Dr. Terry A. Gordon: The Wounded Healer

That same night the telephone rang and it was the wife of the man that I helped resuscitate. She was so thankful and told me she just knew an angel had arrived and she wanted to get me something. I told her: “Ma’am, you don’t understand, being able to help save your husband’s life is the most invigorating thing I can do, I don’t want anything”. But she insisted and she said: “We’re hard working people, we work for Hoover, and can we buy you a vacuum cleaner?”

Now, if that doesn’t affect someone, I don’t know what will. It changed my life! It changed me from saying “I believe it when I see it”, to “I’ll see it when I believe it”. And that magic is there all the time. It’s just a matter of recognizing it.

Dirk Terpstra: As I was reading your story, it seemed that nature was playing a more and more important role for you to reflect on your daily circumstances and moods. What connection do you feel with nature?

Dr. Terry A. Gordon: It’s just such an unfathomable, peaceful, beautiful experience. I have always enjoyed nature but I never stopped and smelled the roses until I retired. I now had more time and in that contemplation I see things in nature that I never, ever noticed before. To look in the eyes of a squirrel or a raccoon for example… Nature has provided me much insight and continues to do so. “The falls of your life provide you the energy to propel you onto a higher path.”

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Dirk Terpstra: Are you willing to share with us what your truth in life is?

Dr. Terry A. Gordon: Our purpose for being here is our transformational enlightenment. It’s to end up in a place of higher consciousness. It might just be a small shift, maybe a large one. I think that our purpose is not to become famous or to have things named after us, but it is our transformational enlightenment. I also think that life is a solitary journey, that doesn’t mean we’re alone, but it’s a journey to a higher consciousness. That’s my truth.