Induced after death communication
From The Red Pill
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Overview
The typical IADC involves the patient reporting that he/she has seen a deceased person and that deceased person told him or her that everything is okay and not to grieve. In a number of cases, the deceased person has related information previously unknown to the patient. The therapy works with people of all beliefs, including atheists and skeptics. The end result is that the majority of patients overcome the grief.
History
IADC is an offshoot of EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy, which was discovered by Dr. Francine Shapiro of California in 1987. While focusing on the therapist’s hand, the patient is asked to move the eyes left or right rhythmically and focus on a disturbing thought, feeling, image, or sensation. In IADC therapy, people grieving the death of someone, or otherwise disturbed by someone’s death, are asked to focus directly on their sadness during the eye movements.
Botkin accidentally discovered IADC during a session with a patient to whom, for privacy purposes, he gives the pseudonym "Sam." While a combat soldier in Vietnam, Sam had befriended a 10-year-old orphaned Vietnamese girl named Le. In fact, he had decided to adopt Le and bring her home. One day, while Sam and other soldiers were helping Le and other orphaned children board a truck to take them to an orphanage, they came under enemy attack. When Sam discovered Le’s lifeless body in the mud behind the truck, he was devastated and the grief remained with him right up to that 1995 session with Botkin. During the EMDR, Sam saw Le as a beautiful woman with long black hair in a white gown, surrounded in a radiant light. Le spoke to him and thanked him for taking caring of her before her death. Sam was ecstatic and convinced that he had just communicated with Le, and that he felt her arms around him.
Explanations
Basically, there are two explanations for this phenomenon. Either the grieving patients are hallucinating or they are in touch with the "dead." Botkin is reasonably certain that the many patients who have benefited from the therapy are not dreaming, imagining, fantasizing, or otherwise hallucinating. "The most compelling evidence is that all people who have had IADCs report them to be very different from all other experiences," he explains. "Technically, hallucinations are perceptions without corresponding sensory input, which means that hallucinations are all in one’s head and have nothing to do with any reality that exists separate from us. Hallucinations generally have a very negative content, vary considerably in content from person to person, and are thought to be a symptom of a severe psychological disorder. It is clear, however, that IADC content is uniformly positive, very consistent in content from person to person, and very healing psychologically."
However, Botkin prefers to not speculate as to whether patients are actually in touch with the spirit world. Whatever the explanation, it works, according to Botkin, at least 70 percent of the time. "As a psychologist who is primarily interested in healing people who suffer so profoundly, I have taken the strategy not to engage in arguments about beliefs," he gives his position. "Believers and skeptics have been waging this battle for some time. I believe that if I take a side, and get placed in one camp, it will be more difficult for me to get help to those who need it." Moreover, Botkin points out that his neutral position allows the patient to interpret the experience without being influenced by the therapist’s beliefs.
Botkin further explains that the EMDR/IADC process does not involve hypnosis. "Hypnosis induces the patient into a relaxed and focused state of mind," he says. "EMDR, on the other hand, increases information processing in the brain." He likens it to a movie projector, with the projector slowing down during hypnosis and speeding up during EMDR.
According to Botkin, most grieving patients experience three basic emotions – guilt, anger, and sadness. He discovered that the guilt and anger served only to protect the patient from the deep sadness, and so he began encouraging patients to go directly to the core sadness, thereby bypassing the guilt and anger. He also found that patients responded better when they closed their eyes briefly after a set of eye movements. By addressing the sadness, the guilt and anger disappeared.
The accepted grief therapy for many years has been to extinguish emotional ties with deceased loved ones, i.e., they are dead and gone, and so forget them. IADC, however, complements a slowly emerging approach with an opposite view, one of developing healthy continuing bonds with the deceased. As that approach flies in the face of materialistic science, which has indoctrinated us with the belief that life is simply a march toward annihilation and nothingness, it is being ignored or resisted by many therapists.
(this Red Pill entry written by Michael E. Tymn (reproduced with permission))
External Links
- Dr. Allan Botkin's official IADC website
