Door to the Beyond: Paganism and Mental Health

"So there were myself and over 5,000 other people, throwing eggs and bottles at the Pfizer labs. And then the police came, and started beating on us, and hauled us all off to jail..."

Ouch. I just had a dream where someone saw two of my activities, and liked the second, more violent one, better. Thought the first one was too soft. I wonder how many of us think like that?

Well, it's not the way I think, and it's MY Door. So let's take another walk through it together, shall we?

July was the month for MadPride activities, sponsored and somewhat coordinated by MindFreedom, International, and organization which I proudly belong to. MadPride is a way for we Labeled People (your doctor chooses the diagnosis, and you are no longer a real person) stand up for our civil rights. I "disorganized" Asheville's first-ever MadPride Day... I had tried to get people to come together last year, to no avail, and this year I at least got a few people wishing me well if not working with me... So it wasn't great, but it wasn't destructive, and as there was another quiet protest going on at the same site, we made some friends and connections.

The MadPride events in London and Toronto were week-long events, with movies, coffee or tea house meetings, bed push events (you read that right -- teams each take a hospital bed and push it through the streets or a park), all kinds of "crazy" things. The Portland, Oregon even had a ritual where they were worshipping a giant pill... there is video and pictures at the MadPride page (http://mindfreedom.org). Wish I could have done something like that, but...

I did something. Some people noticed us and supported us vocally. Nobody got into trouble, and we made friends. We struck a blow for the civil rights of "crazy" people, and nobody pointed angry fingers at us and say we were "crazy" for doing so. On top of that, we now have an event under our belts, and people interested in joining us next year for a similar action. I call that a success.

Mike Adams, The Health Ranger © has been running article after article on the continuing fraud which is the pharmaceutical industry, or Big Pharma. Dr. Rima Laibow has been hopping all around the world with her Natural Solutions Foundation, trying to stop an evil law called Codex Alimentarius from going into effect December 31, 2009. Codex will essentially define all vitamins, minerals, and herbs as toxins, and make about 70% of them illegal (even if you grow them yourself!) and limit the others only to amounts that are not enough to "poison" your body (if the substance has any effect, it is defined categorically as a "toxic effect", whether harmful or beneficial). Canadians are up in arms about a bill in Parliament called C-51, which in effect "harmonizes" (Dr. Laibow says "HARMonizes") Canadian law with Codex.

We are rapidly losing our rights to live healthy lives. We're being lied to about everything from the latest drug to the latest war to the latest law. (If you want to see for yourself, sign up for daily mail from Brasscheck.com.) It's not just the people with mental health diagnoses anymore, it's everyone. We are rapidly losing our complete civil rights, and it's being swept under legistlative carpets all over the world.

So what do you do about it? Get mad and start sending letter bombs to legislators and drug companies? Curl up in your closet and never come out again? Well, I would say somewhere in the middle.

I'M INFORMED AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE ANY MORE.

Do some study, and learn what is going on, and decide for yourself if you need to do something. Then let everyone know that you know what is going on -- friends, legislators, enforcement agencies, the companies themselves.

But you can't do it angry. We Labeled People fall apart when we get mad. Here are some quotes from the late Abraham A. Low, M.D., to put things in as good of perspective as I can:

"Temper is your worst enemy, humor is your best friend."

"Do the thing you are afraid to do."

"Take part-actions (I.e., baby steps)."

"Lower your expectations and performance will rise."

"Endorse for the action, not the outcome."

In other words, if you let your anger get control of you, you will be taken out of the game by your own psyche... if you expect it to end after one big push, you will be disappointed, angry, and afraid to try again... but if you don't do anything, nothing will get done.

The minds behind Codex are literally the same minds behind the Nazi death camps. If they can control what you can and cannot eat, and what you can and cannot keep yourself healthy with, which they fully intend to do, they expect nearly 90% of the human population to die of malnutrition and its diseases. Note that many of the chemicals being put in our foods are there to help us contract malnutrition diseases. Eating every day at McDonalds is something they WANT us to do. They get all our money, and we die of poor nutrition.

OK, this sounds like a madman throwing up puppet villains, or going into a paranoid schizophrenic delusion. I wish it were that. The only difference between Codex and Nazi Germany is who the beficiaries are -- they are willing to accept non-Aryans, so long as they are rich and will support the program -- but the instigators were, originally, the same people. I wish this were a delusion.

Let's put this in a Pagan perspective. Codex Alimentarius classified you - and about 5.5 billion other people - as "useless eaters". They will depopulate the Earth of these people. They do not care about the environment, they are doing this out of greed, not worship. If they denude the Earth of the Warriors of the Goddess, there will be no one left to stand up for Her, and they will then denude the Earth of anything they can consume for themselves. They are doing this with the same cold precision which they used in the 1930s and 40s. They expect us to either make some futile, grandiose flame-out of a gesture, or to have our rights taken from us without even finding out about it. There is a bumper sticker: "Earth First: We Can Rape The Other Planets Later".

This is a call to action. But beyond that it is a call to humor. If people are laughing with you, they listen more to what you are saying. So do something kooky, but thought-provoking. Pass out fliers describing what you know to be the situation, wearing a clown costume, or dressed like a giant pill, or ... be creative. You can do it. I know you can. I'm doing what I can, whether that informs 2 people or 200,000. Endorse (pat yourself on the back) for doing something. If you can't do a lot, do a little. The effort is what is important, and your effort could mobilize many others to do what they can do.

Make 'em laugh. Honor the passing of such greats as George Carlin. But, like George, keep on message. Maybe, just maybe, they'll notice that you're Pagan, and that your actions are performed out of love. The more people see us as part of the "Good Guys", as they are doing in many cities throughout the country and the world. "By starting to work on the outside, we're gonna fill up the walls within." (Melanie Safka)

I hope to be with you next month for another walk through the Door. Perhaps it will be less rabble-rousing, but there are times the rabble needs to be roused. May the blessings of the Lady go with you.

author: Moss Bliss