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Post by Blu on Sept 13, 2005 23:32:32 GMT -5
Hi my name is Dana. I'm a 41 yr old male, and I serve an awesome GOD. I'm now 2 yrs. sober from a 20 year drug/meth addiction. I'm hoping this testimony will help other addicts that might read it. You can Always call on God and I want you to know this.
The last 20 years of my life was addicted an assortment of drugs. But the biggest addiction of them all was the meth and that took over all the addictions. My life was a mess from within, but you couldn't tell by lookin at me. I was a miserable mental case, sad and suicidal.
My brother passed in 2002 at the age of 39 and that ruined me. I started to use more meth after he died. My heart was always in physical pain, and everytime I got high I thought I was going to have a heart attack, but I didn't care because I wanted to die and be with my brother.
GOD had another plan for me, though.
The last time I used meth was the night Jesus came and spoke to me. I believe I was dying at the time. I could feel my heart quitting on me.
I felt the devil pulling on me. My mind was going stir crazy. I was hearing "radio voices" in my head, and my heart felt like it had knives going through it. I could hear the devil saying to me, "Now you're mine." It was all so crazy. I was not in control at all. I thought I was dooomed for good.
Then I hear clear as ever, "Is this what you want?" "This isn't what you want!" "Call My Name and I will help you!" "Call My Name and I will save you." "Jesus is that You? Jesus I love You!"
"Im dying, Jesus, and the devil is pulling on me. He's got his claws in my heart, and my mind is going crazy. Jesus can You help me?! Can you make this all go away?" Slowly, it was all going away, and the last thing that left was the devil.
And then, it was just me and Jesus. Jesus said "Speak to Me of what is on your heart." "Jesus, I'm so messed up. Drugs make me want to die. My brother died and I miss him and want to be with him."
"Your brother is with Me." "Jesus I'm drug addicted and I can't stop on my own. I need You Jesus! Please help me?" Jesus said to me, "Go to sleep and when you wake up you will be new again."
I went to sleep and when I woke up the next morning, I was no longer addicted. I actually felt good in the morning! I didn't wake up feeling sick or needing my drug fix! I woke up feeling like I was never addicted! Telling my testimony makes me want to cry every time I tell it to someone.
I've been Blessed!!! Jesus saved me!!! I want to help people now - other addicts - youth addicts, adult addicts... who ever I can. But in Jesus' Name. I just dont know how to start. I don't have any resources for training. I want to preach the Good News - Jesus Loves Y-O-U. Right where you are.
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Diane
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Post by Diane on Sept 14, 2005 10:18:26 GMT -5
All honor, praise and glory are yours, oh Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you, God for saving Tlv-da-tsi and bringing him into our lives. Amen Thank God for your new found power over drugs! May you live to be 100, and find & bring happiness to many! Thank you for sharing your story, Tlv-da-tsi. L&L Diane
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Post by whiteraven on Sept 14, 2005 14:20:11 GMT -5
Kia ora my beautiful Spirit Brother Tlv-da-tsi
I give thanks for your strength and your courage I give thanks for your gentle soul I give thanks that the Creator has Blessed you so I give thanks that you have touched my heart
May each step you take be in Love and Peace and Beauty
He honore he kororia ki te atua He maungarongo ki te whenua He whakaaro pai ki nga tangata katoa
Honour and glory to the Creator Peace throughout the land Good thoughts to all Beings
Arohanui Merryn Whiteraven
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Post by WalksInSpirit on Sept 14, 2005 18:13:21 GMT -5
Tlv-da-tsi,
(((Tlv-da-tsi))) My Brother! You've shared your story with me & Blu before, but every time I hear it, the tears flow. Tears of joy! And my heart is filled with joy and thanks and awe, for what a mighty God we do serve. And for how much He indeed loves us - each one.
I want to thank you, My Brother, for sharing your story. You have reminded us of how much He loves us all, how much He cares for us all, and how mighty He is. But you have also shared the testiment of your faith and your strength. I just want to let you know what a Blessing you are to me. I am so glad The Creator led you here to this place - to us - into our lives. For we are all much better, and greatly Honored, for knowing the Cherokee Warrior called Tlv-da-tsi. I pray The Creator's richest blessings on you, and that the sun will always be to your face, and the wind to your back.
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Post by clean1 on Nov 15, 2005 15:37:42 GMT -5
hello my new friend. Thanks for sharing your story. Yes. He is a great God! I'll hope to share my dove story with you sometime soon. Peace 2ndtime
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Post by Blu on Jun 14, 2006 11:51:50 GMT -5
ALCOHOLISM by Winthrop H. Ware, M.D.
The information contained in the Edgar Cayce Health database should not be regarded as a guide to self-diagnosis or self-treatment. The cooperation of a qualified health care professional is essential if one wishes to apply the principles and techniques described in this database. Few diseases are as ill-defined and as difficult to treat as alcoholism. Even nowadays there is still a question in the minds of some whether it is a disease or a moral issue. Edgar Cayce called it a disease, and most serious workers in the field today also call it a disease. Noyes and Kolb say that "Alcoholism should be looked upon as a psychic illness rooted in a personality disorder or immaturity." Calling it a disease has the advantage of making it easier for an alcoholic to accept treatment.
Basically, the disease has two phases. First, the susceptible individual is exposed to alcohol and finds that it satisfies his special needs for coping with his environment. Then, when he has imbibed enough alcohol for a sufficient period of time, he becomes addicted, much as one becomes addicted to any other drug. Some would argue that this is an oversimplification, and perhaps it is, as it leaves out all the "other types" of alcoholics, but it will do for the consideration at hand.
If it were possible to determine ahead of time which person had the so-called "fertile soil of addiction" in his nature, then it would perhaps be possible to condition this person against alcohol until he could receive psychiatric aid in eliminating his propensity toward the disease. Studies seem to indicate, however, that it is almost impossible to determine who will become an alcoholic. Thus, prevention from this standpoint must be considered unlikely.
In the book, Understanding the Alcoholic, by Howard Clinebell, the author says that danger arises because an individual having heard that "emotionally healthy people don’t become alcoholics" will assume that he is not a potential candidate for the illness, and consequently is overconfident. Clinebell further states that there are two points to emphasize in the prevention of alcoholism. One is that an individual doesn't have to be aware of neurosis or emotional instability to become an alcoholic, because many deep psychological problems are hidden from ourselves. In fact, the emotional damage often occurred at a very early age and he says this damage has been overlaid by many layers of a comparatively normal personality adjustment. The people who become alcoholics rarely, if ever, are aware that they are neurotic or susceptible to the disease; thus, the way is open for alcohol to reactivate their buried problems. The second point Clinebell emphasizes is that it is impossible to predict with accuracy just which six people out of any 100 drinkers are potential alcoholics. He says that until such a prediction is possible, we should accept the warning, "You too can be an alcoholic."
Once one becomes an alcoholic, either by habit or addiction, the first thing to do is to stop the use of alcohol. The patient can do this himself, if he has the will power. This is the basis of the AA approach. Or, the patient can receive the aid of a "chemical fence" such as Antabuse (disulfiram). Once an alcoholic ceases to drink, half of his problem is solved. The other half of the problem is the reeducation concerning problem approach and solving, as well as the eventual treatment of the underlying psychological problems.
As anyone who has worked with alcoholics knows, getting them to accept a substitute for alcohol is almost impossible until the alcoholic is willing to "try anything." Usually this means that the alcoholic is so desperate that he gives up trying to manipulate people to continue his habit and surrenders to any help he can find. This is called "hitting bottom," and the main work of the professional therapist is in "raising the bottom" of the alcoholic unwilling to seek aid and thus making his desperation come sooner. This must often be done by withdrawing all help and aid from the alcoholic and making him suffer the consequences of his own foolishness.
The difficulty of this task can be realized in the addicted alcoholic who considers alcohol as essential as he once considered food. Added to this problem is the fact that alcohol does possess food value - but no vitamins. An advanced alcoholic consuming nothing more than alcohol suffers concomitant avitaminosis which leads to cirrhosis of the liver, heart muscle degeneration, destruction of the higher centers of the brain, et cetera.
In Cayce's work with alcoholics, we note that he had a very shrewd assay of the alcoholic situation. In the case of a young man aged 31 (4386-1), we find a beginning alcoholic who is just at the threshold of becoming addicted. Mr. Cayce finds that the effects of alcohol are just becoming evident in his organs. This is what he recommends:
In meeting the needs of the conditions physically, we find - while there must be physical applications for the body to right itself - the greater portion must come through that of self's own will in making for the environs and for the effect that is being produced in body.
He then goes on to prescribe a "chemical fence" to be given once a week to the young man:
We would, then, find that - were these properties combined in this manner, and given at least one each week, and this as a dose, this will assist and enable the body to exercise its own prerogative in the application of self's desires. Prepare in a capsule, this:
Eucalyptol...................... 1 minim, Rectified Oil of Turp..........1/2 minim, Benzosol.........................1 minim, Codeine.....................1/60th grain.
This must be given under physician's instructions or directions, one each week, until there will be found that there is ail alternation in the desires of the body as related to the physical forces, as related to the mental application of self . . . for this will produce nausea to the extent that the body when over-stimulating self, will refrain from stimulating same. Should this become, under the physician's reactions, such as has been in cases past with the body. . they, themselves, refrain . . . or change to such an extent as to increase rather than diminish. . . take of the parings of the scrapings of the fingernail of the body, on the left little finger . . . these prepared in coffee or tea will prevent a recurrence. Not injurious, but helpful.
Another time, Mr. Cayce prescribed another "chemical fence' No. 845:
Q: Is there anything I can do to help break my husband from drinking? A: Give him this, and he'll never want to drink any more... it'll make him very sick if he does: Put into capsule:
Oil of Eucalyptus................. 1 minim Oil of Turp...................1/2 minim Compound Tincture of Benzoin.....1/2 minim
Give him this. Q: How may it be given? A: In a capsule. Q: Just one? A: Just one. And then he'll vomit his boots up if he takes a drink! The smell of liquor will be abhorrent even! Of course, he can overcome it - but it'll make him sick for the first year anyway.
These chemical fences of Mr. Cayce would seem to act longer than Antabuse, which has an action of only four days. The fingernail parings would seem to work as does Flagyl (metronidrazole) in dampening desire for alcohol, and perhaps in the management of a hangover taking "some of the hair of the dog that bit him."
In the case of a 56-year-old male (28-1), we find a more advanced alcoholic, undoubtedly in the range of the addiction to alcohol. It is interesting to note that Mr. Cayce found the heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, and pancreas involved. This merits him a good grade in modern pathology. He is also quite correct when he says:
Digestion impaired, on account of condition created in spleen, pancreas and liver. Hence the deterioration, as it were, of the whole system and the lack of assimilation and of the digestive system functioning normal.
In this man, Mr. Cayce recommended both a "chemical fence" and a certain substitute for alcohol:
Podophyllin..............1 grain Cascara Sagrada...............1 grain Leptandrin...................1 grain Licorice Compound.................1/2 grain
Make these in this quantity in each capsule, making five (5) capsules. One to be taken every other day. Give this as the stimulant and preventative from using over-stimulants:
Tincture Valerian.................2 ounces Bromide of Potash................2 drams Iodide of Potash.................10 grains with Elixir Catisaya..................4 ounces and Elixir Celerina.................1 ounce with Extract of Verbena....................15 minims
The carrier for this should be sufficient Peptotol [in another place he says this is any sweet syrup] to make sixteen (16) ounces. The dose would be a teasthingyful twice each day, morning and evening. By the time the whole quantity is taken, we will find the body will be rid of much of the desire for the properties that over-balance the system. Should the body take the over-stimulus while using this and become sick and nauseated, use the enema, also the stomach pump or wash to cleanse the stomach of same, though this would not be a poison in itself, unless there was certain combinations of properties taken in diet. Hence, while these are being taken, the diet should consist chiefly of meats or game, or the juices of same, with only vegetables that grow above ground, and no form or combination of any nightshade variety of vegetable.
Then, Mr. Cayce gives this advice to the drunkard that almost sounds as if it comes from the AA's Big Book.
Then for the mental, we find the body very capable, would it only guide itself in the manner in which it understands the knowledge of self. Spiritual understanding only comes from the understanding of the divine within self, and the attempt to correlate same will always bring the development of self mentally and spiritually. For those who call upon the God will not find Him afar off, but ever present, and ready to answer the self as it is found in the inner man.
Just as important as helping the alcoholic directly is the helping of the spouse of the alcoholic to change her attitude toward him. It is here that Cayce gives some excellent advice. Here is what he says to one woman (1183-2):
Q: Just what should I do about my husband and home? A: As just indicated, live right yourself. Never so act, in any manner in any inclination, that there may ever be an experience of regret within self. Let the moves and the discourteousness, the unkindness all come from the other person. Better to be abased yourself and have the peace within. For unless changes arise some great disturbance will come. But if ye so act that these appear to arise from thy neglect, or from thy not caring, then the regret would always be with thee. Then act ever in the way you would like to be acted toward. No matter what others say, or even do. Do as you would be done by; and then the peace that has been promised is indeed thine own. Q: Is there any Chance of his ever overcoming the drinking habit? A: Not if there's given the least excuse for his continuation in same. But kindness, gentleness, and prayer has saved many a soul!
What Mr. Cayce is advocating in the above is now known as "surrender." This is when a wife leaves her husband alone and surrenders all concern for him but doing the best she can for herself and her family. Thus by not nagging or berating him, she gives him no excuse for his drinking, and he must bear the consequences himself. Very modern advice indeed!
In another place, Mr. Cayce makes a rather unique suggestion (1439-2)
(Q) Can those assisting do anything to prevent the body from indulging in stimulants? (A) They can pray like the devil! And this is not a blasphemous statement, as it may appear - to some. For if there is any busier body, with those influences that have to do with the spirit of indulgence of any nature, than that ye call satan or the devil, who is it? Then it behooves those who have the interest of such a body at heart to not only pray for him but WITH him; and in just as earnest, just as sincere, just as continuous a manner as the spirit of ANY indulgence works upon those who have become subject to such influences either through physical, mental or material conditions! For the POWER of prayer is NOT met even by satan or the devil himself. Hence with that attitude of being as persistent as the desire for indulgence, or as persistent as the devil, ye will find ye will bring a strength. But if ye do so doubting, ye are already half lost. For the DESIRES of the body are to do RIGHT! Then aid those desires in the right direction; for the power of right EXCEEDS - ever and always. Do that, then. Like the devil himself - PRAY!
In summary, it would seem that what Edgar Cayce advocated some 30 years ago is what the foremost workers in the field of alcoholism Care just now advocating.
1. The cycle of addiction must be broken by ceasing the intake of alcohol. This may be done by building the "chemical fence" with the patient's consent, or the cycle may be broken by placing the patient in an institution. (Mr. Cayce recommended this for some, too.) The patient may find the will to stop, but unless he has a sincere desire, nothing will work.
2. The persons closest to the patient must surrender their concern for him and let him be responsible for his own deeds. It is "cruel kindness" to support and lie for an alcoholic if this prevents him from "hitting bottom" and seeking aid.
3. The efficacy of real and genuine prayer for a person should not be discounted and should be vigorously indulged in. This not only has a telepathic effect on the usually very sensitive alcoholic, but it has a salutory effect on the suffering spouse.
What Mr. Cayce did not mention, as it was too new, was the importance of using such organizations as the AA. The AA advocates, very much as Mr. Cayce did, a two-fold idea of:
1. Stopping the drinking, and
2. Strengthening the will.
The further advantage of the AA is that it helps the alcoholic get rid of his guilt feelings by putting him to work helping other alcoholics, thus performing autotherapy and spreading the good work.
Left unsaid in all this is the possible use of psychotherapy in correcting the basic flaws in the character that make for the "seed bed" of alcoholism. Perhaps in this new decade more and important work will be done in this respect. New centers for alcoholism are needed, and many cities and towns need to revamp their present alcoholic treatment facilities. In the meantime, we must do the most we can to reach those in the grip of this most difficult illness. What Edgar Cayce said about having faith is really most important when one deals with alcoholism.
References
1. MODERN CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY, Arthur P. Noyles, M.D. and Lawrence C. Kolb, M.D. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1967. P. 178.
2. UNDERSTANDING AND COUNSELING THE ALCOHOLIC, Howard J. Clinebell, Jr. Abingdon Press, New York, P. 301.
Note: The above information is not intended for self-diagnosis or self-treatment. Please consult a qualified health care professional for assistance in applying the information contained in the Cayce Health Database.
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