Strong Medicine
Spiritual Psychotherapy is strong medicine. Not everyone has
suffered enough to be ready for it. Many people still believe they can make the ego system work. A lot of people are still
ready to settle for mediocrity. Some people still want to try to beat the system. They had a dream and they want to make it
work. Although Infinity Therapy offers the fastest, safest and most efficient use of your time and energy, it is not easy
to re-define what the real problem is.
Infinity Therapy doesn’t deal in sympathy. If you want
sympathy, you shouldn’t be reading this. Sympathy will not help you, only understanding. Understanding is not sympathy.
Sympathy says "poor me" or "poor you." To address anyone as poor me. is degrading, insulting, ineffective and deceptive. You
have given yourself sympathy for years and it does no good, does it? If you expect sympathy, criticism and punishment, you
came to the wrong place. There are no excuses, no judgments, no criticisms, and no sympathy here. Support is offered so that
you can gain understanding and find the truth, but support is not sympathy. Tools for transformation can be added to support,
but pity is not transforming.
The key to freedom is taking responsibility for the situation
you have created. The answer lies in the creator of the problem. If you do not see and do not know that you created your problem,
then all you can ask for is sympathy and advice. Self-justification is not necessary, nor is self-blame and guilt. If you
experience such, use them as a springboard to get to the truth of the matter.
Strong medicine is courage mixed with compassion. Compassion
is not pity. Compassion is understanding what causes suffering. People tend to deny suffering or wallow in it. Courage and
compassion do neither. Interest in the cause of suffering has nothing to do with blame. The purpose of responsibility is not
blame, shame, guilt or punishment. Responsibility is the possibility of freedom from such symptoms. If you do not take responsibility
for your suffering, you cannot be cleared of its cause. Most people do not understand what responsibility is and therefore
do not find their freedom from suffering. Responsibility is looked upon as a burden rather than as a power to relieve burdens.
Responsibility is looked upon as a trap, rather than as freedom from a trap. Responsibility is looked upon as a way to blame
and be blamed, rather than release from blaming and being blamed.
This strong medicine is guaranteed not to fail if you understand
and don’t give up. You can solve a simple problem such as getting a job or fixing a car with information, but to break
through the mental habits of a lifetime takes strong medicine. Conventional medicine, conventional psychology, conventional
religion, and popular advice will not solve the human dilemma. You can act out your stress, take drugs or medication, get
a divorce, or try to manipulate your symptoms, but you will still have to radically change your thinking.
If you do not see how you have created your own problems and
miseries, you will continue to do so. If spiritual rebirth were not required, Jesus would not have said so. The only reason
you need outside help for spiritual rebirth is so that you may connect with your core. We do not live in our core but on the
periphery in the social world. Everyone is an outsider to himself. The message being given here is from the inside core to
you as an outsider on the periphery where you live. We live in a false self world which only works enough for survival, but
not enough for fulfillment. You may think that you are a failing human, but you are a failing god and a god cannot fail. Your
success depends on no one else, except on the infinity of everyone and everything. On this side of the veil, it is impossible
to get enough outside help, and on the other side of the veil, you can use anyone’s help or non-help.
The human dilemma requires radical help, radical medicine, from
your core. Unfortunately, society is not aware of any such radical medicine. Without spiritual awakening and rebirth, all
we have is a psychological, medical, philosophical, religious hodgepodge. The problem is radical and the solution is radical.
The conventional diagnoses of society are not radical and do not lead to radical results. Our diagnoses are mediocre and our
treatments are conventional. We may cope a little better, but it won’t satisfy. Compromise will never satisfy you. Nothing
short of unconditional love, god-realization and self-realization will satisfy you. Outside of spiritual rebirth, sustained
unconditional love is a myth. We may long to receive it, but can we give it?
The medicine we use is weak medicine because it is based upon
inaccurate diagnosis of symptoms. Infinity therapy does not give up on you or your symptomatic other. Just because someone
acts foolishly does not mean they are not a spiritual being. Foolishness, broken dreams and disillusionment are just grist
for the mill of self-realization. The more the merrier. The more ego "success" you have the more you cling to it and the harder
it is to see its inherent falsity.
What is the "Veil"?
Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness
as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there
lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply
the
requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably
somewhere have their field of application and adaptation. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves
these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to regard them is the question--for they are so discontinuous with
ordinary consciousness. Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they
fail to give a map. At any rate, they forbid a premature closing of our accounts with reality. Looking back on my own experiences,
they all converge towards a kind of insight to which I cannot help ascribing some metaphysical significance. The keynote of
it is invariably a reconciliation. It is as if the opposites of the world, whose contradictoriness and conflict make all our
difficulties and troubles, were melted into unity. Not only do they, as contrasted species, belong to one and the same genus,
but one of the species, the nobler and better one, is itself the genus, and so soaks up and absorbs its opposite into itself.
This is a dark saying, I know, when thus expressed in terms of common logic, but I cannot wholly escape from its authority.
I feel as if it must mean something, something like what the hegelian philosophy means, if one could only lay hold of it more
clearly. Those who have ears to hear, let them hear; to me the living sense of its reality only comes in the artificial mystic
state of mind.[233]
William James, Varieties of Religious Experience
What is this "filmiest"of screens which exists in our normal
waking reality, parting us from entirely different potential forms of experience? We prematurely close our accounts with reality
due to this screen. We miss out on the metaphysical significance of the reconciliation of opposites, the melting of which
would dissolve the contradictoriness and conflicts making all of our troubles and difficulties.
This "filmiest of screens" is what we call the "veil", the barrier,
the belief system, the story. It cannot be seen specifically and concretely because it is invisible. The only way it can be
seen is so obvious that we do not see it at all. The world itself is your belief system. The trick here is to realize that
none of us sees the same world. For each of us, the world is our projection.
In the last analysis, then, we believe that we
all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our percepts are possessed by us in common.
William James
The paradox here is that although each person lives in his own
individual experience of the world, upon deeper analysis it is found that we all live by a story with a common mediocre unconscious
belief system. In the bible this story is called the "carnal mind" or "the old man" or "Adam" or "the world". By contrast
Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of Heaven within you, the "truth that sets you free" and St. Paul spoke of the "spiritual man"
or the "new man" or "Christ in you" . Buddha spoke of the Buddha nature in all things.
The :veil" is the invisible barrier of mis-beliefs which keeps
us unaware. Justine argued that the world of evil is real. I said to her that evil is like the clouds that appear to block
out the sun. Evil is merely clouds in the mind. I asked her if she could imagine rising above the clouds. She said that heat
suffocates her. I said that she can just leave her body in the chair and rise in consciousness. She was awe-struck. She said
"I have seen this light before, it is so beautiful. My pain is leaving. When I am in this light, there is no pain." I said
to her "You are the light of the world." She came out of her vision and returned to her painful body and said "Oh, no. I do
not deserve this. I have to live in hell forever."
Justine blames herself for two abortions that she had, feeling
she murdered these children. She says that other people talked her into it. but actually she blames herself. I told her that
you cannot destroy spirit, that these children have moved on and she can move on also. She clung to her guilt and said that
God is punishing her. I said that she is punishing herself out of fear. She had had an awesome vision yesterday of being in
huge spacious rooms, which opened into other huge beautiful spacious rooms, but she did not feel at home there and she begged
to return to her own familiar awful house. I reminded her of Jesus words that in his father’s house are many mansions
for us. She could not accept this for herself. She said that she has to suffer until Judgment Day. I said that God says for
us to Come, Now. She was shocked and denied that this is scripture. I said that our story is full of ignorance. She said that
she is ignorant. I said that actually she is intelligent, but has been brain-washed by fear into ignorance. She said that
when she was young, she took tests which indicated that she was in the upper 5 percentile of the population in intelligence.
But she said that her intelligence was stolen. I said that it just went underground due to fear. She argued that the spirits
of many people have been stolen. I said that god cannot be defeated by fearful beliefs.
The veil is just that which hides us from awareness of the sun,
fearful thought clouds thoughts in our mind. Like Justine, we can rise above the clouds and experience the awesome light of
truth and peace, that place where pain disappears. Justine does not yet allow herself to visit that light at any time, but
she has already tasted the possibility.
