The Nexus Between Art and Quantum Healing

premie baby foot, black and white being held by fathers hand

Published Monday October 7, 2024 by Candace Craw-Goldman

I didn’t see the connection straight away myself. I was an artist and thought it would be my life’s vocation and it was for a while, but my desire for a pain-free life led me down a different path to the world of energy and quantum healing which I quickly embraced at the age of 47.

I never really gave up image-making. I used my art and design skills in my new focus when I could and continued to capture photos and tackle the occasional canvas with paint. It suited me. I pursued consciousness exploration and phased out my time in the studio while the world of photography was changing quickly in the early 2000s. Digital cameras and “dollar stock” images were born. Just as I put a few rather nice feathers in my cap with country and western album covers and sold a prized photo to don the cover of a summer Petsmart catalog, the bottom dropped out of the photography market. It didn’t affect me nearly as much as some of my photographer friends, as I simply focused on my Quantum Healing Sessions, and building a support network for Dolores Cannon’s Practitioners. I switched gears, so to speak.

I had always thought of Art and Quantum Healing as two separate paths in my life. I walked down one, jumped over to the other in earnest and every once went back to the first for a bit to make images on the side and feed the creative side of me.

It is generally accepted that most artists create for other humans. We show our art, we showcase bodies of work, we sell pieces to collectors, and we dream about gallery representation or museum acquisitions. I experienced some of that but tended to look back a bit wistfully. Mostly my images remained unseen and my paintings in storage. Oh well. I was doing other work, work that really helped people!

But recently I was talking to a friend, someone most knowledgeable about both Quantum Healing and Art, and I had a sort of revelation. My friend’s mother, an exceptionally well-known artist of her time, will be remembered prominently in Art History. And this friend, works as I do, as a Quantum Healer. I was telling her about my volunteer work. I was describing the process of image-making in a hospital room, (even in an Operating Room!) speaking in the language of the visual image, symbolism, mood, composition, and storytelling. I said to her, “This really is the intersection of quantum healing and art.”

The thing that is strange, however, is that even fewer people will see the images I create, much less than any of my small artistic efforts in the past. I passionately create photographs sometimes for only a single person to view. At the most – a larger family. The images, save for a rare few, are not seen at all by the public. You see, I volunteer my professional services as an infant bereavement photographer.

The scenes in a Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep session echo and recall themes and emotions that are revealed in many BQH or QHHT® sessions. They are often so very similar, beautiful, terrible, powerful, memorable, life and death happening in close proximity.

I used to think my life as an artist and my life as a Quantum Healer existed separately. I no longer think that at all. My skills from one inform and benefit the other. Each contains uniquely human focus and both require sensitivity, creativity, vision, and dedication to practice to refine crucial skills. And both have the capacity to affect more than those directly involved. “My heart expands every time you tell a lost baby story,” a dear friend said recently, “Oh the tragedy and miracle of being human.”

Art and healing both feed my Soul.