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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.

Healing for broken and empty words ….

After an interesting process of being interviewed by The Hull Daily Mail and after flinching just a little from the online headline, I have come to a few realisations as I saw the finished article.

“Unseen leader of the world”, now there’s a headline you don’t see every day in a newspaper!

The newspaper changed the story headline for the printed page version.

So, what is happening with this publicity?

Marianne Williamson, a spiritual teacher who also happens to be standing as a candidate in the 2020 US Presidential process has said that at a time when outrageous lies are being told by global leaders, then those that can should tell outrageous truths.

The ability to shock with a statement is a Sufi hallmark that is recorded in stories throughout the centuries and millennia that The Folk have been recorded as being teachers. So the headline of the online version of my interview is an outrage that has a context.

My work is and has been a matter of public record on my blogs now for six years and Diction Resolution Therapy (DRT) has been available for three years. My social media presence on Facebook and Twitter over these years has been mainly dedicated to my work identifying stuck or broken addiction as the bellwether disease of an era change.

I have built a relationship with my local radio station BBC Radio Humberside since they kindly broadcast the opening of DRT in July 2016 and I have given brief interviews on air for them as addiction matters have periodically entered their news broadcasts over the subsequent years.

This exposure of my work in an article by the Hull Daily Mail allows me clarify it on my blog, to focus the work of the journalist into a more pinpointed outrageous truth.

The journalist who interviewed me is very capable and she has done her best with a deep and problematic phenomenon, namely that Addiction is a primary disease that is not being seen as such by the medical Establishment, whilst also writing about a Sufi quite possibly for the first time in a local Hull story.

A Sufi historically is usually a hidden person, who even if they are known in their locality becomes a paradox, often seen as a holy fool by the orthodox religious people of their particular time and cultural setting.

A Sufi has often been seen as only placed in an Islamic context, this is not necessarily so, for wherever One Love is, there the Sufi is, was and will be.

At this time therefore, my presence as a Sufi is to orientate with the beauty of the Islamic perfection of Muhammad (pbuh) whilst also being able to be connecting all of Abraham’s people with the whole of the Eastern hemisphere’s spirituality as the HU man healing.

I connect HU with AUM as That that’s never actually been separated in essence at all, ever, just as these two poems from the thirteenth century expose – the first is from Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi and the second from Jalalludin Rumi.

“O marvel, a garden amidst the flames –
My heart has become capable of every form: it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks,
And a temple for idols and the pilgrim’s Ka’ba and the tables of the Tora and the book of the Qur’an.
I follow the religion of Love: whatever way Love’s camels take,
that is my religion and my faith.”

https://qr.ae/pNjm8s

“Come, come whatever you are, it doesn’t matter
Whether you are an infidel, an idolater or a
fire-worshiper,
Come, our convent is not a place of despair.
Come, even if you violated your swear
A hundred times, come again.”

The core of Diction Resolution Therapy is in the curing of the word “addiction”.

Once the word addiction is healed and forensically restored to a healthy place on a flow chart describing the executive function of a viable person, then the prevailing cultural conditions of this time can be seen more clearly.

As the broken and empty words that describe the collapse of an ill person are seen to correlate with the broken and empty words of an ill system, then the behaviours of the global politicians can be seen in their actual context of collapse.

Once this collapse is seen, healing can begin.

The reason that my work is now appearing in a manner that seems to be challenging the orthodox methodologies clinically as well as the orthodox methodologies theologically is that that is what is necessary as this page from an Idries Shah book shows:

When words are broken and empty as in the UK Parliamentary drama that is being watched from around the globe, Consciousness responds to help individuals and leaders to begin to diagnose their difficulties in a way that gives a better chance of their problems becoming solved.

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Post script added 10/10/19 from my Facebook profile:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49182184

If a person were to search for an “unseen leader of the world” on Google, perhaps in a reaction away from many of the “seen leaders of the world”, then the BBC headline might become even more clear!!

The Sufi, as a paradox is not limited to Islam or in fact to any exoteric religion, is limited perhaps only by their onlookers’ receptivity of limitless Love.

The seen leader of the free world in 2019 describes himself regularly as “a very stable genius”. I listen to this and smile at the warped and twisted reflection of the “seen from the unseen” as I have a clinical supervisor vouchsafing for the stability of my therapeutic service and I am a member of Mensa!

So as an externally verifiable “very stable genius” myself, I listen to the seen leader of the world and try to find areas of compatibility with his self-validated utterances from his self-proclaimed position as a “very stable genius”, to no avail!

The reaction to the headline written about me locally was just about zilch …. it might as well have said “green eyed alien lands his flying saucer on roof of City Hall”, for that headline wouldn’t surprise people either in the febrile atmosphere brought about by the eleven years of the global post bank-crash cartoon that has culminated in the UK with its last three years of frozen Brexit.

My blog at http://www.lifeisreturning.com has reached a “warped and twisted” point of bewilderment as events nationally and internationally continue their reciprocal duels in the dark.

This moment of my experience is actually breathtakingly beautiful, has no longing for a more glorious past nor any longing for a more spectacular future.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=269964600533699&id=100025604842801

So, I’m inclined for a while to make sure that I frame any of my further comments about the seen world and its leadership proclamations more clearly from this, my revealed place of search-engined authority, just to see how “stable and/or genius” any erstwhile leadership reflection actually is and to explore the requirement for “respect”.

Salaam.

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Points to ponder

The message of a top-line collapse rendering the Executive function of Corporations and governmental Cabinet Offices to a state of collapse is not a message that was ever destined to be easy to deliver.

The ruthless behaviours that manifest from the bottom-line fixation of a stuck-addict seem easier to see than the bottom-line fixated antics of say the biggest bank in the world RBS in 2008, than the antics of the directors and auditors of Carillion and InterServe or BHS and Debenhams here in the UK.

Equally the present exposure of illegal activities from within large pharmaceutical and addiction treatment conglomerates is as, if not more, fixated on the bottom-line of making money than is the bottom-line fixation of a drug addict to get their drugs.

So, how to give some information to begin to give some new food for thought for the leaders of finance in a collapsed monetary system.

First, when in a hole admit it and stop digging.

Second, see that this elevating of money to a primary position in the mass governance of people by very small numbers of leaders has happened over and over again in history and it has never ended well according to the scriptures of all of the world’s religions.

So, to look at my message of stuck-addiction collapsing global cultures, it’s now time to look into the ordering of the administration of the now globally cohering 12 Step Fellowships. How do millions of previously dying, diseased ego-maniacs manage the money needed to have ensured that their continued presence is now undeniably working across scores of 12 Step Fellowships in up to 190 countries?

Simply put, the Fellowships manifest with individuals who have a conscious contact with God, as they understand God, coming together in autonomous Groups that submit collectively to a Group Conscience that is an organ of organisational power from a Higher Power, from a top-line.

The bottom-line necessity of money is rigourously kept in place and connected to the top-line of the Group Conscience by the principle of a prudent reserve.

This principle of prudent reserve has protected the 12 Step Fellowships now for over eighty years. The Groups are self-supporting by their own contributions and any excess money is given swiftly to a central office.

This is to guard against the sickness of financial hoarding that is actually a symptom of the illness that is destroying our planet, not helpful to a sustainable Human propiety at all, despite the enticements of a published “Rich List”.

So, the creatives might have to work through this principle of prudent reserve into workable social policy with all of the urgency of people escaping from a collapsing, flaming building …. but it is a principle that has provenance.

The prudent reserve needed for a person in an occupation earning the wage say of a government’s Prime Minister, which is somewhere near 7x the wage of a low earner in the UK presently, well their prudent reserve might be 7x larger than the lowest earner once the size of that reserve had been established.

A start point might be approximately one year’s food and housing expenditure. Anything more than this might be seen as posing a spiritual threat rather than as a symbol of great success.

To start to live under spiritual principles rather than in physical hypocrisy will be a great shock for people, but the world is on fire, it’s time to decide.

As it says in the 12 Step Programme, Spiritual Principles are not theoretical, they now have to be lived.

This post is offered as a point to ponder. The Human, being a leader, meeting with The Human, being members of creative teams will be well able to create sustainable ways of harmoniously dwelling within recovered cities and cultures.

25 people on this planet Earth have as much material wealth as 3,500,000,000 people. Clearly the system is broken akin to the film Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs with nobody able to challenge the rogue money machines that do half of their work now with BOTS that are way away from any connection to democratic control.

This is the brinkmanship that the very ill hoarders of money are enmeshed within, as ever. They stare with their lobby driven puppet governments down the barrels of each other’s MAD weaponry and threaten each other with financial instruments of destruction, all with the insanity of their imagined apparent impunity from Spiritual consequences.

My message, as in Morris West’s The Clowns Of God, is the Dickensian story of A Christmas Carol being brought to life in real time within the backdrop of Attenborough’s message to the UN being actually true. The Scrooges had better wake up and rejoin Mankind while they still have time.

Liam Gallagher’s new song “Shockwave” is the theme tune for the wake-up call that is #theHUmanhealing

Orthodox Addiction

The following quote describes orthodox Addiction:

“A maladaptive pattern of substance use, leading to clinically significant impairment ment or distress, as manifest by three (or more) of the following, occurring at any time in the same 12-month period:

(1) tolerance, as defined by either of the following: (a) a need for markedly increased amounts of the substance to achieve intoxication or the desired effect (b) markedly diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of the substance

(2) withdrawal, as manifested by either of the following: (a) the characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the substance (refer to Criteria A and B of the criteria sets for Withdrawal from the specific Substances) (b) the same (or a closely related) substance is taken to relieve or avoid withdrawal symptoms

(3) the substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended

(4) there is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control substance use

(5) a great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain the substance (e.g., visiting multiple doctors or driving long distances), use the substance (e.g., chain-smoking), or recover from its effects.

(6) important social, occupational, or recreational activities are given up or reduced because of substance use

(7) the substance use is continued despite knowledge of having a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem that is likely to have been caused or exacerbated by the substance (e.g., current cocaine use despite recognition of cocaine-induced depression, or continued drinking despite recognition that an ulcer was made worse by alcohol consumption).”

(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Copyright © 2000, American Psychiatric Association)

When the disease of Addiction as described above is extended across behaviours, then the term stuck-addiction©️ becomes clearer.

Number 5 shows the illness of stuck-money and the unhappiness of millions of people doing a job they hate.

Number 6 shows the collapse of family, of social cohesion, of the high street caused by a digitally driven era-change that is amplifying the effects of a collective vulnerability to becoming addicted to alcohol, food, sex, the internet, money, gambling, work, fundamental radicalised religions that accuse, hate, divide and seek to monopolise Love for their own ends.

Number 7 describes the Einstein definition of insanity that is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result.

This insanity now infects the Corporate and Political Offices of Governance across Earth.

Einstein also said that the mindset that creates a problem is not the mindset that can solve the that problem. A higher input is required.

New conversations are required, a new coming together of Opposites to catalyse the middle ground of new solutions.

Orthodox Addiction is a Primary Disease. Stuck-addiction©️ is the paradox that can release the space for new conversations to begin to happen, conversations that will in turn release innovations for Human beings that are beyond their wildest dreams.

Conscious-Contact 1

In the huge recovery industry that has been spawned by the arrival of the 12Step Programme in 1937, there has been an asset stripping “gold rush” as everyman and his dog stake out a claim to “mine” from the original deep seam of redemption that is still the singleness of purpose known as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).

This cunning asset stripping and subsequent re-branding of what is a spiritual message, by an intellectual cleverness that can’t submit to any sense of God-consciousness, is only to be expected as it has been happening for thousands of years.

The Source of the message will of course protect the original transmission of the 12Step brand, just as the cohorted charitable and corporate derivative entities attempt to copyright their constructs and financial schemes.

Some of these global entities of supposed solution bearers to hard-pressed government departments around this addicted world are not even benign in their relationship with the source of their recovery industry, they are actively hostile toward the international 12Step Fellowships that have grown from the original Programme over the last eighty years.

How do I know this? Because I have talked with an employee of Indivior – a global addiction recovery player. (The Indivior link updated in April 2019 after the exposure of alleged malpractice) If you look at their opening page on their website, it seems that they are open to a collegiate approach within the global school of experience that has as its foundation the arrival of AA in 1935.

Far from it, the person I spoke to in my taxi as I took her to the airport was vehemently against the 12Step Programme, even telling me that she spent much of her time informing funders at government level around the world that the 12Step Programme doesn’t work and that they need to buy into their corporate services and drug products.

I spoke to a man recently at an Interfaith gathering who said that no-one could prove that God exists. I said that that was no longer strictly true. I said that since 1935 there had been and still are, many millions of people who can claim conscious contact with God as they understand God. They can claim conscious contact with a Higher Power that is loving and caring that has brought them back from a fate worse than death.

“What do you mean?”, says he.

“Members of the global 12Step Fellowships can all quote their Step11 which places them all in a God-consciousness of their own understanding,” says I.

“That’s not the same as what I was saying,” says he.

“It may not be what you wanted to hear,” says I, “but it is exactly answering of your previous generalisations about God that seemed to serve your atheism so neatly.”

I really don’t object to atheists as this linked video explains ….

However, eventually the conditions on the ground will be met with a message of sanity that is evidence based, irrefutable, compassionate, timely, tremendous and true.

Once the message is delivered, then the recipient has the responsibility of either action or continued inertia.

The 12Step Programme is the only living Spiritual programme left on the planet, the only connection with The Holy Spirit that is practical, predicable, provable and true, redeeming the lives of all people willing to change from within any religion, atheism, secularism, humanism, sect, creed or political party.

The Higher Power of the 12Step Programme is not a theory. It is not a new linguistic programme. It is not a clever manipulation of cognition and behaviour that might last a few months. The 12Step Programme is an ineffable fact, an incredible and indestructible coherence of invisibility and visibility, of time and eternity, of ancient and modern, a triumph of belief over despair.

The 12Step Programme is unashamedly written in the language of the heart, a language that challenges the insanity of the language of the head, until the head submits.

The Singularity that the late Stephen Hawking wrote about in his cosmology that led onto looking at the boundaries of understanding for physics is a reflection of the Singularity that is the Source of the 12Step Programme and its metaphysics.

“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” (AA Book)

This single sentence is the nuclear core of the 12Steps. It is the same sentence spoken by every Prophet, Patriarch, Saint, Messenger and Mystic of the so-called West. It is the sentence that underpins the Eastern Hemisphere of Buddhist enlightenment as surely as a brain has two hemispheres.

It is the sentence of repetition found in the Surah Al Rahman in The Qur’an, “now which of the bounties of your Lord will you deny?”

The template of sanity for a Human being is this threefold, simple, evidence based structure, namely that a person appears as a physical, mental and spiritual being that has to be connected across its two inner interfaces of mental/physical and mental/spiritual if that person is to be described as in any way fully conscious.

God is consciousness.

Mankind arrives existentially inside consciousness, but unaware of this fact, therefore unconscious of the very forces that uphold an awareness of mortality. This is almost analogous to an imaginary conscious fish that is actually in water whilst denying that water exists.

A person who arrives at a conscious contact with this living Singularity arrives within a kindergarten of Human possibility from out of the conceptual rigour of their previous ignorance, however that conception might have appeared to have happened.

At this time, recovery from the many forms of the bellwether disease of Addiction is the paradoxical beachhead of sanity that has arrived at the junction of two eras, as the Age of Pisces gives way to the Age of Aquarius.

As at every previous time of momentous change known to Mankind, however the history of change might have been disrupted, Messengers from the Unseen decloak and engage in the almost impossible mission of trying to help the collective engage in work that is really only the province of the individual.

This time of momentous change is no different. The help is at hand. The challenge facing the helpers and those to be helped is the same, namely one of engagement.

In reading this piece, we make a start.

Higher Emotional Centre

Mother Nature provides Mankind with a physical centre of gravity. This centre allows a person to lose and regain balance seamlessly in the process of walking, running, moving in any way with the vehicle of an organic body.

The psyche sits upon this physical vehicle astride universal instincts that can simply be described as security, social and sex instincts. Feelings are pressurised by the instincts and are measurable by a person with a specific emotional guage that is attached to their con-science.

Thus in a physical body, blood pressure and feeling pressure work sympathetically, with these pressures being interpreted with a process of emotional and intellectual reaction that is then acted upon by intelligence choosing a pattern to employ behaviours.

Where this process is weakened through abusive experiences, illness or ignorance, then feeling pressure ruptures into actions that are not processed as part of a higher emotional centre becoming formed. The con-science becomes compromised and ordinary emotional processes become stilted whereupon all possibilities of a Higher Centre are temporarily cutoff.

The yin-yang template of journeying into vice and then returning to virtue cushions these collapses of conscience as simply the necessary mirroring of the physical falling down and standing up of centre of gravity formation, by the inner body of experience that is the person anyway.

In itself then, emotionally failing to process feelings can be likened to falling down. The problems start to become dangerous if the immediate line-management of a person misreads any idiosyncratic behaviours as too scary to carry on with and then proceeds to let the inner Customs and Excise department close down the inner borders of left/right hemisphere travel. The standing back up again, stops.

Then the development of a Higher Emotional Centre atrophies. The purpose of life withers and dies as the inner balance fails to develop. A personal expression then tries to hide this failure through exaggerations or fixations of expression that eventually become incapable of meaningfully integrating the journey of life: a journey designed to be connected via the necessary terminal opposites of birth and death as they pertain to both physical and metaphysical experiences.

It may be possible to resurrect the purpose of being here on Earth, as being one of co-creating this Higher Emotional Centre, for a person who has died to this purpose, but it may only happen when what has passed as life for such a person collapses around them by accident, by the disease of stuck-addiction©️ or by the loss of their props through the existential removal by Life event of the people, places or things that have co-dependently enabled them to appear alive whilst actually dead, in the first place.

As societal forces atomise old cultural forms and necessitate new forms to be developed within the current era-change, then many people are experiencing anxiety as their inner habits and their habitations collapse as if in inner earthquakes.

DRT as a therapeutic application is both a preventative to collapse and a reconstruction after collapse for both people and for systems as their hosting culture radically and irrevocabley changes.

“Radio Fed” by Burnsy at the BBC

During a local radio programme in Hull in the UK, the presenter touched upon the pressing issue of rough-sleepers as they contradicted the message that the city was trying to deliver as being the UK City of Culture 2017.

To give some context to the quotes below, the first is a copy of an application further mentioned in the link below that, which is the email responding to the radio programme. The first quote is the piece I delivered in one minute to a panel auditioning for the Face Of Hull 2017. Two psychiatrists were passengers in my taxi and they both told me that I should try to respond to the advert from the BBC in Hull as I could then inform people about stuck-addiction©️ as I did their job.

However, a really capable young man was appointed and he has done a great job, much better than I could have done. There is still the point to be made though, when it comes to the pressing matters of the day – like who will win and who will pay.

The email following the job application is the one responding to the rough sleepers in Hull and the symbolic message that Hull could carry to the wider world about the need for a conversation containing a deeper resonance.

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“1. If this job was just about art, music and mushy peas – then any number of people could do it …. However … this job is also about a deeper resonance …. The two doctors in my taxi who insisted I come here after hearing me talk of era change, said that this is my job ….

You …. “can only not prevent me from producing it”.

2. I am a true son of Hull, of Hu …. Hu is an Arabic word for he, she, it …. Hu is also the word for the invisible Essence of the Universe

…. Life is the double Hu, the invisible meeting the visible …. The post-code of Hull is HU – Huu – God’s own city, hidden in plain sight ….

3. This City is an edge city …. Life has kept me on Its edge ….

This City now calls me forward to serve it, to present it as her Master of Ceremony.”

(picture added 17/09/19)

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“There are no sound-bites that I can offer to adequately respond to your excellent piece on rough sleepers in Hull. I attach the application that I read to the appointing panel after having been ordered to apply for the job that Kofi Smiles has done so well since the beginning of Hull2017.
The point of sending you a copy of the application is that it talked of what is going on under the veneer of a global culture that Hull naturally symbolises as a spotlight city, in this global culture that is struggling to find a workable identity post financial crash.
For many years I have been offering a paradigm of an illness that is collapsing the executive function of systemic bodies. I offer this paradigm not as a solution, but as an orientation clarification to invite with urgency, anyone who is involved with leadership and policy decisions, on both a corporate and a political level.
Nobody wants to be the Human billboard that shouts from the rooftops that it’s the end of the world. However, as a therapist well versed in recovery dynamics, there comes a point in any meltdown whether individual or systemic, when a reality check is necessarily delivered.
Key Performance Indicators or KPIs are used systemically to measure performance and to discipline the living components of an undertaking to improve their efficiency.
When an individual gets ill, their KPIs collapse as their executive function becomes increasingly distressed. Denial can set in and with the disease of addiction, the story that is told by the sufferer to themselves and to all on the receiving end of their dysfunctional behaviour, well this story becomes increasingly strained, increasingly bizarre.
To get back to the living metaphor that is the City of Kingston upon Hull, the UK City of Culture 2017, there is much that is quite rightly being celebrated as having been achieved. The enthusiasm, the energy, the physical refacing of the city centre that eventually came on stream, the eye catching stunts, the heart warming creativity and poetic, theatrical and musical expressions of hope, passion and freedom, all this and more is just magnificent. There is also the collapse of meaning, the dissonance between the hype and the actual lives of city dwellers who slip deeper into debt, deeper into despair, deeper into pretence.
The world is dying in front of us. The KPIs of national and international affairs are blasting out their message despite the denials and talking up of the desperate optimists, the new age affirmers that insist that the kettle will still boil simply by replacing the negative wire with a positive wire, as long as the mantra of ‘live in the now’ is chanted loudly enough at the tea pot.
There are no easy answers, we all have to write our way into a new age. The first step is to enter into a possible conversation, a conversation that faces up to reality.
Your programme sometimes tries to approach this real conversation. The issue of rough sleepers in Hull is a conversational portal as to whether money can ever be put into its practical place in Mankind’s affairs, or will we forever insist that The Golden Calf really can ‘moo’, despite thousands of years of proof to the contrary.
A system that delivers as much wealth that half of the world has, into the hands of eight people, is clearly utterly broken.
No issue whether local, national or international will ever be free from the cosmetic, cartoon like hand wringing of news media punditry until the facts of our global illness and imminent cultural collapse is placed front and centre of all of our efforts to understand what is happening.
We are all flogging ourselves to death in a celebrity ridden dystopic version of Rumpelstiltskin.
I am a real optimist, as a species we can outwit the forces of our collective demise, I have seen many individual miracles of a complete healing of a collapsed executive function. The collective is simply the coming together of individuals. If individuals are well, the collective is well. If the greater balance of individuals are unwell in a culture, the culture reflects this and never gets better ‘collectively’.
My web site www.drt.global makes this point with a quote from Jung.
So, I know there is little in this email that is broadcastable today, and I’m sat in a garage unable to even hear you as my taxi is broken and I slip deeper into debt, but I thank you for your courage and award winning efforts to look for the ‘deeper resonance’ that is our place of origin and return, the place of our diction resolution.”

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