The Ultimate Scavenger Hunt : A journey from fear to trust . Introduction to holistic philosophy

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by  Scott Cousland

T U S H
HE LTIMATE CAVENGER UNT
A Journey from Fear to Trust
By Scott Cousland
An introduction to holistic philosophy
Copyright 2017 Scott Cousland
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T C
ABLE OF ONTENTS
Title Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Summary
The Truth is “Out There”
Life is a Construction Zone
Addiction
Love Matters
Afterword
An email from AJ about Hope and Faith
About the Author
Endnotes
A
CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I have been greatly blessed by having brilliant mentors in each of the three areas of
Holistic Philosophy
Body
Albert O. Snow, ND
www.HolisticGastroenterology.com
Mind
Rhys Thomas
www.RhysMethod.com
Soul
Alan John “AJ” Miller & Mary Suzanne Luck
www.DivineTruth.com
T U S H
HE LTIMATE CAVENGER UNT
A Journey from Fear to Trust
By Scott Cousland
An introduction to holistic philosophy
S
UMMARY
"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."
- Ezra Pound
A patient is one who waits for someone to come and heal them.
"The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is
courage."
- Thucydides
The secret of courage is faith. The secret of faith is play.
The secret of play is being in love!
The “tricky part” is we believe we already know what love is. Most of what passes for
“love” in our world is actually co-dependent addiction.
The journey from fear to trust is one where we identify and then heal our addictions.
As I have healed my own addictions, each healing step began with considering that I
was wrong about beliefs that I previously held close to my heart as TRUTHS.
I wish you Godspeed in your own healing journey.
“Love truth, but pardon error.”
- François-Marie Arouet
"Out of each mistake, each error, you are constantly gaining
something.
Errors are valuable. Mistakes are immensely necessary.
If you are somehow protected from committing mistakes and
errors, you will never grow. You will never learn a thing. You will
never mature."
- Chandra Mohan Jain
"Now many of you don't realize that the mistake you are worrying
about is nothing, and the mistake that you are not worrying about
is everything.
Because the mistake you worry about, the mistakes in knowledge,
not knowing enough or not being enough and all these kind of
things; God does not worry about all that.
God worries about how loving you are...and when I say God
worries, it is not a worry obviously, but all of God's laws are about
helping you develop in love.
It is not a mistake to not know things...it is a mistake to not love."
- Alan John Miller
T T “O T ”
HE RUTH IS UT HERE
There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn’t true,
the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
- Søren Kierkegaard,
Works of Love (1847)[1]
History shows that some of our most powerful truths were initially regarded as
ridiculous -- travel by train (air will be sucked out of the cars, causing suffocation),
heavier than air flight, travelling faster than sound.
Other truths resulted in people being jailed, tortured and killed -- “I and my Father are
one” (Jesus of the Bible), “People who have died are still ‘alive’ and have much to
teach” (witches, mediums and psychics).
Telling “The Truth” has historically been very risky business. At best people will call
you a fool…at worst, you could be tortured and killed.
We fail to accept truths that are “outside of the accepted paradigm” for two major
reasons:
1) The simple desire to not be wrong.
2) The economy’s “health” is dependent on the way things are now.
It is fairly easy to see that the first reason is based on fear.
It is much harder to accept that our entire economy is driven by our desire to avoid
feeling our fears.
Every society “broadcasts” its collective resistance to healing our fears by the size of
its institutions that are created to provide a sense of safety.
At the individual level we broadcast our resistance to healing our fears by our active
participation in these institutions…or in our rebellion against them.
One of the pivotal books I read that transformed my understanding of myself and the
world is the book Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic
Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman.
In this book she writes:
The greater the patient's emotional conviction of helplessness and
abandonment, the more desperately she feels the need for an
omnipotent rescuer.
Often she casts the therapist in this role. She may develop intensely
idealized expectations of the therapist. The idealization of the
therapist protects the patient, in fantasy, against reliving the terror
of the trauma.
As we develop the desire to become self-responsible, our institutional “therapists”
(schools, religions and governments etc.) will follow us…as they always do.
As every tyrant knows -- the people are far more powerful than the institutions they
create.
I believe the purpose of our physical lives is to become self-responsible individuals
who progressively learn to become more loving.
Nobody can do that for anyone else. It is an inside job.
L C Z
IFE IS A ONSTRUCTION ONE
A great man’s strength is identified by what he builds, not what he
destroys.
-Constance “Chuks” Friday
Naturopath Albert Snow taught me that if you want to rebuild any part of the body,
you have to provide the body with the materials that make up that part. He also taught
me that increasing the number of beneficial bacteria[2] in our bodies is fundamental to
improving health.
These two pillars of Naturopathic Philosophy provided the beginnings of what I now
refer to as the construction model of health.
All construction projects have these seven things in common:
(1) Raw Materials (2) Transportation (3) Blueprints (4) Workers (5) Tools (6)
Communication (7) Energy
Building a healthy body is a complex job, but the big picture of how it all fits together
is fairly simple.
All injury and disease involves stress to one or more of these seven areas, or directly
to the structure of our bodies.
(1) Raw Materials are the substances we eat, drink, inhale and absorb through our
skin.
“You are what you eat.” Even the worst contractor knows that using low-quality