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Meditation has kept my dad alive says Pop Idol Darius
The Sun 14 October 2004
Singer Darius Danesh was gutted when his father was diagnosed with cancer and was given months to live.
But dad Booth is still alive today thanks, his son believes, to a combination of the best medical treatment and meditation.
The Pop Idol runner-up was devastated when Booth, 62, told the family in February that he had lymphatic cancer, or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which attacks the body's immune system.
He says "Something inside me snapped. It was like a dam bursting. My dad is my hero and I realised that I had to spend every moment I could with him."
Booth, a consultant gastro-enterologist knew exactly what he was facing when he was admitted to the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, the country's leading centre for cancer treatment.
Darius admits: "The signs were that he wouldn't last the course of the conventional treatment". But Booth started chemotherapy and was determined to make the most of the time he had left.
Darius says: "The cancer spread everywhere. Through his lymphs, into his bone marrow, into his spine. He shouldn't be here. He shouldn't be walking. But against all the odds, he has beaten what the doctors predicted. They are confused. They don't understand."
Darius believes his dad has kept fighting so long because he embraced both conventional treatment and alternative therapy. Booth used a lot of meditation and Darius is convinced his mental techniques helped drive away the cancer.
Booth based a lot of his approach on a book called The Journey by American self-help author Brandon Bays. She claims to have got rid of a football-sized tumour from her uterus - without drugs or surgery - by going on an "emotional healing journey."
Darius explains: "She has a meditative technique she used when she was diagnosed with cancer. It's not advised. But she didn't seek medical help. She did it herself. And it's all documented and authenticated by doctors."
"I'm not saying that's why my father is still alive. But I am saying he made a miraculous recovery and the doctors don't know why."
Darius moved to London from the family home in Scotland to be at his father's side throughout his treatment. He says, "It was fantastic. We would talk until the early hours of the morning. I finally told him all the naughty stuff that has happened on tour, the stuff I would discuss with my best mate in the pub. We were like roommates at university in the first week at the halls of residence."
And his father told him his life story - about how he lost everything when his family were forced to flee Iran when the Shah was overthrown.
It inspired Darius to write his first song for months - Live Twice, the title track of his new album. I played it to him in the hospital. He turned to me and said, "Darius this song needs to be heard. Don't put your life on hold for me. Keep going forward."
It may be too early to say if Booth has fully recovered, but for Darius each day that his father is still here is a miracle.