All Discussions Tagged 'schizophrenia' - Temple Illuminatus2024-03-28T17:04:59Zhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=schizophrenia&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHealing Madness – An Emerging Paradigm for Wellbeingtag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2011-04-12:6363372:Topic:1397082011-04-12T06:32:02.154ZGrigori Rho Gharveynhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/GrigoriRhoGharveyn
<p><i>Many people are terrified by mental illness; they are afraid to tell anyone they suspect they may be mentally ill. Most mental illnesses are derived from our societies and cultures. If we do not learn how to talk about our fears safely, we may never learn how to heal ourselves.</i></p>
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<p><b>Healing Madness – An Emerging Paradigm for Wellbeing</b></p>
<p>We are on the track of an emerging cultural phenomenon that excites us a lot, an emerging paradigm that will be a major focus…</p>
<p><i>Many people are terrified by mental illness; they are afraid to tell anyone they suspect they may be mentally ill. Most mental illnesses are derived from our societies and cultures. If we do not learn how to talk about our fears safely, we may never learn how to heal ourselves.</i></p>
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<p><b>Healing Madness – An Emerging Paradigm for Wellbeing</b></p>
<p>We are on the track of an emerging cultural phenomenon that excites us a lot, an emerging paradigm that will be a major focus for our work for the near future. We see that many people are writing about revising our mental health paradigms to demonstrate that many things that today may be regarded as mental illnesses are actually helpful healing processes.</p>
<p>Things like Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychoses <i>evolved</i>. These things did not just appear willy-nilly out of nowhere. These things could never have evolved unless they performed some sort of valuable, useful functions. Evolution would have culled them from our range of abilities if they did not help us in some fundamental way.</p>
<p>Ancient civilizations may often have understood these things better than we do today. Sadly, we may have lost their ancient wisdom partly because Christianity and Islam have both stigmatized mental illnesses as spiritual illnesses caused by or created by demonic influences or demonic possession.</p>
<p>As an emerging scientific civilization in the Dark Ages, in our collective cultural efforts to develop a more rational approach to the world, we dismissed these quasi-religious approaches to mental health and instead tried to build a model of mental well-being in which we have tried to redefine our madnesses as organic brain dysfunctions.</p>
<p>Sometimes, some mental illnesses, particularly depression, can trigger serious biochemical responses that can eventually lead to organic brain dysfunctions. However, most of these so-called illnesses are really ways in which we may learn to heal ourselves naturally when we are sometimes confronted with impossible circumstances in our lives that may make it seem very difficult to make any successful, healthy choices to fix whatever is wrong in our lives.</p>
<p>Depression is a healing response to being overwhelmed.</p>
<p>Depression motivates us to isolate ourselves, to remove ourselves from sources of our chronic, environmental stresses.</p>
<p>In the old days, we might have just gone on a journey, leaving family and friends behind until we returned. However, in our modern worlds we may not be able to go anywhere unless we abandon our homes and become itinerant homeless wanderers.</p>
<p>We, ourselves, have chosen to do that several times in our life now, so we understand the value of being homeless. Alas, the journeys we may sometimes go on, whether as a traveling vacationer paying their way for comfort in strange places, or as a homeless wanderer existing on the charity of strangers, is a journey within our own minds, a journey upon which it is often very easy to get lost.</p>
<p>When we get lost on this sort of journey, our civilizations tend to call us schizophrenic. When we are lost on our journeys and become more stressed, we may learn to act out in anti-social manners that many people agree are unacceptable behavior; they may then label us as psychotics.</p>
<p>However, none of these terms actually means that we are insane.</p>
<p>Often, it is quite the opposite.</p>
<p>If our societies and cultures do not stigmatize or persecute us for being mentally ill according to their own beliefs, then often, our psychoses, schizophrenia, and depression can actually lead us to our sanity.</p>
<p>All societies and civilizations on Earth are already insane. Few people like to examine this truth, but it is still true.</p>
<p>When we learn to conform to our societies' expectations, we are adopting their existing mental, emotional, and social illnesses. We are saying we will agree to live in ways that may teach us to hurt ourselves in exchange for the benefits of living in a reasonably stable society, culture, or civilization.</p>
<p>However, many of the social, emotional, and mental illnesses that we must adopt in order to adapt to our native cultures may benefit other members of our societies more so than they benefit us. Many social mechanisms are already in place that benefit the members of our societies as a group at the expense of the welfare of individual members.</p>
<p>The new model for mental health that is now emerging recognizes that what we currently call mental illnesses may really be healing processes. Within the structures of these re-emerging paradigms we may learn to teach ourselves how to heal ourselves and how to help each other learn to heal. We may then remake our madnesses into the tools whereby we enable ourselves to heal our own lives.</p>
<p>It often requires a cultural and social background that understands and supports these new healing processes and paradigms in order to learn to heal ourselves, however, the good news is that such cultures are now emerging.</p>
<p>The kind of cultures that can help us to teach ourselves to heal ourselves are becoming more widely accessible and acceptable; people like Deepak Chopra are helping to pave the way into this braver new world.</p>
<p>We wish we had it all together to tell you all of the details, but we are still learning about this; we are still learning how to write about it. We have had to take ourselves far beyond the veil of acceptable behavior in order to learn this; we have had to become as crazy as the people whom we hope to help, people who must still learn to heal themselves by using their own madnesses as the tools that will finally help them to heal.</p>
<p>Our most recent journeys into darkness and madness have been deeply gratifying worthwhile experiences; we are much healthier now. We will continue to become healthier because our new paradigms for mental, emotional, and social wellbeing are far more successful than anything that our more traditional medical practices of today have been able to provide, thus far.</p>
<p>Always remember, any belief in rationalism is just another irrational belief…</p>
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<p><i>To your good health! May your madness drive you sane…</i></p>
<p><i>Love, Grigori Rho Gharveyn</i></p>
<p><i>aka Greg Gourdian, Roger Holler, et al…</i></p>
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<p><i>Namaste</i></p>
<p><i> </i></p> INTRODUCTION, Psycho-Pharmacology, How Crazy Do We Have To Be?tag:templeilluminatus.ning.com,2011-04-09:6363372:Topic:1339202011-04-09T23:51:46.683ZGrigori Rho Gharveynhttps://templeilluminatus.ning.com/profile/GrigoriRhoGharveyn
<p>Dear Temple Illuminati friends and family,</p>
<p>The following message defines a general outline for this discussion subject in our recent proposal to Leila...</p>
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<p>Hi sweetie!</p>
<p>We applaud your introduction of your beliefs in the group now being moderated by our gifted sister Temple Crone... (what happened to Bliss?)</p>
<p>You prove to us just how much you are our sister at every turn... <smile></p>
<p>We still owe you a reply there; we will get around to it, as we…</p>
<p>Dear Temple Illuminati friends and family,</p>
<p>The following message defines a general outline for this discussion subject in our recent proposal to Leila...</p>
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<p>Hi sweetie!</p>
<p>We applaud your introduction of your beliefs in the group now being moderated by our gifted sister Temple Crone... (what happened to Bliss?)</p>
<p>You prove to us just how much you are our sister at every turn... <smile></p>
<p>We still owe you a reply there; we will get around to it, as we owe a reply to TC and to the group as well as to ourselves and to you.</p>
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<p>A recent chat with <a member> upset <this member> somewhat, but what we ask you now may upset them even more if they are afraid to explore the potential truths we hope to reveal.</p>
<p>Many people will most likely object, perhaps raucously, to which we can only say, Please! Bring it on!</p>
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<p>Some people may come to regard us as a Super-Troll if we proceed with this, not because of our bad manners, but because we all too likely will inspire trollish vindictive replies from many people if they cannot mitigate their reactions when responding to what we believe we must share with anyone who may be in need of help with drugs.</p>
<p>We would like you to open a new subject area for us, one dedicated to drugs of all kinds, legal and not-so-legal, anything with psychopharmeceutical properties.</p>
<p>Discussions may be expected to fall loosely into something along the following lines:</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Your Doctors' Drugs for You.</em></span></p>
<p>This should be moderated as a neutrally opinioned discussion of all forms of psychopharmeceuticals and experiences with them. </p>
<p>Many people feel deeply stigmatized that they depend on one or more of these drugs, we hope to help them feel less stigmatized.</p>
<p>While many people are actively helped with the drugs marketed by the pharmaceutical industries and peddled through licensed doctor/dealers, many more are hurt by these drugs as well, so voices on both sides of this topic need a forum in which to be heard and to be understood so that those in each camp support each other rather than appearing threatened by each other.</p>
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<p>--- We MUST put up a legal notice stating the goals of each forum discussion that limits liability, we can agree to moderate these discussions in a neutral manner that cautions people about the dangers of exploring these things, but anyone already lost in their explorations with drugs needs help, we are a veteran of nearly everything we will introduce.</p>
<p>Perhaps you are already prepared wit these sorts of notices, or guidelines to observe when drafting them? ---</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Uppers, Downers, Sliders, and Bummers...</em></span></p>
<p>A frank discussion of many popular psychopharmeceuticals used for recreational purposes.</p>
<p>This discussion may evolve into a support group for those who may have had problems with such things. (Sliders induce dissociative states that are relatively neutral regarding agitation or agitation supression properties.)</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Peace, Love, and Microdots...</em></span></p>
<p>An exploration of Hippie cultures and the drugs they love, focusing on Marijauna, LSD, Mushrooms and other Hallucinogenics.</p>
<p>A parallel disuccion topic should be:</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Your Hallucinating Mind, Why All People Hallucinate</em></span></p>
<p>Most people are unaware <they are> hallucinating, if they knew this it might frighten them. More frightening to them may be the reality proven by cognitive sciences that all people hallucinate all the time; you have to be something close to a Zen Master to stop hallucinating.</p>
<p>This topic will introduce current cognitive theory and how all people mitigate the direct messages of their senses with their minds, translating their experiences into the private worlds of their personal beliefs and expectations.</p>
<p>This discussion topic would include explanations of the day-to-day homeostatic mechanics of hallucination and how these are affected by using hallucinogenics.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>The Cutting Edge of Drugs...</em></span></p>
<p><em>An investigation of the 'powder'</em> drugs, cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin...</p>
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<p>Hot Topics! <smile></p>
<p>You bet! but controversy can be far more valuable than quiet fear...</p>
<p>Please name this new Subject area: <strong><em>Psycho-Pharmacology, How Crazy Do You Have To Be?</em></strong></p>
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<p>Thank you sweetie,</p>
<p>love you lots too!</p>
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<p>Qualifications:</p>
<p>We are a veteran of mental hospitals, with a nine month stay in 78-79 and a 6 week visit in 2005.</p>
<p>We have worked with patients rights groups as an activist for mental health care reform.</p>
<p>If we could put up with academia we could already have a degree in psychology, we <em>taught</em> psychology and sociology in high school when we were 17 years old...</p>
<p>We have missed out on some recent new drugs, but we've used a wide spectrum of anti-depressants, several anti-psychotics, as well as most of the popular 'recreational' drugs from the 70's and 80's, and one or two more trendy things like xtc or ketamine.</p>
<p>The only drug we are relatively unfmaliar with that is in common use is heroin, however we are familiar with morphine.</p>
<p>We've avoided many pills after trying Thorazine, Quaaludes, and a variety of uppers and downers briefly, many of these simply do not work for us or work in very unexpected ways.</p>
<p>For instance, thorazine energizes us as if it were methamphetamine...</p>
<p>Vicodin and all codein analogues have a nearly consistent side effect of keeping us awake 30 hours or more... We had to quit using these for pain management.</p>
<p>We stick close to the letter of the law these days in respect for our roomates, neither of whom are habituated to the use of recreational drugs.</p>
<p>Unless, of course, we include <em>carbohydrates</em> as a recreational drug, carbohydrates may be more addictive to us than tobacco.</p>
<p>Mmm yes <em>tobacco</em>, now there will be another great discussion topic for this subject area...</p>
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<p>Both <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Carbohydrates and Dieting</em></span>, and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Nic at Night</em></span> discussions will be needed in this group...</p>
<p>Carbohydrates are definitely a psycho-pharmeceutical as they play roles in many people's sleep habits, binging or fasting disorders, and depressions.</p>
<p>Nic at Night is a Hippie tradition popular at Rainbow Gahterings a sort of Nicotene mutual benefit association open to anyone willing to donate tobacco or in need of tobacco.</p>
<p>Our spirit guide told us to start smoking again after we had quit for 20 years; his advise was worth following, very carefully...</p>
<p>Another of our spirit guides is our good friend Timothy Leary, our mentor and an expert psychopharmacologist...</p>
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<p><em>Blessed be...</em></p>
<p><em>Namaste</em></p>
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<p>PS</p>
<p>Are you familiar with e-prime? that would make another a very good subject area if we dress it up properly in a Temple gown...</p>
<p>This subject would be about learning to mitigate communication barriers created by 'trollish' behaviors perhaps <em><strong>Trolls and E-Prime, Liberation From Reactive Conditioning...</strong></em><em><strong> </strong></em></p>
<p><em>This might include a discussion on</em> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Universal Truth, What Is Truth Really?</em></span></p>
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<p><em>Enjoy!</em></p>
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