great source of comfort for them. Orphans are often adopted because their new parents dealt with abandonment in the
past, during past lives. Firemen rush into burning buildings because they themselves were trapped in the past, in past
lives, in situations where a helping hand could have made all the difference, but was withheld. Many people in
philanthropic situations, who devote their lives to helping others, have some intense grief in their recent past, an
impetus. The coming times, of the pole shift, will bring immense grief to all mankind. Children will be abandoned by
parents gone mad or determined to rush to safety without the baggage that a child represents. The injured will be
abandoned, left at the roadside to die without comfort, when perhaps they could live with a little assistance. These are
opportunities for love to grow, and spread. An opportunity to turn grief into action to help others. And when such
action is taken, grief melts into love, and eases!
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ZetaTalk: Addictions
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ZetaTalk: Addictions
Note: written on Aug 15, 1995
The issue of addiction is one of perception. One views having a drink at the end of the day in the same light as eating
a sweet. Tastes good, helps one relax and let go of the day's concerns, and what's the harm. Another views this as an
addiction, equating addiction with anticipation or expectation or longing. At the other extreme is one who must
consume half a bottle, and not just in the evening. They know they feel crippled with anxieties without this, but feel
the drinking is under their control. Ask them if they are an addict and they will say no, even when suffering DT's. Are
they addicted? Yes, as their need has moved from longing or anticipation to chemical dependency, and they are taking
their daily dose in order to avoid withdrawal. Then there is the matter of psychological dependency, as one who never
drinks at all can find they must be drunk to engage in sexual activity, and this is as surely an addiction as the chronic drunk.
What causes this, and do human counterparts on other worlds develop addictions? The tendency to develop addictions
is inherent to all life, and is most definitely present on other worlds, particularly in intelligent species. Take the
simplest amoebae, given the option of a food bath rich with nutrients or one thin in this regard. The amoebae will
choose the rich and adjust to it, changing the thickness and composition of its cell structure so as not to become
inundated with nutrients. What would happen then if the amoebae were placed in a thin nutrient bath. Distress.
Humans develop addictions for the same reasons simpler creatures do, when given the opportunity. It tastes good, feels
good, and who is thinking about tomorrow. Most human addictions begin in situations where there is no concern about
tomorrow, not because one is carefree but because one is in such dire circumstances that the likelihood of a tomorrow
seems dim. Beyond feeling good or tasting good, one wishes to escape. The front lines during war, the slums, a brutal
spouse, an abusive parent, chronic pain, all lead one to look for an escape, any escape, if only for a moment. Dealing
with addiction here first requires that the cause, and not the symptom, be addressed. Not everyone can harden
themselves and bear up endlessly in distressing circumstances, and it does little good to berate the addict while they
are, in a sense, in pain.
Once begun, however, an escape mechanism can be continued even after circumstances have changed. Humans, as
intelligent creatures, are clever at manipulating circumstances. The young college student, using cocaine on occasion to
overcome the fatigue caused by all night study and to be vibrant at a party, is found later in life to be maneuvering
circumstances so he can continue to use cocaine. He works late at the office, telling his wife this is required for his
career, so he can excuse his use of cocaine in the parking lot after dark. Is he addicted? Physically, no, but
psychologically he is, as he has changed his life for the drug. It rules him, not he it. If one desires chocolate ice cream and seeks it, that's one thing, but if one must have it and arranging to get chocolate ice cream takes priority over all else, then that's an addiction. Addiction tendencies must be placed in perspective with everything else in one's life. If the addict is a parent, with small children dependent on one, then the urge to escape or ease one's burden should be
taken in context with what impact this may have on the children. If one is dying of a chronically painful disease, and
one's comatose condition due to a drug dose will harm no one, then that is another matter entirely.
As with most things in life, addiction is neither inherently good or bad, but must be taken in context.
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ZetaTalk: Music
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ZetaTalk: Music
Note: written on Jun 15, 1997
Music is instrumental (pardon the pun) in healing more from establishing what ought to be there than inserting
something that ordinarily is not present. In health, the body listens to itself, and natural rhythms which syncopate are
established. There is a relationship between breathing and heartbeat, breathing and motion of the body, heartbeat and
emotion, and all this is music. The mind and body are making music all the time, but this is silent so is overlooked or
misunderstood. When sick, the natural rhythms get disturbed, as the manifestations of illness are like noise, too loud to be ignored, and not taking the other instruments in the body into consideration. The sick body has been distracted, and
often is aided by re-establishing the natural rhythms again. Since the natural rhythms are so tied in with emotion,
breathing, and motion, dancing or singing or otherwise moving with the beat naturally puts these natural rhythms back
into place.
Music is also a healing reminder in that it speaks to more comforting and secure times. The babe, lying close to its
mother's heart, hears the equivalent of gentle waves on the beach during its early days, and thus the special appeal of
the beach! Where life presents discord, the tension and release within music give the listener or dancer the opportunity
to release tension that otherwise would remain bottled up. Thus, those especially tense may dance with particular abandon, all of which has less to do with the music and dance than with the dancers tense day. Music that heals is
music that pulls the body into its natural rhythms, and depending upon the age of the listener or affliction, this may
differ. Empathetic musicians often sense the effect their work is having upon the audience, and adjust accordingly.
Quite without words, music speaks a language that few misunderstand.
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