined to fail;

• What symptoms actually are - messages from the body rather than problems to be suppressed or fixed;

• Fear of illness vs. trusting our bodies’ wisdom;

• What the placebo and nocebo effects reveal about the power of the mind to influence the body;

• And much more!

Find out more about Dawn’s work:

• Dawn’s writings on Substack

• Dawn on Facebook

• Dawn on Instagram

• See Dawn at Confluence, May 7-12, 2025