Vice and Virtue

Letter from Carl Jung to Bill W a founder and transmitter of the 12 Step Programme

This letter puts into perspective how the current therapeutic communities have become bedevilled by theories of healing that have become so disconnected from Mankind’s actual mortal template as to have rendered most all of the mental health support from doctors to be now causing harm.

The disease of Addiction as commonly approached in our modern vernacular is far from being described accurately, however as a phenomenon of a now global exposure of societal breakdown, it is now the bellwether disease of Mankind’s era change possibility.

I am in a mortal body that exhibits both the God and the Devil incarnate.

Just like Jung, as a professional therapist I am aware of how the above personal statement is not welcomed by my colleagues who are experts in their accredited and peer evaluated fields of healing provision for the sick.

I am fortunate that the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP) has within its body a Spirituality Division.

This Division at least gives me a professional bridgehead from where to have built a coherent and evidence based transmitter to help not only large numbers of clients, but also to have begun an effort to reach my colleagues who are collapsing under the strain of their unwitting incompetence around their attempts to minister to people presenting with symptoms that are rooted in stuck and broken Addiction.

When the ancient template of Mankind’s psyche is detached from the modern equivalence for the medieval terms of God and Devil then the realm of emotion which is the modern equivalence for the word spirit is detached from the word feeling which is the modern equivalence for the word flesh.

In this disconnect of spirit and flesh, the work of a personal coherence around a Higher Emotional Centre which is the Higher Power mentioned in the 12 Step Programme, is virtually impossible.

If a modern clinical practitioner of talking therapy were to be asked to differentiate between feelings and emotions, then the definition of the words become very hard for them to explain which is why the mantra from therapist to client worldwide is and how does that make you feel?

This mantra is useless because just like blood pressure in the flesh can only have three states or tones, i.e. going up, going down, or steady, so the feeling pressure system in the interface of emotion can only have three states or tones, i.e. pleasant, unpleasant or neutral.

Column 2 across and column 2 down meet to show the reality of feeling and emotion

Thus mind as a word is more of a verb than a noun, minding is its remit. The mind in the (emotional) psyche is akin to the stomach in the flesh. For many people on Earth who have been programmed that the mind is all of them and that thoughts are the most important component of their identity, then this conditioned state of thought identification engenders a disembodied box experience for the mind.

In this disembodied state of programmed mind, brilliantly captured by the film The Matrix, people treat their own animal flesh in ways that they would never treat their animal pets, or even their factory farmed animal stock within professional husbandry.

The disease of stuck and broken Addiction eventually exposes this disintegration of the incarnation of spirit (Higher Emotion) with flesh (feeling). The evidence based principles of the 12 Step Programme harmonise with the urgency of Mindfulness as a message that says the first steps must be to reconnect the senses (feelings) to emotions as a precursor to the experience of a Higher Emotional Centre in the whole person.

Jung says that the collective realm of Mankind manifests as a vortex of the collective disconnect which he calls the Devil. This vortex is so powerful that as it manifests dynasties of money and tribal based systems, individuation toward a personal Higher Emotional Centre or Soul is impossible without help.

How important it is then for a Spiritual Counsellor to be able to translate the terminology that accurately describes feelings and emotions from the past into the language patterns of the modern talking therapists who only have words and the energy that words carry if the present day logjam of treatment disaster is to be relieved for client and therapist alike.

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