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ADDICTIONS, IMPRINTS, AND TANTRA
Most, if not all addictions have similar withdrawal symptoms and are merely
stronger or weaker
than others. Thus the withdrawal from heroine may actually kill the person
making the attempt while
withdrawal from pot normally brings little worse than mood swings (these may
not be much fun but are
normally not as dangerous as the stronger chemical trauma of withdrawal from
morphine or heroine).
However, the mood swings, the chemical pain of the body, and the mental
attitude are similar in
withdrawal if different in strength.
The nice thing about most withdrawal episodes is that the offending substance
can be removed
from availability (or at least made less readily available) to the patient.
Some addictions are not so
fortunate and may not be made unavailable to the person attempting to change an
addictive habit. These
are addictions of the emotions and as such are ready to use at a moment’s
notice (or even without notice).
Some interesting aspects of withdrawal can be noted using cigarette smokers as
an example.
Most smokers who decide to quit do so with knowledge of the harmful aspects of
tobacco and come to a
rational decision about quitting. Rarely do they decide on a whim to quit,
they make careful plans and set
up a well-thought out schedule. They are filled with confidence, have gained
support of friends and loved
ones, and often prepare vacation time to coincide with the effort. The point
being made is that they, the
addictee, make major plans and efforts of rational magnitude to end their
addiction.
Now, we meet this addicted person three days later and they no longer are
rational and possibly
not very sane. Gone is the image of dragon breath and cancer, of lungs filled
with emphasima and green
garbage; in the place of this is now an image of the glory and great taste of
(the now missing) cigarettes.
No longer is the person confident and firm in their belief of improved personal
life and a new ability to
concentrate on work and play. Now they believe they will never be able to
concentrate again without the
aid of nicotine. Their life is now in a hell of misery which one draw on a
cigarette will change to heaven.
Later, we see this addict out back, sneaking just one cigarette in order to
stay sane and
rationalizing this with the most illogical means at hand and not being able to
see the insanity. A little
later, the addict is out again with a cigarette believing that two hours
between cigarettes is a great
improvement over two minutes between cigarettes. Not only that, but they no
longer believe in the studies
showing the danger of cigarettes but now recall the studies showing the lack of
danger in cigarettes. It
does not matter that those studies are old, out of date, lacking in detail,
data, and poorly done, the smoker
will be attracted to the memory of them and will selectively recall how much
these mean and how
important the studies showing little danger from cigarettes are. A friend who
said, what does it matter?
suddenly becomes a shaman of great wisdom. Three days ago this same friend was
a first class rotter they
would no longer talk to. Now, well, the addiction is speaking and not the
rational person.
When the addiction begins to speak, rational thinking goes away. The person
addicted to fear
will move to a fear-creating situation. The person addicted to depression will
find something to be
depressed about. The person addicted to anger will find an excuse to be angry.
These things will be done
for reasons which will be readily stated and demanded as correct by the same
person who a short time
before had rationally decided to NEVER act in that manner again. They will
move toward people of the
same nature or old friends who bring on the set of behavior which triggers the
addictive behavior. They
will move toward situations and circumstances which trigger the addictive
behavior.
Cigarette smokers do something similar. Watch those who are breaking the
habit. They will
stand downwind from a smoker when possible. They will move into the area of a
smoker when possible.
They will pass the cigarette counter in the store several times while shopping
even though they have no
need to be in that area. If they find a cigarette, they will fondle it and
caress it. They will image the joy of
smoking and the good feeling it would impart. This joy, taste, and feeling is
greatly magnified from even
the best that once was. No matter that the lack of taste, joy, or feeling at
the end was so bad that it aided
in making the decision to stop smoking. They will talk about cigarettes and
the different types, tastes,
lengths, filters, etc., until they have no one to talk with. Their whole
attitude about cigarettes and
smoking will change as the addiction cries out for attention.
Addictions are not only body chemistry but also brain chemistry addictions.
Addictions change
the attitude of the body and brain such that the addicted person may not know
they are addicted and have
an altered attitude toward the world around them. The person glorifying
cigarettes during withdrawal
does not truely believe what they are saying from their third circuit, the
Rational brain circuit, but they
truely believe what they are saying at the moment from the second circuit and
the first brain circuit, the
subconscious and unconcious brain circuits. These lower brain circuits pick up
such habits and are not
entirely under our control.
We can get our third brain circuit in our control completely with practice. We
can get our fourth
brain circuit, the Sexual brain, under control completely with practice. We
can learn to consciously access
our higher brain circuits with practice. We cannot learn to completely control
our subconscious and
unconscious brain circuits no matter how much we practice. We must learn to
control the emissions from
these brain circuits and not allow their attitudes to force themselves into the
areas we can control.
We have been trained and imprinted as children when only the first and second
brain circuits
were functioning. This training is now set firmly into the unconscious and
subconscious and we have
little control over the manner in which that training manifests in our life.
Tantra teaches a method of
over-riding that early training and changing the addiction we were taught as
children and have continued
to foster in our lives. We may seem to have an addiction to drugs, alcohol,
sex, control and domination,
or other problem, and we do indeed have such addictions. However, normally
these are addictions on top
of addictions and as we peel off these addictions, finally ending all
addictions we can readily identify, we
find underlying all that, a body chemistry that is the true cause of our
addictive character. We are all
addicted to a body chemistry that is the source of our attitude. Thus, the
person addicted to saddness, fear,
depression, anger, or other misery will drink to cover over this harmful
addiction with a new addiction.
When drinking is not enough, drugs will be attempted in an effort to move away
from the misery they
were taught and addicted to as children. If that is not enough, stronger drugs
and more alcohol will be
attempted, sometimes ending in suicide to eliminate the wretched addictive
chemistry brought on by
childhood problems.
The first brain circuit, the Biosurvival circuit is unconscious in function.
You have almost no
control over this brain circuit and it is trained during the first year of
life. At this time (year one) the
parents of a child have little knowledge of how to treat a child and often make
many mistakes. The
actively growing brain of the child becomes imprinted to fear, domination,
control, whatever is required
for survival. This survival imprint is extremely strong and will influence the
next brain circuit when it
opens and begins to function. If the first brain circuit is healthy, the child
has at least a healthy start to
the second brain circuit, the Ego. This does not mean that the subconscious
Ego/Territorial brain circuit
will remain healthy.
As the child begins to explore after the first year of life (they are mobile by
then) they may
encounter hazzards and create a crisis which parents respond to in panic and
fear for the child. They may
strike the child or scream, creating fear and Ego damage. The child may have
an increased curiosity
caused by the interest of the parents or by the damage created by the reaction
of the parents and attempt
repeatedly to explore what has frightened the parents. In this case, the
parents may become increasingly
harsh and create more damage. A harmful cycle begins which will never end in
this relationship and in
all similar relationships to come.
Once a subconscious imprint has been set it is virtually set in stone and will
never change. That
is an important thing to remember so allow me to be redundant. That
subconscious imprint will never
change. You must now create new and stronger imprints, learn to overcome the
demands of that imprint,
learn to work out of a different brain circuit, do something strong enough to
get past the signals that
imprint will now cause for the rest of your life. This is what Tantra offers
as an alternative to the pain of
such imprints.
Tantra is strong medicine. Tantra may possibly be the strongest medicine
available to humans
that does not involve drugs, life-threatening situations, or domination and
control by others. Strong
medicine is definately required. All twelve-step groups know that an imprint,
once put into place, is there
forever. Alcoholics Anonymous teaches that you are an alcoholic forever. This
is because an imprint not
only changes your mental attitude but also your body chemistry. Once that
attitude and chemistry have
been linked and set into function, the body builds antibodies and other
chemical and biological alterations
which are linked to the continued functioning of that imprint. If, for
instance, the person is now linked to
fear, the body will go into withdrawal without a hit of fear to set up the
appropriate chemical balance to
satisfy the needs of the antibodies and other chemistry which may begin to
actually harm the body if not
balanced.
When the addict is safely past de-toxification and the body is no longer in
danger, a new body
chemistry may be formed and addicted. Make no mistake! You will be addicted
to your basic body
chemistry, whatever that may be. You will also continue to manufacture the
antibodies and chemistry of
the old addiction but at low levels. However, go ahead and start drinking
again and see how quickly that
one drink lasts for a year and a half. Go ahead and shoot up and see if your
body remembers the drug.
You bet it does! So, if you’re addicted to anger, go ahead and be angry and
you will return to your
addiction equally quickly. If you are addicted to depression, go ahead and be
depressed and you will have
the addiction back virtually immediately. Your body remembers!
To gain control over such difficult circumstances you must have a powerful tool
which will create
new antibodies and new attitudes strong enough to allow control of these
imprints. There are some rules
about this. The method must be under your conscious control. The method must
alter your body
chemistry as completely as your old imprints alter your body chemistry. The
method must be readily
available and at least possible to do. The method must be something that the
person will want to do often
enough to create a new body chemistry addiction and must be something they can
do often enough to
create the new addiction. Tantric methods fulfill the requirements listed
above and much more.
The brain, body, and immune system are connected intimately. Nerve fibers run
to all parts of
the body, even into the organs such as the panceas, spleen, liver, kidneys,
etc., and link the entire body
and brain as a whole unit. These fibers do not always carry the sensations of
touch, heat, cold, or other
physical attributes but often link to the body for the purpose of triggering
chemical changes. Every cell of
the body is equipped with receptor sites which are chemically linked to the
rest of the body. Each of these
cells are potentially self-healing when functioning in harmony and connection
with the body and brain in
a healthy environment.
Healing is a built-in, natural process which restores the body and brain to
healthy functioning
and is influenced by our attitude, lifestyle, daily habits, addictions,
surroundings, and much more. Our
thoughts, feelings, attitudes, addictions, and etc., can make us ill or make us
well. Learning an addiction
to joy, happiness, healthy chemistry, and peace can make us healthy. Learning
an addiction to anger,
depression, unease, and hurtful chemistry can make us dead.
The body has a feedback mechanism to the brain. What we think becomes
magnified by the body
reaction and soon we are deeper into whatever our attitude has become. The
very cells of our bone and
bone marrow are involved in this process and the immune cells produced by the
bone marrow are affected
by our thoughts and feelings. Each of the immune system monocytes or immune
cells move through the
entire body, including the brain where they are transformed into glial cells, a
special kind of connective
brain cell. Without the proper mix of immune cells, the brain cannot function
at full capacity and we are
actually disabled. An addiction to unhealthy chemistry creates this disability
and we learn to live with an
unknown crippling of our brain power.
This disability further limits the ability of the body to heal itself and we
grow old much faster
than we need to. We have more unhealth than we need have, never quite feel as
well as we could, and
feed ourselves a diet of misery we could avoid. By changing from a diet of
pain to one of pleasure, the
body, brain, immune system, and all other aspects of the natural system known
as human (YOU), begins
to heal and move toward optimal operational ability. Can you afford less? Do
you really want to
encourage disease and death with a continued attitude of pain, anger,
depression, and misery? Will the
next attack of misery be the one that starts the cancer cells growing? Begin
the process of heart disease or
stroke? Whatever happens, an addiction to a hurtful imprint will kill you and
harm others around you.
Make no mistake, you can heal other humans by the power of your body chemistry
and
electromagnetic field. You are a tool for healing and health. Many people of
our world have learned this
and brought healing to themselves and others. At the same time, you can also
be a tool for harm. You
can harm other humans by the power of your body chemistry and electromagnetic
field. Get an attitude of
anger and rage, be filled with hatred, walk about depressed and sad, and you
not only are killing yourself
but also those about you.
The person who is a ray of sunshine brightens our day and we look forward to
meeting with
them. They are actually healing us both mentally and physically by our contact
with them. When their
internal functioning is matched with their outward attitude, their
electomagnetic field brings a strong
message of health and healing ability. Those who cover over an internal misery
with a fake outer joy
bring a kind of temporary and unfulfilling happiness which is indeed better
than the person who simply
brings anger, hatred, or depression but, that is nothing compared to the one
who brings a true gladdness
growing from their full chemical addiction to being happy.
The internal/external conflict of covering up misery with a smile often creates
even more illness
than the person who simply is angry and lets it hang out for all to see. At
least we know to set up
protective barriers to the angry person but we may not be able to set barriers
to the fake smile that also
brings an angry undercurrent. These people who carry a fake smile and are
filled with pain underneath
often hurt themselves tremendously and are filled with emotional drain, pain,
and exhaustion. This can
be transferred to others without their knowing where it came from and may
create real disease and death.
End your addictions to pain and misery as quickly as you can. It seems
unlikely anyone would
purposely choose to be unhappy yet most of us do just that. When we wake up to
the fact that our
imprints, training, and habits are making us unhappy, miserable, and even
killing us, it would be only
reasonable to take a strong path to reduce the damage done by society, culture,
church, government, and
peers (among a long list of damaging influences) and move to joy, happiness,
and satisfaction (among an
equally long list of fortunate influences and states of being). Tantra
provides this method. Make the
connection of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth brain circuits and begin the Great
Work.
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