Why Primal Therapy is Better than Other Techniques or Awaska
Consider that we are born and that if nothing too painfully over whelming occurs we are enlightened full feeling human beings. Then pained need,or primal pain, is built up from the mind of the infant and neonate where the pain is far more threatening and disrupting, then on top of that are less frightening pained [...]
Spirituality and Primal Therapy Including a link to comments by Neurologist E. Michael Holden
E. Michael Holden, a neurologist, was very influential in the beginnings of Primal Therapy. His experiences were helpful for him and his interpretation of his Primal experiences involved a spiritual perspective. E. Michael Holden, is a “born again Christian”. This site will give you a glimpse of his views and experience. The idea of Primal [...]
Michelle Bachman the Crown Jewel of Zero Optimistic Intelligence
http://youtu.be/e9bvreW08X0 Does it matter if the world laughs at us? Electing almost any of the Republicans running for office will do this for us. Here comes Michelle Bachman. Even Fox News strains to hold a candle to her talent at unintentional comedy. There are a number things that just don’t make sense that the Republicans [...]
Evil greed in government, what can we do?
Greed is something that lives in most souls and corrupts every form of government created. We always have two paths laid before us. One is the path of punishment and greed, and the other one of feeling empathy and need. The cost of our healing is to take up the helplessness in our lives that [...]
Optimistic Integration and Enlightenment
As Arthur Janov has said, “If it’s bigger than life it isn’t real.” We need to focus on an integrated brain and not get lost in words. Words and thoughts, nor the absence of them, provides enlightenment. Needs and getting them met always trumps mere thoughts. Love is the main engine of enlightenment, just the [...]
Why Primal Therapy is Better than Other Techniques or Awaska
February 19th, 2012 
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Consider that we are born and that if nothing too painfully over whelming occurs we are enlightened full feeling human beings. Then pained need,or primal pain, is built up from the mind of the infant and neonate where the pain is far more threatening and disrupting, then on top of that are less frightening pained needs.
Now as we get older we are more able to handle what comes our way so it takes more to "blow us away". Think of it like a pile of bricks stacked up on someone's chest, you dismantle this carefully, from the top down or else the person could be seriously harmed. Later in life we are social interpersonal creatures and the bricks that we remove have to be removed sensitively and slowly until finally we can remove the pressures below, slowly easing the pressure over time.
Or consider that you are under water, you cannot rise up quickly, the pressure has to be slowly removed or you could die. When you see things being done with chemicals or with techniques that are impersonal you are not slowly removing the pressures caused by pained need.
Meditation and like approaches open up the infant mind and its pain far too quickly and so yes different people will react differently with that approach or with even naturally occurring drugs like awasca... the same thing was true with experiments with LSD.
Impersonal and chemical approaches are almost always a bad idea because they don't do the job in order. Primal therapy is neurosis in reverse, other approaches are out of order and dangerous. Some with strong gating systems may have a "high" experience, another with a lot of pain or weakened gates from earlier practices of wasca or meditation may go crazy... Not because they are inferior people but because they have not had a sensitive approach to their pained condition.
Without pain, people are as enlightened as they are going to be, and when you deal with fears you start with the smaller ones first..
This all means that sensitive personal approaches are the safest best way to reverse the pained need that creates neurosis or PTSD which is very much the same thing.
Rev. David Mitchel Stow
Free Yoga Book
January 13th, 2012 admin 
Inner-Yoga is the communication between love and trust.
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Always, and forever, remember that God dwells where courageous love warms hearts, and wherever trust conquers fear, heroes become the angels among us. Even in the darkest shadows of the mind love lights the way, and trust casts out the rule of fear. So we can lift songs of praise to God who is the source of all love, and in the midst of the shadows of death and destruction, we will find heaven, and a heart that cannot be conquered.
Yoga means to yoke or attach strongly to our virtues, which is our power to love, through faith or trust, and in this we find we are yoking to God the source of all virtuous love. True yoga connects us in a motivational way with goodness, truth, and the art of seeing the beauty and value in all things, each other, and in ourselves. Inner-Yoga is the basic communication between love and trust that can exist in the heart of any society, or any person. Learning to communicate with greater love and trust is at the core of spiritual communication and spiritual growth. Inner-Yoga is not a religion it is a spiritual imperative.
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Spirituality and Primal Therapy Including a link to comments by Neurologist E. Michael Holden
November 19th, 2011 admin
E. Michael Holden, a neurologist, was very influential in the beginnings of Primal Therapy. His experiences were helpful for him and his interpretation of his Primal experiences involved a spiritual perspective. E. Michael Holden, is a "born again Christian". This site will give you a glimpse of his views and experience.
The idea of Primal Pain, often isn't clear to many. Let's give it another name: Pained Need. Pained Need, or Primal Pain, develops when needs, because of long deprivation or trauma, become so painful, due to helplessness in getting the need or needs met, that vital signs begin to sky rocket dangerously. This rise of vital signs is itself threatening to our survival and so the need or needs become buried. Yet these needs, because were needs, and because they have never yet been felt and resolved, continue to be a force. This force is generalized and symbolized in order to send soothing or pain killing messages back to the areas of the brain, and the time of life, that the need became pained or unable to be felt and processed.
The answer to this is, of course, to feel and connect consciously to the early pained need or needs, and then having felt them in their early contexts we come to know that the threat is no longer present. Feeling the pain removes the threat, and removes the impact or the painful messages of the pained needs themselves. Thus, feeling pained need removes the threat and the pain associated with them. Then we can grieve this need as a loss.
When we grieve we can then forgive life, others and ourselves for any involvement in the cause of needs being pained. Only after forgiveness can we really change our lives. This is a highly spiritual experience.
Repenting, or changing our lives from being motivated by symbolic need (the root of greed and addictions), we do more than just change our behavior. When we truly repent we improve our communication between our sense of trust and our abilities to meet needs: our abilities to love. These abilities to love are what we call virtues.
Goodness, Truth, and Art all meet needs. They require forms of trust or faith if we want to have them as motivations in our lives. This is highly spiritual. Religions seem to be languages, from a positive view of them, concerning such communication.
I have written in somewhat poetic form from a Yogic view about these concepts in a book entitled "Inner-Yoga: The Art and Philosophy of Spiritual Communication". However, the most central Primal messages are those I found in the teachings of Jesus Christ. When you study his mythic teachings you find a message that is loud and clear concerning pained need, greed, spiritual darkness (lack of communication with and motivation from virtues), and the meaning of real forgiveness and repentance.
You may find the book I wrote here. You will be able to enter your professional ideas in posts on this site here.
Our pained need and insensitive leaders.
November 9th, 2011 admin
Pained need inside us limits our felt optimism or buoyancy in life. Insensitive leaders can more easily control a population whose real needs from early life became too painful to feel. All the insensitive leaders need to do is offer them what I call "hope dope". Hope dope is anything distantly symbolic of pained needs that can be sought as a way to avoid ever feeling the pain of our lives.
Now for the insensitive governments and leaders whose hope dope is primarily the false heaven of greed, this pained ignorance on the part of the populace is very useful as they never quite feel worthy of being satisfied. They themselves are addicted to the idea that if they do what the leaders tell them to do they might reach greed nirvana and then escape paying their fair share of taxes.
It is note worthy that Jesus, before he ever went to the cross, said that we should take up our own cross. No pain no gain? It seems to me that pained need never goes away until it becomes conscious to us so that we know and feel that this pain is truly in the past. I have to notice that conservatives on the far right of politics have mean looking vindictive eyes and self abusive voting habits that serve the idea that they too might the elite neurotic nirvana of the rich. They seem to want to carry guns and use angry answers to the world's problems, answers that always blame others in a way that lets them feel free to punish them. However, the far left also seems to seek out people to throw stones at and the strange pundits of talk show politics seem to revel in insults and evil insinuations. Perhaps these things are reveled in because we don't want to see how pathetic our society has become?
Child birth should be less painful for the mother and the newborn but our only answer usually is to repress the mother with drugs. Why? I would hazard the guess that our pained needs are stimulated by stress? Yes, our pained needs can have an effect that some call post traumatic stress disorder. Stress that continues on after a trauma or long deprivation is intimately tied to pained need. Yet we ignore how common this malady is and seem to neglect the obvious truth that insensitive leaders who are willing to send everyone's kids off to war rely on post traumatic stress that occurred long before the conflict or war ever began.
We compound our problems with punishing attitudes and a failure to delve into our own pained sense of need, and one way we do it is following leaders who feed the greed of those who seek a relief from the stress of having only enough as if that were a kind of extreme hellish condition. All the tests that show that real creativity isn't dependent upon rewards from outside ourselves too often fall on unseeing unfeeling minds. Real heaven doesn't come from possessions and escape from paying a fair share of taxes or from working others as slaves with no voice and no power over their circumstances. Real heaven means freedom and empowerment of everyone, not just a few.
When we over come the "devil" of pained need we see the need for a more fair and caring leadership on our world. When our own pained need is felt there is no room for the hypocricy inherent in far left and far right political views. When we are free from our own internal hypocricy we will seek what works the best and not for what allows us to accuse and war among ourselves. Until that time we can make many small steps in the right direction and one of those steps is simply to become a bit more aware of what we really feel and stop running from love that brings up our pained need, such as love for our "enemies".
Our mental and emotional health may be normal but it sure isn't healthy.
Enough said,
Rev. David Mitchel Stow
Optimistic Integration: The scientific and therapeutic view.
November 5th, 2011 admin Optimistic Integration is about the spiritual process of feeling, grieving, forgiving, and repenting, and finding a motivational connection to virtues which are ways of loving and meeting needs. Yet, it is also about therapeutic processes, and biochemical, psychological, and neurological changes and causes involved with pained need (damaged faith in love).
Here please post about your therapeutic or scientific understandings, or experiences of this process. Please consider any therapy you use or have undergone, and post about its effectiveness in your view, and why you think it has or hasn't worked.
Those who have undergone any form of primal therapy, treatment for PTSD or trauma are encouraged to share their honest experiences and views here. See that your postings are civil and in a spirit of kindness and once they have passed inspection for spam content etc. they will be posted in the Community Submitted News section or the religious techniques area if they are of that nature.
Never had any such therapy and are not a scientist or therapist working in this area? Please post concerning any grief you have experienced in your life and how you over came it.
Posting here may lift someone you never met, or it may lift child inside you.
Both science and spirituality journey through the darkness of life with growing appreciation of the light on that journey, light that meets needs and is therefor an expression of love.
Rev. David Mitchel Stow
A View on TM or Transcendental Meditation
October 30th, 2011 admin
A letter to Arthur Janov:
Art,
I have been communicating with people who think that meditation can lead to a balance between the left and right hemispheres and therefor access to feeling. I believe that this finding is just another symptom of an even more complicated repression. When we repress feeling below we may find this balance, but balance isn't integration, and the fact that primaling creates such a balance is not the same thing. Getting rid of the pain will balance things with integration, repressing pain will only balance things into an even deeper neurosis.
I would point to the trend I watched with TM or transcendental meditation. Let's say that their "balance" is actually a deeper illness, then like others "fled to their head" to repress pain they may be vulnerable to first line elements emerging with at least some of them.
The path of TM was that when the practitioners were not growing in number they needed a new hype to bring in even more and to bring the other practitioners back into payment mode. The next step was telling and an extreme form of what I call "weee WAHHH!" said in a droning sustained way, something you call "booga booga". They were told, (now remember that these are repressed people not too integrated with their physical realities), that the light headed feeling that some of them might have (literally floating above feeling reality), was a sign that they were over coming gravity, and that if they "hopped" in meditation that they would find themselves in air longer than gravity should allow, and that eventually they might "fly".
This trend has seldom been mentioned by professionals praising the worthiness of such approaches. Find this nonsense here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nQXVRjMoUE So how in the world are people thinking this a route to sanity?
This is not science and it's a crime against humanity when the very professionals trained to help with sanity are now the state church, the royal legally empowered booga booga of the modern world.
I have like wise tried to find ways to heal with self help and I do not find a path for it that I can trust and that I think would be reliable or safe enough for export. When anyone seeing that video rightfully turned off by it, they need to consider where psychology is today that they would accept this nonsense into their "healing arsenal".
Please understand that I understand that those of us with no access to real primal therapy might be desperate enough to try on our own. Perhaps out of this mayhem something good might come, but only science should be ruling our attempts at healing, hopefully soon.
I stand on a precipice of thinking to open "pandora's box" to give avenues for those of us who are poor. Short of this you know what my approach is by now. Yet, I think that as long as the professionals deny the "elephant" in the room, or primal pain, we will not be able to true progress.
My attempts involve using things to help "surprise" the left side of the brain and allow pain to come through. It does seem to work with me to a degree yet I have already had some primal therapy that admittedly was primitive and skewed. I don't think in good conscience I can bring this up as a good alternative. It is far too extreme an approach, much like, dare I say it, the non-professional state church of psychology that we have set up and empowered already. Perhaps, sadly, it is a bit better, but not good enough is still not good enough.
I long to see you more successful in your mission Art. Here is another youtube.com entry for your readers to consider concerning TM. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nQXVRjMoUE Now in this video note that "professionals" are saying "hey it's not like people are expecting to fly, it's not pixie dust". Certainly not, that would sound so lacking in "professionalism". What do I say to this? I beg to differ, it is all of it pixie dust, even the "neo-pixie dust".
Perhaps we need something "more intellectual" for the readers to support my view of TM and psychologists who accept it. http://www.behind-the-tm-facade.org/Transcendental_Meditation-myths.htm You wonder where the wonder went when you brush your brain with an objectivist? That being said we need to look to phenomena deeper than most objectivists want to go, not that they should in any way abandon objectivism, but they need to be objective about the "elephant in the room". Right now it seems, only those who have felt can see the objectivity of primal, but is this suprising? No, because you can't study what you can't be aware of, and pained need is unconscious beneath every trick the mind can offer. It's time to give up the tricks, become more integrated, which primal therapy offers, and then to turn to research. The opposite is something our human race may not have the time to wait around to see.
These were my thoughts, but for those wishing to see more of what Dr. Arthur Janov says please go here: http://primaltherapy.com/
Let the inside surprise you, if you expected it, and stay in your head, you probably manufactured it.
Look before you leap?
Rev. David Mitchel Stow
Michelle Bachman the Crown Jewel of Zero Optimistic Intelligence
October 5th, 2011 admin
http://youtu.be/e9bvreW08X0
Does it matter if the world laughs at us? Electing almost any of the Republicans running for office will do this for us. Here comes Michelle Bachman. Even Fox News strains to hold a candle to her talent at unintentional comedy.
There are a number things that just don't make sense that the Republicans are saying now a days: All of them.
We are not broke, our situation wasn't created by Obama, but by Republicans and others who wanted to give banks free self regulating reign. We are not without jobs because of Obama. We are without enough jobs because banks and other corporations, after getting bail out money from our grandchildren, still won't hire anyone.
It's not Christian to starve the poor, under pay them, and over tax everyone so that the rich can pay their customary unfair low share.
Voting citizens are the government, so Republicans, stop hating the government, we are in a democratic republic, and hating the government is NOT patriotic. After all you think that the military is efficient. Guess what? The U.S. Military is government run.
Poor republicans you are not going to get rich in all probability so unfair taxes benefiting the rich are taxes you will be paying FOR THEM.
The poor already pay more than their fair share of taxes in sales tax alone and then pay even more for car insurance, home insurance, and much more in addition to tolerating poor schools for their children. So stop seeing them as the ones getting a free ride, it's the super rich that are getting the free ride. Get that right.
Obama isn't trying to take your guns away unless you're wanting them for something besides hunting, and reasonable personal protection. Stop mouthing things that are bizarrely improbable and rational people will stop thinking of you as unthinking sheep and greedy deceitful wolves.
FOX news does NOT tell the truth or give balanced reporting, they have even changed transcripts of shows to try to deny saying bizarre things we have them on tape saying.
Rush Limbaugh melted ice in water to say that global warming won't drown our coastal cities. Republicans, the ice that is melting is ON LAND.
Walmart is not your friend. It goes into town and get's tax breaks that you and smaller businesses have to pay, and then while driving out small businesses that could possibly make some real money, they pay far less to their workers than is fair. Yes, I know, 2 dollars more than the other businesses around, but that is easy to do when they buy in bulk from China and work with their competitors to destroy all unions.
Workers are just the smallest of businesses, so stop saying they have no right to organize when all other businesses have that right and use it regularly. So stop killing the voices of workers, it makes them slaves no matter what they are called by their company. Such names as "associates" do not turn slaves into free market traders.
Republicans, you love to be hateful to Mexico but forget that our country stole a huge chunk of its land in a war that our own president Grant called immoral and the bullying of a stronger nation of a weaker one. Those areas at the very least should be open to them to work. Plus, they help our country more than they hurt it, and that is far better than the recent tract record of your Republican Party.
Michael Moore is brilliant, you don't see it because you are not being objective.
Socialized medicine is better for more people and could be improved with just a little more investment even in England. Those without insurance should be included in comparison studies between our health care system and that in France for instance. You won't get better health care from those who are more interested in a profit than whether you live or die. So stop saying Obama and Michael Moore are trying to kill your grandmothers, that is what is happening under the current high cost health insurance plans. Additionally, under Obama's plan you can still choose your health care provider, even while the poor can save their grandmothers from early deaths under this current system.
Enough is enough Republicans, you are dead wrong and should strive harder to be in line with compassion and the truth if you are going to claim to be Christians.
Meanwhile there is nothing Optimistically Intelligent about your attitudes and that subject will be discussed at length in yet another post.
Democratic friends from face book should feel free to add comments here and share a link to this post. Let's tell them how it really is folks.
Rev. David Mitchel Stow
Evil greed in government, what can we do?
October 1st, 2011 admin 
Greed is something that lives in most souls and corrupts every form of government created. We always have two paths laid before us. One is the path of punishment and greed, and the other one of feeling empathy and need. The cost of our healing is to take up the helplessness in our lives that twisted us and feel the pain of it, the unfulfilled pained need that drives us to the empty symbols that make for greed. Only feeling the hurt of our lives can free us to grieve our losses and let them go, only letting go of our losses can allow us to forgive, and only forgiveness (not blind trust) can set us free. Then with such light we can make the better decisions, and make the small steps to healing a nation and a world.
This path is what Jesus talked about in his parables. Unless you take up your cross (feel the truth of your life),
Yet only people with an heart honest with what they have experienced in life can find a full satisfying life. When our faith in love is damaged we lose vital needs either through deprivation or trauma, this is a natural part of this world. Those who love their life in this world must not have been honest with these times, and dishonesty is darkness, a darkness that guides our views. Darkness is actually dishonesty in how we see things. We cannot serve two masters. We cannot serve both honesty and dishonesty in who we see things. Dishonesty is in how we see things is darkness and when we embrace it we embrace evil, we confuse evil for good. The only way we do not feel the evil that we have experienced and caused is through dishonesty with what we have felt, Not to feel our helplessness dooms us to finding comfort in hopelessness. Not to feel what was oppressive dooms us to accepting oppression or evil as good.
So if we will try to make government good instead of evil we must avoid the darkness of not feeling the truth of what was oppressive and what was wholesome in our lives. We must work against greed and not see it as a necessary principle in government.
Optimistic integration is the act of getting clear on what is greed and what is real need, on what is darkness and what is light, on what is the way of punishment and the way of feeling and positive change. It is about having a full and wholesome life
So let us now consider how government can be improved. First of all it cannot be based upon greed with money as the "bottom line" and the goal of life. The bottom line is about seeing that everyone's need is met, and limiting the influence of greed. This means fairer taxation, not simpler taxation but taxation based on who owns the most real wealth in our country. Those benefiting the most should pay the most. Owning 90 percent of the wealth means you are benefiting 90 percent from the investments and services of government. The bare minimum that must be done by government is to heal support and invest in the humanity of our nation, not the GDP of our nation. When all have sufficiency in meeting their needs, then all will be able to compete and produce the best nation in the world and a much better world for the future. "There is enough in the world for everybody's need, but not enough for anyone's greed." Mahatma Gandhi
Once again, We must feel our lives honestly in order to grieve and let go of our losses, we need to grieve before we can forgive, and we need to forgive before we can bring change to our world.
Rev. David Mitchel Stow
Optimistic Integration and Enlightenment
September 24th, 2011 admin
As Arthur Janov has said, "If it's bigger than life it isn't real." We need to focus on an integrated brain and not get lost in words. Words and thoughts, nor the absence of them, provides enlightenment. Needs and getting them met always trumps mere thoughts.
Love is the main engine of enlightenment, just the meeting of our needs from many perspectives. The perspectives that we use to meet the needs of others and ourselves guides us to a more virtuous life and this is the root of all valid enlightenment.
We are a flow of love, a song sung from need and an answer sung from the heavens of compassion. When this song is sung well all our virtues come alive and dance together and guide us to our higher destiny.
Optimistic integration is about integrating this song of love into our lives and singing it together with all who will join in, knowing that the universe is softly singing a back drop of music that calls us to the beauty of life and an indescribable bliss that gives meaning to all existence.
When life is a drama, a comedy and pure joy, we have touched enlightenment, but that is just life, that is just being alive, that is just the simple song that trust and love sing eternally one to another.
When all of this is found in the simple everyday experiences of life, there always to be touched upon, but without any demand, then we can know what is talked about by those who do not know, and known by those who cannot speak but in riddles of its splendor. Then we will enjoy the smile of a child, and see God flinging forth both time and space, smiling, like a friend at play in our mind. Then truly we will know who we are and fulfill our destiny.
Then optimistic intelligence will be born, and we will find a liberating dream, and true awareness.
Open your eyes and dream, liberate your heart from darkness, and walk the path of kindness, and know the innate purity of your original mind and heart.
Rev. David Mitchel Stow
About Meditation
September 12th, 2011 admin
I am very cautious about meditation or any other rather ritualistic or mechanical technique. Meditation is something that can change how our brain is functioning. We weren't born needing to "meditate" in any formal way. Setting a time for some practice of it inclines to a more regimented approach and certainly life, modern life especially, is also so inclined. Yet I am leery about too much regimentation, as it can easily be “over done”.
Meditation like many other things, that aren't something we do naturally, is a bit like "self medicating". It begs the question "What is wrong in the first place that you need this meditation?" Like many other "medications" meditation is not without its side effects and it can affect different people in different ways.
Thus, for those wishing to meditate, I would recommend that they find a time convenient for themselves and do it for some good reason that allows for the possibility of testing to see if you are getting the results you want. I would do this under an objective outside perspective such as you family physician.
Meditation can, for some, do things such as lower blood pressure etc. So, for some, it could have value. I would also do it in small doses at first to see what effects it may have on you. Also, again, keep an outside perspective from reliable educated minds on this subject.
Hallucinations from too much prayer or meditation have occurred and many times because this was legitimized by some religious belief the problem was praised.
Does meditation make you "enlightened"? Well that depends on what you are calling enlightenment, for my Zen teacher meditated very often and was a quite wonderful person, but he smoked a pipe. His students warned him that he needed to stop and he stubbornly refused. Later he ended up with a cancer that started it seems in his throat that spread to his brain.
Like many things in life meditation should be handled with care and if there are claims made that seem "too good to be true" they probably are just that.
So if you seek to meditate and to find a time to meditate, then understand what it is that you want to accomplish, get an outside observer and ways to test your results, then try different times for periods of time and see what the results are for you.
Feel what it is you need, get in touch with your feelings more deeply when possible, and do this in different ways, check with outside perspectives in your life, and you will find what is right for you over time.
Some seek to know if there is a set time to practice meditation. I would say that there is no set time for everyone to do "meditation" any more than there is a "set time" for everyone to take a medication, and some don't need the medication and shouldn't be taking it at all.
These are some of my views on meditation. It is something that, like everything else in life, shouldn't be done “religiously” without a good reason.
Rev. David Mitchel Stow
