"I of my own knowledge…"

This is from Margaret Paul’s column in The Huffington Post. Good analysis, I’d say. Good advice.

The Cause of Inner Emptiness

(And What to Do About It)

by Margaret Paul, PhD.
Posted: 06/ 2/11 08:16 AM ET
Click here to view the original article

Do you often feel empty inside? Do you believe that others should be filling you up? Discover the real cause of inner emptiness and what to do about it.

If you feel empty, you are not alone in feeling this way. Many people feel empty inside, and most people who feel empty have some deep, false beliefs regarding why they feel empty. Below are some of these false beliefs. I feel empty because:

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My “virtual friend” (i.e. we’ve never met) Stuart Dean sends me something that, with his permission, I want to share with you, as I know that at least some of you will connect with it. In his accompanying email notes that for his whole life, “I have been irritated by the two great commandments for giving a destination without a road map, but I’m finally starting to get a handle on them.”

See if you can read this as the record of a first-hand experience, without letting your own opinions of God and religion get in the way.

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Keeping a journal is a great resource. It’s amazing what you can find when you look back. In the course of reviewing past sessions with various  guys upstairs, I found their advice from last September, in which they calmly told me that we could get rid of old unwanted habits and responses pretty quickly and easily. Great, ground-breaking stuff — and no doubt as old as the hills, too. But anything is new when you hear it for the first time. This, from Sept. 17, 2010

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I find myself in a funny position, in that I don’t necessarily pay a lot of attention to channeled material, much of it seeming to me to be contaminated and ego-driven. But this by Tom Kenyon on behalf of those he calls the Hathors rings true, and not only rings true, it echoes stuff I’ve gotten from the guys upstairs.

Like Kenyon, I feel impelled to spread this particular message, and I suggest that you do the same and ask members of your lists to do the same in turn.

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

6:45 AM. A little bit of snow on the ground.

Well, I am a little tired this morning, a little out of tune. But if you can stand it, Papa, I guess I can.

Now that you have gotten your books mostly packed, you should look around and be sure you aren’t overlooking other things that need to be done and can’t be left until after you move into your new place.

Yes, I suppose so. I’ll make a list. So what do we talk about today?

Gateway.

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The social hysteria about psychoactive drug use was caused  partly by cynical calculation by politicians, partly by profit-seeking drug lords themselves, I suspect, and partly by a deep pervasive unconscious fear of loss of control. For the moment it seems to be losing ground, and scientists are ever-so-carefully going back to what they were doing in the 1960s in the first place — exploring the fascinating inner potential these drugs can reveal. But nobody wants to be accused of being another Tim Leary (whose main offense appears to be that he was not apologetic about his belief in the potential for transformation), so, as usual, they wrap their experimentation in vigorously defended protocols. It reminds me of how they had to invent the protocol we know as “remote viewing” in order to give themselves permission to investigate even one aspect of extra-sensory perception.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/science/12psychedelics.html?emc=eta1

Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again

By JOHN TIERNEY

Published: April 11, 2010

As a retired clinical psychologist, Clark Martin was well acquainted with traditional treatments for depression, but his own case seemed untreatable as he struggled through chemotherapy and other grueling regimens for kidney cancer. Counseling seemed futile to him. So did the antidepressant pills he tried.

Nothing had any lasting effect until, at the age of 65, he had his first psychedelic experience. He left his home in Vancouver, Wash., to take part in an experiment at Johns Hopkins medical school involving psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient found in certain mushrooms.

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It is precisely my objection to politics and ideology, that they encourage people to look outside themselves for the source of life’s problems. But, as Jung in his wisdom told this reporter, each of us has within us Mr. Hyde. Our job is to learn what we are

From an interview with the English journalist Frederick Sands in 1955.

“It seems to me we have reached the limit of our evolution — the point from which we can advance no further. Man started from an unconscious state and has ever striven for greater consciousness. The development of consciousness is the burden, the suffering, and the blessing of mankind. Each new discovery leads to greater consciousness, and the path along which we are going is merely an extension of it. This inevitably calls for greater responsibility and enforces a great change in ourselves. We must draw conclusions from what we know and discover, and not take everything for granted.

“Man has come to be man’s worst enemy. It is a clash between man and God, in which man’s Luciferan genius has produced in the H-bomb the power to destroy more effectively than any ancient God could. We must begin to learn about man until every Jekyll can see his Hyde.”

In going through some material I have saved, I found this email from my friend Robert Clarke, dated 2-12-2006. I can’t remember what I had written that he was responding to, but his own views are clear enough, and well worth repeating in public.

What a lovely man he was, a man wholly without malice, and well beyond pettiness. He bore his physical suffering patiently and enjoyed his quiet life as it came to him. Saint Robert, I sometimes thought him.

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Dealing with depression

[Saturday, January 14, 2006]

7 a.m. Always, it seems, I wake up with a slight sense of depression. Can’t blame that on having to go to work! Can’t blame it on having to live with someone else that I’m out of harmony with! Probably could blame it on the usual apprehension that is the background to my life – but that doesn’t solve or even explain anything.

Well, I’d like a companionable chat. Which of my friends shall I talk with today?

You call me Joseph. [The Egyptian.]

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This article from New Scientist (found via Schwartzreport) ends with this statement: “If the results turn out to be real, she says, the implications are profound: we may have to rewrite physics and chemistry.” To which I add: It’s about time!

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