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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.

Disengaging “Be” from its secondary Have To …

The opening picture relates to my site

Then, what does this title of this post mean?

I would invite you to look at the word neutral. This little word stems from the notion of the not born. So gears can only disengage from each other through the neutral phenomenon. Similarly silence holds all the spoken global languages, all the world’s played music.

Children are born into a spherical receptacle with one centre. That centre is called destiny, but only when destiny is returned to the word be and that only happens when the word to is retrieved from the word have. This neutralises the have to be, which is the root of the Addictive System’s power and the reason that it is collapsing before our eyes.

Message reissued
The Addictive System

The Addictive System is built on the expression have to be as whole populations are rendered individually into their own personal Cinderella story. The well-meaning governments of the world simply reflect back the system that is inside each person and become bewilderingly broken systems of an amplified collective ugliness that is collective corruption and a collective Baron Hardup which is the systematic obsession with money as the only worth to worship.

This meltdown may or may not not be retrievable as explained from the Sufi Jam, described in these pictures of pages from a book by Idris Shah called Learning How To Learn ….

From Learning How To Learn by Idris Shah

After many years of working with people who recover from the disease of Addiction by returning to their principial core of being which is only experienced from the verb to be unalloyed from any primary connection with the verb to have, I convey this information confident of its practical efficacy.

The Sphere
The bottom pyramid is the verb to have, the built upper pyramid is constructed through conscious contact with the verb to be.

Then the parable of the Grail appears as the birthing of Christ Consciousness after the sensing that all opposites are connected, always have been and always will be.

The blue quote is experienced in the completion of Step 7 in the 12 Step cohesion, further validated by the topmost quote from the basic text of AA which corroborates the importance of the word neutrality.

Only when the be is returned to is the mysterious command of The Christ quickened. The principial centre of being renews the person, birthing them again in the repairing of the terminal connections across which Life flows, activating The Human, being a person. Then all a person’s have to be functions are restored as in the story of Job, their function and service to life returning. Life is returning.

Sex

 “Now about sex. Many of us needed an overhauling there. But above all, we tried to be sensible on this question. It’s so easy to get way off the track. Here we find human opinions running to extremes — absurd extremes, perhaps. One set of voices cry that sex is a lust of our lower nature, a base necessity of procrea-

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tion. Then we have the voices who cry for sex and more sex; who bewail the institution of marriage; who think that most of the troubles of the race are traceable to sex causes. They think we do not have enough of it, or that it isn’t the right kind. They see its significance everywhere. One school would allow man no flavor for his fare and the other would have us all on a straight pepper diet. We want to stay out of this controversy. We do not want to be the arbiter of anyone’s sex conduct. We all have sex problems. We’d hardly be human if we didn’t. What can we do about them?

   We reviewed our own conduct over the years past. Where had we been selfish, dishonest, or inconsiderate? Whom had we hurt? Did we unjustifiably arouse jealousy, suspicion or bitterness? Where were we at fault, what should we have done instead? We got this all down on paper and looked at it.

   In this way we tried to shape a sane and sound ideal for our future sex life. We subjected each relation to this test -was it selfish or not? We asked God to mold our ideals and help us to live up to them. We remembered always that our sex powers were God-given and therefore good, neither to be used lightly or selfishly nor to be despised and loathed.

   Whatever our ideal turns out to be, we must be willing to grow toward it. We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about still more harm in so doing. In other words, we treat sex as we would any other problem. In meditation, we ask God what we should do about each specific matter. The right answer will come, if we want it.

   God alone can judge our sex situation. Counsel with

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persons is often desirable, but we let God be the final judge. We realize that some people are as fanatical about sex as others are loose. We avoid hysterical thinking or advice.

   Suppose we fall short of the chosen ideal and stumble? Does this mean we are going to get drunk? Some people tell us so. But this is only a half-truth. It depends on us and on our motives. If we are sorry for what we have done, and have the honest desire to let God take us to better things, we believe we will be forgiven and will have learned our lesson. If we are not sorry, and our conduct continues to harm others, we are quite sure to drink. We are not theorizing. These are facts out of our experience.

   To sum up about sex: We earnestly pray for the right ideal, for guidance in each questionable situation, for sanity, and for the strength to do the right thing. If sex is very troublesome, we throw ourselves the harder into helping others. We think of their needs and work for them. This takes us out of ourselves. It quiets the imperious urge, when to yield would mean heartache.”

(pp68-70 AA Basic Text)

The above extract from the text of the original manual that introduced the 12 Step Programme to the world back in the late 1930’s stands up remarkably well as it speaks now to 21st century cultural forces.

The key message is that individuals can formulate an ideal for this particular instinctive appetite to be fed and to feed another, that it is no different to any other instinctive appetite, and that once clearly defined, there is always a solution to a problem.

In the light of the rather clumsy global laxative that is the 50 Shades of Grey phenomenon, this extract is offered as a source of elegant roughage to be added to the pundit ridden diet of diatribe that might then firm up our rather loose expressions, should anyone wish to of course ….. recovery, like policing, is best applied upon request and by consent.