Events
Extreme unhappiness
Category: Events
Type
Involuntary
Introduction and description
Technically speaking a doctor might classify extreme unhappiness as depression and term it an illness, but I do not want this section to be a technical diatribe on depression with papers on the amygdala, the neurotransmitters involved and the other physical symptoms, because the cause of spiritual experiences are functional and in this case caused by ‘emotional overload’. So functionally, depression can run the full gamut of extreme unhappiness, sadness and overwhelming melancholy.
Background
I have made the distinction between grief and extreme unhappiness because grief is a response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed, whereas extreme unhappiness may not be caused by loss, but simply some other circumstance – a very unhappy marriage, a job that you don’t like or cannot do, a boss that does nothing but criticise, children who cause you pain by their actions, or simply a deep seated feeling that nothing is right – your life is not going in the direction you want it to.
How it works
Very often unhappiness is caused by feeling trapped within an environment which causes pain, but appears to offer no hope of escape. You cannot rid yourself of an abusive partner for example, if you are a nervous fearful soul the thought of leaving an unhappy marriage can send tremors of fear coursing up your spine. ‘Better the devil you know’ you say, but of course no, not better the devil you know.
Within you the unconscious cries out for change. What it responds to is pleasure and pain not some abstruse logical argument. And all it knows every day is the remorseless tirade of pain. What it has lost is happiness and pleasure and joy – so it cries out. The child in us cries – the subconscious child. And the intensity of emotion blots everything else out – absolutely everything – reason, logic, desires and objectives, obligations and opportunities. Nothing is left except the vast sea of emotional PAIN so hard you think it will kill you.
And the Will is overwhelmed. It can do nothing against such an onslaught, it has nothing in its armoury to help – no learnt function can match this barrage of anguish.
So it gives in and the Composer takes over.
Occasionally the Composer will provide a sense of inexplicable peace amid the feelings of pain. But where you could do something about the pain it will give you lessons, lesson after lesson after lesson. Sometimes a stick, sometimes a carrot.
‘You can do something’, it is telling you, ‘if you find courage you can change I am here with you, your Higher spirit. Change’.
References and further reading
Paintings by Leon SpilliaertRelated observations
Healing observations
- Bach, Dr Edward - All we have to fear is fear itself 011143
- Barbara Baas and TMS 006492
- Canon Frederick Kill Harford and the Guild of St Cecilia 022324
- Cash, Johnny – What's happened here is that only my body feels pain, not my spirit, and in going with my spirit to Alaska I've left my body behind 025852
- Chamomile tea and depression 005372
- Charles Burnett – Spiritual medicine, music and healing in Islam – The Maqam 022096
- Chocolate and happiness 005633
- Coffee, tea and depression 005621
- Cohen, Leonard - And healing hurt 005812
- Complementary and alternative medicine and mood disorders 006188
- Darwin, Charles - Gets a cure 006678
- Dr J C Barker - Sudden death, asthma and the need for the will to live 011922
- EFT and anxiety 006210
- EFT and depression 006207
- Exercise to combat depression 006186
- Georges Rousseau - The Inflected Voice - Healing sorrow 022097
- Green tea and depression 005389
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Epilepsy induced by powerful emotions – anxiety and trouble 026072
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Hemiplegia induced by powerful emotions – anxiety 026105
- Hypnotism cures madness 010119
- I Was Able to Forgive and Move On MDMA (Ecstacy) by Trancer 020283
- Ibn Hindu - The Key to Medicine and a Guide for Students 022095
- Jane Dunlap - Who should take LSD? 015522
- Making love and depression 005784
- Meadowsweet tisane 019459
- Miss Beauchamp - Her illness was in the mind 015009
- Mrs Grieve on Yarrow 017658
- Mudras - Savasana - the 'Offering mudra' 016847
- Music and the mentally ill 005833
- Music Therapy - Catherine O’Leary and Martha with Psychological trauma and extreme unhappiness 021961
- Music Therapy – Clare Hobbs in acute and forensic psychiatry and Miriam 021971
- Priestley, J B - Margin Released – The healing power of being engrossed in writing 023804
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - Healing music 014687
- Pythagoras - Iamblichus's Life - Healing with music 014679
- Show Me How - The Alexander Technique: Angela Bradshaw at TEDxSWPS 027456
- The Healing Power of Sleep 026790
- TMS and manic depression 006486
- Zinc and depression 006870
- Zohar - II 165a – Depression and unhappiness 014896
Hallucination
- A collective hallucination - Witnessing the apparition [out of body state] of the lady who was dying 026692
- Depression, magnesium and calcium 005695
- Divorcing parents cause child's hallucinations 014374
- Elsie Haines hears a full orchestra during a period of depression over her cat's illness 023421
- Ghost of Duke in Raynham Hall 010076
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Headaches induced by powerful emotions - stress 026054
- Hallucinations from high emotion and hypoglycemia 013003
- Hospital Intensive Care units cause psychosis 006496
- I was astonished to find my room flooded with the musical strains of an extraordinary fine orchestration 023481
- Misery of a poor man 010118
- Miss Beauchamp - Her illness was in the mind 015009
- Mrs. Revell - As soon as I awoke, the wailing musical noise seemed to be everywhere 023445
- Musical hallucinations in the deaf depressed 006140
- Musical hallucinations in the elderly deaf 006139
- Visual Hallucinations in Older People 029543
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- Beverly Brodsky is comforted by a Spirit helper 011244
- Brahms - Gesang der Parzen op. 89 024379
- Carlyle, Thomas - On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic - Smoke and fire 004970
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - Centre of gravity of the universe 014217
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - For a Teufelsdrockh will not love a second time 000297
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - Mock me not with the name of free 004969
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - Never say that thou hast no symbol of the Godlike 014221
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - Wonder is the basis of worship 001057
- Cash, Johnny – Has a rebirth experience in a cave 025915
- Cellini, Benvenuto – The Capitolo to Luca Martin 028899
- Cezanne 004085
- Cohen, Leonard - In my secret life 007932
- Cohen, Leonard - A thousand kisses deep 003551
- Cohen, Leonard - Bird on a wire 007106
- Cohen, Leonard - Dance me to the end of love 003555
- Cohen, Leonard - Here it is 003552
- Cohen, Leonard - Hey that's no way to say goodbye 003553
- Cohen, Leonard - If it be your will 007931
- Cohen, Leonard - Magic is afoot 004490
- Cohen, Leonard - Raven and dove 004417
- Cohen, Leonard - The Gypsy's wife 003554
- Cohen, Leonard - Waiting for the miracle 007933
- Cohen, Leonard - Who by fire 007930
- Coomaraswamy, A K - Sympleglades 000822
- Dante - Inferno [self pity] 014655
- Doors - Riders on the Storm 003805
- Dr J C Barker - Sudden death, asthma and the need for the will to live 011922
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 03 Burnt Norton V 005897
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 04 East Coker I 003224
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 05 East Coker III 004058
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 06 East Coker IV 002424
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 07 East Coker V 001836
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 08 The Dry Salvages I 002668
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 09 The Dry Salvages II 004881
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 10 The Dry Salvages III 005852
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 11 The Dry Salvages V 013548
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 12 The Dry Salvages V 004879
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 13 Little Gidding I 004880
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 14 Little Gidding II 006051
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 15 Little Gidding III 013533
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 17 Little Gidding V 013550
- Eliot, T S - Hollow Men 01 007412
- Eliot, T S - Hollow Men 02 013551
- Frost, Robert - But God's own descent 002698
- Frost, Robert - A bird half wakened in the lunar noon 007388
- Frost, Robert - A voice said, Look me in the stars 006378
- Frost, Robert - And none are taken but who will 006380
- Frost, Robert - Builder, in building the little house 001707
- Frost, Robert - Even the bravest that are slain 006384
- Frost, Robert - I found a dimpled spider, fat and white 002343
- Frost, Robert - I stole forth dimly in the dripping pause 006386
- Frost, Robert - It was far in the sameness of the wood 001890
- Frost, Robert - Let chaos storm, Let cloud shapes swarm 006382
- Frost, Robert - Love has earth to which she clings 011102
- Frost, Robert - Nature's first green is gold 001825
- Frost, Robert - One of my wishes is that those dark trees 001830
- Frost, Robert - Ours is to behave like a kitchen spoon 002865
- Frost, Robert - Poets know a lot. Never did I fail 006381
- Frost, Robert - Some say the world will end in fire 010167
- Frost, Robert - Something there is that doesn't love a wall 003581
- Frost, Robert - That far off day the leaves in flight 006379
- Frost, Robert - The house had gone to bring again 004326
- Frost, Robert - The people along the sand 006385
- Frost, Robert - The rose is a rose, And was always a rose 000809
- Frost, Robert - The shattered water made a misty din 001216
- Frost, Robert - Two roads diverged in a yellow wood 006388
- Frost, Robert - We dance round in a ring and suppose 006383
- Frost, Robert - What if it should turn out eternity 004329
- Frost, Robert - When I was just as far as I could walk from here today 004320
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Summary: Disease is caused by extreme emotions 026056
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Diabetes induced by powerful emotions – stress and anxiety 026055
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of the Seven Gables - On adversity 004360
- John Fletcher - Melancholy 012542
- Knud Rasmussen - The Melancholy of the Iglukik Eskimos 000118
- Krishnamurti - The Network of Thought - Coping with sorrow and grief 013631
- Lear, Edward - The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 020147
- Marie Bashkirtseff - The releasing effect of extreme emotion 015011
- Michaux, Henri - Plume 004039
- Michaux, Henri - The Name is Everything 002674
- Michaux, Henri - Towards Serenity 004032
- Nietzshe Poem 000292
- Po Chu-I - The Lute Girl 012867
- Po Chu-I - The Ruined Home 012871
- Porter, Cole - Ev’ry time we say goodbye 026246
- Proust, Marcel - In Search of Lost Time Volume IV - On Pain 019775
- Redon, Odilon - Les Noirs 2 008019
- Redon, Odilon - Les Noirs 3 008020
- Redon, Odilon - Les Noirs 4 008021
- Schubert - Rosamunde, D797 - VII. Chorus of Spirit ('In der Tiefe wohnt das Licht') 020631
- Schulz, Charles - On happiness and sadness 017115
- Spilliaert, Leon - Based on truth (and lies) 006631
- Spilliaert, Leon - Femme au bord de l'eau 006633
- Spilliaert, Leon - Girls on a dune 008089
- Spilliaert, Leon - Jeune femme de dos asisse sur un tabouret 008088
- Spilliaert, Leon - Red isthmus 006635
- Spilliaert, Leon - The Absinthe drinker 008087
- Spilliaert, Leon - The Forest 008086
- Spilliaert, Leon - The Open Door 006632
- Take me to Luxembourg 000293
- The end of the affair 004912
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Talk on Supreme Guidance for the World 06 017858
- Thompson, Francis - The Kingdom of God 003730
- Thompson, Francis - An anthem of Earth 000860
- Thompson, Francis - Strange Chief, with the scars of Thy conquest trenched about 003731
- Thompson, Francis - The Hound of Heaven 1 000859
- Tulsidas - Kavitavali 07:183 017280
- Tulsidas - Vinaya Patrika 08 017271
- Verlaine, Paul - Soleils couchants 000120
- Wordsworth, William - from Resolution and Independence 027364
Out of time
- A collective hallucination - Witnessing the apparition [out of body state] of the lady who was dying 026692
- Attempted suicide 002492
- Beverly Brodsky is comforted by a Spirit helper 011244
- Black Elk - Native American Indians - Flies home 011559
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - Light sparkles floating in the aether of deity 004971
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - The Phoenix 014222
- Cash, Johnny – Has a rebirth experience in a cave 025915
- Cash, Johnny – What's happened here is that only my body feels pain, not my spirit, and in going with my spirit to Alaska I've left my body behind 025852
- Deep depression 000116
- Deep depression 000115
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 05 East Coker III 004058
- McMoneagle, Joe - Finding General Dozier 003870
- McMoneagle, Joe - Finds a Soviet plane in Zaire 003869
- Muldoon, Sylvan - Loneliness allayed 000119
- My name is Candace Jackson I'm 20 year's old and i had an Out Of Body Experience 016516
- Redon, Odilon - Les Noirs 1 008018
- Redon, Odilon - Les Noirs 2 008019
- Redon, Odilon - Les Noirs 5 and Closed Eyes 008032
- Severe depression 000117
- Tolle, Eckhart 002393
- Wish to die and deep depression 000114
Enlightenment
- Beverly Brodsky is comforted by a Spirit helper 011244
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - Annihilation of Self 001171
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 02 Burnt Norton II 013546
In time
- Beverly Brodsky is comforted by a Spirit helper 011244
- Blithe spirit - Judgement Day 002488
- Blithe spirit - Last line express 000360
- Blithe spirit - The Destroyed City 002491
- Bouissou, Madame Michael - With hallucinating clarity, I saw the great gate open to let through two hearses and a bridal carriage 023666
- Cash, Johnny – Has a rebirth experience in a cave 025915
- Cayce, Edgar - Sees auras 004249
- Colin Wilson - Major George Sully becomes possessed 010735
- Divorcing parents cause child's hallucinations 014374
- Dream of sick friend 010115
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 03 Burnt Norton III 013547
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 06 East Coker IV 002424
- Eusevgny Faygdysh - The Mystic Cosmos - Psychological trauma and illness 013626
- Frost, Robert - When I was just as far as I could walk from here today 004320
- Ghost of Duke in Raynham Hall 010076
- Hospital Intensive Care units cause psychosis 006496
- Hypnotism cures madness 010119
- Lethbridge, T C - A Step in the Dark – The ghoul of Ladram Bay 021912
- McMoneagle, Joe - Finding General Dozier 003870
- McMoneagle, Joe - Finds a Soviet plane in Zaire 003869
- McMoneagle, Joe - Reads Scotty's mind 003868
- McMoneagle, Joe - Remote views the Abrams XM-1 heavy tank 003867
- Michaux, Henri - In the Land of Magic - The most interesting things in this country cannot be seen 004044
- Misery of a poor man 010118
- Nightmares and their causes 006582
- Ramakrishna - A Vision 010724
- The suicide of Amelia Brentano 017036
- Thompson, Francis - Daisy 000945
- Thompson, Francis - The Mistress of Vision 003732
- Thompson, Francis - Thou canst not stir a flower, without troubling of a star 003733
- Verlaine, Paul - Aspiration 003170
Prophecy
- Bouissou, Madame Michael - With hallucinating clarity, I saw the great gate open to let through two hearses and a bridal carriage 023666
- Cohen, Leonard - The Future 015498
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 01 Burnt Norton I 013545
- Rosario Cassareto from Calabria, prophesies his own death with the help of Saint Bridget 017079
- The suicide of Amelia Brentano 017036
Dying
Environmental Influence
- Dr J C Barker - Sudden death, asthma and the need for the will to live 011922
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Ageing and death induced by powerful emotions – Fear, remorse and shock 026146
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Birth deformities and stillbirths induced by powerful emotions – Fear, repulsion and shock 026145
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Blood circulatory problems induced by powerful emotions – rejection and sexual frustration 026124
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Gout induced by powerful emotions – Fear, fury and stress 026160
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Qualms induced by powerful emotions 026062
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Skin conditions induced by powerful emotions – Grief, fear, shock, and melancholy 026148
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Trembling Palsy, Paralysis Agitans, Parkinsons induced by powerful emotions – terror, insecurity, stress and anxiety 026080
Other observations
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 16 Little Gidding IV 013549
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Paralysis caused by anxiety, stress, trauma and ‘intellectual labour’ 026042
- Hack Tuke, Daniel – Sickness - Qualms induced by powerful emotions 026062
- Low pressure and suicides 006557
- Michaux, Henri - The Night Moves - All too often I become involved in law suits 004031