by prophecor 14 Replies latest jw friends
((((Art)))) Thanks for sharing your story with all of us. I am so glad to read that you are doing so well. .
My first reading on depression was the same book.
M. Scott Peck's books on spirituality, The Road Less Traveled as well as several others that he has written. They were the begining of my journey into things that would help me to grow by leaps and bounds.
Some told me his work was dark and depressing but for me it was like hey someone else knows what I am going through.
Dorothy.
I also enjoyed Scott Peck's The Road Less Travelled - especially the way his book normalised the experience of emotional pain and the human capacity to endure in the face of it.Thanks Steve for lookin' out, I appreciate your response. M. Scott Peck's book was the first book my psychiatrist suggested that I read. I had started with the book discussing the inner child, John Bradshaw, a popular psychologist on PBS. He tried to encourage me to read Peck's book and put that one on the shelf for the moment, of course I didn't think the good doctor knew what he was talking about.
About 6 more months of being under his care, I finally purchased the book and from the very first few paragraphs, I was astonished at the ease and clarity of his teachings. Life is difficult and we need to realise that, transend it, and move on.
I found as well his position on dicipline or making your life easier for yourself by choosing to get the most un-popular aspects of your world accomplished, as you will enjoy the things you don't mind so much with a lot more flavor, if you save them for last. Delaying gratification, pure science in simplifying life!
It surprises me a bit that that experience was not enough to free you from wt bondage, that it was completed only through this site. It seems that a specific deprogrammation of wt is needed.Satanus, thank you's go out to you as well. It was not enough to get beyond the WTBTS's belief systems. I was one who considered myself to be a walking corpse, waiting to lie down. The AA & NA principles but me on a better road, but not until I came to this site, learned of all the ones who suffered, as we all have with the guilt and fear of being underneath the thumb of OZ, was I able to come to grips with the fact that all that I had come to know, was not even half of the truth regarding Jehovah's Witnesses.
Dot, Onacruse, Dave, Blues Brothers all of you who read and all who've shared Thank You, Brenda thanx 2. It is truly a blessing to have this forum to sift thru the madness, and good people like you to share with. For those who took the time to read thanx go out to you as well. Almost Atheist and any I forgot, I thank you as well.
I already know who you are *sticks tongue out*
