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Self Healing according to Henry Miller.
    #11777343 - 01/06/10 03:07 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

This is long but very much worth the read imo. I took it out of the Henry Miller Reader he wrote this very many (1930s or 40s maybe) years ago which makes it especially interesting and I would like to hear your thoughts on what he has to say.

"I never knew the meaning of peace until I arrived at Epidaurus. Like everybody I had used the word all my life without, realizing that I was using a counterfeit. Peace is not the opposite of war any more then death is the opposite of life. The poverty of language, which is to say the poverty man's imagination or the poverty of his inner life, has created an ambivalence which is absolutely false. I am talking of course of the peace which passeth all understanding. There is no other kind. The peace which most of us know is merely a cessation of hostilities, a truce, an interregnum, a lull, a respite, which is negative. The peace of the heart is positive and invincible, demanding no conditions, requiring no protection. It just is. If it is a victory it is a peculiar one because it is based entirely on surrender, a voluntary surrender, to be sure. There is no mystery in my mind as to the nature of the cures which were wrought at this great therapeutic center of the ancient world. Here the healer himself was healed, first and most important step in the development of the art, which is not medical but emotional. Second, the patient was healed before ever he received the cure. The great physicians have always spoken of Nature as being the great healer. That is only partially true. Nature alone can do nothing. Nature can cure only when man recognizes his place in the world, which is not in Nature, as with the animal but in the human kingdom, the link between the natural and the divine.
  To the infrahuman specimens of this benighted scientific age the ritual and worship connected with the art of healing as practiced at Epidaurus seems like sheer buncombe. In our world the blind lead the blind and the sick go to the sick to be cured. We are making constant progress, but it is progress which leads to the operating table, to the poor house, to the insane asylum, to the trenches. We have no healers-we have only butchers  whose knowledge of anatomy entitles them to a diploma which in turn entitles then to carve out or amputate our illnesses so that we may carry on in a crippled fashion until such time as we are fit for the slaughter house. We announce the discovery of this cure and that but make no mention of the new diseases we have created in route. The medical cult operates very much like the War Office-the triumphs which they broadcast are sops thrown out to conceal death and disaster. The medicos, like the military authorities, are helpless; they are waging a hopeless fight from the start. What man wants is peace in order that he may live. Defeating our neighbor doesn't give peace any more than curing cancer brings health. Man doesn't begin to live through triumphing over his enemy nor does he begin to acquire health through endless cures. The joy of life comes through peace, which is not static but dynamic. No man can really say that he knows what joy is until he has experienced peace. And without joy there is no life, even if you have a dozen cars, six butlers, a castle, a private chapel and a bomb proof vault. Our diseases are our attachments, be they habits, ideologies, ideals, principles, possessions, phobias, gods, cults, religions, what you please. Good wages can be a disease as much as bad wages. Leisure can be just as great a disease as work. Whatever we cling to, even if it be hope or faith, can be the disease which carries us off. Surrender is absolute: if you cling to even the tiniest crumb you nourish the germ which will devour you. As for clinging to God, God long ago abandoned us in order that we might realize the joy of attaining godhood through our own efforts. All this whimpering that is going on in the dark, this insistent, piteous plea for peace which will grow bigger as the pain and misery increase, where is it to be found? Peace, do people imagine that it is something to be cornered, like corn or wheat? Is it something which can be pounced upon and devoured, as with wolves fighting over a carcass? I hear people talking about peace and their faces are clouded with anger and hatred or with scorn and disdain, with pride and arrogance. There are people who want to fight to bring about peace-the most deluded souls of all. There will be no peace until murder is eliminated from the heart and mind. Murder is the apex of the broad pyramid whose base is the self. That which stands will have to fall. Everything that man has fought for will have to be relinquished before he can begin to live as man. Up until now he has been a sick beast and even his divinity stinks. He is master of many worlds and in his own he is a slave. What rules the world is the heart, not the brain. In every realm our conquests only bring death. We have turned our backs on the one realm wherein freedom lies. At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in that great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that the little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world."


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Self Healing according to Henry Miller. [Re: Icelander]
    #11777366 - 01/06/10 03:12 PM (14 years, 2 months ago)

Dude's a perv but he's wise

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