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Here is a link to a paper August produced about Mediumship and Standards of Care in the Behavioral Health domain, which was published by Paranthropology in their newsletter earlier this year.
posted by August Goforth @ 15:09
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"Creativity is the principle of novelty. Creativity introduces novelty into the content of the many, which are the universe disjunctively. The creative advance is the application of this ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates. The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities given in disjunction. The novel entity is at once the togetherness of the 'many' which it finds and also it is one among the disjunctive ' many' which it leaves; it is a novel entity, disjunctively among the many entities which it synthesizes. The many become one, and are increased by one. In their natures, entities are disjunctively 'many' in process of passage into conjunctive unity... Thus the 'production of novel togetherness' is the ultimate notion embodied in the term concrescence. These ultimate notions of 'production of novelty' and 'concrete togetherness' are inexplicable either in terms of higher universals or in terms of the components participating in the concrescence. The analysis of the components abstracts from the concrescence. The sole appeal is to intuition.-- (Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 26)
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"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." -- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
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"The instrument of thought, which has produced this world that does not work properly, is no longer valid. So perhaps this instrument of thought is worn out. Is there another instrument we can use?" -- Krishnamurti
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"...Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for his radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly." -- Alfred North Whitehead - English mathematician & philosopher (1861-1947)___________________________________
". . . keeping the Risen concept of weaving in mind, perhaps at this point it can be sensed that what we have before us, from which we are inseparable and as reflected in this book, is a Supreme Tapestry. There appears to be a Very Grand Design which we all follow, either in awareness or not, co-creatively or not -- recalling that creative means fun. As we weave we are free to make it up as we go along in any way we please, simultaneously staying within the Grand Design as imagined by Higher Imaginals, of whom we an inseparable part. The Grand Design is a work of perfections intermingled with imperfections, solutions with mistakes, and stillness within movement. The Higher Imaginals are many things, but for our purposes here, it suffices to say that they are very advanced and evolved individuals, or Higher Selves." (from The Risen: Dialogues of Love, Grief & Survival Beyond Death; Chapter 13, Mundus Imaginalis, p. 165).
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Dear August,
Nice paper.Scholarly papers are good
indications of the attitude of their authors within a particular field of inquiry.I never felt you were over
speculating.There is a very real problem ,not only in what you write about,but also in the area of so called
mystical gurus.
Very well done.
Sydney
Thank you, August for this groundbreaking paper! As a health-care professional who has had to hide my connection to Spirit, Shamanism, Alternative Therapies for most of my career, this is a breakthrough of the highest order.
I first became aware of my "dissociative disorder" while in the practice of medicine. I was aware of this dissociative experience as pathologic; but managed to get past it until it was incompatible with my own ethics and I had to pursue more non-traditional healing studies.
I have referred patients and friends to trusted mediums and channels when I felt their contact was critical in restoring the person's health, physical, mental and spiritual.
As long as we continue to practice therapies that are two-dimensional and consider anything outside of that realm to be pathologic, we are not healers.
Next on my reading list is ,"The Quantum Mind and Healing".
Once again, thanks to you and to Tim.
Thanks for the supportive, encouraging words. My own head is still swimming after writing the darned thing in record time - it was, of course, instigated by certain members of Tim's team. Actually it's not something I would have made myself do - too much work! - but I said "yes" to being of service, and the orchestration of resources and material to reach me in record time was phenomenal, if not to say numinous! It is far from perfect, needs some good polishing, but it's enough for progress of some kind. It's hoped that its obvious flaws will not overshadow the depths. Spirit does love to stir things up, and this might be the spoon to do it!
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