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This Has Been the Limiting Factor in Our Culture of Doom: Know Thyself—Know Thyself in Depth!

Only the upright heart has its own logic and its reason is free. Many people are proud to be members of a community where there is so much caring and concern for others, a caring that is broader and more sensitive, than most people are capable of. In a group where control is shared by all, where, by means of a preceding facilitative climate (in small groups), every person is empowered, a new type of community becomes possible, an organic kind of flow with individuals living together in an ecologically related fashion.  Power and leadership and control flow easily from one person to another as the differing needs arise. The only analogies which come to mind are from nature. The sap rises or falls in the tree when conditions make one direction or the other appropriate. The bud opens when it is ready—not in an effort to beat competition. The cactus shrinks in the drought and glare, swells to bursting after the rain—in each case the action is learning to adapt to the community and serving its own survival. Generally, it is the same thing people do. That is why they remain civil. It makes life easier and it is better to make friends than enemies because someday, we all we need someone. #RandolphHarris 1 of 24

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 And one final analogy which to me fits so many of the persons in our group (in all groups?). The seeds of many plants can lie dormant for years. However, when conditions are right, they sprout and grow and some into full blood. For me, that helps to describe our process of community. When people have a supportive community, it helps them in their greater life. They feel the strength of the people they have supporting them while they are at work or during public speak, even if their group is not among the crowd, and what is happening is greater than anyone can imagine because it gives one such confidence. To their surprise, they will learn to feel they are being heard, and even believed. The feelings of support keep echoing inside, like bells that one suddenly hears at the most unexpected moments, and these continuous waves take up every cell of an individual, transforming one forever. They come as feelings very pure, without words, at the most significant moments. That is why having a supportive community is so important. So everyone can become facilitators of learning, taking themselves into new pathways, learning viscerally, learning intellectually, and in this process learning an independence of thought and being. Each people then becomes an independent leaner. #RandolphHarris 2 of 24

No human looks at the World with pristine eyes; one sees it edited, and editorial policy is always forged in the widest field of vision. Lectures provide the opportunity for trying out ideas while they are in process of formation and are thus part of the teacher’s laboratory. The advantage to the listener is that one is not presented wit a finished treatise but is watching a living mind at work and being given an insight into its strategies. When sitting in a lecture, we are witness to a powerful mind’s direct movement in the act of thinking. Deeper and more fundamental then pleasures of the flesh, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possession, there is a still more generalized and more universal craving in the human make-up. It is the craving for knowledge of right direction—for orientation. Every sentence calls for knowledge of one’s materials and their limitations and an unswerving eye on the effect intended. It is an old problem: how anything of the real can pass the gap between intuition and expression. The passage can be effected only by translation, not from one language into another but from one mode of being into another, from reception into creation. It is more important that a proposition be interesting than it be true. #RandolphHarris 3 of 24

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The importance of truth is that it adds interest. I have sensed myself as a lecturer: traveller, pilgrim, archeologist of space and time, trying with the help of a parcel here and a fragment there to piece together the largest possible meaning for life and the World. Such mean, though it is intelligible, exceeds the merely rational. Or if one prefers, is the highest category of the rational. Every discipline has its tools, and each such tool has its own inherent errors. The finest microscope produces an image not of facts alone but of facts embedded in a setting of obscuring artifacts which the microscope itself creates. As a result of the failure to consider the sources of error in the human being oneself, wen our academic disciplines assemble together in our great education institutions they reenforce the tacit, fallacious assumption that humans can understand the World the lies outside of oneself without concurrently understanding oneself. Actually, each human is one’s own microscope with one’s own idiosyncrasies, to which one alone can penetrate. Therefore we cannot perceive the outside World without distorting our very perceptions unless we search out individually the sources of error which lie hidden within. This is precisely what every mature discipline des in its own field: yet it is what no discipline does for the broader concept of education as a whole. #RandolphHarris 4 of 24

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As we view the World around us, and as we look and listen and think and feel and interact with our fellow humans and their works and their history, we view all such external realities through a cloud of distorting projections of our own unconscious problems. It is a scene observed as through the wavering convention currents over a hot fire. This is why it is impossible to reduce scholars who in the true sense of the word are wise humans, if the know nothing about themselves. Without self-knowledge in depth, the master of any field will be a child in human wisdom and culture. Even the seemingly objective data of one’s own field at the same time represent projections of one’s own unresolved problems in dreamlike symbolic disguises: and as long as one knows nothing of one’s own inner nature, one’s apparent knowledge merely disguises one’s spiritual confusion. Humans must know themselves. Skorates always said that. When modern psychiatry adds to this ancient adage is that self-knowledge if it is to be useful and effective must comprise more than superficial self-description. It must include an understanding of unconscious as well as conscious levels of psychological processes. Yet such self-knowledge, which requires the mastery of intricate new tools of psychological exploration, is wholly overlooked throughout the entire scheme of “modern” education, from the kindergarten to the highest level of academic training. #RandolphHarris 5 of 24

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This deepening of our self-knowledge is in turn intimately dependent on the nature of symbolic thinking. Learning depends upon progressive mastery of the many processes of symbolic thought. Symbols, however, are not all alike. They fall into three groups. There is the realistic form of the symbolic thinking in which we are fully aware of the relationship of the symbols of language to that which they represent. Here the function of the symbol is to communicate the hard core, the bare bones, of thoughts and purposes. Secondly there is the symbol whose relationship to its root is figurative and allegorical. The purpose of the second form of symbolic thinking is to communicate by inference all of the nuances of thought and feeling, all of the collateral references which cluster around the central core of meaning. This is the symbolic language of creative thinking whether in art or science. In technical jargon, the first is called conscious, and the second preconscious. Third, there is the symbolic process in which the relationship between the symbol and what it represents has been buried or distorted, so that the symbol becomes a disguised and disguising representative of unconscious levels of psychological process. Here the function of the symbolic process is not to communicate but to hide. This is the unconscious symbolic process of the dream and of psychological illness. #RandolphHarris 6 of 24

Yet all three already operate together, with the consequence that every single thing we ever do or say or think or feel is a composite product of them all. Consequently when a scientist is studying atomic energy or a biological process or the chemical properties of some isotope, when a sociologist studies the structure of government and society, when a historian studies the development of events, or an economist the play of economic forces, when a classicist studies an ancient tongue, or a musicologist the intricacies of musical composition, when a theologian studies theology, each deals with one’s subject on all three levels at once. On the conscious level the deals with them as realities. On the preconscious level one deal with their allegorical and emotional import, direct and indirect. On the conscious level, without realize it, one uses one’s special competence and knowledge as an opportunity to express the unconscious, conflict-laden, and confused levels of one’s own spirit, using the language of one’s specialty as a vehicle for the projection outward of one’s internal struggles. Since this happens without one’s knowledge, it is a process which can take over one’s creative thinking in one’s own field, distorting and perverting it to save one’s unconscious need and purposes. #RandolphHarris 7 of 24

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The result is a structure of unconscious compromises which may render great intellectual brilliance as futile and as impotent as are any other symptomatic products of the neurotic process. It is for this reason that we can no longer tolerate with complacency that fact that art and science and every other cultural activity are hybrids, born of an unhealthy fusion of that which is finest and that which is sickest in human nature. It is a further consequence that the greater the role played by the unconscious components of symbolic thought, the wider must become the gap between erudition and wisdom. A scholar may be erudite on conscious and preconscious levels, yet so obtuse about the play of unconscious forces in one’s own life, that one cannot tell when one is using realistically and creatively the subject of which one is a master, or when one is using it like the inkblot on a Rorschach card. Education for wisdom must close this gap, by providing insight which penetrated into those areas of human life in which unconscious forces have always hitherto played the preponderant role. This is the challenge which psychoanalytic psychiatry brings to the goals and techniques of education. #RandolphHarris 8 of 24

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At first thought the suggestion seems simple, a mere extension of the ancient Sokratic admonition to “Know Thyself,” making in read “Know Thyself in Depth.” Yet these two added words, “in depth,” will demand one of the most difficult cultural steps which civilized humans have ever taken: a step which is essential if the human of the future is to be saved from human’s present fate. And what has been that fate? It has been that in spite of a growing knowledge of the World around one one has repeated like an automaton the errors in forms which become increasingly destructive and catastrophic as one becomes more educated. Whether one’s erudition has been in history, art, literature, the sciences, religion, or the total paraphernalia of modern culture, this has been the limiting factor in our Culture of Doom. This automaticity of conduct which is governed predominately by our unconscious psychological mechanisms is dependent directly upon their remaining inaccessible. Therefore, if “self-knowledge in depth” ever becomes the goal of a new concept of education, and if it becomes a part of the equipment which education brings to the cultured human, it will make it possible for a human to attain freedom from one’s ancient slavery to the repetitive psychological processes over which at present one has no control. #RandolphHarris 9 of 24

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In his Personal Record Joseph Conrad describes himself as a knight in shining armour, mounted on a magnificent horse. The picture was quite flattering until on looking more closely, one noticed that little knaves were running by the head of the horse’s back, or the knaves running by its head. This is the image of the educated man of today. He is a noble figure on a noble charger, magnificently armed. However, the knaves who trot unheeded by the horse’s head, with their hands on the reins, are guiding hat horse far more than is the pretentious figure of culture astride the horse’s back. Life infinity, self-knowledge is an ideal which can be approached but never reached. Therefore like education it is a process which is never finished, a point on a continuous and never-ending journey. It is relative and not absolute. Consequently, the achievement of self-knowledge is a process which goes on throughout life, demanding constant vigilance; and because it requires a continuous struggle, true self-knowledge never becomes an occasion for smug complacency. The person who knows oneself in depth does not look down one’s nose at the rest of the World from a perch on Trump Tower. Rather will one acknowledge with proper humility the impossibility of knowing oneself fully, and the importance of struggling constantly against the lure of insidious, seductive illusions about oneself. #RandolphHarris 10 of 24

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Nor on the other hand will one be incessantly preoccupied with one’s own conscious and unconscious motivations. Instead the more fully one approaches self-awareness, the more coherent and integrated become the various levels of one’s personality. As a result, self-knowledge brings with it the right to trust one’s impulses and one’s intuitions. One may continue to watch oneself out of the corner of one’s eye with vigilant self-scepticism, but one will give the center of one’s attention to one’s job and to the World around one. Thus, self-knowledge brings freedom and spontaneity to the most creative alliance of the human spirit, the alliance between conscious and preconscious processes: and it brings this spiritual liberation by freeing us from the internal blocking and distortion which occur when conscious and preconscious process are opposed by an irreconcilable unconscious. Thus my vision of the educated human of the future is not an unreal fantasy of individual out of whom all of the salty seasoning of preconscious and unconscious processes will have been dissolved, like a smoked ham which had soaked too long. It is rather of a human whose creative process are relatively freed of the burden of unconscious internal conflict. In turn, however, this does not mean that to become educated a human must be psychoanalyzed. It means rather that new procedures must be introduced into the pattern of education which will make therapeutic analyses necessary only for those in whom the educational process has failed.  #RandolphHarris 11 of 24

The positive goal of this vital aspect of education is to shrink the dark empire in which unconscious forces have in the past played the preponderant role, and to broaden those areas of life in which conscious and preconscious processes will play the dominant role. It is one thing, however, to describe self-knowledge in depth as the ultimate goal for culture and education. To achieve it is another. I will not presume here to write out a prescription on how this can be done. In dealing with any individual patient we know that without too much difficulty the psychiatrist can trace the interweaving patterns of complex, conscious, preconscious, and unconscious force which have shaped an entire life. Yet many weeks, months, and every years of additional work may be required to communicate the analyst’s insight to the patient oneself. If he communication of insight to a single individual presents such formidable problems, we should not be surprised that the communication of insight to successive generations will require the development of basically new techniques of education, techniques which will have to start in the nursery and continue into old age, techniques which will have to circumvent adroitly the unconscious opposition of the oldsters among us who lack these insight and who feel personally threatened by them. #RandolphHarris 12 of 24

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Thus a new and critical version of the ancient battle between the generation is surely in the making. Ordinarily we do not think of children and young people from middle-class families as being an oppressed group. However, under certain circumstances they can be exactly that. Sometimes they are manipulated. Their rights are ignored, their voices unheard. And they may be completely powerless—no money, no clout, no part in the real decisions. Freedom, however, is irreversible. Once a person—child or adult—has experienced responsible freedom, one will continue to strive for it. It may be completely suppressed in behaviour by a maximum use of every kind of control including force, but it cannot be eliminated or extinguished. Most of the wealthy people in the community are in precinct one. The other four precincts are not nearly so wealthy. The disparity is huge—that is the picture I am trying to give you. However, the poor people by this community’s standards are not poor by most standards. They are primarily middle-income families. However, the community is schizophrenic. The people who have the political power have the least to do with the community itself. The rich people send their kids to private school. People love to live in a community where the energy is really up; where people are being creative and responsive to each other. #RandolphHarris 13 of 24

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Bureaucracy in the public schools is so bad that it took ten days to get chocolate milk for the kids who wanted it—even though milk was delivered daily. The milkman kept saying: “We have lots of chocolate milk, but I cannot leave it until I get the order from the people upstairs.” My attitude is, “Do not give me an award, send me money.” “And it came to pass in the eighty and sixth year, the Nephites did still remain in wickedness, while the Lamanites did observe strictly to keep the commandments of God, according to the law of Moses. And it came to pass that in this year there was one Samuel, a Lamanite, came into the land of Zarahemla, and began to preach unto the people. And it came to pass that he did preach, many days, repentance unto the people, and they did cast him out, and he was about to return to his own land. However, behold, the voice of the Lord came unto him, that he should return again, and prophesy unto the people whatsoever things should come into his heart. And it came to pass that they would not suffer that he should enter into the city; therefore he should enter into the city; therefore he want and got upon the wall thereof, and stretched forth his hand and cried with a loud voice, and prophesied unto the people whatsoever things the Lord put into his heart. #RandolphHarris 14 of 24

“And he said unto them: Behold, I, Samuel, a Lamanite, do speak the words of the Lord which he doth put into my heart; and behold he hat put it into my heart to day unto this people that the sword of justice hangest over this people; and four hundred years pass not away save the sword of justice falleth upon this people. Yea, heavy destruction awaiteth this people, and it surely cometh unto this people, and nothing can save this people, and it surely cometh unto this people, and nothing can save this people save it be repentance and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ, who surely shall come into the World, and shall suffer many things and shall be slain for his people. And behold, and angel of the Lord hath declared it unto me, and he did bring glad tidings to my soul. And behold, I was sent unto you to declare it unto you also, that ye might have glad tidings; but behold ye would not receive me. Therefore, thus saith the Lord: Because of the hardness of the hearts of people of the Nephites, except they repent I will take away my word from them, and I will withdraw my Spirit from them, and I will suffer them no longer, and I will turn the hearts of their brethren against them. And four hundred years shall not pass away before I will cause that they shall be smitten; yea, I will visit them with the sword and with famine and with pestilence. #RandolphHarris 15 of 24

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“Yea, I will visit them in my fierce anger, and there shall be those of the fourth generation who shall live, of your enemies, to behold your utter destruction; and this shall surely come except ye repent, saith the Lord; and those of the fourth generation shall visit your destruction. However, if ye repent and return unto the Lord your God I will turn away mine anger, saith the Lord; yea, thus saith the Lord, blessed are they who will repent and turn unto me, but wo unto one that repenteth not. Yea, wo unto this great city of Zarahemla; for behold, it is because of those who are righteous that it is saved; yea, wo unto this great city, for I perceive, saith the Lord, that there are many, yea, even the more part of this great city, that will harden their hearts against me, saith the Lord. However, blessed are they who will repent, for them will I spare. However, behold, if it were not for the righteous who are in this great city, behold, I would cause that fire should come down out of Heaven and destroy it. However, behold, it is for the righteous’ sake that it is spared. However, behold, the time cometh, saith the Lord, that when ye shall cast out the righteous from among you, then shall ye be ripe for destruction; yea, wo be unto this great city, because of the wickedness and abominations which are in her. #RandolphHarris 16 of 24

“Yea, and wo be unto the city of Gideon, for the wickedness and abominations which are in her. Yea, and wo be unto all the cities which are in the land round about, which are possessed by the Nephites, because of the wickedness and abominations which are in them. And behold, a curse shall come upon the land, saith the Lord of Hosts, because of the people’s sake who are upon the land, yea, because of their wickedness and their abominations. And it shall come to pass, saith the Lord of Host, yea, our great and true God, that whoso shall hide up treasures in the Earth shall find them again no more, because of the great curse of the land, save he be a righteous man and shall hide it up unto the Lord. For I will, saith the Lord, that they shall hide up their treasures unto me; and cursed be they who hide not up their treasures unto me; for none hideth up their treasures unto me save it be the righteous; and one that hideth not up one’s treasures unto me, cursed is one, and also the treasure, and none shall redeem it because of the curse of the land. And the day shall come that they hide up their treasures, because they have set their hearts upon riches; and because they have set their hearts upon the riches, and will hide up their treasures when they shall flee before their enemies. #RandolphHarris 17 of 24

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“Because they will not hide them up unto me, cursed be they and also their treasures; and in that day shall they be smitten, saith the Lord. Behold ye, the people of this great city, and hearken unto my words; yea, hearken unto the words which the Lord saith; for behold, he saith that ye are cursed because of your riches, and also are your riches cursed because ye have set your hearts upon them, and have not hearkened unto the words of one who gave them unto you. Ye do not remember the Lord your God in the thing with which he hath blessed you, but ye do always remember your riches, not to thank the Lord your God for them; yea, your hearts are not drawn out unto the Lord, but they do swell with great pride, unto boasting, and unto great swelling, envyings, strifes, malice, persecutions, and murders, and all manner of iniquities. For this cause hath the Lord God caused that a curse should come upon the land, and also upon your riches, and this because of your iniquities. Yea, wo unto this people, because of this time which has arrived, that ye do cast out the prophets, and do mock them, and cast stones at them, and do slay them, and do all manner of iniquity unto them, even as they did of old time. And now when ye talk, ye say: if our days had been in the days of our fathers of old we would not have slain the prophets; we would not have stoned them, and cast them out. #RandolphHarris 18 of 24

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“Behold ye are worse then they; for as the Lord liveth, if a prophet come among you and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your sins and iniquities, ye are angry with one, and cast one out and seek all manner of ways to destroy one; yea, you will say that one is a false prophet, and that one is a sinner, and of the devil, because one testifieth that your deeds are evil. However, behold, if a human shall come among you and shall say: Do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not suffer; yea, one will say: Walk after the pride of your own hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever your heart desireth—and if a human shall come among you and say this, ye will receive one, and say that one is a prophet. Yea, ye will lift one up, and ye will give unto one of your substance; ye will give unto one of your gold, and of your silver, and ye will clothe one with costly apparel; and because one speaketh flattering words unto you, and one saith that all is well, then ye will not find fault with one. O ye wicked and ye perverse generation; ye hardened and ye stiffnecked people, how long will ye suppose that the Lord will suffer you? Yea, how long will ye suffer yourselves to be led by foolish and blind guides? Yea, how long will ye choose darkness rather than light? #RandolphHarris 19 of 24

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“Yea, behold, the anger of the Lord is already kindled against you; behold, one hath cursed the land because of your iniquity. And behold, the time cometh that one curseth your riches, that they become slippery, that ye cannot hold them; and in the days of your poverty ye cannot retain them. And in these days of your poverty ye shall cry unto the Lord; and in vain shall ye cry, for your desolation is already come upon you, and your destruction is made sure; and then shall ye weep and howl in that day, saith the Lord of Hosts. And then shall ye lament, and say: O that I had repented, and had not killed the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out. Yea, in that day ye shall say: O that we had remembered the Lord our God in the day that he gave us our riches, and then they would have become slippery that we should lose them; for behold, our riches are gone from us. Behold, we lay a tool here and on the morrow it is gone; and behold, our swords are taken from us in the say we have sought them for battle. Yea, we have hid up our treasures and they have slipped away from us, because of the curse of the land. O that we had repented in the day that the word of the Lord came unto us; for behold the land is cursed, and all things are become slippery, and we cannot hold them. #RandolphHarris 20 of 24

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“Behold, we are surrounded by demons, yea, we are encircled about by the angels of one who hath sought to destroy our souls. Behold, our iniquities are great. O Lord, canst thou not turn away thine anger from us? And this shall be your language in those days. However, behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head. O ye people of the land, that ye would hear my words! And I pray that the anger of the Lord be turned away from you, and that ye would repent and be saved,” reports Helaman 13.1-39. Thus faith in Christ and the initial hope it inspires lead us to stand in the grace (the action) of God, and standing there leads, in turn, to a life full of love. We will want to see how this love relates to joy and peace, as well as to the rest of the fruit of the Spirit. However, the first we need to get a clearer picture of love itself, of its four movement required to complete its work in our life, of how (when completed) it casts out fear (1 John 4.18). Then we shall see the effect of all this on the feeling dimension of our life. #RanolphHarris 21 of 24

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Loving people more than your spouse does not decrease the love in the marriage. Here is a suicide note a man left to his wife. “I just want you to know that this is something I am doing totally on my own. It has nothing to do with our chosen life-style. You always have been the best mate/partner/friend and you continue to be even at the moment. Do not let the stresses of society and friends or parents who do not understand what great things we have achieved throughout our relationship wear you down—hang in there. Setting yourself up to be an achiever or someone that everyone perceives as always together is a dangerous proposition. You begin to believe that you are capable of anything. The coming down is very hard. My greatest fear is hurting those around me. I do not want them to think that they, through something which they did, or in some way which they acted, have contributed to where I am at now. My greatest fear is hurting those around me. I do not want them to think that they, through something which they did, or in some way which they acted, have contributed to where I am at now. My greatest concern, of course, is with you. With you I have achieved or shared my highest moments. You have seen me at my best. #RandolphHarris 22 of 24

“I want you to remember us in that ways. I love you. Keep tight with your friends, especially Chip. Please reassure my friends, especially Janet that they have not contributed to my state.” The man overdosed on pills and was in the intensive-care unit for seven days. Eight days after he regained consciousness, he slowly began making his recovery, until one month later tests showed that there was fortunately no detectable mental or physical damage. The things that led to his suicide attempt is that he was terribly demanding of himself, and went through a traumatic event. As a graduate student he always had to be the best and the fastest and he set impossible deadlines for himself. Somehow he linked his sense of personal well-being to the achievement of is external goals and became depressed when nothing happened on schedule. When he took is Ph.D. candidacy examination under great emotional stress, his parents were separating, his grandmother was fatally ill, his best friend Chip lost his job, and his favourite pet died. To make matters worse, his exam had to be taken early, leaving him only five days to prepare. He passed it. Emotionally, however, he felt unfinished, as if he had somehow manipulated the committee into passing him. He was filled with guilt. As he looked at his four years of research, it seemed worthless. He wondered if he could ever finish his thesis in that state? Then he became depressed over the fear he might get the degree but no job. #RandolphHarris 23 of 24

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The state of the World was pretty grim, too, and that only further saddened him. Everything in his environment seemed depressing. Four weeks later his grandmother died. He and his wife went to the funeral and stayed at his parents’ house. Somehow he managed to hide his hopeless depression. Back home, he received notice that he was to present his research at a national meeting. Panic and emotional paralysis ensured. He was in an acute depression. Then he was totally unable to function physically or emotionally. The only escape seemed to be death. He waited until he was alone and took massive overdoses of two drugs. Upon this food, place your blessing, Holy One. Our eating of it is a ritual of praise for all you have done. Praised art Thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who createst the fruit of the vine. Praised art Thou, O Lord our God, Ruler of the Universe, who hast sanctified us through Thy commandments and hast taken delight in us. In love and favour Thou hast given us the holy Sabbath as a heritage, a reminder of Thy work of creation, first of our sacred days recalling our liberation from Egypt. Thou didst choose us from among the peoples and in Thy love and favour didst sanctify us in giving us Thy holy Sabbath as a joyous heritage. Blessed art Thou, O Lord our God, who hallowest the Sabbath. #RandolphHarris 24 of 24

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If we lived here, we would simply take extra time to get ready to enjoy this incredible bathroom! So sorry — we may have made this #PlumasRanch ensuite a little TOO luxurious. 😉✨

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Residence Four at Cresleigh Meadows is one of the largest homes available in the market! At just under 3,500 square feet we are sure you’ll have enough room for the entire family here! The open concept design includes four bedrooms, three and one half bathrooms and a three car garage.
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