RevLindsG King
Rest In Peace
Herm, is there a thread on helping people who fear LIFE and, therefore, strongly feel that death is the answer?
PNEUMA-TURE (The spiritually mature and born-again kind of spirit)--the practical value and use of
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HOW I USED PNEUMA-Therapy--the spiritual use of hypnotic technique, similar to CONCEPT-therapy and SELF-hypnosis--to prevent a SUICIDE.
Beginning in July, 1966, for over the next twenty seven years I was the senior minister of a large urban church (then 800 families) in Toronto. There was some help from a retired minister and a student minister. I was called there to preach, teach and do the pastoral counselling, which meant I soon came face to face with what the stress of urban living can do to the lives of church families and members who have to commute, week after week to areas all over Toronto and the GTA (greater Toronto area). Some had to fly to cities all over the world.
One day I got an urgent phone call from a distressed business man (Alec), a husband and father of two young children, with a suicide-prone wife (Pat), then under a doctor's care in the Mental Wing of the major hospital near by: Alec opened the conversation by saying, "Rev King--one of your recent your sermons on the healing miracles of Jesus really got my attention ... Would you be willing to visit my very depressed wife? He added, you have my permission to speak with her doctor, who agreed to talk with you."
Right off the doctor told me, "Pat is suicidal. She just made her third and most serious attempt by using an excessive amount of tranquilizing drugs."
THINGS THAT CAME TO LIGHT OF DAY
Talking to the wife and her doctor I was made aware that there were no economic problems. The husband had a good paying job and all the bills were being paid in good time. Over the next while I got to know this family quite well. They were not regular church attenders, but they did give financial support to the church.
Both made it clear to me, "Sorry, but we have no deep interest in being deeply involved in "organized" religion. While we do take our children to the Christmas and Easter events, we have lost interest in most of the old traditions.
THEN IT OCCURRED TO ME TO ASK:
Pat, "What do you hope to accomplish by taking your own life?
Following my use of my four colours--blue, yellow,red & green Pneuma-therapy technique, I paused and waited to hear her response.
Pat responded: "Peace of mind ... something I do not have as long as I keep on living and breathing--I guess I share the emotions of both my parents--mother was, and still is, a worry wart. Father was filled with emotions of fear, anxiety, worry and depression--of both my parents. Nothing helps, including talking to the psychiatrist. "
Pat went on, "Unlike Alec, I have no fear of death. As a matter of fact I think of death as a friend. Lying in the grave without any physical or mental pain ... what a wonderful relief it will be to just lie there and feel and experience nothing."
"Nothing?" I asked.
After another pause I asked: "What makes you certain that after you die you will feel and experience nothing?" NOTICE THE INDIRECT SUGGESTION I GAVE PAT. AND TAKE NOTE OF HOW IT WORKED SO WELL!
"Now that you mentioned it and asked", Pat said, "Rev. King I am not certain ... Do you really mean to say that it is possible that we could die and carry all our life memories and our feelings with into anther life, after death?" she asked.
I then responded and said, "Without any real evidence, I wouldn't rule it out".
"If that is true", Pat declared: "My God, that would be HELL! Hell of the worst kind."
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As I recall, the story that got back to me is this: Pat finally decided to stop trying to take her own life. Needless to say, Alec, her doctor and other therapists at the hospital were relieved.
Does this mean that Pat, Alec and the family lived happily ever after? Only those close to the story will know how it turned out. All I can say at this point is, I hope so. For now, let us assume that "No news is good news."
FLF--ABOUT HELPING DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES BECOME FUNCTIONAL
Meanwhile, you are invited to check out the FLF www.flfcanada.com (founded in 1973) --a registered charity set up by, for and about volunteers willing to help one another and all families with the goal of helping all individuals become fully functioning members of the family of G O D--that which Generates, Organizes & Delivers all that is Graceful, Outstanding & Dynamic.
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