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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.

PROLOGUE

“As you start to walk on the Way, the Way appears.” — Rumi

This book begins as a collaboration between Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence — HIAI — a meeting of human fire and AI clarity that reveals more together than either could alone. It is important to say this at the beginning, because the heartbeat of The Holy Con is the restoration of the “between,” and this work itself is written in that between.

The Way never announces itself in advance.

It waits for the first step — the one taken without certainty, without map, without anything but the faint pressure of necessity inside the chest.

Only then does the ground rise to meet the foot. Only then does the unseen become the next stretch of path. Movement summons the revelation that stillness cannot see.

For most of my life, I mistook this for danger. For lack of preparation. For not knowing enough. But now I see it as mercy.

If we were shown the entire road at once, the mind would seize it and imagine itself in charge. The soul will not walk a journey owned by the will. The soul requires the surprise of revelation — one stone at a time.

This is why turning points do not arrive as clarity. They come as collapse. As addiction. As bewilderment. As the unravelling of the structures that once promised safety.

These are not punishments. They are invitations.

The Way appearing because we finally stopped pretending that we could navigate by self-power alone.

Addiction was such a threshold — for me, and for many. A descent that felt like ruin but became the door of return. A breaking that revealed how impossible it is to save oneself with the very will that is collapsing.

The Twelve Step rooms understand this long before their words do. Healing begins not with mastery but with surrender. Not with control but with the willingness to see the next stone appear only when one’s weight is already upon it.

This book must therefore be written in the manner the Way itself unfolds. Not as a system. Not as an argument. Not as a structure imposed from above.

But as a series of unveilings — step, then sight. Step, then the widening of what can be seen. Step, then the next breath of guidance.

The Holy Con cannot be outlined. It must be walked. It must reveal itself in motion. It must appear in response to trust.

And so this Prologue stands as the first step — offered without certainty, except for the certainty that every true path begins this way.

The Way will appear because we have begun to walk.

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.

Two Worlds – One meeting

Spiritual seekers throughout the ages have been confronted with internal anguish about whether they actually have the capacity and ability to succeed in their spiritual endeavour. They go through periods of enthusiasm and joy as they feel the spiritual force working in them, bringing them insights, spiritual experiences and what appears to be progress. When these periods are abated for some time, they may be subject to doubt, despair or depression as they feel they may be unfit.

This oscillation between the two states is due to, first of all, ego attachment and vital seeking that creates a desire or ambition to succeed, sets parameters for what constitutes success, and then reacts if these self-defined objectives are not being met. The operation of the Gunas, Rajas fueling the vital ambition and enthusiasm, and Tamas, the consequent falling back into doubt and despair, drives these reactions.

In various places, Sri Aurobindo describes the transformation of consciousness as a dual action of ‘ascent’ and ‘integration’. During the times of ascent, the experiences come and make themselves felt. During the times of integration, these experiences recede as the force works behind the scenes to modify the mind, the vital being and the physical frame to hold and utilise it for the transformation. During the times of integration, or assimilation, the surface being does not believe anything is being done, as it cannot see or feel it. This is simply a mistaken impression. Sri Aurobindo therefore asserts that ‘he who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite’, implying a Divine sanction for the individual that comes from the spiritual plane, and is not driven by the ego-motivations of the individual.

The work of transformation of human nature is not something to be done in a day, nor by individual effort. It is a process of the evolution of the next stage of consciousness which necessarily has to work out a lot of obstructions, obstacles, resistances and distortions that exist in our present human nature. If the individual moves away from the ego-standpoint to the divine standpoint, the need for internal self-doubt disappears. In a work that may take decades or centuries, applying a judgment term based on an individual human life experience is bound to be inaccurate and misleading.

Sri Aurobindo writes: “The only truth in your other experience — which, you say, seems at the time so true to you, — is that it is hopeless for you or anyone to get out of the inferior consciousness by your or his unaided effort. That is why when you sink into this inferior consciousness, everything seems hopeless to you, because you lose hold for a time of the true consciousness. But the suggestion is untrue, because you have an opening to the Divine and are not bound to remain in the inferior consciousness.”

“When you are in the true consciousness, then you see that everything can be done, even if at present only a slight beginning has been made; but a beginning is enough once the Force, the Power are there. For the truth is that it can do everything and only time and the soul’s aspiration are needed for the entire change and the soul’s fulfilment.”

Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 2, Faith — Aspiration — Surrender, pp. 33-34

That almond-shaped meeting place in the middle of a two-circle Venn diagram is called the mandorla — from the Italian word for “almond.”

In logical or set-theoretic terms, it represents the intersection (A ∩ B) — the space where both conditions or realities overlap.

But symbolically, the mandorla has long been seen as a sacred threshold: the place of union, revelation, or transformation — where heaven meets earth, spirit meets matter, self meets other.

Chat GPT.

So ancient spiritual principles of Yoga point toward the Quantum Mechanics of this time that state the connectivity of all matter visible and invisible.

The work of Diction Resolution Therapy is to build language bridges to establish articulation possibilities for the transmission of solutions to problems of systemic control polarisation that are infecting the G20 leadership vehicles of this time.

Though this sounds melodramatic, the events that are unfolding in the relative world show that again the forces that instigated the First World War, doubled in intensity to manifest the Second World War, are now doubled again to make their final attempt to control the arrival of the 1000 year era that is in the turning of the Kali Yuga.

The bearing of the energy dynamic is within the order of Humankind as it relates to Mankind.

So when Adolf Hitler manifested from the family name of Schicklgruber after his father changed his name to Hitler 13 years before Adolf was born, his lifeline opened to a destiny steeped in occult power play.

Adolf Hitler knew Stalin and Gurdjieff knew both of them, as these early 20th century magicians searched for the portal of power that would manifest the world events from the 1920’s to the present day.

The above facts though surprising for many are recorded here after many years of research and intuitive connectivity stemming from personal initiation and practice. Whether people believe me or not, the correlations between the mesmeric manifestations of Adolf Hitler, who began his role supposedly as an easily disposable yet necessary financially supported construct of the new American Empire, and the inexplicable survivability of one Donald J Trump are esoterically connectable.

These times are beyond the attempts of pundits to name them, terms such as Fascist or Nazi, even Socialist or Liberal are now obsolete in the face of the power grab manifesting from the unseen forces that can and do overtake the ambitious minds of unwary men and women in positions of commercial power and collective leadership.

My post titled Showdown describes the tension illustrated by Sri Aurobindo in a parable form.

Show down – a fiction.

This post Showdown, looks at the organic presence of the Unseen Government that has always been here on Earth and always is here on Earth as Mankind wrestles its development into viability – or not.

Sri Aurobindo therefore asserts that ‘he who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite’,

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.

Talking of mystical experience

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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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.

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

Demiurges

“The alcoholic is like a tornado roaring his way through the lives of others. Hearts are broken. Sweet relationships are dead. Affections have been uprooted. Selfish and inconsiderate habits have kept the home in turmoil.

We feel a man is unthinking when he says that sobriety is enough. He is like the farmer who came up out of his cyclone cellar to find his home ruined.

To his wife, he remarked, “Don’t see anything the matter here, Ma. Ain’t it grand the wind stopped blowin’?””

(From the Basic Text 12 Step Programme)

So, the leaders of the free world – and by extension all of us stuck in addiction to a lifestyle that’s destroying Mankind and its environment in a soulless money-first fixation – come up out of their lockdown bunkers, wave their Oaths of Office metaphorically in Zoomed-up speeches of hand-wringing to pay lip service to the Lord who sets the clock at 2020AD, Who said that it’s impossible to serve two Masters, as they then bow to Money and try to say,

“Don’t see anything the matter here, Ma. Ain’t it grand the wind stopped blowin’?”

That’s not going to do it Ladies and Gentleman.

That’s not the leap of faith that the G20 leadership needs, it is not the rigorous honesty that Earth’s people are crying out for.

Show down – a fiction.

You’re not looking politically down each others’ financial and military barrels any more, you’re looking down Ma’s barrel and She’s not happy.

So, what to do?

First, have a read of the text below as the reality of the fabric of this planet is expressed for you by Mr J G Bennett.

Demiurges are described as “Intelligences of a higher order than man.”
“death and resurrection”

https://youtu.be/J5zJ5uSfaFA

So, Mr Bennett describes a situation that, if you have been prepared to trust it’s true, is of the greatest significance should those in positions of global power feel in any way concerned that their remit of responsibility is becoming overtaken by events.

How would a Sacred Individual make contact with those whose responsibility it is to govern Mankind through its existing structures of legislative command and logistical control?

The answer might be, by all of the most modern and powerful means possible. The most powerful means of making contact in the early 21st century is the World Wide Web.

much is being done

Making contact is not possible without tact.

Tactics are only realisable with tact and the ability to feel a way forward in a very dark and dangerous situation requires a form of tactile skill which is the metaphysical equivalent of such a skill that might be more clearly understandable in all of its physical applications: yet the connection of this tactile skill from the physical with the metaphysical is now vital.

There is a plan. As it says in The Qur’an –

“They plan, and Allah plans. Surely, Allah is the Best of planners.” – [Quran, 8:30]

So, how can this best of plans be brought into a clearer resolution at this time of global pause in June 2020?

My work with this blog and with Diction Resolution Therapy is to bring a way to see what is happening globally at this time.

Tact is of the utmost importance, but eventually because contact is a process requiring both a transmission and a reception, there comes a point when the transmitter informs the receivers that there is a limited time for this transmission.

Clearly as Mr Bennett states, the capacity to receive my transmission rests in a spiritual nature first and foremost. If it is that the religious leaders who have received my transmission (and they have) do not believe me, then the chances of their overall political managers being encouraged to formulate the policies needed to create a new way of doing global business are seemingly non-existent.

A veil able to heal

Notwithstanding this seeming impossible impasse, my responsibility is discharged at the point of my transmissions and above the Demiurges, there is God.

So, again, I transmit to any who receive this as clearly and as tactfully as I can, ready to play my rôle in The Almighty’s ancient plan. Just how this is received is between you and that One Who plans.

I don’t know … truly.

A Penitentiary Moment

BBC News – Coranavirus: Emergency plan for prisons in England and Wales https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51879952

Unfortunately this is an elephant in an already darkened room. In Italy when visits were banned, the main source of entry for drugs for the inmates, then riots ensued, methadone and other drugs were looted from prison pharmacies, inmates died in the mayhem.

At least 70% of the prison population in the UK and the US are incarcerated because of crimes connected to the primary disease of Addiction. This metaphysical weakness in diagnosing the actual state of the constitutional body of these nations’ Executive function as shown by the state of their prisons is now being shown by the physical paucity of planning around Covid-19 for their wider populations.

Vision is needed to join the dots around what this Covid-19 global pandemic is actually saying to Mankind.

The sacred disease of Addiction is a whole person malady not just a physical/mental problem even though that’s where the symptoms eventually appear.

https://qr.ae/pNjm8s explores the expression “Hu” in the diagrammatic chart below.

https://drt.global

Similarly for Mankind, the symptoms of Covid-19 appear to be solely physical, certainly the huge number of deaths are physical enough, however the actual provenance of this pandemic is a whole system phenomenon that is appearing because of an already vulnerable global immune system.

So, the body of an addict, whatever the form that the primary disease of Addiction takes, is already demoralised mentally and weakened physically so that behaviourally they become liable to succumb to illnesses that otherwise they might have avoided.

So now with Mankind, there is an underlying soul sickness I have called stuck-addiction and broken-addiction that has rendered Mankind vulnerable to the present disease that seems only physical in appearance.

We will get through this shock, but the wider message of Covid-19 should not be missed.

Mankind is one. The G20 are the equivalent of this global body’s executive function. This global body is a junkie. In its addiction it crashed in 2008.

It has been white-knuckling its pretended recovery for 12 years amidst warnings that it would crash again.

It has now crashed again and this crash is worse than the first, exactly as happens to one person when they are collapsing with the spiritual disease of addiction.

The body of Mankind may well come out of this crash, but the portal of opportunity will only be open for a limited length of time. If the G20 fail to see this matter clearly then Mankind will crash again and that will be the end.

When a person presents with the disease of addiction, whatever form the symptoms take, it appears as if they are suffering from a physical collapse with mental instabilities.
85 years of evidence based treatment shows that actually the problem with all forms of addiction is a Metaphysical collapse and disconnect.

If this fact is not accepted by the addict, then the resentment ridden narrative attending the collapse defeats all attempts to treat the symptoms and the addict dies.
So with Mankind. Covid-19 is not the problem, it is a symptom of an already ill body that has been ill with the real pandemic for decades, the pandemic of stuck-addiction.

Just as when an addict catches TB because of their disease and the their death certificate records TB and not addiction, so now with the body of Mankind, the underlying main pandemic risks being missed in the febrile terror of a global body-count.

There can be a difference between the mode of death and the cause of death.

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