Healers & Healing
In the psychiatry journals, many advertisements for drugs. But none for Compassion, for Caring – for Healing.
Dr. Diamond tells of a remarkable, healing church he finds on Cyprus. It is tiny, and acts as a "womb of love," greatly raising the Life Energy of those who enter.
Treatment deals only with the conscious – what the patient knows to complain of. Therapy deals with the superficial unconscious. At its best reducing the hate, but never inducing pure love.
No sufferer ever leaves the healer without his Life Energy being enhanced. With him now passionately, enthusiastically, whole-heartedly and gratefully Embracing all of his life. Anything less than that is, at best, only therapy, and perhaps no more than treatment.
My dear friend and psychiatric mentor, John Kerridge, used to quote this to me.
I was in the waiting room of a famous “Complementary Medicine” practitioner, observing the patients entering his office and leaving it. Their Life Energy – their Love of Life, their desire to Embrace Life, was unchanged.
When the great physician Georg Groddeck first examined a sufferer in his clinic, he would lay his head on his, or her, bare abdomen, sometimes for hours.