Have I been censored?  I posted a message yesterday 28 July which hasn't 
made it onto the list.
I'd be grateful if someone could shed some light on this.
Kind regards
Barra


>From: "A.D.M.Rayner" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: BERA Practitioner-Researcher              
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>Subject: Injury and Healing
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:42:25 +0100
>
>Dear All,
>
>I am writing this in case it may be relevant to those of us who in one way 
>or another find ourselves in the position of wishing to or being asked to 
>provide healing influence. It relates also to some of the work I have been 
>engaged with in trying to help people out of addictive patterns of thought 
>and behaviour (including myself - recall that I 'suffer' from what have 
>been labelled 'obsessive compulsive disorder', 'Achilles Syndrome' and 
>'dyspraxia'). Some of this work can be found via www.unhookedthinking.com. 
>Essentially, my attempt to express 'inclusionality' in 'non-exoteric' 
>language (non-definitive language) that doesn't entrap the mind in 
>'concrete isolation' can be linked with this endeavour. For, in my mind, it 
>is the perception of the 'self' as a reified 'object', hugely reinforced by 
>definitive language and logic, that lies at the heart of human distress. 
>The perceived 'damage done' by 'floodwater' comes from obstructing the flow 
>with concrete, so to speak. So much distress arises from the way we set 
>ourselves up against Nature as perfectable exclusions from its flow. This 
>exclusion leads to spiritual devastation.
>
>Being in pain can reinforce our sense of isolation and alienation, not so 
>much from those we might regard as our fellow sufferers or who we have 
>influence over (e.g. students, patients), but especially from those or that 
>which we perceive has influence over us (e.g. teacher, doctor, supervisor, 
>Nature). The situation of the 'healer' is therefore very delicately 
>balanced, as anyone who has tried to tend clumsily to an injured cat or dog 
>will appreciate: the likelihood of being bitten or snapped at is high. 
>Moreover, in a hierarchical human system, the approach of a healer may be 
>detrimental to our self-esteem - the healer seems to confirm that there is 
>'something wrong with us', i.e. from a rationalistic perspective we are 
>'not good enough', unsatisfactorily performing machines which have to be 
>'corrected' - not a nice thought, which can make us rebellious or helpless!
>
>So to offer a healing hand to someone in distress comes with a risk of 
>being regarded adversely and jealously as someone with 'superiority'. And 
>here comes the double whammy. When our offered healing/helping hand is 
>repeatedly bitten, there may come a threshold when our patience wears thin 
>and we 'have had enough'. We withdraw or even strike back. But in that 
>withdrawal or striking back is a perceived abandonment, a rejection, 
>whereupon our seeming 'superiority' appears even more infuriating and to 
>translate into a wilful arrogance that must be undermined at all costs.
>
>How can we get out of this loop? Essentially by stopping thinking of 
>ourselves in hierarchical terms as superior and inferior machines in 
>competition with one another (the prevalent social Darwinian and 
>rationalistic view) and allowing ourselves to relate compassionately and 
>co-creatively as dynamic relational flow forms according to the fluid, 
>non-authoritarian, non-definitive principles (living standards of 
>judgement) of LET and inclusionality. Please excuse the language, but try 
>not to listen literally to my words but to hear what I am giving expression 
>to: if necessary stare thawtfully at the snowy mountains outside your 
>window and let them inform you of the Logos (spatial continuum). Then we 
>can, without fear of reprisal, offer one another helping hands in troubled 
>moments, recognising that 'something wrong FOR us' is not to be regarded as 
>something wrong WITH us. Our vulnerability is our co-creative, evolutionary 
>strength, not weakness. Our shiny armour is our vanity, not our strength.
>
>Above all, the healer needs NOT to assume or impose superiority, or to be 
>regarded as superior if healing is to be a real possibility. The projection 
>of superiority and inferiority onto ourselves or others is a powerful 
>barrier to that unconditional Love, which enables us to respond receptively 
>and protectively to all including ourselves.
>
>Warmest
>
>Alan
>

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