Re: Betrayel

David Dalton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.dreams.castaneda, alt.support.depression, alt.support.schizophrenia, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism
Organization Eternal September
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Aug 7, 2024, slider wrote
(in article <op.2r5imgxw7eafsp@slider>):

> On Wed, 07 Aug 2024 12:18:05 +0100, liaM<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
> > On 8/7/2024 4:08 AM, slider wrote:
> > > On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:07:55 +0100, kami<[email protected]>  wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 23:17:18 +0200, Venus as a Boy wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > https://slowspacetemplehealing.help/2024/08/02/betrayel/
> > > > >
> > > > > The christian church, not Christ, go hand in hand with psychiatry,
> > > > > they
> > > > > say only maybe a few hundred or thousand can be healers, have christ
> > > > > consciousnes if any one, or be seers etc., but according to indigenous
> > > > > people "mental sick" persons could be chosen to heal (see homepage)
> > > > > etc...
> > > > > According to Phil Borges information that about 20 % of the population
> > > > > at least in the west are diagnosed with "mentall illness" you can
> > > > > calculate that about 1.6 billion people probably worldwide could be
> > > > > considered healers or seers or anything spiritual help for
> > > > > humanity....
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > that is just delusional thinking, romanticising defects as doped alloy.
> > > ### - not really, in india for example mentally ill/challenged people
> > > are
> > > considered to have been blessed by the spirit, and are revered...
> >
> >
> > As in many tribal cultures, people are not thrown to the street or to
> > Gaza when they happen not to belong to the dominant sects.
>
> ### - there have been enough cases of that though: the inuits used to put
> granny out on the ice when her teeth wore down; no longer of any practical
> use and a drain on precious resources they simply threw her away? (which
> all seems a bit callous to me lol)
>
> so no, not only in cases where society took pity on others for whatever
> reason and tried to look after them (although undoubtedly there was some
> of that too, particularly in families unlike the inuit) but because it
> was/became generally recognised that spiritually advanced people often
> behaved in unusual, sometimes seemingly totally crazy ways! the average
> man in the street being unable to discern genuine madness from those
> spiritually advanced, it became normal to consider that that might be the
> case and so rather than shunning them like they do today, they honoured &
> revered them instead...

"Seven years your right, under a flagstone, in a quagmire,
Without food, without taste, but the thirst you ever torturing,
The law of the judges your lesson, and prayer your language:
And if you like to return You will be, for a time, a Druid, perhaps.”
(Ancient Irish Poem)

(but of course I have had 4X7 so far)

-- 
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