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About Andrew Dettman

Counsellor, Paradox Consultant, Poet, Healer.

Letters let things happen ….

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Imagine if the only reason that you are on this planet is to become Human.

What if you were born a boy baby or a girl baby, grew into a man or a woman and that then your sole work was to achieve the rank of being Human?

Would that ‘re-commissioning’ that ‘re-mission’ in your life change the way that you live and if so, what might convince you that that was in fact the true case?

When I worked in a prison rehab, trained as an addiction counsellor, dispensing treatment in a spiritually oriented recovery programme to recover men from criminalised addiction , virtually no inmate wanted to know anything about a loving God – no surprises there then!

Whenever I asked this captive client group, “who here has ever done an inhuman act?”, there was usually a complete and immediate admittance answering the question in the affirmative.

Then I would ask them to suspend their disbelief around their old beardy God sitting up on a cloud, asking them to imagine that if they could have a God, just what qualities would their God be recognised as having.

On the white board usually the first God quality identified in the prison group was “forgiving”, followed closely by “generous”, along with a fairly predictable tally of merciful, loving, humorous, helpful, meaningful, powerful … and so on.
Then, given that the only way that they could accept that they had done inhuman things in the past was to in fact still have an inner calibrating scale of humanity, I asked them to define the term “The Human”.

The two lists were almost identical.

I then asked them what was the plural of the word “man”, and therefore, what was the plural also of the word “woman”?

What then, I would ask, is the plural of human?

After brief hesitations when it became clear that the “a” did not change in the pluralisation of the word human, and after “s” was accepted, it became clear that by far the most common way that this word “human” pluralised was through the word “beings”.

It then became easy to step the clients away from God on a cloud, toward The Human as a euphemism for God, that describes a Singular source code and a potential destination for mankind, that became clear with a deliberate “pause” in the spoken word.

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The Human *pause* being you, meets The Human *pause* being me, to obtain experience, expression and development.

#theHUmanhealing

The Forty Rules of Love

I think you might like this book – “The Forty Rules of Love” by Elif Shafak.

Start reading it for free: https://amzn.eu/5QCX0uU

This book is a masterpiece, a translation across time and space of eternal transmission. Thank you Elif Shafak.

Pandemic of stuck-addiction©

Mentally ill are ‘dying needlessly’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24240408

and are an indicator of the wider pandemic that I have termed stuck-addiction©

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This pandemic is global and describes and connects a human dilemma that unfolds daily across national news reports from around the world. I will explain from where the flow chart above derives and how it helps clarify the disease of stuck-addiction© in subsequent posts.

There have always been the mental illnesses that seem to be free standing and as definable as any other more physical disease. There are also mental disorders that are linked in a secondary or tertiary manner to the primary disease of addiction.

The situation is confused by the fact that in their five year training course, doctors in the UK spend only a matter of a few weeks learning about addiction that is described, as a reversal of the real situation, as a secondary or tertiary symptom of a range of other mental illnesses – so, on the ground there is a knotty and vicious circle.

See this book to understand addiction and the current medical model.

Obesity is now a global indicator on the spectrum of stuck-addiction© as is gambling, this link gives an insight into the global situation concerning sex addiction, in the UK and US 70% of prisoners in jail are there through crimes relating to drugs and alcohol and 11% of prisoners in the UK are in jail because of sexually motivated crime.

The statistics go on and on. The financial crash of 2008 is almost entirely an indicator for stuck-addiction©, so much so that the language of the post crash period by bankers has been entirely made up of addiction rehab words like, hope, confidence, trust, faith, belief, inspiration and truth – yet the sickness that they are in to highlight the breakage of such words, addiction, is totally denied.

In later blogs I will try to make more clear the correlation between individual and collective addiction as the disease is commonly understood medically, how religious and political terrorism fits into the diagnosis and just why the term stuck-addiction© is more easily understandable to describe the mass pandemic that both threatens to destroy mankind and yet is also the portal of hope for a new era.

see Pandemic of stuck-addiction© 2

Heart

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Light shining through a hanging heart

Life suspended by a silken thread

Turned by contrary breaths

Of One love’s mercy

Readiness for eternity

No news is ….

We can remember the warning from Jacob Boehme: “Boehme has a note before one of his books in which he asks the reader not to go further and read the book unless he is willing to make practical changes as a result of the reading. Otherwise, Boehme says, the book will be bad for him….” From the Forward of a book A Little Book On The Human Shadow by Robert Bly.

This blog begins anew
The publishing of my heart
The lightning of my lightening load
The thunder of my God’s sneeze
Across the shaken dust
Of our mortal
Immortality.

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