Essay 42 - 2024. Suicide. The Unspoken Mental Sickness Among Americans. And Other People Too. By: Mr. George D. Patnoe. October 18, 2024.

Essay 42 - 2024. Suicide.

The Unspoken Mental Sickness Among Americans.

And Other People Too.

By: Mr. George D. Patnoe.

October 18, 2024.

Or maybe people have good reasons to kill themselves!  Maybe?

Maybe some people simply do not like living or being alive.

Would that be a sin in the eyes of God, would it? Hum!

Suicide - Wikipedia

“Depression (major depressive disorder) - Symptoms and causes.

Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think, and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems.” (Mayo Clinic.)

I was at a gas station last week, with my African Grey parrot on my shoulder. I was walking by when a middle-aged male yelled out to me about the Grey, so I walked over just to be friendly. I have met a lot of people by having an African Grey on my shoulder. Sometimes it talks back.

Of course, walking over to a complete stranger in this crazy people world could mean a quick and rapid violent confrontation, so everyone must be careful about what kind of strangers they are walking up to, especially with a parrot on their shoulders.

But sometimes a meeting with a complete stranger might be and lead up to something good.

So, we started talking and somehow the conversation got around to me telling him about my experience with dying from stage 4 CLL cancer and the darkest 4 months of my life, which had led me to think about committing suicide too.

I realized that people who have experienced any type of cancer and/or taking any type of chemo will not fully understand and comprehend what a cancer patient goes through every day just to have the will to stay alive, or to use the will to live versus thinking death would be better than being used as a biological ground for cancer and the chemo treatments.

Except I wasn’t thinking about committing suicide, I just knew I could do it because I was already dead for all practical purposes. I was a walking zombie even when I was taking a walk down the street for five or ten minutes.

Of course, people would see me walking, but they had no idea what kind of condition my body, brain, and mind were in because I already knew I was more than a cancer/chemo biological battleground.

Recently, I had to experience some stupid people's issues. Not only were they stupid, but they were liars too. A dumb blond bimbo with a law degree who must have been the most ignorant and stupid person with a law degree who has ever lived proved to me that not every person with a law degree is intelligent.

But most of you probably already know that. Don't you?

Who knows, maybe a lot of people with law degrees are like this lady who likes to walk around on stage almost naked when she is not doing her job. A lady with a law degree putting on a strip tease. Hum!

It is weird seeing a person with a law degree walking on stage showing off her tiny, thin ass as if it was special. Amazingly, there are a lot of people showing off their naked bodies on the web.

Why? Do people think that their ass, tits, legs, blond hair is any different than other people who also have an ass, tits, legs, and hair? I just don't believe the mental insanity of it all. Human bodies.

Anyway, she, like everyone else, who deals with people every day probably sees people who are sick but who never show it unless they are almost dead. I was almost dead too. I had died a few times in my condition when I was there alone in my bed, letting the chemo-cancer biological and chemical battle continue without any help from my mind or brain.

My brain wasn’t thinking at all no matter how much I tried to think a thought. I would try to think about which is one of my hobbies. But I just could not think. Not one thought. That was very depressing. I could not read a book, watch a movie, or eat food unless I forced myself to eat food.

My body had at least three powerful drugs in it including the chemotherapy Calquence. Therefore, my biological body too, was under the spell of the finite, limited, mortal, suggestion that it too, along with my brain and mind was going to die, or at the very least, might die, could die, which it was doing anyway.

I explained to the guy at the gas station that at least six times I had stared at an S&W .40 caliber handgun or pistol thinking that since I was already dead except for the automatic biological responses of my human biological body, like breathing.

I could not do much except wait for the time when CLL cancer experience was over, or at least destroyed enough to be able to watch the world go by like it has done for a billion Earth years or so, give or take a million here or there.

But I remembered my doctor’s words of hope. Therefore, the conclusion in my mind was that if there was hope I had no reason or purpose to pick up a .40 caliber pistol, aim it at my head, and pull the trigger. So, I wasn’t going to do it. But again, I could have done it. No problem.

I told him that I wasn’t thinking of doing it as a way to escape the situation. I just knew that I could do it with no problem. I could see the gun in my hand, pointing it at my head, and pulling the trigger. My brain would splatter in my bedroom, my soul gone from this world.

Of course, unlike other people who hope for solutions with their human and earthly affairs, I also knew and know about the metaphysical concept of a multi-universe and a multi-dimensional realm of existence even as I live as a human being. Most people do not know about them.

After I was all finished, he looked at me.

He stated to me, “Well, I had no reason to go to the gas station today, but I did. I think that I was supposed to meet you today.”

Now, I was surprised by his response because I did not know what he was going to say next.

So, he started to tell me that he had been having a rough time in his life and he was thinking about committing suicide. Well, that put a stop to the happiness inside my brain and mind. I was happy to just be walking without dying at the moment from stage 4 CLL cancer and here was this guy probably without stage 4 cancer who was thinking about committing suicide. How ironic.

Well, that conversation just went up a level of seriousness. But since I started it by explaining my experience with CLL cancer, dying, etc. with him, the can of worms was open from having a pleasant conversation with a stranger to discussing it very seriously.

Immediately, my red alert angel status went off in my mind which it does from time to time.

I also knew that time was very limited on how I was going to respond to his statements that he was thinking about committing suicide, which of course is a very serious thing to deal with, but as the talker and the listener standing at a gas station parking lot.

After I was finished telling and explaining my story of CLL cancer, dying, and my thoughts of ending my life while still on chemo-pills, among others, he stated to me.

“After hearing your story, I don’t feel like I should be thinking about suicide.”

I looked at him. I said with my finger pointing at him. “Don’t do it. Never give up.”

He got into his SUV, and he drove off. I walked away with a parrot on my shoulder.

This was not my only time and experience having to listen to the word suicide and the words about suicide whether with a family member or a stranger.

I don’t know if any of my readers have had any type of conversation with the word suicide in it, but the word suicide usually means death. Not dying per se, but death as in finished, gone, it is over, baby. One step off the Golden Gate Bridge and you are experiencing your last moments of hopelessness. If you were depressed before you stepped off that bridge, you have increased it.

What is it like to know that you have just made the biggest mistake in your life? Knowing you could still be alive for a few more decades, but in a few seconds, you will be dead with no goodbyes to anyone except the seagulls flying next to you if you were that lucky.

I have had more than a handful of human and earthly experiences when I was dying, was considered dead by the experts, only to return to this human biological body which is considered to be me whenever I look in the mirror, or whenever I simply wake up from dreamy sleep.

Even as I type these words on the keyboard, I look at my fingers and skin, knowing that there are bones, muscles, blood, and a lot more stuff going on, so I can type words on a keyboard.

But I also know that there is more to me than the one-dimensional biological body of skin, bones, blood, muscles, organs, and even my brain, which of course is a very important organ to have operation properly.

A lot of people who consider themselves pretty, good-looking, and beautiful like to think that they are only a biological body. They look in a mirror and think to themselves, ‘I am so pretty, good-looking, and beautiful. Then they post their almost naked bodies on Facebook or worse yet, on sex sites hoping everyone is going to pay money to watch them have sex. Just wrong, to me.

I have never thought about actually killing myself, although I have thought about killing other human beings in the line of self-defense or some other legal situation. Ever since I learned that some human beings are very bad, violent, and evil human beings who might hurt or kill you.

I bet you have met some of those people yourselves, but you probably were not ready to kill them in the legal line of self-defense. You see, I am not like that.

Recently, a two-time violent ex-convict threatened me by stating to me, “I don’t care how many black belts you have. I am a two-time violent ex-convict. One more strike for me and I am going to prison for a long time.”

He started to tell me that if it was not for his one more-strike status, he would kick my ass. 'Really?' I was thinking to myself. And he knew that I was still taking a cancer drug for my CLL cancer. What a violent punk.

He was implying that he would beat me up on the street because he was a violent person before, during, and after his time as at least a two-time violent convict.

I thought to myself, as I always do when people talk like that, "Talk is cheap."

I looked at him, thinking, “Thanks for the heads up. If you ever try to land a hand on my biological body that is still taking chemo pills every day, I am going to do things to your body that no convict will ever think about doing to you.” But I didn’t even say a word to him. I ignored his empty words.

I was already destroying his body by breaking it into pieces with my hands and feet. Sorry dude. Don’t try it with me. I didn’t survive dying from stage 4 CLL cancer to be bullied by an uneducated, violent, criminal, ex-convict.

Killing another human being, no matter for what reason, is a very big deal in my book, even if you have no choice but to do it. There are all sorts of human beings who are ready to kill, have killed, and will kill a human being over and over and over again with no hesitation or problem.

Some of those human beings who do the killing get paid money to kill, like some military men and women in the armed forces all around the world. I have known and talked to a lot of killers in the United States military. They all have to live with their memories.

I wonder if you commit suicide, do you have a memory of it in the afterlife if you have an afterlife. Some metaphysical questions cannot be answered here on Earth. Or even regarding the cosmos.

I hear and read all the time about how the different types of cosmic scientists cannot figure or understand most of the stuff in the cosmic universe. I think to myself that they may never figure out everything about the cosmic universe. It just may be impossible to learn everything about the cosmic universe.

Nobody gets paid for killing themselves.

But the seriousness of killing yourself, or another human being killing themselves is a really big deal to me too. I wanted to help the guy who was still standing next to me at the gas station, but what could I do, except listen to him for a few minutes and give him a few words of advice?

I just do not think that killing yourself or committing suicide is a good idea for any emotional, logical, rational, metaphysical, or spiritual reasons. There are more reasons too.

Like if you are supposed to live for a multi-number of reasons like your kids need you, but you are considering committing suicide when another person needs you, you are being completely selfish for all of the commonsense reasons.

But there is more to it than that, believe it or not.

As many of my readers have read by now, I have left my body in several different ways at different times during my human life.

But I always return to it, to wake up or whatever, to stand tall, to take a shower, drink some coffee, and continue on with my human existence and life.

I am not the same person I was before my dying experiences at least a few or more times during the battle between cancer and chemo-pills. I think the battle between the chemo-pills and cancer is a better phrase because the chemo-pills were and still are attacking the cancer cells and not the other way around.

What I have not done yet, of course, is to go completely over to the other side of whatever is waiting for me when I stop breathing air into my lungs, and my heart, and brain stop working.

Some people claim that they have completely passed over (died) and they saw heaven or hell or whatever, but I have not done such a thing, nor am I sure I want to do it.

But I have left my biological body in many different ways, yet I have never seen anything like heaven or hell, or anything semi-religious. I think that many religious people might have it all wrong about heaven and hell. It is just a guess, but a good, educated guess.

It is not that I am scared of heaven or hell, but it can wait unless one day I am supposed to go that far only to return to earth and my human body again. Would anyone believe me if I crossed over and I saw heaven or hell?

Do people who think about committing their suicide think about heaven and hell? Hum!

But here is the thing with the human mind and the supernatural realm of experiences.

There are just so many of them to experience, so in essence, if you are experiencing a mental dream world of heaven or hell, how do you not know if what you saw and experienced as a heaven or hell is not only a mental dream world which is not based on an absolute spiritual reality of existence, but it is still a religious dream world of heaven and hell. Like it was a movie experience.

Because in the absolute realm of spiritual existence, there is no heaven or hell. There is only God, Spirit, and its spiritual images, reflections, and identities.

There are no human people in the pure realm of God, Spirit, which I have experienced at least once. But once was good enough for now. It wasn’t a heaven or a hell. It was better than any heaven or hell.

But as most of you are aware by now, all of the huge and high-power telescopes whether standing alone on planet Earth or with a bunch of similar telescopes planted on Earth like a bunch of telepathic trees, or the higher and even more powerful telescopes that are floating around in the cosmic void, have yet to find either a cosmic heaven or hell.

Therefore, if there is an afterlife as in a place afterlife, it is probably not in this cosmic universe but is located somewhere else in a different space-time dimension.

The guy at the gas station, his name was Charles I believe; he would not tell me why he was thinking about committing suicide.

So, I asked him if he was depressed. When he said yes, I told him that maybe he needed to talk to his doctor and get some professional help.

The way he looked at me, I could tell he had been told that before the words had left my mouth and told me that other people had told him the same thing. Believe it not my dear readers, if you are thinking about committing suicide, talk to someone before you do it. Talking helps.

So then. He was looking down on me because he was taller than me. So, I told him that I knew a lot of stuff. And that I had experienced a lot of stuff, as in supernatural stuff. I asked him if had seen and watched the Robin Williams movie when his wife committed suicide.

He said no. I forgot the name of the movie, so I had to look it up for this essay.

“What Dreams May Come”

“Parents need to know that What Dreams May Come is a 1998 movie in which Robin Williams plays a man killed in a car crash who must leave heaven to rescue his wife from hell after she commits suicide. The movie doesn't shy away from emotional intensity, especially with parents trying to cope with the tragic loss ...” (Take off the web.)

“Is What Dreams May Come based on a true story?

The author Richard Matheson claims in an introductory note that only the characters are fictional and that most everything else is based on research (the book includes an extensive bibliography).” (Taken off the web.)

When he replied that he had never watched the movie, I told him, “I don’t know everything about the afterlife. (I may know almost nothing about the afterlife, but at least I know there is an afterlife.)

I told him that I don’t think it is a good idea to kill yourself when you are so young.

I stopped, glared into his eyes, and I repeated with a different, but very serious tone, “I mean it. I don’t think (slowly like a ghost might do it.) it is a good idea to do it. You don’t know what happens to people who commit suicide before their time is up on Earth.”

He looked down on me, with a hint of, I just scared the shit out of him, or at least the notion of thinking about suicide.

Is there an eternal hell for people who commit suicide or is that just a religious belief? I don’t like most religious beliefs that are created by ignorant religious people.

I should have asked him if he was raised a Roman Catholic because they think that committing suicide is a carnal sin. There are different definitions of what is a carnal sin on a human level.

“What are the 17 sins in the Bible?

As I pondered on all this, my thoughts went to Galatians 5:19-21, which says, “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, ... (Taken off the web.)

Or.

“The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” (NIV)

In each of these definitions of sin, there is not one word in them about whether committing suicide is a sin. They don't state that committing suicide is a sin in 'God's eyes.'

When I was talking to Charles, I remembered that I had a sister-in-law who had committed suicide. It was decades ago, but I always remembered how I thought about her wasting her human life so early for what I considered to be stupid and foolish reasons.

Of course, I don’t all of the details of her life nor about the situations surrounding her suicide; not how she did it, but why she did it.

I think that it is a very strong bet that committing suicide starts or begins in the brain and mind.

That is for sure. Even thinking about committing suicide is not a joke. Someone even thinking about committing suicide has already crossed over from one mental realm to another mental realm. Unless you are already dead, like in my case with stage 4 CLL cancer. But I knew I wasn’t ever going to commit suicide. So, therefore, thinking about it was not an issue for me.

In other words, there is something wrong happening deep within the psychosocial makeup within the brain and mind of a human being to ponder whether committing the horrible act of suicide, is a sin or not.

Different cultures view suicide very differently from a religious standpoint.

“Some societies have a positive view of suicide that is done for culturally approved reasons; for example, in Japan, if one shames one's family, suicide can be an act of honor. However, Muslims see suicide as an unforgivable act (this view does not apply to suicide bombers, who are seen as martyrs). Jun 27, 2014. (Taken off the web.)

Being alive on planet Earth is special for all sorts of reasons, besides the fact that one sperm out of 200-300 million hits the female’s egg. That is a biological reason. Meaning you are the lucking sperm. LOL.

“It takes just one sperm to fertilize an egg. Keep in mind, though, that for each sperm that reaches the egg, millions don't reach that egg. On average, with each ejaculation, nearly 200 to 300 million sperm are released.” (And that is only one ‘load’) (Taken off the web.)

The other reason, a cosmic reason, is that all life on Earth is really special considering that life on planet Earth is so far the only planet with life on it that has been discovered, the only life in this cosmic universe, so far anyway.

If planet Earth holds the only living and intelligent life in this cosmic universe, and every human being, from the poorest, the most uneducated, the most low-life human being should consider their human life special and they should live their human lives as if they are special from a cosmic, ... God standpoint, even if they are not special from a human standpoint.

Instead of wasting their human lives becoming all sorts of ‘low life’ human beings, for short, all people around the globe should feel that being alive is special and a blessing. That is hard to do.

I asked Charles if he was depressed, as in a general sense of the term, like I was going to psychoanalyze his state of mind at a gas station, which of course I was doing anyway.

“What does it mean to psychoanalyze a person?

Britannica Dictionary definition of PSYCHOANALYZE. [+ object]: to treat the mental and emotional problems of (a patient) by having the patient talk about dreams, feelings, memories, etc.: to treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.” (Taken off the web.)

He had already told me that he had to go, but he was still standing there talking to me, waiting for a simple piece of advice from a stranger at a gas station.

I was thinking that in today’s world, there are a lot of reasons why people could be depressed. The list was growing bigger and larger as I was standing there with a parrot on my shoulder.

I knew Samson the African Grey wanted to continue on our walk, but he behaved because maybe he knew I was trying to take care of some serious business as if just maybe I could help this guy not commit suicide for some stupid and foolish reason. I hoped I stopped him from doing it.

About ten years ago or more, I was talking with an old man who was over 90 years old. He told me two memories that they had to live with for his entire life.

He was just a boy at a tall hotel. He was sitting on an outdoor chair next to a pool. He said to me that he stood up and walked about five feet when a body landed on the chair that he was sitting in. The body was either pushed off from high above or it had committed suicide.

You should have seen the look in his eyes whenever he told me that story in his memory.

Then just to top that off, much later on in his life, he was walking on the phones at a hot-line suicide call center when his mother continued to call in stating to him that she was going to commit suicide.

He got so tired of his mother calling in to bug him that one time he replied to her, “Go ahead, you old bag. You know you won’t do it anyway.” Then he hung up the phone on her.

Later that night, he got a call from the police that she had indeed committed suicide. The look on his face and in his eyes whenever he told me that story was worse than the chair at the Hotel pool.

Moreover, my dear readers, if a person you know is talking suicide with you, take it seriously.

In other words, I bet there are a lot of people thinking about suicide and who have experienced their situations and experiences with suicide too. The person sitting or standing next to you at work could have thought about suicide once or twice or more. Or maybe they know someone who has committed suicide, whether a family member, a friend, or a co-worker.

I bet there are a lot of convicts and homeless people who have thought about committing suicide too. How convicts have thought to themselves that they would be better off dead than sitting in a steel bar cage like a monkey with a bunch of other violent convicts.

But the state and federal jail and prison systems won’t let them kill themselves because that would be unethical and immoral.

Maybe there should be a decision by a real judge in a real court of law, not by a dumb blond bimbo, a blind lady with a law degree, to give the choice to any criminal who is standing before him or her to die instead of going to prison for a lifetime.

A lot of people, especially the victims would argue to keep them in a jail or prison cell to rot.

That would save the state and federal government lots of money that could be used for better purposes. Why should society have to pay money from their forced tax donations to the state and federal governments on people who are uneducated, trash, worthless, and violent criminals?

Or the state and federal jail and prison systems can simply give their prisoners enough rope to hang themselves in their steel bar cages or cells. That would save so much money for the taxpayers who have to pay for the jail and prison systems in America.

Some people commit suicide alone, in their houses or cars.

Then there are those people who commit suicide out in the open, in public for everyone to watch.

There are those cases like martyrdom, self-sacrifice, and self-harm cases of suicide. There have been a lot of early Christians who foolishly committed martyrdom, and self-sacrifice in the name of Christ Jesus.

On November 3, 2006. Malachi Ritscher set himself on fire because he was an anti war protestor who burned himself, and immolated himself, on the Kennedy Freeway during rush hour in Chicago and almost no one noticed.

“Self-immolation is the act of setting oneself on fire. It is mostly done for political or religious reasons, often as a form of protest or in acts of martyrdom. Due to its disturbing and violent nature, it is considered one of the most extreme methods of protest.” (Taken off the web.)

He was an American musician, recording engineer, human rights activist, and anti-war protester.

He opposed the war in Iraq, and he left a sign next to him that stated, “Thou Shall Not Kill. As Ye Sow So Shall Ye Reap. Your Taxes Buy Bombs and Bullets” YouTube it if you like.

He obviously was not some sort of mentally crazy person who did not have a life or who was on drugs. Or just maybe he was a crazy person who was on drugs. I don’t know.

What is known is that he killed himself in public thinking that his death was going to make a difference regarding a war. Of course, it did not make any difference in any way, but at least his name is in Wikipedia.

But he must have known that setting himself on fire was not going to change anything. So why?

I don’t know what it feels like to burn to death. I hope I never have to experience it. Did he even think about what it was going to feel like being burnt to death? That is a really big decision to make in a person’s life. Some people amaze me with the things they do to themselves.

(Partly taken off ‘The Great Course Plus online streaming Lecture 4 titled, “Thinking about Religion and Violence.”) The whole lecture # 4 is about why people commit harm to themselves for religious purposes. (Partly taken off the web.)

How many people try to make a political, economic, or religious statement by suicide?

“Thích Qu ng Đ c protested the persecution of Buddhists in South Vietnam by self-immolation on 11 June 1963.” (Taken off the web.)

Isn’t it true though, that the one person whose name is associated with the beginning of the religion termed Christianity also committed his form of suicide too? His name is Jesus.

Unlike Malachi Ritscher, Jesus probably hoped that his death was going to change the world, but how could he be so sure that his death was going to slowly but surely evolve into one of the world’s biggest religions, and his name would live on for at least 2000 years?

Jesus had a choice to be taken into custody by the Roman authorities or not. Believe it or not.

Most Christians falsely believe that Jesus was some sort of religious Jew who was forced to be taken in by the Roman authorities, but this is not true at all. Or that he was God in the flesh who was horribly bloody whipped, nailed on a cross, died, and returned to Earth, as God. But wrong!

But first of all, as is noted by many Christian thinkers, how can any type of God, Spirit, let itself be horribly bloody whipped, nailed to a cross, die, and then return to Earth. It does not make any logical sense, religious logic, or simple everyday logic.

God is Spirit, not a human biological body. Even if religious people believe it, it is still not true.

Most people would want to avoid being horribly bloody whipped, and nailed to a cross, only to die a very horrible human death.

But not Jesus. Therefore, in essence, he committed his way of suicide by letting the Roman authorities take him into custody, knowing that he was going to be flagged with a whip, 39 times, forced to carry a wooden log, be nailed to that wooden log, and the suffer for at least 3 hours, before he eventually died on that cross.

The emotional religious people and Christians, well, if most people, probably feel sorry for an innocent man like Jesus. I too have been accused of crimes I never committed, especially by uneducated, hateful, ignorant, violent, and sometimes gay potheads in the town where I currently live.

You must understand my dear readers, I am not like many people in this town or in this world. I am highly educated, I don’t hate people, I am not violent as a hobby, I am not gay, and I think being gay or obsessed with any type of sex is not only disgusting but also a waste of human life on Earth.

But I am not ready to be put on the cross, especially after surviving stage 4 CLL cancer and death.

But you see, they have all been proven wrong. But they were never going to burn me at the stake nor nail me to a cross because those methods of violence are not tolerated anymore.

Back to the main issue. In every town, city, and countryside, all around America and the globe, some people have probably thought about ending their human and earthly lives for one reason or another reason.

In other nations, committing suicide is the best way to save face, but that is just stupid, isn’t it?

They might think to themselves, ‘It would be easier if I was dead. My sexual partner left me. My bank account is in the negative range.

Or I look like a big fat-trash-eating pig. My kids are druggies and potheads. My spouse is always looking at porn instead of looking at my fat-trash ugly body. My spouse knows I don’t care about my body anymore so what? I am a loser, etc.

Life is a never-ending cycle of doing the same thing over and over again until sleep arrives. But after a few bad horrible dreams, it is time to wake up again and start all over.

When some people wake up, they look in the mirror and think to themselves, I hate myself for being alive. I would rather be dead. To hell with it all. But death is never the answer, is it!

But just maybe, millions and billions of people around the globe get depressed for a lot of possible reasons. They don’t make their parents happy. They feel completely alone. They have had too much disgusting sex, taken too many drugs, and wasted their human lives on nothing. Shame on them.

First, I would like to make a general statement about depression in general. The whole world gives everyone reasons to be depressed. That is, all of the mental qualities and reasons that would make a person want to die instead of live. The world is an ugly and cold place to live.

That is true in other nations more than in a nation like America. But still, there are so many false mental reasons why the fake worlds in America might make some people depressed too. Why? Because human life is not fair to anyone, although more so for some people than other people.

Do you watch the news about America, the world, wars around the globe, the possibility of a world war one day, appearing overnight; another global virus, hyperinflation so high that every person and business finances go to hell in a handbasket, sex slaves, drugs, gangs, violence, school shootings, the media and politician lying every day and night on every device possible.

“Hyperinflation is a term used to describe rapid, excessive, and out-of-control price increases in an economy, typically at rates exceeding 50% each month over time. It can occur in times of war and economic turmoil in the underlying production economy, in conjunction with a central bank printing an excessive amount of money.

An example of hyperinflation is the German hyperinflation of 1923, where prices ran out of control and a loaf of bread, which cost 250 marks in January 1923, had risen to 200,000 million marks in November 1923. (Taken off the web.)

The world in general and the human world gives people all sorts of reasons to be depressed.

Do you want to know what the greatest depression of all time was for me?

It was when I was lying down on bed, all drugged up on chemo pills, and a bunch of other drugs. I could not even think of a single thought to give myself a spiritual metaphysical treatment most of the time.

Of course, I was giving myself a spiritual metaphysical treatment before the CLL cancer became active. I have been told that it became active because I received the COVID-19 vaccine.

Many of my readers may ask themselves, “What is a spiritual metaphysical treatment?”

To answer that question, I am first going to explain how it developed in as short as possible.

It started with a man named Jesus about 2000 years ago. The religious Christians think that he would just snap his fingers to do a healing, but there was more to his healing than snapping his fingers.

2000 years later, give or take a few years, a lady named Mary Baker Eddy spent three years of her life studying the Bible. She could do healings too. Then came along a man named John W. Doorly who studied both the Bible and Ms. Eddy’s books.

In his books, he described how to do a spiritual, metaphysical healing that everyone can do by themselves. But you have to want to think because thinking is a very big part of spiritual, metaphysical healing.

A spiritual, metaphysical healing is based on knowing what the realm of God is as a pure realm of Spirit, which Mary Baker Eddy wrote down as a definition of God on page 465 in her book Science and Health with the key to the scriptures.”

“Spirit. Divine substance; Mind; divine Principle; all that is good; God; that only which is perfect, everlasting, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite.” (Pg. 594. 19-21.)

Max Kappeler wrote a book on those seven terms. It can be read at the link below.

https://www.kappelerinstitute.org/kappeler-files/Books/7synonyms.pdf

The Seven Synonyms for God BOOK, Hardbound, 361 pages, published in 1984 Author:
Max Kappeler.

Description:
In the Christian Science textbook, God is defined as Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love: the 7 synonyms for God (see S&H 465:8–15). A thorough understanding of this 7-fold nature of God is central to understanding the Science of Being.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the 7 synonyms—including their history, their individual tonality, and how their 7-fold nature operates dimensionally on every level of spiritual consciousness. Through the scientific method of synonym research explained in this book, we gain a divinely objective understanding of God.” (Taken off his website.)

As most of my readers have seen in my other essays, I like to use the phrase a multi-dimensional state of consciousness compared to a one-dimensional biological state of consciousness.

Neither Ms. Eddy, Doorly, or Kappeler uses that phrase anywhere in their writings. Nor does anyone in the course of human history. But since I know and understand that I live in a multi-dimensional universe and within my own consciousness, I like it a lot. I hope you like it too.

Plus, that phrase makes it easier for everyone to mentally grasp the possibility that they too can begin to obtain a multi-dimensional state of consciousness even while you are living as a human being on a rock that is traveling around a sun; and you are still stuck inside a biological body.

It took several years for John W. Doorly to develop his sense of spiritual, metaphysical treatment. Max Kappeler made a spiritual treatment even better, but I am going to keep it simple for this essay by using Doorly’s method of spiritual, metaphysical treatment.

A spiritual, metaphysical treatment begins by putting all of your problems behind you and looking into the immense world of Spiritual reality called God. That means not looking for Jesus to help you, but taking the time, energy, and life desire to truly know what a spiritual God is in reality.

Mary Baker stated in her book that man is made in the image and likeness of God, Spirit is not flesh and bones. Paul in the New Testament also mentions that skin and bones cannot inherit the kingdom of God or heaven.

Paul also states to “Put on the Mind of Christ.” What does that mean in simple terms?

It means to know something about your true spiritual self-hood which is spiritual and not biological, nor even stuck inside a human brain.

If God is, “incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite, Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.” (S&H. Pg. 464.) Then man made in the image and likeness of God is not a corporeal, limited, finite, biological body of skin, bones, blood, organs, and even the human brain.

That means to give yourself a true metaphysical spiritual treatment means by thinking and knowing that in the infinite, spiritual realm of the divine infinite Mind or Intelligence called God, you are an idea or image with his spiritual Spirit, not a material spirit. An unchangeable identity, Soul. Already at one with God or Principle, whose nature is Life, Truth, and Love.

If the reader were to read and study the three main books stated above, you would learn more about how to give yourself and other people a spiritual, metaphysical treatment.

But if you want to continue to be a non-religious or an uneducated, simple-minded religious person who begs and pleads to a human god somewhere for help, then you are not only fooling yourself until the moment you die, but you will still be mentally suffering under the religious mental delusions that you have been taught to believe by uneducated, simple mind, religious people who repeat religious words, but who know nothing about the spiritual nature of the Bible, God, and man.

What good is giving yourself a true, extended metaphysical spiritual treatment you may ask yourselves? Especially if you know what those seven terms for God are in their deeper and more profound nature.

Well, for this essay, any sense of being depressed because you are a one-dimensional human being created as a one-dimensional human body starts to disappear because God, the divine Mind or intelligence starts to enter your consciousness and you begin to see and know yourself as God, the divine Mind, or Intelligence knows you, as a spiritual, unchangeable, eternal, consciousness that is perfect in the Mind of God, Intelligence.

What does that do to any sense of humanly mentally created depression? It begins to change your state of consciousness because as religious Christians might state, ‘God is bigger than any of your humanly created psychological, sexual, economic, political, personal, financial, etc. problems.

If human beings, especially religious human beings, especially religious Christians knew something about Jesus's true spiritual self-hood, then they would begin to understand and know something about their spiritual self-hood.

Then, they would have nothing to be depressed about, at least in the Mind of God.

"To live in the world, but not of the world."

Seems pretty easy to me, But probably not!