About Us

Dr Jesucita Sodusta is an anthropologist by training (PhD from UCLA), with a Bachelor of Science degree major in biology (from the University of San Carlos). She has lectured, conducted research, and coordinated regional research bodies in various parts of the world. Her main interests include research methodology, covering methods in qualitative and quantitative, pure and applied.

Health has always been her passion, apart from charity work. She comes from a long line of healers trained in conventional medicine, from her mother’s sister to nephews and nieces and maternal and paternal cousins, with a total of 22 medical professionals.

Her paternal grandfather and great grandfather were natural healers schooled in the university of life. Active as herbal healers in their local community, they lived to ripe old ages of over 100. Although Jesucita never got to see them, their healing influence on her was evident when she wrote as a hobby for her family and friends two monographs on herbal remedies, one of which went into second edition (printed in Scotland).   

For Jesucita, writing about cancer and its degenerative impact on life gives her a sense of depression, which she would not want to picture on the faces of cancer victims she loves. But she doesn’t feel it that way as a webmaster. Because she’s not writing about cancer; she is writing about life and its triumph over death. She finds it gratifying to see fearless and courageous men and women fight the disease and survive.

Biology gives her good grounding in discovering life, treasuring it, and thanking the world that supports it.  

But it is her doctorate training in anthropology that defines the soul of her relationship with the world. When Jesucita sees someone from another culture, demonstrating their uniqueness as individual, she discovers a bit of herself. “How is it that we often think of ourselves in terms of duality, of differences when we are not any different from one another?" “There’s the notion of ‘another-ness’ in everyone of us forgetting we are born from one basic fabric of humanity. You are not any different from me and others. There’s the one-ness no matter where you are and what you are.”

“My world view has changed; my rooted-ness became social. The universe is united through the language of love and charity. Yet this is always thwarted by our evolutionary past. The needs to dominate, accumulate, and possess pull us back down the evolutionary ladder a bit. And as a part of humanity I struggle to understand the hard climb by attempting to move from biology to anthropology, from the world of plants and animals to community of people.”

NO MATTER WHAT your religion, skin color, education, location, position, gender, there’s only one common denominator that vexed us all: health.  Health is the single most determining factor that enables us to continue with our evolutionary ascent. If poor health reduces your quality of life or cuts your life short, you cannot make productive contributions to humanity. And you can’t find your greater purpose in life.  

About Us is also about a team of dedicated, determined, and capable editor, programmer, and research assistants. Over these months, their quiet but persistent determination to undertake this study, despite Jesucita’s occasional misgivings that some cancer survivors would deny them an interview –  in fact, the interviews appeal to the more sophisticated and well-educated respondents – was the driving factor behind the project’s success. This project is quite fortunate to have the team’s invaluable support.

 

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