My thread.

[Soul-lover 2020]

All,

To kick things off, here's something that I found interesting.  It's to do with mental illness:

What These 16 Mental Illnesses 'Look' Like

Andrea

[Bill W]

Hi Andrea,

Was pleased to see you started a thread. I'm new here and I'm also new to the Bible and am using the Bible and connecting at church to aid my recovery. I've seen some of your posts so I was curious about this thread. I'm also a mental health nurse so I am risking sounding quite ignorant... but what's your angle here? What are we looking at and why? What kind of dialogue is this designed to start? ?

[Truth Addict]

Something to be aware of:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

[abrakamowse]

47 minutes ago, Truth Addict said:

Something to be aware of:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

Eye opening!!! Great stuff Truth Addict

[Soul-lover 2020]

16 hours ago, Bill W said:

Hi Andrea,

Was pleased to see you started a thread. I'm new here and I'm also new to the Bible and am using the Bible and connecting at church to aid my recovery. I've seen some of your posts so I was curious about this thread. I'm also a mental health nurse so I am risking sounding quite ignorant... but what's your angle here? What are we looking at and why? What kind of dialogue is this designed to start? ?

Bill W,

My thread is intended as a place where I shall just be sharing things which I find interesting.  People should feel free to agree or disagree, or simply share their own real world insights in relation to whatever is shared.  You are free even to rate what I share.  But please be polite about it.

Mental illness interests me because I suffered a partial mental breakdown 32 years ago, and there was a spiritual dimension to it.  I was a young man of 20 years of age and had been a Christian for only a few months.  I went to a "church" that wasn't mainstream, and the elders didn't have a clue about how to help me.  The leader turned out to be a "loose cannon".  He would talk about Jesus Christ and demons, but wasn't a respected Bible teacher. At the time I realized I wasn't safe for my girlfriend to be with, and decided that we should split up.  She developed bipolar.

Young people have to be handled with great sensitivity and care.  

Since then I have known some wonderful Christians, including my beloved late wife.

Andrea        

[Natasha]

@Soul-lover 2020 Christianity used to be a big part of my life for many years. I worked and travelled with missionaries as an interpreter (my first language is Russian) and got saved during that time. When I came to the States, I immediately got plugged into a local Christian church, became a serious Bible student, attended and taught Bible school, did prayer retreats, etc. Being a part of the Christian community had its place at that stage of my life.

After my husband's passing and surviving an illness myself, I went deep into the rabbit hole re-evaluating my life experiences and my relationship with reality. There were some hard realizations that were leading me to question and investigate just how valid my perceptions of reality were and also to take a closer look at the image I was projecting to the outside world that I was trying to keep up. I saw deep inside there was someone deeply covered with layers and layers of conditioning and programming, as I found out later - the body-mind construct known as the ego.

I dug through the layers of my conditioning including my 'roles' as a woman, daughter, citizen, religious person, mother, employee, etc all the way to my 'role' as a human being. It takes time to penetrate all these layers and you have to be radically honest with yourself as you do this work. Those realizations can be hard and shocking, but if the Truth is what you're after, it has to be done nonetheless.

At the end of that rabbit hole you find out what you have been searching for all your life was there the whole time. Peace, freedom, and Truth are not found in beliefs, but in Being, and nothing is closer to it than Yourself    

 

 

Edited May 31, 2019 by Natasha

[Shin]

5 minutes ago, Shiva said:

Wow @Natasha ! I can't imagine what you must've gone through. Thanks for sharing your story with us. Really eye-opening! 

She's the real Leia Skywalker

But she doesn't want to accept the call

[abrakamowse]

@Natasha Thanks for sharing! You are very strong really. Much love!

[Inliytened1]

@Natasha beautiful story thanks for sharing.

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Edited May 31, 2019 by Inliytened1

[zeroISinfinity]

@Soul-lover 2020 Thanks for Being here. 

@Natasha You did the work. 

❤️ you all awesome mdfkers ❤️

Share the unicorn. ?

Be careful what you Wish for. ?️?

[Forestluv]

1 hour ago, Natasha said:

At the end of that rabbit hole you find out what you have been searching for all your life was there the whole time. Peace, freedom, and Truth are not found in beliefs, but in Being, and nothing is closer to it than Yourself    

❤️ ? 

[Natasha]

Thank you, guys, for the kind words

[Soul-lover 2020]

Here's a poem that I wrote last year:

 

The Lovers.

 

Lover:

"Come, my beloved, let us drink deeply

from the chalice filled with

the nectar of Love.

She stirs our hearts with desire - 

I sing joyously of thee."

 

Beloved: 

"For thee alone, my handsome prince,

do I sing Love’s passionate song.

Ye are mine and I am thine -

our hearts beating in unison..."

 

Lover:

"Together do we eagerly dance to the 

rhythm of Love's song, 

entering the heights of Her rhapsodies -

  souls in passionate consummation,  

delighting in the sacred union that's 

transforming us within..."

 

Beloved:

"And with Her tender embrace

does Love draw us deeper into the One - 

our rapturous spirits worshiping

the Divine."

 

- Andrea La Rocca

30th April 2018

 

 

Edited June 8, 2019 by Soul-lover 2020

[Nahm]

@Soul-lover 2020 How was the apocalypse?

[Natasha]

@Soul-lover 2020 That's a sweet poem/song. Thanks for sharing 

[Soul-lover 2020]

On 6/8/2019 at 1:51 PM, Nahm said:

@Soul-lover 2020 How was the apocalypse?

What apocalypse?!!

[Nahm]

@Soul-lover 2020 Yours. The one which brings the revelation. ♥️

[Soul-lover 2020]

Nahm,

I'm NOT interested in sharing in your confusion.

[Soul-lover 2020]

On 6/8/2019 at 2:34 PM, Natasha said:

@Soul-lover 2020 That's a sweet poem/song. Thanks for sharing 

Thank you dear lady. 

[Nahm]

@Soul-lover 2020 Cool. ?? We all see eventually anyways.