Echoes from Eden?

More and more we hear of those who recommend the use of psychoactive substances to explore expanded consciousness,¹ but could this be like an echo from Eden?

“Here is some of the [natural? processed?] fruit of that tree. It can make you wise. It can expand your awareness. It is delicious to the taste and very desirable for obtaining knowledge and increased consciousness.”

Is the psychedelic option really the siren call of a “shortcut”? as in: let's skip (or speedup) those generally incremental wake-up and growth stages that prepare us for expanded awareness? If wake-up and growth seem to take such a ruddy long time; if they require such persistent learning, relearning; aligning, re-aligning; action and correction, why not just pop a pill — snort, inject, ingest — a substance to blow our minds open to new vistas — new vistas that might hook us into repetitive cravings for (synthetic?) enlightenment.

What if knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and discernment do not come by “eating,” but rather by 1) observing things as they really are? and 2) experiencing the growth and just recompense of right action?

Are we just repeating the déjà vu on déjà vu of trying to use the physics of this world — the flesh (i.e., grosser matter²) component — to shortcut to spiritual experience?³

What if chemically-stimulated (synthetic?) enlightenment is a totally different experience (an illusory psychedelic) from the endowments experienced with non-chemical enlightenment?

What if the search for enlightenment that we initiate here below through manipulation of the physical is not the same as enlightenment initiated from above according to spirit and eternal principles?

What if the unified ground of all being that some experience during “trips” is not a present, undifferentiated state, but an original (recalled / remembered) “state of being,”  and that in our present condition we are progressing through states and stages of differentiation, “transcending and including” all that harmonizes with higher states as we move to those higher states of being and awareness?

What if unified ground is like a stem cell⁴ that appears like every other embryonic stem cell until some mysterious moment of “choice” or trigger when it begins to differentiate? What if the pre-trigger state is where the sense of unity with all things originates, and is thereafter transcended but included?

What if the unity ahead for evolving souls is as different as the unified body is from the stem cell; and that to conflate past unity with future unity is a fundamental error in perspective and understanding?

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1. Mark Passio On Psychedelics Used For Consciousness Expansion Documentary (Time 3:02:18) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39i-50UFYn4&t=9331s
2. Doctrine and Covenants | Section 131:7-8 ~ There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes; We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter.
3. Though Passio rejects religion and man-made law as corrupting and enslaving, which much of it is because of the nature of the Natural Man to become obsessed with pursuing and protecting power and gain, yet some of Passio's own dogma seems to suffer from absolutes and generalizations that do not accord with observing or understanding the world as it really is or would be under his absolutes; so despite his views, I quote scripture which seems to me to illustrate a better understanding of this world's duality and the purposes of combining spirit and flesh.
New Testament | Romans 8:4-8 ~ That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
New Testament | Galatians 5:16-18 ~ Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
New Testament | Galatians 6:8 ~ For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
New Testament | John 3:6 ~ That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
New Testament | John 6:63 ~ It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell

A Thousand Points of Enlightenment ?

Recently I have been pondering perspective and asking myself how we mortals with such wide-ranging experiences, thoughts, hopes, dreams, and beliefs can find the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as we navigate this world. If the circle to the right represents the whole truth as seen from the perspective of an omniscient God and we mortals are free(?¹) agents poking at the circumference as we try to understand the “wholistic” truths of X (X being some event, circumstance, person, theory, philosophy, etc.), how do we reconcile our partial truths with the partial truths seen by others?²

Let's take transgender as an example of X. How do we understand the explosion of birth-gender rejection? Could there be hidden causes? ones we will never discover if we don't ask the right questions? ones that could be hidden in the subconscious because of the nature and ubiquity of trauma-based amnesia? possible causes buried in the frauds and continuing propaganda of the deceased Alfred Kinsey?³

Even as of this year—2017—we, as a society, seem unable to acknowledge what increasing numbers of therapists, humanitarian workers, and investigators are witnessing.⁴ Our minds cannot seem to process:

▪ the astonishing number of victims per “average” pedophile;
▪ the lifelong mental anguish of most victims;
▪ the unconscionable numbers of trauma-based psychic injuries inflicted in the name of “religion,” ritual, superiority, “science,” curiosity, and the like;
▪ the abuses many authorities have become involved in while pursuing or protecting power and gain;
▪ the millions of sex- and human-trafficked victims world-wide, estimated to now be in the tens (perhaps hundreds) of millions;
▪ the extent, addictions, and horrors of child pornography and sex tourism;
▪ how easy it is to manipulate feelings, perceptions, conscience, fears, etc. of children;
▪ how malleable the child-mind is to suggestion and trauma in forming self-identity;
▪ how so much horrific abuse has been allowed and covered-up for decades;
▪ how DID manifestation may involve (sometimes programmed) male and female personalities in the same body;
▪ how far our world (like every prior fallen empire) has descended into violence and sex- and human-trafficking.

If we do not know the consequences and outcomes in our day of the following, how will we ever understand our world or how to help victims and survivors heal?

» Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE)
» Brownstone Ops
» bullying, abuse, and trafficking
» compartmentalization
» Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
» Food, Inc
» GMOs
» many medicines and psychotropic drugs
» MKUltra
» modus operandi
» obsessions of power, gain, & fame
» Project Monarch
» psychopathy
» Ritual Abuse (RA)
» Trauma-based mind control
» & on and on
(Most of these topics have been dealt with in varying degrees in previous Déjà Vu posts which can be accessed through the labels.)

Truly, there are a thousand thousand points of enlightenment needed to understand what is happening in our world. None of us has the time to grasp it all, but if Nadine Burke Harris (a TED presenter⁵) and many others⁶ can recognize the physical consequences of ACE, can we be open to exploring in greater depth the mental, emotional, spiritual, and self-identity consequences? Do we prefer to think that ACE only has consequences for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, depression, addictions, life expectancy, and so forth? Or can we be open to asking whether trauma also needs to be explored as a possible dynamic in self-identity?—in LGBTQ? Or do we think it has been sufficiently discounted as a factor?

Are we still believing in Alfred Kinsey? Are we offended if someone suggests gender dysphoria may have a cause? Can we explore why physical realities have been severed from feeling realities for increasing numbers? Are we allowed to ask: Why the explosion of gender dysphoria?

Whenever we deal with feelings, we are on sensitive ground, but should feelings preclude us from asking questions? from seeking answers?

Perhaps much of what we are seeing in gender dysphoria is but the tragic face of ACE—a face that is only now being recognized, but which is millennia old. Even when we imagine that no trauma could have possibly happened to an individual, how can we possibly know when our culture and headlines are full of “fragmented, isolated” exposés—exposés that give the impression of being uncommon offenses, when the collective reality is anything but.

So what is the approach while we try to understand this world? Perhaps it is the Golden Rule (in its cosmic sense⁷) while at the same time holding those accountable who have been the causal agents of the pain, suffering, dysphoria, and choices of survivors of ACE?

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1. But how free are we when we are tutored from childhood by traditions, expectations, biases, propaganda, etc.
2. Not unlike the Blind men and the Elephant parable.
3. ▪ Alfred Kinsey: Secret History : Kinsey's Pedophiles (Time: 51:21 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcHf0htQ5LI&list=PL37f09HgmsL9_njX_7xRp3K5vkSIbysNs
▪ Dr. Judith Reisman "Exposing The Kinsey Sex Cult" (Time: 1:01:52) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeLw_AFAoIo&list=PL37f09HgmsL-Lx_U6AMdj0QelsP5F_jbh
▪ C-SPAN2 - BookTV interviews Judith Reisman about Sexual Sabotage (Time: 10:05 min) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKw19_uKhs
▪ Dr. Judith Reisman Exposes Dr. Alfred Kinsey (Time: 25:17) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlEsRDnY-Ws
▪ What Happened to Alfred Kinsey's "Research" Victims from the 1940s and 1950s! (Time: 10:03 min) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DeuGU6KiZc
4. Many Déjà Vu blog posts deal with these issues and additional witness links can be accessed through the relevant labels. See also http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Psychopathy ; http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Science ; http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Abuse ;
5. How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime (Time ~ 16:02) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk
Also: 2015 Summit: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Toxic Stress: A Public Health Crisis (Time: 42:48) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbn9YiSrh9U&t=629s
6. » A TRIBUTE TO DR. VINCENT FELITTI (Time 19:34 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q22Zt6aGwsA ; Dr. Felitti was and is the lead researcher and developer of the ACE Study that so impressed Nadine Burke Harris.
» TEDxNewy 2011 - Liz Mullinar - Treating the core problem of childhood trauma (Time ~ 8:32) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svX3fEdVTLQ
» Trauma, Brain & Relationship: Helping Children Heal (Time ~ 25:02) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyEEMlMMb0
» How Do We Stop Childhood Adversity from Becoming a Life Sentence. | Benjamin Perks | TEDxPodgorica (Time ~ 15:53) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0kV7JtWiE
» Finding Courage to Talk About Child Sexual Abuse | Jill Tolles | TEDxUniversityofNevada (Time ~ 13:10) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGR079qsqTI
» Victim, Unashamed and Unsilenced | Dani Bostick | TEDxColoradoSprings (Time ~ 8:50) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohMve-6LAZU
» From Victim to Survivor: Find Your X…but First, Find Your (Wh)Y? | Lauren Book | TEDxOxford (Time ~ 21:02) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ4eHW9EWUk
» Healing Trauma, Healing Humanity: Rolf Carriere at TEDxGroningen (Time ~ 16:12) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXqcQecRXo
7. http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2017/01/improving-on-god.html

Arms of Flesh ?

If ever there was an escalating global tragedy, it is the great con of psychotropic drugging. Independent science and voices of warning have been sounding for decades and still the CON goes on. Outright lies, suppression of evidence, disparaging of truth, slick slick propaganda, and on and on—all of which keep the profits rolling in as people in physical and psychic pain seek the advice of professionals who, in turn, accept (without independent study) the advice and claims of the profit-seekers.

Has there ever been such appalling myopia (and collusion) in recorded history?!

And so day after day, hour upon hour, individuals die, families split apart, hopes and dreams are shattered while:

▪  the Regulator’s revolving door spins in sync with Big Pharma;
▪  prescribers, with the scribble of a pen, shunt the suffering to the “chemical” dispensers without a word of warning;
▪  pharmacists dispense their orders in small bottles without a word of caution; or, on the odd occasion, silently offer a caveat in tiny script or lengthy folio;
▪  therapists and counselors (try to) ply their (expensive) skills without ever asking about psychoactive drug effects or adverse withdrawal reactions;¹
▪  independent researchers test the Pharma claims and find the placebo as effective as the drug, but few pay attention as drug-induced, chronic brain impairment (CBI) spreads its toxic sludge;
▪  prescribers and others interpret the consequent drug-induced abnormal behaviors or worsening symptoms as the unmasking of a patient’s mental illness and thus, they up the dosage; or worse, poly-prescribe to try and mask the adverse effects;
▪  in cases of suicide or mayhem, the toxicology reports are suppressed or sealed, whenever possible, and when not permitted, the ploy is to blame the patient for non-use or irregular use, EVEN when black boxes and adverse effects listed in hefty desk-references warn of abnormal behaviors, suicidality, homicidal ideation, impulsivity, paranoia, mania, etc., etc.

How long do we trust in these arms of flesh? How many people have to “inexplicably” die before we accept the diagnosis—medication spellbinding—that seems to afflict nigh the entire world?

Why this spellbinding, stupefying trust? Don’t we know better? Do we really think that an obsession with bottom-line inclines one toward truth-telling? Haven’t we yet understood: When money is all that matters, the trust must end?

What have we been told about trusting in the arm of flesh?

I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh. Yea, cursed is he that putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm. (Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 4:34)

How long before we allow ourselves to register these facts?

» … all the physical treatments in psychiatry—medication, electroshock, and lobotomy—have their primary or “therapeutic” effect by causing malfunctions in the brain and the mind that are then misidentified as “improvements.” (Breggin,* p. 27)
» Spellbinding more specifically builds on a brain-disabling corollary, which states that patients receiving medications and other mind-altering treatments “often display poor judgment about the positive and negative effect of the treatment on their functioning.” (p. 27)
» Depression and suicide are not side effects as much as they are primary effects of stimulant drugs. (p. 192)
» Millions of children are having the spiritual stuffing knocked out of them by stimulant drugs. (p. 199)
» Drug companies go to great lengths to protect their products and in the process they keep doctors and the public in the dark about many of their adverse effects. (p. 246)
» Unfortunately, many healthcare practitioners remain unaware that the first few doses, or dose changes, present the greatest risk of causing severe adverse psychiatric reactions. (p. 266)
» At the end of the day, you cannot trust what your doctor tells you because you cannot trust the information your doctor is getting from the drug companies. (p. 268)
» Modern people swim in a sea of psychopharmacological advertising and promotion amounting to an all pervasive propaganda campaign designed to shape the way we think about our lives and ourselves. (p. 269)
»  Psychoactive drugs do not improve biochemical imbalances; they cause them, and withdrawal reactions are one result. (p. 274)
»  (See a few additional quotes from Breggin at footnote 2 below.)

It is time every soul on earth read at least one of these:

▪  Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Guide for Prescribers, Therapists, Patients and their Families by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
▪  Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine by John Abramson, M.D.
▪  The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It  by Marcia Angell, M.D.
▪  The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment by Joanna Moncrieff
▪  Medicines Out of Control?: Antidepressants and the Conspiracy of Goodwill by Charles Medawar and Anita Hardon

for if we aren’t taking psychoactive drugs ourselves, we know and probably love someone who is.

Please listen to these witnesses and many other credible ones you can easily find:

“Depression is NOT a Chemical Imbalance” (Time: 2:56:35)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OB-AzVBj3E



Psychiatry: The Marketing of Madness (Time: 2:56:35)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFkivsEy3CI

And PLEASE, do NOT stop your meds cold-turkey. You need a support system to help you navigate the crisis. Withdrawal is one of the most dangerous times for drug-induced psychosis, mania, depression, suicidality, medication spellbinding, etc. But know this: There are better ways to get through and beyond pain and confusion than CBI (chronic brain impairment). Search out what works for you. There is hope and there is healing, no matter how it looks right now.

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*Peter R. Breggin, M.D., Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide, and Crime © 2008.
1. See the PLEA at http://www.dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/01/a-plea-to-therapists-everywhere.html
2. More quotes from Breggin:*
» Stimulants [like Ritalin or Concerta] work in part by causing obsessive -compulsive behavior, compelling a child to act dutifully and to persist at boring tasks. (p. 189)
» Most children taking stimulants will become abnormally obsessive and compulsive. (p. 194)
» Both Ritalin and Prozac can overstimulate children and adults, causing them to start drinking alcohol or to increase their alcohol intake as a method of calming themselves down. (p. 204)
» By shutting down the functions of the highest centers of the brain, [antipsychotic] drugs can produce an actual chemical lobotomy and a chemical straitjacket from which no adult or child can escape. (p. 211)
» The “antipsychotic” medications like Zyprexa, Seroquel, and Abiligy have their primary or “therapeutic” effect by causing severe apathy and indifference. (p. 222)
» There are two exceptions to the rule that antipsychotic drugs crush spontaneity and enforce robotic docility. One exception is akathisia, an experience of inner torture with a compulsion to move, which we’ve seen as a result of exposure to SSRI antidepressants. … Withdrawal is the other exception in which neuroleptics can cause activation with anxiety and agitation rather than more stupefied reactions. (p. 236-237)
»  The fact that a drug sometimes makes us feel better does not mean that it’s correcting a biochemical imbalance. Recreational drugs such as alcohol and marijuana are used by hundreds of millions of people to “relax,” but few if any scientists believe that these chemicals are correcting imbalances in the brain. Instead, everyone recognizes that they impair brain function. No psychiatric drug is known to correct anything in the brain. (p. 272, bold emphasis added)