Category: Transformation

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God is ambivalent!

Life is a spiritual battle, and you must do your duty without fear or attachment.

It’s the story of Arjuna, a warrior, who is about to go into battle but becomes overwhelmed and says:

  • “I can’t do this. I don’t want to fight. I will lose everything.”

Then Krishna (who represents God / higher wisdom) teaches him that:

You must act, but not be controlled by anxiety, ego, or the outcome.

So the core teaching is:

✅ Do what is right
✅ Do your duty
✅ Let go of attachment to results
✅ Trust the deeper spiritual order of life

In simple terms:

“Act with courage and integrity, but surrender the outcome to God.”

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A Psychic Retreat

Ramsay J (1997) ‘Alchemy The Art of Transformation’. Thorson Harper Collins. P60

At the beginning of the analysis, it became clear that J resided in a very dark place, well hidden from any form of aliveness.  Their attachment to me felt parasitical and searching for aliveness in me, but the result was the opposite: I often felt blanked out, deadened.  It was as if I had been infected with a tranquiliser, rendering me paralysed and unable to stay (conscious) or leave (act freely).  The room at times felt airless with an insufferable stench of something dead and decaying forever.  It soon resembled their home, hoarded rubbish and living amongst rotten food.  Dead and rotting though this space was, it nevertheless provided a perverse form of safety and a psychic retreat from continued failure in a litany of broken relationships.  This is as mentioned a perverse form of safety for most patients when entering analysis. The key to this ‘psychic retreat’ is to entre it with care and gentleness but to live it with the patient.  This is to know the patient.