Part
One Introductions.
“I
was part of life at last,
and in the midst of the excitement I discovered liquor. I forgot the
strong warnings and the prejudices of my people concerning drink.”
Bill’s
Story. The Big Book of the Amateur Angels.
Alcoholism and the Magic of Alcohol in
Humanity.
We begin this introduction
with a discussion of the most widespread recreational practice in
humanity, which is the drinking of alcohol and then suffering from the
malady that comes with it, with the later being the one that most
people do generally not want to know about, as they are affected by it,
directly or indirectly. This is the malady of alcohol addiction, but in
these writings, all pollution of the human brain with chemicals that
replace the natural neuro-transmitters, is given the title alcoholism.
This may appear in addictive, none-addictive and co-dependent addictive
forms and is now affecting all of the population in the western
cultures. This addiction percentage was estimated at 5% of the
population in 1920, but in 2000 it had--conservatively
calculated--become 25%, of which 15% were addicted to alcohol, 5% to
illegal chemicals and 5% to legal drugs, at any given time.
This is a
reflection of about 70% of the population currently trying alcohol (or
other chemicals) at any given time, resulting in 36% of them becoming
addicted alcoholics, but the remaining 30% of the population are
children and those who never drink alcohol. Of the 70% that try
alcohol, the 36% represent that become addicted represent the 25% of
the total population, with the remaining 45% usually becoming
none-addicted alcoholics, which are also co-dependent alcoholics along
with the remaining 30% none-drinking population. These figures are now
growing at an alarming exponential growth rate with each generation,
with no one knowing conclusively how serious the consequences are for
our genetic legacy, or what can be done about the problem other than
trying to control it through legislative punishment, which is
counterproductive and only accelerate it.
What do our Sciences really know about
Alcoholism?
Although our scientists have
mountains of isolated knowledge about the brain's functions and
malfunctions, they do not know what the "X" factor is, nor for that
matter, what alcoholic addiction is. This is owing to the fact that
they have not solved the riddle of the human brain but here the main
issue is our understanding of consciousness, or rather the lack of it.
The word that most neuroscientists used to express both consciousness
and the brain is "mind", representing the contents of consciousness,
which is assumed to be nothing more than electrochemical surges among
the nerve cells in the brain's seat of consciousness. However, some are
open to the possibility that the "mind", or consciousness could exist
independently, but do not know how. The very lack of an ultimat insight
into this is what hinders our scientists in solving the riddles of the
human brain’s fundamental programming, functional organization, storage
and retrieval of memory information as well as for its malfunctions
which our scientists are still groping in the dark. This includes
alcoholism and all the other addictions variants.
This lack of an ultimate
understanding of the brain and its functions is then reflected in the
utter inability of our neuroscientists to explain the addictions and to
produce a solution for them. What is even worse is the fact that these
disciplines are behind the psychological and psychiatric psycho
reactive chemical treatment of this world’s most widespread ailment and
are thus using the same method for healing that originally created the
problem. Another major negative consequence of the neuroscientist’s
lack of proper brain modeling is reflected in its inability to produce
explanations for the multitude of neurosis and psychiatric illnesses
and their connection to man’s use of alcohol and other psycho reactive
chemicals. Even worse is the neuroscientists and chemists denial of
their lack of knowledge, which along with the same kind of denial by
the psychological and psychiatric disciplines, produces the distract
alcoholics and addicts from the proper solution, which is the spiritual
one presented by the Amateur Angels.
Since the alcohol
effects the reality perception through the subtle alterations in the
brain’s fundamental natural programming, it consequentially alters its
performance, not just directly, but also indirectly through the
collective “alcohol-mentality”, which renders it un-necessary for a man
to drink alcohol himself to become effected by it, but this fact is for
the most part hidden from our neuroscientists. This in turn alters the
general social behavior, which means that this “alcohol-mentality” is
writing our history without us being aware of it and is further the
cause for most of our terminal statistical sicknesses, which are caused
by the DNA-functional disorders called “the DNA-filters,” in the
QF-brainmodels, and which originate in this pollution.
Brain-modeling that makes the
QF-interpretations Possible.
A major part of the reasons
for our scientists not having solved the riddle of the human brain and
consciousness is in the fact that some fundaments of quantum reality
are still missing in the “standard model of physics”. The ideas that
represent these missing insights, which have primarily to do with the
connection between quantum mechanics and general relativity, are
provided for the first time through the QF-unification theory. The
quantum reality models that this theory offers is in turn the base for
comprehensive brainmodels that describe healthy brain programming,
functions and malfunctioning. This is the reason for the Book of
Revelation prophesies being about the discovery of this theoretical
unification model, that for the first time conclusively explains the
effects of alcohol on the human brain. These physics insights represent
additional insights to the standard model and essentially verify Albert
Einstein’s 1926 intuition comment: “Quantum mechanics is certainly
imposing. But an inner voice tells me it is not yet the real thing. The
theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of
the old one.”.
As an aid to the readers
understanding of the QF-interpretations of the Revelation’s Seven
Seals--and for that matter the rest of the interpretations--it is
imperative that he have some insight into the QF-brain model’s holistic
arrangement of the human brain, but without this insight the
interpretation is not possible. It is for this reason that we offer
here in this introduction some relatively simplistic QF-brainmodels
graphics that should render the causes for the addictions (alcohol and
drugs) comprehesible but relative to the complexity of the reality they
describes, these explanations are actually quite simple.
What is decisive in the explanations is the fact that the QF-theory’s
insights provide the much sought after links between quantum mechanics
and general relativity and at the same time offers particle symmetries
that incorporate this vital feature. The resulting relative-directions
in the particle wave functions in turn offer new insights into the
properties of the matter and antimatter sides of the photon and thus a
new and vital understanding of the twofold properties of the wave of
consciousness, that in turn renders it holistic and solve its
fundamental riddles. The QF-theory’s fundamental symmetry of the
universe at the end of the birth of time provides insights into the
symmetric nature of life that is built into the structure of the
DNA-molecule and the functions of its nucleotides, which in turn render
the organization of the neocortex of the human brain holistic. It also
presents the explanations for the brain’s intrinsic “program-knowledge”
of its own material and spatial reality organization. This, in
conjunction with the wave of consciousness, is the key to the
understanding of life itself. The QF-theory’s demand that ALL Fermions
(matter particles) be composed of triplicate membrane-
shell-waves—Leptons as well as Baryons (3 quarks)—also requires that
the quantum field flow of the photons be also composed of triplicate
membrane-shell-waves. This provides a physics explanation for the
composition of the spinal energy flow to the wave of consciousness,
that matches the insights by the ancient sages of Egypt and Greek, as
well as the yogi sages of India and provides the fundaments for the
understanding of consciousness and the brain’s memory storage and
retrieval. It is the malfunction of this arrangement that is the rout
cause of all the neurological and psychological malfunctions of man and
the insights into its proper functions that provide the explanations
for the correction of man’s DNA-programs, as well as the phenomenon
known as miracles. In these insight are also to be found the most
important explanations for the difference between the healthy quantum
change process and the malfunctioning quantum change process that
produces psychiatric illnesses and the epileptic seizures, but these
are to-day not know in molecular biology and neuro-physiology,
resulting in the treatment of these pathological conditions with
chemicals that aggravate the addiction situation in humanity. This
amounts to trying to cure a problem with the same method it was created.
The Simplistic QF-brainmodels for the
Healthy Brain.
In order to provide the reader
with an insight into the descriptions here prior, four simplistic
graphics that show us the brain and consciousness overview arrangements
are presented in figures #016, #017, #018, and #019. Here figure #016
shows the basic division of the brain, figure #017 the main
neuro-transmitter poles in the brain, figure #018 the holo-symmetric
arrangement of consciousness and brain, with figure #019 showing the
brain's fundamental programming division and memory arrangement.
Figure 016
The QF-brainmodels uses the
standard 7 part division of the brain, here shown with the
three-colored lines in the left hemisphere denoting the electromagnetic
field of consciousness that unites the 24 to 30.000.000.000 pyramid
neurons in the neo-cortex, into one reality that represents the
individual. The QF-brainmodels for consciousness is a dual field
independent of the brain, except for its contents, but the QF-modeling
refrains from using the confusing term “mind” that is a term pertaining
to the brain’s unsolved riddles.
A major novel approach for analyzing the brain are functional centers
known as the “mirror neurons”, shown here in figure #017 below, but
these two poles contain on one side the ego-self perception centers and
the speech centers and on the other side the compassion centers and the
spiritual centers, but these regulate between them the brain’s
neuro-transmitter production. These in turn regulate the brain’s
reality perception.
The Neuro-transmitter Poles of the Brain.
Figure 017
The next graphic number #018
on
the next page shows how nature achieves the miracle of the holographic
properties in the brain’s construction, but this arrangement has
rendered the brain’s secrets so hard to crack. In the top half of the
graphic is shown how the holographic properties of the wave of
consciousness, through the twofold electromagnetic quantum field of
consciousness, produced by the photon, contain both a matter side and
an antimatter side. In the lower half we have the brain’s construction
principle based on the QF-model’s even distribution of the DNA’s
nucleotides into exons and introns, creating a twofold holographic
brain arrangement.
The Holo-symmetric Brain.
Figure 018
It is this arrangement that
renders it possible for our consciousness to be retrieving DNA-stored
holographic photon information, while at the same time storing
holographic photon information in the DNA, a feature that is
unthinkable with the "mind model" of electrochemical action impulse
surges amongst the nerve cells in the seat of consciousness.
Figures #019 presents the same
insight, but in a different perspective giving an idea of the brain’s
fundamental primary and secondary programming distribution and memory
storage. One of the major insights of importance that this brain
modeling offers, is that the brain’s fundamental programming is divide
in such a manner that in the dominating spatial side introns are the
causative programs which initiate all thoughts. This means that in the
dominating matter side exons are the executive programs, which execute
all thought actions. This is in particular important when it comes to
understanding the addiction sicknesses and the gradually altered
character and personality trades in individuals suffering from these
alterations.
The Brains Programming and Memory
Divisions.
Figure 019
The control organ of men is
thus similar to a well organized firm or government having a management
branch and an executive branch. This means that the life of the
individual is always controlled by the causative spatial management
side, the question is just concerning the amount of functional
disturbances accumulated in its executive branch DNA-intron nucleotides.
The QF-Mechanism that creates the Chemical
Addictions.
According to the
QF-brainmodels, the brain’s neo-cortex--the brain’s seat of
consciousness—consists of about 24 to 30.000.000.000 fundamental
program neurons, so called pyramid neurons (this is disregarding the so
called glia neurons). It is in this area that the primary flow of the
electromagnetic field of consciousness (the thinking) takes place as
shown in figure #016 and in this area the neurons exercise the exchange
of excitatory and inhibitory neuro-transmitters through which their
collective reality perceptions for the whole of the brain are regulated.
In normal brain functions, this takes place through electric action
impulses fired by the neurons in accordance with their acceptance or
submission of holographic memory photons, but this decides at the same
time the number of neurons taking part in the thinking process. Each
neuron has anywhere from a 100 to a 1000 dendrite tentacles connecting
them to other neurons through a small gap known as the synaptic cleft,
through which the neuro-transmitter exchanges take place. This means
that as many as 6 to 700.000.000.000 such exchanges may be taking place
in the brain every second, during awakening hours. The exchanges in the
synaptic clefts take place through an initial discharge followed by
what is known as the re-uptake, or the return of some of the discharged
neuro-transmitters which takes place through the altered electrical
polarization of the receiving neuron (post-synaptic neuron).
Again according to the QF-brainmodels, the mysterious process that
takes place in the brain while in it are present chemicals that are not
naturally in the brain produced neuro-transmitters, is an erroneous
deposit of holographic memory photons in the wrong DNA-memory and
program storage places. These are chemical that are similar in
structure to the natural ones and who have come across the brains so
called blood-brain-barrier and entered into the neurons via the brain’s
fluids. As the neurons try to use these chemicals as
neuro-transmitters, the normal synaptic exchange process fails,
producing what is known as the “failed re-uptake” which is shown in
figure #020.
Failed
Re-uptake and False Receipt
Polarization.
Figure 020
The failed re-uptake synaptic
exchanges are a part of wrong discharge that alters the polarization of
the receiving neuron opposite to what the natural neuro-transmitters
would have achieved and this in turn is the cause for the erroneous
deposit of the holographic memory photons. These erroneously deposited
photons—called filters in the QF-brainmodels--in turn disturbs the
neuro-transmitter production program and later it—usually the
neuro-inhibitor production program--of the effected neuron and thus
over an extended time decreases the production of the neuron’s reward
neuro-transmitters, thus gradually forcing the individual to seek
external chemicals that artificially replace these.
Accumulative Filter Deposits in the
Brain’s Spatial Introns.
Figure 021
As this takes place on
repeated basis over years, it not only produces the addiction in the
individual’s nerve-system, but through accumulative filters alters the
fundamental programming in his brain’s spatial hemispheric introns and
in turn alters the character and personality of the individual. These
filters are what the 12-step program of the Amateur Angels calls
“character defects”, but in the religions this is variably known at the
“seven deadly sins”, “karma” or simply the “Devil”. The progressive
accumulation of the filters may turn the individual into an insane
psychotic wreck before he terminates in premature death as indicated in
E. M. Jellinek’s MD research findings. Such individuals do not have a
possibility to abstain from the chemicals that are killing them unless
they succeed in getting rid of the erroneous filter program
indicated
in figure #021.
What is now being discovered
is that the fundamental survival program character trades of humans are
genetically passed on to the next generation in accordance with the
laws of genetic inheritance discovered in the nineteenth century by the
Austro-Hungarian monk, Johann Gregor Mendel. Mendel who made controlled
experiments with green and yellow beans discovered that the genetic
inheritance might pass through several generations before being
expressed. An example of explanation this offered may be seen in the
case of a white man and a black woman having a black child, which in
turn would have a black child, which would then also have a black child
that would have a white offspring. This is also the case with
alcoholism and other addiction sicknesses where the accumulated filter
inheritance may not necessarily be expressed in the next generation and
may even be delayed for several generations. According to the findings
of the QF-brainmodels, the filter is also responsible for most of the
epilepsies and all of the psychiatric illnesses, but their association
with the ancestral living habits is in many cases hidden due to delayed
expression of the filter, as well as the toxic shame denial factor that
is dominant in families. As the fact of the now rapidly accelerating
growth of alcoholism and other addictions is gradually becoming
undeniable, this is now gradually dawning on the consciousness of
health authority individuals who are utterly powerless over its
control, not to mention the reversal of this lethal evolution.
Of all the looming threats
facing humanity the now rapidly growing alcohol and drug addiction is
by far the worst, primarily due to the fact that we do not fully
realize the danger it presents. This problem is not just a health
problem but a general management problem directed at the pillars of
society, the foundations of law and order, which hold civilization
together.
The First Symptom of Alcoholism; Denial.
In the art of Anthropology we
study various aspects of the cultural trades of Man and amongst other
such analyses, make assessments of their value for survival. A major
part of this study has been to discover why it is that the cultures so
often gradually build up only to collapse in a relatively short span of
time, but this trend is seen now by many seen as a global threat to all
cultures. In this research man has been severely handicapped since he
has not had the benefit of a neurological understanding of the human
brain and its malfunctions. With the cultural trades in modern
societies have now been collectively developing through the
communication and trade explosion after World War Two and the global
cultures have become more and more assimilated, mainly through the
proliferation of television and the widespread travel. This global
development has also had major effect in popularizing and magnifying
the alcohol recreation culture, to which the illegal drug culture is
attached and to which the counterproductive pharmaceutical drug
treatments are bound to follow. This is the framework behind the now
exponentially growing sickness of alcoholism in the form of addiction
to alcohol, illegal drugs and psychological medication whose prime
symptom is the shame phenomenon of denial. Since the addicts also
affect seriously and lethally those who are close to them—generally
known as co-dependant or just dependant—they also acquire the first
symptom of the addiction, the toxic shame denial. The frame of this
hidden development was first cracked through the foundation of the
Amateur Angels and followed through with the research by E. M. Jellinek
MD. These developments have now produced hundred of thousands of
recovered individuals with extensive knowledge of the alcoholic-addict
character and behavior trades and how to counteract the denial factor.
Phases of Alcohol Addiction, by E. M.
Jellinek.
As the central theme of the
prophesy of the Book of Revelation begins with the “four dreaded
horsemen of the apocalypse”, which many a brilliant brain has puzzled
over for centuries, having little realization that this was a
metaphorical description of the accelerating growth of alcoholism, then
it is fitting that we start with the story of how this connecting
insight became possible. Such a connection could only be made after the
middle of the 20th century, which saw the first meaningful research
into this syndrome, but this came about through the 1935 foundation of
the Amateur Angles and their addiction recovery program, which ten
years later had produced a great number of recovered alcoholics. These
people had returned to their wits and become capable of describing
their experience, but previously any research attempts through
interviewing active alcoholics had failed, as these either lied or did
not realize what was happening to them.
This was first realized in 1944 when a New York doctor, Marty Mann
(founder of National Council on Alcoholism)--her self a recovered
alcoholic--made the insight that alcoholism had become researchable and
took it to the Yale biostatistician and physiologist, Elvin Morton
Jellinek. Doctor Mann then--along with others--financed Jellinek’s
famous 1946-1950 United States study of recovering alcoholics. This
study began with a 1946 questionnaire study of, members of Amateur
Angles, and for the first time formulated a concept of phases in the
drinking history of alcoholics. With the original publication of this
concept Jellinek outlined a more detailed questionnaire, which in the
intervening years was administered to some 2,000 alcoholics. The
elaboration of the phase's concept resulting from analysis of these
additional materials then presented the world for the first time with a
description of the changes that take place in the psychological and
spiritual make-up of alcoholics through a 4 phases (stage), 44 step
progression. The results were then presented by Jellinek in lectures at
the Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies in 1951 and 1952 and at the
European Seminar on Alcoholism in Copenhagen 1951, but the summary of
the findings of these lectures were soon accepted by the Alcoholism
Subcommittee of the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Disease Conception of Alcohol
Addiction.
In a 1960 book, THE DISEASE
CONCEPT OF ALCOHOLISM, E. M. Jellinek presents the arguments for
describing types of alcoholism as pathological and tells the story of
its acceptance in the 1950s, by the US health authorities and the World
Health Organization, but here following are its definitions.
"The WHO Subcommittee has distinguished two categories of
alcoholics, namely, “alcohol addicts” and “habitual symptomatic
excessive drinkers.” For brevity’s sake the latter will be referred to
as non-addictive alcoholics, with the disease conception applying to
the alcohol addicts only, but not to the habitual symptomatic excessive
drinkers. In both groups the excessive drinking is symptomatic of
underlying psychological or social pathology, but in one group after
several years of excessive drinking “loss of control” over the alcohol
intake occurs, while in the other group this phenomenon never develops.
The group with the “loss of control” is designated as “alcohol addicts.”
The disease conception of
alcohol addiction does not apply to the excessive drinking, but solely
to the “loss of control” which occurs in only one group of alcoholics
and then only after many years of excessive drinking. There is no
intention to deny that the non-addictive alcoholic is a sick person;
but his ailment is not the excessive drinking, but rather the
psychological or social difficulties from which alcohol intoxication
gives temporary surcease. The “loss of control” is a disease condition
per se which results from a process that superimposes itself upon those
abnormal psychological conditions of which excessive drinking is a
symptom. The fact that many excessive drinkers drink as much as or more
than the addict for 30 or 40 years without developing loss of control
indicates that in the group of “alcohol addicts” a superimposed process
must occur.
Whether this superimposed process is of a psychopathological nature or
whether some physical pathology is involved cannot be stated as yet
with any degree of assurance, the claims of various investigators
notwithstanding. Nor is it possible to go beyond conjecture concerning
the question whether the “loss of control” originates in a predisposing
factor (psychological or physical), or whether it is a factor acquired
in the course of prolonged excessive drinking.
The fact that this “loss of control” does not occur in a large group of
excessive drinkers would point towards a predisposing X factor in the
addictive alcoholics. On the other hand this explanation is not
indispensable as the difference between addictive and nonaddictive
alcoholics could be a matter of acquired modes of living--for instance,
a difference in acquired nutritional habits."
Matching Jellinek's Findings to the
Revelation.
The progression of the alcohol
caused psychological personality changes in the individual, discovered
by E.M. Jellinek, can of course be portrayed in many different ways.
Like everything else, it may be described through forms of visual
images, such as the dramatic and spiritual prophetic/poetic metaphors
represented in the Revelation’s four colored horses and their rider.
These two parallel pictures--one in the form of research data, the
other in metaphors--are here in the QF-interpretations, connected for
the first time in history, where it is the same person who rides all
four horses, but the metaphors of the riders fits perfectly and in
simplicity, the dominating trades of the alcoholic going through each
phase.
For the purpose of giving the
reader an overview of the progression of the four phases of the alcohol
addiction we have taken Dr. Jellinek's "Chart of Alcohol Addiction" and
taken the liberty of adding to it the four "Apocalyptic Riders", plus a
general consumption and effect graph, which is only an educated
estimation. This is presented on the opposite page as figure #022.
The diagram for the course of alcohol addiction is based on an analysis
of more than two thousand drinking histories of male alcohol addicts.
Not all symptoms shown in the diagram occur necessarily in all alcohol
addicts, nor do they occur in every addict in the same sequence. The
“phases” and the sequences of symptoms within the phases are
characteristic, however, of the great majority of alcohol addicts and
represent what may be called the average trend.
For alcoholic women the “phases” are not as clear-cut as in men and the
development is frequently more rapid. The “phases” vary in their duration
according to individual characteristics and environmental factors. The
“lengths” of the different phases on the diagram do not indicate
differences in duration, but are determined by the number of symptoms
which have to be shown in any given phase.
The chart of the phases of
alcohol addiction serves as the basis of description, and the
differences between addictive and non-addictive alcoholics are
indicated in the text.
MODIFYED CHART OF ALCOHOL ADDICTION
Figure 022
Throughout the ages, men have
described phenomena, which they have not
be able to explain, as being either white or black, magic, depending on
its benefit to men. This description fits the effects of alcohol in the
human constitution, but they are still magical in the sense that men do
not have the last word on its explanation, with the alcohol usually
appearing as “white magic” in its initial use, then, either fast or
gradually, it will show its true nature, or that of the “black magic of
Hell and Death”.
This Part One of the three
part prophesy, describes the appearance of this black magic in the
alcoholic progression of the Aquarian, including his initial recovery
through admission into detoxification and rehabilitation therapy, which
leads to an introduction into the Amateur Angles. This is followed by
his 12-step-work, which is culminated in the “seventh step-seventh
seal” spiritual experience that starts his progression into spiritual
awakening and saves his life.
We shall thus begin to learn
more about this effect in the life of the Aquarian, through the
wonderful story of his addiction progression enfolding in this book,
which in accordance with the traditions of the recovering alcoholics,
starts with the classical “How it was” part of the alcoholic’s story.
This is then followed by the first part of “What happened”, which leads
to the Amateur Angels and its recovery work culminating in the “seventh
step-seventh seal” spiritual experience that starts his progression
into spiritual awakening.
“Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of
men
Too
soon, and with weak hands
though mighty heart
Dare
the unpastured dragon in
his den?
Defenseless
as thou wert, oh,
where was then
Wisdom,
the mirrored
shields...?”
P. B. Shelley.
Part One, Chapter One
(Book of
Revelation Chapter 6.)
The Rupture of
the First Seal
The Teenage
Years and the Early Twenties in the Author's Life.
His Progression in the First Stage of
None-addicted Alcoholism
during his 13rd
to 23rd Years of Life.
“Most
of us have been
unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he
is
bodily and mentally different from his fellows. Therefore, it is
not
surprising that our drinking careers have been characterized by
countless vain attempts to prove we could drink
like other people.”
More about alcoholism. The Big Book of the Amateur
Angels.
Book of Revelation
Chapter 6.
1) Then I saw the Lamb
break open the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four
living creatures say in a voice that sounded like thunder, “Come!” 2) I
looked, and there was a white horse. Its rider held a bow, and he was
given a crown. He rode out as a conqueror to conquer.
Revelations 6.
THE QF-INTERPRETAION OF CHAPTER 6 : 1-2.
The first two seals in the
prophesy ruptured by Apallo Aquarian, represent the two Non-addicted
Alcoholic Stages, or the Purely Symptomatic Phase. These are The
Prealcoholic Symptomatic Phases and The Predromal Phase to Addiction of
the alcoholic progression, which in his case are rather extended taking
him through 20 years of drinking, or from the 13th to the 33rd year of
his life. These are the none-pathlogical phases of alcoholism.
The first Jellinek phase, or
The Prealcoholic Symptomatic Phase of the Aquarian's alcoholic
progression corresponds to the First Seal in the Revelation and deals
with the changes in his personality during the years from 13 to 23.
"1) Then I saw the Lamb break
open the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living
creatures say in a voice that sounded like thunder, “Come!” 2) I
looked, and there was a white horse. Its rider held a bow, and he was
given a crown. He rode out as a conqueror to conquer."
This seal pertains to his
early teens when the Aquarian's begins to steal alcohol from his
father, which happens to be White Horse Whisky. This beginning of the
use of alcoholic beverages is giving him and does indeed make him feel
self-assured feeling like a conqueror. Here the one crown denotes the
one sided selfassured and arrogant personality produced by the alcohol.
At 18 the drinking progresses into experiences of rewarding emotional
relief the alcohol produces in crises and at this time an increase in
alcohol tolerance is noticed.
END OF QF-INTERPRETAION OF CHAPTER 6 : 1-2.
Prealcoholic Symptomatic Phase :
Jellinek's Enquiry.
“The very beginning of the use
of alcoholic beverages is always socially motivated in the prospective
addictive and nonaddictive alcoholic. In contrast to the average social
drinker, however, the prospective alcoholic (together with the
occasional symptomatic excessive drinker) soon experiences a rewarding
relief in the drinking situation. The relief is strongly marked in his
case because either his tensions are much greater than in other members
of his social circle, or he has not learned .to handle those tensions
as others do.
Initially this drinker
ascribes his relief to the situation rather than to the drinking and he
seeks therefore those situations in which incidental drinking will
occur. Sooner or later, of course, he becomes aware of the contingency
between relief and drinking.
In the beginning he seeks this relief occasionally only, but in the
course of 6 months to 2 years his tolerance for tension decreases to
such a degree that he takes recourse to alcoholic relief practically
daily.
Nevertheless his drinking does
not result in overt intoxication, but he reaches toward the evening a
stage of surcease from emotional stress. Even in the absence of
intoxication this involves fairly heavy drinking, particularly in
comparison to the use of alcoholic beverages by other members of his
circle. The drinking is, nevertheless, not conspicuous either to his
associates or to himself. After a certain time an increase in alcohol
tolerance may be noticed, i.e., the drinker requires a somewhat larger
amount of alcohol than formerly, in order to reach the desired stage of
sedation. This type of drinking behavior may last from several months
to 2 years according to circumstances and may be designated as the
prealcoholic phase, which is divided into stages of occasional
relief-drinking and constant relief-drinking.”
The Non-addicted
Alcoholic Teenage Years and the
Early Twenties
in the Life of the Aquarian.
The Rupture of the First Seal.
Narration
by “Merlin the Wizard.”
We have come to the beginning
of the first part of the actual events of the prophesy, “The Breaking
of the Seals.” This is to where our Aquarian’s personal life
experiences, begins to become capable of connecting to the Book of
Revelations. It is here where the Dragon appears which has to do with
changes in the Aquarian’s brain’s function; unnatural, but commonplace
changes. This is the beginning of the Aquarian’s use of alcohol, which
in turn starts a gradual development of an emotionally unstable
subconscious in his brains spatial hemisphere, or none speech
hemisphere. This being “The Beast that Comes Out of the Sea,” and whose
“One of the Heads Seemed Fatally Wounded but had Healed.” Here the
reference is to the “First of the Two Beast” mentioned in Revelation 13
and we later get to meet, when we also meet the other beast of the
brain’s left hemisphere (material/earth, speech hemisphere), which on
occasions “Speaks Like a Dragon” and for whose name the number 666
stands. All this needs explaining through the language of contemporary
quantum reality, neurology and psychobiology and is therefore something
witch is the subject of other writings. The main point here is that in
contrast to what modern psychology believes, the left hemisphere or the
material one is not the dominating hemisphere in Man’s brain but the
subconscious/unconscious, which steers the actions of the individual in
a most subtle manner through his instincts and underlying desires
motives. The question of Man is thus a question of the condition of
this brain’s spatial hemisphere.
It is here that
the Aquarian’s progression of alcoholism starts, but unusually slow,
partially due to his not being allowed to go to public dances until he
is 18 and to use alcohol publicly until he is 21. His drinking is more
or less just flirting with alcoholic beverages, “out of bounds,” from
13 until he becomes 18, during which time he would steal small
quantities of his fathers favourite scotch, “White Horse Whiskey,”
which he replenishes with water. Since his brother practices the same,
this leads to the father buying a safe in order to prevent his scotch
from turning into water.
The Teens and All the Pretty Girls.
Adolescence came like a
cyclone in the life of the Aquarian as he felt the onslaught of the
function of, what we like to call the “muladhara chakra” in Merlin’s
language. This is the last of his glands, the testicles, which now go
to work in his body and on his mind through the
subconscious/unconscious, in the later part of his 13th year, somewhat
later than for most of his contemporary fellows. It however, not take
long until he had lost his virginity with a year younger girl, who
happily obliged.
Due to his
upbringing and ignorance, the experience produced a great deal of guilt
and worries of conception along with a sexually preoccupied
subconscious. His physical growth was slow and continued until his 18th
year when he reaches his full height, 2-3 years later than the other
boys of his age. However, with his dark brown eyes and hair, he did
become a bit of a good looking devil in the eyes of some girls, and
that was all that mattered to him.
Not long after having his
first intimate experience with a girl the Aquarian had his first drink
of snaps from a boy who was his idol in manliness. Manliness being
something which he felt he lacked and that was giving him a feeling of
being inferior, since he was slow in growing and smaller than all the
other boys. It would not be long until he learned that only a small
amount of alcohol would make his feelings of inferiority disappear and
he started to meat occasionally with the older boys to have a sip or
two of this drink that made him feel that nothing was amiss with him.
He would have a few sips of alcohol that gave him a feeling of
self-sufficiency and it could be said that it made him feel like a
prince and that he was wearing a crown and riding out as a conqueror to
conquer. His idol told him all about the effects of alcohol and warned
him that people who started drinking late in their lives would become
skid-row bums and soon he had forgotten all the warnings and all his
fears about alcohol. His emotional life, which had already been heavily
taxed by his fathers drinking bouts, became even more fluctuating and
he started to “fall in love” with girls, one after the other, this with
much emotional effects that would fade away as quickly as it had
appeared as this “love falling” had more to do with his instincts than
a natural evolution of healthy emotional ties.
The last high-school year of
the Aquarian was spent in a boarding school situated in the foothills
under a glacier on the south coast of the mainland of Atlantiz, where
some older boys, friends of the Aquarian, who were learning to fly,
landed near the school and took him for a ride, which made him a hero.
Of course he was going to become a pilot, no question about it.
After high school
graduation at 17 the Aquarian went through two years of being more or
less lost and without being able to form any plans regarding his
future. The first half of the next year was spent going through fishing
boat’s engine operator’s school and this was then followed by two years
of seasonal working on the fishing boats on Dragon Island. He had no
idea why he was doing this, but this period in his life was accompanied
by markedly increased engaging in intimate physical relations with
girls.
Eventually the Aquarian’s
father would approach him and press for a decision on what he intended
to do for his livelihood in his life, pointing out to him that what he
had acquired in the form of an education, only constituted bare
minimums in order to be able to claim literacy. Through some pressure
from his parents the Aquarian enrolled into a business college in the
capital of Atlantiz.
The First Time for Adult Prayer.
In the spring of the second
year of the Aquarian’s indecisiveness he bought a small fishing lunch
and during them summer he almost got himself drowned at sea when the
engine broke down during a sudden onset of a storm. After the Aquarian
had mad several frantic attempts at getting the engine going again, he
became aware that his life was in imminent danger and exhausted he sat
down in the drifting and violently rocking boat that seemed to be
capsizing at any moment. He did not know why he was praying, it just
seemed to be the only thing left to do. A while later, somehow
re-strengthened, he calmly repaired the engine and with the only
remaining ignition cartridge left to him, got it started.
The Beginning of the Aquarian’s Flying.
The Aquarian had become 19
when he entered the business college in the capital of Atlantiz where
the hunting-grounds for girls were much richer keeping his interest
from the learning, but his interest in flying was however, rekindled.
At school’s end in the spring he had become 20 and it was time that he
sought out a carrier, so he started to take flying lessons and joining
a glider club and in midsummer he soloed in gliders and got his motor
solo. From here on there was no way that his father could get him back
into college, his mind was now set. It was to become a professional
pilot or bust, come hell or high water. “High water” was already part
of his life; “hell” would come gradually and in full measure some 26
years later.
In the autumn the Aquarian got work as a driver for the U.S. Air Force
on the NATO base in the vicinity of the capital of Atlantiz. He now
spent his spare time and money taking flying lessons and dating, but
working for the Air Force he began to get some handy experience with
the English language. Flying required good knowledge of English.
Shortly after he became 21,
the Aquarian was sought home by a lovely 18 year old foreign girl,
whose errand it was to make a maternity claim against him steaming from
a brief accountancy in the autumn of the year before. He reluctantly
admitted being the father and promised to pay child support but never
lived up to the promise. She left Atlantiz shortly after that and gave
birth to a son aboard the ship on the way to her home, but the
Aquarian’s subconscious gained further disturbance that would never
quite leave him in peace.
The “First True Love,” the First Time
Around.
That spring the Aquarian was
for the first time confronted with what he believed to be his first
serious love for an 18 year old girl who apparently returned his
sentiments. This was an altogether different experience for him and his
interest in intimate physical relations with her were somehow not in
the forefront. They spent all their spare time during the summer
together and it seemed to suffice for them to hold hands, neck and
sigh. To them it all seemed so certain and settled; they would get
married and have lots of children. In the autumn her father sent her
abroad for school and the romance was continued through the mail.
During the mid winter her letters suddenly stopped coming and a mutual
friend of theirs informed the shaky Aquarian, that his “true love” had
indeed found another and it was all over between them. This was then
met by his return to dances, drinks and chasing girls, but somehow his
ability trusting girls had changed by this experience and he became
even more inconsiderate in respecting the feelings of the girls he had
affairs with. It would be during these time for the Aquarian, that he
noticed that the alcohol had become a new kind of friend who seemed to
sooth the hurting and make him capable of not caring.
The “Second True Love,” the First Time
Around.
Shortly after his break with
his “first true love,” he met another lovely and gentle being which
apparently was in love with him. Again he believed that he was in love
for the rest of his life and they kept meeting and having intimate
relations into the summer, but again the Aquarian noticed that his
feeling for her were not quite the same as he had experienced with the
“first true love”. Never the less, this girl was not only exceptionally
beautiful but of an exceptional character to boot, but this was all to
no avail since he was poorly conscious of his consciousness and his
desires and motives, and that his real motives were simply to satisfy
his sex drives. When he then broke of their relations he would,
however, remember this girl and be aware that she was a woman that
possessed the qualities of a fine wife and a partner. As he then
returned to frequenting the dancehalls he did not noticed that there
was something wrong with him as he was always to some degree under the
influence as he had become totally incapable of approaching girls,
without the aid and the encouragement of the drinks. The effect the
alcohol was having in this was unknown to him, and the moral teaching
which he had received during his last elementary school years and that
had been of such great value to him, gradually eroded in his mind and
were forgotten. It appeared to him that no one was living by any
“higher principles” anyway and Christianity was but a grand hypocrisy.
However, when he started to learn to fly, the part of the aviation laws
that stated “A pilot shall be of good moral character.” became a
looming reminder and encouragement.
The following winter, the
Aquarian attended a ground course in Atlantiz for the Commercial Pilots
License and Instrument Rating and then graduated in the spring with
quite good grades, but he was now learning something that he was
interested in and his motives were healthy. That he had already started
a gradual evolution into an ever increasing state of what is called
“Samsara” (Sanskrit) in some ancient philosophies of the east, and that
this was changing his character, of this the Aquarian was not
conscious. This meant that he was “looking into the future with the
glasses of the past” and it was caused by the fact that the higher
faculties of his brain, those that should have prevented this, were
already numbed. The fact that his reality perception had already been
altered and numbed by his use of alcohol, and that he was now acquiring
an increased tolerance for alcohol, of this he had no awareness, and
neither did he know what this meant. His use of alcohol was not any
more or any less than what seemed to be socially accepted in Atlantiz.
He would compare himself with his fellows and that comparison told him
that he was doing all right. The little insights that the Aquarian
gained into the purpose and processes of life, did not permit him an
understanding of which direction he was progressing in and what the
price for this would eventually become in terms of emotional reactions,
unmanageability of his personal affairs and alienation from true
happiness. He was in the midst of his progression into the reality of
the life that collectively existed around him. The “Maya” in the
Aquarian’s being would continue to grow.
The Second Time for Adult Prayer.
In the spring of his 22nd
year, the Aquarian rented an access to the use of a lovely old Canadian
built biplane, a Tiger Moth and while collecting flying hours in this
fun plane, he had his second confrontation with immanent premature
death. On a return flight from a visit with his two younger brothers,
who were attending college in the north of the country, the engine
started to pre-ignite while he found himself on an “On Top” flight over
the overcast covered rough mountainous terrain of Atlantiz. Just as
when the Aquarian had been threatened with premature death by drowning
at sea, he again started to pray and again somehow calm-ed and became
capable of clear thinking which in turn enabled him to manage to get
the engine to run right again and he got away.
The “First True Love,” the Second Time
Around.
It then came to pass one fine
Saturday evening in early summer of the Aquarian’s 22nd year that he
had gone to a country dance with some friends and he suddenly found
himself dancing with the girl that had forgotten to write to him from
abroad. They were both high on liquor and in good spirits, and now they
laughed at their “childish” love affaire from the year before. He took
her home leaving her with an invitation for a round robin flight the
next day and after they landed on a grass field by a river in the
countryside, they soon found themselves back where they had left of in
their necking, except that now the sexual element was working in them
full force. During the flight back to town he looped the aircraft a
couple of times and the impression it made on the girl did not fail.
That evening she came to his apartment and that which they had once
decided would take place on their wedding night, now became reality.
The Aquarian found that the old feelings for this girl had only just
been stored somewhere inside him and they now came in full force into
full awareness. With them came also a memory of the pain of her break
with him.
The evenings and the nights of
the next five months of the life of the Aquarian, were now, almost
without exception, spent in the arms of this girl and they became
completely emotionally and sexually hooked on each other, with a dark
cloud loomed somewhere on the horizon of the Aquarian’s subconscious.
The girl told him of her affairs since she had stopped her writing to
him and included in this was an affair involving an abortion that would
later prove to have rendered her infertile but this they did not know
at the time. Her openness did not help the Aquarian already disturbed
emotional life.
In the autumn in 1959 the Aquarian, along with two other young
Atlantizians applied for admission to a flight training school in Fort
Worth, Texas. Before the Aquarian was to leave for the United States,
he was to enter a hospital for a tonsillectomy, which was supposed to
take a week in the hospital but complications developed when the
effects of the local anaesthetic wore of. He started getting
excruciating pains and was given morphine which immediately removed the
pain. Later he was taken of the morphine and put on codeine which was
continued for the rest of his two weeks stay in the hospital. All
during his hospitalization the Aquarians thoughts revolved around the
future with his girl and he found that he was boiling with jealousy,
resentments and anger that produced ambivalent feelings within him. She
visited him regularly and continued to express her love for him. The
war that was going on within him became unbearably hellish and he
decided that he would wait with any decisions regarding their future
together, until after his return from America. He simply could not
handle this question at the present. Besides this he was now becoming
suspicious that she might not be able to have any children, but this
would later turn out to be right. When the Aquarian came out of the
Hospital, he continued his affaire with the girl as though nothing was
amiss.
A month before the Aquarian
left for his school in America, he got a phone call from a girl he had
taken home on night after a dance in the spring the same year, she
claimed to be pregnant after the visit with him, but all she wanted was
some assistance with the maternity costs, it had already been decided
that the child would be given into legal adoption. He duly promised to
send hear the help asked for, which she had legal rights to, but as
with the previous such case, promptly forgot all about this. In
Atlantiz, which was said to be the land of “free love,” this sort of
behaviour was quite common and not generally frowned upon. His
subconscious/unconscious would however, register all this fully and
there would be yet another additional seed of guilt planted.
The Aquarian left his girl in
the dark concerning the children he had fathered, and the same would be
the case with his parents. In spite of the ambivalence that was taking
place in his emotional life, he still believed that he was in love with
her and that they were engaged to be married as he did believed that he
would eventually be able to forget that the girl had broken with him
before. Little did he know that this brake in their love had already
produced the ambivalence in his sub-conscious, sub developed emotions,
that had been the cause for his emotional binges in the hospital and
his ambivalence was something over which his will had no power. Much
the less did he realize that this would render him incapable of loving
her in a healthy manner and would destroy his endeavours at loving her
in a natural and unselfish way.
The Aquarian had no awareness of the involvement of the Dragon in this,
much the less the development of the two Beasts that was now in the
progress. Least of all did he have any notion that he was about to
complete the breaking of the first of the four seals in his inevitable
evolution of his alcohol induced unstable emotional constitution. He
would regard his negative behaviour as well as the negative events in
his life as being caused by the actions of others and would not suspect
his use of alcohol as having to do with this, much the less did he have
any insights into the fact that its sole cause was the alcohol.
In God’s own Country, America the Rich.
On the day of the earth’s
apergy, Anno Dominie 1960 the Aquarian left Atlantiz for the United
States and as he went through the immigrations at New York’s Idyllwild
Airport, the bells in the customs area started ringing. To his
embarrassment a fluor marked compass was found in his suitcase, it had
triggered the Geiger counters. He stayed with friends in New Jersey for
a week, and then he was of for Texas on the Greyhound Busses. On
arrival in Fort Worth he went straight to the school which was located
on an airfield north of the City and on enrolment he was given lodgings
at the same place as the two other Atlantizians, who had arrived a
couple of weeks before him.
Now his life became ground school and flying. That was what it was all
about. In the evening, after their dinner, the three young Atlantizians
would make it a habit of going over to a local bar and have a few
bears. This they had not been able to do in Atlantiz since beer was not
permitted there, consequently this was to them some sort of a luxury.
During his training the Aquarian would forget about girls for the most
part, and only on a few occasions would the three Atlantizians go out
on weekends drinking and dancing. It was during this time that the
Aquarian started to notice with satisfaction that he was getting some
markedly increased tolerance for alcohol. To him it meant that he had
become more of a man and could drink considerably more alcohol without
getting conspicuously intoxicated. The negative significance of this
was completely unknown to him.
It was during one such
drinking outing that the Aquarian was picked up by a woman somewhat
older than he was, and later it would turn out that she was married. It
did however not deter him in interfering in the marriage and becoming
unfaithful to the girl in Atlantiz that was waiting for his letters. It
was of course all of the married woman’s doings. The story was now
reversed and this time it was the Aquarian who stopped writing, but
this was however not consciously intentional on his part, she seemed so
far away and unreal and he never gave it a thought that this might have
been similar with her, when she had started to fail in hear writing to
him on the first occasion.
The two boys that had come
ahead of him finished their ground-schools and started going for the
FAA examination but one of them had to flunk it three times before
passing, the other once. There were language problems. The Aquarian
finished his commercial ground course with high average grades and good
flying grades. In early June he passed his first attempt at the written
FAA test with an excellent grade, this particularly considering that he
was a foreigner. Of the three Atlantizians he had the least of the
language problems; here his work with the Air Force came to his aid.
Celebrating his graduation on of his school mates invited the Aquarian
for as Saturday night on the town and they ended up drunk in a country
and western saloon, where the graduate, a big and husky fellow, got
into a fight, while the little Aquarian hid himself. The police came
and rolled them of to the slammer and they had to pay a fine of 10
dollars each, before they could go home to nursing their remorse and
hangovers.
A couple of weeks later the Aquarian completed his FAA check-flight and
got his commercial then enrolled for an instrument rating course. The
ground school was completed by the Aquarian a month and a half later,
again with quite good average graduation grades and flying grades. He
then passed his FAA written examination with good grades and eventually
his second attempt at the check-flight.
It was the middle of the year
1960 and the Aquarian had by now progress through the first,
“preparatory phase,” of the disorder of Alcoholism, the world’s
commonest and most vicious malady. By now he had gained considerable
alcohol tolerance and the alcohol now produces in him a satisfying
feeling of deep relaxation. During this phase, as well as the next, he
is quite capable controlling his drinking, that is, to regulate and
stop his drinking when he decides that the situation warrants. This,
however, with the exception of what the Aquarian considers to be,
special celebrations, when he believes it to be appropriate to drink to
become high, which in turn, frequently results in his becoming drunk.
When the Aquarian looked back
at his life, he discovered that by this time he had been through
intimate relations with over a 150 different women, and this gave him
the false sense of self-worth. Freud’s explanations justified this. He
did see himself as a “crowned victor” in his dealings with the other
sex, and the seeds of shame and fear were thus planted in his
subconscious. His continued consumption of alcohol would nourish those
seeds and the “Weeds of Death” would grow within him leaving the
“Flower of the Sole” undernourished. In the coming ten years his
alcohol tolerance would increase further and the Dragon would gain full
powers through “The First Beast.” This would be the ride on the “Read
Horse” during which gradually a lower stress threshold is produced,
which in turn manifests in a marked increase in resentments and anger,
but this is the inescapable subject of our next chapter or that of;
The Rupture of the
Second Seal.
Part One, Chapter Two
(Book of
Revelation Chapter 6.)
The Rupture of
the Second Seal
Early Adult
Twenties in the Author's Life.
His Progression
in the Second Stage of
None-addicted
Alcoholism during his
23rd to 33rd
Years of Life.
“Though there is no way of
proving it, we believe that early in our drinking careers most of us
could have stopped drinking. But the difficulty is that few alcoholics
have enough desire to stop
while there is yet time.”
More about
alcoholism. The Big Book of the Amateur Angels.
Book of Revelation
Chapter 6.
3) Then the Lamb broke open the second
seal and I heard the second living creature say, “Come!” 4) Another
horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given the power to bring war
on the earth, so that men should kill eachother. He was given a large
sword.
Revelations 6.
THE QF-INTERPRETAION OF CHAPTER 6 : 3-4.
The first two seals in the
prophesy ruptured by Apallo Aquarian, represent the two Non-addicted
Alcoholic Stages,
or
the two phases of the Purely Symptomatic Phase.
These are The Prealcoholic Symptomatic Phases and The Predromal Phase
to Addiction of the alcoholic progression, which in the Aquariaon's
case are rather extended taking him through 20 years of drinking, or
from the 13th to the 33rd year of his life. These are the
none-pathlogical phases of alcoholism.
The second Jellinek phase, or
The Predromal Phase to Addiction of the the Aquarian's alcoholic
progression corresponds to the Second Seal in the Revelation and deals
with the changes in his personality during the years from 23 to 33.
"3) Then the Lamb broke open the second seal and I heard the second
living creature say, “Come!” 4) Another horse came out, a red one. Its
rider was given the power to bring war on the earth, so that men should
kill eachother. He was given a large sword."
This denotes the alterations in the Aquarian’s drinking habits and
relief drinking, but by now he is working and earning mony to pay for
his own alcoholic beverage, which happens to be the cheeper Johny
Walker Red Label Whiskey, but this becomes constant on all
appropriate occasions. The character now changes as he
starts to bulid up "the
filter" in his brain's
introns, which in turn means increased
tollerance to alcohol
and tendency to become more and more emotional,
resentful, angry and aggressive as denoted by the "color
red" of the
horse and the "large sword".
END OF THE QF-INTERPRETAION OF CHAPTER 6 :
3-4.
Predromal Phase to Addiction : Jellinek’s
Enquiry.
The sudden onset of a behavior
resembling the “blackouts” in anoxemia marks the beginning of the
prodromal phase of alcohol addiction. The drinker who may have had not
more than 50 to 60 g. of absolute alcohol and who is not showing any
signs of intoxication may carry on a reasonable conversation or may go
through quite elaborate activities without a trace of memory the next
day, although sometimes one or two minor details may be
hazily
remembered. This amnesia, which is not connected with loss of
consciousness, has been called by Bonhoeffer the “alcoholic
palimpsests,” with reference to old Roman manuscripts superimposed over
an incompletely erased manuscript.
“Alcoholic palimpsests” (1)
may occur on rare occasions in an average drinker when he drinks”
intoxicating amounts in a state of physical or emotional exhaustion.
Nonaddictive alcoholics, of course, also may experience “palimpsests,”
but infrequently and only following rattler marked intoxication. Thus,
the frequency of “palimpsests” and their occurrence after medium
alcohol intake are characteristic of the prospective alcohol addict.
This would suggest heightened susceptibility to alcohol in the
prospective addict. Such a susceptibility may be psychologically or
physiologically determined. The analogy with the “blackouts” of
anoxemia is tempting. Of course, an insufficient oxygen supply cannot
be assumed, but a malutilization of oxygen may be involved. The present
status of the knowledge of alcoholism does not permit of more than
vague conjectures, which, never¬theless, may constitute bases for
experimental hypotheses. The onset of “alcoholic palimpsests” is
followed (in some instances preceded) by the onset of drinking
behaviors which indicate that, for this drinker, beer, wine and spirits
have practically ceased to be beverages and have become sources of
a
drug which he “needs.” Some of these behaviors imply that this drinker
has same vague realization that he drinks differently from others.
Surreptitious drinking (2) is
one of these behaviors. At social gatherings the drinker seeks
occasions for having a few drinks unknown to others, as he fears that
if it were known that he drinks more than the others he would be
misjudged those to whom drinking is only a custom or a small pleasure
would not understand that because he is different from them alcohol is
for him a necessity, although he is not a drunkard.
Preoccupation with alcohol (3)
is further evidence of this “need.” When he prepares to go to a social
gathering his first thought is whether there will be sufficient alcohol
for his requirements, and he has several drinks in anticipation of a
possible shortage. Because of this increasing dependence upon alcohol,
the onset of avid drinking (4) (gulping of the first or first two
drinks) occurs at this time. As the drinker relizes, at least vaguely,
that his drinking is outside of the ordinary, he develops guilt
feeling about his drinking behavior (5) and because of this he begins
to avoid reference to alcohol (6) in conversation.
These behaviors, together with
an increasing frequency of “alcoholic palimpsests” (7) foreshadow the
development of alcohol addiction the arc premonitory signs, and this
period may be called the prodromal phase of alcohol addiction.
The consumption of alcoholic beverages in the prodromal phase is
“heavy,” but not conspicuous, as it does not lead to marked, overt
intoxi¬cations. The effect is that the prospective addict reaches
towards evenings a state, which may be designated as emotional
anesthesia. Nevertheless, this condition requires drinking well beyond
the ordinary usage. The drinking is an a level which may begin to
interfere with metabolic and nervous processes as evidenced by the
frequent “alcoholic palimpsests.” The “covering-up” which is shown by
the drinker in this stage is the first sign that his drinking might
separate him from society, although initially the drinking may have
served as a technique to overcome some lack of social integration. As
in the prodromal phase rationalizations of the drinking behavior ace
not strong and there is some insight as well as fear of possible
consequences, it is feasible to intercept incipient alcohol addiction
at this stage. In the United States of America, the publicity given to
the prodromal symptoms begins to bring prospective alcoholics to
clinics as well as to groups of Alcoholics Anonymous. It goes without
saying that even at this stage the only possible modus for this type of
drinker is total abstinence:
The prodromal period may last
anywhere from 6 months to 4 or 5 years according to the physical and
psychological make-up of the drinker, his family ties, vocational
relations, general interests, and so forth. The prodromal phase ends
and the crucial or acute phase begins with the onset of less of
control, which is the critical symptom of alcohol addiction.
The Non-addicted Alcoholic Adult Years of
the Twenties
and
Early Thirties in the Life of the Aquarian.
The Rupture of the Second Seal.
Narration
by “Morgan le Fay.”
This chapter deals with how
the Aquarian makes his slow evolution into and through, the second
forerunner phase of the disorder of alcoholism, but from the medical
point of view, this is not considered to be a sickness, and the
individual is still considered to be able to control his drinking.
This is the stage during which
the Aquarian is believed to be capable of deciding to stop his use of
alcohol without the aid of others, should he have a good enough
motivation. However, it is his DNA-intron genetic inheritance, the
co-dependency effects in his upbringing and his previous use of
alcohol, which determines his future cause, not his personal will. In
addition, his destiny to be the person to decipher the mysteries of the
Book of Revelation, demand his progression into and through this phase
which is characterized by the “Read Horse” and its “Rider with the
Sword” who in turn “Takes away the Peace on Earth.” The most precarious
aspect of his aggressiveness finds its release in the way he drives
automobiles as it is the “First of the Two Beasts” which has now come
into full powers and is really doing the driving. His alcoholism is
however, like all his developments in life, unusually slow and subtle,
which may also be caused by the restraints put on him by his
profession, but through the Aquarian’s brain decreasing ability to
produce neuro-inhibitors due his increased alcohol consumption, witch
in turn will effect his professional progression.
We shall thus have a brief look at these ten years in life of the
Aquarian, during which his drinking is still, for the most part,
“normal,” or “social.” These are the years of the Aquarian’s life where
he goes through his
The Break with the “First True Love.”
It was late summer in 1960
when the Aquarian returns from the United States, but he is now 23
years of age and unknown to him, has entered into the second stage of
the alcohol addiction progression. On his return he met with the girl
who had waited for his letters and for him, and who now quickly forgave
him his failings in writing and they were back to their lovemaking
where they had left of. In his behavior towards his bride to be, the
Aquarian began to become more and more ambivalent, and he justified
this to himself by the fact that she was not becoming pregnant. His
attitude toward her became cooler and hears towards him warmer. For a
week in the summer they went together to Dragon Island for a summer
weekend festival where the wine gods were worshipped feverishly during
a week, where one night while quite intoxicated, he told her that he
was not going to marry her. His explanations were that he did not trust
himself to be good to her as a husband since he still harbored
resentments towards her for her one-time break with him and further
that he believed that she could not have children. The next day when
sobered up he withdrew everything he had said, but the episode left her
confused and insecure and then, one sunny day a couple of weeks later,
the Aquarian formally broke of the affaire and left her in tears.
Opportunities Come and Go.
In the early winter the
Aquarian attended theoretical part of a Flight Navigator’s License
along with 43 other young pilot trainees. The most interesting part for
him was the Astro Navigation and the book that was used, the U.S. Navy
Hydrographic Office, H.O. Pub. No. 216 became a favorite of his. The
course was completed in the spring 1961 and he graduated sharing third
place of the 43 candidates where 5 flunked, but the graduation was duly
celebrated by the students having a grand drinking party with their
teachers. During this time he met a Danish/American engineer who worked
on the NATO base, who had bought a World War II fighter-trainer powered
by a 700 HP engine and known as the T-6 Texan, or as Harvard IIB in
Europe. The Aquarian got his permission to use it and got an
Atlantizian that had been a WW II fighter pilot in the RAF, to train
him to fly this marvel of an airplane.
In the late autumn the
selection for the pilots took place but the two national carriers would
be hiring 22 pilots for permanent contracts. The Aquarian applied with
both carriers but was rejected with his 230 hours total flying time.
However, the five Flight Navigator students that had flunked, who had
lots of flying hours, were all hired retaking the exams, which made the
Aquarian quite disappointed and bitter and he could be heard cursing
cliquish connections. His response was to go to work on collecting more
flying hours and went back to flying the fighter-trainer during the
rest of the year realizing that if he was to get into aviation, it
would not be in Atlantiz.
Towards the end of 1961 the 24
year old Aquarian had gotten a job as an accounting assistant with the
U.S. Navy on the NATO base, but there his office manager, who was booze
and gambling addicted, gave the Aquarian unlimited opportunities for
overtime. A few Atlantizian pilots had gone to Europe and been hired
and now the Aquarian was to save his money and go to England and see
about getting a job there. This meant that he would have to convert his
licenses and thus have to go to school and retake some examinations and
it would all cost money so he need the overtime to make the necessary
savings, but this would not interfere with his weekend dances, drinking
and girl chasing.
The Aquarian, who now is 25,
years old and though he appeared quite normal, the emotional side of
him, his subconscious, is quite immature, and this becomes apparent on
occasions when he drinks, but our anti-hero has by now experienced
being thrown a couple of times into the drunk slammer in Atlantiz for
getting into fights while drunk and disorderly at public dances. In
England of the sixties, however, this was not the order of the day and
he would have to learn better public drinking manners. A major weakness
in him from his childhood co-dependency and his own drinking is his
unmanageability in his decision making, but of this he is not
conscious, and is now about to experience what he is like when things
get tough.
Off to Merry Old England.
It was a sunny Sunday, 13th of
July 1962 that the Aquarian arrived in England where he was going to be
employed as a pilot or bust. In London he found lodgings in a cheep
Kensington hotel and spent the next days looking over the sights and
seeking out two Atlantizian pilots who worked in England. They gave him
a bleak picture of the situation, not very promising for a foreigner
with only 366 hours total time and 300 British airline pilots, with
thousands of flying hours, unemployed. On the continent it was the same
with 400 experienced pilots in Holland and Scandinavia looking for
jobs. The airlines were switching from propeller aircraft to jets where
they needed fewer pilots and the impression the Aquarian got was;
“pilots a penny a dozen”, but he was also reminded that things changed
very rapidly in aviation.
The Aquarian now set about the
conversion of his licenses while at the same time catching on to the
charm of the life in the English pubs. He would not miss his pint of
bitters at lunch and a couple in the evening, and even though he did
not particularly like bear he would be faithful to the English pubs all
the way to the bitter end. For his upkeep the Aquarian found work with
the U. S. Navy Exchange on grounds of his previous experience, but
there he soon met with a young civilian American who offered to share
with him the renting of a central heated flat in Kensington. This
turned out to be a luxury and through this fellow he got to meet a lot
of young people, both Americans and Britons who soon gave him the
nickname, “The Belligerent Mini-Viking.”
His situation had now become
quite good and soon he completed the conversion of his commercial,
which was celebrated by a major binch drinking weekend that ended in
London’s Soho district, where he was taken for 40 pounds in a nightclub
clip-joint. It would take him a long time to forgive himself for this
stupidity since the binch-money had been intended for his pilot-job
seeking endeavors. This lead the Aquarian to pondering the old
question; “why does man so often act against his better judgment?” and
from there to reading Sigmund Freud with whose theories he agreed and
considered brilliant. Man was just like Freud suggested; a beast on the
inside, a mask on the outside, and God was neurosis.
The “Third True Love.” The Second
Engagement.
It was during this time the
Aquarian met his third big love; a lovely and charming young Italian
American and again he experienced the stronger emotions that he
remembered from his previous “true loves.” He remained, however, quite
distressed and restless since it was now more than a year since he left
Atlantiz and he had not been able to find a job as a pilot and he saw
himself as a failure and a grand disgrace. In November 1963, he got the
news that a new island had been born in the archipelago of Dragon
Island, through a submarine volcanic eruption an it had been given the
name; “Devil’s Island.”
His affair with the American girl had intensified and she had become
pregnant and since he had no pilot’s job and no prospects; she decided
to have an abortion. Hardly a month would pass and she was pregnant
again; their regular drinking was causing confusion in her mind to make
her forget her contraceptive pill. After the second abortion, she would
become more reluctant to see some future with him and this in turn drew
him into states of desperation, since he had become sexually dependent
on her.
The first two months of 1964
were a severe test for the Aquarian and in late February the climax
came but by now he was working in a US Air Force Club. The crisis came
when his supposed fiancé, started to turn him away by going out
with other men, but this brought the Aquarian’s subconscious to its
limits and while waiting for more money from his family, his weaknesses
now took control of his actions. Before the Aquarian knew what was
happening, he had “borrowed some money” in the Club, but with out him
being capable of understanding that it was to his benefit, this was
immediately detected and became a police matter. The Aquarian
immediately admitted and was dismissed from his job and order to appear
before a magistrate to answer to a charge of petty larceny. When he
appeared in court he had received the money from home and promptly paid
back the money dishonestly acquired and a fine of fifty pounds. The
Aquarian who could not understand that it was he him-self who was the
master of the chain of events in his life, now tried to excuse the
shame blaiming his girl who forgave him and soothed with some drinks
and her arms.
The Final Throw of the Dies.
In March the aviation
industry's surplus of pilots had been used up. Again the Aquarian got
500 pounds from home and feeling a little more confident got the
written rating for the Douglas Dakota (DC 3) and then was of to
Oxford’s Kiddlington Airport to get an instrument rating. During the
training his fiancé, who again had begun to go out with other
fellows, came to visit him and experienced his violent outburst of
jalousie. However, after this he seemed to loose the interest in her
and settled down to make good progress in his training.
On the 22nd of May he
completed his Instrument Rating and two days later he finished the
Multi Engine Rating. The day after his completion, the manager of the
school called him in his office and while congratulating him, told him
that he had a job for him, if he would consider flying as a co-pilot on
a DC 3. Yes indeed, the Aquarian, who felt indescribably happy,
considers such an opportunity.
A couple of days later the Aquarian met with the chief pilot of BRITISH
WESTPOINT AIRLINES, a small local carrier in Exeter, Devonshire, and
was promptly hired as a first officer on DC 3s pending a work permit
and his training performance being satisfactory. He was to earn fifty
pounds a week; a small fortune compared to what he had enjoyed th