Today's Considerations
It has been shown that medical misdiagnosis and medical malpractice
run rampant all around the globe, the case of Jean Sharon Abbott being one of millions which happen
annually. Yet her doctor's misdiagnosis was based in a total absence of any real
evidence or factual basis: her MRIs and CAT scans didn’t show any symptoms of the
disorder, but the self-proclaimed “expert” said that “she seemed like a textbook case."
Just because persons might show up at a place that treats pulmonary disease does not mean that their shortness of breath is not being caused by heart disease instead. Self-diagnoses are usually as erroneous as many so-called "professional" diagnoses, and for a lung doctor to conclude, "If you walk through my door, then you've definitely got a lung problem" is as insane as anyone else making that kind of statement to people who walk through their doors seeking help for whatever it is that is ailing them.
Yet people hear that and believe it, and that ends all opportunity for them to find the real cause of their problem(s). Abbott and her parents were so willing to believe what they
were told by those who claimed that they knew what her problem was and knew how to
treat it that - on the few occasions when other doctors were visited and Abbott expressed
any doubt at all about her diagnosis and treatment - those other doctors stood by their peers and told Abbott
and her parents that the group she was working with was the best and that they just
needed “to keep going back,” “to follow the doctor's program exactly as instructed,”
“to just do what you’re told to do,” and “to have faith in the process."
With her and her parents believing everything that they were
told by those who presented themselves as “experts” in their field, Jean Sharon was
subjected to procedures which any international tribunal looking into charges
of misconduct by those running a corrupt, backwater prison would classify as “torture”
and “human rights abuse”:
they cut on her body repeatedly; they gave her a “muscle
transfer,” detaching the muscles from her hips and then reattaching them so her
knees wouldn’t hit each other when she tried to walk; they restrained her in a
full-body cast for a month; they cut her open and implanted a pump for medicine
in her body; when something went wrong with the pump, she was over-medicated and
overdosed.
It was not until she visited a doctor who specialized in such
pumps and not until after that doctor reviewed Abbott’s file that Abbott was told that cerebral palsy was not her real problem at all.
That lone voice calling her out of the wilderness, the voice
of a doctor who was not a part of the “inner circle” and not a part of the
group deemed to be experts in what was ailing her, told Abbott that most of the
symptoms she’d lived with her entire life – being spastic, suffering from cramping
muscles, plagued by weakness, being subjected to one surgery after another, and being almost totally immobilized for over thirty years - could disappear with just a simple pill.
Yet how closed off can people be when they blindly accept
the word of those who present themselves as experts? Recalling her first reaction
to the words she heard that day, Abbott said: “I thought she was crazy, I
really did. I wasn’t even going to fill the prescription.”
After some persuasion from her husband, Abbott did fill the
prescription and took her medication. Three hours later, she felt a little bit
stronger. When her husband went to help her stand up from a chair that
day, she surprisingly didn’t need his assistance. Still, she didn’t give much credibility to the alternative treatment.
A day later, she was waiting for her children in a parking
lot. Her husband had gone inside a building to get the children, and Abbott feared her legs wouldn’t
support her on her own while she waited, but she was fine.“I hadn’t stood without help for a decade,” she said. “It
was at that moment I realized the medication was working and my life had
changed.”
It wasn’t long before the earlier misdiagnosis was confirmed. Abbott
was told that as long as she took the prescribed medication, she’d continue to live with only
minimal symptoms. A so-called "expert's" misdiagnosis had led to countless unnecessary procedures, three decades of near immobility, and untold pain and misery and suffering.
Is that example only about the misdiagnosis of cerebral palsy, or
does it mirror what is happening with billions of persons all around the globe?
Not only are medical misdiagnoses and medical malpractice
running rampant, but psychological misdiagnoses and psychological malpractice
are running rampant as well.
There are those who conclude that persons who are actually suffering
from personality disorders or neuroses or psychoses are instead behaving the way they
are behaving because they are “evil” or “immoral” or because they are being punished or because they cannot be blessed because they are “immoral and need to change and
become godly.”
There are those who are told that their failed relationships
and inability to keep a job and their speeding tickets and their accidents are
a result of the substance which they are abusing (in order to try to address the
effects of an illness which is actually rooted in psychological causes).
There are also persons who are trying to use a certain set of teachings
to escape or dissociate from a miserable relative existence and who are being told
that they can be freed of their misery if they will “read and study a group’s literature”;
if they will “read and study this or that ancient, holy book”; if they will
visit “holy sites and absorbed the positive energy there”;
if they will “visit holy men / women and do whatever they
advise”; if they will “join a religious group or a spiritual group and learn
from the people there”; if they will build a library of books written by 'Big
Name Teachers' and “read those daily”; if they will “simply sit still for fifteen
minutes before leaving their home each day”; or if they “will pray to a god or
gods for healing and peace.”
What has been witnessed here throughout the sixty-eight years
during which this composite unity has been observing all of the supposed experts
as well as the people who are listening to them? Their results, for the most
part, have been nil, and that applies as well to the results of the methods used
early on by Maharaj and early on by “Floyd.”
Similar to the case with Abbott's medical problem, most persons on the planet nowadays have also been seen to have
been offered a religious or spiritual misdiagnosis; have been seen to have been
trapped by the philosophical or ideological types of malpractice which now run
rampant; have been seen to have been convinced that they are suffering one problem or another
though there is a total absence of any
real evidence or factual basis to the diagnosis they have accepted;
have been
seen to have accepted the words of so-called “experts” who are basing their diagnosis in
the notion that one “seems like a textbook case”; have been observed to believe it when they are told that all
they need to do is “to keep coming back to get more of what we can offer,” “to
just do what they’re told to do,” and “to have faith”; have been seen to be continuing to live “torturous”
lives because their real problem has not been addressed;
have been seen to have ended up immobilized
and restrained, going through life as if they are now one of those “Night of the Living
Dead” type zombies, walking about nowadays in a sleep-like state and following their
leaders like sheep that are going over a cliff; and have been seen to be ignoring the lone voice
that is trying to call them out of the wilderness and is telling them that there is a far more
effective way to address their true problems.
One person said of Jean Sharon Abbott that “she lived more
than three decades trapped inside her own body.” What has been seen here are
persons who have lived for more than three decades trapped inside their minds, trapped inside
their assigned or assumed personalities, and trapped in the guaranteed misery and suffering which
both of those will always generate.
And what has also been seen are thousands upon thousands of
persons who are claiming that this or that religious or spiritual or
ideological or philosophical plan or program (or some church or temple or mosque or
synagogue) has “saved their lives” and “restored them to sanity and peace” although they
are still as self-defeating and self-destructive as ever, even while claiming
to be sane.
What has been seen are those who are still despondent and gloomy
and numb and bored but who are now claiming to be happy and even joyous. What
has been seen are those who claim that they are finally free but who are now totally dependent
on other things and other people. What has been seen are persons claiming "finally to be completely in touch with reality / Reality" but who are actually subsumed
in escapism and avoidance and dissociation and who are now living in Foo Foo Land.
How insane is it for persons to claim to have been restored to
sanity even though they are still behaving insanely? How insane is it to claim
one is happy when one is obviously depressed and miserable? How insane is it for
persons trapped in the prison of their minds to claim that they are free?
The invitation is to be certain that Jean Sharon Abbott’s thirty-three-year
experience does not become yours. The invitation is to look objectively at the
actual results of those who are offering
you a solution to your problem and then see if what they are offering is truly effective, both for those
they have dealt with in the past and for you right now.
Then see that there is no “good vs. evil” duality. There is merely dual-mindedness,
just as a man said 2000 years ago after he left organized religion and began sharing
non-dual pointers during the last three years of his relative existence. He said: “A
dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
He did not say, “Those who do not continue with the religion
I left - or with some other religion - are going to be unstable in all ways.”
He did not say, “Those who are not spiritual are going to be
unstable in all ways.”
He did not say, “Those who are not philosophical are going to
be unstable in all ways.”
He did not say, “Those who are not ideological fanatics are
going to be unstable in all ways.”
He pinned all instability on “the mind.”
If whatever you might be involved with does not free you of
the mind, then all of their efforts and all of your efforts and all of your
time and money will be for naught.
The problems of humanity are rooted solely in the mind, so as far as “progress rather
than perfection” goes, one is either perfectly sane or not sane at all. The is
no being a little pregnant, and there is no being a little free of learned ignorance,
a little free of insanity, or being a little free of the effects of ignorant and insane
programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing
and indoctrination.
As one cartoon character who was watched during childhood used
to say, “Either you is . . . or you ain’t. There ain’t no ‘in-between’.”
As for, “Well, I’m not well but I’m doing better than I was,”
the invitation is to ask, “Who programmed and conditioned you to find that
acceptable?” “What belief system is driving you to settle for that rather than continuing
to seek a second or third or fourth opinion until you find what really ails you and what can really address that?” And “Why
are you going along with the masses rather than listening for a lone voice that
is trying to call you out of the wilderness?”
The word “wilderness” originally referred to “a place to pass
through.” Is the program or organization or entity you’re a part of inviting you
to pass though, or are they telling you that "you must stay there forever”? Are
they teaching you, or un-teaching you?
Are they telling you that "you must believe what they believe," or are they inviting you to be free of all of your beliefs which are the actual source of your problems? Are they telling you that "you must forever
learn more and more," or are they explaining that – since the content of the
mind is the root of all human problems – you might consider un-learning it all?
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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