War

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!

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.

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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.

https://lifeisreturning.com/2020/08/28/the-sphere/
12 Step Programme as an Ancient Template fit for the 21st century

Riches and Power 

The Qur'an XXXVIII 76 - 88

Qarun was doubtless, 
Of the people of Moses; but
He acted insolently towards them:
Such were the treasures We
Had bestowed on him, that
Their very keys would 
Have been a burden to 
A body of strong men, 
Behold, his people said to him:
"Exult not, for Allah loveth not
Those who exult (in riches).

" But seek with the (wealth)
Which Allah has bestowed on thee, 
The Home of the Hereafter, 
Nor forget thy portion in this
World: but do thou good,
As Allah has been good 
To thee, and seek not 
(Occasions for) mischief in the land:
For Allah loves not those 
Who do mischief. "

He said:" This has been given
To me because of a certain 
Knowledge which I have."
Did he not know that Allah 
Had destroyed, before him, 
(Whole) generations, - which were
Superior to him in strength 
And greater in the amount 
(Of riches) they had collected?
But the wicked are not 
Called (immediately) to account
For their sins. 

So he went forth among 
His people in the (pride
Of his worldly) glitter.
Said those whose aim is 
The Life of this World:
"Oh! that we had the like
Of what Qarun has got!
For he is truly a lord 
Of mighty good fortune!"

But those who had been granted 
(True) knowledge said: "Alas
For you! The reward of Allah
(In the Hereafter) is best
For those who believe 
And work righteousness: but this
None shall attain, save those 
Who steadfastly persevere (in good)."

Then We caused the earth 
To swallow up him and 
His house: and he had not
(The least little) party
To help him against Allah,
Nor could he defend himself. 

And those who had envied 
His position the day before 
Began to say on the morrow:
"Ah! It is indeed Allah
Who enlarges the provision 
Or restricts it, to any
Of His servants He pleases!
Had it not been that Allah 
Was gracious to us, He
Could have caused the earth
To swallow us up! Ah!
Those who reject Allah 
Will assuredly never prosper."

That Home of the Hereafter 
We shall give to those 
Who intend not high-handedness
Or mischief on earth:
And the end is (best)
For the righteous. 

If any does good, the reward
To him is better than
His deed; but if any
Does evil, the doers of evil
Are only punished (to the extent)
Of their deeds. 

Verily He Who ordained 
The Qur-an for thee, will bring
Thee back to the Place
Of Return. Say: "My Lord
Knows best who it is 
That brings true guidance, 
And who is in manifest error."

And thou who hadst not expected 
That the Book would be 
Sent to thee except as 
A mercy from thy Lord:
Therefore lend not thou support
In any way to those 
Who reject (Allah's message).

And let nothing keep thee 
Back from the signs of Allah 
After they have been revealed 
To thee: and invite (men)
To thy Lord, and be not 
Of the company of those 
Who join gods with Allah. 

And call not, besides Allah, 
On another god. There is 
No god but He. Everything
(That exists) will perish
Except His own Face. 
To Him belongs the Command, 
And to Him will ye
(All) be brought back.

I have quoted the above at length because even though there are dangers in a kindergarten literalism which is so often the ground of fanaticism and impossible obsession and should therefore be eschewed at all costs, still there is enough of a timeless message that never goes away.

War as mass psychosis

The Name is Al Mu’min ….

(From The Mishkat al-Anwar of Ibn Arabi translated by Stephen Hirtenstein and Martin Notcutt ISBN 0-9534513-5-6)

Thanks to Azim Looker …. for

A chunk of quote … from J.G.Bennett.

“War has a twofold origin. The first is outside of man and arises independently. The second is within man and is due to his own weakness and failure. From time to time a special state of tension arises on the earth, which Gurdjieff calls the state of “Solioonensius.” This state of tension arises from the relations between the planets. I do not mean by this that it is something supernatural or mysterious. It is a perfectly natural process, connected with the changes in the balance of electrical and other energy in the solar system. For example, it is already suspected by science that the occurrence of sunspots has an effect upon the human psyche.

It may help you to understand what I mean by calling Solioonensius a perfectly natural process if you consider a simple phenomenon, well-known to all. I refer to the effect in Great Britain of the east wind, or in the Mediterranean of the sirocco. When the east wind blows, people become irritable and nothing seems to go right. I once became interested in this because I wanted to see whether it was a real or an imaginary effect. I asked a number of people to observe carefully and let me know as objectively as possible whether they could detect a state of inner tension caused by the east wind. Nearly everyone confirmed that a state of irritability did, in fact, arise in them even before they were aware that the east wind was blowing.

In a more subtle and pervasive manner, great regions of the earth’s surface, and sometimes even the whole of the earth, become subject to a state of tension that produces in people a strong sense of dissatisfaction with their conditions of life. They become irritable or aggressive, apprehensive, nervous and highly suggestible. Gurdjieff said that knowledge of Solioonensius existed thousands of years ago, and that he took the term from a very ancient tradition. At the present time, its significance has been forgotten or lost.

The point is that there are two completely different ways in which people can react to a state of Solioonensius. It always arouses dissatisfaction, but this may be external or internal. External dissatisfaction leads to external conflict; internal dissatisfaction strengthens the desire to struggle with oneself. Those who understand the necessity for working on themselves and achieving the second destiny find in that state of tension the greatest possibility of incentive and force to make them work harder. But those who do not have this feeling, this realization, project outwards their dissatisfaction and become hostile and angry with other people-suspicious, jealous and the rest of it- and then, defenceless against these mass psychoses, begin to hate. And the very people who, only a few years before, could not conceive of themselves consenting to the idea of war become involved in the destruction of other people. And those other people, passing through the same mass psychosis with the same justification, wish in turn to destroy their existence.

It is possible by careful study of history and of various psychological processes to verify this. And once you understand it, you will see that there is no way by which war can be stopped other than by making people understand the necessity for this work. Otherwise, they have no defense against this state of tension; no contrivances, no organisation, no good resolutions can avail, because there is a physio-chemical process involved. This state of tension must produce the result. We do not know when such a state of tension will come over the world again. When it is absent, we do not feel war as something possible, but when it approaches, nothing can be done unless an idea can come into the world that can act on a sufficiently large number of people to enable them to turn this force in a different direction.

This is one reason why the change – the transition period – from one epoch to another, from one world to another, is a dangerous period. Old ideas have lost their momentum and can no longer move the world. New ideas have not yet gained momentum. All through history, and even before the beginning of history, we find such periods accompanied by war and revolution, not because war and revolution are inevitable in themselves but because people have lacked that discrimination that would enable them to use this situation rightly. If we are able to go into a world in which this is understood, then the course of history can be different, because the destiny of all mankind can be raised to a higher level. There is no higher purpose in the life of man than to bring about this great transition.

If a new world is to come, we must first create it in ourselves. You may ask how the work of a few people can change the world. It has always been so. Ideas are powerful, not organizations. Nothing can be done by outward force; everything can be done by inner strength.’

[Copyright J.G. Bennett, Is there “Life” on Earth, Bennett Books, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA].

The descended sacredness of the disease of stuck-addiction is that eventually, after much practice in the wastelands of denial, the individual inner warrior does give his or her own death day “consciously and unequivocally” back to The Living Source that granted them their birthday – or they actually die.

https://lifeisreturning.com/2020/08/28/the-sphere/

Once this has “actually” been done rather than theoretically imagined, an awakening begins.

If this releasing of the physical death day is not achieved, then the death day is held by the piratical system that grips the Earth and all its species, especially Mankind, in its status quo of threat and counter threat.

There is the gift that this transmitted vehicle gives to all Mankind, for most of Mankind is held in subservience by forces that overtly or covertly threaten people with physical or reputational death.

This is ouranosmetry meeting geometry, this is how to prepare the personal alchemical vehicle to achieve the metaphysical instruction of Islam which is to “die before you die”, without getting lost in the terrorist dangers of physical misunderstanding.

This post has been edited in from June 2020

https://lifeisreturning.com/2020/06/26/the-language-of-energy/

Rise up

The inner war perfectly described, the necessity of material action ‘after’ the illusion has been destroyed. Imminent action is required of us, solitude and renunciation is not enough according to Krishna.
Whatever the appearance of my utterances, my words about the practicality of spirituality, the practicability and development of material action in the present moment, is rooted in my direct experience of the eternal Singularity meeting Its own material action.
“Rise up I love you” seems a timeless order to any material entity downtrodden by authoritarians’ disbelief and the broken lovelessness of cultural dissonance.
It’s how that rising up is to happen.
The old junta can only see outer war, this literal slaughter may come, it’s happened before after all.
My words are about the possibility of a healing, of an inner rising up of meaning, of an individual escape from fear and resentment that then brings about a collective change. This is the message of Carl Jung.
Is this possible?
If the inner war is not fought individually, then the outer war is inevitable collectively, this has been the fact since Muhammad (pbuh) differentiated between the greater and lesser war in the message of Islam.
So, for centuries, the forces of collective plunder have done everything to stop the greater war and insist upon the monetary based lesser wars that form the history of our broken hearts.
Now, rise up and love as you are loved, is the battle cry of the changed person, the reality of every spiritual Messenger sent from your potential future.

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Dissonance

There is no wonder that the overall ‘body-cultural’ of Mankind is stressed.The information entering into Its processing of ‘species awareness’ is bewildering.
1. Democratic governance that grew out of often brutal absolute monarchy, that in Britain and America had horrific Civil War as a rite of passage.
2. Brutal and terrible World Wars in the last century for control of oil and gas reserves and for the right of hegemony, that have involved genocide, torture and inhuman acts of mass destruction, as well as of course the ‘jolly hockey sticks’ elements of war that were fought through like gentlemen according to the ‘sanity’ of the Geneva Convention.
3. Steady ongoing warfare through Korea, Aden and the Israeli wars around Palestine, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, The Cold War, the killing fields of Cambodian post Vietnam insanity, the proxy war between Iran and Iraq, the African dictatorships, Afghanistan, the cauldronisation of the Middle East culminating in Syria and Yemen to suit the US led cartel of oil dependent culture, the Twin Towers debacle and the War on Terror that covertly vilifies Islam, the global banking crash, the political war against Europe by either the US or Russia, or both, that brought about Brexit.In all of the confusion and deliberate misinformation that Nation States have felt it their legitimate right and duty to engage in on their piratical foundation of Official Secrets, the collective conscience of Mankind is now broken, the collective intuition and Human potential is critically impaired.This illness that I have named stuck-addiction© is an attempt to arrest the overwhelm that is collapsing the decision making function of the leading brands and parties in Mankind’s corporate and political structures.Only an illness appreciation can offer the space to dare to reassess past events that have brought us all to our present logjam.
This illness is a spiritual malady with a spiritual solution.Forgiveness and healing that in principle was enacted after Apartheid was removed in South Africa in the Truth and Reconciliation process, will have to be rolled out globally by the UN.The disaster facing Mankind is unavoidable, but the scale of the disaster is manageable when an articulation point is acquired and globally secured.Edited 18/12/18.

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In Whose Name?

The best of times and the worst of times as Dickens so clearly stated in his writing, is as true a description of today as it was when written so many years ago.
The hidden agendas of the rich and powerful are only different in scale and are just as stale therefore as week old bread.
There is no new torture presently being inflicted upon groups of afflicted people, no new methods of trapping and butchering fellow members of one species – there is simply the industrialisation of an old process.
The industry of inflicted psychopathy that is warfare, has reached new levels of efficiency. War makes money for those who invest their money in war.
War has always relied upon leaders. War doesn’t just happen. Masses of people first have to be rendered mad by conditions of attrition and existential threat, real or manufactured, then soldiers have to be drawn from the masses under the anaesthesia of patriotism, religion or some other tribalism of ‘my and not my’ or ‘my and enemy’. Then the leaders lead by threatening death (physical or reputational) to those who don’t follow.
Support for war is continually garnered from general populations by perpetuations of madness inducing fear, strict emergency legislation to curb dissent, rationing of essential supplies and the overt and covert demonising of enemies.
Leaders lead to war then sue for peace.
Leaders could lead to peace, but that would bankrupt the war industry and its supply chains.
The USA declared war upon ‘terror’ in 2001.
Normally, an adversary in war would have a physical territory from which attacks would be launched.
The 2001 declaration of a global war against ‘terror’ by the USA has failed to eradicate the enemy, but this war has cauldronised the Middle East, let loose the wind of regime change that has deepened into the whirlwind that we now reap.
The deliberate destabilisation of countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Libya for resource and geopolitics has now blown back to increasingly destabilise Europe.
The global politics between America, Russia, Britain, China and Europe is now so smokey it seems that even the mirrors of the deep global governments’ bureaucracies have cracked and clouded.
God may or may not have ordered war in the past. In the Qur’an the inner war to be the most Human that a person or a culture can become is the final warfare that is ordered by God for Mankind.
So what would God say about the physical war on ‘terror’ declared in His Name in 2001 and every outer war up to any present day war?
‘Not in My Name’, is what He is saying.

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Repairing existential incontinence.

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War is a form of existential incontinence. Matters that could be dealt with in a certain way become distressed, broken, dislocated, very messy.

When Muhammad (pbuh) had cleaned up the microcosm that he was born into and left us his template, he looked at inner and outer, greater and lesser. He said that outer warfare was less important than inner warfare.

The inferences are that if matters leak out into the lesser place from the greater place against a designed spiritual way of ordinarily dealing with such matters, then there will be a mess.

Muhammad (pbuh) also said that folks should seek spiritual knowledge to help them (avoid war) even if that meant going to China. The brackets are mine, but the inferences are clear, all cultural message carrying is under the Seal of Islam if it helps individuals to love one another through their differences.

The Inner Jihad is fought under the Seal of Isa, the Living Christ.

O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).
Qur’an Sura 49 The Rooms. Yusuf Ali.

Boundaries and walls are designed to be flexible, often permeable in the internal working of a body. If the inner, usually invisible walls of arteries or intestines become hardened or breakdown, then there is an emergency.

If the outer, actually invisible, permeable healthy walls and flexible boundaries between cultures and nations and Continents harden and break down, then there is an existential incontinence, there is very messy war.

In an attempt to deal with the mess as it starts to happen, physical walls are often erected to try to stop the final mess, war, from happening. These physical walls do not work because it is a vain attempt to solve a metaphysical problem with a physical solution.

Once in the wrong place in the wrong way, mess has to be cleaned up. Then, as quickly as possible, the invisible walls of behavioural flexibility and cultural permeability have to be healed, reissued by the common orientation of all mankind toward it’s Human source code, Love.

Often this return to the healthy invisible working of nations and Continents has needed the appearance of healers from the invisible realm who have carried a message.

“In as much as collectivities are mere accumulations of individuals, their problems are also accumulations of individual problems … Such problems are never solved by legislation or tricks. They are only solved by a general change of attitude. And the change does not begin with propaganda and mass meetings, or with violence. It begins with a change in individuals. It will continue as a transformation of their personal likes and dislikes, of their outlook on life and of their values, and only the accumulation of such individual changes will produce a collective solution.” (C. G. Jung, Psychology & Religion (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1938) 95.)

Individual inner effort not only matters, though invisible and seemingly small, it is the only chance for our common survival.

©AJDettman 10/8/14

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