THE doctor said without hesitation, “We need to either burn or cut out your thyroid to make it more manageable. You will need to stay on medication for the rest of your life.” My wife Lea looked at him like he was crazy and said, “I can’t get rid of a part of my body because it’s not working for you. Why don’t we find the root cause of why my body is attacking itself instead?” The doctor returned her gaze as if she was crazy. He bluntly replied, “You go that route and you’re going to leave your children orphaned.”
But I knew my wife: she would be determined to find the problem and help her body restore itself.
Then her mom was diagnosed with brain cancer. All that standard medicine offered was chemotherapy and radiation. Through her studies for herself and her mom, Lea discovered an entire world of natural cures and dramatic testimonies. But what she also found was a powerful and pervasive system intent on suppressing these natural remedies at every turn. From authoritarian regulations to fake industry-funded studies, she learned quickly that the “healthcare” system often cares more for the profits of Big Pharma than for our well-being and recovery.
That’s not to say that there aren’t good people in healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry. But as you read in Part II, something has gone wrong, terribly wrong, in our approach to health and healing. God used my wife’s illness and the tragedy of my mother-in-law’s early death to open our eyes to the gifts He has given us in creation to nurture and heal our bodies, particularly through the power of essential oils — the essence of plantlife.
The Essence
As stated at Catholic Answers as heard on EWTN Radio,
Essential oils come from plants. These plants contain aromatic oils that—when properly extracted through distillation (steam or water) or cold pressing—contain the “essence” of the plants, which have been used for centuries for a variety of purposes (e.g., anointing oil and incense, medicinal, antiseptic). —catholic.com
Ancient distillery at Masada on the west bank of the Dead Sea
In ancient times, harvesters put leaves, flowers, or resin into stone distillation vats built into the ground and filled with water. The extreme heat of the day in Middle Eastern regions would cause a natural distillation and the “essence” or oil of the organic matter to rise to the surface. It seems the knowledge and “art” of these processes have always been at the heart of a battle between good and evil, of a war on creation:
Throughout the ages there have been those who would delve into this universal knowledge, just scratching the surface, only to see it disappear into history to be squashed by those who would restrict this knowledge for profit and power. —Mary Young, D. Gary Young, The World Leader in Essential Oils, vii
Called Out of Darkness
In 1973, Gary Young was working in British Columbia, Canada when he suffered a severe logging accident. A tree sheared off and struck him full force. He suffered a head injury, ruptured spinal cord, crushed vertebrae and 19 other broken bones.
When Gary was still in a coma in the hospital, his father was in the hallway where he was told that his son was expected to die within the hour. He asked for a few minutes alone. His father prayed and asked that, if 
God would give Gary back his legs and let him live, they, the family, would spend the rest of their lives serving God’s children.
Gary eventually awoke. In severe pain and crippling paralysis, he was confined to a wheelchair. Suddenly, a man who loved the wilderness, the farm, riding horses, and working with his hands was a prisoner in his own body. Filled with despair, Gary attempted twice to commit suicide but failed. He thought that God must really hate him “because He wouldn’t even let me die.”
In a third attempt to end his life, Gary tried to “fast” himself to death. But after 253 days of only drinking water and lemon juice, the most unexpected happened — he felt movement in his right toe. Doctors surmised that, because of the fasting, scar tissue couldn’t form thus enabling nerve endings to reroute and reconnect. With this glimmer of hope, Gary was determined to recover his full health. He stopped all medications to clear his mind and began to explore the world of herbs and healing through any book he could get his hands on.
He eventually applied for a job to drive a forestry semi-truck (see photo above), telling the owner that if he equipped the truck with hand controls, he could make it work. But the owner, with a dubious look, pointed to a Mack truck and said that he could have the job if he could drive it over to a trailer, hook it up, and drive it back to the office.
Gary wheeled himself through the gravel and pulled himself into the cab, along with his wheelchair. Over the course of an hour, he manoeuvred the truck, climbing in and out with his chair, hooking up the trailer until he finally drove to the owner’s office and wheeled himself in. The owner, with tears in his eyes, gave him the job.
As Gary’s body began to recover through natural remedies, his desire to help others became his driving force.
Taking Back God’s Creation
Henri Viaud, 1991
After a friend invited him to attend a conference in Geneva, Switzerland where doctors were presenting their research on essential oils and their effects on respiratory illness, he set out on a path that has led to thousands of discoveries about essential oils and their immense possibilities. He travelled the world to not only learn the ancient art of distillation, but to discover the best sources for plants, herbs, and trees.
With nothing but a backpack and sleeping bag, Gary left for France to learn from their experts on essential oils, including Henri Viaud “the father of distillation” and Marcel Espieu, the president of the Lavender Growers Association. Studying under their care, Gary learned all aspects of making essential oils — from tending the soil, to proper planting, to when the hour is right to harvest, and, finally, the art of extracting the oils. He would later coin his practice of planting, growing, harvesting and distilling as a “seed to seal” approach that respected and fully cooperated with God’s creation in all aspects: he used only land that was untouched by herbicides; he refused to use chemicals or pesticides; weeds were hand-picked or grazed by sheep. With his knowledge, he began his company Young Living with the goal that “every home” would eventually have his essential oils in them to experience the benefits creation offered.
D. Gary Young
When Espieu finally visited one of Gary’s lavender farms in 2002, he opened the door before the car stopped, briskly walked through the lavender field, touching and smelling the plants as he made his way to the distillery. Standing before a group of students gathered there, Espieu declared, “The student has now become the teacher.” And teach Gary did, gathering visitors around his distilleries, explaining the science, getting them into the fields planting and weeding and experiencing the beauty of dancing with God in creation.
It was actually much later that Gary was told about his father’s prayer while he was in a coma. “Gary,” his wife Mary told me, “said that he would honor his father’s request and would serve God’s children the rest of his life, and that is what he did.” Gary passed away in 2018.
A Healing Road…
Lea planting lavender in St. Marie’s, Idaho
In time, Gary’s knowledge would eventually reach my wife.
In her intense research to find a way to help her mom (and eventually herself), my wife Lea felt the prompting of the Holy Spirit to study Young Living oils and the work of Gary Young, who became the pioneer of modern distillation methods and scientific research into oils. It would seem that his work is “just in time” for the coming Era of Peace (see Part I).
One of the side effects of Lea’s auto-immune thyroid disease had been protruding (bulgy) eyes, which was very troublesome for her. The doctors informed us it was permanent and couldn’t be reversed. But as Lea began to faithfully use Young’s essential oils and oil-infused supplements that supported those systems in her body that were struggling, her eyes, amazingly, went back to normal. Within the year, her “incurable” thyroid imbalance went into remission — something the doctors said was not possible. That was over 11 years ago and she’s never looked back (watch Lea give her testimony on her YouTube channel here).
But like any of God’s miracles, there are also counterfeits. With little to no regulation in the industry, oil bottlers will usually label their bottles “100% essential oil” or “pure” or “therapeutic” when in reality only 5% of the bottle contains actual essential oil — the rest being filler. Moreover, many growers commonly employ the use of herbicides and pesticides to cut costs, as well as the practice of fractionation which manipulates the oil composition for a more “consistent” (and less earthy) smell, thereby decreasing efficacy. Others claiming “100% essential oils” purchase from bulk brokers who may only be selling a 3rd or 4th distillation of a plant, not the first and most potent crop. This 
may explain why some people call essential oils “nice smelling snake oil” when in fact there is some truth to that: these “cheap” oils are not the pure essence of God’s creation and may offer little to no benefits. Pay attention to that.
For my part, I remained somewhat skeptical about the whole thing. As far as I was concerned, essential oils were a “girl thing” — pleasant aromatherapy, at best. But Lea would share with me from day to day how, for example, frankincense is scientifically proven to be anti-inflammatory and anti-tumoral, or that lavender can regenerate tissue, peppermint can soothe the stomach, clove is analgesic, sandalwood is antibacterial and skin-supportive, lemon is detoxifying, orange can fight cancer, and on and on. To which I would reply, “Where did you read that?” I drove her crazy. But then she’d show me the studies and the science, at which the journalist in me was satisfied.
More, I was intrigued. A few years after Lea’s amazing recovery, I sat down to watch a video of Gary giving a lecture to a few hundred people. In between his analyses of the science, I was surprised and delighted how freely he spoke of God, and whenever he did, Gary would choke up (something I understand). It was clear that this man not only had an incredible passion for the discoveries he was making but that he had a deep connection with the Heavenly Father. As his wife Mary told me recently,
Gary always called God his Father and Jesus his brother. He often said he wanted to be with his Father or with his brother Jesus. When Gary prayed, you heard a man talk to God as someone he loved deeply to whom he was very close. Gary was not of this world all the time; there were many of us who saw him “leave” this earth awareness. He was somewhere else and we knew when he came back. It was a fascinating experience.
In Catholicism, we call this “mysticism” or “contemplation.”
But what really convinced me that Gary’s mission was divinely inspired was when he told the story of how years after his accident, he was nearly crippled again due to spurs having grown from his neck injuries that began to impact his spine…
A Prophetic Mission
The pain soon became unbearable and Gary, once again, became bedridden.
Yet, he was confident that God would give him an answer how to heal himself — something, he said, that He would teach him “for the betterment of mankind.”
X-ray after Gary Young’s logging accident
One night at 2:10 am, the Lord woke Gary and instructed him how to separate the hemoglobin from his blood in a centrifuge, infuse it with frankincense oil, and then inject it back into his neck through the scar tissue. Three doctors refused saying it would flat-out kill him. Another doctor finally agreed to do the injections but also warned how risky this was.
Within the first 5-6 minutes of the procedure, Gary was pain-free. He then reached up to his wife, and for the first time in nearly four decades since the accident, was able to feel the fine hairs on her cheeks.
Two days later, he was on a plane to Japan to give another lecture.
In the weeks ahead, new X-rays revealed something that science said was not possible: the bone spurs in his neck not only dissolved, but the discs, vertebrae, and even ligaments were regenerated.
Gary Young teaching visitors at his first farm & distillery in St. Marie’s, Idaho
As Gary told this story with tears in his eyes, the Holy Spirit rushed over me. I realized that what I was hearing was not just some new therapy, but a mission to bring creation back to its rightful place in God’s order. I was determined that day to help take back God’s creation from the hands of profiteers, charlatans, and the slanderous internet — the tactics of the enemy.
“It all comes from God,” said Gary said to his audience. “I ask for your understanding about my feelings for God… My Father is the most important thing in my life.”
Until his death, Gary continued to experiment with new applications for essential oils — discoveries his scientific team continues to bring to the public. One major discovery is how oils work synergistically. Mixing pharmaceutical drugs can be deadly, but Gary found that blending various oils can greatly enhance their effectiveness (for instance the “Good Samaritan” or “Thieves” blend). Another discovery is that infusing vitamins with essential oils greatly increases their bio-availability in the body.[1]see Supplements and End to: Flushed Supplements Cool, eh?
Entering the War
Since her own miraculous recovery, my wife has helped countless people including many of you, my readers, to rediscover God’s healing remedies in creation. We have had to endure many attacks and harsh judgment in regards to our discernment and motives. As I said in Part I, Satan hates God’s creation because “His invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what He has made.”[2]Romans 1:20
Hence the War on Creation is also a personal one. Gary Young has been and continues to be slandered, even after his death five years ago. Lea often laments the “Gospel of Google” where propaganda and falsehoods abound, effectively scaring people away from God’s healing gifts in creation. One of the biggest lies comes from the Catholic media itself, particularly in the wake of some ecclesiastically approved messages from Our Lady to employ these oils for our health in these times.
—National Catholic Register, May 20, 2020
to the charges in that article in The Real “Witchcraft”. 
Discussing our concerns with Mary Young
Winning the War
Lea Mallett at the Utah Young Living farm
Their fruit is used for food, and their leaves for healing. (Ezekiel 47:12)
Pray, My children; pray and believe in what My House has sent you for remaining healthy. —Our Lord to Luz de Maria, November 12, 2023
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Footnotes
| ↑1 | see Supplements and End to: Flushed Supplements |
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| ↑2 | Romans 1:20 |
| ↑3 | Essential Oils, Ancient Medicine by Dr. Josh Axe, Jordan Rubin, and Ty Bolinger |
| ↑4 | Marie-Julie Jahenny.blogspot.com |
| ↑5 | “It happens that visitors entrust their illness to the prayers of Brother André. Others invite him to their house. He prays with them, gives them a medal of Saint Joseph, suggests that they rub themselves with a few drops of olive oil which is burning in front of the statue of the saint, in the college chapel.” cf. diocesemontreal.org |
| ↑6 | spiritdaily.com |
| ↑7 | Message dictated by Saint Joseph to Brother Agustín del Divino Corazón on March 26, 2009 (with Imprimatur): “I will give you a gift tonight, beloved children of my Son Jesus: THE OIL OF SAN JOSE. Oil that will be a Divine help for this end of times; oil that will serve you for your physical health and your spiritual health; oil that will free you and protect you from the snares of the enemy. I am the terror of demons and, therefore, today I place my blessed oil in your hands.” (uncioncatolica-blogspot-com) |
| ↑8 | aleteia.org |
| ↑9 | In the case of Brother Agustín and St. André, the use of oils is in conjunction with faith as a kind of sacramental. |
| ↑10 | Revelation 18:23 |