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The Women by the Desert Well – Trapped in the Present by her Past

  The Women by the Desert Well – Trapped in the Present by her Past- All that She Knows  There once was a man who had been travelling alone for many years.  At long last, he found himself in the very heart vast desert.  He came over the last hill and there in front of him was a tired-looking woman sitting by a small well attempting to lower her bucket into the well to draw water. Each time she pulled the bucket up, it was empty. The place was barren, not a tree for shade, no grass to sit down on. The desert was all around her.   She was utterly alone.  He said to her, “you appear to be an intelligent woman, don’t you know that is a dry well?”  She said, “No, it is not, I just have to try harder and eventually I will get water. It is my fault that I am not drawing water.  I am not doing something right. I even may deserve it. It may be some sort of punishment and I must atone for it”.  He asked the young woman, who by now looked much ...

A Letter of Encouragement to a Client of Mine

March 10 2005     Well done Paul and Thanks ……………..   Finally had some time to review your Documents and as well as your permission for me  to share some comments and observations from my perspective that is rooted firstly in Psychiatry and secondly in Comparative Religions therefore the field is quite vast.   If your intentions were noble, in giving me this text and honouring the confidentiality of this or any correspondence (what is shared between us, stays between us), which I believe were your intentions I then feel free to respond.    “First we learn on dry land… then we take to the sea once we understand”   “Your vision will become clear only when you look in your own heart. Who looks outside, a dream; who looks inside, awakes.”  Carl Jung   “It is a madhouse down here” Plato   Paul, only a very few people ever have the opportunity to get well in this tragic world.   What is the ancient cure/spell that bli...