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Gerald G. Jampolsky (1925–2020)

Autor(a) de Love Is Letting Go of Fear

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Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, a graduate of Stanford Medical School, is an adult and child psychiatrist. The author and coauthor of seventeen books, he is also the founder of the first Center for Attitudinal Healing, now worldwide, and cofounder of Attitudinal Healing International, mostrar mais www.ahinternational.org. When he isn't traveling and teaching around the world, Dr. Jampolsky and his wife, Diane Cirincione, PhD, call Northern California and Hawaii home. mostrar menos

Obras de Gerald G. Jampolsky

Love Is Letting Go of Fear (1979) 607 cópias
Love Is the Answer (1990) 65 cópias
Shortcuts to God (2000) 15 cópias
Wake-Up Calls (1992) 9 cópias
Amar Es Liberarse del Miedo (1998) 4 cópias
A Mini Course for Life (2007) 3 cópias
Pardonner - L'ultime délivrance (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
Teach Only Love (2010) 1 exemplar(es)
Perdão 1 exemplar(es)
The quiet mind 1 exemplar(es)
De kortste weg naar God (2001) 1 exemplar(es)
A szeretet legyőzi a félelmet (2012) 1 exemplar(es)
Creating Positive Relationships (1990) 1 exemplar(es)
Liebe ist die Antwort (1993) 1 exemplar(es)
Kärlek är att släppa rädslan (1983) 1 exemplar(es)
Amare è lasciare andare la paura (1905) 1 exemplar(es)

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Outros nomes
Jampolsky, Jerry
Data de nascimento
1925
Data de falecimento
2020
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Tiburon, California, USA
Educação
Stanford University Medical School (M.D.)
Ocupação
physician
psychiatrist
Relacionamentos
Cirincione, Diane (wife)
Organizações
International Center for Attitudinal Healing
Premiações
Pride in the Profession Award
Creative Altruism Award of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Martin Luther King Peace Prize
Sadat Peace Prize
Pequena biografia
Gerald Jampolsky, M.D. is a psychiatrist, formerly on the faculty of the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. He is the founder of the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Sausalito, California, and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Jerry Jampolsky's writings have been largely inspired by A Course in Miracles. He currently lectures and writes with his wife, psychologist Diane Cirincione.

Gerald Jampolsky, M.D. is a psychiatrist, formerly on the faculty of the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. He is the founder of the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Sausalito, California, and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Jerry Jampolsky's writings have been largely inspired by A Course in Miracles. He currently lectures and writes with his wife, psychologist Diane Cirincione. Gerald Jampolsky, M.D. is a psychiatrist, formerly on the faculty of the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. He is the founder of the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Sausalito, California, and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Jerry Jampolsky's writings have been largely inspired by A Course in Miracles. He currently lectures and writes with his wife, psychologist Diane Cirincione.

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I’ve read Jamps before, but I didn’t appreciate him. I thought that Spiritual Meaning was the same as involved theory, so gradually I drifted away. Of course, love is abstract, in a way…. But it’s not just theory and words, either, so the words of love and spirit are often somewhat better when they’re not…. 🧐🥸 …. Pretentious, I guess.

It’s funny that Jamps, like Bilbo Baggins, began his adventure at fifty, having achieved empty success in the world before then, but not relationships, happiness, love. I took the other route. In young-youth (I was dancing like I was 22, because I was), I was sorta wanting to find the theory of everything, the “meaning of life” stuff, albeit in immature, codependent/para-alcoholic ways. In my late 20s I started to find things having to do with expanded consciousness—meditation, non-immature thoughts—made me happy, and now in my early 30s I’m actually starting to look into ‘success’ and the value of the relative (ie non-ultimate) world, you know…. Not everybody is Mozart!

…. Life is funny, you know. The passing of ages and times.

Me (22 yrs): I can see clearly that it’s going to end, but I’m telling you now; I won’t ever let go—at least! Not in my mind! Not in, (tortured face), Pretend!
Me (34 yrs): Huh…. (trying to sidestep the idiocy of this statement) You know, Baba Muktananda once said—
Me (22 yrs): Shit! Someone dark-faced! And, male! Ah! Ahhh! Love! Looooveeee!
Me (34 yrs): …. Yes, ah…. “Love”.
Me (22 yrs): Love!
Me (34 yrs): Love never dies.
Me (22 yrs): Love is always, always dying—ah! Ahhh!! Ahhhnnnnhhhh!!!!
Me (34 yrs): (Should I go for the white writer reference, or would it better to just walk away: right now. Right, now…..)
Me (22 yrs): (dissolving into a puddle of shame)….
Me (34 yrs): (There must be some time travel law that gets me out of this….)

…. “There are others I have known who have faced their human feelings without getting stuck in them and have forgiven the world and themselves.”

…. The odd thing is, although I didn’t really have someone when I was a child or young-young adult to tell me the right way to go—they tended to give me good information hollowed-out and packed with lies, which was worse than bad—and so I made errors, some of them real whoppers, but in an odd way some of my untrained impulses were good. I was suspicious of the mind and its ability to hollow out reality and pack it with lies, you know. Of course, being untrained I became overwhelmed with this paranoia—even though this fear was only an exaggeration of the fear I was taught was normal and good as a child, and which I had when I was a model child or whatever—and when I started to recover I discovered that wholesome ideas are good, and don’t have to be reality hollowed out with lies like I thought when I was a young-young adult or a sort of deified fear and unconscious labeling process like I thought when I was a model child.

But ultimately we are here to live—which is primarily to do and to feel—and not just to think, which can be good if it is kept wholesome, but toxic thought can also get in the way in a huge way. Toxic thought is a thing. Some people think that the way out of toxic thought is ultimate wisdom or knowing, which is not primarily thinking, or easily defined, but I’m starting to think, with Jamps and some others, that the best way is love, which is primarily feeling, and that feeling has to take precedence over thinking. You still have all sorts of thoughts, of course; you don’t have to stop, it’s just that the thought is not the primary thing. The love is the primary thing. Feeling good matters more, and understanding has to be disciplined so that it remains an aid to feeling good.

…. Sometimes seeing your brother as innocent instead of guilty isn’t as easy as it sounds, but it can be done, even if it isn’t always an easy, neat, straightforward process. To be honest, one has to deal with a certain messiness inside, but you can still make progress. Reading about the military, for example, can make you feel very…. 😝…. almost kinda disgusted, really—bad taste!—with the military intelligence technocrats, but then you kinda start to understand the stance of the ordinary ex-Marine/grunt sorts who present themselves as living in an unsafe world where they are not cared for or perceived as valuable, right. Despite the messiness of the process, that person starts to make sense. Which still leaves the out-of-touch military technocrat who understands machines better than people, but then, most people in modern civilization, and especially the elite and the “good” people, have this attitude where you don’t connect the dots between hyper-intellectualism and callousness, just because nobody else does, high or low, usually, at least—so I guess that that person “makes sense”, too. They just think that callousness is the way to earn love! 🤪

…. I think a lot of it is an applied take on the present moment/enlightenment philosophy foundation of ACIM; I found it to be more into that philosophical foundation (even though there are cartoons!) than the Marianne and Gabby that I’ve read, so even though they’re both ACIM people, I decided to classify them slightly divergently. One’s not better or worse.

Also I have to say, I’ve dealt with psychiatrists, and a psychiatrist showing vulnerability while on the job—or really, almost any doctor or almost any intellectual; you’d think a ‘soul doctor’ would be different, but really that’s supposed to just mean, ‘I know things in Greek and you don’t, right’—to step away from that macho doctor thing, or at the very least semi-robotic, semi-human doctor thing—is a big step forward, even if it’s not a step that the profession as a whole has taken yet. Most psychiatrists would probably rather wait until they’re done with work and then either get drunk or slit their wrists, than say, you know—like make an I-statement, right. ‘I feel vulnerable when you don’t go to group, and I bet you probably feel a lack of hope that group is going to help you.’ (That’s the irony of the ‘objective’ stance: it’s supposed to be ‘humble’, since you’re taking yourself out of the equation, which is what a civilization that grew out of Christian Europe desires, that you think you’re bad and out yourself as such; but in practice people who are compulsively objective are incredible neurotic and egotistical, because their own private opinion is now ‘all true people’s’ opinion, and anyway—it’s dishonest to say that you’re not a part of the equation, because here you are, taking part in the discussion. You’re one of us, not an invisible robot breathing quietly, you know.) The problem with stuffing your feelings is that you never really get rid of them; you just abolish the ‘moderate’ ways of dealing with them, and are left with very extreme ways of dealing with emotion that you can only put off so long until you crack, you know. You’d think that a doctor would practice good health himself, but it’s probably a little unusual, right.

But, anyway: any normie-dysfunctional (redundant, lol) people I’ve attracted into my life are what I’ve consented to and even asked for on some level…. And in the material world, there’s that, inertia, you know: but eventually you can ease out of it, and into something far more infinite.
… (mais)
 
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