Betrayals of our Potentials

The theme of betrayal is up for me. Betrayal in general, and betrayals in particular. In general, I can think of the end-justifies-the-means positions of such as former president George W. Bush, who, when a reporter called out to him, on his way to or from the White House helicopter, asking what bin Laden had to do with 9/11, replied back: "Nothing," and continued on his merry neocon way. And this week, of former UK PM Tony Blair, who when asked about Iraq and all that, said that in hindsight he would have done the same thing, because Saddam Hussein was a bad man. Of which there are, indeed, more than a few around. Or the pending example of, say, an Al Gore, who, if it turns out that the skeptics were right, and there really was/is no anthropegenic global warming going on - enough to make the sort of difference claimed - might well say, "Well; we're better off for what we've done; no?"

No. Because we're talking about the truth of matters. Not the agendas of the powerful. The ability of the power-hungry to hide behind smokescreens, in order to achieve their purposes.

But what really 'did it' for me this week was an article in The (Glasgow) Herald about depression, and the treatment thereof, by the professionals of our day and compromised age. To their credit, the authorities quoted on the subject referred to alternative treatments to drug therapy, the latter of which they acknowledged was getting out of hand (by its nature). But the only 'alternative' therapies/treatments that our culture recognizes are 'talking therapies' - aka cognitive behavioural therapy - and exercise. Not good enough. Nor is the slavish response of the mainstream media to the establishmentarian approach to this issue, and other such issues, in feature articles on the subjects. My letter (unprinted; no surprise there):

"Dear Editor,

"There is something decidedly unhealthy about the approach to the subject of depression by mainstream medicine, and its reportage by the mainstream media ('One in 10 now taking drugs to fight depression', The Herald, December 16).

"Depression is a symptom, not a disease. It has underlying causation, and that is where the treatment for it needs to take place, not primarily, or exclusively, on the symptom level. For example: when too little vitamin B6 is obtained from one's diet (easy to do, in our modern diets, with processed foods stripped of many nutrients), an essential amino acid called tryptophan is not used normally, instead is changed into a substance known as xanthurenic acid. This can damage the pancreas and produce diabetes; but in the current context, this biochemical process is important because tryptophan is a precursor to serotonin, the main 'feel good' neurotransmitter. Less tryptophan, less serotonin.

"The medical-pharmaceutical complex tries to compensate for this deficiency by artificially increasing the serotonin in the synapses, via SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors); but this is not dealing with the root cause, which can have multifactorial effects, like the aforementioned diabetes.

"And there's another amino acid, called tyrosine, whose main role is as a precursor to both serotonin and dopamine - both important to the proper functioning of the brain. (And dopamine is also involved in the alarming rise of ADHD, also reported on in this article.)

"There are other causes of clinical depression. Other parts of the B complex (which has been eliminated from our diets in large part with the advent of the high-speed milling process of wheat), which can be used up by stress, with 'coping' difficulty results. A wonky thyroid (which can come about via fluoride displacing the iodine); insufficient omega 3 oils, or in proper balance with omega 6 oils. And so forth. I am saying that more emphasis needs to be placed on causation and less on the band-aids of either drug treatment or talking therapies. Or we will just continue to have 'mental illness' problems blighting our society. And growing. And growing. All for the want of a nail.

"Yours sincerely," (etc.)

I could have said more. 'Other causes' includes a lack of sunlight (especially with already low levels of serotonin. This condition is known as SAD - seasonal affective disorder). And the treatment of the subject of 'mental health' was grotesquely insufficient - except in the terms of current western medicine, and the charities dealing with these fallout conditions, and the mainstream media's pitiful parroting of the official line on these matters. (It's the same with multiple sclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease, and so forth and so maddeningly on.) But I understand what's behind it all, and have to curb my temper.

Because I agree with the basic premise of life: of the importance of free will.

Which is how we learn our lessons, and grow therefrom.

I just get angry, and saddened, at how people get stuck in it. And identify with their momentary, learning-vehicle persona. And act accordingly, with its short-range vision.

Let me clarify. I am happy for people to relate to their roles. Male, female, father, mother, daughter, son, sister, brother, nephew, niece, business owner, janitor, scholar, sportsperson. But they are just that: roles. You are not your role. You are much more. You are 'a peece of the continent, a parte of the maine'. A spark of divinity. You are God. And if 'you' understood that - fully - you would act accordingly.

And it's time to get to that state of understanding.

The world - Gaia - needs us to.

And we need us to.

As the title of a book on reincarnation pointed out, clearly and concisely: We Are One Another.

And I for one don't want to be a part of the corrupting of the noble calling of medicine, where a natural approach to the subject has been not only ignored, but actively attacked and suppressed, by the established order.

We have bigger fish to fry, now, than just experiencing life through our roles, and getting so comfortable in the momentary reflection of what is in actuality a process that we forget that that's just what they are: roles. The means to an end.

The end of enlightenment. And Oneness with the All. The consciousness of being One with the All.

It is important work. And that work is calling on us now to rise to the occasion.

Join me. Join the (r)evolution.

And make of 'us' a gift worthy of The Giver.

By recognizing that we have just been playing roles. And now it's time for the real thing.

the 'real thing' of Ascension.

Moving up to a higher orbit of the atomic Body of our Creator.

To express that potential more fully. For mutual progression of the Whole.


And to do that, the key, now, to such a progression, is to do away with money. The training wheels of 'money'. Of personal aggrandisement - for its own sake - and damn the consequences. Not very mature.

And I'm not talking about the anti-free will philosophy of disallowing choice. The idea that the answer to, say, envy, or greed, is to take away the opportunity to experience the vices of the human heart. The answer is to transcend them, by creating a civilization wherein virtue is its own reward; and we 'do' for the sake of the Whole because that's the point of the exercise.

The aligned, and fulfilling, exercise of the Will of the Creator, to allow us to dawdle along the path - or even lose sight of the path - if we so choose.

Choose not to. For your best sake as well. Because you are, after all, a part of the Whole.

A peece of the continent, a parte of the maine, in the words of the philosopher-poet, John Donne...who also observed, in this context:

"The bell doth toll for him that thinkes it doth; and though it intermit againe, yet from that moment that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God."

May YOU have such a moment.

And join us, moving further on the path. With closer attention to, and fidelity to, the purpose of the exercise.

The purpose, of experiencing Unity, and knowing it as if for the first time.