Thursday 9: Thank God I have finished that awful book. The woman was absolutely barking - God rest her soul.
Yes I know that can be perceived as a derogatory statement about someone who was patently mentally unwell (an addictive personality, alcoholic, desiring assisted suicide, hearing and listening to voices, allowing them to run her life on the basis that it was her bit of god guiding her (even though her god seemed like a power-hungry human), that she was one of a small handful in the entire world with this precious task etc), but she is (sic) also a well-regarded self-help guru (cf Tom Butler-Bowdon) and best-selling author. Who did, in the end, allegedly, have an assisted suicide in 2004.
Mystical experiences can be enormously powerful motivators. The nirvanic high and light frequencies are beyond description. But then, inevitably, the flip side kicks in and light fights with dark in the infinite struggle for balance as well as growth and evolution. (There is more … another time.)
In her case, they played tricks on her and used her as a play thing. Yet did she stop? No. Her physical health started to rot along with her mental health, yet her addiction to her channeling continued. She thought she saw the light and believed that finally she was getting good guidance. Except that over and over her real guidance was her ego and an addiction to a `yes and no´ style of divination. (There is also more to write on this too - but another time.)
One overwhelming tragedy with mental health issues, is that the person involved has, in my opinion, giant ego issues, where only their truth or reality matters. They learn to manipulate people in order to live life on their terms and the projections of those ideas take on form and resonance for them. As it did for this self-help guru - who eventually could take no more, it seems.
My main concern is for all the readers who take her word as gospel and believe in `The Others´ - and a god called `Abe´ (FFS!). Or even take to tuning into other frequencies using just pendulum divination.
That does not mean I think humans are the highest evolution and above us only God. On the contrary, I feel sure there must be sentients to whom we humans are mere ants.
Ants, of course, have their function and beauty but can be killed off at any time by a fastidious human (eek, me!) or eaten by any amount of other sentients, yet their place in creation is unassailable.
However, I doubt very much that we would have daily conversations with them … "Hello Adam, this is Euphrosene, your god. Hope all is well with you… because it will not be if you and your mates don´t shift your carcasses out of my conservatory? Like, NOW."
Says Adam, "Why?" (Ants in the human role of always asking `why´…) "Well Adam, it´s for your greater good." etc etc


October 9, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
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