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# Re: Wanting

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- Subject: Re: Wanting
- From: "David Yeh" <ldreamr@...>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:12:14 -0000
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    Regulus,

    > In recent years there has been a trend in the counseling community
    > to distinguish psychological issues from spiritual ones. In the
    > context of your previous posting what to do you think of this
    > distinction?

    I'm not sure I understand your distinction between psychological and
    spiritual. To me, your examples -- reflecting on life, learning to
    care for others -- were both psychological and spiritual.

    I think I have a sense of where you're coming from, though (correct
    me if I'm wrong): "If all of these other things work well, why
    Bardon?" Or, why climb Mt Everest if there's nothing to prove?

    I guess on some level I feel that I have something to prove, or to
    express, by doing any particular thing. So, I think that a person
    should choose a path in order to express some part of him/herself.
    If your hypothetical man X does not have any drive to learn IIH, then
    perhaps he shouldn't.

    On the other hand, your question prompted me to ask myself why I'm on
    this path. There are a lot of different little answers. I prefer a
    self-guided structure I can follow on my own time in my own way. I
    am attracted to learning how to contact my own life and soul more
    deeply. And I think special powers are "cool." And lots of other
    things in between. Some of those things, like the negative, greedy
    aspect of attraction to special powers, I recognize as things that I
    should and will "burn off" as I do more work on my soul mirror, but
    they are there nonetheless. So I guess my final answer as to my
    wanting is: It's complex.

    Personally, the bottom line for me is that if I weren't involved with
    Bardon, I would be involved with some kind of spiritual practice, as
    I have been since I was in high school (I think it runs in the
    family, though in very different ways -- my mom is a conservative
    Christian). So spiritual practice in general is an expression of who
    I am, and following this particular path is, for the moment, a
    refined expression of who I am. I refine and personalize it in order
    to incorporate it into my life, and it refines me in turn; and all of
    that is self-expression. Pursuing spirituality is for me a very
    fulfilling thing, in a bodily way -- like, for instance, the feeling
    of openness and nakedness when I am honest with myself and realize,
    with wrenching gut, that I've been engaging in a destructive pattern
    in my life. It's fun, in a deeper way. It's exciting. I feel
    good. I like the effects it has on my life; I feel happier and more
    balanced the more I do it. So I keep doing it.
    :)

    Hope this makes sense.

    David

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