Saturday, May 28, 2011

Can you Die from Lack of Love?


YES. A young actor died today. A friend said it was due to too many prescription drugs. And I thought, gee, there are so many ways that we die from lack of love; dying in a car accident after driving drunk. But let’s concentrate on this very sad tale of the actor from Grease who need massive amounts of pain killers.

The drug companies have found molecules, say for serotonin, that we manufacture ourselves; or should I say, “ought to” manufacture ourselves. Prescription drugs mimic what the body and brain produce, all things being normal. But all things are not normal. We are learning that life before birth (the title of my new book) has such hazards and can imprint such devastating pain that we are drained of our normal painkillers before we are even born. Then add to it a birth with heavy anesthetics and then no one around immediately afterwards to hug and kiss the baby. As a bonus, we add to the mix parents who are emotionally indifferent, emotional stones who have no idea about feelings, and we get an actor who overdoses on drugs.

All he is doing is trying to make up for the deficit, the epigenetic deficit. That means the damage done all along the gestational and birth epoch produces a lack of what we absolutely need to feel comfortable in life. A lack of repressive capacity due to “leaky gates.” This results in ADD, the need to drink and take drugs, impulsive behavior. It means constant malaise,discomfort and the inability to sleep properly. Leaky gates sees to that. I hope most of you have read my work and know what leaky gates are. But the gating system that helps keep pain at bay is faulty when overtaxed. It was not meant to withstand assaults during gestation of a mother taking drugs and drinking alcohol. It was not meant to combat a carrying mother who is chronically depressed. It is the same system as in apes. They have different problems but not always what we have.

So the actor who died was only trying to be normal; to have a normal amount of painkillers in his system to get along comfortably in life. And of course, his doctor and friends were warning him of the dangers; but his system only saw “normal and comfort” not the dangers. He overdosed because he was largely “under-dosed” while living in the womb and afterward. No one could see it but we knew it from his behavior. No one stuffs drugs into her system if she doesn’t need it. We need to get away from our abject morality. That is what is immoral; depriving humans of their needs.
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  1. Bob JohnsonMay 29, 2011 at 6:47 AM

    THE 10 PSYCHIATRIC ANOMALIES

    Unless and until the following points are accepted by current psychiatric conventional wisdom, the prognosis is dire.

    1. The mind is the most important human organ – the leg is the organ for walking, the mind for socialising.
    2. Intent is the most important human attribute
    3. Trust is the most important human asset

    4. Fear is the primary psychiatric pathogen
    5. Fear stops cognition – whence all irrationality – daren’t look, so cannot see, think or believe
    6. Fear keeps child terrors ‘alive’ in the head today – time to get rid

    7. Fear-free zones eliminate mental distress [aka insanity] 100%, just as intact sanitation eliminates cholera 100%
    8. Verbal definitions always go awry – pain, fear and intent have maximum meaning, but zero definition, which is why trust is so important as in Truth, Trust and Consent
    9. Emotions fall into two varieties – adult, and infantile – eliminate the latter, the ‘infemotions’, and you’re guaranteed 100% relief [aka cure].

    10. We are all born Lovable, Sociable and Non-Violent and can/need to return there.

    Sunday, 29 May 2011


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  2. beachcoast7May 29, 2011 at 11:11 AM

    Sometimes, in adult life, dealing with responsibilities, we become robbed of what we are supposed to have in order to function correctly on and off the job and elsewhere as an adult. Art is right , in that the actor was looking elswhere to compensate for the love he wasn't receiving. I have to train myself, at times, when things get rough on the job, or elsewhere. In many ways, the actor was smart, but just compensated in the wrong way, maybe he just didn't know what else to do; just like a person putting a choke chain around around another person (as though they could); thinking it will help situations, but really doesn't know what else to do (when confronted with difficult situations). The actor didn't realize what he was doing. He compensated and felt better, but he didn't show too much self awareness and if he did, his idea of self awareness didn't work. As we try to be better and compensate, self awareness also helps. Maybe to compensate for the lack of love, some people have to show self awareness to themselves. It just makes one realize that when caught up in the hustle and bustle of this world or having the feeling of a "choke chain" around one's neck at times , we must still maintain a sense of self-awareness or at least try recapture it in that moment of "pressure". It's important and definitely not selfish or being overly concerned with ones self. Having a sense of self-awareness can save lives, make people happy, content, secure and find a peaceful existence. What happened to the actor is very sad.
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This thought-provoking and important book shows how people are drawn toward dangerous beliefs.
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Bailey Endowed Chair of Animal Well Being Science
Washington State University

Dr. Janov’s essential insight—that our earliest experiences strongly influence later well being—is no longer in doubt. Thanks to advances in neuroscience, immunology, and epigenetics, we can now see some of the mechanisms of action at the heart of these developmental processes. His long-held belief that the brain, human development, and psychological well being need to studied in the context of evolution—from the brainstem up—now lies at the heart of the integration of neuroscience and psychotherapy.
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