Power and Religion

The belief we have in our homeland or ethnic identity can be a powerful thing. It's ben used to bind people together in times of national emergency. But also to justify eliminating any who've been found ethnically "undesirable." Any student of history can reel off dozens of examples.

We've separated ourselves from each other by race, country and religion, by sex and social class, by designations like blue collar and white.

Maybe now it's time to re-think it all.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, Power and Religion.

Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco has been speaking a lot recently on our program about how the framework for a true society is already here. For me as a Canadian, this has been something of a revelation. We Canadians are well along in the process of multiculturalism, which is our attempt to build a pluralistic society through law and legislation. Everyone with the right to health care and education, importated cultural values being respected no matter how different from our own, suppressing and even prohibiting our traditional customs if it makes new, culturally different Canadians uncomfy, that sort of thing. And this is not only laid out in law, but held to be true in the hearts and minds of all progressive Canadians.

Many non-Christians in the community? Sure we'll prohibit Christmas Trees in the schools! It's the only decent thing to do, after all. The City of Toronto years ago lobbied to change the words of the National Anthem from, "O Canada, our home and native land," to "our home and cherished land so immigrants wouldn't be so offended.

They failed.

Immigrant groups become "minority groups", and some chafe at the label. It's a stew of emotions and opinions where we slip a cultural organagram over the more universal rules for a true society that Dr. Claudia Pacheco has been talking about in our recent programs, and which I find, frankly, relieving and clarifying.

There's so much struggle in this area of culture and society that it's become one of the most pressing issues of our time perhaps. When we see politicians exploiting centuries-old cultural and religious differences to drive a wedge between happily integrated Serbians and Croatians and the subsequent horror of ethnic cleansing that erupted as a result; when we see extremists inverting the intention of Mohammed's concept of Jihad away from the true meaning of inner war with the demons within to external war with the western demon without; when we see the European Union trying to forbid Christian symbols being displayed in Italian government representative offices, we can start to perceive that there is much more going on than just the movement and flux of cultures adjusting and trying to make way for others in our globalized reality.

And it all serves to highlight again the integrative nature of Norberto Keppe's Analytical Trilogy, which has accomplished a re-union of science with philosophy and theology, affording us an opportunity to bring real understanding again to our human condition - not the constant confusion created by layering law over amendment over legislation and back again which so characterizes our modern multi-cultural societies.

Before I continue this fascinating and essential discussion with Dr. Pacheco and my colleague, Susan Berkley, I'd like to advise you that we'll be laying out Keppe's science of Analytical Trilogy in its entirety at our Psycho-Social Forum, Healing The World Through Consciousness, May 13 - 15, 2010 here in São Paulo. This is an open invitation for any who'd like to participate and find out more about Analytical Trilogy and how they can apply Keppe's research and clinical discoveries into their areas of expertise. The website is up now, and as always you can get more info by emailing me.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, Power and Religion.

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Paranoia in Modern Medicine

From the time we're young, we're taught to protect our lives from nature. Sprays to keep off the bugs, oils to block the harmful rays, potent cleansers to ward off the offending bacteria waiting to take up residence in the bathroom.

Nature is a savage place, we're shown on Cable TV documentaries, where evil waits malefically for us to let down our guard before pouncing. Forget the tomato that ate New York. I'm worried about the wrigglies from hell.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, The Paranoia in Modern Medicine.

We'd like to calm down the paranoia a little today. With England threatening to innoculate 56 million people by the end of the year against the Swine Flu and countries all over the world ramping up the propaganda machine about the latest foreign enemy flying out of pigs and killing innocent women and children, let's take a step back.

We can be forgiven in a sense for believing the medical swindle here. As I've explained in my Thinking with Somebody Else's Head podcast, modern medicine was coerced by the huge medical research foundations of Carnegie and Rockefeller into swallowing Pasteur's Germ Theory of disease hook, line and sinder. How they did that was by influencing medical schools to invest more in research, and then granting research money only to the schools who followed Pasteur's orientation.

Only problem was, Pasteur was dead wrong. Disease doesn't come from outside us at all, from germs and viruses and fungi. Disease is an interior condition. Something goes wrong inside us, as Pasteur's nemesis, Antoine Béchamp proved beautifully in the late 1800s. But the falseness, plagiarism and just plain rotten science of Pasteur didn't faze the intepid misters Carnegie and Rockefeller. No, sir! They weren't going to let a few scientific falsehoods stop them from making a ton of money on the emerging pharmaceutical industry, the medicines of which were developed using the waste products from their massive coal and oil industries. They simply glossed over the totally wrong postulates emerging from Pasteur's Germ Theory - a theory Pasteur himself recanted on his death bed - and cynically manipulated a medical system hungry for their foundation dollars into implanting Pasteur's theory into the American medical system.

If you're interested in reading a fascinating book about this, check out E. Douglas Hume's Béchamp or Pasteur: A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology.

Meanwhile, unknowing of Béchamp's pioneering discoveries, a Brazilian psychoanalyst has been working for 50 years on discovering the origin of human illness, and reaching the same conclusions. In fact, more complete conclusions that Béchamp. His name is Norberto Keppe and his science forms the basis of our Healing Through Consciousness program.

We don't need to look far to see how pervasive has been Pasteur's influence. We need vaccines to protect us from outside germs, and vaccines are linked to autism and ADD. Poisonous pesticides are necessary to ward off insect plagues from outside, with obvious negative health effects. We need a multi-billion dollar drug industry to defend ourselves from bacteria and viruses, and the resultant side effects are so brutal as to lead to some experts suggesting that the #1 cause of death in America today is medical treatment.

So we need to tackle all this, and we will today. But first a reminder that Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco and I are available for your calls and emails with questions or problems you'd like us to address personally. joneshealing@gmail.com is our email. And we're on Skype at healingthroughconsciousness

Today, Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco on modern medicine.

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Finding True Religion

Michael Stipe wrote about sitting in the corner and losing his. Others fight over it. Sometimes whole nations of individuals who never go to church rise up in righteous fury and bombard others because of their religious differences. Something that happened 500 years ago can be enough to set off the desire to clean the land of the "intolerable other."

On the good side, we human beings are fascinated with meaning. We are immersed in spiritual interest even if we never think about it.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, Finding True Religion.

There are topics you should never bring up in family dinner conversations, right? Stay away from politics and religion goes the common wisdom. And sometimes sports rivalries, too, in families with a lot of die-hard fans.

But since the dawn of Man, humankind has been conscious of the existence of a Superior Being. This God or Yahweh or Allah or Great Father or any of the other myriad names we give Him is considered in all cultures to be the ultimate expression of goodness, truth and beauty.

I'm not saying that all believe. It's obvious some don't. I'm saying that all races, nationalities, cultures, tribes have rituals and beliefs around the origin of all things and the Creator, who is deemed responsible for all this within which we live.

Spirituality, then, is universal and as natural as breathing. We are, in fact, born theologians.

Now there's a thought for you. We can, of course, push that thought away, make a concerted effort to forget that whoo-whoo stuff and bend our energies towards the more tangible world of making a living and feeding our families. Get our heads out of the clouds and noses to the grindstone, so to speak.

But in those impactful moments of our lives, when we lose a loved one or a new little one comes into our families, or we get sick or are brought back from the brink of death, when we sit outside and watch the stars or hear Louis Armstrong play "Walkin' My Baby Back Home," when we fall in or out of love, in those moments I'm pretty sure most of us are thinking about something more than what font we're going to use on our next resume.

Who we are, where we came from, what's it all about, Alfie, are the questions we all seek to understand better. And Analytical Trilogy, the science we base this Podcast on, is helpful to us in our search. Trilogy meaning, by the way, the union of science, philosophy and theology. We treat all aspects of the human being in our thereapeutic Healing Through Consciousness program with Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco, the vice-president of the International Society of Analytical Trilogy and a highly sought after integral psychoanalyst.

Trilogical analysis is available to any who want to understand these deeper questions in this lives, or just get a better frip on what's going on day to day. joneshealing@gmail.com is our email address if I can help you in any way. And you can find out a lot more on our site.

Today, let's talk about finding true religion.

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Trilogical Perspective on Suicide

Death , as we've explored before on Healing Through Consciousness, touches us all. But premature death ... well, that cuts a little closer to the bone. And that death brought about by the victim's own hand, that's perhaps the most difficult of all. And normally it's not a topic we like to talk all that much about.

But don't hit the stop button on your iPod just yet, because like everything seen through the lens of Analytical Trilogy, suicide, too, can receive a new and immensely comforting treatment.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, a Trilogical Perspective on Suicide.

This is a relevant topic. Its rates are increasing in many parts of the world - especially in the so-called developed world. Lucky we are who haven't been touched by this one. My family has seen its share ... most recently my two cousins called their younger brother to join them for lunch. One of the brothers was out in Toronto from Vancouver, and so they had a rare opportunity to share a lunch together. Their younger brother sounded a little vague on the phone, but nothing alarmingly strange. But he never showed for the lunch, and a couple of hours later, his young son found him dead in the garage.

Now I'm not recounting this to sensationalize this traumatic and sad story, or to wallow in the tragedy of it. What I'd really like to do is bring some new psychologically therapeutic perspective to the issue of suicide. Because I know the guilt and trauma that results for the ones left behind. Maybe times, there's strong anger in the family and friends. Everyone trying to answer the big questions: Why did he or she do it? How could they do this to us? And ... could I have done more to prevent it?

There are a lot of resources in our societies that offer help in these terrible moments - books to read, support groups to join. And our remaining friends and family try to console us as best they can. But, having been through it a couple of times now with close friends and family, including my ex-wife who jumped into Lake Ontario a short 6 months after our separation, I know firsthand that this terrible situation is not well understood or treated in our society today.

Freud put forward that suicide was a result of aggression turned inwards. Jung had complex thoughts and ideas about the psyche's journey needing to go through the totality of experience - including indignity and suffering - and therefore suicide was not commendable.

I think both of these psychological ancestors were missing some key perspectives in their views, which I have admittedly grossly simplified here. But I do this for the purposes of moving into what I consider a much more complete view of all the aspects surrounding suicide - especially the consciousness that may be gained by we who are survivors. We can know, too, more of what's going on inside the heads and hearts of those we know who've committed this grave act, but it's not the primary focus of our show today. We want to bring some consolation to the family and friends today.

But there is a wonderful document form the International Society of Analytical Trilogy about the psychological roots of suicide that I'd be happy to send you. Just let me know if you'd like a copy at joneshealing@gmail.com

Now, let's get to this week's callers.

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Art and the Healthy Society

Some point to our quantum leap in technological wizadry as proof of our societal development. Others to our more racially and sexually just legislation. Still others to our sophisticated international trade agreements and deregulated business environment.

Well, there are good initiatives in all these areas, obviously. But if we look at the great social movements in history - the Renaissance, Britain's Golden Age, the Belle Epoque, we'll see that they were driven in large part by an explosion in the arts.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, Art and the Healthy Society.

When I first moved to Toronto from the west coast of Canada in the mid '90s, I was impressed by the cultural diversity and concern to preserve it that I found in Canada's largest city. From seed saver groups that were protecting the original plants and flowers of the city's neighbourhood parks, to community jazz concerts and street fairs organized neighbourhood by neighbourhood, I discovered a citizenry passionate about maintaining a lifestyle.

When I bought a little house in the Bloor-Bathurst area, my first summer there was marked by a neighbourhood film festival, which consisted of one guy hanging a huge white sheet on the outside wall of his house and his friend across the street projecting classic old films from a projector on his balcony. This was a community spirit that noted urban planning critic, Jane Jacobs, also observed in her withering critique lamenting the death of the great American city. And it’s why she moved to Toronto back in the late ‘60s.

Art, it turns out, is the real engine of a healthy society, as you’ll also see in the urbanization of NY City. It’s the artists who move into a decrepit part of the city and begin its gentrification, until a certain point where it becomes such a hot real estate market that they can’t afford to live there anymore.

The arts, asserts Brazilian psychoanalyst and social scientist, Norberto Keppe, forms the basis of society. We know this to be true because who but the very sickest among us would ever agree to living in a society without it? We can easily imagine surviving in the world without Twitter or Facebook, but without Beethoven’s 9th Symphony or the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper? Impossible.

But we don’t act like this is important actually. Economic hard times hit and the first cuts come to arts programs. Got to keep the money flowing for military spending and drug research, after all. You know, the really important stuff.

This is a psychological inversion in Norberto Keppe’s science – a discovery he consolidated back in the late 1970s that fills a huge missing piece in the understanding of the human psyche. We’ve inverted our values and our societal norms so we are very far from the way we should be. And this generates a lot of stress.

Addressing these issues is what our Healing Through Consciousness radio show is all about, and we’re inviting your participation in helping us develop the tone and focus of the show. joneshealing@gmail.com is our email if you want to talk to us, or you can Skype in – healingthroughconsciousness is our Skype name. We’d love to hear your comments and questions.

This week we didn’t have any calls or questions as it turns out, so I took the opportunity to go a little deeper with Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco about a subject Dr. Keppe has been addressing with us recently in our meetings with him – the healthy nature of society, with a big focus on the arts.

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True Fulfillment and Purpose

"We strut and fret our hour upon the stage," is how Shakespeare put it. A few centuries later, Andy Warhol was downgrading us to fifteen minutes in the spotlight. And taking that to heart, a few of us propelled ourselves into the fast lane. "We're here for a good time, not a long time," was that creed - and a few of that stripe burned out spectacularly like super-novas.

What we do with our lives is something personal. But every once in awhile we need to sit back and take stock. We'll do a little of that today on Healing Through Consciousness.

I'm a fortunate guy. I was born in a good country into a comfortable middle-class background. I had a loving and supportive family, I played on all the sports teams, did well in school, had every advantage - and then some - in my life. I have no doubt there are many, many people suffering in what must seem hopeless situations dreaming of opportunities like that for themselves and their children. If, that is, they have any time for dreaming in their struggles to just stay alive.

And have I taken my priviledged life for granted?

Of course I have.

Have I wasted time and turned my back on opportunities?

You bet.

And in my quiet moments, those times of more humbled reflection, have I wondered, "What's it all about, Alfie?"

Yeah, that, too.

Those are moments of taking stock, and they can be devastating for those who only take time for that late in life, when it's too late to change, or it's too difficult, or they've lost the way too much to ever find their way back. Dante Alighieri wrote about that, didn't he ... and that was way back in medieval times. So this soul searching is nothing new to human experience.

Who of us hasn't looked up at the stars or caught snatches of a favorite song from our youth and found ourselves reflecting on the greater meaning of life, on whatever happened to all that promise we once felt?

This strikes at the essence of our radio program actually, which is a program of consciousness. We record from our studios at the International Society of Analytical Trilogy, and A.T. is a comprehensive therapeutic science that helps us answer those questions about the purpose of our lives. We hold to a revolutionary view here - revolutionary in the sense of being dramatically different from the dominant scientific worldview that we are only the end products of millions of years of evolution from the primal ooze and have no more desire in life than survival.

That view doesn't much cut it in the light of our work. Dr. Norberto Keppe's Analytical Trilogy proves to us another thing: that we possess, right now, all that we need to enjoy the things that we think will only be possible tomorrow. Everything is here now, inside us and in our perfect world. The question is not one of needing to evolve there, but of why, if we have everything, our world and our lives are still in such a precarious state. This is a matter of us doig something against what is already perfectly created, not one of us not having arrived yet.

We have it all, but we deny it. And by understanding how we deny it we can begin to return to it. We can begin to see our way through the dark wood.

Every week, I sit down with Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco, vice-president of the International Society of Analytical Trilogy, and we talk about this. And we invite your participation at joneshealing@gmail.com. You'll find much here to clarify your troubles and make your soul sing.

Today, a couple of young callers join us to consider their lives, especially in relation to true fulfillment.

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Paranoia Towards Affection

Paranoia Towards Affection

We are trying in our program to give people a place to call where they can really get help. For health problems, for how to cope with economic difficulties, for how to untangle the tangled webs we weave in our relationships.

The day-to-day difficulties that face us all. Now there can be some sense brought to them through the Brazilian school of Analytical Trilogy. A true psychotherapy that goes deep to the roots of what’s gone wrong, and that offers us a way out of the darkness.

We record our program every Monday at 2:00 pm Eastern time, when Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco and I are available for your phone calls. This is a therapeutic show, so it there’s anything that comes up as you’re listening, something you’d like clarified or some specific issue you’d like us to address, we’re available to do that. I encourage you to take advantage of this resource … Dr. Pacheco’s grasp of psychoanalysis is broad, and she’s an extremely generous and affectionate therapist with a knack for going to the heart of the problem. Her perspective is very clarifying and illuminating.

So, two ways to join us … by email at joneshealing@gmail.com and by Skype. Healingthroughconsciousness is our Skype name. Drop me a line if you’re interested in calling us.

Last week, we dealt with the problems of Mr. X, as we affectionately called him. He wrote us a long email about an ex-girlfriend he couldn’t stop thinking about. Every new woman was measured against her standard, and it was becoming harder to be with other women.

Claudia broached a couple of therapeutic perspective on our program last week, which is available through our archives at www.healingthroughconsciousness.com. Making Sense of Relationships was the program name and it’s highly therapeutic and refreshing. It’s also available as a Podcast through iTunes … Healing Through Consciousness the Podcast name.

Well, Mr. X. wrote us back. He loved what we did, and wanted to add some more. So, we got him online with us a couple of days ago. Anthony’s his name, and here’s how it all came together.

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Making Sense of Relationships

Making Sense of Relationships

The flutter in our stomachs at love's first blush. The flushed cheeks. The sleepless nights. And the mixture of emotions at its passing, too. This we also know.

Our relationships mark us inside like our accomplishments highlight the pages of our resumes. The journeys in and out of love weave through our songs and poetry. One minute we're itchin' like a man on a fuzzy tree, the next, love's labor is lost. Ah, the courses of love never do run smooth.

Today on Healing Through Consciousness, Making Sense of Relationships.

Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco and I are trying to do something unprecedented on this show ... and that's offer help for all manner of difficulties that face us in our hectic, 21st century world, rife as it is with challenges to our emotional well-being.

We've got so many assaults of that from outside and in that it's hard to know where to turn to really get an understanding of it all. And that's where our program comes in. We're broadcasting from the headquarters of the most advanced psychology on the planet today, the International Society of Analytical Trilogy - something that will become evident immediately as you listen to an analysis of any theme conducted by Dr. Pacheco. Her vast experience and the comprehensive nature of the science of Analytical Trilogy allow her to go much deeper into our problems than we normally hear. And this helps her offer real perspectives on what's really going on behind the situation. And that shines a light on the way through the thing, too.

Our idea on this show is to have it full of your input through emails and phone calls to us. We've set it up to be as interactive as possible. We'd like you to bring the issues from your real experience and we'll treat them in our program. By email, we can be reached at joneshealing@gmail.com, and phone calls to us on Skype are at our Skype name, healingthroughconsciousness. We'll try to help you get to the bottom of whatever you want to get to the bottom of. All the information about how to participate is also on our site www.healingthroughconsciousness.com.

Today, Dr. Pacheco and I will tackle the murky and problematic, but still beautiful and transcendant, area of relationships, as a follow up to our last program on Death and Transcendence. I sat down this week to talk again with one of the people I most like to listen to, Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco.

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Pathology of Power (E3 April 2, 2009)

We discuss the pathology of power and how this sickness is shaping our society.

What passes for psychological analysis in our world today is most often not psychological at all. We see a lot of biological treatment of difficulties - "Oh, you're feeling a little depressed? The chemicals in your brain must be out of whack" or - "You've got a weight problem? This stomach reduction surgery will fix you right up." Or the analysis reverts to social issues - you were traumatized by your music teacher when you were 8, you were humiliated for wetting the bed. All of this is no news for you if you've been at all tuned in to the normal psychological interpretations that circulate to explain the myriad problems we face in our stressful modern world. Society tends to see the human being as victimized by something outside of his responsibility.

Norberto Keppe's work of Analytical Trilogy is nothing like that. In fact, we could say that he's light years ahead in his psychological view because his therapy is truly psychological. Analytical Trilogy focusses the source of our problems right back inside us. Smack dab back to the individual's attitudes and philosophy of life. To how we see the world - not because of our social conditioning only, but because of our often unconscious decisions about how life is and how things work.

But Keppe also acknowledges that these individual psychological issues are also reflected out into our society at large, because it is still individuals that inhabit the positions of influence that lead to our current societal reality. Here's how Keppe himself describes the situation, taken from his marvelous book, Liberation of the People: The Pathology of Power (available at http://www.trilogia.ws/books/)

It is truly a pity to see what is happening to mankind today, entrapped as it is in a totally inverted social structure, yet capable of freeing itself from this system immediately and achieving happiness. I am putting all of my efforts into making this inversion clear. Even so, each of you who read this book will first need to use your will to understand it fully and then fight to transform society. (Editor's note: there is a great discussion of the human will here: http://somebodyelseshead.wordpress.com/2 009/02/09/liberating-ourselves-from-our- free-will/. Indeed, our happiness depends on the attitude we take to free ourselves from this tremendous deception into which we have been plunged. If each one of us begins to conscientize this situation, that is, if we analyze it, understand it, and accept full consciousness of it, then in a very short time we will be living in a totally different environment, that real paradise foreseen by many highly spiritualized people.

I would say that all of our present-day problems can be reduced to one: the way in which social and economic power is being used. Formerly, it was a question of the power of the bourgeoisie, the feudal lords or the clergy (in the Middle Ages). Indeed, every person who gains unlimited power feeds his most serious pathological fantasy to such a point that he becomes extremely dangerous to himself and especially to others.

This is provocative and scientific stuff, and we'll explore that in more depth in coming programs. Stay tuned.

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Science of Analytical Trilogy (E2 April 14, 2009)

We delve into some key principles of the wonderful science of Analytical Trilogy, and take questions about coping with life changes, and what's going on behind drug addiction spurred by the death of two teenagers in Edmonton Alberta recently. Great listening is just a click away.

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Analytical Trilogy and the Keppe Motor (E1 April 7, 2009)

Our first show. An overview of Keppe's vast science of Analytical Trilogy, including a call-in question about kids and responsibility, and a LIVE report from the Eco-German trade show about the revolutionary Keppe Motor.

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Healing Through Consciousness

Healing Through Consciousness, the Analytical Trilogy radio show!

Healing Through Consciousness is a program that originates from the headquarters of the most powerful psychological science in the world today – the ground - breaking work emerging from the Brazilian school of Analytical Trilogy, founded by Dr. Norberto Keppe.

Why another radio talk show? Fair question. It’s not like there’s a shortage or anything. Enter “radio talk shows” into Google and you’ll see what we mean. So we don’t want to muddy the waters. We’re doing this because, frankly, what we’re saying isn’t being said. And we want you to hear it. Healing Through Consciousness is a radio talk show that gets to the essence of things. * What’s really causing depression, lack of motivation, self-sabotage, and what to do about it * How to understand, for the first time, what’s going on in your relationships * How your psychological life contributes to physical and mental illness * Why our societies don’t work for us – and what we need to do to change them * The quest for spiritual meaning This is a program that offers deep healing without medication or superficial advice. Join us for a refreshing view of the human being, reality and health. Listen Mondays from 11:00am – 12:00pm Pacific Time (find the time in your area), and call in.