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The Manual
The Manual is a love letter to the reader composed over 10 years of working experience with clients who entered the conversation believing that genes affect one's personality, and leaving knowing that they do not.
Instead they learn that it is our experiences from birth that create our disposition and personality,
which means we can change with self-awareness.
Watch the video below where famed actor and song writer Scott Clifton introduces
The Manual.
You can purchase
The Manual from Amazon for $50 using the link below.
The handbook
The Handbook accompanies the Causal Theory course, and is exceptionally helpful in understanding how the Causal Theory can help you improve your self.
You can purchase The Handbook from LuLu for $50 + S/H using the link below.
This piece of film ia a tease. In this class, your beliefs will be challenged by the magic of reality and The Way of All Things. We teach the Intelligence Lecture when enough people seek it. It is six hours for $200. All students must have taken the Ultimate Parenting Class first.
Dr. Faye needs a minimum of twenty students.
When we are close, we will propose a date and time online with two months' notice.
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This class is like church at the beginning. Zen is the only religion with no beliefs. We begin with a meditation. We discuss the meditation of each of us. Ultimately Zen teaches us how to see more clearly what is, accept and cherish what is, and behave accordingly in wonder and gratitude. Zen teaches the virtue of humility. The opposite, in mental health terms, is selfishness toward others, to include a fear of being judged.
In the old days, Zen Masters would take in a resident of create a sort of monastery. They created puzzles for students, which could only be solved once assumptions and beliefs were questioned. The process required absolute humility or the surrender of ego or the abandonment of identity, per se. It often took years, if not decades. Further, they were teaching the cream of the crop.
Dr. Faye is a minister in the Universal Life Church. She once wanted to be a Zen Master of sorts, but that is a goal to essentially help the healthier students to become enlightened over years. Zen seemed to ignore mental health issues and from where they came. And it was too slow. When she read or learned about the teachings of Jesus, she turned to her son, who studied the Bible in depth. “Why are some Christians, dark and guided, and others, warm and caring. Why do some Christians believe in “Spare the rod, spoil the child,” and other ways to treat a slave, a child, or a wife. She wanted to know why some Christians really seemed to be humble, loving, insightful, and others seemed willing to lie, to reject, and to turn a blind eye where there is suffering. Some profess “Love thy neighbor, as thyself,” while other propose that we “Love thine enemy, as thyself.” Different parts of the Bible were written at different times. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John knew Jesus intimately. They were there for the Sermon on the Mount. But, St. Paul, canonized by the Roman Catholic Church (that once promoted Witch Burnings in medieval Europe), lived two hundred years after Jesus died. His version of Christianity was clannish. The two Christianities are polar opposites, which creates mental health confusion at a time when seeing clearly is the healthiest and most religious thing a person can do. Further, finding leverage for one’s beliefs in cruelty, is unhealthy, and it promotes false gods. The Bible speaks of false prophets. How can you tell? How can you assess? Do you seek agreement for your selfish desires? Or, do you seek insight into your blind spots?
Speed Zen dares to challenge assumptions, read stories, and get premature answers and explanations. As such, it is a sacrilege, breaking historical bounds that have been working for more than two thousand years old. Students are deprived of the magical moment of insight. Instead, they slowly earn insight, a la early president of the American Psychological Association William James in his book Varieties of Religious Experience. Dr. Faye is a Zen Buddhist and a psychologist, and there have been times she thought the best thing she could do for a client would be to describe mental health in a Zen sort of way. Mental health is very Zen-like. Dr. Faye has said, “As far as I can tell, there were no Zen Masters wiser than Jesus,” and there is evidence he was studying Buddhism in the Far East during the 30 years of his early adulthood, when there is no information on him. Wisdom from Jesus was like Zen Buddhism, with some modifications by religious bureaucrats. Yet, when one looks at primitive religions, and their reverence for the cycle of life, interaction, cause and effect, regard for other life, it seems to be a timeless way of seeing All. The Biblically reported sayings have been modified in some books of the Bible to meet social, political, and institutional needs of compliance. Nevertheless, it appears that the insight throughout the ages is always the same: practice humility, understand others as you would have them understand you. Be generous, and it comes back to you. Be honorable and ethical in your choices. Love those who are the most rejected. Only lie when it’s time to lie. Only steal when it’s necessary to steal for a higher good. Only kill when it’s necessary to kill.
Thus, Dr. Faye bastardizes the process, herself, with quick answers to the cherished Zen stories, Koans, and sayings, but with regular interruptive reminders of their meaning, bringing insight to blind moments, and improving self-regulation. Write to DrFaye@thePaRCfoundation.com if you are interested in attending regular of Speed Zen meetings, perhaps two weekend mornings monthly. Dr. Faye fees have always been below average, but she asks for donations commiserate with one’s ability to pay. She said, “If there are enough students and donations, I will set it up with bells on.”
This class is held on even Saturday or Sunday evenings every month, whichever is PaRC’s regular Marathon Day. Some say politics is separate from religion. Some know that advocacy of revenge, blind loyalty, greed, and cheating behavior is a mental health issue to include folie a deux, which is a shared psychotic and mutually reinforcing psychotic disorder. Disagreement is not psychotic, of course. However, beliefs that other people will be punished by a higher power for having failed to agree with unsupported facts, is neither sane nor intelligent. Einstein, said, “I want to know God’s thoughts [by studying the way of nature], and the rest are details.” Dr. Faye does not regard ways of functioning when facts and truthfulness are dismissed for malevolent ends, especially without considering the underlying causes of events within this particular moment in history.
Violation of the Bill of Rights; continuous breaking of the law; employing scare tactics against demonstrators; murder by our government on the high seas; continuous lying to the press; threating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with buying Greenland against the wishes of its people; reducing taxes on the most wealthy while making medical care unaffordable to most Americans; using the courts to seek retribution for disagreements; requiring adulation as if it is food; covering up pedophilia; blowing up governmental technology; refusal to pay his fair taxes despite a court order; a history of complaints by women of sexual abuse; using tax incentives and blackmail to force gifts and compliance by nations and influential parties; ruthless deportation of welcomed immigrants; threatening free speech and freedom of assembly; failure to accept a uniform application of the law; defending sex predators, perhaps even the president; continuous insistence that the president was legally elected in 2020, when he was not, and evidence that he supported an insurrection, are a few good reasons to highly mistrust the government and it’s unqualified hierarchy in the president’s cabinet, are only a few good reasons for mistrusting this government.
Healthy people are perceptive and honest. Dialogue and inquiry are encouraged. Disagreement must be respectful. If not, we will all leave, unless there is a better way to protect the group process. Unhealthy people tend to disagree by name-calling, devaluing the person holding the opinion, and physical attacks. What is happening today are mental health issues.
