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by American Dream » Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:19 am
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by American Dream » Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:31 am
undead wrote:Hey, how did this Christian shit get in here? This isn't fundamentalism induced delusional syndrome. In fact I think fundamentalism induced delusional syndrome is redundant to an extreme. Did you exhaust the vast cosmos of universal lovemaking of energetic polarities already? There has to be more of that to put in this thread. Not that I can complain because I haven't been helping you to keep this on the front page continuously for months. Thanks for that.
by justdrew » Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:35 pm
Pediatrician accused of ‘waterboarding’ 11-year-old daughter
By David Edwards | Thursday, August 9, 2012 16:17 EDT
A Delaware pediatrician who wrote a book about children’s near-death experiences has been accused of using water torture on his own 11-year-old daughter while the girl’s mother watched and did nothing.
In July, a neighbor contacted Delaware State Police after pediatrician Melvin Morse was allegedly seen dragging the 11-year-old girl across a gravel driveway by her ankle. Morse was arrested at the time and released on $750 bond.
During an interview with detectives and social workers on Monday, the girl said that her father had been punishing her with a technique that he called “waterboarding,” according to the News Journal. Court records indicated that Morse would hold his daughter’s head under running water, allowing water to fill her nostrils and cover her face.
The girl also said that her father had threatened to “wrap her in a blanket and do it so that she could not move,” and he told her that “she could go five minutes without brain damage.”
“Melvin would sometimes look away while he did it and (redacted) would become afraid that he would lose track of time and she would die,” the court documents said.
Center for American Progress senior fellow Lawrence J. Korb told the paper that Morse had “essentially” used the same technique that the Bush administration approved for use on suspected terrorists.
“There, of course, you want people then to confess because you pull them up then you put them back down if they don’t do that,” Korb explained. “But the purpose of it is you will do anything to stop it because it’s so horrible.”
“Psychologically, it could have lasting damage on this poor kid.”
The girl also said that she would go outside to cry after the torture, but Morse would find her and “hold her nose and mouth with his hand” until she “she lost feeling and collapsed to the ground.”
Both Morse and his wife, Pauline Morse, were arrested this week on charges of reckless endangerment, conspiracy and endangering the welfare of a child. Pauline Morse was released on $14,500 bond Melvin Morse is being held in lieu of $14,500 bond.
Both have been ordered not to have any contact with the 11-year-old daughter or their other 5-year-old daughter. The two girls are in the custody of Division of Family Services.
Melvin Morse is the author of “Closer to the Light” and “Transformed by the Light,” both of which recount the experiences of children who had been declared clinically dead. He has been featured as an expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live and John Stossel’s ABC News special The Power of Belief.
FYI: This is not the first time Dr. Morse was arrested for child abuse. But this is the first time his children were interviewed by CPS/Police as well as other witnesses were which resulted in his being arrested again. In all of his writing to his club of fans and friends while behind bars . . . he has not denied abusing the child nor has his wife who has made online statements asking to be left alone.
Reading his fan sites someone copy pasted an email from the doctor whom bemoaned the fact his wife has not bonded him out of jail so he "remote messaged with his magical powers of his mind" to her then spent time doing some bizarre spiritual healing thing with his convicted killer cell mate....and the prison guards were ever so grateful to him since the killer fell asleep. He's nested and already made himself out to be the hero of the jail house.
by American Dream » Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:23 pm
Melvin Morse is the author of “Closer to the Light” and “Transformed by the Light,” both of which recount the experiences of children who had been declared clinically dead. He has been featured as an expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live and John Stossel’s ABC News special The Power of Belief.
by American Dream » Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:42 am
by American Dream » Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:22 pm
by American Dream » Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:44 pm
Upekkha – Inclusiveness
In the new version of the 5 Mindfulness trainings from Plum Village there is a reference (in the third training on True Love) to the 4 Immeasurable Minds (Brahma Viharas or Divine Abidings). In Thich Nhat Hanh’s formulation they are are translated from the Pali as:
loving kindness, compassion,
joy and inclusiveness
“Inclusiveness” is a particularly interesting translation for the pali Upekkha, usually translated as “equanimity”. Upekkha (along with Mudita) is also often ignored in favour of Metta (loving kindness) or Karuna (compassion).
The question of how to translate this word came up in my french meditation class a few months ago. Some students were suggesting that “equanimity” in English could be translated by the French term “impassibilite” which means “impassiveness”. ”Right but not True”, Ajahn Chah might have said. Some things about “impassive” (“calm”; “serene”) are close and some things are clearly not at all true (“without emotion”; “apathetic”; “unmoved”).
The usual translation “Equanimity” is preferred, I am guessing, because connotes the “coolness” of an extinguished flame – which is sometimes the image used to convey Nirvana. Serenity is also fine as a descriptive attribute, but somehow, none of these words get to the heart of Upekkha (it is a given, of course, that that no word is much good at getting at the ineffable.)
I am beginning to appreciate “inclusiveness” more and more because it encourages one to think of this as an attitude rather than as a psychological state to attain. Inclusiveness means non-discrimination, really. It’s a receptive state of awareness of and acceptance of all phenomena such as they are – free of wanting things to be any different.
With Upekkha, the pleasant, unpleasant, good, bad, beautiful, desirable and undesirable are all contained – welcomed even – under the same umbrella of non-discriminative awareness.
by American Dream » Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:55 pm
Resistance, at root, must mean more than resistance against war. It is a resistance against all kinds of things that are like war… So perhaps, resistance means opposition to being invaded, occupied, assaulted, and destroyed by the system. The purpose of resistance, then, is to seek the healing of yourself in order to be able to see clearly …I think that communities of resistance should be places where people can return to themselves more easily, where the conditions are such that they can heal themselves and recover their wholeness.
—Thich Nhat Hanh
by American Dream » Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:32 pm
Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
—Cherrie Moraga
by American Dream » Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:26 am
When things go wrong, we cut ourselves off from the manageable world in which we live and turn our problems into demons. We make monsters where there are none, and then go in fear of the things we ourselves have created. If we could only see that they are just bits of the ordinary world that we have made monstrous and intractable, then we would have nothing to fear. The first sign of the bodhisattva is the gesture of fearlessness. The wise ones, unlike the rest of us, create neither karma nor monsters. In their presence, the world opens out, the storm of our human passions subsides, and far off through the clear light, we see the farther shore.
— Problems, by John Aske « Buddhism now
by American Dream » Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:40 pm
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.
—Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
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