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Nothing to post for this area as yet.  In the meantime here is an extract from one of my favorite books "The Power of Now".

Addiction And The Search For Wholeness

Why should we become addicted to another person?

The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear need lack and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state. There is a physical as well as a psychological dimension to this state. On the physical level you are obviously not whole nor will you ever be: You are either a man or a woman which is to say one-half of the whole. On this level the longing for wholeness - the return to oneness - manifests as male-female attraction man's need for a woman woman's need for a man. It is an almost irresistible urge for union with the opposite energy polarity. The root of this physical urge is a spiritual one: the longing for an end to duality a return to the state of wholeness. Sexual union is the closest you can get to this state on the physical level. This is why it is the most deeply satisfying experience the physical realm can offer. But sexual union is no more than a fleeting glimpse of wholeness an instant of bliss. As long as it is unconsciously sought as a means of salvation you are seeking the end of duality on the level of form where it cannot be found. You are given a tantalizing glimpse of heaven but you are not allowed to dwell there and find yourself again in a separate body. On the psychological level the sense of lack and incompleteness is if anything even greater than on the physical level. As long as you are identified with the mind you have an externally derived sense of self. That is to say you get your sense of who you are from things that ultimately have nothing to do with who you are: your social role possessions external appearance successes and failures belief systems and so on. This false mind-made self the ego feels vulnerable insecure and is always seeking new things to identify with to give it a feeling that it exists. But nothing is ever enough to give it lasting fulfillment. Its fear remains; its sense of lack and neediness remains. But then that special relationship comes along. It seems to he the answer to all the ego's problems and to meet all its needs. At least this is how it appears at first. All the other things that you derived your sense of self from before now become relatively insignificant. You now have a single focal point that replaces them all gives meaning to your life and through which you define your identity. the person you are "in love" with. You are no longer a disconnected fragment in an uncaring universe or so it seems. Your world now has a center: the loved one. The fact that the center is outside you and that therefore you still have an externally derived sense of self does not seem to matter at first. What matters is that the underlying feelings of incompleteness of fear lack and unfulfillment so characteristic of the egoic state are no longer there - or are they? Have they dissolved or do they continue to exist underneath the happy surface reality? If in your relationships you experience both "love" and the opposite of love - attack emotional violence and so on - then it is likely that you are confusing ego attachment and addictive clinging with love. You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next. True love has no opposite. If your "love" has an opposite then it is not love but a strong ego-need for a more complete and deeper sense of self a need that the other person temporarily meets. It is the ego's substitute for salvation and for a short time it almost does feel like salvation. But there comes a point when your partner behaves in ways that fail to meet your needs or rather those of your ego. The feelings of fear pain and lack that are an intrinsic part of egoic consciousness but had been covered up by the "love relationship" now resurface. Just as with every other addiction you are on a high when the drug is available but invariably there comes a time when the drug no longer works for you. When those painful feelings reappear you feel them even more strongly than before and what is more you now perceive your partner as the cause of those feelings. This means that you project them outward and attack the other with all the savage violence that is part of your pain. This attack may awaken the partner's own pain and he or she may counter your attack. At this point the ego is still unconsciously hoping that its attack or its attempts at manipulation will be sufficient punishment to induce your partner to change their behavior so that it can use them again as a cover-up for your pain. Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to - alcohol food legal or illegal drugs or a person - you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain. That is why after the initial euphoria has passed there is so much unhappiness so much pain in intimate relationships. They do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you. Every addiction does that. Every addiction reaches a point where it does not work for you anymore and then you feel the pain more intensely than ever. This is one reason why most people are always trying to escape from the present moment and are seeking some kind of salvation in the future. The first thing that they might encounter if they focused their attention on the Now is their own pain and this is what they fear. If they only knew how easy it is to access in the Now the power of presence that dissolves the past and its pain the reality that dissolves the illusion. If they only knew how close they are to their own reality how close to God.

Avoidance of relationships in an attempt to avoid pain is not the answer either. The pain is there anyway. Three failed relationships in as many years are more likely to force you into awakening than three years on a desert island or shut away in your room. But if you could bring intense presence into your aloneness that would work for you too.

From Addictive To Enlightened Relationships

Can we change an addictive relationship into a true one? Yes. Being present and intensifying your presence by taking your attention ever more deeply into the Now: Whether you are living alone or with a partner this remains the key. For love to flourish the light of your presence needs to be strong enough so that you no longer get taken over by the thinker or the pain-body and mistake them for who you are. To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker the stillness underneath the mental noise the love and joy underneath the pain is freedom salvation enlightenment. To disidentify from the pain-body is to bring presence into the pain and thus transmute it. To disidentify from thinking is to be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior especially the repetitive patterns of your mind and the roles played by the ego. If you stop investing it with "selfness the mind loses its compulsive quality which basically is the compulsion to judge and so to resist what is which creates conflict drama and new pain. In fact the moment that judgment stops through acceptance of what is you are free of the mind. You have made room for love for joy for peace. First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for change in a relationship is complete acceptance of your partner as he or she is without needing to judge or change them in any way. That immediately takes you beyond ego. All mind games and all addictive clinging are then over. There are no victims and no perpetrators anymore no accuser and accused. This is also the end of all codependency of being drawn into somebody else's unconscious pattern and thereby enabling it to continue. You will then either separate - in love - or move ever more deeply into the Now together - into Being. Can it be that simple? Yes it is that simple. Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body some external form. In the stillness of your presence you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love. What is God? The eternal One Life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of that One Life deep within yourself and within all creatures. To be it. Therefore all love is the love of God. Love is not selective just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the love" of ego. However the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others and if that person feels the same toward you it can be said that you are in a love relationship with him or her. The bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to you on a bus or with a bird a tree a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs. Even in an otherwise addictive relationship there may be moments when something more real shines through something beyond your mutual addictive needs. These are moments when both your and your partner's mind briefly subside and the pain-body is temporarily in a dormant state. This may sometimes happen during physical intimacy or when you are both witnessing the miracle of childbirth or in the presence of death or when one of you is seriously ill - anything that renders the mind powerless. When this happens your Being which is usually buried underneath the mind becomes revealed and it is this that makes true communication possible. True communication is communion - the realization of oneness which is love. Usually this is quickly lost again unless you are able to stay present enough to keep out the mind and its old patterns. As soon as the mind and mind identification return you are no longer yourself but a mental image of yourself and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met. You are a human mind again pretending to be a human being interacting with another mind playing a drama called "love." Although brief glimpses are possible love cannot flourish unless you are permanently free of mind identification and your presence is intense enough to have dissolved the pain-body - or you can at least remain present as the watcher. The pain-body cannot then take you over and so become destructive of love.

Clairvoyance Norwich

Another possibility is that in some cases what have been taken for soldiers were simply the nature-spirits themselves going through some of the ordered evolutions in which they take so much delight though it must be admitted that these are rarely of a character which could [Page 146] be mistaken for military manoeuvres except by the most ignorant.

The flocks of animals are probably in most instances mere records but there are cases where they like the "wild huntsmen" of German story belong to an entirely different class of phenomena which is altogether outside of our present subject. Students of the occult will be familiar with the fact that the circumstances surrounding any scene of intense terror or passion such as an exceptionally horrible murder are liable to be occasionally reproduced in a form which it needs a very slight development of psychic faculty to be able to see; and it has sometimes happened that various animals formed part of such surroundings and consequently they also are periodically reproduced by the action of the guilty conscience of the murderer. (See Manual 5)

Probably whatever foundation of fact underlies the various stories of spectral horsemen and hunting-troops may generally be referred to this category. This is also the explanation evidently of some of the visions of ghostly armies such as that remarkable reenactment of the battle of Edgehill which seems to have taken place at intervals for some months after the date of the real struggle as testified by a justice of the peace a clergyman and other eyewitnesses in a curious contemporary pamphlet entitled Prodigious Noises of War and Battle at Edgehill near Keinton in Northamptonshire. According to the pamphlet this case was investigated at the time by some officers of the army who clearly [Page 147] recognized many of the phantom figures that they saw. This looks decidedly like an instance of the terrible power of man's unrestrained passions to reproduce themselves and to cause in some strange way a kind of materialization of their record.

In some cases it is clear that the flocks of animals seen have been simply hordes of unclean artificial elementals taking that form in order to feed upon the loathsome emanations of peculiarly horrible places such as would be the site of a gallows. An instance of this kind is furnished by the celebrated "Gyb Ghosts" or ghosts of the gibbet describe in More Glimpses of the World Unseen page 109 as being repeatedly seen in the form of herds of misshapen swine-like creatures rushing rooting and fighting night after night on the site of that foul monument of crime. But these belong to the subject of apparitions rather than to that of clairvoyance. [Page 148]

CHAPTER -9-

METHODS OF DEVELOPMENT

When a men becomes convinced of the reality of the valuable power of clairvoyance his first question usually is How can I develop in my own case this faculty which is said to be latent in everyone?

Clairvoyance Norwich

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