Fw: non-allopathic perspectives

[Adam Blatner]

oops, i don't know if this went to grouptalk, so here goes..
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Blatner" <ablatner at verizon.net>
To: <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: non-allopathic perspectives


>I agree! I think self-hypnosis, that word, is only the slightest door to a vast arena of 
>yet-to-be-discovered...
>       Belief, expectation, hope, confidence, trust
>           And models that give structure to these:
>   Kate Hudgins introduces the image of the therapeutic spiral--as a cognitive framework 
> for psychodramatic work
>       JL speaks of creativity, metapraxie, the stage itself...
>           In Yoga there are the chakras
>     But (having just been reading an essay on religion and reason by George Sanatayana), 
> we should not confuse metaphor (and its considerable power) with a factual description 
> of the cosmos---i.e. true for everyone in every age,  objectivity
>
>      I'm all for developing and deepening our power to evoke the healing psychic 
> energies (whatever that means) and have deep resepect for what I think will be a major 
> frontier of medicine
>
>    warmly adam
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
> To: "Adam Blatner" <adam at blatner.com>
> Cc: <list at grouptalkweb.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 6:10 AM
> Subject: Re: non-allopathic perspectives
>
>
>> Many years ago two dear friends, both women, took me to the Pine Ridge Reservation in 
>> South Dakota.
>> That was 23 years ago.  At the time I was quite sick, was dealing with lymphoma and 
>> HIV. It was a
>> time when there were really no medications to address the HIV.  On the Pine Ridge 
>> Reservation I was
>> given the opportunity to attend to this condition spiritually, on the level of soul, in 
>> the traditional
>> ways, in the Native Ceremonies.  It was quite stunning what happened and to this day, 
>> almost 24 years
>> later, the experience feels very very present.
>>
>> Upon my return I sought the therapeutic help of a Zen teacher, Mel Bucholtz.  He taught 
>> at Harvard and
>> at Emerson, where I first met him.  In my work with Mel he showed me how to access a 
>> state of mind, often
>> written of, written about, sometimes named "satori".  I remember well the first time I 
>> found this, or could
>> feel it, and taste it.  I was in his office, he was most often in this state, and I 
>> found it, found it emerge
>> within me, were shared it, it was amazing.  Years went by until I could again find it 
>> on my own.
>>
>> In 87 I met Zerka.  Louise Lipman gave me Who Shall Survive? and in that I found path, 
>> a path for me, to the
>> same state, to the same surplus reality experience the Lakota give to people.
>>
>> This is beyond allopathic, beyond psychiatry and rooted in ancient wisdom of 
>> generations of humanity carried forward,
>> the relationship of the body and the soul and the mind and awakening.
>>
>> This is, Adam, beyond belief, it is experience and to sustain this, to grow in it, for 
>> me, has demanded a humility
>> that for much of my life I have been without, as you know.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ed
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