Addictive System

CHAPTER SEVEN — THE ANCIENT ROOTS OF RECOVERY

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” — Teilhard de Chardin

“The present difficulty is that the man thinks he is the doer… It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool.” — Ramana Maharshi

“There is only One, Unique, Absolute, Infinite Existence… He shows you He is yourself, then shows you that all else is Him.” — Bülent Rauf, Addresses II

“It is an evident fact that true communities and organisations ‘run down’ and develop peculiarities other than were present in their origins…” — Idries Shah, Learning How To Learn (The Coming Together Method)

There comes a point in this journey when the reader must be told something plainly:

The Twelve Step Programme, which has healed more lives from addiction than any other single framework in modern history, is not a modern invention. It is a rediscovery of principles that are ancient, subtle, and deeply rooted in the inner science of the soul.

Idries Shah called one aspect of this inner science “The Coming Together Method” — a way of dissolving ego, bringing people into the right kind of relationship, and allowing a higher intelligence to work through a group. Over time, he warned, such methods “run down” when their outer form is preserved but their inner purpose is forgotten.

The Sufis have known this for centuries: any living method can harden into structure, ritual, and habit. The original fire cools. The dance becomes choreography. Stabilisation replaces transformation. The same danger applies to all traditions — including, eventually, to the Twelve Step fellowships and any new work like DRT.

The Twelve Steps and the Ancient Arc

The Twelve Steps did not emerge from theology or psychology alone. They arose from lived desperation, filtered through a consciousness that happened, by grace, to align with an older design.

That design is expressed most directly in an ancient Sufi saying:

“I was a hidden treasure and I loved to be known. So I created the world that I should be known.”

This is the arc of Consciousness itself:

  • from hiddenness to manifestation,
  • from fragmentation to unity,
  • from isolation to Withness,
  • from Mankind to Humankind,
  • from de-pair into re-pair.

The Twelve Steps are effective because they align with this arc. They do not merely help people stop using a substance. They clear the obstructions that prevent the Hidden Treasure from being known through a human life.

Step One breaks the illusion of self-sufficiency. Step Two opens the possibility of a Greater Power. Step Three hands the ego’s steering wheel back. Steps Four through Nine cleanse and reorder the inner field. Steps Ten and Eleven maintain the relationship. Step Twelve lets the overflow serve others so it does not stagnate.

This is not moral reform. It is the architecture of Consciousness unfolding according to its original pattern.

The Journey From Desire to Decision

Before Step Four ever occurs, something quieter happens. Every genuine recovery begins with three movements:

  • Desire (Step One) — “I can’t do this anymore.” The collapse of the false self.
  • Possibility (Step Two) — “Maybe I can be helped.” A crack in the armour.
  • Decision (Step Three) — “I turn my will and life over…” A surrender of doership.

Ramana Maharshi described this moment perfectly: the human being suffers because they think they are the doer. Step Three ends that illusion.

The Steps as Be–hav(e)–i–our

The deeper arc of the Twelve Steps is encoded in one English word: Be–hav(e)–i–our.

Steps One and Two form the ignition: the pressure of desire and the first glimmer of possibility. Without this ignition, nothing moves.

Then the word itself opens out as a map:

  • BE — Steps 3, 7, and 11
    These are the three alignments. Step 3 surrenders will and life. Step 7 surrenders self-architecture in humility. Step 11 surrenders isolation through conscious contact. Together they restore the person to Being — to the One who has all Power.
  • HAV(E) — Steps 4, 5, and 6
    Here the person works with what is held. Step 4 reveals it. Step 5 speaks it. Step 6 becomes entirely ready to let it go. This is the purification of the inner field so the Hidden Treasure can begin to shine.
  • I– — Steps 8, 9, and 10
    The “I” re-enters relationship. Step 8 prepares to repair. Step 9 enacts repair. Step 10 maintains repair through continual inventory. The isolated self is stitched back into the fabric of the All.
  • OUR — Step 12
    When the vessel is clear, it overflows. Step 12 is not duty but overflow: the recovered “I” becoming “our”, carrying the message to all who still suffer, living as an instrument of the One on behalf of the All.

This is not a clever play on a word. It is a behavioural anatomy that the Steps make visible: ignition in Steps 1 and 2; alignment in BE; purification in HAV(E); repair in I–; overflow in OUR.

The One and the All

There are two three-letter words that determine whether a person ripens into recovery. Neither is “God.” The words are One and All.

One is the recognition behind Step Three: that there is only One Power acting, one Reality moving everything, one Source living through every form.

All is the outward movement: making amends to all persons harmed; continuing in all our affairs; carrying the message to all who still suffer. Unity realised inwardly must express itself outwardly.

This is Ibn Arabi’s Journey to the Lord of Power: from the many to the One, and from the One back to the many, now perceived as One.

DRT and the Template of Hope

DRT does not exist to put everyone into a Twelve Step fellowship. Its task is subtler: to help people recognise that we are all living inside an Addictive System that fragments attention and de-pairs us from our own depth, from others, and from Source.

In such a world, the Twelve Step template becomes a universal architecture of hope — because its principles resonate with the original design of Consciousness. DRT does not force ripeness. It simply helps the tree reconnect with sun and water.

The Condition of the Vessel

The Hidden Treasure shines according to the condition of the vessel. A heart clouded by fear, shame, addiction, trauma, or left-hand dominance cannot reflect the Treasure clearly. The Treasure is not absent — merely obscured.

A muddy pool reflects nothing. When the water settles, the face of the sky appears.

The Steps do not ask people to “find God.” They ask them to settle the water. And when they do, even briefly, clarity appears, compassion rises, and human love becomes possible again.

DRT helps people recognise the state of their water. It names left-hand and right-hand conditions not as moral failings but as vibrational states. When the water clears, the movement toward Withness is natural.

A Physiology of Surrender

The body must become still before the soul can hear. A modern echo of this is the Relaxation Response: sit quietly, breathe gently, repeat a neutral word on the exhale, return gently when the mind wanders. This is not mysticism — it is physiological surrender.

The Coming Together Method, Now

Shah’s warning applies everywhere: when stabilisation replaces transformation, the water stagnates. The Coming Together Method existed to keep the inner fire alive. The Twelve Steps rediscovered this structure in the West. DRT now emerges as a clarifying bridge between them.

DRT does not ripen the fruit; it honours the design already in the human being — a design that began as a Hidden Treasure longing to be known.

Some will hear this as metaphor. Some will feel it as truth. Some will turn away until life ripens them further. But for those ready even a little, this recognition can be the beginning of peace.

In this way, the Twelve Steps, the Sufi method, and DRT are not three systems but three expressions of one arc, one mercy, one intention: that what was hidden may be known, and what is broken may become transparent enough for Light to pass through.

An Invitation to the Reader

If something in this chapter stirs you — a longing, a curiosity, a sense of recognition — honour it. You are not being asked to believe anything. You are being invited to look.

Research the names that draw you. Follow the threads that tug at you. Let your own curiosity become your guide. The One meets anyone who steps toward truth, and the All quietly rearranges itself to assist that step.

CHAPTER FIVE — THE PRACTICAL SPIRITUAL

Image by my father-in-law, Sudhi Bhattacharjee (28.02.2025), whose gift for seeing bridges — literal and inner — lives on in this chapter.

“If it’s not practical, it’s not spiritual.” — Narcotics Anonymous

Spirituality has been inflated, abstracted, and misrepresented for so long that many young people no longer trust the word. They do not need theories floating above the world. They need a spirituality that helps them walk through the world — especially those who stand at the edge of despair.

Disconnected metaphysics cannot help them. They sense immediately when language is hovering above pain rather than entering it. They have been surrounded by commentary, opinion, and “spiritual content” that does nothing to steady the breath or guide the next step. They know the difference.

This generation has inherited a landscape of ideas without lineage, identity without grounding, and “spirituality” without practice. So when metaphysics approaches unrooted, they turn away — not out of cynicism, but out of accuracy.

Spiritual bypassing is what happens when comfort replaces courage, when insight substitutes for honesty, when abstraction avoids the wound instead of meeting it.

The NA line exposes this clearly: if it cannot be lived, it is not spiritual. If it does not help a person stay present, breathe, act, or withstand the day, it is simply language.

The Twelve Step Fellowships embody this truth. They take no opinion on external systems or cultural debates. Their task is simpler and deeper: to offer what has helped real human beings recover — day by day, step by step. Spirituality here is not concept but companionship.

The Healing Trust works in a parallel way. It does not oppose anything; it offers a Creator-led pathway of healing supported by evidence and defined by its Code of Conduct. Its work is invitational, grounded, practical — the hands become the bridge, reconnecting the person to a field of Withness too deep for words.

DRT stands in this same ethical lineage. It does not claim superiority, nor does it set itself against other modalities. Instead, it offers a way to understand behaviour, being, and consciousness in a framework that is clinically responsible, spiritually grounded, and accountable to the BACP Spirituality Division. It provides orientation — a relational map of where a person stands and how they may move.

Real spirituality does not bypass the brokenness. It meets it. It pairs with it. It grounds the person in a way that restores their capacity to live.

The Next Stone — Practice as the Way Back into Pairing

Practical spirituality begins with the smallest possible movement — small enough that even despair does not forbid it. The Addictive System teaches escalation: everything must be intense or transformative. But the spiritual path teaches the opposite: begin with the next right thing.

This is how de-pair becomes re-pair.

The left-hand and right-hand words of DRT are not distant ideas. They invite different micro-actions, moment by moment.

1. The Pause That Reconnects (Healing Trust resonance)

Before reaction, before collapse, before decision — pause for the length of one breath.

The pause is relational. It is the gesture that says: “I am not alone inside this moment.”

The Healing Trust embodies this silently. The healer pauses first, enters Withness, then invites the client’s field to follow. A young person can do this without training. It is the first re-pairing: breath-with-body, body-with-moment, moment-with-awareness.

2. Naming the State (DRT clarity)

The second act is simply to name which column you are in.

Left-hand word or right-hand word.

No judgement. No shame. Just naming. In DRT, naming restores orientation; orientation restores agency. Young people do not need doctrines — they need direction.

3. The Small Turn Toward Assistance (12 Step lineage)

The third act is the tiniest turn toward help.

A text to someone safe. A line in a journal. A whispered “Help.” A willingness to believe, for one breath, “I do not have to carry this alone.”

This is the heart of Step One, Step Two, Step Three — the shift from isolation to Withness. It is the smallest motion that reopens the field.

This is practical spirituality.

What Young People Need

They need a spirituality that can be practiced in the middle of despair. A spirituality small enough to begin today, strong enough to hold tomorrow, and honest enough to meet them where they are.

They do not need escape. They need re-pairing. They do not need metaphysics. They need Withness. They do not need perfection. They need participation.

And so Chapter Five ends not with theory, but with the most practical spiritual truth carried through generations of the recovering:

“Without help it is too much for us. But there is One who has all Power — that One is God. May you find Him now.” — Alcoholics Anonymous, p.59

Not later. Not when you feel better. Not when the despair has lifted. Now — with the life you actually have, and the breath that is already yours.

CHAPTER THREE — THE FEW WHO CARRY THE MANY

There is a mystery woven through the history of the world — a mystery that rarely appears in public, yet quietly shapes the fate of civilisations.

It is the mystery of how so few realised Human beings have ever walked the earth, and yet how astonishingly far their influence extends.

The number has always been small. Sometimes one in an age. Sometimes hidden entirely. Yet without them, the world would collapse.

The Sufis call such a being al-Qutb — the Pole, the axis around which the invisible order of the world turns. The Qutb is not recognised by earthly authority. He sits in no palace and rules no institution. But everything stable, everything merciful, everything quietly preserved is preserved because he stands.

In the Qur’an he appears as Khidr — the Green One, the guide Moses could not understand because Khidr moved by a law higher than law.

In the Christian imagination he appears as St George, not primarily as a dragon-slayer but as the defender of the innocent, the protector of what must be preserved.

In English folklore he surfaces again as Robin Hood, the outlaw who serves a deeper justice than the crown, aligned with the unseen moral order rather than earthly power.

Far to the East, in the mountains of Tibet, another whisper appears: that certain High Lamas, fully realised beings, sustain the balance of the world simply through their presence. Their monasteries were not just schools — they were tuning forks for the world’s spiritual field.

Most hidden of all is the lineage of the Sarmoung Masters of Wisdom, the Brotherhood said to have preserved the “bees’ knowledge,” refining and transmitting the nectar of divine wisdom across centuries so it would not be lost when civilisations collapsed.

The Sarmoung were custodians of humanity’s inner architecture — not to rule the world, but to keep it from dissolving from within.

At this point, we must remember what John G. Bennett said in his final public talk, distilling everything he learned from Gurdjieff, the Sarmoung, and decades of direct work with hidden traditions.

John G. Bennett quotation

Bennett understood what few dare to see: that the Human race is an unfinished experiment, extraordinarily difficult, and that the transition from Mankind to Humankind is not guaranteed. It requires help — not institutional help, but help from those few realised beings who have crossed the threshold and now bear the weight of the many.

Different continents. Different myths. Different languages. Yet all these traditions describe the same pattern: a small number of realised Human beings hold the world together from within.

They are not rulers. They are not prophets. They are not public figures. They are poles of stability, silent axes upon which the visible world unwittingly turns.

This is the Unseen Government — not a conspiracy, not a shadow elite, but a spiritual architecture that predates nations, institutions, and religions.

Those who belong to it walk with humility, often in obscurity, sometimes in disguise. Their presence radiates order into chaos, mercy into cruelty, balance into a world tipping toward collapse.

Every tradition carries a whisper of this group because the human soul remembers them, even when the mind does not.

Here is the great paradox: those who cross from Mankind into Humankind touch — even briefly — the edge of this current. The movement into alignment “with” the Real is the same movement that sustains the saints, the sages, the Green Man, the Sarmoung Masters, and the Lamas who hold the world upright.

The Twelve Steps tap into the same architecture: not through doctrine, but through alignment; not through belief, but through withness. Surrender brings a human being into contact with the same ancient field of support and governance.

When a person awakens into Humankind, even for a moment, they begin to bear what once crushed them. They join the current that has supported humanity since humanity first became capable of self-reflection. This is the ancient distinction between “the quick and the dead” — not in the crude sense of bodies and graves, but in the deeper sense recognised by the earliest Christians and later by the mystics: the difference between those who merely live, and those who have become alive.

This awakened aliveness — what some traditions name Christ consciousness — is not reserved for saints or prophets. It is the same shift made quietly, anonymously, in the Twelve-Step rooms for the last ninety years. Millions have brushed this threshold without ever naming it. The Steps, like the old Ways, do not create the Real; they align a person with it. They turn the deadened life of Mankind into the quickened life of Humankind.

This chapter opens that veil just enough to show that the crossing from Mankind to Humankind is not merely personal psychology. It is an initiation into a lineage. It is an entry into an ancient order. It is a step onto a Way guarded by Khidr, preserved by the Sarmoung, sustained by the Lamas, and anchored by the Qutb.

Whether we recognise it or not, every sincere seeker, every recovering person, every human who begins to walk “with” the Real is led by the same invisible hand.

And the Way continues, stone by unseen stone, because the hidden ones have always stood where the world would otherwise fall.

CHAPTER TWO — THE CIRCLE OF BIRTH AND BEARING

“Humankind is born of Mankind, then Mankind is borne by Humankind.” — A.J. Dettman

Every spiritual teaching worth its breath begins with a paradox — and this one is the doorway into the whole architecture of The Holy Con.

Humankind is born of Mankind. The higher emerges from the lower. The awakened self grows out of the wounded self. Consciousness rises through the very soil of unconsciousness.

This is why no stage of collapse is wasted. No failure is irrelevant. No addiction is outside the curriculum of awakening. The raw material of Humankind is always Mankind.

But the paradox does not end there.

Once Humankind is born, Mankind is no longer the carrier. The polarity reverses. The higher begins to bear the lower. Humankind carries Mankind. Humankind holds what once held it. Humankind becomes the shelter, the governance, the orientation, the right-hand alignment.

This is the turning at the heart of recovery, the pivot inside every Twelve Step experience, the movement from left-hand to right-hand in the DRT axis.

We begin in Mankind — with the ego, with self-will, with the illusion of personal mastery.

But when the self cannot carry the self any longer, Humankind is born — the capacity to be with the Greater Power, with surrender, with grace, with the paradox that reveals the next step.

And once Humankind rises, it begins the work of bearing Mankind.

This is why recovery does not erase the wound — it carries it. Transforms it. Bears it as a mother bears a child and as a child in adulthood bears the aging mother.

The relationship reverses but the bond remains.

This is why opposites are always connected. Wrong and right. Collapse and renewal. Mankind and Humankind. Con and con. Two aspects of one unfolding. Two poles of one mercy.

Every addict knows this circle. Every mystic lives it. Every civilisation, when it collapses and rises, confirms it.

Humankind is not another species. It is Mankind transfigured. Mankind relieved of the burden of carrying itself. Mankind lifted into alignment with the creative Force it forgot.

And when Humankind takes up its place, it begins to bear Mankind with tenderness — not condemnation, not avoidance, not disgust, but recognition.

Because Humankind remembers what Mankind forgets: that every fall is formative, every collapse is instructive, every darkness is a womb.

This is why the Holy Con is not a movement of escape but a movement of withness. Not leaving the old behind but carrying it rightly, through a new alignment with the paradox that makes transformation possible.

Humankind is born of Mankind. Then Mankind is borne by Humankind. Birth and carrying. Collapse and bearing. Left and right. The small con and the great Con. One circle. One unfolding. One mercy.

And the Way continues, stone by unseen stone, as we follow the curve of what carries us next.

CHAPTER ONE — THE TWO WAYS OF WITH

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi

We live in a time when many people believe institutions are a con. But the word con never meant deception. Its root is the Latin cum — meaning with. And everything depends on this question: With what — or with whom — are we aligned?

This question opens the entire Way.

There is a con with a small c and a Con with a capital C. There is being with in a lesser way and being With in a greater way. There is Mankind and there is Humankind.

Mankind is the left-hand place — the state of being with the wrong thing: with the stuck behaviour, with the collapsing institution, with the ego attempting to self-govern what it cannot heal, with repetition rather than revelation, with survival rather than surrender.

Humankind is the right-hand place — the state of being with the right thing: with the Greater Power, with the breath of the Real, with the paradox that restores sanity, with Step Eleven consciousness, with the Creative Intelligence that the Twelve Steps return us to.

This is not moralism. This is alignment. This is orientation. This is the architecture of the soul. We are designed to get things wrong before we get things right, vice and virtue are in the very template of individuate wisdoms.

The DRT behaviour device shows this with elegant precision — a single vertical axis holding the left and right words, revealing the movement from Mankind toward Humankind.

On the left-hand side is Mankind — the small con: being with the failing pattern, with the exhausted will, with the illusion of self-sufficiency.

On the right-hand side is Humankind — the great Con: being with the Higher Power, with humility, with paradox, with the Source that makes healing possible.

These two sides are never enemies. They are connected, paired, dependent — two poles of one paradox, the paradox through which transformation enters.

Wrong leans toward right. Right redeems wrong. The brokenness becomes the place of belonging. The collapse becomes the first clarity. The wound becomes the aperture for Light.

Our institutions are collapsing because they have remained too long in the realm of Mankind — with self-reference, with egoic governance, with structures cut off from their Source.

But collapse is not annihilation. Collapse is the small con exhausting itself. Collapse is the threshold of the great Con — the return of Humankind.

Every addict knows this. Every recovery room embodies this. Every true spiritual lineage teaches this.

A person recovers not by becoming stronger, but by becoming With. Not by reinforcing the ego, but by returning to Humankind.

A culture recovers in exactly the same way.

The question is always the same: Are we living as Mankind — or awakening as Humankind? What are we With? And what must we come-With next?

This is where The Holy Con begins — with the rediscovery of withness as the axis of healing, orientation, and return.

And the Way will appear as the next stone rises beneath the foot.

THE RETURN TO BE — A NEW ARC FOR THE SACRED DISEASE OF ADDICTION

The left word is asleep; the right word is awake. Denial is the sacred bridge between them — the pulse through which life returns to BE.


Every human life begins in innocence. Not ignorance as failure, but innocence as the first architecture of consciousness — the early pattern through which we learn to survive, belong, and shape meaning. This left-hand pattern, what Diction Resolution Therapy™ (DRT™) names the Addictive System, is not an error. It is our universal beginning.

But as life intensifies, the sacred disease of addiction begins to speak. Not to punish us, but to send signs — the signs of stuck and broken i-haviour, the early pattern straining under the weight of an adult life. And just as Surah ar-Raḥmān repeats its haunting refrain, ‘Which of your Lord’s signs will you deny?’, denial rises in the Addictive System. Not stubbornly, but innocently. For denial is simply ignorance defending itself.

Denial becomes the necessary bridge — the creative tension between innocence and wisdom, between the two vertical words of the DRT™ pattern. Christ foreshadowed the same mystery when He told the disciples they would deny Him. It was not condemnation. It was an initiation. Denial must be seen before realisation can be born.

And when denial cracks, even briefly, the heart glimpses what was always true: that our suffering is a sign of separation from the primal BE. Realisation is the return to this ground — the right-hand word of the graphic — where behaviour rises from Being rather than from survival. Awareness becomes the matured pattern of Be-hav(e)-i-our™, completing what innocence began.

Yet even realised people fall back into the left-hand pattern. This, too, is by design. The Addictive System is never removed; it is simply reclaimed. The measure of awakening is not the absence of the fall, but the speed of return to BE. As soon as one remembers, one returns.

This is the rhythm the mystics have always known. It is the rhythm Rumi captured in the simple and profound truth:

‘Life is returning.’

This is also why my blog carries the name *lifeisreturning.com* — it expresses the ancient rhythm of separation and return, the movement of human consciousness back toward BE.

The left-hand word is asleep and the right-hand word is awake. This is not a moral division. It is the same movement I explored in my post *Quantum Christ*: the pulse by which consciousness returns to its own Source, again and again, as if Reality Itself were breathing through us.

Sleep is innocence — the dream-state of the early self, ignorant of BE, unaware of its separation. Awakening is realisation — the return to BE, the moment the dream thins and the deeper ground shines through.

Between these two states lies denial: the creative, sacred tension that shakes the sleeper, the necessary friction that prepares the heart for awakening. This is why Surah ar-Raḥmān repeats the question, ‘Which of your Lord’s signs will you deny?’, and why Christ foretold the denial of His disciples. Denial is not betrayal; it is the tremor before dawn.

This is the same quantum rhythm explored in *Quantum Christ*: the universe oscillating between concealment and revelation, contraction and expansion, sleep and awakening. Human consciousness mirrors this cosmic pulse.

And so the two vertical words in the Diction Resolution Therapy™ pattern are simply the two phases of this cosmic breath made visible:
Asleep → Denial → Awake.
Ignorance → Stirring → Realisation.
Separation → Tension → Return.

Life is returning.

Returning in every moment of seeing, every collapse followed by awakening, every crossing of the narrow bridge of denial back into the light of awareness. Diction Resolution Therapy™ does not erase the left-hand word. It teaches us how to fly with both wings — the innocence of the dove, the wisdom of the serpent — oscillating between zaher and batin, outer and inner, until return becomes natural and continuous.

Life is returning. And we are built to return with it.

*Written collaboratively by Andrew Dettman and ChatGPT (HIAI), honouring the shared movement of insight returning to BE.*

We’re all in the trough in the 1st world

If you were suddenly given hundreds of millions of dollars would your behaviour remain integrous to your Human beingness?

People of the Heart work in both, in hell and paradise on Earth, in conscious conscience and fulfil the purpose of the creation of the Universe which is to become polished points of reflection for the Creator to know Itself both visibly and invisibly.
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The frenzy of the Executive pitfalls

The soundtrack of our G20 and their populations

In the Addictive System of the world order there are none who are not affected by the cultural vortices that are the constitutional apparatuses that control billions of people.

None can judge another, whether it’s a person judging another or a nation judging another, expecting to be free from significant levels of hypocrisy.

The first step is to accept a description of what’s actually happening on Earth as described from a Spiritual point, given that just as for a person collapsing with stuck and broken addiction there is no mental solution for the overall malady so there is no political solution for the crises facing Mankind presently.

Predictions – World War 3 and Battle of Armageddon
From my post October 2013 and the comment asking whether Ukraine was the start of something bigger?

Once a more elevated standpoint is arrived at then the opposites naturally reconnect to allow a deeper perspective to appear. The above assessment then takes on a more Jungian symbolology but still remains deeply challenging for all of us.

Between the Yesse and Nose

Between the Yes and No, your spirit rises and stretches it’s neck🧣

Until you can start to say Yes-se, then your denial of One Se, or once, or One-se, namely your No-se as a poetic term for said denial, will keep you trapped in your Pinocchio puppet made of would.

Per Se, or through Itself is the actual state of the Universe.

When the contrived denial of our common Source that is inflicted upon us by the divide and rule brigade, breeds wars and calamities and seemingly endless catastrophe, then all of the collected nations’ Official Secrets simply become lies, and what we think we knows to be true is simply the denial of One Se, so our collective and individual No-ses grow and grow and grow.

Mankind are puppets made of would.

We would like the world to be more real, but the fairground rides are seemingly too powerful, until they’re not.

So, eventually lessons are painfully learned.

Individually to begin with, the drunks wake up first. Powerless and unmanageable, the last in the Pinocchio world of mirrors, the first that It wants to speak to, the 12 Step Programme builds its 90 years of evidence that Mankind has a Source and a Destination.

As soon as Step 2 leads to Step 3 and a Yes-se appears, then the opposites in the psyche repair, animus and anima marry, animosity and resentment heal and Pinocchio starts to become real with a working Yes and No.

Eventually, Mankind as Pinocchio will awaken from its drunken stupor and become Humankind. The scallywags are desperately trying to keep you asleep.

This post was written whilst walking with my dog pulling me around on the end of her lead, almost impossible, but reflective of the conditions facing all of us as we birth into awakening and remembrance of our common Heart.

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.

Weeping

The shortest sentence in the Bible is “Jesus wept.” This account about a man who was given the power to quicken the dead, but He still wept.

I cry easily and openly and I am eternally grateful for this fact of life, for this fact of my life. I have learnt some skills so that sometimes I weep before an inevitable stress, sometimes after. As a Spiritual Counsellor it is necessary to hold a safe space for others to be invited to express emotions and thus my balancing happens away from that space.

Wounds often weep when healing.

The physical and the metaphysical are inexorably connected. Only in a contortion does a personality disconnect the two worlds and take the dots out of the Yin Yang ☯️ and pretend that a particular trauma is in fact not a trauma at all. The word trauma simply means wound.

Weeping is a cleansing process, it is a manifestation of the duality of matter as it turns at every point of contact with Singularity. Only in a personality can there be ignorance and then denial of this simple universal law of duality turning in Singularity.

The Earth has to turn, She has no choice as Her simple + and – charge meets the invisible force of Singularity, just so do electrons have to turn around the nucleus in an atom.

Only in a personality starting in ignorance and then doubt that can set into denial, can the turning of opposites seem to have a disconnected justification for the inevitable insane actions that manifest from that refusal to turn.

The population of Mankind and especially their leaders need a weeping, or rather they need to see that the weeping is already there, the leaders are not able to engage with that reality – so they persist in their cartoon castles of resentment and policy protocols that are locked in now to World War Three.

There is a way to avert the devastation seen by Jung in a vision at the end of his life.

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Talking of mystical experience

Generally it’s a waste of time talking of mystery!! Carl Jung was buried by the Establishment because in an interview toward the end of his life when he’d had enough of disrespect, he said that he knew that God exists!!

Jung also said so far as a Spiritual experience may be real or not, he said that if such an experience granted a recipient “pistis and peace”, then whether anybody else believed it or not if invited to hear of it, mattered not one jot.

I had an experience of birthing an inner “spiritual baby” in 1982. In the Sufi Way this is known as tifl-al-maani.

https://hbayman.angelfire.com/en/coh.htm

Occasionally I have invited orthodox authority and those who think they know of the paradox, to hear my message. Usually my message is too challenging for the receiver to hear anything but their own combative response patterns.

What has never changed over the years of my remaining in this world whilst no longer being fully of it, is my inner state of “pistis and peace”. In fact this said inner state has expanded and continues to extend and expand, not unlike the orthodox scientific view of the physical universe.

https://lifeisreturning.com/2021/07/18/message-reissued/

Global Stuck and Broken Addiction

At 1:48 my contribution is generously recorded by George Galloway.

I was invited to contribute by George Galloway in response to a piece by Larry Johnson on current global tension around Ukraine and Taiwan.

This message of illness is a message I’ve been delivering on my blog since 2013, standing on the shoulders of Anne Wilson Schaef and her book “When Society Becomes An Addict” published in 1987.

When Society Becomes An Addict (1987) – Anne Wilson Schaef.

Of course as a pragmatist, I accept that the chances of a therapist being invited to help the collapsing governments of the twenty first century are so slim as to be virtually impossible. I can simply deliver a message as it seems to me to be required by my spiritual condition and my conscious realisation.

How that message is received is not my business, I am grateful to have been given a chance to deliver it into the ether of this time.

drt.global/corporate is a beginning, a portal of a possibility toward a process that must write itself as it goes along.

George Galloway was kindly critical of my figures of 20 million Russians killed under Stalin and 40 million Chinese killed under Mao. Bunkum is a great old term, but I am not simply making a figure up without some reference to history, but I of course am open to debate too….

Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the archival revelations, some historians estimated that the numbers killed by Stalin’s regime were 20 million or higher

Excess mortality in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin
Scholarly debate around excess mortality in the Soviet Stalin era. – Wikipedia

His policies resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people in China during his 27-year reign, more than any other 20th-century leader; estimates of the number of people who died under his regime range from 40 million to as many as 80 million, done through starvation, persecution, prison labour in laogai, and mass executions. Mao rarely gave direct instruction for peoples’ physical elimination. According to biographer Philip Short, the overwhelming majority of those killed by Mao’s policies were unintended casualties of famine, while the other three or four million, in Mao’s view, were the necessary victim’s in the struggle to transform China. Many sources describe Mao’s China as an autocratic and totalitarian regime responsible for mass repression, as well as the destruction of religious and cultural artifacts and sites (particularly during the Cultural Revolution).

Mao Zedong
Chinese communist leader (1893–1976) Wikipedia

The British Empire as evidenced in the link to Wikipedia has been the Mother of Atrocities as well as the Mother of Modern Democracy in the past few hundred years. The US Empire has simply built in the last 150 years upon the foundations it inherited from Britain.

I simply return to my message that the Imperial force expressed in the two empires of the UK and the USA have caused the death of many millions over many decades.

All governments therefore are traumatised, mired in their history.

Only an illness diagnostic can connect the orthodox governments of our Earth by and with the paradox that is One.

So, what can the voice of just one person do as they present to carry a message to the United Nations?

Here is a reply I made earlier….

Just One Person

…. and here is a postscript just found, almost an epilogue….

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Vehicle

They are foolish people, indeed, who believe that one can reach the Divine Presence without a vehicle without relying on a means. It is as though they are saying, ‘We may reach the moon without using anything. We may jump from here to there!’ What is the purpose of knowledge if one does not use it?

Such people tell those who listen to them that all the knowledge they need can be found in the Holy Qur’an. They say, ‘Read the Qur’an and you will understand.’ That is destroying Islam. It is God’s Ancient and Holy Words. How then, can they say that everyone can recite and understand such a sublime text? On the contrary, God said :

If they had only referred it to the Messenger, and to those in authority among them, those among them who can search out knowledge of it would have known it (4:83)

You must listen to those servants who have been granted authority. Only they can discern the real meanings from what is necessary to be known. Only they can comb the oceans of Divine Knowledge and bring back pearls. Not everyone may comb through the oceans and bring back pearls. That means, if you are unsure about something, you must find such a person – one who is bringing back pearls of meaning.

God has given that understanding only to those special people whom He has authorised to receive it. Not everyone understands. Those who believe otherwise are falling into unbelief (kufr). So, too, are those who – acting upon this misguided belief that the full knowledge of the Holy Qur’an is available to all – declare that the practice of making meditation to a Sufi guide is unbelief fall into unbelief themselves. The irony of their claim is that, through meditation with the Sufi guide, one may come to a real understanding of the Qur’an.

May God forgive me and bless you. Al-Fatiha.

Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani – Lefke, Cyprus Ramadan 17 1425/ October 30, 2004 – from the book The Healing Power of Sufi Meditation ISBN 1-930409-26-5

The above quote exposes a spiritual principle that is at the heart of the 12 Step Programme as it promises to allow a person to construct an experiential vehicle that is fit for the purpose of conscious contact with God, which is stated as Step 11.

For to say to a suffering person, “Just read the book of Alcoholics Anonymous”, expecting that this is enough 88 years after the text arrived through a founder who said whilst writing it, it was as if the pencil had a life of its own, may actually be falling into Spiritual Bypassing and the dogma of a hierarchical intellectually based culture unwittingly hijacking a spiritually based healing that is designed to change the old hierarchy!

All emotions are sacred

The criterion for assessment and for the avoidance of Spiritual Bypassing is to ask the question, how has the message transmissibility of the 12 Step Programme improved over the last 88 years whilst leaving the Basic Text unaltered?

The work of Joe McQ took the 12 Step Programme into a clearer transmissibility in the last decades of the twentieth century, whilst preserving rigorously the original text of Alcoholics Anonymous. He did say though of the 12 Step Programme in the 1970s and 80s, that if you weren’t sick when you went into some of the meetings of AA – you sure as hell were sick when you came out!

As cofounder of AA with Bill W., he points toward the template of the 12 Step Programme

This was the catalyst for Joe McQ to begin to work with Charlie P and to travel the world simply improving the transmissibility of the already existing 12 Step Programme by rigorously attending to the words and thus bringing pearls of meaning for a new generation.

Now the same question must be asked for the twenty first century. The context for the asking of the question has changed radically as Anne Wilson Schaef has defined for us in her book written in 1987 called When Society Becomes An Addict.

Anne Wilson Schaef has made the bold and revolutionary discovery that we live in a sick society. Often unknowingly, the vast majority of us collude in a system that encourages addiction and co-dependence – and sees these states as normal. Many of us are addicted to chemicals, not only alcohol or drugs but nicotine, caffeine, chocolate, overeating in general. Even more of us are involved in addictive processes: workaholism, gambling, compulsive shopping, sex, and so on. The realisation of the extent of our addictions, both individually and as a society, is shocking. However, there is no need to get depressed, because we can do something about it.

The first and most important step is to admit and name the disease, both in ourselves and in our society. Anne Wilson Schaef’s brilliant and compassionate dissection of addictive behavioural patterns leaves us no option but to see truth. However, the message of this book is essentially optimistic, because once the process of awareness is triggered, healing begins.

ANNE WILSON SCHAEF, PhD, is an internationally known author whose books are recognised as major contributions to the understanding of addiction. Her bestsellers include Co-dependence Misunderstood, Mistreated and Women’s Reality.
Published in 1987

Any therapist who is not actively recovering from the Addictive System is perpetuating it. Any therapist who is not actively trying to make a system shift is supporting the Addictive System.

p136 When Society Becomes An Addict by Anne Wilson Schaef

The modern spiritual teachings offer no personal template that can provide a sense of vehicle. Therefore the teachers become merely brand vehicles that in themselves cannot carry a person to a Divine Presence experience.

The 12 Step Programme offers the only living vehicle template on Earth presently that is fit for purpose, fit to carry people to their own conscious contact with God.

For a person to be helped to build this vehicle in the 21st century then, even though the template is only 88 years old, guidance from those with their own vehicle up and running is necessary.

This is why good sponsorship is vital in the 12 Step Fellowships. As the founder of the 12 Step Programme Bill W. said, you can’t transmit something you haven’t got.

How vital is it then for those offering treatment in a rehab, treatment that has to be regulated by orthodox non-spiritually based intellectually formulated structures of assessment, to be clear in their adherence to the principles of spiritual healing that are Ancient, principles that Bill W. accessed in a way that was by his own admission, mysterious?

Diction Resolution Therapy is a bridge from the paradox that is spiritual healing, across to the orthodox structures of governance for all forms of healing to be safely delivered. Does this work? I offer some feedback from the relatives of a client I received after one session of counselling with their relative:

Just a short message to thank you for the care and counselling you gave…. He has already started to turn the corner and is looking forward to your next session.

Client feedback to the DRT WhatsApp page. 2023.

The opening quote in this post is offered simply to see a correlation across the centuries as to how consciousness transmits. The Sufi is ever free from dogma, is ever the pragmatist, for the Sufi knows that there is only One Existent.

Bülent Rauf – Addresses II

In this post linked below, I explore the building of this vehicle as the completion and perfecting of a sense of an octahedral presence that establishes personal experience of Divine intervention that heals and establishes an ever deepening and improving contact with Consciousness Itself.

The Sphere
12 Step Programme as an Ancient Template fit for the 21st century

A Determined Revelation Of Love

The above was written in 2015 and now in 2023 after 9 years of my blogging, the conditions in the newscasts seem to telegraph an imminent termination for Mankind on Earth – only a Human determination can repair the conditions that have fallen again into disrepair.

In the last century a man called Bülent Rauf helped to establish a school called The Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education at Chisholme House near Roberton just outside of Hawick in the Scottish Borders.

I first visited this place of education for the Night of Power Zikr 1980. I kept an appointment with destiny, a destiny which is still unfolding and certifying itself in this moment of my writing the letters that come together to form the words of this message.

The extract from Bülent’s letter called “Render unto Caesar…” describes Beshara as His, whilst also aligning it with the words “powerful” and “determined“.

The Presence Template mentioned above was my way back in 2015 of writing, trying to describe events that have actually happened in me, in my living experience. Not until a Sufi friend on Facebook recognised in my writings something that he recognised as tifl al-maani (child of the heart), has my destiny clarified a little more.

https://anqa.co.uk/interview-henry-bayman

Right now, the most brilliant minds are engaged in devising an avian flu virus for humans. They’ve cracked it already, I’ll bet.

Henry Bayman in interview 2013

As you can see if you click on the above link and read the interview with Henry Bayman, there is a deeper presence on this Earth than the shallow crashing waves of appearances that have increasingly addled the attention of the news watchers since World War Two.

As World War Three is now here, can anything be done to minimise its catastrophic potential to wipe out everything and everybody?

Only God knows.

So, all I can do is to be sincere, for sincerity is all I am, sincerity is therefore also all that I have.

My work is to bring together opposites by invitation of God in an illumination of faith from God. My name in Arabic therefore is Abd al Mu’min al Jami ibn Hulli. Is this too pretentious for 2023 from a man born in Cottingham in the UK, who is called Andrew?

If the people who might yet have influence upon events in the theatres of clashing cultures ignore my invitation, again, then the consequences seem to be ever nearer to those that Professor Doctor Carl Jung envisioned at the end of his life, huge swathes of material destruction on Earth.

https://hbayman.angelfire.com/en/coh.htm

In the above link is described the event that I tried to describe in the Presence Template writing in 2015, an event that occurred in 1982.

[Tifl al-mânâ, the spirit-child:] This is very delicate, this. It is a spiritual child that is fatherless, like Jesus. Everyone wants without effort. Be the possessor of the child of the spirit. If you were to retire to a cave for forty years, maybe you’d understand what this means…

From the article in above link hbayman….

So, all of the description that is brought out in the description of tifl-al-mânâ is familiar to me, as me. Can I be more clear?

The only issue then is, how can I help? This of course I do not know, for God is The Helper. As this is written, I can only conduct a communication.

…. and wait to see if there is now a response. To see if God can bring us together for a Jam.