Status Updates From Healing and Wholeness

"Love is the crucible in which individuation takes place."

He is surprisingly not homophobic which that much at least is good.

Stanford's view of suicide is super problematic

This chapter on who and how someone becomes a healer seems a little unnecessary to me.

I really dislike the author's use of the word primitive to describe native believe and mythology.

After starting the pilgrimage of healing, Stanton says the next steps are taking accountability for everything in your life and beginning to put things right. It seems like the next step is spending time alone with yourself and what he called the ''unconscious self".

"Faith has nothing to do with blindly believing in things that cannot be intellectually demonstrated. It is not a sacrificium intellectus, but a motion of the soul that moves us in the direction of greater life."

Healing is a pilgrimage.

Now the author is talking about paying attention to dreams when you're troubled or sick, which is an interesting point.

I like that this chapter focuses on the many archetypes of mythological healers. Chiron, Asklepius, Jesus. I'm assuming more the more I read.

Sanford's entire attitude towards death and illness and wholeness strikes me as really strange.

I can't decide if the author's ideas about suicide are profound or problematic...

"Becoming whole is a dark and dangerous passage and it is small wonder that most people avoid it if they can."

I felt like the first chapter was a little long and rambly, but it still had some interesting insight.

"Only gradually, in the course of a lifetime of development, living, and contemplation, can we become aware of what it means to be ourselves."

A sense of health can only come from wholeness, a sense of wholeness can only come from becoming an individual.

"Illness is something that results in a malfunctioning of consciousness. The center of consciousness is the ego, the "I" part of us that does the willing, suffering, choosing in life; the part of us which we are most immediately are. If this part of us is not able to functions, it would seem that we are ill."

I really like the viewpoint so far, the introduction was insightful.

"Yet it remains true that we must expect insights from many different sources if our knowledge of the source of healing is to grow."