Posted by habbyshabit on July 1, 2003, at 3:41:53
In reply to Re: Prescription Enlightenment, posted by rayww on June 30, 2003, at 13:29:45
Ray and Mercury,
Sheesh, this is a great topic. I wonder if Dr. Bob will move it to the psycho-babble board more drug oriented?????
At any rate, never having taken Effexor or been an alcoholic or heavy smoker - I can't relate specifically to your dilemma, Mercury ( I thought you were a woman up until now )
It's interesting that you bring up Conversations with God though - since I took you to task earlier for not giving Neale credit for that story. As I was lying in bed, having no success at sleep but finding my mind very stimulated by these threads ( ray - hints of hypo-mania perhaps ) I was thinking of how Neale NEVER refers to himself as a channel or medium, which is how I think of him and the words he has transcribed. He prefers to call himself a messenger, as you do, using the nik, Mercury. I think that word (messenger) is a euphemism for (shhhhh, say this very quietly ) prophet.
I think this is an ego inflation that comes with touching the divine and infinite and unknown and unseen. It ‘s also given Mr. Walsch lots of shelf space in Big Box Book Store Chains in the Religion and Spiritual sections, saving him from the back wards of the Occult and New Age. He’s gained incredible popularity this way.
Having cleared yourself of the alcoholic and nicotine fog, while you were on psycho-pharmaceuticals, you were able to feel these things more clearly. Having felt them, perhaps for the first time, a rush like never before filled your being. It is a high, but really, it's the higher self. You transcended the lower, more animal self, which really isn't clear upon first encounter.
My sense is that high, run amok with delusions of grandeur scared you - so you got off the Effexor which helped you get there, and went back to your more base instincts - to hide from yourself and God. Hide and Seek. That is the Earth game. Now your hiding, waiting to be found. But it never works like the children's game. We must seek, not hide. God doesn't hide, it's everywhere. We are only blind to it if we believe we have to go and find something that is hidden. Silly humans, how we fool ourselves so well.
My guess is if you tried the prescription again - you wouldn't find phony enlightenment, you'd find your balanced self. Higher and lower, even steven, or be closer to understanding just what that true balance feels like.
In All Love,
Habby
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