tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74658595824500892582024-03-12T17:25:55.836-07:00HEARING VOICES? SCHIZOPHRENIA? Find help and hope here.I have been hearing voices for nearly thirty years - without becoming ill. I have written a book "Listening to the Silences" which describes my experiences and which offers many insights. The book is meant for voice-hearers, carers and professionals.
I shall be extremely grateful for anything that is done to promote the book and the fundamental knowledge that it contains. It is free to download at www.royvincent.org You may communicate directly using
rvincent50@googlemail.comroy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-14238850803853698302016-07-31T01:05:00.000-07:002016-07-31T01:05:32.038-07:00I DON'T BELIEVE IN NITROGEN<span style="color: red;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18pt;">That sounds pretty daft, doesn’t it? And no - no I haven’t actually <i>heard</i> anyone say so. But ask the average person a question about Nitrogen and their blank look will tell you all that you need to know. To the average person, Nitrogen doesn’t exist – does it?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 22pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Even this passing interest will wane if you move on to suggest that, as Nitrogen is a constituent of many minerals, and is present in large volumes in the seas <b><i>and is a component of every living thing</i></b>, it might be worth a thought. As the blank look gets even blanker, they might give a passing reference to CO2 – “Yeah – I’ve heard of that – greenhouse gas - innit?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"> Nitrogen is invisible and odourless, so to all intents and purposes, it is not there – until it blows on you, or drives along the clouds in the sky. Sometimes it is warm - other times it may be cold, although you don’t say to yourself “The nitrogen is warm/cold today.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"> In other words, you are only aware of this invisible element by the effect that it has upon you. Yet, if it ceased to be there, you would die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"> Those selfsame words may be applied directly to another invisible element that is present and ‘envelops’ you completely and always. An element that is far more complex than nitrogen, and much, much more difficult to describe – and certainly not in scientific terms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"> It is an element whose presence has been recognised, recorded and analysed and written about by the people of every culture that has ever existed, and since the beginning of recorded time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20pt;">It is fundamental. It is the world of ‘spirit’.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"> Now how do I follow that? Yes. How <i>do</i> I follow that? In introducing ‘nitrogen’ and speculation about the gas, I was entering a ‘world’ where virtually everything may be analysed and measured - the world of science.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20pt;">Not so within the ‘world of spirit’.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"> Just try to speak or write about ‘spirit’, ‘spiritual’, ‘spirits’ and inevitably you will find yourself bogged down in the world of religion, of religions, of confusion, of speculation, where every relevant word has already been saddled with a whole range of meaning, of meanings – all argued over, debated –<i>fought over</i> even – and you will understand why I hesitate to add even more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"> Yet I have added more – 160,000 words more - in the text of a book that I have written and published. Words that have come from my heart – that have come from my mind. Words that have come from the reality of personal experience. Personal experience of the <b><i>reality</i></b> of spiritual presence. From the direct experience of the presence within my mind and within my body of intelligent independently acting ‘beings’. Beings that are normally referred to as spirits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Listening to the Silences<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">in a World of Hearing Voices</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">I have experienced inner voices and many other phenomena for over thirty years – and I am not, nor ever have been made ill from this cause. I have not become ill because, knowing exactly what I was doing at the outset, and how everything evolved, I am certain, with an unshakeable certainty, that what I experience is the result of spiritual intrusion into my mind, body and senses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"> I write in detail of how it all began, and my subsequent life and what I have learned – and still continue to learn – and how, in contrast to the malign voices and presences that can dominate thought and action, I have experienced the direct opposite. I have experienced the actions and support of the absolutely benign spiritual presences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">When I began to write, I had one principal purpose, namely, to bring reality to the understanding of ‘schizophrenia’, ‘voice hearing’ –<b><u>reality</u></b>, <b><u>experience</u> – instead of academic theory.</b> However, as I wrote, I realised that much of what I was writing had direct relevance to other areas of mental ill-health, such as ‘bipolar disorder’, ‘dissociation’ or multiple-personality disorder, and possibly paranoia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"> One theme, however, runs through the book, a theme whose purpose is to proclaim the reality of the existence of the completely benign and helpful spiritual presences. Without these presences in my life, I would not have achieved much of what I have done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;"> They exist in the lives of everyone – but as with the nitrogen, many individuals are completely unaware, or don’t even care. For myself – without their quiet, almost subliminal help, I would never have achieved what I have done in my writing, nor in my role as natural healer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">I would never have corresponded by email with other voice-hearers across the world, from the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region> to <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alaska</st1:place></st1:state>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Certainly, I would never have received an email such as this from ‘John’ – forty-five years old and long time voice hearer –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-11421090206727265372016-07-11T03:41:00.000-07:002016-07-25T06:47:25.794-07:00HER VERY SPECIAL MILE-HIGH CLUB<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: center;">
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and all that those two words conjure up – but I do not apologise for writing,
writing and continuing to write. Because,
through my book and Blog, I have reached many individuals, and, as we have corresponded
by email, so many very personal stories have emerged. Stories that I try to weave through my
writing – all the time trying to convey to anyone who is interested just what
it can be like to experience these unknown voices in the mind and physical
presence within the body. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Therefore, to try to experience what is like to live with ‘other
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that you join me in a little role play?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You are now Sara-Jane; you are in
your early forties and are in a
plane a mile high above the <st1:place w:st="on">Mediterranean</st1:place> and
about to join her unique Mile High Club…</span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You are returning from an
absolutely blissful holiday in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Greek</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Islands</st1:placetype></st1:place>, and to where you
will return in a year’s time to marry Tom, your partner, who is beside you,
lightly dozing. Your mind is so full –
the holiday just ended – already planning what you will wear next year. Not a negative thought in your mind; nothing
but happiness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then suddenly, all of the other
people on the plane are talking about you, criticising you, condemning you,
pulling you to pieces – your clothes; your morals – on and on. As you cower in your seat, Tom wakes and you
pour out the reasons for your distress – “They’re all talking about me! They’re all talking about me!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Tom stands up and looks around,
and persuades you to do the same. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Not a single person shows any
interest in you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Somehow, you manage to keep things
together while the plane lands and you travel home, where the dam bursts and
the malign voices and presences continue their castigation. You have time off work, ostensibly with
stress, and you struggle to cope. Only
with the strong support and care from Tom and your twin sister do you manage to
avoid being ‘sectioned’. Yet you have
determination that this ‘thing’ is not going to beat you, and you struggle with
the minimum of drug intake and try to find the real explanation of what has
happened to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You scour the Internet, looking
for articles, books – anything that might help.
You find one, a book, that seems to draw you, and you read it avidly,
non-stop. And at last, you have an explanation
that seems to fit your own incredible experiences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I must write to this man and tell
him”, you say to Tom. And you do…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And here alongside me as I write
is the letter from Sara-Jane. It is a
letter that puzzled me when I first opened it, for it is on the headed
note-paper of a very major British motor manufacturer, where she works in a
responsible position. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sara-Jane begins:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I want to say thanks for writing
on the Internet about your experiences.
I found it to be the only true version of what I feel happened to myself
last year. I had been looking for books
to read on the subject but I found nothing useful until I came across your account…”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">She and Tom came to stay with me,
and we were able to reach an even greater understanding of her
experiences. The year elapsed – and
produced on my computer two wedding photographs of very happy people –
Sara-Jane, looking absolutely exquisite, alongside a beaming Tom; and the
second, with twin sister, equally looking radiant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sara-Jane can count herself
fortunate, in that her experiences appear to have had a beginning and an end –
or if not an actual ‘end’, but a finite analysis that shows that control is
made possible by ‘awareness’ and knowledge.
Others may not be so fortunate, and with them I may begin an email
correspondence – one that can span the Globe, (yes, truly Worldwide as emails
have arrived from such diverse locations as the Philippines, Moscow, Brazil,
Mexico, Florida and UK) – and which may go on for some months before,
hopefully, we can write “RESULT – give me a high-five!” </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 18.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Most people know someone with mental health problems who might
profit from reading my book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> ‘Hearing
voices’ is something that many individuals just don’t want to talk about,
because of the stigma, and fear of ‘psychiatry’ and powerful anti-psychotic
drugs. They might welcome the chance to
read about someone else’s experiences and ways of coping. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So please note
the Web/Blog addresses, and pass them on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.0pt;">BOOK – "<i>Listening to the Silences in a World of Hearing Voices"</i></span><br />
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-20883858602718373702016-07-09T02:10:00.000-07:002016-07-09T02:10:17.090-07:00LIVE LARGE AND DREAM SMALL<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>LIVE LARGE</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>AND</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>DREAM SMALL</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">("LORE" BY R.S.THOMAS)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Job Davies, eighty-five</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Winters old, and still alive</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After the slow poison</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And treachery of the seasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Miserable? Kick my arse!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It needs more than rain's hearse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wind-drawn to pull me off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The great perch of my laugh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What's better than courage?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paunch full of hot porridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nerves strengthened with tea,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Peat black - dawn found me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mowing where the grass grew,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bearded with golden dew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rhythm of long scythe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kept this tall frame lithe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What to do? Stay green.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Never mind the machine,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whose fuel is human souls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Live large, man, and dream small...</span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-2910919036913715952016-06-20T08:22:00.002-07:002016-07-09T09:03:49.959-07:00ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA - A POSSIBLE CAUSE?<div class="MsoTitle" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 150%;">FROM TOES TO HEAD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 150%;">IS THIS <st1:address w:st="on">A ROUTE FOR</st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 150%;">DEMENTIA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 32px; line-height: 48px;">AND</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ASKS ROY VINCENT<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Amongst
the many items of trash and dross that would invade my television set if I let
them, there is, fortunately, a strand of programmes that make worthwhile the presence
of the TV in my home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From among the catalogue of choice programmes that I could
list, there are some that I always find illuminating as well as enjoyable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The various young singer/musician/dancer competitions invariably
produce remarkable talent in performance.
But for me, and often more revealing than the performances themselves,
the preceding master classes and practice sessions can provide compulsive
viewing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Recently
I watched a EuroVision Young Dancer competition, and again found the earlier
practice sessions to be illuminating.
Not necessarily, as one might expect, to view the dancing itself, but
rather to appreciate the different <i>attitudes</i> of the young dancers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dedication and
application there were a-plenty, but one competitor from a Central European
country stood out. She was seventeen,
and featured more than the others.
During one of her breaks from dancing, she was interviewed while she
tended her feet. She described how she
often had to work through a ‘pain barrier’ – which she did out of dedication to
her teachers. She pointed to a painful
lump on an instep, and described how the nail of one of her big toes had been
pushed down at its root, again causing her severe pain, which, nevertheless,
she overrode in her zeal for the dance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In my mind as I
watched, I was taken back to thoughts that had appeared when I first became
aware of the existence of Alzheimer’s disease.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The connection
may appear non-existent at this stage, but this is how it arose:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Several years
ago, I watched on television a film called <i>Do You Remember Love?</i> It was a very poignant story as it revealed
the gradual progress towards dementia of a vibrant and vital woman university
lecturer. No more than fifty years old,
her phases of awareness and gradually diminishing mental faculty were well demonstrated,
and as I watched, I began to understand the implications of something that
hitherto had been only a name. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At that time, I
had had no personal contact with the illness, and indeed could name but two individuals
who had suffered and died from it. One
was well know to most, namely film actress Rita Heyworth, and the other was Mrs.
W. someone who was well known in the village where I once lived. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">At first sight,
there may appear to be yet another non-existent connection, but there is one –
both had been dedicated dancers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Biographies of
Rita Heyworth describe her passionate zeal for dancing from an early age. Mrs W. had formerly been a ballet dancer,
equally passionate for her dancing, who had then continued as a teacher of ballet
until her diminishing faculties brought to an end her lifetime of dancing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Puzzling though
it may appear, I aim to demonstrate a connection between a debilitating and
sometimes fatal condition of the mind with possible causes originating at the
other end of the body. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">My deductions
will acquire more weight when one considers the fact that many footballers
develop and, in some cases, die from Alzheimer’s disease, and footballers, more
than most individuals, seem to be prone to foot injury. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The connection
that forms the basis of my reasoning is Acupuncture - the system of meridians
and individual points that pervades the whole of the body and head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Some dismiss
acupuncture as a non-existent phenomenon; others concede to it a minor
palliative role. To those who do not accept
the reality, I simply ask that you should keep your mind open and follow my arguments
as they develop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There are many
books dedicated to the whole system of acupuncture therapy, and there are
others that demonstrate the actual existence of the bodily system by indirect
means. One of the latter is <i>The Body
Electric</i> by Robert O. Becker. An
American orthopaedic surgeon, Becker describes his research into the subtle
electrical currents that facilitate the regrowth of bone in the healing of
fractures. Quite by chance, he
identified the independent electrical ‘circuitry’ that coincided with the
traditional acupuncture ‘meridians’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The meridians are
separate branches of the circuitry that together link all parts of the
body. There are twelve traditional
meridians - six terminating on the hands, and six on the feet. As my discussion at this stage relates only
to the feet, I shall concentrate on those meridians that begin or end there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Each ‘circuit’
has a name associated with that of a particular organ. It does not, however, indicate that the named
organ is the only body part to be treated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> This is the list of the ‘foot’ meridians
-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> 1. Spleen.
2. Liver. 3. Stomach. 4. Gall.
5. Bladder. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> 6. Kidney.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The feet are
illustrated at the end of this article.
There is no picture of the plantar surface of the foot, which has only
one acupuncture point. This point is ‘<b><u>Kidney
1’</u></b>, and is situated “on the sole of the foot between two pads: one
under the base of the big toe (metatarso-phalangeal articulation) and the other
at the base of the metatarso-phalangeal articulations of the other four toes”
[Extract from <i>Acupuncture Therapy</i> by Mary Austin].<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Each acupuncture
point has its own repertoire of ailments that one may treat from that point, a
repertoire that has been refined over the many hundreds of years that acupuncture
has been used, and is now the standard taught in most Acupuncture Schools. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As I noted above,
the ailments might relate to parts of the body that are remote from the actual
point of treatment. For example, <b><u>Bladder</u></b>
<b><u>(Bl) 67,</u></b> which is located
on the smallest toe, may be used to treat such diverse conditions as
‘pain in eye’, ‘difficulty in urination’.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">However, I want
to make very clear - <i>very</i> clear - the fact that I am not suggesting
that, willy-nilly, this specific point, and those that I list below, should be
used in isolation to treat specific ailments.
The whole practice of acupuncture is a total therapy, and not one to be
applied by untrained individuals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the <st1:placename w:st="on">British</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype>
of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture, for example, practitioners undergo an
extensive period of full-time training that includes study time spent in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Furthermore, their treatment involves a
detailed study of the individual patient and how he or she responds to a whole
variety of tests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">What I am trying
to do in this essay is to use one specific piece of ‘received wisdom’ from the
field of acupuncture, and to apply it, again specifically, in relation to
dementia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The ‘received
wisdom’ is this: if an acupuncture point is damaged, it is possible that the ailments
that are treated from that point may actually be <i>created</i> within the
person. The damage may be that resulting
from fractures, severe bruising, local sprain, operation scars, trauma
following other injury, and, in the case of feet, such accretions as bunions
and corns. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In the example of
the dancers mentioned, some of the damage may be that caused by the compression
of the delicate joints of the toe bones and the tarsals as the dancer works on
‘points’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">One does not have
to look further than one’s own feet to realise the potential for damage –
indeed, it will probably be the case that the damage is already there! Each time I look at mine, I see such an area
of neglect that I have at my extremity.
If one only knew in youth, what one learns in age, what a different
attitude one would have adopted to one’s foot care and the choice of footwear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Studying mine, as
I sometimes do in the interests of science, I see the depredations of ageing –
I am now ninety – and I see something that has always been there for as long as
I can remember. What I observe are the
differences between my two feet, difference in size: difference in conformation. Shoe-shop assistants invariably said “Let’s
try the right foot first, it is usually bigger”. This statement was sometimes followed by a
remark about ‘kicking footballs’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Reflecting on the
topic many years later, I recall that I did not spend very much time kicking
footballs, so there must be other reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For an explanation,
it is necessary, first, to acknowledge that we are mammals, and also that it is
not very long in the overall evolutionary span, that we were quadrupeds. Quadrupeds have a particular linkage between
the four limbs in that they are linked in pairs diagonally. Thus, in humans, the right arm and left leg
are linked, and likewise the left arm and right leg. Similarly, the right hand and left foot are
closely linked, and each responds to the actions of the other. Thus, if the right hand grips something, the
left foot adopts a similar ‘gripping’ mode.
(I distinctly remember my G.P. referring to my left foot as “clawed”).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am
right-handed, and it does not require long reflection to consider the amount of
time that my right hand has been engaged in gripping objects since my
birth. One has only to consider how
frequently and for how long one gripped a pen or pencil as one progressed
through the various stages of learning, to be able to begin to fill in the
complete picture. In making comments
such as these, it is as well to remember that I am only analysing myself. Each person is an individual, and any damage
or distortion of the feet would be the consequence of personal history, and not
of any rule of thumb analysis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="line-height: 150%;">Points on the Liver
(Liv) <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Meridian</st1:place></st1:city> </span></u></b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Liv 1.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unconsciousness, fainting, ‘appearance as though dead’,
headaches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Liv 2.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Headache, head dizzy, insomnia, angry easily, hysteria,
madness, insanity, epilepsy, fits, convulsions in children, neurasthenia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>Points on the Spleen (Sp) <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Meridian</st1:place></st1:city></u><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sp 1<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%;">Madness, little children cantankerous.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Agitated, melancholic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>Sp 3</u></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mad, agitated, melancholic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h1>
<u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Points on the Stomach (S) <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Meridian</st1:place></st1:city></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;"> </span></u></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>S 40</u></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Throat numb, cannot speak, madness, ‘sees ghosts’, laughs
madly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">S 41 <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vertigo, madness, fits,
convulsions in children, incoherent speech, frightened, agitated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">S 42<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">‘Wants to undress in public’, wanders around aimlessly, ‘every
month madness’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>S 44 </u></b>Melancholic, fear and trembling, nightmares, ‘dislikes the
human voice’.<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">S 45 <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fainting, cerebral anaemia, ‘like a corpse’, deviation of
mouth, dementia, insomnia, neuropathy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>Kidney
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fainting with cold limbs, prone to fear, madness,
epilepsy, alarm in children, paralysis, pain in head and nape of neck, eyes
dizzy, vertigo, hypertensive ecephalopathy. (The position of K1 is on the plantar
surface of the foot, almost below and two centimetres proximal to Liv. 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bladder (Bl) 61.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Madness, ‘sees ghosts’,
faints easily.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Madness, epilepsy, occipital neuralgia, tension headaches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bl. 63.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Headache, ‘shaking of head with open mouth in children’,
convulsions in children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bl. 64.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Epilepsy, madness, cerebral
congestion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bl. 65.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Madness, headache, vertigo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bl. 66.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Headache, vertigo, fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><u>Point A</u></b> is not a classical point but has been added by research
that is more recent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One could use it to
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“articular degeneration of the atlas/axis joint.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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AUREOLUS THEOPHRASTUS BOMBASTUS HOHENHEIM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Beginning his education in the Bergschule in
Austria, the young Paracelsus was being trained to become an overseer and
analyst for mining operations in gold, tin and mercury and other metals and
ores, gaining knowledge and experience that laid some of the foundations of his
later discoveries in the field of chemotherapy, which, for someone born when Columbus
was discovering the New World, was most remarkable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He attended the Universities of Basel,
Tübingen, <st1:city w:st="on">Wittenberg</st1:city>, <st1:city w:st="on">Vienna</st1:city>,
<st1:city w:st="on">Leipzig</st1:city> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Heidelberg</st1:city></st1:place>, and along the way graduated in
medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But, in spite of, or because of this
experience, he rejected much of the, then, traditional education and medicine -
which is perhaps the rebel spirit which I so admired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Paracelsus wrote “The universities do not
teach all things, so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers,
wandering tribes, old robbers and such outlaws and take lessons from them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>A
doctor must be a traveller… Knowledge is
experience.” <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We are a bit short on sorcerers, wandering
tribes and outlaws these days, but in spite of that, I find much in the <i>spirit
</i>of Paracelsus to which I warm, and I would far rather find my own remedies
in natural herbs and substances than in neatly packaged capsules in a bottle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is interesting to reflect that many of
these self-same capsules will contain in refined form the very remedies that
had been used and dispensed during numerous past centuries by the old wives,
gypsies and sorcerers. In the refining,
much will have been lost, for often within a plant and discarded in the
refining are the buffers and catalysts that aided the process of healing and
minimised adverse side effects</span><span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Recently, I became 90 year old, and as
befits someone of that age, I look back and reminisce. Often the reminiscences begin when I pick up
the book that I have written, perhaps open it at random, then read a little and
finally liberate my mind and let it go where it chooses – as recently when I
opened with pleasure at the Paracelsus ‘story’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">There is one particular section that I avoid
most carefully. I wrote it in order to
let readers have a full appreciation of all of the events and influences that
had shaped me and which would prepare them for their reading of the next part,
a very <i>key</i> part, of my narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It comes early in the book – in Chapter One,
to be precise - and it records a ‘horror story’ – a story of how my life was
wrecked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In 1961, I had a successful career in the Nuclear
Industry – a career of which I was robbed through the consequences of a medical
misdiagnosis, and inappropriate and unnecessary medication.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In that year I experienced an episode of
diarrhoea so severe and continuous that it defied all known remedies. It is now believed to have been caused by an
infestation of the parasite, <i>Cryptosporidia,</i>
which may cause severe, uncontrollable, but self-limiting diarrhoea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">At that time, these parasites had not been
identified. The doctors who were
treating me were at a complete loss as to the cause and, as I have subsequently
deduced, they decided that it must be ‘nervous’ in origin, and, with no
specific discussion with me, stuck me with a label which read <i>Chronic Anxiety Neurosis</i> and provided me
with a prescription for the drug <i>LIBRIUM</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 16.0pt;">After two years continuous use, an addict,
dependent, and showing many of the side-effects of the drug, I began a
‘psychiatric’ year that opened with two episodes of cold turkey, then
hospitalisation for a total of twenty weeks; twenty-three applications of
Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) – yes, that is correct, 23 ECTs ; ‘experiments’
with a variety of drugs such as Tryptizol, Melleril, Valium, Pertofran and
assorted benzodiazepines and barbiturates, plus insulin shock ‘therapy’ – a
year that ended with a farcical second opinion from someone who went on to
become a doyen in the world of psychiatry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Here is a short extract from my book. Please read it, and then please decide to
read the complete work –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“A high flyer was I. Was I?
I shall never know now. No
self-vaunted Icarus was I, flapping higher and higher on phoney wings, only to
crash to destruction when the deceit was uncovered by the harsh sun of
scrutiny. No: by dint of the steady
wing-beats of hard work, dedication and loyalty, I was rising and being lifted
from time to time on the up draught of peer approbation. So: how did I lose my feathers? Why did I crash? Why did I have to learn to walk again?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> How
is it that such destruction can be visited on someone in broad daylight, in a
civilised society, in his own home, in the midst of a caring family and, at
work, under the gaze of a solicitous employer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> And
what did I lose? I lost a home which was
still being carefully built up and consolidated; I lost my wife and, effectively,
my daughter; in time I couldn’t sustain my job and retired prematurely;
financially, in today’s (2003) values, I have lost over half a million pounds,
while each year I receive in pension about one third of what I could reasonably
have expected. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But of greater worth, a
worth which can not be measured in cash, I have lost a swathe of my memory;
memory of a time when life was very good; when I had a wife whom I loved and
who was yet young; when work was very rewarding and successful; when my
daughter was blossoming. Do you know, I
cannot remember how she used to talk when she was little; the things she said;
bath times; bed times; Christmas; picnics and holidays; ponies…. I can barely remember the Sunbeam-Talbot that
was the family’s pride, or taking my mother and in-laws for ‘runs’. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I am fortunate in that I have a former work
colleague whom I meet from time to time, whose reminiscences remind me of the
highly successful and rewarding times we had as vital players in a cutting-edge
project that was a world first, otherwise <i>that</i> memory would also be
lost.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: large;"><b>What do you think?</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Do you think that I might have fared better
if I had been treated by one of Paracelsus’ “Old Wives, Gypsies or Sorcerers”?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>They would have natural remedies for many
ailments – including, I have no doubt. m</b></span><span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>any types of internal parasites.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: large;">I hope that you will follow the spirit of
Paracelsus and read my book. It will
tell you much that you do not know – particularly about ‘Voice Hearing’, and
having read it, who knows, you may be able to help someone else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "lucida sans unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even if you do not find a new star, do not
be disappointed – here is a new rainbow.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">A
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
rural home is heated using gas that comes in very large cylinders - cylinders that are delivered by Billy with his
wagon. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When,
four years ago, I was virtually snowed in, Billy got through with my gas –
hence the ‘hero’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
am 90, live alone, and appreciate people such a Billy in my life – he ensures
that I get my gas at the best price – and he <i>cares</i>…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We
don’t have much time to talk – just a few minutes as my cylinders are changed –
but long enough for back-chat and laughter – plenty of that.</span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However,
on his most recent delivery, the laughter was in somewhat short supply. In reply to my query, he said, “I have been
diagnosed with depression – I’m on anti-depressants (naming a drug with
notorious side-effects) – my GP tells me that I shall have to be on them for
the rest of my life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My
anger rent the air with language that echoed my time on the lower deck of a
naval destroyer in WW 2, and anger stoked by recollection of how my earlier life
had been wrecked as the result of a depression <b><i>created</i> </b>by completely
unnecessary medication.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“And what else are you ‘on’?”…. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Statins”, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There
was just time to dash into the house and get for him a list of Statins side effects
that I had downloaded from the Internet, before he had to drive off to his next
cylinder drop.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Four
days later, he phoned me – and the laughter came bubbling out of the phone, and
a voice that had its old familiar ring and ebullience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“That List” - he
said – “That list – I read it as soon as a I got home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have not taken another single Statin!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“My
neck and shoulder don’t ache any more – my feet aren’t tender, so I don’t
hobble around like a man with gout - I sleep like a baby…..”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He, obviously, didn’t have to
tell me anything about the ‘depression’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">His repeated “<i>Thank you – thank you…!</i> “
said it all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">++++++<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When my friend Peter saw the list</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, he looked very serious, but didn’t say very much. Soon, I learned that <b><i>he also </i></b>had immediately
stopped taking statins. As an
alternative, Peter’s wife, Patricia, bought a natural product – a composition
of <b>hawthorn and garlic - </b>which he
now takes regularly. Peter is 70, a
dairy-farmer, milking twice a day, and never misses a milking.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When
I spoke to Patricia very recently, she told me that Peter had recognised almost
every side-effect on the list – but is now clear of them all. I see them both regularly when they visit me,
when the conversation is very wide ranging, and does not reflect the 225+ years
that we share. From Patricia, I obtained
details of the hawthorn/garlic product to pass on to Billy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As for myself – </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I first learned of the properties and benefits of <b>hawthorn</b> when I acquired a most
delightful book named <b><i>Grandmother’s Secrets.</i></b> Written by Jean Paleiseul, and translated and
published as a Penguin Handbook, and now long out of print, it has provided me
with both valuable information and reading pleasure for thirty years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When
I read of hawthorn, and its beneficial properties relating to the heart and
circulation, I immediately decided to include it my daily ‘self-protection’
regime, buying it in tincture form from The Herb Company based in
Ballindalloch, Banffshire. Additionally,
it induces tranquillity and relaxation, which, for me makes redundant any other
form of ‘tranquilliser’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
health protection properties of garlic have been well known and documented
since the days of Ancient Egypt, and do not need any eulogy from me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Read
about them both on the Internet, where there is a wealth of information. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There
is also a considerable amount written about statins. To write about them and their potential
harmful effects would take me into the realm of medical politics, and as that
is not my destination, I shall conclude with a list of side effects and some
comments that I downloaded. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ROY VINCENT, MARCH, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">STATINS
SIDE EFFECTS<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></u></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gout and/or elevated uric acid.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peripheral neuropathy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Myopathy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Insomnia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Loss of libido.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Impotence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heart palpitations or arrhythmias.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Depression.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Memory loss – short or long-term.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Transient global amnesia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chest pain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neck and shoulder pain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fatigues.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Migraine headaches.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Digestive disorders.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rabdomyolysis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trouble walking – either shuffling or balance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hand tremors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slurred speech or trouble finding the right word.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dizziness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sciatica-like pain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">" The
problem with many of these symptoms is that, if you tell your doctor, he is
likely to dismiss them with the comment: "You are getting older; what do
you expect." Doctors, it seems,
refuse to believe that such 'safe' drugs as Statins could possibly have any
side effects. Because of this, these
effects, which are frequently due to Statins, are not recorded as side effects.
<br />
This is why, if you look on the Internet for adverse effects of Statins, you
will probably be 'reliably informed' that there are very few side effects; and
that 'Statins are very safe'. You need
to know that this is untrue. "</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-46522253560628968822016-03-27T02:52:00.000-07:002016-08-11T02:50:31.472-07:00PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY - NUCLEAR SUBMARINES ARE WRECKING MY LIFE<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><b>Please take this seriously - the transmissions to the submarines are very intense as the TV from the Olympics is being streamed to them.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><b>The reactions that I describe that are being felt by individuals on shore are consequently intensified.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><b>No one is immune.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><b>NUCLEAR SUBMARINES<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><b>ARE<i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">WRECKING</span></i><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><b>MY LIFE<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">And not just <i>my</i>
life, but also the lives of many other people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">No
– I am <u>not</u> an ‘anti’ – ‘anti –this’ or ‘anti- that’.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I am certainly not anti-‘nuclear’. How could I be, when I spent the whole of my
working life in the nuclear plants of Sellafield and Calder Hall Power Station?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">And even if I have a view about the ‘nuclear
deterrent’</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">I would certainly not discuss it in an article such as
this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">No! In fact, I
admire the submariners and their dedication to our defence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">It is the <i>systems </i> that are used to <i>communicate </i>with them that create the
problems – </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">quite serious problems.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Nuclear
submarines must be hidden and undetected wherever they are deployed, from the <st1:place w:st="on">Arctic</st1:place> to the Antarctic, for periods of up to three
months at a time. Completely
undetectable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Which
means that they never use anything such as satellite aerials or surface aerials
of any sort that may be visible from satellite surveillance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They
must receive their communications while they are deep in the deepest parts of
the oceans of the World. Anywhere in the
World.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Communications that are transmitted
through the Earth and Ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There
is a considerable amount of information available on the Internet if you search
for ‘Communication with nuclear submarines’, and ‘Extremely Low Frequency
Program’, but essentially this is what happens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">An
’aerial’ is created from a long electrical cable which is ‘plugged’ into the
ground at each end, and which is ‘fed’ at its mid-point with the transmitted
communications. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Russians are quite
open with information about their installation which is near <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Murmansk</st1:city></st1:place>.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Their
‘aerial’ is 10 km long and is ‘plugged’ into the earth at either end in
what may be described as mini mine-shafts.
The <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> transmitter is
believed to be in <st1:state w:st="on">Wisconsin</st1:state>, while that of the
<st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> is believed to be within
a forest in <st1:place w:st="on">Northern Scotland</st1:place>. As for the others – the countries deploying
these submarines – France, Israel, China, Pakistan, I believe, - possibly
Australia – each will have its own transmission system and transmitter
location, ensuring that the World is criss-crossed with these signal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Russians transmit using a frequency of 82 Hz or cycles per second, while the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> uses a frequency of 78 Hz. The remaining countries that deploy these
submarines are very sparing with information, or are completely silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">These transmissions are non-directional,
and are capable of reaching anywhere on the planet – land as well as sea.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">All
life is very sensitive to its electrical and electromagnetic, <b>em, </b>environment – witness the reported
behaviour of some animals as they respond to the seismic earth currents that
are created at the onset of earthquakes.
(One man in Los Angeles actually predicts impending quakes from the
frequency of lost pet adverts in public media, while famously, 90,000 lives
were saved when, in 1975, the Chinese city of Haicheng was evacuated because of
observation of unusual animal behaviour.
The subsequent powerful earthquake destroyed the greatest part of the
city).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Acknowledging
my status as a mammal, I, also, am aware of changes to my
electrical/electromagnetic environment.
Indeed, for many years I have been aware of my ultra-sensitivity, and do
all that I can to eliminate sources of electromagnetic (<b>em</b>) radiation. My relative
isolation keeps me away from most – there is no mobile phone signal – and
domestically I avoid much <b>em</b>
radiation, even to the exclusion of Wi.fi – and would resist ‘to the death’ any
attempt to install an electrical ‘smart meter’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Although
the actual strength of the transmitted signal is low when it reaches me, the
strength is immaterial – it simply acts as a trigger that activates the
‘autonomic’ reactions of my nervous system, reactions that induce all of the
physical feelings of deep anxiety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The transmission frequencies are known
as Extra Low Frequency (ELF), </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and have been well studied and written
about. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Principally, they can affect the
function of the nervous system, while the extremely lowest frequencies may
induce altered states of consciousness.</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Because
the submarines can only <i><b>receive</b></i> the
signals, transmissions from the land bases have to be made at specific
times. Nations will transmit at
different frequencies, and at their own chosen times, which in my experience is
on the quarter hour – there are individual transmissions going on all through
the day – and also the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I
first became aware of ‘something’ several years ago. That ‘something’ occurred at <b>6 a.m</b>., when, immediately, I sensed
that ‘something electrical’ had been switched on ‘somewhere’. Lying in bed, I was immediately consumed with
a strong feeling of ‘depression’ – mental and physical. Friends with whom I communicate each day were
also describing similar experiences and reactions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Seven a.m. ‘switch on’</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> creates something entirely different. The function of my brain is ‘slowed down’ and
my balance is affected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And
so on, through the day and night, with different reactions being induced at
different times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Having
eliminated anything local as a source of these reactions, further analysis and
observation over time, led me to speculate about the nuclear submarines, and to
receive confirmation via the Internet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">To write in greater detail will result
in a very long article. So I shall be
brief.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">‘Switch
on’ instantly creates a strong sensation in the perineum and genitals and a
false desire to urinate and defecate. (I
have ample opportunity to observe farm animals, and invariably they urinate and
defecate immediately when alarmed.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The
throat becomes tense, and breathing is held at a minimal level, whilst the
midriff is tautened and an unpleasant ‘gut feeling’ induced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Wrists,
calves and buttock also tense, whilst the shoulders hunch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The
palms of the hands, finger ends and the soles of the feet become ‘desensitised’-,
almost numb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Frequently,
the lower bowel develops quantities of ‘wind’ or ’gas’ with accompanying
‘mucus’, which when expelled becomes what is generally known as a ‘wet fart’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There
are times, when a transmission is particularly strong and lengthy, thereby
creating an intense inner feeling of anxiety, the complete liquid contents of
the lower bowel may be expelled violently and without the possibility of
restraint, and. depending where it actually happens, may be the cause of great
embarrassment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In
other words these are the reactions of a mammal in a state of panic or deep
anxiety - trying to keep a ’low profile’ when potentially in danger, yet being
prepared to run for its life.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In
the human mammal, when the aches and tensions become an almost permanent
feature of one’s life, attempts are made to ‘rationalise’ them, tolerate them,
or to find ‘common cause’ with other sufferers.
Just as I do with the friends with whom I communicate frequently on
these matters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In
desperation, one of these friends presented her GP with a full litany of every
reaction and symptom, ending with <b>“Will
you please tell me what is wrong with me?”
<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She
received the reply <b>– “The answer is that
I don’t know – practically every GP in the country is being asked that same
question, and we don’t know the answer.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Because
of their isolation, sub-mariners need to be kept informed about daily life in
their home country, and there are times when the transmissions are long and
continuous. This is particularly so when
there are major sporting events taking place and when there are major
international tensions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A
prime example of the latter occurred when President Obama was planning to bomb <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region></st1:place>
in reprisal for the alleged use of chemical weapons by Government Forces. The transmissions must have been continuous
as the naval units of the various nations were kept informed and received
instructions - and my internal reactions became almost unbearable – as were
those of my ‘contacts’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Then
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Russia</st1:country-region></st1:place>
intervened, and I went to bed on the Sunday evening not knowing what the next
day would bring. I woke in the night –
and there was <b><i>nothing</i></b><i>…</i> And again, throughout the Monday – nothing –
as it must have been at the dawn of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Obama
had ‘blinked’ and everyone was holding their breath, waiting to see what would
happen next. My phone hardly stopped
ringing as friends rang to comment in amazement and to enquire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">‘Normal service’ resumed on the
Tuesday….<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Currently,
the situation in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region> and
the rest of the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place> is so tense and
volatile that it is inevitable that transmissions will be frequent and long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">At
this moment, it is mid-day on Thursday 24th of March and there is a powerful transmission,
with the result that I have had to cease writing, because it is virtually impossible
to think coherently or to make rational decisions because of intense and continuous
physical and mental reactions.
Additionally, my gullet is ‘locked’ and food will not descend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I
have written elsewhere suggesting that the large increase in the number of
whales that are becoming stranded on European beaches and elsewhere in the World
is also the result of their disturbance and panic caused by the electromagnetic
phenomena that surround them as they swim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">While
I cannot put myself in the place of a whale in the ocean, I have no difficulty
in imagining the confusion and panic that might be created in such a huge
creature when it is completely surrounded and swamped by ‘alien’ influences
similar to the ones that I am feeling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In
terms of human reactions, I can write solely about my experiences and those of
the group of friends who live in the same area.
The majority are also retired and, like me, live lives that are fairly
‘static’ – living in small houses or bungalows, and hence spending much time
‘close to the ground’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Additionally,
the area in which we live was formerly very actively volcanic, and has a base
stratum of granite. Whether or not this
has any significance in the distribution of these signals as opposed to the
distribution in zones having different geology, I have no way of knowing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Individuals
who live and/or work in high rise buildings, will be subject to diminishing
influence, while those who live in what have been described as the ‘urban
electromagnetic jungles’, where there is already a great amount of <b>em</b> radiation from a great variety of
sources, they are least likely to be
aware of subtle changes within their environment – although their bodies and
brains will, willy nilly, detect the transmissions, and will create corresponding
involuntary reactions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I
speculate whether the influences and reactions that I describe make any
contribution to the acknowledged increase in mental health problems, early
onset dementia and an observed upsurge in human aggression.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Also,
it is a significant fact that in the majority of the World regions where
revolution, upheaval and turmoil are happening, the inhabitants live and sleep
essentially on or very close to the ground – and since the transmissions to the
submarines are non-directional, there is not a place on earth where they will
not reach.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">USEFUL <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">READING</st1:city></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The
published researches of <b>Dr. Cyril Smith</b>
of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Salford</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> give much information
concerning sensitivity to <b>em
transmissions</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His
book <b>‘Electro-magnetic Man’ </b>is very
informative. (Sorry, no ISBN)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Likewise,
the publications of American Orthopaedic Surgeon, the late<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dr. Robert O. Becker</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">, are very relevant and very readable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">‘The Body Electric’</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> – ISBN - 0 –
688 – 06971 – 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">‘Crosscurrents’</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> – ISBN – 978 – 0 – 87477 – 609 – 6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Additionally
there are many articles and reports on the subject of <b>‘Etho-geological forecasting’</b>
e.g. by <b>Rupert Sheldrake</b> et
al, which describe the reactions of a variety of animals and other life forms
to terrestrial electricity from all of its various origins. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">THIS IS A VERY BROAD OUTLINE, BASED UPON
MY OWN OBSERVATIONS IN MY OWN LOCATION.
OTHERS MAY HAVE DIFFERENT OR NO REACTIONS. I SHALL ADD TO THIS ARTICLE WITH ANY NEW
OBSERVATIONS AND REACTIONS AND COMMENTS THAT HAVE RELEVANCE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">ROY VINCENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">From the age of 18, when I trained as a
radar specialist in the wartime Royal Navy, until my retirement from a
lifetime’s employment as a measurement specialist in the Nuclear World of
Sellafield and Calder Hall, I have been involved with the detection and
measurement of minute electrical, electromagnetic and nuclear phenomena.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Currently, I have no equipment with
which to detect and measure the phenomena about which I write other than my
sensitive body and brain. However, I
have many words that I could use to express the resentment that I feel at this
gross intrusion from a system that is designed to protect me – from <i>what?<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">How
many liberties must we sacrifice <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">to
overcome our fears?<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Here is one final thought – if there <i>really is</i> a conflict, it is possible
that many individuals onshore might be rendered incapable of fighting because
of their mental and physical inertia, intensified by the great increase in
transmissions. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-16335004746649639252016-02-07T06:36:00.000-08:002016-02-07T06:46:47.970-08:00СЛЫШАНИЕ ГОЛОСОВ: ШИЗОФРЕНИЯ<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>СЛЫШАНИЕ ГОЛОСОВ: ШИЗОФРЕНИЯ</b></span></div>
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<strong><strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">АВТОР: РОЙ ВИНСЕНТ</span></strong></strong></div>
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<strong><br /></strong><span style="font-size: large;">Осенью 1979, я начал слышать голоса и испытывать другие явления, и это продолжается с тех пор. Таким образом, в течение более чем тридцати лет, я никогда не был свободен от этих вторжений, которые вторгаются, очевидно, или подсознательно в мой ум и умственные способности, и довольно сильно или тонко в мое тело и чувства.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Я использую слово 'вторжение' преднамеренно, потому что они не продукт отклоняющегося ума, ни больного мозга; ни галлюцинаций, ни даже заблуждений. C 1979 года, я не сомневаюсь то, что я испытываю, имеет духовное происхождение. Использование слова 'духовный' для некоторых предполагает 'религию', 'спиритизм', 'богословие' и т.п. - слова, которые во многом являются пугающими, и вероятно могут привести к отказу от даже открытия моей книги. Забудьте такие предвзятые мнения. Я - инженер и мой подход, и язык - это подход инженера - столь же точный и реалистический, какой может быть в пределах мира опыта, который является самым неточным и нереалистичным.<br />С начала я делал заметки, которые с 1998 начали превращаться в последовательный материал, поскольку я научился пользоваться компьютером. В ходе моего чтении в области психического здоровья я нашел то, что называют ‘Первыми Признаками шизофрении, и я понял, что я испытал их все, и записал их, хотя бы своими собственными словами. Все же - и это - самый важный пункт, что я отчаянно пытаюсь сделать - я никогда не был болен этой болезнью, и при этом не обращался за помощью или получил консультацию из мира психиатрии или религии. Напротив, я пишу, чтобы предостеречь от обоих направлений, которые пытаются помочь психически больным и людям с потревоженной психикой.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />По мере того, как я писал, мои слова были прочитаны друзьями, которые работают в области психиатрии. Поскольку они читали мои материалы, они хотели знать о том, что было 'до' - то есть о моей жизни перед началом вторжений. Я понял, что я должен действительно написать о жизни 'до', чтобы отделить это от событий 1979 года и что последовало потом, поскольку кроме факта того, что оба события случились со мной, они полностью несвязанны.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Что случилось со мной 'до' можно считать историей самой по себе, и это является первой частью моей книги. В 1961, у меня была успешная карьера в ядерной промышленности, карьера, которую я потерял после постановки неправильного диагноза и последующего ненужного лечения. То, что, как теперь известно, было инфекцией Cryptosporidia, врачи рассматривали как 'нервозность', и я начал жизнь с препаратом Librium. После двух лет непрерывного использования я подсел на медицинские препараты и стал иждивенцем, и показывающим многие из побочных эффектов препарата. Я начал 'психиатрический' год, который открылся двумя эпизодами "холодной индейки",госпитализацией в течение в общей сложности двадцати недель, 23 процедур Электро Судорожной Терапии, 'экспериментов' со множеством препаратов, таких как Tryptizol, Melleril, Valium, Pertofran и некоторые бензодиазепины и барбитураты, плюс терапия инсулиновым шоком- и это закончилось фарсом, вторым мнением от того, кто продолжал становиться старейшиной в мире психиатрии.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Я рано закончил свою карьеру и в моем доме было много проблем. И в реальной исчислении, я потерял более чем полмиллиона фунтов. Но в это трудно поверить, эффективно начал новую жизнь. Эта жизнь, которая была и очаровательна и полезна - даже при том, что после четырех лет включала события, которые тогда привели к духовным вторжениям. Поскольку я узнал, мало того, что есть злорадные мнения, что 'шизофреник' это плохо, но есть также доброжелательные мнения.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Целая история можно найти в книге известного целителя, покойного Брюса Макманавея, у которого был талант лечить. Этот талант дал хороший эффект, и который принес мне много положительного при общении с замечательными людьми.<br />Мой подход инженера привел меня к исследованию нашего взаимодействия с электрической окружающей средой, и пониманию аспектов электричества и здоровья. Узнавая электрическую природу иглоукалывания, например, я расширил свое знание и опыт в этой области.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Я идентифицировал более чем тридцать разных уловок, которые используют 'эти сущности' и описал их подробно. Я также понял, что доступ в ум уязвимого человека могут быть открыты через такие действия как гипноз и гипнотерапия, регрессия прошлых жизней, Рейки, использования каналов и различные формы 'предсказания'. Есть предостережения, также при выпуске духов, и многих других тайных методов, которые вовлекают ‘открытие ума’: и ссылки также на возможность таких 'воссозданных' наркотиков как гашиш/марихуана и мескалин, имеющий тот же самый эффект, что и эффект фигурируемый у шаманов. Я думаю, что аналогичное воздействие этих практик может привести к маниакальной депрессии.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Среди моих героев такие разнообразные люди как Галилей, Парацельсус и Никола Тесла, и я указываю и делаю выводы исходя из их учения, а также материалов и коммуникаций с психиатрами, психологами и другими специалистами в области умственного здоровья. Я также изучал сведения о известной слышавшей голоса и видевшей видения, Святой Терезы Авильской.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Я удивил себя, когда я нашел, что мои предварительные записки стали книгой. Когда я читаю то, что я написал, есть времена, когда я чувствую, как будто я очищен физически, и что сырой 'я' таким образом выставлен для всех, чтобы видеть его в пульсирующей боли и муке. Все же я открыл себя, мою жизнь и мои события охотно в надежде, что знание, что я приобрел, будет использоваться, перенося людей, или будет использоваться для их выгоды родственниками больных и профессионалами в мире психиатрии и заботе о психических нарушений. Поскольку я рассматриваю появление моей книги как напечатанной рукописи, то я могу надеяться, что это будет так. Хотя, реалистично, все, что я могу сделать для вас и мою веру в Вас как читателя, и присоединиться к поэту В.Б.Йитсу, когда он размышляет -<br />Куда Идут Мои Книги</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Все слова, которые я произношу,<br />И все слова, которые я пишу<br />Должны распространить свои неутомимые крылья<br />И никогда отдых в их полете,<br />Пока они не прибывают туда, где ваше грустное, грустное сердце.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 20.8px;">ДОСТУП К БЕСПЛАТНОЙ КНИГЕ В ИНТЕРНЕТЕ: www.royvincent.org</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 20.8px;">ТАКЖЕ КАК КНИГА В МЯГКОЙ ОБЛОЖКЕ ОТ: ISBN </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 20.8px;">Chipmunkapublishing.com 9781847477590</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 20.8px;">и как электронная книга для KINDLE.</span>roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-47612377711837596482016-02-06T05:24:00.000-08:002016-02-07T01:16:18.779-08:00THE VOICE - CONTROLLED BY THE VOICE<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: 22.0pt;">CONTROLLED BY <i><span style="color: red;">THE VOICE</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ROY VINCENT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sought not these voices that enter my head,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nor this physical ‘other’ that escorts me to bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">‘Innocence’, it seems, then, was my middle name</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When first I tried dowsing - but ‘twas not a game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Curiosity drove me. But most curious I found,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Were voices that spoke without making a sound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With my mind wide open – no barriers in place,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I sat one bright day, gazing, lost in my space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unprepared, as a ‘presence’ that I couldn’t see,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Moved out of my ‘space’ and right into me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At first it was friendly; at first it was kind,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But soon it had plans to take over my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Was it one? Were there twenty? Still I don’t know</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How such vile intrusions could grow and yet grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While my head became such a huge circus tent</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With tricksters and jugglers all fully Hell bent</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On creating Hell; such a Hell without cease</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inside a clear mind that had known only peace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If I listened and followed their every intent,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why soon I’d be lost up my own fundament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do it this way, no that way, <i>no t’other</i>, they’d say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If I let them, I’d stand in a dither all day,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bereft of all power to make my own choice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Becoming a puppet - controlled by <i>The Voice</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For thirty long years I have just had my fill</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of voices and ‘others’ – yet never was ill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I knew from Day One, the original voice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Was – now I am faced with a difficult choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I <i>know</i> there exist certain spirits, you see</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But will you believe me? With me then agree?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since Ape became Man, every race then has found</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such voices that speak without making a sound.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Consoling or harming, these words that they utter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To help you - or force you down into the gutter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With words that inspire or words that deprave,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shining like diamonds, or dark as the grave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ve shown you the counterfeit side of the coin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The obverse shines brightly with those who will join</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With you in your quest for a mind that is free</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of malign intrusion. But how can that be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Good ‘spirits’ exist – of that have no doubt,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With knowledge and wisdom and notable ‘clout’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those same thirty years, then, have brought me such wealth</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From those that approach me, but not in their stealth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inform me; support me; encourage as well,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Surround me with, truly, the obverse of Hell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They came when I needed; nowhere did I look,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that is the reason why I wrote my book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ah yes! THE BOOK! First I lived it, then I wrote it – all 160,000 words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And now? Yes, now I urge <i>you</i> to <i>read</i> it. Called <i>Listening to the Silences</i>, it is available free at www.royvincent.org . </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Part autobiography, it is chiefly a DIY Manual and textbook for those who hear voices and experience physical presence, and for their carers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Hearing Voices” usually implies ‘schizophrenia’ and mental ill-health. My book also describes the many other and positive consequences of this</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Undoubtedly, many have gone to
Ashrams and got better.” Indian Mother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Having been invaded by malign
voices while flying high over the Med, one lady wrote, “I want to thank you for
writing on the Internet about your experiences.
I found it to be the only true version of what I feel happened to myself
last year. I had been looking for books
to read on the subject, but found nothing useful until I came across your
account.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“My name is James Douglas A… (ID 32----) on Georgia, US, Death Row. I hear voices and get physically “abused”/manipulated
by unseen, but very real entities I’ll call spirits of good and/or bad intent.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A Portuguese Film-maker, seeking
an interview, wrote, “My goal is to explore a different approach from the
psychiatric tradition, to show how people can live with their voices… I was very much impressed with your
book. I believe both your life and
literature are a truthful account of human experience and should be shared
rapidly with a wider public.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“My name is Al -----, from the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region>. I just want to share with you something about
hearing voices. During college days, I
was hooked on drugs. (I graduated marine
transportation – merchant mariner.) …until
one day I lose control of myself. I
heard people in my area gossiping about me which makes me truly change myself
into something not me anymore. I heard
voices unlike other schizophrenic patients experiencing - those voices told
them to kill, burn, electrify themselves.
Mine is different; voices I heard knows a lot about my behaviour and
attitude. They know my weaknesses…
always contradict my movements, actions, speech, even thoughts. So I give up and surrender myself to rehab
centre.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Having been clear of voices for
some time, Al went to sea, but in mid voyage – “…unluckily voices strike again,
so I decide to disembark and go home with shattered dreams… and suffering a disease
which is still taboo in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region>. All I now care is, though I have an abnormal
life, I want to be a father to my daughter and a husband to my wife. Now you inspired me a lot.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">© ROY VINCENT
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-16379267713405161172015-01-31T03:31:00.001-08:002015-01-31T03:41:29.815-08:00THE PRESENCE OF SPIRITS IN MADNESS<div class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: center;">
<b><u><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: 24.0pt;">THE
PRESENCE OF SPIRITS IN MADNESS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">PROLOGUE</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: red;">ROY VINCENT WRITES</span>:
</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I
have a number of friends who are Buddhist.
The main centre of their activity is in a former priory not far from
where I live. At one time, I was a
frequent visitor to the centre and became acquainted with several others of the
permanent residents. It was one of the
latter who quite unexpectedly rang one day and asked if I would help out at the
forthcoming summer fête – possibly in the café.
Surprised at having been asked, I nevertheless agreed, and turned up on
the appointed day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> There was a wide range of stalls, all
piled high and waiting for the influx of visitors. I am always drawn to books and made a beeline
for the bookstall. It was loaded – the
reason being that the resident Lama had emptied the library, having decreed
that only his own books would be studied in future. Among this bonanza, a small book caught my
eye – the title was intriguing, and it was cheap! Called <i>The Presence of Other Worlds</i>,
it joined the homemade bread and other goodies in my car while I immersed my
hands in the washing-up in the café.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> It wasn’t until I was home and in bed
that night that I took a good look at the book, and was immediately grabbed by
the title of one of the chapters - the
one just below. I read and read, and it
was only the fact that it was now past midnight that I prevented myself from
ringing a number of friends to tell them – what? To tell them that what I was reading mirrored
my own experiences of voice hearing and spiritual intrusion so accurately that
I just wanted to shout out loud!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> The author writes as a clinical
psychologist, and thus with the viewpoint of a mental health professional, and
so naturally he refers to his voice-hearers as ‘patients’, and uses such terms
as ‘psychotic’, ‘schizophrenic’, ‘delusions’, ‘hallucinations’, and it was in
this respect that I had my very minor intellectual dispute with him. As you will read, he became completely
convinced that the origin of the voices and other manifestations experienced by
the individuals was intrusion by spiritual entities. If this is so – and I agree completely with
him – surely then the ‘entities’ are real, and, logically, not delusions or
hallucinations, and the individuals are not psychotic, but ‘disturbed’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I know that this might appear to be
semantic nit picking, but it reveals our different emphasis. Wilson Van Dusen had the aim of demonstrating
that the experiences of the individuals paralleled those of his ‘hero’ Emmanuel
Swedenborg, and he did not, in his book, apply his findings to their subsequent
treatment. My whole purpose in writing
my own book and these other articles is to plead for the knowledge of spiritual
intrusion to be accepted, and with the acceptance to create an entirely different
strategy of support for voice hearers. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have posted this introduction here in order to draw your attention to the full text of what I regard as a very important contribution to an understanding of the world of the Voice Hearers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The complete text is posted on a separate Blog, and I urge you to read it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You will find it on -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">www.roycvincent4.blogspot.com </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Book:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"Listening to the silences</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">in a world of hearing voices"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">www.royvincent.org </span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-79733145638686578172014-12-25T13:56:00.000-08:002016-01-17T08:15:20.514-08:00ROY VINCENT PLEADS "PLEASE DON'T ASK ME TO BE NORMAL."...<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Please don’t
ask me to be normal,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Don’t
want to be like that.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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curled up sandwiches,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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drinking lukewarm tea.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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far too old to be normal,<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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even though I’m eighty-nine, I still don’t need a crutch.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW JUST WHERE I HAVE BEEN, WHAT I HAVE DONE AND WHAT I HAVE SEEN, YOU CAN READ EVERYTHING IN THE BOOK THAT I HAVE WRITTEN</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>www.royvincent.org </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>ROY VINCENT </i></b></span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-83717514712794110952014-12-22T07:09:00.001-08:002016-01-17T03:26:23.171-08:00ROY VINCENT ASKS - ARE THERE GERBILS IN NUCLEAR SUBMARINES?<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>ROY VINCENT</i></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><i>ASKS</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">ARE THERE GERBILS</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">IN</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">NUCLEAR SUBMARINES?</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THIS IS NOT A QUESTION THAT YOU FIND BEING ASKED BY MANY PEOPLE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HOWEVER, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY I AM ASKING IT, YOU WILL FIND AN EXPLANATION LOWER DOWN ON THIS BLOG POST LIST - IN A POST ENTITLED</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">GERBILS IN NUCLEAR SUBMARINES.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">WHY DON'T YOU SCROLL DOWN AND READ IT?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">THEN HAVE A CUP OF TEA WITH MY FRIEND...</span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-11171815665345449572014-11-26T05:57:00.000-08:002014-11-26T05:57:19.781-08:00SLAVERY - DOMINATION - TORTURE --- AND ALL IN THE MIND<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">SLAVERY, DOMINANCE, TORTURE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--></span><span style="color: red;">AND ALL IN THE MIND</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2014, the year that is now coming to a close, has been
memorable in many ways and with many events.
Events that were long planned as anniversaries of world wars reached
their time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Events whose recollection
will persist for a long time, and other events that were mind-blowing at the
time – but whose memory tends to fade as others equally bizarre take their
place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the latter has kept me puzzled ever since it hit
the headlines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remarkable it was as we
learned of how three mature women had been held in a state of imprisonment and
‘slavery’ within a ‘normal’ house, yet who were free to leave and do such
‘normal’ things as shopping…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The women who had been held and ‘confined’ and ‘enslaved’
for 30 years, appear to have been held, not by physical restraint, but by the
mental ‘dominance’ of two other people – visible people - people who were
ever-present.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>That in itself was almost unbelievable – yet now I am
going to try to take your ’unbelief’ even further…</i></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just try to imagine the same domination – ever-present domination
– domination that derives from a source that is ‘invisible’. Yes - invisible, yet having powers that are capable
of turning a normal happy life into sheer hell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was the situation of Morag –
a lady whom I once met and who told me something of her own ‘story’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happily married, with two school-age children, she would,
each day, see her husband off to work and send the children off to school – and
then would find herself ‘entering’ another world. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Her surroundings did not change, but the world of her
mind, and the world within her body both changed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And these changes came as the result of the insistence and
dominance of ‘voices’ within her mind and ‘physical presences’ within her body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Imperceptibly at first, as Morag began her morning chores
and housework, a ‘voice’ appeared in her mind – gentle, soothing, encouraging
and helpful. Relaxing to this and
getting on with he tasks, the ‘voice’, and accompanying physical presences slowly
became critical. Everything that she did
began to be criticised. The
disparagement and comments became more and more intense, moving away from the
immediate tasks into her general life – needling, needling - condemning,
condemning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“She was not fit to be a mother”… “she was not fit to live
and continue polluting the world with her presence”…. “She must kill her
children and then kill herself…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every day, Morag found herself cowering in a corner of a
room with the curtains drawn at the windows.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, as the afternoon slowly moved on, the inner darkness
gradually lightened and the dominance
became less and less – and Morag was able to stand and open the curtains – and
prepare to welcome her children as they returned home from school. Every day…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Difficult to believe, isn’t it? I would not have believed it either, but for
the fact that for a short period in my life, I experienced something remarkably
similar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That was over thirty years ago, yet the memory of those experiences still remains
very potent. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, the memory is still there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Normally, memories fade with time - diminish in
potency. Whereas this memory remains
because I <i>choose</i> to keep it ‘alive’. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why? Because it
forms the beginning and the core of everything that I write – from my book to
this Blog.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I write to inform anyone who will read and who is prepared
to accept and be influenced by honest testimony – to inform them that
everything that I experienced then was created by intrusive ‘entities’,
‘physical and mental presences’, ‘spirits’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those words have a lot of religious ‘baggage’ attached,
and it becomes very difficult to speak and write pragmatically about the reality of such presences. Nevertheless, they are real – a reality confirmed
every day of my life for the last thirty years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
reality that has been confirmed by every culture that has ever existed and which has left
coherent records.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you would like to find out how it was that I - this pragmatic
individual – this ‘feet-on-the-ground’ nuclear engineer – came to be influenced
in such a manner that he became dominated, just read on my Blog the Post that
is entitled -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Oh what a world of unseen visions and heard silences….” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (<a href="http://www.roycvincent2.blogspot.com/">www.roycvincent2.blogspot.com</a>)
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It forms the sixth chapter of my book </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Listening to the Silences in a World of
Hearing Voices" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which may be downloaded free at </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.royvincent.org/">www.royvincent.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, when you have read the Blog, why not ‘open’ the book itself, and
read Chapter 7.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chapter 7 has the title </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"If You Have A Thousand Reasons For Living." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In it you will find out just how my life – my
physical life and my spiritual life –
evolved. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is so much to tell that
it would be impossible to present even a simple summary. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For some readers – for example, those who would treat it simply
as ‘just another book’ – the journey may become tortuous and tedious, and then they
give up or just ‘skip’. Whereas, those
for whom my writing is intended – the voice hearers and their carers – they
read it through and through, and then tell me what they have found…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And then I know at last that the years that I have spent
writing it have all been worthwhile. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Worthwhile when I receive an email from someone such as
Steve – forty-five years old, living in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Steve has been plagued by malign voices for all of his
life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He wrote - “… you and your book are the best things that
have ever happened to me – you have saved my life, by drawing me back from
suicide… “</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And finally – to demonstrate the ‘dominating power’ of
these unseen, but physically present ‘entities’, let me tell you the story of
Ruth. A story that still has the power
to move me as I try to imagine the terror that she experienced – terror that
was created by an evil presence within herself – so evil that it drove her to
what could easily have been her actual death.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aged about thirty-five, Ruth had suffered several episodes
of voice-hearing, which had largely been brought under control. Still, she remained vulnerable, and intrusions
were never far away. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nevertheless, she was not greatly disturbed by a
‘presence’ that seemed to be ‘gentle’ and not dominating. However,
as it took more of a hold in her life, the gentleness evaporated and the aggravation
and criticism grew in intensity – as happened to Morag….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The time arrived when, having declared itself to be God,
the intrusion began hammering into her mind, stronger and stronger condemnations:
finding fault with everything that she did or thought, until Ruth was finally condemned
as not being fit to continue to live and pollute this planet. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO!!! THERE’S THAT LORRY – THAT BUS…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THROW YOURSELF UNDER
THE WHEELS<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DO..IT !!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But Ruth quailed at the sight of these thundering wheels
and drew back….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RIGHT!! YOU ARE ON
THE BRIDGE – THERE’S THE RIVER – <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DO..IT!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JUMP!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AND RUTH JUMPED…<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She went deep under the water, but then, when coming back
again to the surface, Ruth heard a vastly different voice – a calm voice – a
firm voice – a voice that spoke one word – SWIM… and Ruth swam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The river bank was tidal and muddy, and she floundered as she
tried to walk – and again the calm voice, and just one word – CRAWL…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ruth crawled, losing her shoes and all her lower clothes –
and in this state she arrived at the front door of the house close by in which
lived a friend…. where she was comforted and cared for… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In that calm voice – that firm voice – Ruth heard and
experienced what I had heard and experienced, and to which I tried to find expression
when I began to write the Chapter</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If You Have a
Thousand Reasons for Living…</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes! I had been
shown – with undeniable certainty – that the very direct opposite of the malign,
evil intrusions and presences do actually exist. Just as in the past, every culture has become
aware of the evil and malign presences, so also, and without doubt, they have
experienced and accepted the benign… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Often, the outcome has been the creation of a religion or
faith based pattern of living.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deliberately, I have avoided any mention of religion, and
have not suggested that one should find answers there. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eighty-eight years of living have taught me that it is
pointless and fruitless to draw upon ‘religion’ to further any argument. Each person has their own personal faith and
beliefs – or has none. Instead, I ask
you to make your own choices from what I have written, whether here or in any
other of my publications – written, as far as I have been able, without
exaggeration or hyperbole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What I have written,
I have experienced. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What more can I say?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u><b>ROY VINCENT</b></u><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>ADD ON….</i></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is all too easy to
dwell upon the presence of the voice
intrusions. Far more insidious, and
possibly ever present, is the mute <b>physical ‘overlap’</b>. Try to imagine a not quite exact ‘fit’, so
that in every movement or reaction there is just the little bit of anticipation
or lag; of speeding up when it is inappropriate; of not being quite in phase on
a turn; of causing forward movement when there are obstacles to be negotiated,
whether by deliberate intent or lack of ‘skill’ it is impossible to say. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When
the presence is continuous, or frequently in and out, it can become positively
loathsome and one longs to be rid of it.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If
you have a copy of <i>One Thousand and One
Nights</i>, read the story of <i>Sinbad
and the Old Man of the Sea</i>. Sinbad,
shipwrecked and alone as usual, stumbles across an old man who asks for help to
cross a stream. Sinbad, in his kindness,
takes the old man on his back, and then when the stream is crossed finds
himself in a stranglehold, beaten about the head, made to go this way and that,
by day and night, at the old man’s whim, be-skittered and be-pissed all down
his back and generally befouled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It is only ultimately by making some wine
from wild grapes and getting the man drunk that Sinbad is finally freed, and
one can sense the ultimate release as he crushes the man’s skull with a
boulder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">There have been many
times in my own life, when I have wished for that boulder!</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-33834841857467462412014-11-02T03:47:00.000-08:002014-11-02T03:47:02.230-08:00YOU PREVENTED MY SUICIDE - YOU SAVED MY LIFE<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 24.0pt;">“YOU PREVENTED MY SUICIDE”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 24.0pt;">“YOU SAVED MY LIFE”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt;">“YOU AND YOUR BOOK ARE THE BEST
THINGS THAT HAVE EVER HAPPENED TO ME”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18.0pt;">To receive such statements by email is both rewarding and
humbling. Rewarding because it gives
purpose to the five years that I spent writing the book. Five years during which I exposed every atom
of my inner being in an effort to convince the world that my experiences of
voice hearing were valid and not an illness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18.0pt;"> Humbling
because the greatest gift that can be bestowed is the gift of life. Humbling also to know that my writing is
freeing the mind of a man who has been deeply troubled for many years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18.0pt;"> John, now 45
years old, has lived with inner voices and physical presence since childhood
within a family which, while caring, just could not understand the nature of
what he was experiencing and making him suffer so much. He told me that now he can take my book and
show his parents “exactly what I have been experiencing for all of these
years.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18.0pt;"> In a recent
email he wrote – “I keep going back and back to your book, especially Chapter
16 – it tells me all that I want to know – you have saved my sanity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16.0pt;">The title of the book is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;"> In it, I
describe how I began to hear voices and experience a whole range of other
phenomena and intrusions into my mind, body and senses. All of which, I am certain, are caused by the
intervention of spiritual presences, both malign and positively benign. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Mostly, I have
concentrated upon the activities of the malign, because these are the ones
‘who’, by their deliberate disruption of body and mental function, make
individuals ill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;"> In the course of
now more than 30 years, I have encountered many different ploys that have been
used to try to undermine me and disrupt my life, and prevent me from exercising
my own free will. I have recorded and
analysed most of these in my book, describing them in the context of my life as
they occurred. In this article, I have
separated them from the main text of the book in order that they may become a
source of reference in their own right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Also, within the
book, I write about the many occasions when I have had help, support and
encouragement from benign spiritual sources.
These, also, are placed in the context of my life at the times when they
happened. I have decided not to draw
then from their place in my story because the context is so vitally important
in understanding their implications.
Reading the book will help you to understand why.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Many occurred
within situations that were often very deeply emotional – even soul searching –
and, frankly, I find it emotionally difficult to revisit them – even after so
many years have elapsed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;"> As well as the
collection of negative ploys gathered here, they also are placed in Chapter 16
of my book on line – referred to above by ‘John’. I always use ’<b>they</b>’ when referring to the negative intrusions simply because it
is often impossible to be certain whether I am dealing with one or many.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">1</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b><i>They</i></b><i>
</i>maintain a constant delivery of good, impeccable advice and an ambience of
support, which, at first, is comforting.
However, it persists into every act, or thought of an act or plan, to a
degree that it becomes obsessive, by which time one can have reached a state of
dependence and find difficulty in detaching oneself. But more than that, this can constitute a
form of ‘jamming’ which can cause one to reject the desirable counsel that may
come from a good source.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">2</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b><i>They</i></b><i>
</i>create or latch onto a feeling of buoyancy - “let’s go”, “get the skates on”, “have you thought of
this or that?”, “surely that’s more
important” - just an edge of urgency where none exists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">3</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> When at the start of a day, particularly a
promising one, one has a plan of action worked out, <b><i>they</i></b> will put forward a pressing alternative; then if that
is rejected, another, and so on, inducing a feeling of panic and the feeling
that the whole lot will be aborted and nothing done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> This ploy is often used when the
‘meteorology’ is such that a woolly, inert mind is being induced naturally,
anyway. In these circumstances, the
whole day can be spent in a series of feeble attempts at - nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Not a lot is required to break this
stagnation e.g. company and stimulus from a trusted friend, or ‘boot-straps’,
i.e. just beginning on something simple such as digging or other ‘mindless’
activity which does not require precise measurement or decision making.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">4</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b><i>They</i></b>
will instigate or intrude a salacious thought - either general or about a
particular person. If it is taken up and
dwelt on <b><i>they</i></b> will switch
rôles and introduce the supposed ‘exalted one’, whose presence may also be
simulated physically, creating the ambience that one has slipped on one’s path
to inner purity of thought etc. and that one is not being a fit place of
residence for pure spirits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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create an ambience which suggests that the spiritual ‘top team’ has now
arrived, that one is privileged to be part of it, but at a junior level, and that
in future one will be more a receiver of instructions rather than an initiator
of activity and thought as an individual - a ploy which will gradually erode
one’s own decision making ability, with a resulting state of dependence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">6</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> ‘Characters’ in this ‘rôle play’ can be
switched until one is uncertain whether it is the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ guy who is proposing
something. (This is annoyingly difficult
to describe - one is aware of the situation as it is happening but such a
convoluted web has been woven that the strands cannot be separated.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">7</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> A ‘character’ can appear as at one’s elbow
- the cynical, knowledgeable bystander who has seen it all before - nudges one
into recognition of the ploy - poses as a friend, man of the world...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">It would be so
easy to have confidence in <b><i>him</i></b>,
accept comments, advice, and yet again lose one’s own capability of analysis
and decision-making.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">8</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Some ‘exchanges’ seem to be promoted with
the sole intent of arousing a confrontational response in me, just to keep me
going for no great purpose other than to inhibit breathing, or <b><i>they</i></b> will maintain an endless,
pointless prattle with the object solely of keeping me in a ‘listening’
state. This state causes one to adopt a
slightly hunched, ‘cringe’ posture which can make one feel underdog and not in
charge of what one is trying to do, by undermining one’s confidence. It is also designed to take one’s mind off
the immediate task with the almost inevitable mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">9</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b><i>They</i></b>
will pretend to be ‘good guys’ being impatient with progress on a major plan or
scheme, which, if persisted with, causes me to react rudely, which, in turn,
can create a feeling of alienation with a resultant difficulty in
re-establishing prayerful intercourse with the ‘genuine’ ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">10</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Pretending to be good spirits, <b><i>they</i></b> encourage one to dredge
one’s mind for any - usually long past - incidents or thoughts of an
embarrassing, shameful or similar nature, especially if others are
involved. Or <b><i>they</i></b> will encourage
reminiscence about incidents in which others – possibly family or friends -
showed up badly, especially as the result of known or imagined (usually sexual)
peccadilloes etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b><i>They</i></b>
will pretend that the persons themselves are present in spirit, and aware of
the thoughts, and will then give the impression that one will be confronted on
death; that everyone in ‘heaven’ will be aware of and condemnatory of all
this. In this general context <b><i>they</i></b> will insinuate into one’s
mind a name which is calculated to produce speculation or reminiscence from the
past - often someone with whom one has been close or intimate - always trawling
the mind, encouraging recollections, particularly of a sexual nature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can intrude physically and mentally into one’s every moment, delighting in
creating emotions or exploiting potentially emotional situations, until one
realises that attempts are made to create laughter or tears where one is not in
the least stirred up in either direction sufficiently to laugh or cry. Similarly, if the situation arose, <b><i>they</i></b> could create anger and
supply the words to go with it in a ready flow.
<b><i>They</i></b> intrude into
one’s every thought and action, including the most intimate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> One just longs for an empty space in
one’s mind where one can think one’s own thoughts, enjoy one’s own emotions and
reminiscences without these intrusions.
One develops the most intense hatred of <b><i>them</i></b><i>.</i> One
result of this barrage is that one resents any intrusion or contact, thus
rendering suspect those which might originate from a desirable spiritual source
- <b><i>they</i></b> simulate these as
well, so as to create animosity in one’s mind to potential or existing
spiritual helpers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">12</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b><i>They</i></b>
will seize upon and try to exploit even the most minor peccadillo, or even
supposed ones, in the context of one’s religion and spiritual growth, and make
it become an obsession beyond all reason, while at the same time creating a
physical ambience of censoriousness.
This can overshadow the brightest company or activity, almost as if
there is a sentence hanging over one - reminiscent of when, in serious past
depression, there existed a feeling of ‘gut hollowness’ which totally prevented
one’s enjoyment and development, much as I imagine the existence of a cancer in
one’s body might.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will create around one a feeling of ‘unworthiness’, particularly if the main
thrust of one’s life is towards good. <b><i>They</i></b> create the impression that
the `lovely people` i.e. benevolent spirits who normally dwell around one’s
home, or who, <b><i>they</i></b> imply,
would otherwise dwell there, are censorious, disapproving, on the point of
departing, or indeed have departed; <b><i>they</i></b><i>
</i>do their utmost to create in one’s mind an antagonism to such souls. One can imagine the inner state of someone
such as a clergyman with homosexual or similar bent whose life is otherwise
impeccable, being mentally and spiritually hounded and made to feel that <i>everything</i>
that he does is sullied - this particularly so at, say, a Eucharist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">13</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Before one has had time or opportunity to
make up one’s mind about a possibly contentious issue <b><i>they</i></b> will interject a thought so instantly that it could be
one’s own thought. This will be
immediately responded to by an adversary, resulting in the apparently ‘good’
and ‘bad’ guys having a dispute, into which one is drawn without any forethought,
totally and inadvertently, and in a whole ambience of dissent being created.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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say to someone, <b><i>they</i></b> will
‘offer’ a suitable word where an alternative exists; this is often the most
obvious or best choice, but <b><i>they</i></b>
will try to create the impression that it is <b><i>their</i></b><i> </i>choice.
This can lead to a situation or continuing state in which one becomes
reliant on being fed the appropriate word or sequence. If one has not had cause to question the
source but, indeed, believes it to be ‘genuine’ and benevolent, one can end up
waiting to be ‘inspired’ and believing that one is a ‘chosen channel’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when one is writing or speaking, possibly promoting an idea or cause, <b><i>they</i></b> will invade the mind and/or
body, creating an impression of excitement and implying that one has been
‘chosen’ to channel words from an ‘exalted’ source. In the euphoria of believing oneself to be so
chosen it is possible to lose any critical or common sense analysis which one
would normally apply and to let oneself be used solely as a mouthpiece, often
destroying one’s credibility in the eyes of those whom one is trying to convince.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nature, or maybe<b> <i>they</i></b> stoke a current resentment, doing this just prior to the
approach of difficult bit of road at which <b><i>they</i></b>
know that one will meet another, perhaps ill-driven, vehicle. In doing so <b><i>they</i></b> can entirely distract one from one’s normal safe
driving with possible disastrous results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will attempt to build a camaraderie in the car, pretending to be, say, my late
father, sharing feelings about other road users’ style of driving etc.,
constantly working to build up a feeling of reliance on <b><i>their</i> </b>opinion, or seeking to impress. <b><i>They</i></b><i>
</i>will then attempt to indicate that it is OK to overtake, for example, - it
often is. <b><i>They</i></b> are constantly trying to build an aura of ‘rely on
me’. If one did, inevitably the crunch
would come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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situations - a simple example could be that of the compulsive gambler who is
led on with successful tips for winners - until the time when he has ‘staked
all’ and then the rug is pulled from under him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or actually was, aggravating, or any situation which genuinely could have
provoked anxiety, <b><i>they</i></b> will
maintain an ambience of anxiety or apprehension, provoking the ‘low profile’ syndrome. This could happen following a near miss when
driving, particularly if one had been at fault, and has the same effect as if
there was a nagging back-seat driver. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> If there are any areas of uncertainty in
one’s future, or possible sources of dispute, no matter how real or remote or
easy of solution, <b><i>they</i></b> will
return to them again and again and again, stirring thought, introspection,
resentment and anxiety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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intrude, giving the impression that <b><i>they</i></b> are party to it and its
subsequent exploration and indeed will attempt to ‘own’ the new idea. Further, when one is engaged in deep thought,
<b><i>they</i></b><i> </i>will interject a
person’s name or an interesting word that will give rise to speculation and,
unless corrected, can lock the mind in a channel of irrelevant reminiscences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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waking by a deliberately fragmented conversation, often with the suggestion
that one’s mind is being taken over at a deeper level - if one is gullible one
can be convinced that one is losing one’s mind, or that it is part of a process
by which one will become integrated into the ‘spirit mind’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gradually emerging awareness after sleep is most crucial, for one is then at
one’s most vulnerable. One’s first
thoughts at these times are ‘answered’; indeed, it might seem that one is
already in a conversation. It is
exceedingly difficult to avoid responding, and a dialogue can ensue from which
it is hard to break free. There can be a
feeling created on waking, a sense of being with very gentle spiritual people,
warm, welcoming and caring. It is so
easy to slip into this ambience, particularly if the rest of one’s life is
bleak or fraught.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b><i><u>Bu</u></i></b><i><u>t</u></i>, as one is starting to feel ‘cozy’ and cared for, <b><i>they</i></b> start to imply that there
are one or two, oh-so-teeny, defects that need correcting before one can be <u>truly</u>
accepted and enjoy this ambience and ultimately be accepted into it after
death. Gradually the emphasis shifts
becoming more needling and ultimately threatening. One’s defects become grossly magnified, one’s
sense of unworthiness exaggerated, and all the earlier warmth totally disappears.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Sometimes an intrusion can be of such a
cold, inhuman presence that one can feel oneself to be totally devoid of
humanity, of love, of caring. <b><u>One could become either very</u></b><u> <b>ill or very evil</b>.</u> It is virtually
impossible for anyone in this state to convey to another the sense of threat or
terror that can be experienced at these times.
This inability to communicate can so increase a person’s sense of loneliness,
of total isolation that they can easily try to seek oblivion in drink or drugs
or suicide - indeed, it is quite possible that in their mind they will be
actively encouraged down some desperate or diabolical route.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">21</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Physical intrusions can and do occur at any
time, and the differing intensities and varieties are so great that is difficult
to be specific. One example can occur
when I am woodcarving. At these times,
there can appear a ‘heavy’ intruding presence with a ‘working’ mouth of
concentration and with laboured breathing - the conclusion being that someone
`in spirit` is trying to experience what they did not achieve in life. There is also the implication at other times
that someone formerly skilled in life wants to impart that skill. This can present one with a difficult
choice. There are or have been many
musicians, composers, artists, writers and others who have freely acknowledged
that they cannot produce their finest work unless their ‘Muse’ is present
within them, and many and great are the works which have been produced. (See <i>The Unknown Guest </i>by Brian
Inglis). By contrast, I do not want to
be ‘taken over’ - I want to work out my own problems; I want the sheer pleasure of first of all
visualising, and then creating, my own art or craft; I do not want to be the vehicle for ‘someone’
to operate vicariously and to remove the pleasure of my own originality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> I once had a very good sculpture/carving
teacher; he gave advice on concepts and techniques, but did not attempt to
influence one’s individual expression, nor did he touch the work unless asked
to demonstrate, but was always there with advice if asked. Above all, he inspired immense confidence,
and could rescue one from the most depressing ‘artistic disasters’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> This, by extension, is what one would
hope for from desirable spiritual helpers.
Having done much to my house by way of development, and not having had
craft training or much DIY experience, I have, nevertheless been given, by
‘inspiration’, much help - too great to detail.
It however helps me to make the point that there is much support and
knowledge available, but it is received at a much, much deeper level than the
other phenomena about which I have written - virtually subliminally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> There can be a very great danger in
accepting a ‘Muse’ into one’s person. It
can often be represented or inferred that this is the spirit of someone who
formerly was a well known artist, musician etc.. The belief that one has been chosen by this
famous person can be very flattering, but if continued, gradually one could
lose one’s own identity and capacity for originality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">22</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b><i>They</i></b>
induce a feeling akin to foreboding (not about anything specific) so that
whatever one tackles there can be created an impression that there is something
more important which one should be doing.
Having, nevertheless, continued with the activity of one’s first choice,
<b><i>they</i></b> induce a feeling that
one is doing it the wrong way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> In the same general context, and as an
example, suppose that one had chosen to garden. There could ‘appear’ the ‘good gardener’ ally,
who makes approving noises - or alternatively withholds approval - so that one
loses the sense of one’s own judgment, particularly as in most cases the task
is one which does not require advice or comment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Again, <b><i>they</i></b><i> </i>offer constant advice on ways of doing a job -
always sound- until one finds oneself waiting for it before making a move,
thereby having one’s capacity for original thought, or consideration of method,
undermined; this happens particularly when one hasn’t previously worked out
one’s plan or technique.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">23</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Many times good advice is given or factual
statements made. For example, once when
thinking of the herb ‘horsetail’, the specific name <i>Equisetum</i> was fed
into my mind - a fact which I already knew.
In such circumstances I then have the dilemma - is this ‘know all’
approach designed to be helpful or annoying?
Is it meant to be positive and helpful and contribute to my work, or is
it intended to create in me an aggravation at all intrusions, so that even if
there were to be established a desirable, direct and open collaboration, I
would resent it? I don’t know. Perhaps it is again part of a ploy to make me
abandon or lose the faculty for original thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">24</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> A ‘heavy’ presence, purporting to be a
‘senior’ heavenly figure, introduces the concept that someone, deceased, does
or will wish to apologise for lifetime’s hurts.
This prompts one to go over in one’s mind the circumstances which at the
time caused the hurt, with possible renewed resentment against the ‘person’ who
is alleged to be present or near at hand and aware of one’s thoughts, with all
thought of apology given or received rapidly disappearing. One could also be led to consider the
apologies that one might feel constrained to want to make oneself, with a
consequent mental rehashing of past traumas.
This, it would seem, is yet another ploy to get a mind trawl going aimed
at bringing to the surface incidents or thoughts derogatory to others or oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">25</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b><i>They</i></b> will
insinuate a word, phrase, name, thought or picture into one’s mind which will
start a train of reminiscence and which is calculated to lead to yet more
revelations about oneself or other people.
The most remote detail of one’s past is known or has been extracted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">26</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> When the destroyer HMS Saumarez, in which I
was serving, was mined, a number of my friends and shipmates were killed. From time to time, it is represented, by
familiar turns of phrase or by allusions to known incidents, that one or more
of them is ‘present’. It is suggested
that they have been trained to be capable of intruding and maybe tormenting. This raises the much larger question of what
happens to a mass of people, mainly young men, who have not ‘lived’ while still
alive, who have died in such numbers in world wars: a question which is too vast to be explored
here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">27</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> It is suggested that the constant intrusions
and my responses to them are training for unwelcome spirits to intrude into
other people. At one time, when the
intrusions were at their most intense and frequent, there were many occasions
in which there was rapid and ‘point scoring’ mental repartee during which I had
numerous occasions in which I felt that I had ‘game, set and match’, following
which the above suggestion would sometimes be made. One automatically assumes that there are
‘regular’ individuals actively involved, with a changing group of
‘extras’. The point is, <i>one cannot
possibly know</i>; a point which is explored as fully as I reasonably can in
the main body of my writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">28</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <i>They</i> sneer at, or denigrate, people by
class, activity, uselessness, aristocratic status, and gender. <i>They</i> introduce every obvious <i>double
entendre</i> under the sun; every possible allusion to a sexual connotation or
feminine appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">29</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> On one occasion a female friend who was
visiting asked me to help her to accomplish something personal and intimate
which she could not achieve because of the difficulties of looking and reaching
simultaneously. Having been married more
than once, and having brought up a daughter and stepdaughter, I have no problem
or embarrassment with female exposure or anatomy; but while I was delicately preoccupied
I felt an intrusion, or more specifically, an <i>insinuation</i>, into
myself. Almost immediately, I was
completely suffused by <i>someone else’s </i>embarrassment, and <i>female </i>embarrassment
at that. ‘Who’ had been persuaded to
intrude and by ‘whom’, and under what pretext, I have obviously no way of knowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">30</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Over the years since voice hearing began a
certain number of ‘trigger’ words have become established, any one of which, if
intruded into my mind, is guaranteed to start me thinking about a particular
person or circumstance. Whether I <i>continue</i>
with that line of thought is up to me, once I realise that I have been
prompted, but it is so easy automatically to follow a prompt without
immediately realising that one had been thus triggered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Some of the words, in no special order,
are: Tigger, up-front, Jacqueline, Alexander, davenport, ferret, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Cole</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Island</st1:placename></st1:place>,
Bosanquet, Nicholas, Setty, the ‘mem’, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">31</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> I had a friend who was a long time a-dying
from an inoperable brain tumour. My
friend was nursed for some time in his home where I used to visit him, and
where one found him obsessed with his catheter and fears about its possible
leakage, and with an array of tissues which he classified as ‘dabber, mopper
and wiper’. Following his death, I went
early to the crematorium and arrived before the coffin. The ‘catafalque’ thus being bare it had a
burnished brass sheen which made it look like some ancient priestly altar, and
as I was taking in this scene my friend’s ‘voice’ in my mind said
dramatically “O Ra! O Osiris!” and
‘chuckled’. Next, as I was checking the
availability of my handkerchief against the inevitable moisture in the eyes, I
‘heard’ “Have you got your dabber and mopper and wiper?”, and a moment later -
“Have you got the regulation lump in the throat?”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">32</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Following my friend Val’s untimely death I
was standing shaving one morning and suddenly her unmistakable ‘voice’ was in
my mind saying, “Can’t catch me I’m a bumble-bee”. The sort of joke she <i>would </i>have made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">33 </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">In the field of
bird-watching reference is made to the ‘jizz’ of a bird, i.e. those essential
features which become imprinted on the mind of a keen watcher and which, even
though a bird has only been glimpsed momentarily, nevertheless can lead to
identification. If you think about it,
certain people have ‘jizzes’, and these can be introduced into the minds ‘eye’
and cause one to start thinking about the person, or even to believe that the
deceased person is present in spirit.
One who springs to mind in my own ‘repertory is an anxious, nail-biting
individual. Another is a very keen young
army officer, brisk moustache, winning smile and positively exuding eagerness<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">It is all too easy to dwell
upon the presence of the voice intrusions.
Far more insidious, and possibly ever present, is the mute <i>physical </i> ‘overlap’.
Try to imagine a not quite exact ‘fit’, so that in every movement or
reaction there is just the little bit of anticipation or lag; of speeding up
when it is inappropriate; of not being quite in phase on a turn; of causing
forward movement when there are obstacles to be negotiated - whether by
deliberate intent or lack of ‘skill’ it is impossible to say. When the presence is continuous or frequently
in and out it can become positively loathsome and one longs to be rid of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">If
you have a copy, read in the <i>Thousand and one Nights </i>the story of the <i>Old
Man of the Sea</i>. Sinbad, shipwrecked
and alone as usual, stumbles across an old man who asks for help to cross a
stream. Sinbad, in his kindness, takes
the old man on his back, and then when the stream is crossed finds himself in a
stranglehold, beaten about the head, made to go this way and that, by day and
night, at the old man’s whim; be-skittered and be-pissed all down his back and
generally befouled. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">It
is only ultimately by making some wine from wild grapes and getting the man
drunk that Sinbad is finally freed, and one can sense the ultimate release as
he crushes the man’s skull with a boulder.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">Many times have
I wished for that boulder</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">!</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> It is possible from one’s own reactions to
these presences to understand how it is that individuals will harm themselves
in an effort to get at or get rid of this gross intrusion, which is only reachable
within their own body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">35 </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;">Listening and concentrating - but not to, or on you, as you
attempt conversation in a crowded cocktail party. The chat in the adjoining group is <i>so </i>much
more interesting to the person in front of you as they strain to catch the
gossip. Their eyes are focused in a peculiar way, directed towards you, but
beyond you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"> This, unfortunately, can be the
permanent state of someone whose mind and body have been intruded into. The
intrusion does not have to be overtly malevolent or aggressive; it does not
have to threaten or mouth obscenities, it is just <i>there, </i>a presence in
one’s mind and sometimes subtly physical in one’s body, demanding that one
listen, or keeping one in suspense expecting to be ‘spoken to’, or anticipating,
indecisively, a physical action. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"> I am reminded of a woman who briefly
passed through my group of friends who exemplifies what I am trying to
convey. While, say, gardening and carrying
on herself with what she was doing, she would say “Listen, Roy....” while she
thought of something to say and hold the centre of attention, and, until I
learned to ignore the call, I would stand in suspense, waiting for the next remark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"> Or a neighbouring farmer who has a
son who became more competent and alert than his father, and willy-nilly
dominated him, deriding his efforts, until the father became incapable of
connected thought or initiative in the presence of the son, and dithered,
drawing down more ridicule on himself.
It used to be pathetic seeing the otherwise highly competent father
reduced virtually to a quivering, indecisive, inadequate. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"> But this can be the near-permanent
state of someone who is dominated by intrusive spirits. A person can be kept in suspended animation
waiting for the next ‘conversation’ or next physical imperative (this last is
the most difficult to describe): they can be ‘coursed’ like a hare between two
greyhounds as one voice says “Do this”, while an equally impelling voice says
“No, do that”. Meanwhile, within, the
body is becoming permanently locked into what, as in our mammalian ancestors,
should be only a transient response to a passing threat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">36</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> On one occasion when I was walking between my house and workshop,
I was physically ‘gutted’, for want of a better word. This was completely spontaneous and without
explanation - none was needed, for the meaning was obvious. It was as if a hand had reached in and torn
out my solar plexus. Physical recovery
was fairly quick, but the mental shock and implication stayed much longer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> On yet another occasion, when playing
rounders or cricket in my field with some nephews and nieces, I was running
vigorously when my legs were ‘kicked’ from under me and I fell heavily. It was equivalent to the most blatant foul I
had ever experienced when playing rugby at school or in the Navy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">37 </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">Once,
while working on my private water supply, which is isolated and out of view, I
was caused to fall by a ‘wrestle’. This
demonstrated, and was confirmed by implication, that I could be caused to fall
and be injured somewhere with no chance of summoning help (or fall in a
dangerous location – e.g. train or vehicle.).
It was impressed upon me that I should always plan where I was going and
what I was going to do, and that if I was going to be alone in an isolated
location, I should ensure that someone was aware of where I could be
found. It was further impressed upon me
that I would get immense help and protection if there was forethought in all my
actions – that if I wanted to draw from the help which is always available, I
should prepare beforehand for such activities as healing and counselling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b>It
is virtually impossible</b> to convey to someone who has not experienced it,
the actuality of physical/spiritual intrusion.
Until the reality of both thought intrusion and physical presence is accepted
by those whose rôle it is to care for individuals who find it difficult or
impossible to cope with what they are experiencing, very little progress will
be made in this caring, and the only ‘solutions’ offered will be confinement
and mind-suppressing drugs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">E</span>arly<span style="color: #cc0000;"> C</span>losing<span style="color: #cc0000;"> T</span>hursday</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"It will make you much
better", he said,<br />"No, it won’t make a hole in your head.<br />
The current’s quite small,<br />
Hardly any at all,<br />
And <em>of course</em>
you won’t wake up quite dead."<br />
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The nurses, all gentle and kind,<br />
Never told me that bits of my mind,<br />
Would soon disappear,<br />
That I’d feel very queer,<br />
And not know before from behind.<br />
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Memories once precious to me,<br />
Have vanished, no trace, all agree.<br />
The voice of my child,<br />
That amused and beguiled,<br />
Was erased by the ‘cure’, E.C.T.<br />
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At Work, was I then in disgrace<br />
From this hole in my mind – this great space?<br />
For I found, to my shame,<br />
This face - What’s his name?<br />
Or this name – Who’s got the right face?<br />
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Who began this outrageous farce?<br />
Who decides to switch on and to pass<br />
A current designed<br />
To ‘repair’ this bent mind?<br />
Do they really know elbow from arse?</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why ‘Early Closing Thursday’?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because
it makes just as much sense as </span></b><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">‘Electro Convulsive Therapy"</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><b><span style="font-size: large;">“There is no theoretical
basis to justify it. There is
considerable criticism of its extensive use because it may produce permanent
brain damage, especially losses of memory and intelligence.”</span></b></em></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So writes the Oxford Companion to the Mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For most people, the implication of ‘therapy’ is of some process that
will aid recovery from whatever ails them, physically or mentally, and achieve
it benevolently, without harming them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">By what stretch of the meaning of words can a process be so described
that actually harms the very thing, the human mind, that it is claimed to be
saving?</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“My mind to me a kingdom is.<br />
Such present joys therein I find<br />
That it excels all other bliss<br />
That earth affords or grows by kind.”<br />
The poet, Dyer*, could not have guessed<br />
What would be done to minds distressed.<br />
This precious place with knowledge filled,<br />
Shocked, drugged, benumbed - then killed.</span><br />
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</span><em><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(*Sir
Edward Dyer 1540 – 1607)</span><span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicode;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The 'story' of how I came to be subjected to 23 completely un-necessary sessions of ECT, is told in Chapter One of my book</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>"Listening to the silences - </i></b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">in a world of hearing voices."</span></i></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>It is available to download free </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">www.royvincent.org</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Because the book is long, I have extracted Chapter One, and another key </b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chapter in my second Blog - </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.roycvincent2.blogspot.com </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Im Herbst
1979 begann ich Stimmen zu hören, erlebte außerdem noch andere Phänomene und
habe seitdem vieles gemacht. So bin ich seit über 30 Jahren niemals frei von
Intrusionen gewesen, die offensichtlich oder unterschwellig in meine Gedanken
und meine Geisteskräfte sowie energisch oder subtil in meinen Körper und Sinne
eintreten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ich
gebrauche das Wort 'Intrusion' absichtlich, für das was sie sind – weder das
Produkt eines anormalen Geistes noch eines kranken Gehirns, keine
Halluzinationen oder Täuschungen. Denn was ich Anfang 1979 getan habe, ich
habe keine Zweifel, nicht den geringsten Schatten davon, dass das was ich
erlebt habe spiritueller Herkunft ist. Der Gebrauch des Wortes 'spirituell'
wird für einige sofort die Vorstellung von 'Religion', 'Spiritismus',
'Theologie' und ähnliches erwecken – Worte die viele abschrecken und wahrscheinlich
sogar das Öffnen meines Buches verhindern. Vergessen Sie solche Vorurteile.
Ich bin ein Ingenieur und meine Herangehensweise und Sprache ist diejenige
eines Ingenieurs – so präzise und realistisch, wie es mir innerhalb eines
Erfahrungsbereiches möglich ist, welcher meist <u>un</u>präzise und <u>un</u>realistisch
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Anfangs
machte ich Notizen, welche 1998 begannen zu einer fortgesetzten Aufzeichnung zu
werden, nachdem ich mir Computerkenntnisse angeeignet hatte. In meiner
parallelen Lektüre aus dem Fachgebiet der psychischen Krankheiten fand ich
darüber, was als 'Symptome 1. Ranges' der Schizophrenie bezeichnet wurde und
ich realisierte, dass ich diese alle erlebt hatte und ich zeichnete sie auf und
beschrieb sie, wenngleich in meinen eigenen Worten. Dennoch – und das ist der
allerwichtigste Punkt, den ich verzweifelt versuche aufzuzeigen – ich bin wegen
dieser Sache niemals krank gewesen, und weder habe ich, noch würde ich jemals
Beistand oder Intervention aus der Welt der Psychiatrie oder der der Religion
suchen. Im Gegenteil, ich selbst schreibe Mitteilungen an jene aus beiden Welten,
die sich bemühen geistig Kranken und Verwirrten zu helfen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">So
schnell, wie auch immer ich schrieb, wurden meine Worte begierig von Freunden
gelesen, die im Bereich der Psychiatrie arbeiteten. Während sie lasen, wollten
sie auch über das 'Davor' erfahren – d. h. über mein Leben vor dem Ausbruch der
Intrusionen. Ich realisierte, dass ich tatsächlich über das Früher schreiben
sollte, in getrennter Anordnung von dem Ereignis von 1979 und dem was dann
folgte, denn abgesehen von der Tatsache, dass mir beide Sequenzen passiert
waren, sind sie völlig zusammenhangslos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Was
'davor' passierte, ist eine Geschichte für sich und gestaltet den ersten Teil
meines Buches. 1961 hatte ich eine erfolgreiche Karriere in der
Nuklearindustrie gehabt – eine Karriere, welcher ich durch die Konsequenzen
einer medizinischen Fehldiagnose, sowie unpassender und unnötiger Medikation
beraubt wurde. Was nun bekannt ist, eine Kryptosporidien-Infektion wurde als
'nervös' bedingt behandelt und ich begann ein Leben mit Librium. Nach 2 Jahren
des kontinuierlichen Gebrauchs, mittlerweile war ich ein Süchtiger, Abhängiger
und es zeigten sich viele Nebenwirkungen des Medikaments, begann ich ein
'Psychiatrie-Jahr', welches mit zwei Episoden des kalten Entzugs eröffnet
wurde, dann Anstaltsaufenthalt für insgesamt 20 Wochen, 23 E.K.T.s
(Elektrokrampftherapie), 'Experimente' mit einer Vielzahl von Medikamenten,
wie etwa Tryptizol, Melleril, Valium, Pertofran und allerlei Benzodiazepine und
Barbiturate, plus Insulinschock'therapie' – und das endete dann mit einer
absurden zweiten Meinung von jemanden, der geradewegs dabei war ein Doyen in
der Welt der Psychiatrie zu werden!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ich ging
in vorzeitigen Ruhestand, zerstörte damit meine Karriere und mein Zuhause, und
insgesamt, ganz konkret, habe ich über eine halbe Million Pfund verloren. Aber
so schwer es auch sein mag zu glauben, ich begann effektiv ein neues Leben. Es
ist ein Leben, das gewesen war und es ist zugleich faszinierend und bereichernd
– auch wenn es nach vier Jahren die Ereignisse, welche zu den spirituellen Intrusionen
geführt haben, miteinschließt. Denn, wie ich herausfand, gibt es da nicht nur
die Bösartigen - diejenigen die die 'Schizophrenen' plagen - sondern auch die
Wohlwollenden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Die ganze
Geschichte ist dort in dem Buch geschrieben – über, wie ich z. B. unter der Anleitung
eines renommierten Heilers, dem verstorbene Bruce Macmanaway, herausfand, dass
ich außerdem ein Talent zum Heilen hatte. Es ist ein Talent, das ich
hoffnungsvoll für eine gute Wirkung angewendet habe und welches mir viel Entlohnung
in Begegnungen mit wunderbaren Menschen gebracht hat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mein
ingenieurwissenschaftlicher Denkansatz hat zu einer Studie unserer Interaktion
mit der elektrischen Umgebung geführt und zu einem Verständnis von Aspekten der
Elektrizität und Gesundheit. Durch die Erlangung von Kenntnissen über die
elektrische Natur von Akupunktur erweiterte ich mein Wissen und meine
Erfahrungen in diesem Bereich ebenfalls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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identifizierte über dreißig verschiedene Tricks, die von eindringenden
'Wesenheiten' verwendet werden und beschreibe diese im Detail. Ich stellte
außerdem fest, dass Kanäle im Geist bei hierfür Gefährdeten geöffnet werden
können durch Aktivitäten wie Hypnose und Hypnotherapie, Rückführung in vergangene
Leben, Reiki, Channeling und verschiedene Formen der 'Divination'. Es gibt ebenfalls
Warnungen für diejenigen, die an Seelenbefreiungen beteiligt sind und den
vielen esoterischen Praktiken, die die 'Öffnung des Geistes' betreffen, und
außerdem Hinweise auf die Möglichkeit, dass solche 'Freizeit'-Drogen wie
Cannabis und Meskalin denselben Effekt haben können – dieser Effekt ist begehrt
bei Schamanen und dergleichen. Ich spekuliere auch auf die mögliche Verbindung
mit bipolarer affektiven Störung (früher: manisch-depressive Erkrankung),
Essstörungen und selbstverletzendes Verhalten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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meinen Helden sind solche verschiedenartige Personen, wie Galileo, Paracelsus
und Nikola Tesla und ich zitiere sie und ziehe daraus meine Schlussfolgerungen,
wie ich es auch aus den Schreiben und Kommunikationen mit einer Vielzahl von
Psychiatern, Psychologen tue und auch anderen aus dem Bereich der psychischen
Gesundheit, wie z. B. Irving Gottesman, Julian Jaynes, Martin Roth, Kenneth
McAll, A. W. Drummond, Wilson van Dusen, Richard Mackarness – um einige zu
benennen. Ich habe gleichfalls von der bekannten Stimmenhörerin und Seherin von
Visionen Teresa von Ávila einiges entnehmen können.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ich war
selbst überrascht als ich herausfand, dass aus meinem anfänglich provisorischen
Schreiben ein Buch geworden ist. Wenn ich lese, was ich geschrieben habe, gibt
es Zeiten, in denen ich <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">mich</st1:state></st1:place>
fühle, als wäre ich körperlich gehäutet worden und dass das rohe 'Ich' dadurch
für alle sichtbar entblößt in seinem pulsierenden Schmerz und Qual ist.
Trotzdem habe ich <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">mich</st1:state></st1:place>
bereitwillig geöffnet, mein Leben und meine Erfahrungen mitgeteilt, in der
Hoffnung, dass das Wissen, welches ich erworben habe von leidenden Personen
verwendet wird. <st1:place w:st="on">Oder</st1:place> es wird zu ihren Gunsten
von Betreuern oder von Fachleuten aus der Welt der Psychiatrie und der Pflege
von psychisch Gestörten eingesetzt werden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">So dass
das Buch in Reichweite eines jeden ist, der es brauchen könnte, überall in der
Welt, veröffentlichte ich es im Internet als kostenlosen Download. Das war im
Jahr 2003. Dann im Jahre 2007 folgte eine Taschenbuchausgabe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mit jeder
Veröffentlichung habe ich ein stilles Gebet gemacht, dass diese Worte die
Personen erreichen würden, die sie benötigen, ganz gleich, wo sie leben.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Die Worte
meines Gebets sind wunderschön in diesem Gedicht zum Ausdruck gebracht worden,
das von dem irischen Dichter W. B. Yeates verfasst wurde…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">All die Worte, die ich äußere,<br />
Und all die Worte, die ich schreibe,<br />
Müssen ihre Flügel unermüdlich ausbreiten,<br />
Und niemals ruhen in ihrem Flug,<br />
Bis sie ankommen, wo dein trauriges, trauriges Herz ist…</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt;">The word <i>bottom</i> thus introduced, was
so ludicrous that most of us could not forbear tittering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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say the woman was <i>fundamentally</i>
sensible.”<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">And thus, it
seems, it has always been. And judging
by the reaction of many, from the smallest child to the ubiquitous television
studio audience, it will always be so. Just
mention bottoms, bums, ‘poos’ – and almost everyone falls about in sniggers,
titters and giggles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">However,
go one step further, and ask someone “How do you <i>wipe</i> your bottom?”, and
embarrassment replaces the humour. Yet much
can be learned from this simple act, and it can demonstrate something that is
most fundamental (<i>pace</i> Dr. Johnson) in the shape and function of the
human body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Bottom wipers divide into two camps –
those who ‘reach through’, i.e. between the thighs, and those who ‘reach
around’. There are yet two further sub-divisions
established by the further question “Which hand do you use?” And here we really get to the very basis and
core of certain human values, behaviour and social interaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> Before the use of suitably designed
stools, water closets and other toilet furniture, everyone adopted the
crouching posture for defecation – indeed, many of the population of the world
still do. And it was in this crouched
posture that the subsequent anal cleansing would be performed. Whatever cleansing method was used, a hand
would reach between the thighs to perform it.
The question is – <i>which hand</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> “It is important to consider one aspect
of handedness about which writers have been guarded and polite, referring in
general terms to ‘hygiene’ and ‘uncleanness’.
The epithet ‘cack-handed’ is often used but its meaning is rarely understood. The time has come for us to realise that one
hygienic action is done with the left hand by nine-tenths or more of the World
population, because they are right-handed.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">In
civilised countries today this distinction no longer matters: but through the
centuries it has mattered very much, and it is in many ways responsible, not
only for the taboo and physical prejudice against the left-hander, whose
allegedly ‘unclean’ hand is his preferred hand, but in reinforcing the social
prejudice against the physical minority.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of <b><i>The Left-handed Book</i></b> in
this way, and in confronting the issue that I have raised, has given me my
statistic – namely 90% or more of the World population is right handed. But <i>why</i>? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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another ‘why?’ Since most individuals
are right-handed, why do they not use for this function the hand with which
they have the greatest facility– namely the right hand? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">As you read, you may wonder
just what on earth has all this to do with mental health, and particularly
“Hearing Voices” and similar conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">Only this – anything that
undermines the natural functioning of the human body can have direct
implication upon the function of the human mind. Furthermore, mal-functions of the body and
mind are easily exploited by the intruding entities that in most instances are
the origins of ‘voices in the mind’,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";">Yes. <b>Intruding
Entities</b>. All of my writing is
dedicated to spreading this knowledge.
All of the considerable feedback that I receive from individuals World Wide
is 100% in agreement with what I write.
So please read on, and then read my book, and see whether you will
agree.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> <b>Yes. Why <i>don’t</i>
most individuals use the right hand</b>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> The concept of the ‘unclean’ hand no
longer governs the issue – at least not in most ‘Western’ societies, and so
there must be a reason, and an answer that lies in something that is basic to
humans no matter where in the world they may live. Basic to humans, for we appear to be the only
creatures that behave in this way – no other mammals engage in any acts of anal
cleansing. Nevertheless, and in spite of
that, the answer lies in the fact that humans are mammals, and follow the
essential structures and configurations of all mammals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode";"> I first became aware of a particular
aspect of human ‘construction’ when I began to train young horses. After ‘mouthing’ and ‘bitting’ – the process
of preparing a horse for having a bit in its mouth – and being led and handled,
the next phase involves working it on a ‘lunge’ rein. The trainer stands still while the horse
moves around a circle at the extent of the rein, which itself is fastened to a
point on the front of the horse’s nose.
Initially led on the circle, the horse begins to follow commands, and is
then worked on its own. What soon
becomes apparent is that it moves happily circling in one direction, but is
completely unhappy in the opposite one, and breaks away from the track.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hind legs do not follow completely behind the front ones, but are tracking to
one side. To run in a straight line is unnatural for a horse in the wild – they
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pens are all constructed so that the animals proceed always on a right-hand
curve. If accidentally turned to the
left, they scatter. Likewise, in sheep-dog
trials - if the handler can manage to bring the sheep on a gentle right-hand
curve, they proceed without trouble. If
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to all mammals that can be observed regularly. Look carefully at a dog as it comes toward you
along a straight path. Inevitably, you
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ones. Instead, the hind-quarters are
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have friends who are dairy farmers.
Their cows by regulation have to have an identifying number tattooed on
the body. The location for the number is
high on the right quarter above the hip bone.
One of my friends finds this placement of the number to be a source of
continual annoyance, for when she has to locate a particular cow in the herd, inevitably
it is lying on its right side with the number obscured. The cow lies that way because it is curved
longitudinally, and, inside it, a foetal calf, lying with its head to its
mother’s rear, inevitably develops the identical curve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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constraints of a modern bed and a sleeping partner, it will be found that the
preferred mode of lying is in what is described as ‘the recovery
position’. This, for a right-hander, is
semi-prone, on the right side with the left knee drawn up. The body lies in a natural curve, as does a
foetus inside its mother. But, somewhere
along the line of human development, some mothers must have slept on their <i>left</i>
sides, and produced offspring with a different lateral curve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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features that may be observed easily.
Likewise, examine the photographs of the models below. The seated female has taken great care (front
view) to place her feet and hands symmetrically, assuming that the body will
likewise show symmetry. But it doesn’t. Left shoulder and left breast are higher than
the right. The centre line of the body
shows a long curve from fork to the base of the throat, and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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through a series of short disjointed arcs, but all showing the trend of a long
curve. The asymmetry of the shoulders is
very obvious. Many individuals will say,
“My left (right) shoulder is higher because I carried my school bag
there.” The converse is true – the bag
was carried on the higher shoulder because the shoulder strap was less likely
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I have observed people, especially if I see someone carrying a shoulder bag on
the right shoulder, and try then to see whether an individual is left
handed. Try it yourself – you will be
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‘occupational’ irregularities, acquired as the result of a regular posture when
at work or through long hours of sitting when at school. However, I have yet to hear any rational
argument, or see any evidence that justifies that assertion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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study, although, from here onward, the observation and study must be in your
hands. I have drawn attention to the
curves and irregularities that you will find occurring naturally in the spines
of most individuals. It is now up to you
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discontinuity between the sacrum and lumbar spines – possibility of
genital/urinary/fertility problems?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the base of the neck and at the top, at the atlas/axis joint – might there be
interference with blood flow – say between left and right sides of the brain?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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do not regard myself as sufficiently competent to make this analysis, except on
my own behalf, and this is why I say that from here the analysis is up to you. However, returning to my earlier statement
concerning ‘intruding entities’ – the subject of much of my writing in the
whole field of ‘hearing voices. Anything
that interferes with the harmonious function of ones body may also affect one’s
mind and mental function – and might, ultimately, be the source of pain of
possibly unknown origin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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exploit these situations – possibly even claiming that ‘they’ are causing the
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book is titled “Listening to the Silences, in a world of hearing voices”, and
is free to download at <a href="http://www.royvincent.org/">www.royvincent.org</a>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-41202223146695563592014-06-22T08:02:00.001-07:002014-06-25T10:01:13.776-07:00PEOPLE WHO HEAR VOICES ARE NOT LUNATICS<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">PEOPLE WHO HEAR VOICES ARE NOT
LUNATICS.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Unfortunately, that is not what you may believe if you
accept only what you receive from the ‘media’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes, the ‘media’ would have you believe that individuals
who hear voices are ‘psychotic’, ‘paranoid schizophrenic’ – even ‘<i>violent</i> paranoid schizophrenic’..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Have you ever met someone who says that they ‘hear
voices’? Will you stay and talk? Will you run a mile because suddenly they
might produce a gun/cleaver/ machete… ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">If this is you, why not stop a while and meet me? I have been hearing voices for more than 30
years without being ill (or chasing anyone with a hatchet) and I will introduce
you to my book and its title <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;">Listening to the silences </span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;">in a world of hearing voices</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">It has been published free on the Internet for more than
10 years, and from it, I get frequent contacts by letter or email from individuals
who, without exception, hear voices.
Here are two emails that arrived within the last two weeks – read them,
and examine for any signs of lunacy… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">This arrived from Kristin from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Norway</st1:place></st1:country-region>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dear Mr. Vincent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">I’m very happy to have discovered your online-book and at
moment I'm still at the beginning of the book. But I would like to write you by
now, how grateful I am that you make your book free available for everyone.
Thank you so much! :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Since 2000 I’m hearing voices after I had been practicing
with a textbook to educate the mediumistic sense. The exercises for clairaudience
(clear hearing) were successful quickly, but then, I couldn’t interrupt that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">The consciousness of myself and my own thoughts help me at
first to live my daily life but the voices harassed me very much and I couldn’t
avoid hearing the voices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">After several years of searching and trial and error I
began with the aid of mindfulness meditation to learn to elude from the voices
better and better. The focus on my breath, my body or the activities that I
exercised just helped me more and more to be with my attention by me and in the
material world. I meditated, if possible, twice a day 5 - 10 minutes. I tried
no longer internally desperately fight off the listening to the voices. I tried
to be completely relaxed, let them be there and no further notice of the
voices. The prior inner defense against hearing voices had this rather
reinforced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">I did these things with time more and more easier, like
automatically, and the voice became ever more silent and appeared less and less
in evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">While falling asleep I used auto-suggestions such as: “I
am completely safe and protected and don’t clear hearing” or “I am healthy and
don’t clear hearing”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">I have also read about treatment with homeopathy much
good, but I haven’t tried this by myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now I am looking forward to continue reading your book. :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yours sincerely<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">P.S.: Please excuse the terrible English - it's a mixture
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">And this from
Marianne in Canada, which she wrote after reading a poem <i>I Don’t Believe In Magic </i>that I have posted on my Blog: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana;"></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">First of all I thank you for
writing about hearing voices</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;"> and for making your book available online for
free. I've only read the first page but can see that reading your book
will be beneficial to me as I've been hearing voices for twenty years or
so. I am amazed that you function so well in spite of voices and look
forward to finding out more about the ways you get along with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Secondly, the poem "<b><a href="http://roycvincent.blogspot.com/2014/06/i-dont-believe-in-magic-with-thanks-to.html">I
Don't Believe In Magic</a></b>" </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana;"></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">touched me deeply. I've always carried a deep conviction</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;"> that no evil,
neither real or imagined, is bigger than my God and my Bible. Sometimes
things get pretty scary and I wonder if God and my Bible are really there for
me but then things will happen to prove that yes, God is real and yes, my Bible
wins over any spell book out there, like the old rock, paper, scissors game....
Bible always wins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">I can't concentrate
very long on something like a book so it's going to take quite a bit of time
for me to read the entire work and I hope to stay in contact with you during
the process. I'm sure a lot of questions will arise and, if you're
willing, I would like to "pick your brain" (that sounds pretty
gross, I wonder whomever coined that phrase in the first place!) on all that is
related to hearing voices and its affect on you and your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Take good care and God bless you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">So, did you find any
signs of Lunacy? Maybe you found two people
who are different in their approach to life.
And maybe if you actually <i>talk</i>
to folk whom you may meet and who hear voices, you will find ‘individuals’ –
sensitive, intelligent people – individuals who are just that – individual, and
prepared to think and live ‘outside the box’ that is the norm for the bulk of
humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">I
don't believe in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">magic</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">superstitious</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>tales,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Or
witches' spells and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">potions</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Made
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">I
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Or
ghostly<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">apparitions</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Spirits,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">ghouls</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and warlocks,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Dragons<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">spitting</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>fire.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Mere<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">fables</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and make believe,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Cloaked
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Mysteries
of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">occult</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Are
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">I'm
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">That
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">I've
never seen a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">poltergeist</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Or
proof of any<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">haunting</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">I'm
not afraid of darkness,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">While
others find it<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">daunting</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">There
is but one<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">bewilderment</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">From
which I seek<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">protection</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">I've
yet to find a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">mirror</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that
will,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt;">Cast
my own<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="iltextstyle5">reflection</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 18pt;">My book is free to download at<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-14190516333766439912014-06-22T03:03:00.001-07:002014-06-22T03:03:12.254-07:00WHEN CLARRY TOPPED HIMSELF, NO ONE KNEW WHY - NO ONE...<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">WHEN CLARRY TOPPED HIMSELF,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">NO ONE KNEW WHY…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">…NO ONE.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Satellite
television has brought me a fascinating window on a wider world and the
opportunities to observe and try to understand people from a vast range of
cultures - people whom one had seen, if one saw them at all, as ‘performers’ in
documentaries or devised programmes and subject to the presentation and
interpretation of the programmes compilers.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now
I can watch them completely untainted by the intervening ‘editor
interpreter’. I watch them in their own
dramas, chat shows, news bulletins and a variety of presentations and versions
of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ I
look at faces and expressions, moods and reactions, but ‘look’ and ‘watch’ are
the two operative words, for apart from sensing the general mood of the piece I
have not the slightest idea of what is being said. When I watch Chinese television there are
subtitles – but they also are in Chinese.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
would dearly like to know what Dunia and the people whom she interviews on <st1:city w:st="on">Abu Dhabi</st1:city> television are discussing, because it appears to
be serious and intelligent, but apart from words that sound vaguely like ‘<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>’ there is
nothing to guide me. Worse still is a
news bulletin when the person being interviewed is speaking English, but is
then being talked over and the screen has rolling subtitles all in Arabic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
world and outlook of those who are locked into their inner voices is something
like this. They have their own
transmission received inside their head that no one else can hear or comprehend,
while, viewed on the screen of life that is going on outside them, they see
people, faces expressions, actions, moods and reactions, and try to interpret
something that is far off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A
world that is almost unreachable from within a mind and body that are often
numbed by the drugs that are meant to make life more bearable (but which often
are there solely to ‘contain’ them).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A world
with which they find it increasingly difficult to communicate. So difficult, that attempts to do so may be abandoned
altogether, especially when the inner world can appear warm and friendly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is
it easiest simply to abandon them to their inner world and the companions that
frequent it? An inner world that can be
welcoming, friendly, comforting – an inner world that suddenly can spawn terror
and threat; create immeasurable anxiety; propose devilish and obscene compacts
– compacts that if accepted can bring down an even heavier rain of threat and
castigation from the unseen tormentors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One
can go on and on in seemingly endless speculation, and offer insights and
advice that may or may not have relevance to an individual – if indeed one knew
that the torment was actually there behind the closed door that a life and the
face fronting it have become.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It
would be difficult to forget the time when my stable was being re-roofed. Right to the fore of the action were the two
Geordies – Big Derek and Brian. They
came and worked - and worked hard - for ‘readies’, and stayed until about one
o’clock when they went to the King’s Head for a liquid lunch, and then possibly
an afternoon fishing off the beach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One
morning they came and they were immensely subdued - in fact, for such a big man
it was odd that Derek seemed close to tears.
“Clarry’s topped his self” said Brian eventually. Work was pointless, and they went off to the
King’ Head for more appropriate solace. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Clarry
– or Clarence to give him his Sunday name – had farmed with brother Ronnie,
until they had given up the farm. But
farmers never retire, and one met them here and there as they helped out on
other farms - hedging, dykeing, hay-timing - or working in people’s gardens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Clarry
had retired to a cottage beside the main road and I saw him frequently as he
worked around a friend’s premises. This
particular morning, his daughter had come downstairs, to a fire newly laid in
the grate, a cup of tea part drunk and still warm, a sandwich half eaten, and,
puzzled, had gone outside to find Clarry hanging. And no one knew why! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That
was over ten years ago, and I don’t think anyone knows to this day. <i>Why?</i> There in his inner world something had thrown
a switch – but he had not been ill that anyone knew about – certainly not
mentally. What was it that Clarry
couldn’t talk to anyone about – confide - consult?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
thought of him in happier times, as, for instance, when the local Shepherds’
Meet and a meet of the Beagles had coincided, and the Brown Cow had been open
all day – and Clarry hadn’t wasted a minute.
There he was, well into the evening, a huge turkey drumstick in his
hand, beating time to the choruses of the hunting songs, and swaying perilously
to and fro, and the picture of him swaying gently at the end of a rope is one
that even now I find unbearable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
have difficulty revisiting the time when I desperately wanted to die and escape
from all that plagued my mind and the situation that I couldn’t understand but
from which I frantically wanted to flee.
I wasn’t then hearing voices, but had seemingly insurmountable
problems. Why didn’t I just do it? As I wrote earlier, it had to appear to be an
accident, and I couldn’t devise one that I thought would be convincing. Relevant to my thoughts about Clarry – I
couldn’t talk to anyone, because I couldn’t put my inner agony into words. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
vaguely remember once saying to a Consultant Psychiatrist, as I attempted to
broach the subject, something such as “I wish I had a terminal illness” –
thinking that that would be a way out that would not create problems for
anyone. “I suppose you want cancer” he
said – and said it with a sneer; nothing else will describe his tone. I never tried to speak to anyone about it
ever again, and I have only recalled the painful times for the purpose of
writing to you to help you to understand the torment in the unseen world behind
the facade of a face, and a life that, seemingly, is being ‘lived’ successfully.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">‘Writing
to you’ – I began to write more then five years ago. Some has come easy; some with the pain of
unhappiness and disaster revisited. I
hope that it has been worthwhile in that it may help someone. I began with the words of the diminutive
Brazilian bishop, Dom Helder Camera - and cannot think of any that are more
appropriate to end with.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don’t get annoyed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If the people coming to see you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Can’t manage to express<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The uproar raging inside them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Much more important<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Than listening to the words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Is imagining the agonies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fathoming the mystery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Listening to the silences<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(And, with those words, in 2003, I completed my Book.)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes. Writing to you. Yes, <b><i><u>you</u></i></b>. It may be that you are the one to whom I was writing,
whom I had in mind during all of those five years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chapter
One bears the title “We had to destroy it to save it…”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
‘it’ in question was my mind. And I had all
of the material necessary to be able to write a full and minutely detailed
account - I had all of my medical notes
covering a period of thirty years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But
it was only with you in mind that I could read and face the personal agonies
within – and then write about them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To
read and recall how, step by step, therapy after therapy, drug after drug, my
life, my home, my career, my family were slowly peeled away – and then to
recall how all of this had been the ‘gratuitous invention’ of ‘psychiatry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You
see – there had been nothing wrong with me at the outset – other than
uncontrollable diarrhoea – yes - uncontrollable diarrhoea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were times – many times – when I would have
abandoned the whole project. Even hoping
that my computer would ‘crash’ and everything that I had written would be lost
–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">because I knew I would never start again…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And that was before I had even begun to
think about writing about<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ‘Hearing Voices’ <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- which, after all, is the reason for
writing in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But
I always came back to you – yes, it is </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>you</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> again.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used to say to myself “If I can help only one
person – </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">just one person</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> – back to
sanity, then it will have been worth it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And
thankfully, it has been worth it! <b>Yes it has</b>. You in your various forms have emailed or
written to me to tell me just what the book has meant to you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes,
you have been “Al….” a seafarer in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region> “…now you inspire me a
lot.” Or Igor in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:city>…. Monica in Mumbai who was desperately
worried about the harm that anti-psychotic drugs were having upon her son. (So many parents and carers have written as
she did.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You
have been Anne-Marie who had been assailed by malign voices while in a plane
returning from a very happy holiday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then
again, you have been Rosey in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Arizona</st1:place></st1:state>,
so worried for your son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My
heart went out to you, James, on Death Row in a gaol in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Georgia</st1:place></st1:country-region>, who
could still find the will to write to me, in spite of a very uncertain future…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was Steve, in <st1:place w:st="on">Lancashire</st1:place>,
who finally clinched it for me – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was Steve who wrote the ‘magic’ words – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“You have saved my sanity”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, if you are reading this and wondering what the
book is all about, it is free to download on the Internet – yes, free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who knows – I may have written it for <b>you.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">LISTENING
TO THE SILENCES<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">IN
A WORLD OF HEARING VOICES<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.royvincent.org/">www.royvincent.org</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ROY VINCENT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">MID-SUMMER 2014 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-67762130117415601152014-06-10T01:40:00.001-07:002014-09-28T03:45:08.113-07:00I DON'T BELIEVE IN MAGIC...<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">I Don’t
Believe In Magic</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">By Duncan
MacKellar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">I don’t
believe in magic,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Or
superstitious tales,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Or
witches spells and potions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Made from
newts and snails.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">I don’t
have time for werewolves,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Or
ghostly apparitions,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Spirits,
ghouls and warlocks,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Or spooky
premonitions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Goblins,
elves and angry trolls,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dragons
spitting fire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mere
fables and make-believe,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cloaked
in mist and mire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mysteries
of the occult,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Are easy
to resist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">I’m not
afraid of monsters,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">That
really don’t exist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">I’ve
never seen a poltergeist,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Or proof
of any haunting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">I’m not
afraid of darkness,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">While
others find it daunting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">There is
but one bewilderment,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">From
which I seek protection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">I’ve yet
to find a mirror that will<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cast my
own reflection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-43545006524096570552014-05-24T02:17:00.001-07:002014-05-24T02:17:54.255-07:00YOUR HEALING/HARMING MIND - WITH REFERENCE TO SIR TERRY PRATCHETT<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YOUR<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HEALING / HARMING<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 36.0pt;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 36.0pt;"> MIND<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With special reference to<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 24.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sir Terry Pratchett<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A
sequence of events that, literally, were mind altering, has prompted me to
write this short article. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apart
from any alteration to my own mind, the episodes have provided clues that may
have relevance in the study of mental ageing, breast cancer, and, possibly, to
the onset of MS and Alzheimer’s disease.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By
choice, and for a number of years, I have lived a solitary life in a very quiet
and tranquil place, which is free from urban and other forms of pollution. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I
am not a hermit, for I have many friends either in person or by phone and
email, but, for large parts of my days, I live deep in my ‘mind’. Possibly lost in abstract, reflective or
ruminative thought, which might then give way to writing, or which might contribute
to my ongoing study of that fascinating topic – ‘me’. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not
in an obsessive, Narcissistic manner, but following my absorbing interest in
the interplay between the mammal ‘me’, and the Johnny-come-lately intellectual
‘me’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here I am with all of my mammal evolution, still
complete in its entirety and fully functioning – the result of aeons of logical
development, and providing me with the tools of self-preservation, procreation
and enhancement of the species, all of which should be in exquisite
balance. And here I am with my
split-function human intellectual brain which, with its divisions, can succeed
in screwing up and overriding the harmony that should exist - and do it to the
detriment of my physical and mental health.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the most simplistic way, for long periods of time,
I live largely in my ‘right brain’, the centre of imagination and ruminative
thought. Even when engaged in such
mundane activities as washing the dishes, I may be teasing away at the
arguments and forms of words that subsequently I will go on to present in writing
such as this. So deep can I be in analytical
thought that suddenly I realise that my breathing is very shallow, and that my
body is physically tense and ‘polarised’ in one particular way. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, far from being a transient phenomenon, it may be
my state of being for significant lengths of time, with the ‘polarisation’ becoming
semi-permanent, and, which can be particularly noticeable in my breathing, which
may have become not much more than a ‘whisper’.
(See final note).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Within my mind, I am visualising and verbalising. But to my inner mammal, I am hearing sounds
and seeing things and the mammal ‘me’ is actively seeking whatever it is that
is causing this degree of attention in my right brain – and it is looking for
it to my left hand side. And it is preparing
me physically to respond actively to whatever it is that might come from that
direction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My left foot and my right hand ‘close’ as if holding
on, while my left buttock becomes taut, with the centre of tension at the
ischium. Likewise, the left testicle
structure is tensed, and the left lower abdomen is retracted. Meanwhile the senses of hearing, vision and
touch in the right side of my head, become marginally less acute.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The right leg and right lower quarter stiffen,
producing muscular tension in the thigh and ankle region, and in the lower
abdomen, while the left upper quarter and arm also stiffen. The whole, thus, creates strong muscular
tension in the biceps, across my left breast and up my left neck, both internally
and externally.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The musculature associated with my left eye and ear
becomes permanently stressed, as the eye and ear strain to listen to and look
at what, they are led to believe, may be a threat arriving from the left.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My bladder and anal sphincters tighten, together with
a simultaneous ‘locking’ of my throat and neck at the level of my thyroid gland
- with an unbalanced feeling of restriction, strongest on its left side.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The right eye and ear become ‘detuned’ - still
retaining their proper function, but allowing greater concentration on the
looking and listening to the left.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is much more detail to which I shall return in
an article that I have been trying to write for some time. An article that will also describe the various
strategies and exercises that I have devised to try to counteract the deterioration
that must inevitably result if it all goes unchecked (remembering that I am 88,
and yet still want to maintain my mental and physical faculties for as long as
possible.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Help, when it came, arrived completely unexpectedly
and, one might say, bizarrely, in the shape of a three CD boxed set – a gift
from a very good friend. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, not music and the Mozart effect and all that, but
in the form of a lecture or discourse that occupied all of the CDs. And it was not the actual content of the
lecture either. With his title “The Biology
of Belief”, Dr. Bruce H. Lipton began, and talked, and talked - continuously in
a voice barely above a monotone, although somehow managing to imbue it with
enthusiasm. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Slowly, logically, persuasively, non-stop through
three CDs, he led through basic cell structure, proteins, cell membranes, DNA. Building, building an argument that reached
its climax in the whole person and the influence of the mind and beliefs upon
its ultimate function.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But no! - it was none of that. My experiences began within two minutes of my
commencing to listen. Listen I did,
intently, because I was now in new territory and my friend had been so
enthusiastic in making the gift. And as
I listened, I became aware that all of the locked in tensions, stiffness and
semi paralyses were releasing and revitalising. But it was not the result of what I heard. No - here I was completely immersed in
language, logic and coherent argument – I was entirely within the recesses of
my <i>left</i> brain, and my inner mammal
responded as it had evolved to do – to the ‘threat’ that might this time come
from the now opposite direction. And a
new ‘polarisation’ began to establish.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it did not happen just that once. No: each time I listen, and within thirty seconds,
the same changes occur. I have become so
bored with the arguments and discussion that I don’t listen in logical sequence
– I simply switch in at random, focus entirely on his voice – and receive my
therapy. My left buttock and testicle (and
all my genitalia) suddenly feel normal and in harmony: my left foot and right hand
grip no longer and the sphincters begin to relax. My right foot is restored to a feeling of
normality, and hitherto unnoticed stresses across my left breast gently unwind.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have ‘worked’ the sequence many, many times since
the initial surprise event, and have observed many subtleties in where and how
release and relaxation occur – far too many to describe in this short
note. To me, and in the general context
in which I am writing, most significant is what follows the release of the
sphincters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The left shoulder loses its semi-permanent hunch,
returning to the normal level for a right handed person, i.e. slightly higher
than the right (See note at <b># )</b>. This return to ‘normality’ facilitates the
liberation of the whole cervical spine and associated muscles, while the throat
with all of its internal components becomes more free, resulting in an
unquantifiable ‘release’ around the thyroid, and apparent increase in blood
flow to and from the brain. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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part of my normal structure, now release in my left face, around the left eye
and all over my scalp. The feeling of
mental well-being is remarkable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometime ago, I read a note in which Sigmund Freud described
a patient who, he believed, was in the early stages of MS. In particular, I remember his comments
following her statement that “My left eyebrow is numb, and I have trouble
moving my right foot…” and his opinion that she was on a downward path from
which there was no return. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and right foot behave as I have described.
Fortunately, I know the cause, and provide relief, but my suggestion
that what I observe and then correct may relate to MS, is strengthened when one
now learns that within the development of the illness, one or both jugular
veins becomes constricted – which relates to what I observe in myself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Further, as it is sometimes asserted that there is a
close link between MS and Alzheimer’s disease, what I detect in relation to
blood flow and mental well-being may equally have relevance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the development in Terry Pratchett of a condition that appears to be a form of
Alzheimer’s disease. With only knowledge
that is in the public domain, I nevertheless see my analysis applying to him
also. Applying to a much higher degree, for
his whole life appears to be devoted to his writing; writing that involves far
more concentration and imagination than mine.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Furthermore, he writes with four computer screens
occupying his total visual focus for many hours. The ‘mammal within’ does not habitually stare
in forward focus. Such a state is
normally the result of confrontation, possibly against a foe. Confrontation that normally is resolved
fairly quickly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ‘mammal within’ requires wide-ranging peripheral
vision and frequent eye movement. I am
fortunate in that where I live I have wide horizons as soon as I step outside,
and the movement of birds, cattle and horses, trees and clouds, and I can sense
the benefit that I derive as my eyes are constantly moving and changing
focus. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I well remember a recent winter and the time when it
was just changing into spring. It had
gone on for so long – grey, wet, cold, with very little incentive to go
outside, and with the vision confined to TV and computer screens and
print. Then one day I took off for my
nearby shore, on a day of almost unbelievable clarity and light – and the
liberation was astonishing. My eyes
ranged back and forth along the absolutely pin-sharp horizon ‘luxuriating’ in
their liberation: while the feeling within my whole self amounted almost to a rebirth. It was unforgettable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes – unforgettable.
And unforgettable was the ‘purging’ of my lungs with ocean air. Air straight from the <st1:place w:st="on">North
Atlantic</st1:place> – pure and unpolluted – and ‘<i>alive’. </i>Air that seemed to
sweep around my brain – scouring away any remaining dross.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I try to bring this article to a logical
conclusion, many other examples jostle for attention, all worthy of inclusion,
but the article would become too long, so I’ll confine myself to just two. The first has been described and analysed
many time in my writing about voice hearing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have heard voices and experienced many other allied
phenomena for more than thirty years, fortunately without having become ill,
and I describe and analyse my experiences in my book<b>*</b> and Blog. I assert – with
absolute certainty – that the phenomena are created by spiritual intrusion into
my mind and body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have experienced ‘intrusions’ of different natures
and purpose, from the absolute benign to the absolute malign. The former, in fact, do not intrude, and have
contributed much to my understanding of the spiritual state of being.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The malign have but one purpose, and that is to
attach, subvert and ultimately take over a person’s mind and functions. In my book, I describe a number of different
‘ploys’ that are used as they attempt to do this. Some are directly confrontational and aim at domination. Others are simple yet subtle. The constant chattering, nattering, “…do it
this way”, “why don’t you…” may be in one’s mind continuously from one’s first
thoughts on waking, until sleep takes over again. One finds oneself ‘hearing’ without
specifically ‘listening’ although the effect can easily be the same. The ‘intruders’ use the faculties of the
‘right brain’, and the resulting consequences of the constant voice in the mind
are identical to those that follow one’s own inner right brain thought processes and mental
imaging, and which I have described above.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I live alone and am not undermined because I understand
what is happening. Many voice hearers
live lives of isolation, do not understand, and consequently may become very
ill. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second example that I have chosen from all those
that ‘jostle for attention’ relates to what may be dire physical consequences
that follow from the permanent cross-body polarisation. I have drawn attention to the permanent
stresses that may exist in the muscles across my left breast. For a number of years I gave assistance at a
cancer care centre where the so-called Bristol Therapy was promoted. There I found a general consensus that the
site of a woman’s first breast cancer was likely to be on the left in a
proportion of four to one. Breast cancer
was the most frequent form that one encountered, and I can recollect just one
person there whose first episode had been in the right breast.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My late sister-in-law succumbed to cancer of the right
breast, and she told me that her surgeon had said that she was in the only 20%
of women who initially developed the illness on the right side. She was very ‘verbal’, and possibly a strong
‘left brain’ candidate.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Essentially, I am simply making the proposition that
the stresses of which I write may be inhibiting natural circulation of blood
and lymph and may be creating a fertile ‘soil’ in which the tumours can
develop. Incidentally, among my friends
and acquaintances who have developed mastitis following giving birth, in every
one it was the<i> left</i> breast that
became inflamed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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– SIR TERRY PRATCHETT.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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I wrote the above, Sir Terry has dropped out of the headlines, to the extent
that I had to look in the Internet to find out whether or not he is still
alive. I was delighted to discover that
he is, and is still writing. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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condition, Pratchett currently writes either by dictating to his assistant, Rob
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that I thought I’d be a lot worse than this by now, and so did my
specialist." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was stated that the cognitive part of his mind was "untouched", and
his symptoms relating to the condition were physical (which is normal for PCA)
and that putting a book together was actually better and easier now that it was
done by dictation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In my
own interpretation, the ‘thinking, planning, imagining’ have been brought
together with speech, involving <i>both</i>
sides of the brain, bringing new life to the inert and under-used ‘left brain’
functions of speech, language and logic, and hence to the whole person. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and this is so fundamentally important – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; font-size: 18.0pt;">as he
speaks, he breathes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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no longer the shallow ‘whisper breathing’ of concentration about which I wrote earlier, but ‘speech breathing’ bringing with it, life and possibly rejuvenation
to the oxygen starved brain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></sup><u style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ROY VINCENT</span></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">#</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Described in detail in Chapters 13 & 14 of my book, and illustrated with photographs of nude models.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">*</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> ”LISTENING TO THE SILENCES in a world of hearing voices.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Free on <a href="http://www.royvincent.org/">www.royvincent.org</a> and in paperback.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also <a href="http://www.roycvincent.blogspot.com/">www.roycvincent.blogspot.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-67392912613640402662014-04-27T02:20:00.000-07:002014-04-27T13:28:54.357-07:00THE ORIGINAL "BLACK BOX" - LOOK NO FURTHER<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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UK RADIO TIMES magazine, there is a ‘dictionary corner’ feature in which a Lexicographer responds to queries from readers in which they ask
for explanations of the origins of words/phrases.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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magazine issue for April 26<sup>th</sup> prompted me to write what follows:-</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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origins of the term ‘black box’, with growing disbelief that someone could
write so much twaddle about a topic of which they are so completely
ignorant. There was just one actual fact
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I first encountered the term when I began my training as a
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radar was in its infancy – and much was going on in the research field. This was also long before transistors and
miniaturisation, and involved thermionic valves, large resistors and capacitors
and transformers, all of which had to be assembled gradually into working
circuits. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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30cm square board – known as a ‘breadboard’ – because it resembled a domestic
breadboard. As the circuits were
refined, breadboards were joined together until a full working unit was
complete. Everything was then put
together on a metal base or chassis for further refinement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eventually, the unit on its chassis had all of the bugs
removed and then the chassis was given its ultimate container, or box. The box had a stove enamelled front with all
of the controls and indicators. The
stove enamelling was always of one colour… like Henry Ford’s original cars –
you can have any colour as long as it is….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">YES, DEAR CHILDREN, WE HAVE NOW ARRIVED AT THE ORIGINAL BLACK
BOX….!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The complete radar equipment, gunnery control or what have
you was then assembled for the presentation to the Top Brass of the Services,
Ministers of State, and procurement officials for their approval and ultimate
funding and manufacture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Boffins who had designed and made the gear were also
assembled, and the Chief Boffin –
knowing that the assembled onlookers wouldn’t have a clue about the electronic content
of the units spread out before them – would begin with the immortal phrase –
NOW GENTLEMEN, WILL YOU PLEASE JUST CONSIDER THESE AS A SERIES OF <i>BLACK BOXES - - -!!!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">YES, THE ‘BLACK BOX’ EXPLANATION HAD JUST BEGUN – <i>EVERY INNOVATIVE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WAS A
‘BLACK BOX’ WHEN IT CAME TO TRYING TO EXPLAIN ITS FUNCTION TO THE LAITY.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">AND SO IT WAS WHEN THE TACHOGRAPH WAS FITTED TO LORRIES AND
BUSES, AND SO IT WAS WHEN AIRCRAFT BEGAN TO USE FLIGHT DATA RECORDERS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">BUT TO CONTINUE TO CALL A THING A BLACK BOX WHEN YOU KNOW
THAT IT IS A FLIGHT DATA RECORDER OR TACHOGRAPH, IS JUST THE SAME AS SAYING ‘GEE
GEE’ WHEN YOU KNOW THAT IT IS A HORSE ! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">One unfortunate consequence of an association with the
OED is that readers might assume that the Lexicographer's ‘analysis’ carries the OED imprimatur
– and actually believe it.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-48406316648288660012014-03-06T06:59:00.000-08:002014-03-10T07:34:49.319-07:00WI - FI + LAP-TOP = PROSTATE CANCER ?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">WI-FI + LAPTOP = PROSTATE CANCER ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My daughter and her partner,
Keith, have been together for 37 years.
Two days ago, Keith was told that the prostate cancer that he has been
trying to combat for about 18 months, is now terminal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All that is left to them is
palliative care at home and “weeks or months” for a longer or shorter
“goodbye”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Keith is now 56, and did not have
the ‘classic’ symptoms of frequent and difficult ‘peeing’ through the
night. In fact, the prostate wasn’t even
on the ‘radar’ during the time that he was receiving treatment for an
increasingly painful lower back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With no obvious cause and
increasing pain, Keith’s GP ordered a speculative psa blood test – with a
result that was ‘astronomical’. Bone
scans revealed that the cancer was already in the bones of his upper torso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Various forms of hormone therapy,
radiation and chemotherapy have produced minor remissions. But without the hoped for success. With the inevitable outcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Identifying a possible cause
would probably have been treated as a pointless exercise – which does not
prevent me from speculating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Keith is a tall, robust man, who
drinks very little, and hasn’t smoked for many years. As a ‘peripatetic’ music teacher serving five
schools, he is highly valued and strongly dedicated. Which meant bringing work home. Which meant sitting companionably with my
daughter on their settee, with a lap-top computer, naturally on his lap – and a
Wi-Fi connection .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Where-else would the Wi-Fi
transmissions go, but through his sacrum and lumbar spine, his genitals and his
prostate gland? (It will pass through
the walls of a house, so bones present few problems.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My personal connection with
electromagnetic (em) radiation started when, aged 18, I began my training in
Naval radar in WW 2. (I am now in my 89<sup>th</sup>
year). Demobilisation and University
brought me a degree in Electrical Engineering, followed by work as a
measurement specialist in the nuclear industry.
Thus I am no stranger to em radiation and to its many and well-recorded
dangers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Personally, I am very, very
sensitive to these forms of electrical radiation, and am unable to tolerate Wi-Fi
anywhere near me (fortunately, my home is isolated and I can avoid most forms
of radiation.) However, my interest
remains very much alive, and I keep it fed with the writings of such experts as
the late Dr Robert O. Becker MD, and Dr Cyril Smith, together with some of the
many entries and discussions that exist on the Internet – which is where you
will find so very much more than I have attempted to convey in this short note.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(I shall leave it to you to
picture what might happen to the reproductive organs of any female who sits
with Wi-Fi and a lap-top on her lap – or to a foetus that might be within her
womb…) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Roy Vincent 6<sup>th</sup> March
2014 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This Blog contains other posts that you may find interesting, such as the one entitled "Earth Currents - Cause of Geo-pathic Illness"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also the one that describes the problems associated with communication with nuclear submarines. </span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-14010975011372863202013-12-11T05:48:00.000-08:002013-12-11T05:52:38.736-08:00RACING MADLY INTO DEMENTIA...<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The early onset of Dementia has been recorded increasingly Worldwide, and large sums of money are currently being allocated to research into the phenomenon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Much money can be saved, and many minds can remain healthy and active if only sufficient attention is given to another and surprisingly parallel 'phenomenon'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">By which I mean the rapid and Worldwide increase in the use of the drug named STATINS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More and more, these are being prescribed as a 'precaution' to limit cholesterol, rather than as a medical necessity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They are being prescribed almost like sweeties and candy, and, seemingly, without sufficient concern being given to the seriously adverse side-effects - which are many.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just look up 'Statins side effects' on Google, and you will be overwhelmed with report after report. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a brief summary of what you will find - and there are no prizes for identifying those side-effects that mimic dementia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gout and/or elevated uric acid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Peripheral neuropathy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Myopathy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Insomnia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chest pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Neck and shoulder pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fatigues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Migraine headaches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rabdomyolysis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trouble walking – either shuffling or balance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hand tremors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Slurred speech or trouble finding the right word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Dizziness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sciatica-like pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When you have had time to analyse these, and wonder whether you yourself might be taking Statins and speculate whether your own faculties may be deteriorating, why not continue into the earlier Post on this Blog - the one relating to nuclear submarines - where you will find another, and seemingly bizarre explanation of what may be the cause of so much mental ill-health World-wide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That Post will be updated shortly, so please keep it on your reading list - and tell your friends.</span></div>
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roy vincenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06901249496618284135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7465859582450089258.post-12986186934934930762013-11-16T06:07:00.001-08:002013-11-16T06:07:24.760-08:00LISTENING TO THE SILENCES - PEDRO FLORES' DOCUMENTARY IS BASED ON THIS BOOK<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">LISTENING TO THE SILENCES</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ON THIS BOOK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">ROY VINCENT</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;">, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">GAVE IT A SUB-TITLE –<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"HEARING VOICES – SCHIZOPHRENIA<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">FIND HELP AND HOPE HERE"</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">And from the date of its publication on the Internet in
2003, the book has done just that – it has given help and hope to a large number of
individuals and in many lands.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">My initial contact with Pedro came in a letter in which he
described the documentary that he proposed to make. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">He wrote…</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“I have just finished reading your book, and I am very
much impressed by your testimony….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My goal is to explore a different approach from the
psychiatric tradition, to show how people can live with their voices…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I said before, I was very much impressed by your
book. I believe both your life and
literature are a truthful account of human experience and should be rapidly
shared with a wider public.”</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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successful and has been well received at a number of film festivals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, as it lasts for just 11 minutes, it only touches
very lightly the ‘surface’ of a life that has already lasted for 88 years, and it
barely enters the covers of my book, which runs to 700 pages in the paperback
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First I lived it, then I wrote it –<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">all 160,000 words.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, now I urge <i>you</i> to <i>read</i> it<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Entitled <b><i>Listening to the</i></b><i> <b>Silences</b></i><b> in a World of Hearing Voices</b> the book
is available free at <a href="http://www.royvincent.org/">www.royvincent.org</a> Part autobiography, it is chiefly a DIY
Manual and textbook for those who hear voices and experience physical presence,
and for their carers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Hearing Voices” usually implies ‘schizophrenia’ and
mental ill-health. My book also
describes the many other and positive consequences of this widely misunderstood
phenomenon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having read it,
perhaps you will join with the others who write –</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“First of all, a warm ‘thank you’ for making your
remarkable book available free on the Internet,” – Carer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Beautifully written.”
TV Producer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“He writes clearly in a way that will probably save
someone’s life.” StumbleUpon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“My son is in hospital on anti-psychotic drugs. He describes it word for word like <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Roy</st1:place></st1:city>. He has always said that it is a spiritual
thing, not a mental illness.” Mother.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Undoubtedly, many have gone to Ashrams and got
better.” Indian Mother.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having been invaded by malign voices and ‘presences’ while
flying high over the <st1:place w:st="on">Mediterranean</st1:place>, one lady
wrote, “I want to thank you for writing on the Internet about your
experiences. I found it to be the only
true version of what I feel happened to myself last year. I had been looking for books to read on the
subject, but found nothing useful until I came across your account.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“My name is James Douglas A… (ID 32----) on Georgia, US, Death Row. I hear voices and get physically
“abused”/manipulated by unseen, but very real entities I’ll call spirits of
good and/or bad intent.”</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“My name is Al -----, from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Philippines</st1:place></st1:country-region>. I just want to share with you something about
hearing voices. During college days, I
was hooked on drugs. (I graduated marine
transportation – merchant mariner.)
…until one day I lose control of myself.
I heard people in my area gossiping about me which makes me truly change
myself into something not me anymore. I
heard voices unlike other schizophrenic patients experiencing - those voices
told them to kill, burn, electrify themselves.
Mine is different; voices I heard knows a lot about my behaviour and
attitude. They know my weaknesses… always
contradict my movements, actions, speech, even thoughts. So I give up and surrender myself to rehab
centre.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having been clear of voices for some time, Al went to sea,
but in mid voyage – “…unluckily voices strike again, so I decide to disembark
and go home with shattered dreams… and suffering a disease which is still taboo
in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">All I now care is, though I have an abnormal life, I want
to be a father to my daughter and a husband to my wife. Now you inspired me a lot.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Steve…, 45 years old, wrote from his home in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Leyland</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>. He has, in fact, written many times and also
visited my home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Now, at last, I can actually show my parents exactly what
I have been trying to tell them all my life.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“You have saved my life by drawing me back from suicide… “<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">“You have saved my sanity…” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some people are reluctant to begin reading the book
because it is so long – although, the people who need it, <i>do</i> read it – and re-read it.
They re-read it because they realise that every word that is written is
there because it comes from actual personal and ’spiritual’ experience and not
just from psychiatric ‘theory’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Recognising this reluctance to read the book, prompted me
to provide two ‘samples’ of the text to help you make up your mind. I have placed them in my second Blog – <a href="http://www.roycvincent2@blogspot.com/">www.roycvincent2@blogspot.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Each one in its own way is a human horror story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first post, entitled “We had to destroy it to save
it”, is actually the first chapter of the book, and describes how my life,
home, family and career were virtually destroyed as the result of a medical
mis-diagnosis and what is now regarded as criminally inept psychiatry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">The next four chapters of the book describe how I was able
to recover and begin a new life – a vastly different life, as you will find if
you read the second post on the Blog, which is entitled “Oh what a world of
unseen visions and heard silences…”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Forming the sixth chapter of the book, this post describes
exactly how I first began to hear voices and how I began to experience physical
presences within my body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even though I described it as a horror story, in reality
all that happened formed a prelude to a new life, and I am so very glad that I
have lived through it. So very glad,
because in this new life I received unshakable evidence of the existence of a
spiritual state of being.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">My experiences confirmed what every culture that has ever
existed has found, and has then recorded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">They confirmed the existence of this spiritual state that
parallels and interweaves with our own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I experienced ‘voices’ in my mind, and I experienced
physical presences within my body and senses.
I experienced the absolutely malign, and the absolutely benign. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">And I still do, to this very day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">And yet, I have never become ill.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you are curious, and want to know how my life developed
subsequently, why then, you must read chapter seven, which has the title – “If
you have a thousand reasons for living…”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have found my thousand reasons, and many more in the 35
years that have since passed, and I continue to write about them. I write on this Blog and I am published in a
variety of outlets, and even though I am now eighty-eight, I will continue to
write for as long as I am able.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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