Digest Number 2006

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Transpersonal Psychology suggests that many times people experiencing a spiritual crisis/awakening are often misdiagnosed as being scizophrenic.

mjh

 

 

In a message dated 3/26/03 1:55:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, herbal remedies writes:

 

Suffice it to say that in my experience of healing schizophrenia with

my husband, the healing that took place definitely involved what some may

consider spiritual realities, but which might also be considered

quantum-physics realities of other dimensions. It's a matter of how one

defines one's experience.

[Guest guest]

Real yoghurt is also great for taming sunburn.

mjh

 

 

n a message dated 3/26/03 1:55:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, herbal remedies writes:

 

One thing I tried that seemed to work better than aloe gel was just a pureed

cucumber. Took the burn away immediately from a bad sunburn, didn't cause

itching, and all symptoms stayed away. Within about an hour the red was

completely gone, I kid you not

For sunburn what I would do if a cucumber is not on hand would be mix aloe

juice or gel, a few drops of calendula tincture, some st. john's wort oil and

lavendar essential oil. That's what I put in my "burn spray"

 

Erin

[Guest guest]

I get the same benefits from flaxseed oil mixed with yoghurt daily and some fish oil caps. Both have omega-3 fatty acids as does Udo's oil.

mjh

 

 

In a message dated 3/26/03 1:55:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, herbal remedies writes:

 

 

Hi All, Just want to share a recent win. Awhile ago, there was a lot

of talk here about sores and cracks on the hands and being as I have had that

problem for many years during the cold weather, I used many different

lotions, salves, you name it, to no avail. A little relief, but realize

now, they were just "bandaids". Doc suggested Udo's Choice perfected oil

blend to take internally. So I purchased some, have been taking it for

about 2 months now and I no longer have the problem. If I remember, others

here also suggested Udo's, so thanks to Doc and you too, no more "bandaids".

This list is wonderful, very helpful.

Phyllis

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In a message dated 3/26/03 12:45:55 PM Mountain Standard Time, foxhillers writes:

If you have written on this thread the method(s) you used to help your spouse, I missed it. This is an area of interest of mine and you may send me deatils you are willing and able to share directly.

mjh

foxhillers

 

Hi mjh ( what's your name ? ;-),

I guess since I mentioned my book list ( my magic formula -- what I read that I believe helped me deal with all that ... ) I guess I better not hoard it ;-)

So, since my carpet shampooer is not working for some reason right now, here is the list of books I feel have given me some insight to help me cope with schizophrenic loved one. I guess at the outset, and I would not have had this book on my list as I read it a long time ago and did not really remember consciously what was in it till Doc mentioned it to me and I got a copy from the library to check it out, but I believe the Dianetics book also has very useful information in it.

Books that helped me cope with schizophrenia, not in order of importance but rather in order of the way they are stacked from top to bottom having pulled them off my bookshelf:

 

1) The Mythic Imagination: Your Quest for Meaning Through Personal Mythology, by Stephen Larsen, Ph.D. (( Larsen was a student of Joseph Campbell. Myth is like a big dream. A big dream is like a group hallucination. Sometimes one person dreams a big dream in a personal context and assumes a kind of mythic identity. Working with our inner cast of characters can heal. etcetera, a very good book ))

 

2) The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, by David Abram. Great book on how language affects our experience.

 

3) The New Sentence, by Ron Silliman. Yes folks, a book on poetics, which is basically the science of poetry. In this instance, the science of langauge poetry and experience as Silliman is a language poet.

 

4)Meeting the Madwoman -- An Inner Challange for Feminine Spirit -- Breaking Through Fear and Destructive Patterns to a Balanced and Creative Life, by Linda Schierse Leonard. Good work with archetypes to help one get behind the archetypal style of thinking that is so unconscious yet florid in schizophrenics, often. Again -- cast of inner characters.

 

5) Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought, by Louis Sass. The only book on schizohprenia I've ever read. Sass is brilliant. I read this book twice, in addition to having referenced it often over the years. Sass works with schizophrenics and schizophrenia research. This is the book that talks about language poets and language poetry and other art topics -- aesthetics: how we experience our world. How schizophrenics experience their world.

 

6) Trances People Live: Healing Approaches In Quantum Psychology ( Carl Whitaker, M.D. sayd "historic psychotherapy (( btw, a web search on Carl Whitaker, schizophrenia, reversing the double bind in family dynamics, should produce some interesting results )). This book reminds me a little bit of dianetics: I would say the dianetics book is more basic to the structure of the problem; whereas Wolinsky's book is more toward creative problem solving solutions rather than examples to illustrate a point. I think somebody who is familiar with the idea of dianetics would work very well with this book, and in fact it would be accessible reading for most people.

 

7) Parallel Universes -- The Search for Other Worlds -- "Amazing speculations on time travel, the nature of reality and existence and the role of consciousness" by Fred Alan Wolf. Mind opening. Easy to read. Indispensible.

 

8) the dreaming universe: a mind expanding journey into the realm where psyche and physics meet, by Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. -- also mind opening and indispensible about what wolf calls the dreaming mind of the universe: quantum physics made accessible to the average person is the best way i can describe his writings.

 

9) The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciouisnes and How They Shape Our Lives, by Stanislav Grof, M.D.

 

There you have it. Nine books ( 10 with the dianetics, and I could mentiona few others as that were perhaps helpful in a vaguer sort of a way such as Matthew Fox's Original Blessing, Thomas Moore's The Care of the Soul, and hmmmmm..... oh yeah -- Rosalyn Bruyere's writings on the Healing Energy of the Body ... Brennan too ...

 

To me a psychotic depression can manifest in different ways: 1) the person may be overly overt, paranoid and angry -- while depressed --

or 2) just like curl up in a foetal position ( and some might go catatonic in that state, but my husband was never catatonic ) and feel like an insignificant worm -- If somebody were curled up in a psychotic depression in a foetal position I would curl up around him. If he were lying on his back, I would lay my hand on his heart and or solar plexus chakra depending on what feels right at the tiem and channel healing light in ( actually, I have used the technique of curling up in a foetal position and hugging a pillow myself, to facilitate emotional/etheric drainage -- )

 

Well, gotta go fix some dinner ...

 

Peace, Love and Poetic License,

Cathie

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Todd -

 

It looks like I hit a button! Therefore, me thinks thou dost protest too

loudly.

 

Let me rephrase: In my opinion, the creation of agency on the basis of

translational opinion is wrong. It belongs in the forum of academic debate.

 

 

 

Will

 

 

 

William R. Morris, L.Ac., O.M.D., M.S.Ed.

Secretary, AAOM

Dean of Educational Advancement

Emperor's College of Oriental Medicine

310-453-8300 phone

310-829-3838 fax

will

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

, WMorris116@A... wrote:

-

>

> It looks like I hit a button! Therefore, me thinks thou dost protest too

> loudly.

>

> Let me rephrase: In my opinion, the creation of agency on the basis of

> translational opinion is wrong. It belongs in the forum of academic debate.

 

 

Will

 

I disagree with your opinion. BTW, the concept of protesting too loudly is

usually directed

at someone who is trying to deflect attention from their true intentions by

making a lot of

noise about something. Do you think I am hiding something?

 

[Guest guest]

, WMorris116@A... wrote:

 

> Let me rephrase: In my opinion, the creation of agency on the basis of

> translational opinion is wrong. It belongs in the forum of academic debate.

>

 

 

and thus ACAOM will basically allow the teaching of any new age gobbledygook

under the

guise of CM as long as you have your bureaucratic paper ducks in a row. I think

academic

matter are highly relevant to the agency process. If evidence is not the basis

for making

agency decisions, what is? cronyism? economic territorialism? I think it

would be the best

interests of the public. and the public is best served by evidence based

decisions which

necessarily involve academic and scientific debate. diversity is too often used

as a cover

for incompetence and quackery. Society has been hurt by this trend. we don't

need to

duplicate the damage in our field. again, I support health freedom acts. so if

people want

to hold tuning forks on chakras, you don't even need a license. You are not

part of the OM

tradition, so why bother us? Just go ply your trade.

 

[Guest guest]

, " " wrote:

so if people want

> to hold tuning forks on chakras, you don't even need a license. You are not

part of the

OM

> tradition, so why bother us? Just go ply your trade.

 

 

the reason I mention this is because people get CEUs for such things. it is

approved by our

agencies. Should w really support this type of " plurality " . allowing this type

of CEU is just

one more reason we are under fire in CA.

 

[Guest guest]

CEUs are also available in orthopedic acupx, point injection, and other

med-acupx

modalities. CEUs are one thing, a 4000-hour doctorate is something else. What

accredited OM school teaches tuning forks as an integral part of the curriculum?

 

rh

 

 

, " " wrote:

> , " " wrote:

> so if people want

> > to hold tuning forks on chakras, you don't even need a license. You are not

part

of the

> OM

> > tradition, so why bother us? Just go ply your trade.

>

>

> the reason I mention this is because people get CEUs for such things. it is

approved

by our

> agencies. Should w really support this type of " plurality " . allowing this

type of CEU

is just

> one more reason we are under fire in CA.

>

 

[Guest guest]

, " kampo36 " <kampo36> wrote:

> CEUs are also available in orthopedic acupx, point injection, and other

med-acupx

> modalities.

 

I think medical acupuncture is a valid modality that has been researched and

shown

proven effciacy all over the world. Not my style, but orthopedics is probably

the dominant

style at PCOM. I think metaphysically oriented acupuncture has no basis in

either science

or history.

 

 

What

> accredited OM school teaches tuning forks as an integral part of the

curriculum?

 

 

I didn't say ACAOM approves that, but CAB and NCCAOM does for CEUs

 

 

[Guest guest]

There is no doubt that such courses should not be given as CEU's.

 

 

On May 26, 2004, at 9:30 AM, wrote:

 

>> accredited OM school teaches tuning forks as an integral part of the

>> curriculum?

>

>

> I didn't say ACAOM approves that, but CAB and NCCAOM does for CEUs