Sunday, June 8, 2008
Affirmation of the Healing Process
I feel myself exactly as I am. I feel my forbidden impulses and longings no matter how unacceptable they may seem. There is no part of me that is not worthy of unconditional attention and healing. There is no part of me that does not deserve to unfold, heal and find its rightful place. I sense and trust my innate intelligence and power to heal all of my wounds. I trust my own rate of healing and opening up. Whatever time and patience is required I will give it. I will journey from the outer layers into my heart of heats and explore my unknown territories. I am open to discovering all of what I never knew was there (even when it goes against my previous conception of myself and of the world). I am willing to feel what has never been felt so I can be and discover who I truly am. I am a being of many levels and many processes. I ask the process of life that is within me to teach me and to continue to teach me.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Calling Delusions Delusions
Every stage of development can develop it own unique delusions.
It is wussy however, to say everyone is "partially right". People with clinical delusions are also partially right, but it does not address what needs to be addressed. The word delusion is a much needed word and a much sharper knife to cut with.
We want to be kind to the reality of others, but this does not mean coddling delusions and not honestly looking at the mechanisms which create them. This social "pathology" goes way beyond what is to be expected from people at a certain "developmental stages".
The definition of "crazy making" is "to treat that which is not sane, as sane." Crazy making invalidates and dis-empowers everyone.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Gestalt Prayer Adapted for Perspectives (rough draft)
I have my point of view.
Where one point of view overlaps
we can agree to agree;
where they don't
we can agree to disagree.
Let us appreciate our differences
and morn the loss of what we may not be able to share,
and celebrate the communion of what we do share.
Your point of view may
or may not overlap
with my point of view.
I am not in this world to see
the world from your point of view.
You are not in this world
to see the world through
my point of view.
If by chance and effort I can see your point of view,
I don't need to agree with it and vice versa.
Let us move to the higher ground of perspectives on perspectives,
and if we can move to higher ground together
let us not hold on too tight
to either our perspectives
or our perspectives on perspectives.
Conversions
Nearly everyone does the following conversions, one level overflowing and being converted into the next:
1) Raw arising of object - sensation, feeling - response, memory - need from the core and from the "fertile void".
2) Next, conversion into imaginings, anticipations, expectations, projections, constant mental rehearsals etc. Past is converted into present circumstances.
3) Next, conversion into obsessive thinking & problem solving.
4) Next, conversion into rigid conclusions, beliefs & dogma that are partly unconscious and highly defended.
5) Next, conversion into delusions (which are incredibly robust).
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Dying to One's Self
Allow your self to die into your organism
No longer necessary
a sacrifice of the greatest love
No one is here
no one is here!
Reality itself sees
Be seen by the trees
Be seen by the mountains
Yet there is nothing to see
There is no one to look at
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Reciprocal Perception
The Lens / Mirror of Consciousness
In consciousness, the lens is is not separate from what is perceived.
A dirty lens creates noise and distortion which in turn can be perceived with distortion.
One cannot see the "flies in one's eyes" correctly because of the "flies in ones eyes".
A clear lens can be likened to the surface of a pond. When the water is quiet and not muddy it reflect or (resonates with) the outside world with little distortion and from many perspectives simultaneously.
Likewise the surface of clear quiet water reflects without distortion.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Healthy and Unhealthy Versions of Developmental Stages
My view of healthy and unhealthy developmental stages for adults
I believe the "90%/10%" rule applies to the healthiness and unhealthiness of the stages most people in the US are in.
That means that very roughly only about 10% of the people are in a healthy version of the " value meme" they are predominantly in, and very roughly 90% are in an unhealthy version of the "value meme" their "center of gravity" is in.
Focus on developmental stages has the potential of eclipsing another reality which is what Welhelm Reich called the "Emotional Plague". This is the "fact" that Neurosis has been passed down from generation to gerenation on a massive scale. This cannot be considered a normal part of development.
Below is a list of the qualities of healthy and unhealthy developmental memes
Healthy (10%)
Developmentally progressing
Open system
Degree of openess to progression
Vibrancy
Positive movement
Appropriate pain, frustration and discomfort
Ego dystonic and syntonic rhythm
Permeable
Self testing
Childlike
Innocent
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Unhealthy (90%) None of these qualities need to be a part of ANY level of of development
Developmentally arrested
Closed system
Defended against progression
Stagnation
Stuckness or regression
Avoidance of frustration & pain through artificial support
Overly ego syntonic
air tight defenses
self-fulfilling belief loops
Immature, childish relative to age
Naive, Jaded
Friday, August 31, 2007
Various Non-connected Thoughts Forming
2: We must distinguish between response-ability (the ability to respond or its opposite: response-inability) and accountability (knowing you are the person who will receive consequences of your actions, inactions and choices.)
The two are entirely different and totally confused.
If you have both predominant response-inability and account-inability, you're pretty much screwed for this lifetime.
We must take responsibility and accountability for what we don't say and what we don't do.
3 There are people who live there live more according to what actually may be inferred
and there are people who live their lives more according to innuendo and what is read in. Most people are of the second type.
4 Most people are utterly incapable of putting everything on the table in terms of what is actually there to be considered and attended to. A shared effort by two of more people to put everything that is truly due concern on the table is nearly non-existent from my point of view.
What may be truly relevant to be on the table, how much attention it initially may deserve and what may be truly irrelevant is a function of intelligence, cognitive and emotional honesty, experience, personal values and developmental level.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Self-Liberating
surrendering existence as you fall
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Motto
Highest creativity
Highest expression
Highest activity
Highest joy
Deepest shadow work
Deepest feelings
Deepest pain
Deepest release
Deepest ground
Deepest flow
Deepest healing
Deepest truth
Biggest whole
Never lose sight of the whole
Never compromise health
Namaste
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
See Yourself
Every arrow of attention that shoots out sends a twin arrow of attention within
As Emptiness and Form are the same, so are these arrows
These arrows can kill you
Die this moment and your life is returned to you
"Blessed are those who were born before they were born"
Blessed are those who died before they died
Monday, May 28, 2007
The “Gating” of Attention to Symbolic Realities
These realities become all that we know and can even imagine as reality, even if we imagine ourselves as spiritual beings. Our lives, for the most part, become only a symbolic acting out of what we originally “knew” and wanted. We become “should-ists” rather than "is-ists”. We become obsessed with following (or resisting) “shoulds” and “responsibilities”. We end up believing our own propaganda and story about our lives and "happiness" (or lack of it). Currently many of us do a "spiritual bypass" using “spirituality” as a way of avoiding what is in front of our face.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Naked Awareness - Naked Pain
Let naked awareness touch naked pain
Unlock that which is bound up
The unbearable is bared one writhe at a time
Don't hide from the wounds you don't know you have
Crack open futility and hopelessness to reveal the unfelt
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Quotations and sayings from Dr. Carr
(Continually under construction)
One man's "too much intellect" is another man's "to simple and unthinking"
Create your life out of whole cloth
Most stimuli are really responses
Consciousness first, other concerns second
That which is not allowed doesn't get heard
You have no business spending a lot of time in your head if you're not yet firmly based in your heart
People with big egos either tout themselves, or put down others who tout themselves
Too much control eliminate possibility
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
How Truth Comes Through
The truth comes from all existence.
How could it be any other way?
It comes through in spite of any book.
It comes through in spite of any belief or religion.
When you grasp it you are misled.
When you think about it you are misled.
The most amazing thing is that we have such tremendous abilities to keep ourselves from seeing it
Consider just to stop doing what keeps you from the truth.
Consider awakening your passion to discover and find out.
Religion, beliefs and books can often be the tools of the sleepwalker. (We all start as sleepwalkers.)
Relying on them, without transcending them
is like stationing yourself at the sign post without moving on down the road in the direction sign is pointing.
It is also like wearing your clothes in the shower.
When you put them aside you get the full shower.
This "shower" washes away that which is not true.
It washes away our own bull shit and the bullshit in the world.
The water reaches the roots of your being.
What is left is a delightful spacious emptiness that cannot be compared.
Get naked.
In this space you can grow fast.
Feeing Felt
Feeling Felt
Breath Breathed
Thought thought
Existence existed
Nothingness nothinged
Not this, not that. What a relief!
Friday, April 13, 2007
Catch What Eludes You
Catch what eludes you.
Move along dimensions you haven't imagined yet.
Loosen the tight helmet of your own conditioning.
Embody the message of your own experience.
Breathe breathing. Feel what you haven't felt yet.
Waves lapping on the lakeshore for no reason, giving birth to each moment
Each a page in the true book of revelation
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Future Articles to be Published
In the near future I will be posting articles on the following topics:
The Huge Power of Congruency
Integral Poetry
Books, Beliefs and Religion
The fundamental distrusts we have of the human organism: Feeling, spontaneity, self-regulation, anger, intellect, pain, consciousness, non-locality, intuition, ego, spirituality, direct experience, hunger & need.
The largely unrealized implications of non-locality
Liberal vs Conservative: Basic Differences
The "Impass"
Emotional Literacy
Cognitive Literacy
Skepticism and Skeptics
Scientific Stupidity
Integrative Conversations
Basic Tools of Therapy
Self Therapy, Self Primaling
The Role of Pain
Seeing vs Imagining
Data deficits, Data receptors, Data distribution
Existence vs Meaning
Stimulus orientation vs Response orientation
Sunday, February 4, 2007
The "If then" Fallacy
Very very often people will formulate an argument based on an "if" that to some degree simply begs the question. These arguments when simplified sound something like: "if people would change they would be able to change" or "if something was different than what it was, it would be different than what it was". In some ways these kind of contributions can be meaningless. It is like saying " if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a trolley car".
If the "if" part is not very implementable, then the "then" part is not very implementable. Statements like: "If everyone voted responsibly we would not elect incompetent people" and "If we all listened to each other more, there would be less chance of war" are not very productive because the "if" part is not very implementable. Despite this, go to any group discussion and you'll hear plenty of contributions in this format. This is one reason why committees tend to have the reputation of not getting very much done.