Why I Became a Psycho-Spiritual Specialist: A Journey Through Suffering, Transformation, and Compassion
- David Maginley
- Mar 3
- 3 min read
Updated: Mar 21
I feel a profound purpose and privilege supporting those who swim in suffering. It’s familiar territory. I know cancer from both sides of the bed. I've faced it four times, each encounter forcing me to confront my mortality, my identity, and the fragile nature of existence. But more than the surgeries, the treatments, and the uncertainty, it was my near-death experience (NDE) during my second battle with cancer that changed everything. It wasn’t just a brush with death— it was a radical shift in consciousness that dismantled my old ways of seeing the world and embedded in me a profound understanding of love as the very ground of being. That moment, more than anything else, set me on the path to becoming a psycho-spiritual specialist.