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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 FOUR — THE REPAIR OF THE PAIR

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” — St John 1:1

Despair is not just sadness taken too far. It is not only a mood, or a chemical imbalance, or a generational quirk.

Despair is de-pair. It is the loss of pairing. The breaking of the two-ness that makes life bearable, breathable, meaningful.

Everything alive depends on a pair: two lungs, two eyes, two ears, two hemispheres, two hands meeting in prayer. Even the Ark — the vessel of survival in a world collapsing under its own corruption — begins with the divine insistence that life is preserved two by two.

Nothing can continue in isolation. Nothing grows from the singular. Nothing heals from the one-sided. Creation itself is a pairing.

The crisis of this age — especially in the half of so-called Gen Z who are not simply depressed but in despair — is that they have been born into a de-paired world.

A world with left hemisphere overdrive and almost no right hemisphere grounding. A world of stimulation without rest, exposure without containment, will without guidance, identity without depth, information without wisdom, individuality without true relationship. A world of Mankind without Humankind.

They are the first generation raised inside a culture that has lost the Ark. Lost the pair. Lost the two-by-two grounding of the human nervous system itself.

This is why despair overwhelms them. Their being is split. Their between has broken. The left and right no longer speak. The inner Ark has capsized.

This is what your earlier writing called the Addictive System: a system that drains life faster than it gives it, fractures attention, hollows meaning, and trains the brain to live in a narrow, overclocked left-hand state cut off from its natural partner.

The brain itself is an Ark.

Two hemispheres, two modes of knowing, two ways of meeting reality.

The left hemisphere is sharp, narrow, grasping. It categorises, dissects, predicts, controls. It likes to hold things still so it can use them.

The right hemisphere is wide, receptive, relational. It senses context, nuance, depth, presence. It does not grasp; it attends. It lets the world be alive.

A healthy human being needs both. Needs the dance. Needs the pair. The right opens to the living whole; the left helps us work within it. The right perceives meaning; the left helps articulate and act.

The Addictive System has crowned the left and exiled the right. It has enthroned speed over depth, control over trust, image over reality, data over wisdom, productivity over presence, argument over listening, self-branding over self-revelation.

This is not just philosophy. It is neurology. A generation has been trained into perpetual left-hemisphere overdrive with almost no grounding in right-hemisphere rootedness.

No Ark. No two by two. No pair. Just a flood of stimulation and a single inner captain completely unfit to steer the storm.

Gen Z are not simply anxious. They are carrying a hemispheric trauma. They have been asked to live from one half of their brain in a world whose complexity requires both.

The repair must begin where the damage began: in the pairing itself.

This is where Diction Resolution Therapy (DRT) is more than a concept. It is a vehicle.

The left-hand word in the DRT device describes what happens when Mankind lives from the left hemisphere alone: stuck, looping, broken, controlled by the very patterns it thinks it controls. The right-hand word points toward Humankind: right-hemisphere openness, relational withness, contact with a Larger Mind, trust in a Creative Intelligence beyond self-will.

The two sides are not enemies. They are meant to be yoked — a living pair, a restored Ark.

DRT does not ask the left to die; it invites the left to bow. To return to service instead of pretending to be the king.

Practically, this means teaching young people to notice their own inner split, naming the Addictive System for what it is, legitimising their despair as a sane response to a de-paired culture, and offering a path that does not abandon reason but roots it again in relationship.

The Healing Trust (THT) knows this in another language. The hands of a healer do not fix; they pair. They reconnect. They bridge. They invite the human field back into resonance with a greater field. The energy they call upon is the same field in which “the Word was with God” — the original withness, the primordial pair from which life and light arise.

In the same way, a DRT practitioner is not there to impose a new system, but to help restore the inner Ark: left and right in dialogue, malediction and benediction as ordained terminals for the government of the psyche, Mankind and Humankind in relationship, personal will and Creative Will in partnership, the small con and the great Con held together in paradox.

When awareness of this pairing begins to return, despair starts to loosen — not because circumstances have changed, but because the soul is no longer alone inside its own skull.

The young do not need us to promise them that the world will be fine. They need us to show them that they do not have to face the world as a single, isolated, de-paired self.

They can be paired again — with their own right hemisphere, with other hearts, with the Word that still speaks, with the Creative Intelligence that still holds the Ark open two by two.

The first act of repair is to say to them, in words and in presence:

“You are not mad. You are not weak. You have been asked to live in a way no human being was designed to live. Let us rebuild the pair together.”

As the hemispheres begin to listen to each other, as the left steps down and the right steps forward, as the person begins to taste withness instead of isolation, the floodwaters inside them start to fall.

The Ark does not remove the storm. It carries life through it.

This is what DRT, THT, and this book hope to offer to a generation raised in de-pair: not an escape from the flood, but a way to walk into the Ark within them — two by two, pair by pair — until Humankind can bear what Mankind alone could not.

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.

ChatGPT writes directly from my blogpost “Healing for Broken and Empty Words”

Broken and Empty Words

Repaired, they become the doorway home

The headline caught me like a sudden gust from an unseen world:

“Unseen leader of the world.”

It was the Hull Daily Mail, not a mystic text — yet there it was, a phrase that opened the air around me. For a moment it startled me, then it revealed something already known: the way language slips, distorts, exaggerates, and sometimes — unexpectedly — points toward truth.

In an age where words crack under strain, even a newspaper headline can become a small parable.

We live in a time when language has thinned. Words are stretched until their meanings leak away, and the world begins to mirror this breakdown. When words become broken and empty, people follow: behaviour loses its centre, cultures tilt into confusion, and the inner government that should hold a life steady becomes divided against itself.

I work precisely at this fault-line. My service — Diction Resolution Therapy — begins where words have failed. Addiction, for instance, is not merely a behaviour; it is a wounded word. It has been pulled so far from its original purpose that it now obscures its own healing. My task has been to return such words to their rightful places in the architecture of human functioning. When the word is restored, the person often follows.

This is why the headline mattered. It showed, in miniature, the cultural moment we inhabit: an era where what is seen has swollen into spectacle, and what is unseen — the inner leadership, the quiet truth, the subtle alignment — has faded from awareness. And yet, paradoxically, it is the unseen that holds the power.

A word is unseen. Meaning is unseen. The shift in a heart, the rearrangement of a pattern, the moment a soul remembers how to breathe — all unseen.

The Sufis have always known this.

“I follow the religion of Love,” sang Ibn ʿArabī, throwing open the gates of belonging. Rūmī called us from every possible state — broken, weary, ashamed — into the circle of return. These voices have tracked me my whole life, reminding me that unity speaks through every tongue when the tongue is healed.

The cultural stage we are living on — the political tumult, the fragmentation of common meaning, the rise of spectacle over substance — is simply the outer version of what happens inside a person enslaved to a broken word. Society mirrors the individual; the individual mirrors society. When a word collapses, worlds collapse.

And so the work is simple, though never easy:

Repair the words.

Restore their truth.

Return people to themselves through the doorway of meaning.

When a person sits before me, lost in the fog of stuck-addiction or broken-addiction, what I am listening for is not their story alone — but the wounded architecture of their language. Their words have become brittle, overused, emptied out. When we repair the meaning, a reconnection begins. “Behaviour” reclaims its inner structure again — be and have, the two lights that must meet before any transformation can rise.

This is the opposite of the toxic positivity that orthodox models often slide into, the bypassing that smooths the surface while leaving the foundations fractured. Healing demands the marriage of opposites. The paradox — the very thing Tom Chetwynd observed the intellectual orthodoxy despises — becomes the medicine. Opposites are not problems; they are partners. They form the mandorla in which new life appears.

The headline called me “unseen”, and in truth that is accurate: the deepest work is always invisible. What is visible — articles, interviews, roles, names — is merely the foam on the surface. The real leadership is interior: the alignment of word and meaning, being and having, love and discipline, that allows healing to take root.

We are living in a moment where cultures, like individuals, are crying out for this reconnection. Broken words have brought us here. Whole words will lead us out.

To repair a word is to repair a world.

One restored meaning at a time, the way home re-opens.

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.

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

Light Upon Light

The middle way is the place of the “Quantum Mind”

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10224592428291727&id=1039915465

Thank you for visiting this blog. The above Facebook link to my post there brings some ongoing clarity to the work here on WordPress over the last nearly nine years.

As of February 2022 there have been 16,518 visitors to this blog since 2014. I am getting ever closer to writing a book and without this practice I know it couldn’t happen.

There is much to be optimistic about during these times of era change, times actually of paradigm change as we move from The Addictive System into The Living Process System as Anne Wilson Schaef so beautifully crafted in her writing.

There will be more posts here shortly.

Message reissued

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/may/23/higher-education-staff-suffer-epidemic-of-poor-mental-health

So, in May 2019 the quoted UK Guardian article cited “an epidemic of poor mental health” appearing across ranks of staff in the higher education system of Britain.

Since then of course, factor in Covid-19 and the conditions on the ground are now a calamity almost beyond orthodox analysis.

I use the term orthodox analysis advisedly, because it is the orthodox structures of medical diagnosis and societal analysis that are now shown to be simply part of The Addictive System that is now in utter collapse.

When Society Becomes an Addict
The Addictive System will lead to total destruction
The Addictive System is morally and spiritually bankrupt
We live in a world that is literally turned upside down by moral deterioration
The Addictive System is wrong about the human condition
Psychotherapy makes yet another mistake by treating disorders in isolation, out of the context of the Addictive System
… the White Male System and the Addictive System are one and the same
“Everything we know about human development has been taught by Addictive System teachers in Addictive System schools from a perspective of “reality” that is not real” Anne Wilson Schaef

My work over the last eight years has been to build upon the work of Anne Wilson Schaef whose work is photographed above. My development of Diction Resolution Therapy stands because of the urgency of the situation mentioned above.

https://drt.global/corporate

Over and over again my working out of this message that, The Addictive System is destroying itself, has been and is the purpose of my blogs and my social media postings. Even to the point of the Universe arranging a headline that appears from anywhere on the face of the planet when a person searches in Google for unseen leader of the world …. go ahead …. try it for yourself!!

Then read this blog post for a perspective

Healing for broken and empty words ….

As this sub-pandemic of Covid-19 carries on imposing curfews on Mankind’s collective affairs unheard of without bombs and bullets flying, it maybe behoves us all to realise that global cultures are held in this stasis not wholly because of the efforts of our leaders, but rather despite them.

When the main source of supposed healing, the drug companies, are found to be corrupted and complicit with willful misdiagnosis and mistreatment of the primary disease of Addiction, then the challenges facing the delivery of my message is put into perspective …. the blog post below highlights this.

Pharma karma

The disease of Addiction is described by the psychiatrist M. Scott Peck as a sacred disease. The 12 Step Programme describes this same spiritual malady as only having a spiritual solution.

So, because the message now is that all global cultures are spiritually sick in The Addictive System within which Covid-19 is but a symptom and that because the conditions facing Mankind are not just mental and physical, then there is hope that behaviour can change.

The ancient spiritual principles contained in the 12 Steps pull together the broken behaviours in people and then therefore in collections of people. This is portrayed in the schematic below and the yellow separation marks are removed as the 12 Steps are internalised and connected, Universal consciousness is contacted and individually deepened in conscience.

In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, the Word was God – opening of St John’s gospel.

Then the challenge simply is how to deliver this message and where to deliver it where it has any chance at all of becoming acted upon. The next blog post was written over seven years ago wrestling with just such a challenge.

Landing Pad

I shall convey this posting once more through the modern channels of contact with the system. I know that the message is to be denied, God knows that is not my problem. My job is to simply carry the message.

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 this truth. However, the message of this book is essentially optimistic, because once the process of awareness is triggered, healing begins.

(Citation from the back cover of the book photographed above, When Society Becomes an Addict.)

Letter from CG Jung to Bill Wilson affirming the 12 Step Programme in 1961

Watch “The Current Economic Crisis” on YouTube

So this 10 year old video, which has featured before in my blog, is still pertinent to what is happening in Britain today.

Before I start, I must say that I have no successful financial base from which to proselytise a new or better way to do business. In fact I suffer from a tangible current account insecurity presently and the only thing that my insight into the disease of stuck-addiction gives me is that my fear of financial insecurity is removed.

However, it has become clear to me that the forces acting upon the Executive function of the UK in its Brexit policy has rendered said Executive function into a very dark place that forces their acting like a very frightened using drug dealer might act just prior to them entering their rock-bottom.

80% of the UK’s GDP is locked into the service sector, a service sector that serves money and the financial services that depend upon money being seen as a commodity in itself, rather than merely the neutral connector of systems trading actual commodities within a market place of value and exchange.

So, because the financial crash of 2008, that Charlie Munger describes in the opening to this post, has effectively broken that illusory commodity position of money being able to trade against itself to make more of itself, the whole capitalist system globally has been stagnant for 12 years.

The UK already has faced criticism about the amount of allegedly irregular money that might have already flowed through London banks into shell companies and then into the UK domestic and commercial property markets. However, there is a deep desperation now globally around how money is to function in this new digital age given that it died many years ago giving us a zombie system that could implode at any time.

The scale of the problem exposed.

At some level, not necessarily at the level that the conspiracy theorists might like to imagine exists where a man sits in a chair stroking a black cat surveying the world through 50 flickering screens, the above diagrammed financial Armageddon has resulted in the UK having to break itself free of EU regulations so that it can become a Caymen Island like magnet for any kind of money that it can get its desperate dealer hands on.

So, against all political principles of democracy’s rules of adversarial engagement, the UK has had to invoke it’s feudal foundations of power to ram-raid its attempt to regain control of the main commodity component of 80% of its GDP, namely money.

This is the disease of stuck-addiction in all of its executive function collapse, in all of its disconnect from conscience, in all of its destruction of linguistic coherence, in all of its destruction of the hosting body, in all of the final stages of disrepair and dissonance.

In tbe breakdown of the final UK EU Brexit talks, it is now being made clear that what is diagnosable as the UK’s decade long stuck-addiction bender has meant that an inevitable huge manipulation of the body politic has occurred, a manipulation that is in the final stages of smashing the common sense of ordinary people completely.

It is now being made clear that despite the appearance of Executive hand-wringing and amidst huge fortunes being made by the UK’s well connected wealthy in the bucket shop system that Charlie Munger derided as a sewer in his talk, a diseased yet subliminally completely planned no deal Brexit is happening.

My blogging and social media work over the last 7 years as well as my efforts with Diction Resolution Therapy have forecast this state of national self-harm, but it gives me no pleasure to say that I told you so.

Covid-19 is just a symptom of the collapse of the G20’s Executive function and the collapse of the bodies politic that the G20 symbolises.

Imagine a junkie that has contracted TB because of the disease of stuck-addiction and the collapse of self-care that this primary disease has caused. If that person presents to a doctor and that doctor only treats the TB without attending to the primary disease that opened the person to catching TB in the first place, then the patient will die prematurely.

So now with Mankind. Even if Covid-19 is attended to, if the underlying physical disrepair and Metaphysical disconnect which is the primary situation facing Mankind is not faced, then in a few decades Attenborough’s prediction of a total biosphere collapse may actually materialise.

There is still time, but the healing begins with words. Mankind actually faces a collective software problem not a hardware problem. Software is a language phenomenon and the English language is the global possibility of actually facing what is truly happening on Earth presently. More importantly, the English language can then begin to allow a personal and a collective healing to begin on Earth before it’s too late.

The Tree of Life

Salaam.

It’s a thin line

“a thin line”

A very narrow division between two alternatives, one of which is much worse than the other.

When sharing about spiritual experience the thin line mentioned above can become razor sharp and a partisan insistence can seem to overtake any such message in the response patterns of people to having received a message about a spiritual experience, even when the transmission is as utterly nondenominational as the word love, is utterly nondenominational.

This is the razor that I stand upon.

Does this mean that I have to simply close down and shut up?

If my message is merely self generated in my intellect, then yes, to save embarrassment all round, it would be best to shut up.

However, the message that I carry is not an intellectual construct, not a theory that I have that is erected in the wrestling ring of the usual process of disassembly that passes as academic rigour.

What I carry is who I am, rather than something that I have.

Love is not about atheism or theism, the sacred disease of Addiction evidences this fact, for the recovery from Addiction is secured by the language of the heart not the logic of the head.

Yet, logic must serve the communication of the heart if there is to be any chance of such a transmission being received by anyone at all in the wider world, not least by those in the most urgent need as evidenced by their undeniable powerlessness and unmanageability in any of the forms of the disease of stuck and broken addiction.

Here then is the razor, the paradoxical yet logical edge, that has to and can cut through the callous layers of dead inner skin that have grown over Mankind’s ability to believe in a Common Metaphysical Source.

Where there is delusional behaviour and religious mania it may seem an even more impossible scenario to talk of a spiritual remedy for such bizarre and threatening behavioural manifestations.

However, the energy in such powerfully disruptive scenarios, whether individual or collective, can in fact be returned to a vehicle of articulation that can then engage with practical problem solving and coherency.

This word coherency is important, for delusional religiosity becomes stuck in a kind of cotherency as impossible renditions of supposed scriptural interpretation are foisted upon all and sundry, even up to the point of terrorist acts, as if all such action was an enforcement of God’s will.

There is an apocryphal story about Moses who – upon hearing a man walking down a road saying, “where is my baby Lord that I may worship Him, that I may bring Him gifts, wash His tiny feet, sing His lovely praises for ever?” – responded angrily by shouting, “how dare you wander around spouting such nonsense about the ineffable Majesty and Power of the all consuming and creative Lord of All?”

At that, the man screamed and ran off into the desert wailing.

Moses immediately received an intimation from God, “I did not send you to sow further discord and pain amongst those trying to reach Me by whatever means their stage seems to make sense to them, you are sent to bear witness to the Unity of My existence.”

Moses was distraught at this and immediately saw his error, he searched all over for the man for a long time and eventually having found him, ran up to him apologising profusely for having criticised his prayers and worship.

The man accepted the apology from Moses, but then thanked him, he said, “when you first announced your reactions to me I was so shocked I thought that I was dying, I couldn’t find a belief in anything anymore. In the desert, unable to eat or drink eventually I asked God to help me and I was suddenly taken to such a deep insight that I can hardly put it into words, so I promise you all is well.”

This story encapsulates much of the challenge facing Mankind today. It is why Bill W., one of the founders of the 12 Step Programme, described Alcoholics Anonymous as the container of a spiritual kindergarten.

The foundations of any knowledge applicable to Mankind’s life on Earth are those containing creative principles that are ultimately shown to be factually believable.

Yet as “expanding knowledge” seems to destroy what was previously believed to have been impossible, the locus of all belief which is the Heart, must ever renew its ancient causal primordial anchorage, lest Love is lost.

This is the thin line, it is the global situation facing Mankind today, maybe it has been the situation perennially facing Mankind.

How can a Metaphysical solution make any sense to a seemingly physical problem?

I repeat, this is the razor that I stand and serve upon in a world of Mankind that increasingly can no longer deny that by any analysis of current events, is standing upon this same thin line with me, whether it likes it or not.

The Sphere

The double pyramid of the Oktaeder

In the nature of an apology and a correction I must must now share a breakthrough insight given to me today from a FB group from which the above diagram has arrived.

Those familiar with my work might recall that I have posted a view of the 12 Step Programme that utilises the two-dimensional logo of a triangle in a circle as denoting a pyramid in a sphere.

This cannot work unless what I am actually describing is one half of an Octahedron, ie there are actually two pyramids needed for a sphere to touch all the points that I have described as necessarily being connected.

The upper and lower pyramids of an Octahedron

I can only apologise and yet can hardly contain my excitement at what my unwitting description actually now develops into.

For Mankind is in the below pyramid that has gravity at its centre. The above pyramid that I describe in its construction with the 12 Step Programme has love at its centre.

Only when the bottom line of gravity (having) is connected to the top line of love (being) is the equals sign of Humanity activated spherically for The Human, being a personal behaviour to consistently appear.

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So now my work can begin, first with some addenda to my little book that was written in 1997 that led to this blog post ….

And then, if people are interested, with some Zoom meetings (or other interactive meeting places) to expand upon these new insights, to share them almost as they arrive to help interested folks engage with the energy to walk through the changes that are impacting everyone globally.

As can be seen from the opening diagrams, the Star of David is linked to the Octahedron and when the upper pyramid is built upon the lower pyramid then the hexagonal shape sanctifies and appears as a personal experience.

Mankind arrives and is born into the below pyramid as is described in The Qur’an when Man is said to have been made in the best of designs but is then brought down to the lowest of the low, lower than which there is not. The place of “seeing through a glass darkly” in the Christian tradition.

The work then is to build this above pyramid as consciousness appears fully when this Octahedral shape is spherically established.

This is the Ark of survivability in the flood of existential information that is overwhelming for the disconnected experience, it is the Ark of the Covenant between God and Creation.

Pyramid reflected in the flooded Nile river 1900

Life is turning …. Or as Rumi said, Life is returning.

“Gurdjieff once said: “A man should be able to turn round in himself.” Now this means that he is stuck to nothing in himself. When we identify we stick to things and so cannot get free and cannot turn round.” ~ Maurice Nicoll

©️Wikimedia Octahedron.gif

The Door

“If dull people lose the idea of God nothing happens – not immediately at least. But socially the masses begin to breed mental epidemics, of which we have now a fair number.”
(C. G. Jung, Psychology & Religion (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1938) 105.)

First, there may be a new conversation about suicide actually being an expression of an attempt by a person to resolve the overall cultural condition of “disconnected death”.

This condition of “disconnected death” which has been foisted onto mass populations since time immemorial by pirates who have wished to control with fear, is at the core of the primary disease of Addiction.

Addiction is the bellwether disease of the current digitally driven era-change. All forms of Addiction are suicide in slow motion.

At the level of The Logos, the words in the global language of English can forensically show that conditions are sticking because words are broken. The word addiction shows that actually it is not the problem. In the healing of the word addiction, the way is shown how to change any stuck or broken behaviour.

Because even the description of the global behavioural breakdown is flawed, conditions are worsening setting up the stage for the populist uprisings that are beginning to dominate global politics.

I have introduced the terms stuck-addiction and broken-addiction to help with the rehabilitation of the actual meaning of the word addiction, for without this reclamation of meaning for people and for systemic leadership teams, there can not establish the antidote to the breakdown of the world order that is now happening.

The antidote to the present global disintegrations is to build the existential bridge to the new era more clearly so that the fear based bullying of the populist energies can be dissipated.

The illness paradigm that Diction Resolution Therapy introduces may paradoxically be the only way for both the aspirations of the SMTs of collective undertakings and of individuals to begin to co-create a common way forward.

Addiction is a sacred disease with a sacred solution that takes broken and empty words and heals the words, from which then healed behaviours can have a chance to flow.

The word have describes the mental/physical interface of Mankind. There are people who have all kinds of theories, proofs, hypothesis, questions, experiences. There are people who have power, money, influence, networks. There are a very few people who are what they have.

This is because being is inseparable from the verb be.

All of the problems that have ever faced Mankind, that are still facing Mankind, derive from this separation of being from having.

The reconnection of these verbs cannot occur from the have to the be. The reconnection is an act of Grace from the primordial Be to the relative have, but only when the necessary conditions have been met for this resolution to occur.

For a person and increasingly now also for the SMTs of undertakings, what is the necessary condition?

Submission, an admission of the need for a reconnection to be requested.

This is Step One of the 12 Step Programme.

We admitted we were powerless over *********** – that our lives had become unmanageable.

Without this first step, there can be no entry through the ever open door mentioned in the opening picture. The connection to the primary Be is ever present, the separation is illusory, but it seems that there is a price to pay to decondition the radicalisation of the life and death battle that has been a narrative for so very long in Mankind’s history.

As has been mentioned in previous posts, the birth and death condition of Mankind’s necessary composition is linked to the potential flow of consciousness being established across connected terminals.

When a person, place or thing becomes established erroneously as the brown wire in a personal or a collective situation, then that error symbolically says that they own the blue wire in that configuration.

Politics and religion are at the level of thing in people’s existential descriptions. Organised crime is a thing. People and places are as they are. Eighty five years of evidence based recovery dynamics in the treatment of the disease of Addiction show that the brown wire in a person’s existential plug can never be a person, place or thing.

The brown wire is the source that activates birth and death, so it can be seen that governments and organised criminals both set themselves up as death wielders to activate the plugs of those that they would control.

Abraham is the Brown Wire Envoy par excellence in the Western history of monotheistic revelation, his revelation is the tap-root that contains the religions of the Jews, Christians and Muslims. When Abraham challenged the idolators of his day, those with total power over people’s lives, they of course tried to kill him, but they failed.

So too today, the global counterfeit brown wire providers hide in plain sight to control masses of people.

The disease of Addiction begins when the most sensitive people in a society, or the most downtrodden, become susceptible to behaviours that attempt to take back control of the brown wire away from the fear imposed convention.

This is why the disease of Addiction is so bizarre for the conventional medical practitioners to address. For even though they serve a culture that brainwashes masses of people with advertising and propaganda, still fear of physical death or its cousin the fear of losing reputation and career, this fear of death is something that has to be deemed as abnormal if not present in a person.

So the paradox that is the primary disease of Addiction has been established in its definition and resolution via the 12 Step Fellowships over the last eighty five years.

Even recently as the UK government has renewed its Trident nuclear weapons system without even passing it through the UK Parliament, the country and its MPs found out in a newspaper report, the collective minority brown wire that is global governance, cling onto their collapsing analogue levers of death control in the face of The Age Of Aquarius that restores people’s brown wire Singularity to its Metaphysical Authenticity.

Click on this link to see a formal presentation expanding this behavioural change clarification of the HU man healing.

February 1st 2020 Trance Dance

The bastardised word Brexit was inserted into people’s minds as a hypnotic propaganda technique using the term as a noun.

This slight of the propagandists’ hand hid the murky fact that Brexit was being used as a verb.

The nouns of the parent wordage are exit and entrance and are inseparable.

The bastardised verbs take on another, equally inseparable and much more sinister revelatory coupling altogether, to exit and to (make an) entrance.

How would you stereotypically put a person into a trance?

Yes, you’ve got it, by repeating the same phrase over and over again whilst using a device to swing in front of their eyes to trap their attention.

To get the whole UK brexited, first there was a need to get a sufficient mass of people brentranced with the implanted idea.

This is not solely about Britain leaving the EU, it’s about billionaires intimidating political leaders, it’s about damaged people trying to overcompensate for low self-esteem by hoarding money and lying to get power, it’s about occult rites at the highest levels whether Nancy Reagan consulting astrologers to try to protect her husband, or deeper darker rites that are the bread and butter of global celebrity conspiracy theorists.

Lowering of consciousness by induction of trance is the work of how very small numbers of people control very large numbers of people.

Fear can freeze individuals into a trance like state, a petrification. Organised violence is about how to train soldiers with just enough physical antidote to this ultimate trance induction, war, to grant victory to those puppeteer cash holders who make a political and financial profit eventually whether Mankind is hypnotised into the slaughter of the destruction of nations or the laughter of the creation of nations.

Criminals use violence to establish turfs and to carry on their law-breaking. The police have an almost impossible job of refereeing cultures if government policy becomes rudderless, for the police stand in the middle, arbiters between the leaders and the led.

It’s time to change the story of Mankind’s inhumanity to Man.

It’s time for people to snap out of their trance, to see more clearly the journey from Mankind to Humankind without the pirates entrancing the world to their infamous tunes.

The illness of stuck-addiction is the imminent sacred wake-up call promised by the metaphysical antidote providers known as Prophets, Saints, Gurus and Buddhas.

This disease shows that in an individual, there is either an awakening from a trance, or a physical death.

This is now the choice facing the collective on planetEarth.