My Turning Point, Clearly Signed. A guest post by Scarlett Jade

I have something to say that ties into a couple of themes  that could be summarized as “Pain” and being “High.” For context, I am a former stoner of 20 years. For well over a year, I haven’t gotten high once — unless you count using techniques of energetic literacy for a natural high.

There is something to be said for the contrast of experience being high or not.

I mistakenly started out smoking believing that it was an honorable spiritual path. I also felt that it intensified experiences, and that quality in itself was a positive thing all around.

A subtext of feeling like I was taking something away from myself if I wasn’t high for things like being in the outdoors or being with people I loved –- because it would just shoot me to a place of revelry.

But there was this aspect that made me question the whole stoner lifestyle, Read More »

Arlene, the Groovy Psychiatrist, on the promise of Energy Spirituality

Undercover psychiatrist “Arlene” starts talking about Energy Spirituality, pot, and other topics.

Rose: Greetings to you, Arlene the Groovy Psychiatrist, and greetings to all you blog-buddies who are listening to the recording that we’re making. Funnily enough, we’re making this recording on the 14th of July, 2011, and meanwhile this is a part of a contest that was originally posted at my blog on January 10th, 2011. 

So, would you like to introduce yourself, Arlene, apart from my mentioning that this is not your real name but that you are being given cover as someone interested in the relatively new, possibly controversial field of energy spirituality as well as being a psychiatrist, what do you want people to know about you?

Arlene: Well I’m in my last year of training of my psychiatry residency at an academic medical center. I’ve known you for several years now, I’ve lost count of how many years, and I do follow your blog quite regularly.

Rose: And just for the sake of those who listen, would you explain: Could a resident be a doctor? What is a resident?

Arlene: Oh, yes. So a resident is someone who has gone to college, so they usually have 4 years of college education, and then they have gone to medical school, so they have 4 years of medical education, and then during their last year of medical school they decide, you know, what area they want to specialize in. That’s when people start to sort of identify with do I want to become a surgeon, or do I want to become a pediatrician, do I want to become a cardiologist?

So I decided to go into psychiatry, so during my last year of medical school I applied for a psychiatry residency, which is a 4-year residency. So I have just finished 3 full years of psychiatry training, and I’m just starting my 4th year, which is my last year.

Rose: And then they can set you loose on anybody, right?

Arlene: And then if I graduate from the program I would be eligible to practice general adult psychiatry, but I’ll probably actually do more training, and do a fellowship on top of my adult training, so I’m not quite done yet.

Rose: It’s exciting. So, thank you so much for responding to questions here, and I will just mention where I am coming from in asking you these questions and starting this original contest, and that is that there are three different energy modalities that are part of the leading edge of mind-body- Read More »

Addiction relief by cutting cords of attachment

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone. I was thinking about giving you’all some sweet thing, and then started remember how one of my clients, “Joe,” once asked a poignant question. Was it possible, he wondered, to cut a cord of attachment to an addiction? That got me thinking.

Sure, this is a holiday devoted to sweetness and light. But what happens the day after? What happens for some people, even, at 3 a.m. that very night? Emotional pain might be even hidden from outward view during that same Valentine’s Day.

Every person on this earth struggles — short of Enlightenment anyway. And of all the struggles that can leave a person feeling terribly alone, any day of the year, isn’t addiction among the worst?

The addiction could be to overeating or sex. It could be to weed or beer. It could be an “addiction” to romantic relationships that always end badly, with not-that-great middles either, and a terrible sameness of pattern through and through.

So I decided today that, in honor of Valentine’s Day,  I’d take you inside a cord of attachment from one of my wonderful clients who has overcome a substance challenge. “Gladys” has had Read More »

Healing YOUR part of the Loneliness Epidemic

In 1893, sociologist Emile Durkheim coined the term anomie to describe a new kind of loneliness. Unprecedented numbers of workers were leaving the cozy, comfy, ok — stifling comfort, of their small towns and villages.

You could think of these small towns like the bar depicted in TV classic “Cheers,” a gathering place where everybody knows you, including every single one of your quirks. Only, of course, “Cheers” wouldn’t happen for some hundred years after Durkheim’s discovery.

Plus ”Cheers” was fictional.

Plus going to any big-city bar is optional, whereas old-time life in the country was more like being so stuck socially, everyday life was like being fastened to a piece of paper with a thumbtack. Boy oh boy, did you ever know your place.

Big-city life brings freedom. Only, as Durkheim observed, that freedom brings a different kind of pain. Sure, anonymity of a big city liberates. What standards must you, or anyone else, have any more? And you’ll be ignored unless you go out and make yourself some friends, get a job, clone some cronies, etc.

Today’s high-tech shift into loneliness is so more intense than yesterday’s problems with anomie. If Emile Durkheim found out the scope, the anguish of it all, he might well be texting in his grave: “Ooh la la, the pain of it all!”

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To stop smoking pot, how Energy Spirituality can help

How can you use spiritual healing in general, and Energy Spirituality in particular, to stop smoking marijuana? We have been pursuing a thread about how energetic literacy reveals the hidden dangers of pot-marijuana-weed-grass-MJ-dope.

Let’s begin with some questions posed by one of my courageous clients who has been able to change a long-term dependency. Jeremy wrote that during the four months since he stopped smoking pot altogether,  he has noticed Read More »

Ask A Groovy Psychiatrist, a contest for ex-pot smokers and other wisdom seekers

Carl Jung, Another Groovy Psychiatrist

Psychiatrist “Arlene” has agreed, and I am… psyched. This new contest is a chance for our Deeper Perception community to explore so many topics, including:

• The differences between psychological healing and spiritual healing — from someone who values both.
• Given Arlene’s experience so far as a psychiatry resident, what she has learned about helping patients in recovery from addiction to marijuana.
• Any general questions you might have for a contemporary and very cool psychiatrist — someone from today’s generation of practitioners. Read More »

When you stop smoking pot, a Guest Post from Arlene

As a practitioner of Energy Spirituality, I’ve developed some specialties. One is helping people to release addictions. Over the years, I have helped clients release addictions to marijuana, other recreational drugs, alcohol, and sex (the last of these more fashionably called “love addiction”).

No, I’m not an addictions counselor. But I have developed some skills for helping people to permanently move out STUFF, astral-level debris  which otherwise would make it far harder to release an addiction.

Tomorrow, I aim to add a blog post as part of a thread begun by our Blog-Buddy Jeremy. First, though, here’s a guest post from “Arlene.” She is a psychiatry resident — an M.D. who is developing the specialty of psychiatric care. Of course, a few details (like her name) have been changed, to protect her on her path among colleagues who may not yet be huge fans of Energy Spirituality or anything that might be considered “New Age.”

Because Arlene cares passionately about psychiatry. But, like some other professionals who work with me as students and/or clients, Arlene also has a non-mainstream passion for Energy Spirituality. Read More »

Empath Merge with Cat Stevens, a Guest Post from Elaine

Cat Stevens now, as Yusuf

Our wonderful Bl0g-Buddy Elaine has done another Skilled Empath Merge for us. She used the Magic Picture Technique from Become the Most Important Person in the Room on the younger Cat Stevens.

She did her research with energetic literacy in advance of reading my comments – way to go, Elaine!

Any of you other Blog-Buddies feeling a bit jealous of Elaine here? Remember, you’re invited to Guest Post, too. Often a good way to start is with a short comment at the end of a blog post. Soon you’ll be blossoming, as is Elaine. So proud of you, Elaine! Read More »

Enlightenment Aura Reading of Yusuf Islam, also Chris Martin

What is surprising about this picture?

With enough Election Day votes in to signal a general mood, let’s find a way to get happy. And fortunately, I’ve got some inspiration available. Because consciousness is something each person votes on every day. Each of us votes to wake up, to live with integrity, to strive spiritually, to make our human life as beautiful as it can be, to help others one person at a time.

Voting is when collective consciousness runs smack, hard, into us. Daily life is when each of us is freed from what others do spiritually, so we can hold our light and keep on evolving.

Thus, fortunately, we can restore sanity. And, mostly I wasn’t reading auras at the Rally to Restore Sanity, not when I went in person. Not later, when I watched a recorded version on TV.

Still, whenever I encounter someone whose brightness just leaps off the forehead and face —  someone who makes me feel a familiar ineffable joy, like a glorious sunrise or that first bite of a huge hot fudge sundae — how could I NOT notice? How could I NOT follow up with some aura reading or a skilled empath merge.

The photo above shows Ozzy Osbourne and Yusuf Islam (also called “Cat Stevens” when he first started singing “Peace Train.”)

Really, can’t you notice how one of these men is interestingly human (like most of us) while the other one is both interesting and gloriously human? Yes, one of these men is spiritually Enlightened. Any hunch which is which? (Not that anyone in the Age of Energetic Literacy needs to settle for just a hunch.) Read More »

Quiz Answers, Spiritual Cleansing and Protection

What’s more fun for Halloween than two snowmen or six pumpkins? Ah, wisdom!

Educate yourself about psychic coercion, astral entities, negative thought forms, and healing extra-terrestrial entities. You’ll improve your quality of life. Truth is, whether you know about these astral-level problems or not, they are affecting you right now…

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