The YIN MIND

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Do we want to solve problems
or do we want to find systemic optimums
and discover high ideals?
The problem / remedy paradigm
directs our attention
by means of the question:
What’s wrong?

Our culture, our society,
is saturated with this orientation.

In the face of an overwhelming info-glut
1) we specialize,
2) we simplify (by arbitrary elimination),
3) we break problems down (into manageable parts).

What if the real solution
is to enlarge our cognitive capacities?

In a way, specialization is
the breaking down of problems
into manageable parts.
Simplification and the adoration of the simple
is diminishing the number of parts.

In recent decades
we have asked:
is its nature or is it nurture,
which determines some traits of character
or some deviant behaviours?

Systemic scheme enlargement
means there may be other factors
than those two factors: nature or nurture.

Beyond Nature or Nurture

Dr. Brian L. Weiss, M.D.,

graduated magna cum laude

from Columbia University, in 1966.

He received his medical degree

from Yale University, in 1970.

He served his internship

at New York University’s

Bellevue Medical Centre.

He became the chief resident, Department of Psychiatry,
at Yale University School of Medicine.
He is now chairman of the Department of Psychiatry
at Mount Sinai Medical Center
and clinical associate professor, Department of Psychiatry,
at the University of Miami, School of Medicine.

So, when he reports what he does
in his first book, in 1988,
he has credibility.

His patient was Catherine, in 1980.
Catherine was 27 years old.
She suffered, lifelong,
with anxiety, with panic attacks and with phobias.
She became emotionally paralyzed.
After 18 months of conventional therapy,
which yielded nothing.

Dr. Weiss tried hypnosis.
The first session of hypnosis
took Catherine back to an incident
when she was five years old.
She was at a swimming pool.
She experienced trauma
from falling in the water
and not being able to swim.

Dr. Weiss thought:
“that’s it”
we found the source
of Catherine’s problems.

Not so.
She emerged with all of her problems in tact.

At the second session,
Dr. Weiss regressed her
to when she was three years old.
She had been molested,
by an uncle.
Once again,
Dr. Weiss thought,
“we’ve found it”.
Not so.
Catherine’s problems remained.

So, in the third hypnosis session,
Dr. Weiss instructed her:
“go to the source of the problem”.
She did.
She became aware of a flood.
She had an infant in her arms.
The infant was washed out of her arms.
She was in another lifetime,
thousands of years ago.

She didn’t know about or believe in reincarnation.
Neither did Dr. Weiss.

However, that was the source of the problems.
We have uncritically propagated knowledge claims.

From the lyrics of songs,
in the film, The Sound of Music,
we have some of those
uncritically propagated knowledge claims.
Two in particular
will be put forward
here and now:

1) “somewhere in my youth
or childhood,
I must have done something good”,
2) “just a spoonful of sugar
helps the medicine go down”.

We are culturally and perhaps genetically
cognitively impaired.
Derived from nothing more
than appropriated authority,
we advocate that we only live once.
Yet, even orthodox Judaism
advocated reincarnation
as late as the nineteenth century.
Christianity taught reincarnation
up to the fourth century.
Dr. Brian Weiss, M.D., a psychiatrist,
discovered other lifetime sources
for such as panic attacks and phobias
in the twentieth century.

Dr Weiss, M.D. Reports this in his first book:
Many Lives, Many Masters.
Quite relevant is Dr. Weiss’s book:
Same Soul, Many Bodies.
Please investigate Dr. Weiss’s “youtube” video
on Regression and Progression Therapy.
Ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdSVCrti26k

We have no need to limit ourselves
to our youth or childhood
as a source for a carry forward
of consequences into our current lives.
Past lives are relevant.
Listen to Dr. Weiss guide you
in your own explorations.

Sweet and Dangerous,
the book by British Nutritionist,
Professor John Yudkin, Ph.D., M.D.,
describes the why and the how
of sugar as a toxic substance.

Going back to that same film: The Sound of Music,
notice the lyrics repeated here, of one song advising:
“just a spoonful of sugar
helps the medicine go down”,

. . . only at our peril !

How many directives,
sitting in our subconscious,
misdirect us,
and derail our cultural axioms?

© 2011, ECOhealth / Eve Revere

Orig. September 8th, 2010

Edit: January 20th, 2011

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