I Suspend My Own Place
John L. Waters
October 07, 2005
"I suspend my own place in the world and welcome in the other's way of being.---not losing myself--- being beside and with the other."
This statement by a local psychotherapist contrasts with the way of a stiff debater who wants to win points and makes the other person feel intimidated and thus commit errors. The object of the psychotherapist is to make you feel safe and secure so that you will be honest and free to bring up even your deepest concern. The object of a stiff debater is to win the fight and demoralize and defeat the other. The psychotherapist is making peace moves. The stiff debater is making war moves like in a chess match. Words, voice inflections, and other gestures are the stiff debater's chessmen.
Traditionally governments have employed stiff debate to settle issues. Schools therefore have emphasized logic, memory, and argumentation in speech and in writing. Even if argumentation sometimes prevents an actual physical battle, the "spirit" in the people is the same. But the good modern psychotherapist has transcended the antique spirit and cultivated the new spirit of "letting go and letting God," so to speak. The more complex integration and fusion of the ICH + THY + OS or "Christ" principle is being applied.
What does this ICH + THY + OS mean? Well, one (and not necessarily the best one) interpretation of this cryptogram is that ICH = I, myself plus THY = you, yourself gets combined into one OS = operating system so that as the above quoted psychotherapist wrote,
"I suspend my own place in the world and welcome in the other's way of being.---not losing myself--- being beside and with the other."
This New Age way of feeling, thinking, and acting seems very mystical or very impractical to a warrior, a chess master, or an argumentative conversationalist or writer. Christ presaged the New Age consciousness when He said to His disciple Peter, "Put away your sword, for he who lives by the sword dies by the sword." In a world of Weapons of Mass Destruction, indeed the Way of Christ simply has to prevail in thoughts, feelings, words, and deeds.
Many psychotherapists teach today, and this way of being with the other is being demonstrated by many professionals. It's not really a religion- it's a way of getting along. But in 26AD at a time when a man was a warrior in thought, in feeling, and often in deed, the Christ was only a strange man, a man from another world, poetically speaking.
Promoting this New Age paradigm of respect, tolerance, empathy, and diversity is difficult because governments and schools are so antiquated. Boys are still being cultured to think, act, and feel the same way their ancestors did. In the Western World, the good psychotherapists help many people by feeling the Christ and sharing the Christ without getting up on a soapbox or standing up at a pulpit and ranting and raving about some old time religion. Consequently the Christ has come as a thief in the night, without people's clear awareness that this is in fact the case.
There are, of course, bad psychotherapists who don't feel the way the quoted psychotherapist feels. University-based PhD programs don't teach young men and women how to be Christ-like, and in fact a person can be a good counselor without getting any advanced degree. Jesus Himself wasn't a college graduate. Other empathetic persons, such as Jiddu Krishnamurti and Meher Baba, had no advanced college degree.
You and I live in a transitional age of confusion and controversy. Rapid population growth, fast depletion of cheap hydrocarbon fuels and other natural resources, and the daily suffering of more and more huddled masses brings the Old Age to a painful close. The curtain rises on the New Age out of dire necessity.
You yourself must set flame to the faggots which you have brought. (Proscenium arch, Goodman Theater, Art Institute of Chicago)
Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
LINKS
My website at Humboldt State University
My search for a publisher
My letters of recommendation
This statement by a local psychotherapist contrasts with the way of a stiff debater who wants to win points and makes the other person feel intimidated and thus commit errors. The object of the psychotherapist is to make you feel safe and secure so that you will be honest and free to bring up even your deepest concern. The object of a stiff debater is to win the fight and demoralize and defeat the other. The psychotherapist is making peace moves. The stiff debater is making war moves like in a chess match. Words, voice inflections, and other gestures are the stiff debater's chessmen.
Traditionally governments have employed stiff debate to settle issues. Schools therefore have emphasized logic, memory, and argumentation in speech and in writing. Even if argumentation sometimes prevents an actual physical battle, the "spirit" in the people is the same. But the good modern psychotherapist has transcended the antique spirit and cultivated the new spirit of "letting go and letting God," so to speak. The more complex integration and fusion of the ICH + THY + OS or "Christ" principle is being applied.
What does this ICH + THY + OS mean? Well, one (and not necessarily the best one) interpretation of this cryptogram is that ICH = I, myself plus THY = you, yourself gets combined into one OS = operating system so that as the above quoted psychotherapist wrote,
"I suspend my own place in the world and welcome in the other's way of being.---not losing myself--- being beside and with the other."
This New Age way of feeling, thinking, and acting seems very mystical or very impractical to a warrior, a chess master, or an argumentative conversationalist or writer. Christ presaged the New Age consciousness when He said to His disciple Peter, "Put away your sword, for he who lives by the sword dies by the sword." In a world of Weapons of Mass Destruction, indeed the Way of Christ simply has to prevail in thoughts, feelings, words, and deeds.
Many psychotherapists teach today, and this way of being with the other is being demonstrated by many professionals. It's not really a religion- it's a way of getting along. But in 26AD at a time when a man was a warrior in thought, in feeling, and often in deed, the Christ was only a strange man, a man from another world, poetically speaking.
Promoting this New Age paradigm of respect, tolerance, empathy, and diversity is difficult because governments and schools are so antiquated. Boys are still being cultured to think, act, and feel the same way their ancestors did. In the Western World, the good psychotherapists help many people by feeling the Christ and sharing the Christ without getting up on a soapbox or standing up at a pulpit and ranting and raving about some old time religion. Consequently the Christ has come as a thief in the night, without people's clear awareness that this is in fact the case.
There are, of course, bad psychotherapists who don't feel the way the quoted psychotherapist feels. University-based PhD programs don't teach young men and women how to be Christ-like, and in fact a person can be a good counselor without getting any advanced degree. Jesus Himself wasn't a college graduate. Other empathetic persons, such as Jiddu Krishnamurti and Meher Baba, had no advanced college degree.
You and I live in a transitional age of confusion and controversy. Rapid population growth, fast depletion of cheap hydrocarbon fuels and other natural resources, and the daily suffering of more and more huddled masses brings the Old Age to a painful close. The curtain rises on the New Age out of dire necessity.
You yourself must set flame to the faggots which you have brought. (Proscenium arch, Goodman Theater, Art Institute of Chicago)
Copyright 2005 by John L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
LINKS
My website at Humboldt State University
My search for a publisher
My letters of recommendation
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