THIRD AND FINAL POST REGARDING "SADNESS"...

 

If only we intellectually possessed the means of raising this shade...

Alas, we do possess the ability, but this ability is hidden from us, so that we are not "bothered" with it during our "visit" to the Creation... at least we are unaware of this ability until we have very nearly completed our exploration and experiencing of the Creation.  At that point, we will automatically be drawn to a particular Mystic ... somewhere on Earth... and one will "automatically" find oneself interested in what the Mystic has to say!... and one will not know the reason for this attraction, but it will pull one in the direction of the Mystic.  What is taking place [hidden within us] is our own Soul, subtly awakening to bits of TRUTH being spoken by this Mystic.  And this will continue until one finds oneself somehow going to listen to the Mystic personally.  And what the Mystic says just rings bells "within" one's Consciousness, and one finds oneself beginning to "HEAR" BITS OF TRUTH FROM WITHIN ONESELF!  And a subtle awakening of one's Conscious Awareness demands that one search out this Mystic, and the rest is your own personal history of how you awakened to HEAR GOD from "Within" your Soul.

GOD is ever present in each living thing, and in Man in particular.  And when one's Soul has had enough of the exploration of the Creation, and secretly longs to return Home... God will pull you unto Himself... slowly and carefully.   And you will find yourself facing bits of Truth from WITHIN your SELF... that you never knew you KNEW!  And you will begin your own journey HOME!

Be patient, and enjoy your transformation from ignorance into Light.  Patience is a Virtue, practice it with Love and Hope.  And do resist every kind of evil you can awaken to... because almost everything in the Creation creates Karma, and it is our Karma that keeps us stuck in the Creation.

Peace... and Love, 1 Brother James 

LET US CONTINUE WITH THE BLOG REGARDING "Sadness". PART 2.

 Note:  The "Whole Human Being" is illustrated by my sketch of "The Whole of Man":

Circles 2, 3 and 4 are all invisible to one's brain and one's physical senses.  And we "think" we know all we are able to know via our brain and our physical senses contained in circle #1, or the physical dimension.
 

 

The "Whole" of Man includes all four circles, three of which are invisible to the brain, which is a most complex muscle located in the skull.  And each circle represents a separate realm of existence... which means consisting of a  range of vibrations unique to itself. One's brain is removed from one's Soul, which is removed from one's MIND, which is composed of two separate dimensions, referred to as the Astral Realm, and the Causal Realm. Confusing?  Of course it is.  Three of the realms are invisible to our physical senses.  Otherwise,  everyone  would know this... and they don't.  

In fact, many "mystics" believe what I have just written, but precious few have actually experienced this Reality.  They know about it intellectually [abstractly], but  not experimentally... because to KNOW this as the experience of one's Soul... one's Soul must travel to other dimensions of one's "Whole"... and this requires the assistance of a Perfect Living Master [or a Soul sent into the Creation specifically to "help Souls that have been chosen by God to begin their journey back Home]!  And this is not known in the West, except by a limited number of people.

But, back to "sadness".  How does one even begin to awaken to the fact that one's Soul is longing for it's Creator?  We have been stuck in the Creation for such a long time... that we have forgotten entirely what I have just shared with the reader.  And those who are aware of what I just wrote fall into a category of people whose Souls are being instructed in what  a Soul must do to even prepare for the journey back to God.  The Path I am aware of is called "Sant Mat"... or  path of the Saints.

An excellent book that introduces this "PATH" is called "The Path of the Masters," by Julian P. Johnson.

So, when we experience a bit of sadness... at what we may see in life [or hear about] subtly stimulates what is going on deep within us [at a fully non-conscious level] ... a subtle reminder of one's own Soul and it's  long-lost memory of it's own HOME.   But our MIND dutifully grabs hold of our emotion -- emotional energy is the domain of the MIND--  and our MIND diverts our thoughts to the things of this physical plane, and our Spiritual Memory is submerged, once again.

And what Man possesses that can perceive the Whole of MAN is referred to as "Intuition," which is an aspect of one's Consciousness... which is another term for one's Conscious Awareness, which I believe is what constitutes what we refer to as "Consciousness". But  then,  we Souls have been lost in the Creation for such a long time [who knows how many eons?]

eon?  Webster's...eon, n. 1. An indefinitely long period of time: an age. 2. The longest division of geologic time, containing two or more" eras."   Era  2. A distinctive or notable period of time. Millions of years, or perhaps more?  No one knows for sure?

Were you aware that every living thing possesses a Soul? From the single cell, to the Human Being, which is the highest level of creature in the Creation.  And the entire Creation is operated under the rule of the Law of Karma... which God Created for this purpose. " As you sow, so shall you reap"... is the most apt definition of the Law of Karma. 

I will likely end this blog with blog #3, in a couple days.

Peace, 1 Brother James 

 

When we observe certain things... we offen feel sadness. Where does "sadness" come from?

 As strange as it may seem... Sadness is a natural feeling of one's Soul... is it possibly due to one's Soul being in the Creation?  And the Creation is not it's Home?  But I have asked a question which   which is many dimensions separated from the Pure Spiritual Realm of God, which Mystics tell us is also the Home of one's Soul.   But why is one's Soul sad... you may wonder?  Since the Creation offers we Souls everything we can imagine... except the Absolutes of Love, Truth, and Reality.  [What is it Man can use to ascertain an absolute?]. And with everything we can imagine being available to us... why would we be "sad"?  Well, when is the last time you experienced an Absolute?  That is, something that does not change and cannot be altered?  For example, LOVE,  TRUTH, and REALITY?  Think about these terms being absolutes!  Who do you know who knows what Absolute Truth is?  And the Source of such Truth would be what?  Where would you go to experience Absolute Truth?

    Webster's defines Reality thusly:

 

1.The quality or state of being actual or true. 2. The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence.  

 

Whether or not you realize it, your Soul is an absolute.  It exists as what I refer to as "NSgy," which means Neutral Spiritual Energy.  And I believe NSgy is the Energy of God, which is, I believe, an Absolute energy that Mystics say is Pure Love.   So, every Soul is an aspect of God, and thus, every Soul is an absolute and exists as Pure NSgy.  And, very few human beings have ever seen a Soul.  How come most human beings have not seen a Soul? Simply because the Soul is Pure NSgy, and the Soul ONLY exists as part of the Pure Spiritual Realm of existence.  This is the reason Man has a MIND... which is partly NSgy, and partly another form of energy that is just beyond being tangible.  One's MIND possessing a level of NSgy enables it to communicate with one's Soul and to interact with the physical realm of existence.  Again, my sketch visually illustrates what I am trying to saying verbally.

 #1 represents the physical realm (with the brain), which enables us to think. #2 and #3 are the two parts of the MIND, neither of which is physical. And #4 represents the Soul, which is part of the Pure Spiritual Realm. As illustrated, thinking is confined to the brain, or #1.

But your MIND can convey thoughts to your brain [and does], and your brain assumes that such thoughts [D-Think... or Delusional Thinking] is your brain thinking such thoughts.

It takes a rather long period of study and personal Gestalt Therapy to begin to awaken to the influence one's MIND has over what one thinks.  For most people, if asked... they would "think" that the MIND is a part of the brain.  This notion is common, but mistaken.

The field of psychology gave way to Intellectualism in the late 1930's, and since then the field has done its best to eliminate the MIND [by "thinking" that it is merely a part of the brain].  This is the reason mental health in America is failing to meet the needs of America in a big way. No one can deal with the MIND by "thinking".... period.  This is the reason Veterans suffering from PTSD are committing suicide, and likewise  young people are also killing themselves in states of hopelessness.  Modern mental health is failing America, period.  Modern psychology has intellectually lost it's way... in an alley called Intellectualism... which is a denial of the MIND...whose energy is emotion... which somehow resonates with that of NSgy.

 

Now, about "sadness"... When we see something outside of ourselves that we think is sad, it most likely is sad.  But what one is observing outside of oneself is most likely "tweeking" one's own deeply repressed sense of Sadness locked away in one's MIND.   And what we are doing is not intentional, but psychological... that is:   What one sees [identify as]  "Sad"outside of oneself is a "projection" of one's own sense of Sadness.  And this "sense" of Sadness has to do with how much "Consciousness" a person's Soul has acquired?  And this concept is most likely  not something with which you are familiar?

So... let us pick up this point in the next blog.  That is, the term Consciousness.

Meanwhile, .. consider this:    One's level of Consciousness depends upon how much Conscious Awareness one's Soul has acquired by completing Karma? ...And I would not expect most people to follow me in this line of reasoning.   I will attempt some Explanation and elaboration of these consepts in our next blog.  Just consider this:  Proper Psychotherapy is a mix of intellect, Empathy, self-examination of one's own MIND, an elevated level of Consciousness, and foremost it is having an active access to one's faculty of "Intuition"...(an aspect of Consciousness, which is another name for the Energy of one's Soul).

Peace, 1 Brother James... (James W. Patterson, Ph.D.)... retired Gestalt Psychotherapist.

 

 

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE [as a Soul]?

What is the Soul... is probably a good place to begin?   Your Soul is an aspect of Spirituality, which means God.  And your Soul has been in the Creation for a very long time.  Well, since the Creation was Created... which is something I do not know? 

From what I have learned, over the last 90 years, is that each Soul is an aspect of, or "child" of God.  And God is the Creator of what we know as Creation.  Each Soul is Pure Spiritual Energy, which I refer to as "Neutral Spiritual Energy," or NSgy for short.  In order to operate in the Creation, the Soul had to take-on a MIND, which was  also created by God, and is another form of energy that is neither Pure Spiritual Energy, nor part of the Physical Creation.

My assumption is... the reason the Soul is on Earth is to fully explore and experience the Physical Universe [which was Created by God].  Scriptures tell us that God is Love, Truth, and Reality.  This means that what we "think" of as "reality" is a very complex collection of phenomena that is an Illusion composed of various planes of physical-type energies... the most prominent being the Physical Plane of Creation, and this includes the Earth... upon which we are presently located.

Some time ago I did a sketch to try and illustrate what I have just written:

 #1 is the physical dimension, which is what the brain thinks of as reality.  #2 is the lower MIND, and #3 is the Higher MIND, and the MIND [as a whole] consists of energies that are invisible to our physical senses.  If you are familiar with "emotion"... I believe the energies of the MIND are energies that we label "emotion".  We refer to the Lower MIND as the "Astral Realm," and we refer to the Higher MIND as the "Causal Realm".  Both are invisible to our physical senses because neither realm is physical.

#4 of the sketch represents the Spiritual Realm, and that is "other than what can be perceived by physical means".  In other words, your Soul is not any part of the Creation.  Only the physical form in which you inhabit currently is part of the Creation.

When a physical form of life [ranging from a single cell, to a bug or a vegetable,  or  that of a more complex form of life, such as an animal, or Man) dies... only the physical form dies.  The Soul of that physical form... simply transfers to another physical life form... eventually to be born as a human being.  This is what the term "Reincarnation" refers to.  In other words, we Souls slowly advance up a ladder of evolution depending upon our "Karma"?  (Explained shortly).

So, if you are a human being, and you are reading this... you are an "advanced Soul" in terms of the evolution of your Soul.  None of us know how many lifetimes we have explored on Earth.  But it has been many. Of course only rarely does a Soul remember it's last birth.

So... does it not seem reasonable to assume that the Purpose of Life is to experience it? Entirely, and completely... and Mystics tell us that it is our "load of Karma" that keeps we Souls stuck on Earth.

God Created the Law of Karma to rule over the Creation.  The principle of Karma is this:  "As you sow, so shall you reap."  And this continues life-time after life-time.  Or, until a Soul Accepts full responsibility for a bit of Karma, and Forgives all involved in that bit of Karma  Most people just blame those involved in a bit of Karma.. and thus [unknowingly] orders it up for some future lifetime.

Peace, 1 Brother James 

CAN THE SEX OFFENDER be helped...

 Or more precisely, can some sex offenders be "cured"?  Well, it depends on the individual we must deal with!  If the sex-offender's "problem" is of this life only... then yes, it is quite likely he or she can be helped.  But, if the problem of his or MIND goes back to issues of past lives, then the likelihood of eliminating the "issue" is questionable.

    And most importantly in my opinion... not unless the person working with the sex offender knows how to help the sex offender eliminate the deep-seated psychological  CAUSE behind his or her specific mental illness!   You see, the sex offender is driven by a deep-seated and fully repressed (which means entirely non-Conscious) "Misperception" taken-on by the sex offender's MIND in  early childhood regarding him or herself.

This psychological [when I use the term "psychological"... it means a fully non-Conscious belief  a child's MIND has taken-on regarding him or herself in early childhood [between one and three years of age].  And the child's MIND has developed a pattern of behavior to try and reduce the intense ANXIETY this repressed belief creates within the person...  each time this Misperception is stimulated.  And it is his or her MIND that takes external events and plays these against the non-conscious MIND-level of this person. The problem is one that is quite involved mentally...  obviously.

So, we are talking about the training, experience, and level of empathy possessed by the Gestalt Psychotherapist... who must of course have recveived his or her own program of therapy.

This should present something that people can speculate about, wonder about, and perhaps even desire that it might be possible!

Peace, 1 Brother James  [esodoc@gmail.com]

 

 

HOW MUCH DO WE REALLY KNOW... ABOUT MAN?

Perhaps the most difficult task a human being has to conquer is fear...and how it operates "within" us.

It is of course a good thing to possess a "healthy fear" of the various ways in which being careless  can do one harm.  But I am just now speaking about a person's physical brain and what we think we know about the brain and how it works?  Let's get an example of what I am getting at:

 Your MIND is divided into two major elements:  1.  The Astral part, and 2. The Causal part. Neither of which is available to your brain, which is a physical muscle located in your skull.

And almost entirely... it is your MIND that is feeding thoughts to your brain that your brain "thinks" are its own thinking.  I refer to such thoughts as Delusional Thinking, or "D-Think".  And "D-Think" is so subtle that it is very rare that anyone every questions his or her thoughts as to whether or not they are valid... or based entirely on reacting to the events of the world... [as opposed to what your MIND wants you to think about.... everything in your life].

The primary role of your MIND is to insure that you are absolutely adhering to the "Fate Karma" that you came into this lifetime to address. This is the "purpose" of our Souls being reincarnated into one life after another on this Earth.  That is, to face our own past Karma, which is being played out day after day on Earth.  And if a Soul is smart.... it will learn how to ACCEPT one's KARMA, and FORGIVE everyone involved in each bit of Karma we experience.   Because... if we do not Accept responsibility for our Karma, we must face it again in another lifetime.  The "reason" for this is.... this is how we are [slowly] acquiring Knowledge.  But only if we Forgive everyone involved in our Karma, including oneself! Alas, there are very few Souls that are in the mood for Forgiveness.

So, I hope this blog was somewhat educational for you.

Peace, 1 Bother James [esodoc@gmail.com] 

Note specific.... For Marcy.

 Take the email with a grain of salt... just sharing with you some of the processing I have  been going through the last few weeks.

Getting older is quite an experience.

Hope Carolyn and I will be able to visit you and Mike in the near future.

Peace to you both.

Love, Dad jp