About Us
What is LampOnThePath.org?
This self-healing web community was created to offer safe, simple methods of changing your mind and consequently problems that affect your health so that they are available to anyone, for free, without limitation, anywhere. Once people have confidence with the methods, we eventually hope to support and train them, in as unlimited a way as possible, using the web as an on-line training and support community. As they develop programs in their area of expertise, we would like to help them to become trainers themselves.
Why LampOnThePath.org?
The creators of this healing community website, Dekyi-Lee Oldershaw, Dave Gould and Judy Horsley and now Andrea Pilati and Bob Smyth, have been inspired by His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama and Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche, both Tibetan Buddhist teachers who have benefited 100’s of thousands of people of all philosophical backgrounds.
In 1999, Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche advised Dekyi Lee to make her methods of changing the mind and consequently the body, available to anyone of any philosophical belief. This website is the result of a short discussion she had with one of the Dalai Lama’s personal physicians, Dr. Wangyal, a Doctor of Tibetan Medicine in Dharamsala, India. This is the home of many Tibetans in exile and Dr. Wangyal’s famed Men Tse Kang, Institute for Tibetan Medicine where this ancient natural medicine system is preserved.
Dekyi Lee tells her story, “Several days after 9/11 and the collapse of the World Trade Centre, Dharamsala, where I was living in India, was braced for a major earthquake that would send its tiered buildings down the mountainous slopes like dominos. I was in the middle of a three-month solitary purification retreat at Tushita Centre, in the hills above the town, doing rigorous exercise and visualisation. Dr. Wangyal checked out my physical condition every two weeks.
This week, as I heard the warplanes sweeping overhead, I was quite stressed when I went to see him.
He gently took my hand and as he felt for my pulse, he said with great sadness, “If you need to worry, worry about this. There will come a time when the complexity of Western mind and lifestyle will eventually manifest physically as diseases that are too complex to treat with medicine alone. Both western and eastern medicine and doctors will not be able to prevent or cure these diseases. Once they spread, they will become universal. Go and dedicate your prayers and positive thoughts to help remedy that.”
He was skillful. He knew this prediction and advice would not depress me but motivate me. I knew then that the rest of my life would be dedicated to education and training of facilitators globally who could reduce the internal psychological causal factors in the minds of people, so that they would not be susceptible to these diseases when they spread, and to re-educate people to remove the underlying mental confusion that makes the mind fertile for these internal causes.
May all benefit by this work and this website.