Glo/therapy and the human community

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Is it Glo therapy time (she is such a doll ain't she ~ Hi Glo! :-)

 

Dan Berkow, PhD wrote:

> "Dan Berkow, PhD" <berkowd

>

> Dan:

> The human colony as a whole makes a mess, cleans it up, remakes it in new

> forms. This is the joy and despair of the human condition. We are all

> wounding, being wounded, and healing each other constantly. This is the

> wonder and terror of humanity. Breathe deeply, the universe is now...

>

> The universe is born in fire, pulsates, rebounds upon itself, moves on.

> Birth and death are infinite; birth and death are a dream. The Biblical

> text states, "by his wounds we are healed". To be shattered is to be born.

 

To be shattered is to be reborn ~ I like that concept ..

> Jung said that utopians want to return to the womb.

> The Garden of Eden is a dangerous place.

 

It is .. please tell me more? Is it because you expect it to be lasting and that

isn't possible?

> Love wounds and heals.

> Zen is Ken, meditation is war.

> William Blake viewed the human being

> as suffering because we make war physical

> instead of mental/spiritual.

 

Maybe stemming from the 'inner mental' and energetic polarity wars (duelling

duality) ahh such is life ..

> Peace is not to favor unity over disunity,

 

MMmm thanks for reminding me! I'll take that thought into my day now!

> existence over nonexistence, nor

> to seek nonbeing over being.

>

> Qabala speaks of the "breaking of the vessels (spheres)".

> To be broken is to be opened.

> To open is to heal.

>

> Otto Rank said there are two basic anxieties,

> anxiety about birth and anxiety about death.

> These, ultimately, are the same anxiety.

> The ambivalent stance we take toward

> our own nature (as if there were a stance to take!).

 

Nice one Dan .. this post speaks to me today,

 

Friends in spirit,

 

Col

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>

> With love,

> Dan

>

> > All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights,

perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back

into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean,

all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does

not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is.

Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee

relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into

It Self. Welcome all to a.