Joe

[Guest guest]

Lonny: Joe, I agree with many of your points. I specified that I was

talking about people at a world centric level of development. I think

there are two contemplations which are interesting:

 

1. Though healing may indeed take time, what part of ourselves WANTS

it to take time?

 

and

 

2. Though compassion is an important virtue to have, what part of us

WANTS compassion from others?

 

 

I think the discussion can only be had when a person has really taken

the time ti arrive at an answer to these two questions.

 

 

I'm not saying that we should say to a recently traumatized person,

" get over it you baby " . I'm saying that my generation (I'm 50) has had

more " healing " then all the matter in the universe and it really is

time to drop the past. Yes, the karma may still be in the body and

that's fine because CM is the best medicine in the world for removing

it. But all the holistic healing in the world wont make a difference

if a person doesn't WANT to get better. And it has been revealed to me

after 23 years of full time work that many people would simply rather

be victims and do not want to be happy. And this is a direct result of

a type of pathological narcissism that's a cultural force and

perpetuated by the victim oriented value system built into almost all

newage healing modalities that actually reinforce a dysfunctional

relationship to time, thought and feeling. What we should be doing is

reinforcing that there isn't much time and that the basis of many

people's misery is a dysfunctional relationship to thought and feeling.

 

If spiritual revelation (hell, just simple meditation) reveals that

thought and feelings are devoid of inherent meaning and have NO self

nature than shouldn't that be a core value of our medicine?

 

Instead, most of us either treat symptoms...or make people feel good

and call that " spiritual " . Do either of these options cut it when we

are practicing the most highly evolved medicine for effecting

consciousness here at the end of the world?

 

 

 

 

 

Warm regards, Lonny

[Guest guest]

lonny: i think that this was so well said! it's really a balance

between helping the patient to see that their own desire to heal can

impact their progress, and finding a compassionate way to help them

change their views. trauma victims need a healing space in order to

let their guard down, since they are hypersensitive to someone hurting

them. the key is not to get stuck in the anger/helplessness phase and

make progress.

 

marie