September, 2006

Electro-Shock

Recently my mother informed me that one of our older relatives is severely depressed, and as a result her doctors have advised Electo-Shock treatment. Over the years I’ve known a number of individuals that have received this treatment, and I’ve notice a expanding group of web sites that detail the horror of this so called treatment. Of course the MD’s say that “many” people get better as a result of the treatment. However, if someone was putting me through this “treatment”, I’d do my best to say, pretend or believe I was “really” doing much better. The fun part is that even if the patient shows indications of progress, they must continue the treatments for some time in order to be weaned off the delightful process.

“What if the most profound and vital clue to the crisis of our epoch were that God is becoming concrete? This is the great symbol of the Incarnation. But while twenty centuries ago it was one particular human being who was believed to have assumed the awesome responsibility of God becoming known in and through him alone, today at this time when many expect and await a Second Coming, we should realize that the Incarnation of God is occurring in humanity as a whole, in global Man. ……a planetary Incarnation in which we may all participate if we have sufficient faith and the courage to vanquish the ghosts of our yet unredeemed collective past.” Dane Rudhyar, The Planetarization of Consciousness, Aurora Press, ‘77