The Group Trance

The idea that is being used to allow the majority of the supposedly ‘normal’ to justify their verbal, psychological and sometimes physical abuse of the supposedly ‘abnormal’ who complain about them, is the belief that the ‘abnormal’ do not understand that they are being mocked, ridiculed and psychologically isolated (abused) since we are too ‘inferior’ to understand that.


This is the idea that creates and sustains the infinite loop of anti-logic. (an opposite of logic) This then becomes the irrational justification for the group (or mob) abuse of the selected targets. The targets of course see, hear and know all of this and assume that the abusers are fully aware that we do. Therefore, the question is often asked by targets, just as I asked my own abusers,

“WHY are you doing this to me?” For as targets we look for reason where there is no reason.

The problem is the abusers can only hear what they want to hear and therefore hear the question being asked of them in their OWN irrational terms.



Most often the answer we receive is something like, “No one is doing anything to you, “which is often accompanied by a big exasperated sigh. Or sometimes it is treated as if the behaviour acted out on us is justified by our ‘deserving’ of it as though the starting point of the problem were within us, and not related to the group perceptions and behaviour in any way. The chicken /egg paradox is ever present. What comes first; the behaviour and reactions of the target or the abuse of the antagonist and his/her supporters and enablers?



Of course from the target’s point of view the question means something like, “WHY are you targeting me, mocking, ridiculing, involving others in helping you to do it, lying, pretending to be too stupid to know what you are doing, acting out right in front of me like I am not there, threatening me if I try to talk about it to anyone, creating psychological traps from which there is no escape possible , fabricating more stories to justify yourself, trying to hide the truth, telling me I have to take it from you and not complain about it etc. and then SMILING and laughing with obvious glee while you do it all, as if watching my mind fragment under such inhumane pressure was best twisted entertainment and ‘fun’ you ever had in your life?



A state of hypnosis is induced by using suggestions that a collective ‘reality’ is identified by a concept, which is stated in absolute terms, without any connection to specific concrete details or evidence. Examples of that would be like these below which are actually thought stoppers designed to prevent debate. They are used like psychological white noise. Possible questions as those in the footnotes are not to be asked and most of us know immediately when we hear the hypnotic suggestions that this is the purpose of them, though we must not say so, right out loud for fear of being forced out of the group.



“No one can be blamed.”1



“We used to blame the family but we know better than that now.”2



“We must always be positive.”3



If we want to come out of this collective trance, we are going to have to first see that we are IN one and then we are going to have to question why, and how, we got this way and why we fight so damned hard to make sure we STAY this way, despite the fact that the ugliness we are so studiously avoiding is growing, and getting worse all the time, BECAUSE we are working so hard at denying it and averting our eyes.



A little more “religiosity’ for you:


“You are as sleep walkers.”



What do you Christians who are hiding the truth about what has happened here think THAT means?



It refers to the collective trance.











1 Why can’t anyone be blamed, for what exactly under what specific circumstances and why must everyone be innocent of any wrong doing? Is that reality?

2 WHOSE family, where, when, under what circumstances and are all family members innocent and good? Is the stuff about ‘families’ that makes the paper like child murder and parental rape just a bunch of lies then? If it has happened even ONCE, that ‘the family’ is to blame for anything, then the all inclusive abstractions are nonsense aren’t they?

3 Why? What will happen if we are not positive at times? Why do we have to go through life oblivious to what is wrong here and acting like grinning idiots? Do you who say this as if on auto pilot ever notice how much time you spend being negative?

Memorial created 01-18-2010

by
National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer/Survivor Organizations


Judi Chamberlin
October 30 1944 - January 16 2010

Last Season of Lost

Last Season Of Lost

Starts February 2nd

Patricia Lefave

I would like to recommend watching this final season to the Psychiatric Faith, as well as to forensics cops and the people currently studying for jobs in the mental illness profession. It IS a mental illness profession now but it might become a mental health profession if people can learn to get real and stop living in the 'Family Romance.'

LOST is the sort of series that those in altered states would be getting 'messages' from because of the conceptual content to which most of us can relate to our own lives and experiences. Though it may be 'lost' (har har) on psych students and bio psychiatrists, it may have a lot of meaning for us. When altered, the 'patient' would feel extremely drawn to something in it to the point that it would seem like the universe, or God was sending him or her messages...and perhaps that is true depending upon how you perceive it. One of the problems of 'perception' generally is that if I, being psychiatrist say I think I see 'evil' it is immediately heard by the system as a 'symptom' yet if the doctor or nurse or ward clerk thinks there is evil in the world, it will be called piety or devotion and not 'illness.' This splitting of language helps to ensure the experiences of the psychiatrized are rendered meaningless, reinforcing the ever popular 'them and us' mentality.

So how about you get some education from someone who has been driven into that state and knows something about it from firsthand experience? her is what I would like you to think about while watching the final season.

I think the possibility exists that it is going to turn out that all of the people on Lost (or most of them) actually know each other from a mental institution where they were, or are, all psychiatrized and they are showing us a collective experience on a group level as they try to figure out what the hell is going on with the time distortion and who is whom, or what is what. The theme is now one of accepting the transcendence of time and space in their experience. There is a "Shadow Monster" something that comes out of nowhere and grabs people dragging them down into holes. (Fighting psychiatry and the public when you are forced into psychological isolation by those protecting the system is a lot like 'fighting a shadow' with no concrete substance. )

The people on Lost know it is up to them to get it all straightened out, because the 'normal' people don't understand it at all. (the saviours of the world)

The 'Lost' ones who 'crashed' are a group of people who had serious problems in life with both self and others and who may have all ended up in the same place for a variety of reasons..

Among them are the following:

Jack: the medical doctor who has problems with addiction;first with his father's alcoholism and then his own addiction to oxycodone.

Kate: on her way to lockup after getting mixed up with a bad boy and convicted of a crime.

John Locke: mocked and ridiculed by his co workers who all treated him as 'less than' because he was in a wheelchair and because he was so 'stupid' as to want to tour the Australian outback in it.

Claire: who was pregnant and running away to have her baby.

Sawyer: the ex con with an attitude and a love for cons and irresponsibility.

Sayid: a trained assassin on the run.

Hurley: who broke down completely after winning a huge lottery prize and was stated outright to be in a mental hospital seeing and hearing things that were not there, including people.

Charlie, the well known band member: whose life falls apart with his increasing addictions and inability to handle 'fame; (which he was no doubt "seeking"). ....etc.

Already on the island:when the plane crashes is Ben, whose life perspective is coloured by the extreme childhood abuse of his own alcoholic father.

Get the picture?

All of them end up together in a place where time becomes irrelevant and is no longer linear for them.

As you tune in to the world of those you consider to be 'less than' I want you to keep in mind what it is they believe they need to do together and see if you can manage to hear it OK even while comparing the group effort to change things to my own 'fascinating case'. Try to get your heads out of the spin on reality you have been taught to see and to look no further, for fear of offending "the Family" and all the glory for which it is forced to represent, which is not unlike the 'glory' of war when we must see the great 'honour' of sacrifice.

Listen to the Plot

The people on the island in shifting time, decided to go back together even though they did not want to do so, and they just wanted to have a normal life again. So they all headed back to an earlier point in time, they were dragged there, and tried together to understand the time paradox and what it meant to them and to what they must do to fix the problem and get things straightened out in time.

They are doing this so that reality will turn out the way it should and all will become stable in time. Right now they seem stuck in multiple versions of the same reality which keeps changing every time there is a dimensional shift. They have to do much of this blindly from the point where they are, but as they move THROUGH it they get more and more information added about who everyone is, what is going on with everyone else, and why, so that it gets easier to solve the puzzle by fitting all the disjointed or missing pieces together. The more information they get, the less chaotic it seems to the group of people who are putting it together by working with each other to understand it.

Though the concrete details of the experiences of all those who ended up in this crazy place together were very different, they all experienced the distortions of a a common reality together. Some were there because they were addicts; others because they lived with or were controlled BY addicts. Some were abusers of others, and some were those abused by others.

There is nothing easy about it; they have been at times completely disoriented in time and space by it all, yet they are working their way through it and making sense out of what appears to be senseless and for which they have all been called 'crazy' by the 'others.' The 'Others' claim they are only there to 'help' and they have 'stations' where they observe the newcomers, writing down all that they say and do and they talk it over amongst themselves while trying to decide how 'dangerous' (are they dangerous to the 'Others') those new to the island really are, and if they are a threat to their projects and experiments.

Do you notice anything there? That is an explanation of the concepts behind the concrete details of the story and this is the kind of thing that, if I was in the altered state you psychiatrists dismiss as meaningless, I would find to have 'messages' just for me as all others find them to be 'just for them.' It is the common concepts of the group experience that makes it so. You should not assume that if YOU don't get the message, there is no message to get. It would be especially meaningful for me if there were a couple of new pieces of information for my puzzle that were being provided to help me solve my own experience and to become able to make some kind of sense of it. Can you see why?

In psychosis I got a strong message, just for me, from an episode of Voyager which is of course all about human relationships disguised as travelling all over 'space.' In it, there was a debate going between two well intentioned crew members who were trying to decide what to do and who wanted me to know that. I saw this as a kind of split in my own doctor's mind and also thought he wanted me to know that, and he had put this on the TV as a pre-planned recording to tell me so. Also he wanted me to believe that I was unknowingly caught in my own feed back loop but I already knew that and I was telling THEM something they did not understand; something which I had already told to a number of mental illness professionals long before this, including the ones on the unit with the one who started it all, as well as the psychiatrist they sent me to for being 'upset.'

She, and the unit psychiatrist, were among the first who to warn me not to attempt to confront them or talk about this in public. I let those listening in know that I had gotten the message loud and clear by leaving THEM a message saying that if I were 'to confront everyone who is lying to me, or who think they 'fooling' me, that I would not have time to be doing anything else, all day long."

The 'message' I was getting about the doctor at the hospital, after I finally broke under pressure, was that he was of two minds. One was his psycho spiritual self which was represented by Chakotay following the old ways and the other was the programmed hologram acting as the ship's doctor which did not understand that his own programming was part of the problem and that HE was the one caught in his own 'loop.' I was represented by Kes, who was evolving into a new life form, and was telling the programmed 'doctor' that he must listen to his Chakotay side who was trying to help him think his way out of this though spiritual means.

Well I suggest you tune in to Lost, the final season, this program full of messages and mysterious hidden meaning and see how it all turns out in the end. I have a feeling that you are in for a bit of a shock.

I believe, whack job that I am, that all through our human history we have been getting 'messages' from our collective unconscious in an attempt by our higher selves to wake us up to the reality of the mess of our own creation. We have consistently chosen to ignore or suppress the messages and this has now become the official 'treatment' of those determined to 'save' us by invalidating and suppressing any truth they really don't want to know and would prefer to ignore and deny.

Note of caution for my readers, who are now, experiencing, or who have recently experienced , extreme states of consciousness.

This kind of chaotic story, which jumps all over time and connects seemingly unconnected details is the kind of thing which MAY trigger your own altered state and throw you back into it. So if you are not stable, or do not have your stability well established, so that you no longer feel the sense of time or dimensional 'shifting,' it may be advisable for you at this time to avoid this kind of thing as a precaution. This kind of thing can act like a PTSD trigger so please use appropriate judgement from where you are now, before watching things like this. If you do start watching and feel yourself becoming altered, stop watching and do something to connect you to concrete reality, the more mundane the better. You can catch up to this later after you are well stabliized.

So for the rest of you experts, why don't you try something new for a change and see how all this symbolic meaning, which is currently a confusing mess for all involved , actually turns out and how the puzzle gets solved.

I think you are going to find it 'fascinating,' just as fascinating as any other 'case.'

My take on it of course, could very well be wrong, but seeing how it all turns out in the end is part of the 'fascination' isn't it?

Does “Psychic” Ability Actually Exist?

By Patricia Lefave

What is prescience, precognition, psychic ability or Deja-vu?

It is the recognition that the place for which I am heading and the journey to get there is following the SAME path I have taken before. It feels familiar, even though it is not identical.
The only thing different that makes it so surreal, is the fact that the name of the city towards which I travel,, the street names and the highway numbers on the route there have all been given different names. For a time, that makes it SEEM as though I should not be able to recognize this journey. The trip wears a beard. (No, I am not being literal there)

Once however, that I have traveled a portion of the trip, I can predict with near one hundred percent accuracy, everything I am going to see and experience along the way.
To those traveling with me and making the trip for the first time, this may all seem magical or amazing, but, it isn’t really magical. It is only ‘magical’ to those who can’t, or won’t, see HOW I do it.

It is somewhat like explaining the earth is a sphere to those who have been taught, and who have always believed, the earth is flat. If added to their belief is another belief, that instructs them not to question what has been taught to them by the authority figures of the faithful Society of Flat Earthers, then the truth that the earth is round will only fall on psychologically deaf ears no matter how many times and how many ways I tell it to them. It is a truth that will also enrage some of them.

Worse than that is the fact that the revelation of a real understanding, a real prescience, may well cause the one who speaks the truth to be attacked by those who don’t know it or accept it, even if the proof is right in front of them.

Why would they do that?
Because their life long Faith in the Flat Earth and their veneration of the authority figures who instructed them in it and promote it has been deeply shaken and doubt has crept into their minds, perhaps for the first time ever.

If doubt is then seen as always a ‘negative’ thing to be avoided, a character flaw or a ‘sin’ then it may seem natural or ‘normal’ to them to attacked the one who has caused them to feel this new uncertainty. THAT one is not like them. He or she is an ‘outsider’ threatening their very way of life and sense of safety and security, so he or she must be ‘evil.’

This is how reality gets flipped around one hundred and eighty degrees and how good old fashioned witch hunts, by any of their new names, get recreated and repeated. This will happen until we ultimately either wake up to what we are doing and stop it or else what we are doing puts an end to all of us who are doing it.

In the world of true sanity, all people know that the ‘outsider’ is an illusion created by all those INSIDE the group madness which they do not question. Unfortunately, and not giving in to the temptation to minimize the damage this does to us all, this illusion has gained a very strong foothold in all of our CONCRETE institutions and it’s still growing.

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The Use Of Language In Defining Reality

By Patricia Lefave

I believe that one of the most important things to understand about our problems with psychiatry and others is that Language is used to define control and manipulate by those DOING the defining. Let's use a common example that most of us hear repeated over and over ad nauseam to those of us defined as 'sick.' This is one of my favourite meaningless abstractions used to attempt to shut me up.

"We can't blame others."

It is never 'which others' under what specific circumstances with what evidence of what...It is always used as a generalization connected to nothing at all and delivered in absolute terms. The only time that changes is when the
person being 'corrected' changes to become the 'other'. Then it becomes a whole OTHER abstract truth. These things used to stop communications are the same kind of abstraction used to 'diagnose' me. No concrete specific evidence is wanted or 'allowed." The language used to manipulate me though does NOT apply when it is the other way around. It only applies when I am the one doing the 'blaming.' There are many 'other' people who blame me for both what happened to me as well as what has happened to 'others' as a result of it. But you see, in that case, 'blaming others' is all right.

I have found that throughout my experience with both dysfunctional people and psychiatry itself, this duality is ever present and almost always delivered as abstract ideas in absolute terms which does more to create a them and us mentality than anything else they could have come up with for just that purpose. The dual meaning is the one constant. Once psychiatrized, writing in a notebook cannot be seen as healthy expression regarding the release of emotion or an attempt to sort information. Instead it is pathologized as 'writing behaviours.' In this way 'language' is used to define us. So I believe that one of the things we must do is point this out publicly, over and over again until it sinks into the average mind.

You Don't Know What Words Mean

By Patricia Lefave, Labelled, D.D.(P)

That title is one of the concepts out of my nurse co-worker/protagonist's so called training.
Let me give you a concrete example of that so you can see, what I am talking about when I try to explain.

What do you think this means?

"Bill Gains Strength"

Do you think you know? Are you sure? Does it seem 'obvious' to you?
Ok, well let's look closer. Who or what is 'Bill'?
Is this a man?
Is it a dog?
Is it the bill of a bird of some kind?
Does it mean the dollar bill in the U.S.?
Is it the bill for a meal you just ate?
Is it a bill for some other kind of services rendered?
Is it a political bill someone is trying to push through parliament?

What kind of strength is it, or 'he,' gaining?
Is the gaining of strength a good thing or a bad thing?
Is it irrelevant?
Is Bill working out at the gym and gaining big muscles?
Is a dog named Bill recovering from his trip to the vet?
Is the parrot's broken bill healing or is it just getting bigger as the parrot matures?
Is it the American dollar getting stronger on the international markets?
Did you put that meal for which you were just billed, on your credit card?
Are there more members of parliament willing to support the desired legislation?

So which is it?
Do you not know? Is that because you are stupid and/or crazy? Or is it because you do not have enough concrete information to be able to know? In one way though, you have too much information don't you? Let me help you; not by calling you crazy and drugging you, but by giving you the missing information you need to make sense of the information you already have, which will also involve eliminating all the extra information which does not really apply to THIS case, though it may apply to some other case, which is using the same WORDS but meaning something else.
Here it is:
The statement: "Bill Gains Strength", is from the weather network. That is the missing information in THIS case.
Bill is the name of the current hurricane and it is gaining strength as it moves up the coast to Florida. It is a simple truth isn't it? Of course you could have found out by just asking me but if you were trying to keep yourself convinced you were 'hiding' and also had an understanding superior to mine in this matter, you would not want to do that as that would ruin all your 'fun.' (not to mention your own delusions of grandeur)
Now try to imagine what that kind of non communication could do to a person who was targeted for 'confusion' by someone with a 'hidden agenda' of domination.

Psychosis can be triggered by just this kind of disconnect from concrete reality.
When you cannot pin it down, especially when you are on the receiving end of a bombardment of multiple versions of reality by those around you coupled with a non stop contradiction, it can become impossible to stay connected. The next thing that happens is your brain tries to help by going on a mad search for meaning that will allow you to make some kind of sense of your external experience.

That does not mean there is something 'wrong' with your brain. It is doing what it is built to do which is functioning like a computer sorting information. BUT when there is too MUCH information and/or some vital information missing, it cannot function as intended as the search for meaning does not result in resolution. THAT has to come from an external source like supplying 'a key' for the completion of the sorting action.

When I was in psychosis I 'saw' Solomon's 'key.' That was the symbolic imagery. That 'key' was the story of the false parent whose 'solution' was the acceptance of dividing the 'baby' in half to be 'fair' to all and not 'blame' anyone. Solomon knew that only a false parent would sanction the killing of her own offspring as a 'solution' to. a dispute between two sides.

That psychotic symbolism had great significance for me. To most psychiatrists of course, it is meaningless.

They are wrong about that.

There I go with my 'fault finding' again. According to some of the psychiatric hospital staff, on their next round of debate with me as their long standing topic, this indicates I likely need another stay in the loony bin. Should I be expecting the ACT team to knock on my door with a police officer as part of the new pre-emptive strike being delivered by those who deny that they know anything at all about this? Many think it would be for the best if they got me the 'help' I obviously need. At least, that is what they say when they talk about me like I am not there.