Your weight loss is impressive. OA combines nurturing and nourishing as a way to stop undesirable eating habits. Some people have poor body image. Soul is steered away from and religion is sneered at. We live in a body and we loath it. I share with you that eating animals is an addiction. We need a spiritual revolution.
Nancy, excellent thinking and very helpful. I don’t have a food addiction myself, except I have experienced cravings for cheese over the years. What you are telling me will be very helpful in dealing with this.
Thanks for your comment. It took me a long time to write this, because i kept changing my thinking. For example, i'm now understanding the role of Carl Jung, as explained in this archived "Times"(1993) Letter To the Editor:
"I was surprised and delighted to see your Nov. 19 Op-Ed article by the great psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung. His thoughts are so pertinent despite the passage of 34 years.
"I wonder how many people know that the insights he expressed in this "unpublished letter" were the spiritual basis for Alcoholics Anonymous. It came about in 1932 when an American alcoholic named Rowland Hazard was sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to Dr. Jung's clinic. After about a year, Jung told Rowland that since they had been unable to bring about a psychic change in him, he would be discharged.
"No doubt startled, Rowland asked, "Is there no hope, then?"
"Dr. Jung's answer, an astonishing one for a man of science, was, "No, there is none -- except that some people with your problem have recovered if they have had a transforming experience of the spirit."
"Through a religious movement of the time called the Oxford Groups, Rowland experienced the inner change Jung was talking about and carried this message to an alcoholic friend, Ebby Thatcher, who in turn carried it to a seemingly hopeless drunk, Bill W., the founder of A. A.
"Up to that time the "cures" for alcoholism focused on weaning the drunk away from the bottle; but thanks to C. G. Jung, the A. A. program deals almost entirely with gaining meaning in life and with feeling a part of the "wholeness of the world," as Jung says in his letter. The alcoholic then doesn't need to go back to drinking. With this essential difference, literally millions have found a new life in Alcoholics Anonymous."
As the daughter of two "devout" atheists, i've spent many years working to understand the relationship between mind, body and spirit. Perhaps in future articles, i'll be able to relay how this relates to the subconscious and our ability to drop "seeds" into it (prayer) and allow it, like the soil, to bring forth blossoms. It's a science, a practice and (i'm convinced) a hope for our futures.
Your weight loss is impressive. OA combines nurturing and nourishing as a way to stop undesirable eating habits. Some people have poor body image. Soul is steered away from and religion is sneered at. We live in a body and we loath it. I share with you that eating animals is an addiction. We need a spiritual revolution.
Nancy, excellent thinking and very helpful. I don’t have a food addiction myself, except I have experienced cravings for cheese over the years. What you are telling me will be very helpful in dealing with this.
Thanks for your comment. It took me a long time to write this, because i kept changing my thinking. For example, i'm now understanding the role of Carl Jung, as explained in this archived "Times"(1993) Letter To the Editor:
"I was surprised and delighted to see your Nov. 19 Op-Ed article by the great psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung. His thoughts are so pertinent despite the passage of 34 years.
"I wonder how many people know that the insights he expressed in this "unpublished letter" were the spiritual basis for Alcoholics Anonymous. It came about in 1932 when an American alcoholic named Rowland Hazard was sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to Dr. Jung's clinic. After about a year, Jung told Rowland that since they had been unable to bring about a psychic change in him, he would be discharged.
"No doubt startled, Rowland asked, "Is there no hope, then?"
"Dr. Jung's answer, an astonishing one for a man of science, was, "No, there is none -- except that some people with your problem have recovered if they have had a transforming experience of the spirit."
"Through a religious movement of the time called the Oxford Groups, Rowland experienced the inner change Jung was talking about and carried this message to an alcoholic friend, Ebby Thatcher, who in turn carried it to a seemingly hopeless drunk, Bill W., the founder of A. A.
"Up to that time the "cures" for alcoholism focused on weaning the drunk away from the bottle; but thanks to C. G. Jung, the A. A. program deals almost entirely with gaining meaning in life and with feeling a part of the "wholeness of the world," as Jung says in his letter. The alcoholic then doesn't need to go back to drinking. With this essential difference, literally millions have found a new life in Alcoholics Anonymous."
As the daughter of two "devout" atheists, i've spent many years working to understand the relationship between mind, body and spirit. Perhaps in future articles, i'll be able to relay how this relates to the subconscious and our ability to drop "seeds" into it (prayer) and allow it, like the soil, to bring forth blossoms. It's a science, a practice and (i'm convinced) a hope for our futures.