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Throughout treatment, John continued to feel strengthened by his growing relationship with God until he passed on from lung cancer two years later. As he grew weak and approached death, his relationship with God intensified, and my paranoid patient found genuine peace. Many therapists now believe that the proof of whether such a dramatic event (even one that seems hallucinatory) is real or pathological lies in whether it leads to improved health, happiness, and functioning. Many open-minded therapists now accept that God can visit a patient in distress to impart love and peace.
The Healing Power of Dharma
The core ingredients in a saichiatric approach include the sharpening of and reliance on our own conscience, the practicing of values, and finding meaning in life through love. The following story tells how dharma and devotion brought healing to one of the sickest patients I have ever treated and then turned him into a servant of society. It is about the way that God can heal the mental anguish of all mankind.
Dharma protects those who protect dharma. (SSB) Bill Begins Saichotherapy
Bill came for treatment in 1991. At the time, he had been drinking almost a quart of liquor a day for years. I had seldom seen an alcoholic as depleted and wasted. In denial and resistant to treatment for his alcoholism, like most trapped in addictions and aachments, he said that he didn’t have a problem.
Bill had come from a broken family. As a youngster seeking the calm of nature, he escaped to golf courses working as a caddie and playing golf. Aer graduating from high school, anxious to get away from home, he joined the Marines and spent four years fighting in World War II.
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