littleo wrote:I’m very skeptical towards those healers. I don't know what is your experience, and I may be offending someone, but I think they are even worse than the BKs. Some souls who used to be associated with the BK became healers, started giving lectures and personal guidance, channel angels etc. I don't believe in all that stuff.
I think a feet on the ground skeptical approach is the perfectly correct one to approach alternative healers ... but we cannot dismiss them all. Yes, I absolutely agree with. Depending on which culture you live in, they can be just as fraudulent, exploitative and even abusive.
However, "scientifically" we know hypnotism can do remarkable things, "scientifically" we know that placebos actually work as well as or better than medicines in some cases, and "scientifically" we know that listening and a generally caring attitude is healing ... and I'd say that without even accepting the weird and wonderful that is 90% of what such people offer and what health services cannot afford to.
There's also the extra added benefit that one can talk about one's cult or spiritual past and not be considered an absolute nutcase (gods, ghosts, angels et al ...) whereas if you went into a psychiatrists you'd probably end up locked up or on heavy medication! Whereas to a spiritualist those sorts of ideas are as ordinary as the old lady who lives next door. In fact, most spiritualist are as ordinary as the old lady who lives next door but happy to sit you down, feed you tea and biscuits and make sense of all your gods, ghosts, angels.
Do you understand my methodology here?
Sadly, a) medical services just cannot afford the time and resources, b) there are very few ex-cult/religion aware therapists, c) in my experience, anyone who has spent prolonged periods in introspection can run rings around more ordinary therapists and see through them whilst being a bit opaque to the therapist ... but, d) sometimes one really could benefit from the "chemical cosh" type approach.
Any BK, or post-BK I would definitely filter out of the equation. You've got to ask what it was that attracted them to the BKs in the first place and how much of it remains. And remember to that although it is all quite unfashionable in the West today, a) some of the great minds in mental health dabbled in the area (e.g. Jung when unable to make sense of a patient's mind might use a horoscope to try help understand and was very aware of the unknown phenomena we call the supernatural), and b) in other cultures all of that stuff is as normal as tea and biscuits.
So, yes; keep your feet on the ground, avoid the egotists and commercialists but don't rule everything out all together.
I mean, even going to a really nice place like an old church or a natural beauty can trigger off releases and positive changes.
And, yes, I agree with your "all part of life" equation too. Suffering, sadness and irritation is all part of life ... the other half of which is ... "everything changes". You may just be a ... dizzy, melancholy, cynical, angry (whatever) person so accept it, enjoy it and make the best of it but whatever you do don't follow the apocalyptic dreams of some cloistered old Sindi ladies in love with a handsome millionaire businessman. Don't feed and play out their psychodrama.
Learn your own lessons and follow your own dreams.