CHAOSOPHY 2000
An ASKLEPIA FOUNDATION Journal
INTRODUCTION
Chaosophy 2000:
A Journey to the Healing Edge where Physics meets Psychology
by Graywolf Fred Swinney
ASKLEPIA MONOGRAPH SERIES:
Contents
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About Fibromyalgia (FM) and Consciousness Restructuring
by Rob Kuehn and Graywolf Swinney
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Chronic Fatigue Syndromes (CFS)
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Depressive Disorders/Grief
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Bipolar Disorder
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Attention-Deficit Disorder (A.D.D./A.D.H.D./O.D.D.)
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Cancer
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Borderline Personality Disorder
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Stress-Reduction
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Hypertension
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Autoimmune Disorders (R.A., M.S., Lupus)
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Anxiety Disorders
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Psychoactive Substance Abuse Disorders
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Co-Dependence/Dependent Personality Disorder
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Chronic Pain Management
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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Eating Disorders
and the Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
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ABSTRACTS
ABOUT FIBROMYALGIA (FM)
and CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING
by Rob Kuehn and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
ABSTRACT: Fibromyalgia is a syndrome, difficult to diagnose, which is psychophysical in nature. Symptoms are numerous, but feature characteristic tender points and muscular pain, chronic fatigue and sleep disturbances, and psychological factors. The inflammatory process also produces chemicals that are known to cause fatigue. Emotional and physical stress exacerbate symptoms, constricting bloodvessels and amplifying distress, often to the point of incapacitation. Allopathic treatments help curb symptoms, but only mask rather than transform psychological or emotional blocks. Conventional treatment offers no known cure for FM. Therefore, the goal of treatment is successful symptom management. The integrative approach of the Consciousness Restructuring Process uses dreams, feelings, and symptoms to initiate a therapeutic healing journey. This journey leads past fear-based patterns of consciousness and psychophysical pain to a deep experience of the restructuring of the existential primal self-image.
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CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROMES
and the
Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney, ©2000
ABSTRACT: Leading CFS researcher, Jay A. Goldstein, MD posits an etiology for CFS in limbic encephalopathy in a dysregulated neuroimmune network. Thus his allopathic treatment protocols include interventions in the “bidirectional communication” between the immune and neuroendocrine systems. This means that CFS can be considered among those syndromes which respond to Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), through intervention in the “cross-talk” between the central nervous system and the immune system. Viral disease can also cause neuropsychological deficits which are amplified under physical or emotional stress. The limbic system plays a crucial role in regulatory physiology. The Consciousness Restructuring Process (CRP) can influence this psychophysical network, through cognitive, behavioral and attitudinal changes that alter the state of limbic elements. Nonrestorative, alpha-EEG sleep abnormalities are common in CFS patients. Nevertheless, most report frequent, vivid dreams and nightmares which can be used to initiate the therapeutic process.
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MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER
and the
Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney, ©2000
ABSTRACT: The alter personalities experienced under dissociation in Multiple Personality Disorder may form around “strange attractors” in the psychobiological field of an individual attempting to escape or heal traumatic stress in a self-organizing way. Generally, “personality change” is a creative attempt at growth. However, in MPD it leads to “divided consciousness,” where different aspects of self are isolated by state-dependent amnesias or trances, mediated by characteristic changes in neuroimmunologic response.
It is possible that through dissociation, the person is attempting to heal in a self-organizing way, but the transformative process gets “stuck” at the classical stage of fragmentation, which then recreates itself through the dynamics of “infinite nesting” and “self-iteration.” Core psychological patterns reinforce themselves by filtering sensory information about the world and self, and automatically organizing the rest of experience around itself in a way that further supports the basic pattern.
In shifting identities MPDs experience uncommon dreams, in an intuitive, if misbegotten, attempt at growth and change. Experience of alters carries the aura of a ‘waking dream,’ where things appear real, but not quite ‘right.’ The Consciousness Restructuring Process fosters this healing attempt, rather than thwarting it. CRP facilitates inter-modal shifts between not only identities, but sensations, perceptions, emotions, imagery and behavior. Thus, it offers a ‘positive outlet’ for a process trying to self-correct the organism, but allowing that process to flow beyond the state of fragmentation to the fully undifferentiated experience for healing, dissolving old ‘basins of attraction’ in the mindscape. The psychophysical channels of both the limbic-hypothalamus system (seat of reward/punishment circuits) and the placebo effect are invoked to account for positive results.
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DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS
and the
Consciousness Restructuring Process
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney, ©2000
ABSTRACT: There are three main types of depressive disorders: major depressive disorder, dysthymia, and the depressive lows of bipolar disorder. While conventional treatment has been to freely dispense antidepressants (SSRIs), an integrative approach would include psychosocial therapy to focus on the personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal issues behind depression. For many individuals, SSRIs are contra-indicated due to a wide range of side effects, some quite severe.
CRP offers a comprehensive psychoimmunotherapy, which can alter mood in a positive direction, restore interest or pleaure in daily activities, promote healthy sleep patterns, restore energy reserves, transform feelings of worthlessness or guilt, foster pro-active decisions, calm restlessness, and ameliorate recurrent thoughts of death or morbidity. In CRP, the value of the depressive state is acknowledged and honored.
Rather than medicating it away, CRP facilitates the the depressive process and allows it to cycle through. Biological disturbances lead to a complex, dynamic interlocking group of psychophysical changes which depress the well-being and functionality of the individual until the call to restructure consciousness is heeded. By going deeper into the process and allowing imagery of death, for example, to play out to its natural conclusion in rebirth, CRP fosters restructuring at the genetic, cellular, biochemical, and psychoneuroimmunological levels.
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POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD)
and the
CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
ABSTRACT: Posttraumatic stress is a disorder, and disorder implies automatically a chaotic state of being. The sorts of trauma that tend to induce PTSD include combat trauma, crimes, rape, grief, kidnapping, natural disasters, accidents, torture, and imprisonment. Predisposition to dissociation can arise in violent family environments. Those with PTSD become hypervigilant and hyperreactive to environmental threat. The traumatic syndrome is ever present and unchanged. Emotionally, it is as if it keeps on happening. State-related learning and memory encoding help maintain the trance-like steady state. Depression, shame, anxiety, subtance abuse, and survivor guilt are complications.
The nucleus of the disorder is a physioneurosis, somatization, depersonalization,
and dissociation. Psychosomatic symptoms are expressions of the dissociation.
Therapy proceeds by facilitating information transduction between them.
There is poor impulse control and explosive aggressive reactions.
There are persistent and profound alterations in stress hormone secretions
and immune function. Integration of traumatic memories proceeds by
verbal and nonverbal means in therapy.
Time does not heal all wounds. Different treatments are needed
at different stages of posttraumatic adaptation. CRP offers a way
of restructuring the frozen structure of this disorder at the most fundamental
level, in the sensory terms in which it is encoded.
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BIPOLAR DISORDER
and the
CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
ABSTRACT: CRP addresses this psychobiological disorder in terms of non-linear dynamics instead of as a battle of opposing states. Using Ernest Rossi’s Dream-Protein Hypothesis, a theory of this disease process is developed which accounts for much of its phenomenology. It examines the complex dynamics of learning and memory, which lead to greater creativity, stability, and healing in therapy.
Bipolar disorder consists of dramatic mood changes, characterized by irrational shifts in behavior and temperament. It used to be called manic depression, because of the alternating between normal, manic and depressive states. Rather than far poles of a linear oscillation, this effect is revisioned as related states of one primary attractor which accounts for them all. Bipolars experience both behavior and mood disorders, rooted in a runaway feedback loop modulating highs and lows. This disease is akin to a Hydra, the multiheaded monster from Greek mythology. It is a virulent disorder with multiple faces, making diagnosis difficult. Bipolars experience dramatic changes in sleeping patterns, eating habits, may drink excessively or suddenly begin to abuse drugs. Excessive activity, spending sprees, reckless driving, foolish business investments, infidelity, etc. can create problems. Moods and behavior are as changeable as weather’s unfolding divergence.
This mood disorder disrupts normal emotional states, such as happiness or sadness. On the down side it includes depression, passivity, lethargy, fatigue, and at the extreme, delusions, hallucinations, and thoughts of suicide. The elated pole includes wildly racing thoughts, expansiveness, agitation, restlessness, excitement, irritability, grandiosity, hyperactivity, and again, when severe, delusions, and hallucinations which repeatedly sweep over the person, altering normal personality. CRP helps ameliorate swings, reducing need for medication.
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ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (ADD/ADHD)
and the
CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
ABSTRACT: The Consciousness Restructuring Process can be used in an integrative treatment of ADD in both children and adults. ADD is a developmental disorder characterized by distractability, impulsive behavior, and the inability to remain focused on tasks or activities, without or with (ADHD) hyperactivity. Although the exact cause of ADHD is not known, an imbalance of certain neurotransmiters, the chemicals in the brain that transmit messages between nerve cells, is believed to be the mechanism behind symptoms. CRP goes deeper than behavioral, or cognitive behavioral therapy, and includes family therapy, neurofeedback, and proper nutrition in its integrative approach.
Adults who had ADD as children still carry some of the patterns of the disease, as well as residuals from years of treatment with stimulants, tricyclics, or other antidepressants, and psychological fallout. They benefit from CRP therapy as much as children in whom symptoms are amplified. Many children with ADHD receive neither behavioral training nor careful dose calibrations for the stimulants physicians prescribe, especially though community sources. About two-thirds of children do well enough to stay off medication with behavioral treatment alone. Psychosocial interventions like CRP, especially combined with neurofeedback, can profoundly affect ADHD even if a genetic predisposition is involved.
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PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TREATMENT OF CANCER
and the
CONSCIOUSNESS RESTRUCTURING PROCESS
by Iona Miller and Graywolf Swinney
Asklepia Foundation, ©2000
ABSTRACT: There are basic human drives toward sexuality, death, and a general evolutionary healing growth force. They are respectively eros, thanatos, and physis. The inwardly directed force of physis is a healing power that can be invoked through CRP even in the face of life-threatening disease. In fact, physis is the counterpoint to disease, a generalized creative drive toward health. Crisis may precipitate enhanced opportunities for the recognition and manifestation of physis; opportunities for massive reorganization along lines that are developmentally healthier and creatively more productive and healing. This creates more flexibility and resilience. In T.A. correlated script-free aspirations are under the influence of physis. As people get closer and closer to their true self or “First Nature” (which always involves a sense of somatic and organismic integrity), they connect more profoundly with an inner healing and actualizing drive. CRP journeys enhance awareness of the spiritual, transpersonal, or transcendent dimension of our endeavors. Dreamhealing journeys provide the proper ambiance for clients’ self-discovery of healing physis within themselves. In this process the life-force is kindled, facilitating healing and self-realization.
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