Gwynneth wrote:

This article made me SICK to the stomach! Have these people
been through anything like what they are describing? Perhaps
if they had the chance to actually feel what children who
are abused feel, these so-called "professionals" would be
able to see how WRONG they are! How dare they assume to use
the term "adult-adolescent sex" to replace that of "child
abuse", therefore implying this kind of behaviour is
acceptable? My heart is beating irregularly even as I write
this, I am so incensed.

Yes I think that there is a world of difference between
people who have either experienced this themselves or have
lived around people who have experienced and are suffering
from it and those who would like to pretend it does not
really exist. Most people, especially scientists, and now I
see especially mainstream therapists, suffer from the
pathology of being unable to feel. This is another way of
saying they are cut off from the heart. Today
professionalism is the equivelant or means having no heart.

How can any of us ever be saved, when we allow these
atrocities against children to go on?

We can only close our hearts when we allow the violation and
hurt of beings. The heart that is open hurts on this planet.
It is impossible, I think, to walk on this earth with a
caring heart and not feel deeply many things and many
issues. Feeling not thinking. Not opionions. The measure of
the heart is its capacity to feel and care. And all to often
we experience this as pain and suffering and even in anger.
Most often we need to know our true heart through the depths
of suffering. I wish it where another way but truth is truth
and this planet, well we just have not managed yet to make
it into a garden. The mind would always like it to be
another way than it is. But in the heart we just feel what
it is. We know what it is. And it is difficult for all
hearts who know they are a heart, and feel their hearts to
not feel the pain of the heart. I mostly experience the joy
of the heart now but still I can cry like a baby over my own
children, sometimes I miss them so much, and also I hurt or
cry over the pain and suffering of others around me. How can
the pure heart not be affected and feel the suffering of
others when in the heart we are all one. In the heart there
is no separation and that is what most minds cannot
understand.

In the purity and openness we feel and we never judge what
we feel or divide feelings into the universe of positive or
negative, good or bad. We just feel what we feel. This is
enlightenment of the heart. And the mind will never know
this space until it surrenders completely to the deep
currents of the heart. I see you do not resist your heart
even if you have to suffer and feel your physical heart
start to beat irregularly.

As usual I feel your heart so easily warrior princess and
that is why it is so easy to love you. So easy.

Mark