Different Kinds of Depression?

[kokopelle]

I am listening to the Abraham-Hicks book "The Law of Attraction" on CD. The focus of the book is on intending/creating results in your life. The feedback they suggest for when a person is in harmony with their intentions are the person's emotions. I think this is a decent enough place to start. I am of the opinion there are more refined techniques that one can move to, but you've got to start somewhere.

Here is my wondering about using emotions: Abraham-Hicks states that emotions resistive to intentions are typically the unpleasant emotions. Among these is listed depression. Now... as a person who has experienced the soul/body/life crushing affects of depression, I find it surprising to see this lumped in with the likes of "irritation". IMO, the addition of depression in with a list of (IMO!) milder emotions is an act of somebody who has not experienced depression with a capital "D". Maybe that this the difference. Abraham-Hicks is talking about a mild passing depression while my wanting (in the past) to very definitely end my life was a case of Depression. Could be... food for thought.

Comments

[chimerae.livejournal.com]

Abraham-Hicks is channelled material. If you're going to work with channelled material, it's important to understand the built in skew in channeling.

When a medium opens up a channel to the "higher realms" it's rather like a radio tuning into a particular station. WHICH channel the medium tunes to will be determined by luck, the whims of the universe, timing and the ego/sprit evolution of the medium. USUALLY it's bullshit, not because the medium is "just" projecting but because we will always connect with compatible stuff.

Then, the medium has to translate something that exists outside of language and time, not just into words but into the meaning that can be understood culturally. There's always mistranslations, partly out of human error, partly out of the nature of translating.

Finally, when something becomes a cultural phenomenon, you're not only getting the ego skew of the medium, but that whole process is enhanced by geometric orders by the culture. Most non corporeal entities are actually shifted by the preconceptions of whatever material is perceiving them.

So . . .if you're going to work with channelled materials, I think it's important to set your intention to shifting into the highest level of helpful truth your own consciousness can achieve at that moment -- and letting the rest go. The benefit of channelled materials (if it's a good channel) is that they bridge the intrinsic schism in human experience and work concurrently on conscious and unconscious, overt and shadow, individual and cultural.

Sometimes it's a matter of just being the song and allowing yourself to be sung. That changes you but it also changes everyone involved.