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Out yonder, past our ideas of possible and impossible, past our illnesses and understandings of healing, past wars and raging political, race and gender battles, there is a field carefully guarded by the spirit of division of dualistic thinking.
This spirit does not only teach misinformation, it socializes which questions are permissible and which are not. Questions such as, “is there a common root of all illnesses?” are forbidden so that we cannot even conceive of asking them, and if we would, the “common sense” answer would be “No, there is not!”. However, what if common sense, i.e., dualistic consciousness, ITSELF, is the problem?
Esotherapy marches to a different drummer. It considers all illnesses to be mere manifestations of dualistic consciousness, which sages like Lao Tzu and Christ described as the root sickness. Thus, the integration of the divided, dualistic consciousness heals all the illnesses that arise from it.
Speaking about certain states that may arise from consciousness integration, which Abraham Maslow, father of humanistic psychology, described as ”peak experiences” or “transcendent moments of pure elation, wonder, awe, or ecstasy”, Maslow wrote:
“It is my strong suspicion that even one such experience might be able to prevent suicide, for instance, and perhaps many varieties of slow self-destruction, e.g., alcoholism, drug addiction, addiction to violence, etc. I would guess also, on theoretical grounds, that peak-experiences might very well abort “existential meaninglessness,” states of valuelessness, etc.,”
(http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/peak_experiences.pdf)
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