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"A transformed individual is one who can tell the truth; and a transformed environment is one where the truth can be told."

W.W. Bartley, III, author of Werner Erhard - The transformation of a man: The founding of est (New York: 1978).    

"What we have to deal with in our struggle is not creatures of flesh and blood. It is rulers and authorities reigning in a place above the Earth, those who have mastery over this world in these days of darkness; it is the spirit-hosts of wickedness domiciled in the heavens." (Ephesians 6:12.)

Although in The Pilgrimage Pattern in Exodus (Sheffield Academic Press, 1997, p.34) Mark S. Smith claims: "The biblical view of the Jewish people necessarily involves physical descent and circumcision, and no argument to the contrary can change this fact," several Jewish writers, including Arthur Kœstler, have acknowledged that all except a small minority of the people who created and populated today's State of Isræl originate genetically from southern Russia, and another Jewish researcher, Alfred M. Lilenthal, forcibly reminds us that some members of the Jewish faith are racially Negro, others Mongolian and Oriental, others Caucasian or white, and others — if you prefer a fourfold to that threefold classification — Australoid. Hence, Jewish racialism is, as Lilenthal says: "poppycock"… Nevertheless, in today's State of Isræl no Palestinian who marries a Jew is permitted either citizenship or residency rites…

From MARGOT ADLER, Drawing Down the Moon - Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today (revised, expanded and updated edition, Penguin/Arkana, 1997), pp. 344-5 & 441-2:

"Said Peter Soderberg, during an interview at the 1985 Pagan Spring Gathering… 'Process is content'… In Peter's view, society's violence begins at the place where creativity and self-expression is controlled. 'In our system of male dominance,' he told me, 'there is an unexpressed contrast that says:

"It is safer to control energy than it is to experience energy."

In our society men are the "control" referents, and women the "experience" referents.' On the most superficial level this would mean: 'Women are feeling people. Women must be controlled.' But on a subtler level Peter believes that this system exists within every human being. We tend to control our experiences, instead of participating in them and acting from them."

Aidan Kelly notes that according to Karl Kerényi, "when Athens annexed Eleusis about 600 B.C.E. and made its Mysteries the state religion of Attica, the Athenians passed a law to protect the secrecy of the Mysteries. This law, however, distinguished two types of secrets, the 'Lower' and the 'Higher.' The 'Lower secrets' were those that could be told to another person by word, gesture, or whatever; these were called ta aporrheta, 'the forbidden,' and the law applied only to them — hence their name. Why didn't the law apply to the 'Higher secrets'? The latter were called ta arrheta, 'the ineffable,' and it was recognized in the law itself that these secrets could not be communicated except by the Mysteries themselves; hence they needed no protection by a mere law."
Adler comments: "It is the process and the experience, not the secets, that are the mystery of the Mysteries." Mysteries, according to Penny and Michæl Novack, are "stages of growth in consciousness of the sacred universe, not secrets."

"Exaudi nos, Domine, sancte Pater, omnipotens æterne Deus, et mittere digneris sanctos Angelos tuos de cœlis, qui custodiant, foveant, protegant, visitent et defendant omnes habitantes in hoc habitaculo…"^*

"Graciously hear us, Lord, holy Father, almighty eternal G-d, and deign to send your holy Angels from heaven, to guard, cherish, protect, visit and defend all residents in this tiny dwelling-place…"^*                        _{* i.e., the manifest cosmos.}

Letter to Ben Bradshaw MP (1)
A Brief Study Course in Homoeopathy
Whispering Winds
Calendar Notes
Systems Approach
Cybernetic Psychology of Human Types
Constitutional Reform
God's Secret Formula
The Robot's Rebellion
Letter to The Malta Independent
Jean Houston's Larger Story
Pilgrimage
"Brandishing" a knife? - and its sequel…
Letter to Dr Evkathrin Schmidt
Letter to Nick Webber CPN
Letter to Ben Bradshaw MP (2)
Conclusions and Epilogue

STUART WILDE, "Minimalism - A Survival Technique for the Future" in Whispering Winds of Change - Perceptions of a New World (Carlsbad, CA.: Hay House, Inc., 1993) - extracts from pp. 228-31:

"Striving for greatness is so ridiculous and childish. Certainly, if you are very talented, you may become great through no fault of your own, but that's a handicap you'll learn to bear. There is an effort in the theatrics of it all that doesn't appeal. I think greatness is for people who have nothing better to do.
Matterism comes from seriousness and importance, it causes disease. It's the emotional opposite of minimalism. How you catch matterism is by having too many things that matter. What matters is that you allow your heart - not your ego - to rule your life.
As you develop your inner feeling, you will know what you want and you will know if you have the energy and the intention to pull it off. If a plan is holy and good, it will never manipulate or take advantage of others. It will have right action and good intention and it will be confirmed and corroborated by our inner feelings.
When and if you are required to act, do so impeccably. Develop a plan, arrive with all that you need, act powerfully and decisively, dohn't mince words, tell people who you are and what you want. Never engage your troops (energy) without first scouting out the terrain. Never go forward in a hurry. Walk slowly, speak deliberately. Never get emotional and never let people manipulate you. There's always another deal, always another time, and there's five billion other people…"

Calendar Notes

Notable dates: 2002 20-27 July: University of Wales (Lampeter).
4 October: St. Francis of Assisi: total website "hits" = 34,567!
11-18 December: Fuerteventura via Cardiff, returning via Manchester.

Visited Cabildo 12/12 and Tindaya 15/12; 17/12 major flooding throughout Canaries, Shirley Williams in audience for Rowan Williams' televised Dimbleby Lecture.

30 March: walked to Illusions via Cæar's and The Forum; BST began at 3.00 am. (in front of Vehicle X215 YGV). Mothers' Day… from Stockwell and then from Brixton and Victoria Railway stations to Wonford House.
18 April, Good Friday: 69th birthday. Malta 22 April - 6 May.
11 July: Ted passed away.
17 July: Death of Dr. John Kelly.
26 July: 25th anniversary of birth of Louise Brown, first post-diluvian IVF-baby.
28 July: Independence Day in Peru; visit to Weymouth; Greeks formally accused Tony Blair with other named ministers of genocide and other war-crimes against Iraq.
31 July: Isræl denied both citizenship and residency rights to Palestinians who marry Jews.

4 October: Pope John-Paul II received Archbishop & Mrs Rowan Williams.

13-20 October: Research visit to prehistoric Menorca.
19 October: Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
21 October: Letter to Pope John-Paul II

September 15: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan makes known his belief that the war against Iraq was illegal. Five protestors against the ban on hunting with dogs invade the U.K. House of Commons and disrupt proceedings.
2005 - 2 April, 19:37 GMT, death of Pope John-Paul II.
19 April, election of Pope Benedict XVI.

In The Robot's Rebellion (Gateway, 1994) David Icke highly recommends Guy Dauncey's After The Crash - Emergence of the Rainbow Economy (London: Green Print, 1988), and asks (pp. 264-7):

"(1) Is the process of producing, distributing and selling the product damaging in any way to the planet and the natural life support systems?
(2) Is the business exploiting the world rather than making a contribution to healing the world, serving human need, and making it a better place for all people and life-forms?
(3) Is the business harming or exploiting animals mentally, emotionally or physically and causing them pain and stress of any kind?
(4) Is the business exploiting people to maximise profits? Is it paying them less than their work is worth because I can use my economic power to make them accept whatever they are offered? Am I exploiting my suppliers or weaker countries and peoples by abusing my economic power over them?
(5) For the business to win, does it require that other people or countries must lose?
(6) Do those working in the business feel a part of the decision-making process and empowered to release their full creativity, or do they feel their creativity has to conform to some rigid corporate structure in which the maximisation of profit is the only driving force?"

The Malta Independent published a letter of mine on Saturday, 3 May 2003, which reads:

"Focus and Clarity

Each adult citizen of Maltese nationality appreciates that the new watershed date of 11 September 2001 fades into insignificance, if it is compared with either Malta's sacrifice during World War II or the events of the Great Siege of 1565.
This is not to say that George Bush junior's and Tony Blair's subsequent dismantling of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi administration is devoid of consequences.
The so called United Nations appears mortally wounded. The American Constitution is overturned. Magna Carta is rendered, in principle, obsolete.
Malta's entry to the European community and the elevation of Maltese, the only Semitic language written in the Roman alphabet, into an official community language, increase the potential influence on present and future world events of Maltese and Gozitan men and women and their government.
[letter 2, page 3] The 1320 Declaration of Arbroath by which Scotland's nobles and bishops, in the name of the whole people, affirmed their allegiance to Robert the Bruce as their King, has long been recognised by historians as a clear articulation of each nation's right of self-determination.
Now is the moment emphatically to affirm this right here and abroad.
Focus and clarity are called for.
Prayer without good works is no true prayer.
Goodness is impossible without authentic solidarity on a world-wide scale, but beginning in your own home and on your own doorstep.
St Paul taught this well, and so did Dun Gorg Preca and San Gwann Bosco. May their examples inspire and guide us in today's challenging situations."

Colin James Hamer, ZURRIEQ    

A complete English translation, with commentary, of the above mentioned Declaration of Arbroath features on my website.

According to Arnold Mindell (The Dreambody in Relationships, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987):

"In the global dreambody -
(1) The whole is patterned.
(2) Each part contains the whole.
(3) Each part is related to all other parts causally and non-causally.
(4) The whole creates and heals itself.
(5) The whole can destroy itself or make itself ill.
(6) The whole has mythical characteristics.
(7) The whole has a flip-flop occupation rule.
(8) The whole has a human character.
(9) The whole is the goal of human development."

R E M E M B E R

"Women are rising to full partnership with men in the whole domain of human affairs. This is changing everything! Everything! It is the single most important event of the last 5,000 years. Because when women, with their rich mind-style — which has been gestating in the womb of preparatory time these many millennia — begin to emerge, what happens to education? To governments? To economics? When the emphasis is on process rather than on product: on making things cohere, grow, and develop, what happens to everything? It's a seismic shakeup.

And just look at the leaky margins in the media. With the daily revolutions in technology, the media is becoming the matrix of culture. How many of us are going to be on the Internet? I, for example, have been enjoying it immensely. I'm a computer nerd myself. I am so fascinated by computers, and I've even taken my mythical interests onto the Internet. One of my identities is a fifteen-year-old-boy, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' with other fifteen-year-olds, who think I'm their age but with a weird vocabulary. Another me is known as the 'Queen of Comedy' because I inherited my father's joke file… What is happening in this extended media rôle is that we are not only extending our nervous system electronically, we are extending parts of our souls. We are discovering new identities.

How are people experiencing the nature of this new reality? The rising of the depth-currents of all times, all cultures, all experiences, and all potentials? Its effects are being felt world-wide… I'm finding a fascination with myth the world over; the seeking of spiritual experience; the revival of the knowings of indigenous people; the beginnings of a world music which incorporates and sustains the knowings of many regions; styles of clothing that mix and match continents on a single body. I even find the shadow side rising — the last stand. The old tribal gods in their varying fundamentalist postures rising before they are swept — not away, nothing is ever swept away — into a new amalgam in which they become part of a larger story… Psyche may look very different 100 years from now. In fact, I think if schizophrenia is the disease of the human condition, then polyphrenia, the orchestration of our many selves, may be our expanded health. That's why it is critical that we begin to mythologize rather than pathologize…"

Jean Houston, in Solstice Shift (Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 1997, pp. 154-5).          

L.L. & F. CAVALLI-SFORZA, The Great Human Diaspora (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995), pp.236-7:
"It is not surprising that there is a certain resemblance between Jews of any kind, and also between any Jewish community and the people with whom they share their origins, those of the Middle East.
Does this mean we can say there is a Jewish race? If we were to consider just the five races representing the five continents, it is evident that the differences between European Jews and gentiles would be derisory by comparison. Perhaps if we took a large number of races from around the world and compared each with its neighbors, we could find that the Jews resemble their gentile neighbors to the same degree as the northern Italians compared with the southern Italians, or the French from the north with the French from the south. The calculation would be fairly easy, but what would we achieve? It is simpler to say that there is a certain genetic difference between Jews and gentiles, that the average genetic composition of the Jews is not far removed from that of the peoples now living in the nations bordering Isræl, and that there is a certain level of heterogeneity among Jews deriving from mixed marriages after the diasporas, but that an underlying 'family feeling' still remains.
It is not easy to compare genetics and culture, but the overall impression is that the focus uniting the Jews so strongly are cultural rather than genetic…"
Additional References:

• Dom DENYS RUTLEDGE, The Complete Monk (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1966).
• L.L. CAVALLI-SFORZA, Genes, Peoples and Languages (Allen Lane - The Penguin Press, 2000).
• J. SASSOON, From Sumer to Jerusalem - The Forbidden Hypothesis (Oxford: Intellect, 1993).
• H. GAMACHE, Mystery of the Long Lost 8th, 9th and 10th Books of Moses (New York: Original Publications, 1993).
• MARK S. SMITH, The Pilgrimage Pattern in EXODUS (Sheffield Academic Press, 1997), p.40, note 61:
  "J.M. Ford has suggested that at least some of final lectionary readings on Sundays should come from the Old Testament instead of the New Testament Gospels, so as to suggest to Catholic audiences that the Old Testament offers an authentic witness without need of fulfillment or explanation from a New Testament passage.…"
  Mark Smith is a Roman Catholic with a Jewish wife and family.
• DESTINY PUBLISHERS, The Covenant People (Merrimac, 1966).
• YAIR DAVIDY, The Tribes - The Isrælite Origins of Western Peoples (Hebron, Isræl, Russel-Davis Publishers, 1993).
• W.E. FILMER, A Synopsis of the Migrations of Isræl (London: Covenant Books, 1994).
• Attack on Iraq not justified by UN Security Council resolution 1441
• "Interview with Rabbi Michæl Lerner" in World Goodwill (2003, no. 3).
• ART BELL & BRAD STEIGER, The Source (New American Library, 2002).
• MARY BENNETT & DAVID S. PERCY, Dark Moon (London: Aulis Publishers, 1999).
• BARBARA HAND CLOW, Catastrophobia (Bear & Company, 2001).
   
• On 20 January 2004, shortly after having been physically assaulted by the shop-assistant who subsequently falsely accused him, Colin James Hamer was arrested, allegedly for brandishing a knife, which he had simply wished to have sharpened professionally. Sixteen inaccuracies feature in Emma Slee's and Ben Steward's report on page 1 of the Express and Echo for Wednesday 21 January 2004:

Rougemont Clinic
Gladstone Road
Heavitree
EXETER

31 January 2004

Dear Roy and Barbara [Blakemore],

Ten months ago you, Roy, kindly visited me during that three weeks' sojourn on Ash Ward, which is still almost visible from here, both being administred well and lovingly by the Devon Partnership NHS Trust.

The local police have brought no charges against me subsequent to my detention on the morning of Tuesday, 20 January 2004, "security staff" in the form of one unnamed individual having alleged that I had earlier been "waving" a knife in what the police seem to have regarded as "a public place", but which was, if their informant's earlier words to me are to be credited, "private property" for which he was especially responsible as "Harlequin Centre Security Control Manager" - an awesome title, though what qualifications he had that made him suitable for the job, I cannot say.

Emma Slee and Ben Steward are the joint authors of a supposedly related nine-sentences piece, "Shop knife 'priest' is detained", which graced page 1 of the Express and Echo the following day.

Only three errors of fact need to be noted in sentence 1: (i) Although 69 years old, I have never considered myself as "retired" from priesthood, even though the ministry I voluntarily exercise as Webmaster (in retirement) for the Neith Network Library (commended by Cheri Booth QC and by the Lord Mayor of Exeter on 21 November 2003 is not listed in this year's Catholic Directory. (ii) When I entered Drapes 2 Store I wasn't "brandishing" a knife or, indeed, any other article, but quite simply carrying in one hand a plastic carrier-bag containing a pair of new trousers in need of waistline adjustment, and in the other a green plastic briefcase-size satchel in which an old, very blunt, red-handled, Prestige brand kitchen-knife lay hidden. (iii) Unlike the large number of still sharp and new, black-handled, but essentially similar kitchen-knives at that very moment being displayed for possible purchase inside Woolworths store close by, my knife was, quite definitely, more than 4" in length.

(iv) The crucifix mentioned in sentence 2 was, in fact, part of a rosary-beads from Rome, blessed by the Pope, and which, when it is not in use, I commonly wear suspended about my neck. (v) The puzzling "producing" of a knife which Slee & Steward mention as subsequent to my supposed "brandishing" of that same item, they imagined as climaxing with my "holding it aloft" at the same Drapes 2 location, (vi) which place, however, they have somehow repositioned next to "Exeter's Guildhall".

Sentence 3 is noteworthy for its containing only 2 errors in its 10 words. (vii) I "told" police nothing; I simply answered their questions. (viii) I am a Senior Citizen and, in that sense "retirded", but nobody ever retires from priesthood though she/he may retire from this or that form of active ministry.

Sentence 4 (ix) is also less than transparently clear. No other persons than myself and the security officer were standing on the shop-floor at the time of the incident Slee and Steward purport to describe. Indeed, until that employee had so identified himself, he being the only person then fully in view, I had supposed him to be the shop-assistant working at Drapes 2 - or one of a pair, since, as I entered from Queen Street and the connecting short corridor, no more than the had and shoulders were visible of the young lady then descending into, I supposed, the basement store-room and/or toilet and bathroom attached. (x) I "drew out" no knife, but simply opened my plastic satchel in order to show what it was that needed sharpening.

Sentence 5 imaginative proceeds. But, clearly, (xi) there was no "grabbing", and, in a city shop, (xii) no grabbing would ever, I feel, be "quite right".

(xiii) Sentence 6. No comment - save explicitly to deny any reading of this sentence that I, e.g., went to 3 shops in succession to have sharpened 3 different knives!! Moreover, that same morning's purposes also included attending Holy Mass in South Street, visiting a friend near the Clock-Tower, going to the Library and taking a pair of trousers to a tailor for alteration. In other words, no fixation on "the knife"!

Sentence 7. Sainsbury's security officer approached me near McDonald's rear exist, identified himself to me, and specifically requested that I show him the knife, which was at that stage not in view. Nothing he said enhanced my already dim view of Harlequin's choice of a security manager. We were still in colloquy when several police, at least one equipped with a radio, arrived. They can confirm that (xiv) although McDonald's is on the High Street, WE WERE NOT.

Sentence 8. Dennis Godley's statement, if accurately reported, is interesting, but, of course, (xv) I was hurt very deeply in all sorts of ways. I await appropriate compensation. Exonians generally, moreover, are surely entitled to more courteous treatment from Harlequin Centre employees.

Sentence 9. (xvi) Too vague to be any sort of conclusion. Why publish this fantasy… To "suppress and distort", perhaps?

Colin

2 John Lever's Way
Exeter

3/2/2004

Dear Colin,

Sorry to hear of your sojourn in another "non-hotel" run by the health service. Whilst I quite understand your sense of indigation at the events as you see them, and as "incorrectly" reported in the Express and Echo - your need to analyse everything which is so much an ingrained part of your personality, is not always helpful in dealing with people who do not intellectually analyse everything.

I have enclosed the copies of your letter as requested - Barbara copied them at her office. Being sectioned probably happens more easily if you have previously experienced such an event before. It certainly does not seem to be appropriate in this case, but appearances, as you know, are very much in the eye of the beholder. To paraphrase Einstein: "Insanity lay in repeating the same actions and expecting different results."

Perhaps this applies equally to yourself and the people whose hospitality you are at present enjoying.

Hope you are able to leave soon - maybe we'll see you before then.

Love, light and blessings,

Roy & Barbara.

A Brief Study Course in Homoeopathy

"Let me show you some of the difficulties in the ordinary practice of medicine which led me to an interest in homoeopathy. When I was a student at Columbia Medical School, 'P & S' as we called it, in the war time, I was much disappointed at the paucity of therapeutic information… After working at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Vienna in the usual way, I was apprenticed for nine months to a homoeopathic physician in Geneva where I studied, literally, from 12 to 16 hours a day.

Before he was willing to take me as a pupil he gave me a stiff examination in ordinary medicine, including anatomy, fractures, surgical diagnosis, pathology, bacteriology, and chemistry, and gave me slides to diagnose under the microscope, etc. He then asked me certain questions as to what I thought life was about, why I went into the practice of medicine, what were the chief duties of a physician and so on. These questions perplexed me, as I did not then understand their bearing on the philosophy of homoeopathy. He then put to me a leading question to see if I already had any background of homoeopathy. It was, 'What do homoeopaths give for rheumatism?' Having read somewhat in homoeopathic literature I answered that homoeopaths do not give a remedy for rheumatism or for any disease name or diagnosis (although, of course, certain remedies are more frequently indicated in rheumatic conditions). They give a remedy on the symptoms of the patient who has the disease, in other words on the reaction of the individual in question to any given disease entity. This defines one of the fundamental differences between the homoeopathic approach and regular medicine." (pp. 79-81.)

"One of the knottiest problems for the beginner is the different concept of pathology and bacteriology. Homoeopaths accept the facts of these branches of medicine. The difference lies in the interpretation. Pathology is an end result of some morbid process. The homoeopath is not nearly as interested in the diseased tonsil, the hæmorrhoid, the ovarian cyst, the cancer, the tapework, or the psoriasis, as he is in the constitutional dyscrasia behind these. He is not eager to remove the ultimates of disease at once, but rather to cure the underlying cause. In the course of this cure the ultimate will often disappear, as in the case of diseased cervical glands or fibroids. If not, it can be removed when it has become merely a foreign body, and when the constitution is so changed that it will ultimate itself in further pathology in a more deep-seated organ. Similarly one is taught to consider that bacteria cause disease. The homoeopath is more interested in the individual's susceptibility, than in the bacteria themselves. Instead of poisoning the malarial plasmodia with quinine or the syphilitic spirochætæ with salvarsan, the homoeopath prefers to stimulate the body to make itself uninhabitable for these organisms, and he does this by means of the similar remedy…" (p. 84.)

"A fourth stumbling-block for the medical mind is the question of suppression. Discharges and eruption are ordinarily classed with pathology as something to be gotten rid of… The homoeopath holds that this is suppression, and not cure, that these outward manifestations are not primarily local but an expression of deep disease the body trying to throw off impurities. They have watched the incidence of more deep-seated troubles following such 'suppression'. The chronic constitutional homoeopathic remedy given to a case which has been so treated, will often bring back the original eruption or discharge with concomitant relief of recent grave symptoms and cultimate clearing up from within of the original discharge or eruption. Let me illustrate with a case from my practice recently. A woman of 45 came to me for suicidal depression, for which she could give no emotional cause She dated her mental symptoms definitely from the time when she had had a foul, lumpy, green leucorrhœa 'cured' by local vaginal applications, a few months before. I gave her a dose of Sepia (a remedy made from cuttlefish ink) on her mental symptoms. A week later she returned exuberant, all the depression for which she had been doctoring being gone, and said, 'By the way, doctor, I have that awful discharge back again just as it was before'. I was delighted, warned her against suppressing it a second time, and gave Placebo. The discharge has since lessened and improved in character and she continues, as her husband says, a changed woman." (p. 85.)

"Another problem which one frequently meets in general practice is that of prophylaxis. Strict homoeopaths believe that vaccines and inoculations are harmful. It took considerable experience for me to be convinced that the chronic constitutional remedy is the best prophylactic. The whole subject of the chronic constitutional remedy is a fascinating one, but beyond the scope of this paper." (p. 86.)

"What is the object of all conscientious physicians? We would answer, categorically: To cure the sick, to prevent others from becoming ill, to raise the standard of health in all people. How does modern medicine try to accomplish this? First, by finding out what normality is, through the study of anatomy, physiology, physiological chemistry, etc. Second, by finding out what the varieties of ill health are. Modern medicine emphasizes the fact that many disturbances of health are due to psychic or sociological causative factors. Aside from these it searches for anatomical or physiological changes in the sick person and classifies these changes, when found, under some disease nomenclature. This search is called diagnosis, and it feels that the possibility of cure depends, in large measure, on the certainty of diagnosis. The organic structural changes due to ill health which it finds before or after death, it terms pathology. It finds that many 'diseases' are accompanied by some variety of bacteria which it considers to be one of the causative factors. In short, modern medicine feels that it must find out all the 'facts' which fit in with its concept of disease.

To all of this the homoeopath subscribes, but he feels that this is but the beginning of what he must learn about his patient. The spontaneous, characteristic things that each patient longs to tell, be they very general or minutely particular, are of special interest to the homoeopath for they individualize the case, bringing out the particular patient's reaction to the 'disease' he suffers from. These salient points the busy modern doctor feels that he does not need to know, as to him they are not sign-posts but clutter…" (pp. 1-2.)

Ben Bradshaw MP
House of Commons
Westminster
London SW1A 0AA

14 September 2004

Dear Ben,

You, our Prime Minister and all your colleagues in Government have a lot of work to do if you are to remain in office after the next General Election. Even more importantly, all of us have very much more to do, and that in the very near future, if we are to rise to the enormous challenges that Alvin Toffler drew to our attention last century in Future Shock and The Third Wave.

John Wren-Lewis, who more than thirty years ago first alerted me to the importance of Stafford Beer's contributions to management studies generally and to operational research and cybernetics in particular, at about the same time shared with me some of his own impressions of Alvin Toffler, whose guest he had been in New York.

Our own discussion of such matters was in the context of our shared esteem for Father Bernard Lonergan's 1957 Insight - A Study of Human Understanding, which John had advised Longmans to publish, and which I had, in 1958-1959, made the subject of an academic thesis in connection with my studies in philosophy at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome.

Copies of all of my own unpublished papers about Lonergan are, I believe, still preserved in the archives of the International Lonergan Research Centre in Toronto, but a complete transcript of the various annotations with which I have across the years embellished the almost eight hundred pages of Insight may now also be read by any person interested at http://www.hagarqim.ndo.co.uk/books4.htm.

As from today a small but, I feel, significant selection of quotations from The Third Wave is also on-line at http://www.hagarqim.ndo.co.uk/noah.htm#toffler. I am enclosing a print-out of this for your own convenience of reference. Although you will, I am sure, appreciate that such a brief extract is no substitute for the book itself, it may nevertheless suffice to indicate the relevance of everything else on my websites and especially of all I have mentioned above to Constitutional Reform here and abroad…

With every good wish.

Yours sincerely,
(signed)
Dr Colin James Hamer

Dr Evkathrin Schmidt
...Switzerland

28 September 2004

Dear Evka,

I hope you and Chasper and Lüzi his father are all well. Both I and my artist-philosopher-and-builder friend, Melanie, liked the photographs of you and Chasper at the island-holiday work-camp in Croatia...

Colin

To Nick Webber CPN
St Thomas
EXETER
Devon

9 October 2004

Dear Nick,

... When you and I met with Dr Sarah Black on 24 September last, I mentioned that I had already had sight of the Healthcare Commission's September 2004 Devon Partnership NHS Trust - Clinical governance review. As promised at that meeting, I have already written to my surgeon-doctor-homoeopath friend in Switzerland about my bipolar condition and the medication Dr Black advised me to think about... I and will keep you informed of developments...

With best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
(Dr.) Colin James Hamer

Ben Bradshaw MP
House of Commons
Westminster
London SW1A 0AA

11 October 2004
Your ref: C/Ind/Hamer

Dear Ben,

Thank you for your welcome and helpful reply of 16 September to my letter of 14 September 2004.... I have already received and am in course of reading my copy of the Healthcare Commission's September 2004 Devon Partnership NHS Trust - Clinical governance review...

Jean Houston, in her 1996 autobiographical study A Mythic Life - Learning to Live Our Greater Story mentions (ISBN 0-06-251403-2, pp. 130-31)

"the wonderful book of conversations and letters exchanged between psychologist James Hillman and author Michæl Ventura entitled We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy - and the World Is Getting Worse (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992)," and adds: "… as Jung and Hillman suggest, and I concur, the psyche consists primarily of images, and the primary activity of the psyche is imagining. We humans are essentially acts of imagination. Budded from the matrix of psyche, we bloom out of imaginal worlds from which we arise coded in myth and symbol. These imaginal and mythic worlds of the psyche operate continuously. They never sleep, which is why people often find their finest creations in dreams, when they are more closely in touch with their own ongoing creative source levels… All the things that happen to us in the course of personal unfolding are secondary to the essential givenness of the image in the heart… [This] image is the seed that contains both the psychic DNA and the motivating forces that shape the fully bloomed flower that you become."

You, the Prime Minister's Direct Communications' office, Shirley Williams and Bishop Christopher Budd are among those with whom I have already exchanged correspondence on salient aspects of our shared world's post--9/11 situation. I also know that, even if your differently various priorities and responsibilities make it difficult for you to do much more than glance at just a small number of my Internet pages, all of you appreciate that their contents represent a substantial and significant, even if only a small contribution towards a practically efficacious, as distinct from some merely theoretically effective resolution of our present difficulties.

Acknowledgments of my profound and multi-facetted indebtedness to others far too numerous to mention for whatever I have so far achieved have been published on one of my websites. Justly proud of what little I have done I certainly am, but grandiosity in the clinical sense has never, I believe, been part of my character.

 ... Even if, as many who are otherwise well informed believe, no American citizen has as yet landed on the Moon, and even if a large number of the criticisms of modern life and society advanced by such conspiracy theorists as John Coleman and David Icke are founded on fact, it is still undoubtedly true that times are changing, that our world is changing, and that our own personal and community self-transformation is both immediately urgent and ultimately unavoidable.

As Tony Blair has said, facts are not the same as judgments, politicians may not postpone decision until academia also arrives at consensus and, when the kaleidoscope has been shaken, yesterday's national and international socio-cultural, techno-economic and geo-political patterns have vanished for good...

In the light of recent events in Iraq, along the Gaza strip, and in Egypt and the Sudan, I must, I feel, now also quite unambiguously clarify my own position and specify, much more sharply than I have ever previously sought to do, exactly where I stand.

The history and prehistory of the region are still of crucial importance, and Kelvin Crombie's For the Love of Zion - Christian witness and the restoration of Isræl (Hodder & Stoughton, 1991) is especially helpful when considering the post-1822 years in and around the Holy Land.

I also accept Robert Artigiani, professor of the History of Science at the United States Naval Academy and a founding member of the Washington Evolutionary Systems Society, as a credible witness. In September 1990, in a significant presentation to the First International Dialogue on the Transition to Global Society (Landegg Academy, Switzerland), he noted:

"The last one hundred years have witnessed organized violence, suffering, and injustice on a previously unequalled scale… but amidst the chaos and misery, an evolutionary analysis finds hope… Cultural change is associated with entropy bursts that may lead to re-stabilizations at higher levels of complexity.
Higher levels of complexity in human systems, have consequences which appear to encourage increasing individuation, autonomy and community. Thus, an evolutionary analysis suggests that we are in a position to build a new kind of society that will display progress measured in terms of classical human values. Thus our choices and actions can ennoble the sacrifices made by earlier generations…"

Such "hopeful realism" appears to me to offer a key of sorts to what may, in the biblical sense, be a "peaceful" solution to many problems, and may, indeed, justify George Bush's currently controversial doctrine in favour of "pre-emptively defensive" military aggression. Certainly, it is difficult to conceive of any other rational basis for the still continuing war promoting regime-change within Iraq.

Very few voters are likely to be swayed by political arguments in favour of "entropy bursts" but, although Artigiani's line of reasoning may be unfamiliar to many, I feel sure you will appreciate this illustration from Jean Houston's already mentioned A Mythic Life (pp. 48-49):

"Then there was the night in June 1972 when I woke up with the firm conviction that I would not live out the year. There was no apparent objective reason for this awareness; I was in good physical and mental health and was looking forward to the next year's work. Still, my death would not go away, and daily I felt the presence of the final boundary of my life. I made wills, settled affairs, and lapsed into a mild melancholy over my sweet but soon-to-be-short life. In October of that year, I was visiting my father, his second wife, Polly, and my young half-brother, Steve, when I suddenly knew that my death was imminent - within a matter of hours. On this particular evening, I was scheduled to hold a public conversation with the science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury. As my father led us to his car to drive to the event, I suddenly turned around, hoping to let this cup pass from me. 'Where do you think you're going?' my father demanded. 'We're already late.'…

… The dreaded destiny prevailed, and soon we were speeding along the Ventura freeway at seventy miles an hour… A yellow Cadillac two lanes over spun out of control and swerved at a ninety-degree angle into the path of the blue car directly in front of us. Instantly, I entered an alternate realm of time. Everything happened in slow motion, and I strangely enjoyed the sight of the two cars rising to meet each other in the air over the freeway like two dancers in an elegant pas de deux. I remember that I had all the time in the world to think about who they resembled. Was the yellow car Nureyev or was it Nijinsky? And the smaller blue car, which rose and turned with such elegance, wasn't it certainly Margot Fonteyn? Somewhere in the back of my mind, where instincts for survival still lurked, the reptile hissed a warning, and I realized that we were in grave danger. But with the slowing of time, I could see perfectly the series of actions that we needed to take to avoid a crash. I pondered the plan for what seemed a long time before I spoke. 'Now, Dad, swerve to the right, now to the left, and accelerate.' I looked back and watched as the cars so gently floated down and met the waiting pavement - and some twenty-four other oncoming cars as well. Each buckled beautifully, an accordion of collapsing steel. Somehow, miraculously now in front of all the chaos, we pulled over to the side - in a slightly more normal time sense - and did what we could to help in the rescue.

I believe that what happened is that I entered an alternate time-line and thereby avoided the death that would have been certain in the normal course of events. The change in consciousness changed my destiny…" [Jean's pages 141-51 are also, I feel, in our present context, enormously important.]

"I thank you for not being one of the wheels of power, but for being instead one single thing with the living creatures which are crushed by those wheels… Power says to the world: you are mine. The world holds it in prison on its throne. Love says to the world: I am yours. And the world gives it full possession of the house."

Yours sincerely,

(Dr) Colin James Hamer

Appemdox: Schedule of some papers relating to bi-polar disorder so called:

• Photocopy of front-cover and p. 195 of Thomas C. Caramagno, The Flight of the Mind - Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness with an Afterword by Kay Redfield Jamison.
• 668406 Depakote (Valproate Semisodium) guidance notes.
• PA 9649 BPBPP Zypreza Olanzapine guidance notes.
• Letters to Colin from Ben Bradshaw MP of 20 August 1997, 16 September 2004,
• 2nd edition April 2002 based 23-page "Treating Bipolar Disorder - a Quick Reference Guide".
• Colin's letter of Elizabeth of Monday, 3 March 2003.
• 11-page Spring 2003 copy of Nice Appraisal Consultation Document: "Olanzapine and valproate semisodium in the treatment of acute mania associated with bipolar disorder".
• Karl Hawkin's letters of 2 February and 21 March 2004.. Also Madeline Dorman's and Seren Russell's letters of 2 February 2004.
• Melanie Small's letters of 6 and 25 Feburary, and 17 April 2004.
• Bishop Christopher's letter of 12 February 2004.
• Edna's letter of 6 March 2004.
• Joseph Ellul's March 2004 letter.
• Colin's 28 September 2004 letter to Dr Evkathrin Schmidt.
• Dr S. Black's letter of 7 October 2004 to Dr G.Bradley-Smith.
• Photocopy of John Russell Pope de Locksley's "What did Mahomed say?" of 10 August 2006. (Colin was again in hospital from 7 June until 28 Novermbet that year.)
   

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