Life, as we find it, is too hard for many of us; it brings too many pains, disappointment and impossible tasks. Many people of today are most culpable to not think it worth while to take the trouble to sympathize with their own kinsfolk and give to the hard-working son of the national family what was his by the iron logic of justice, while at the same time placing his seducer and corrupter against the way. However, there is of no better way to bring about harmony in the home, in the neighbourhood, in organizations, peace in our country, and in the World than for every man and woman first to eliminate from his or her heart the enemies of harmony and peace such as hatred, selfishness, greed, animosity, and envy. Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family life. Selfishness is at the root of adultery, the breaking of solemn and sacred covenants to satisfy selfish lust. Selfishness is the antithesis of love. It is a cankering expression of greed. It destroys self-discipline. It obliterates loyalty. It tears up sacred covenants. It afflicts both men and women. Thus, selfishness denies the individual worth of the human personality, impugns the teaching the nation greed and envy have a primary significance. By adopting these unsavory traits, it takes away the very foundations of human existence and human civilization. #RandolphHarris 1 of 19

If the doctrines of greed and envy were to be accepted as the foundation of the life of the Universe, it would lead to the disappearance of all order that is conceivable to the human mind. And thus, the adoption of such a law would provoke chaos in the structure of the greatest organism that we know, with the result that the inhabitants of this early planet would finally disappear. Should people who adopt the doctrines of green and selfishness triumph over the people of this World, his Crown will be the funeral wreath of mankind, and this planet will once again follow its orbit through ether, without any harm life on its surface, as it did millions of years ago. In our failures, there is usually disguised selfishness, the overreaching for a “bridge too far.” Whether in financial or civic ruin or in infidelity and divorce, proud selfishness is usually there. Lack of intellectual humility is there among those who have deliberately cultivated their doubts in order, they think, to release themselves from their covenants. Some nurture their grievances assiduously. Were their grievances, instead, Alam’s seed of faith, they would have long ago nourished a mighty tree of testimony. Selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder Prophet Joseph Smith urged, “Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated.” #RandolphHarris 2 of 19

Surging selfishness, for example, has shrunken some people into dungeons; they seek to erase their emptiness by sensations. However, in the arithmetic of appetite, anything multiplied by zero still totals zero! Each spasm of selfishness narrows one’s Universe that much more by reducing his awareness of or concern with others. In spite of its outward, Worldly swagger, such indulgent individualism is actually provincial, like goldfish in a bowl congratulating themselves on their self-sufficiency, never mind the food pellets or changes of water. Inherent limitations may cause a premature termination of self-analysis in another way as well. The person may arrive at a kind of pseudo solution by arranging his life to fit in with his remaining neurosis. Life itself may be instrumental in bringing about such solutions. He may be thrown into a situation that provides an outlet for a craving for power, or permits a life of obscurity and subordination in which he need not assert himself. He may seize the possibility of a marriage to solve his urge for dependency. Or he may more or less consciously decide that his difficulties in human relationships—some of which he has recognized and understood—are too great a drain on his energies, and that the only way to live a peaceful life or to save his creative abilities is to withdraw from others; he may then restrict to a minimum his need for people or for material things, and under these conditions be able to work out a tolerable existence. #RandolphHarris 3 of 19

These solutions are not ideal, to be sure, but a psychic equilibrium may be reached on a better level than before. And in some circumstances of very severe entanglements such pseudo solutions may be the most that can be attained. In principle these limits to constructive work are present in professional analysis as well as in self-analysis. In fact, if the deterring forces are strong enough, as was mentioned before, the idea of analysis will be rejected altogether. And even if it is not rejected—if the person suffers so much under the pressure of his disabilities that he undertakes analytical treatment—the analyst is no sorcerer who can conure up forces that are entirely choked. There is no doubt, however that by and large the limitations are considerably greater for self-analysis. In many instances, an analyst can liberate constructive forces by showing the patient concrete problems accessible to a solution, whereas if the patient were working alone, and felt blindly caught in invisible and apparently inextricable entanglements, he could not possibly pick up enough courage to grapple with his problems. Moreover, the relative strength of the various psychic forces within the patient may change during treatment, because none of these forces is quantity given once and for all. #RandolphHarris 4 of 19

Every step that leads him closer to his real self and closer to others renders him less hopeless and less isolated and thereby adds to his active interest in life, including also his interest in his own development. Therefore, if necessary, after a period of common work with an analyst even patients who started with severe neurotic difficulties may in some cases be able to continue on their own. Though on the whole the comparison with professional analysis is in favour of the latter whenever intricate and diffuse entanglements are concerned, there are certain reservations that should be borne in mind. It is not entirely fair to compare self-analysis, and its unavoidable deficiencies, with an ideal analytical treatment. I know several people who were barely touched by treatment but afterward grappled successfully on their own with rather serious problems. We should be cautious both ways, and neither underrate nor overrate what can be done without expert help. If he has already had some analytical treatment, and if conditions are favourable, I believe that he can continue alone with the hope of achieving far-reaching results. The example of Clare—and also other cases not presented here—shows clearly that it is possible, with previous experience, to deal alone with even severe and intricate problems. #RandolphHarris 5 of 19

It appears a reasonable hope that both analysts and patients will become more aware of this possibility, and that more attempts of this kind will be made. It may be hoped, too, that analysts will gradually assemble criteria that will enable them to judge when they can reasonably encourage the patient to continue his work independently. In this context there is a consideration I should like to emphasize, though it does not refer directly to self-analysis. If the analyst does not assume an authoritative attitude toward the patient, but makes it clear from the beginning that the enterprise is a co-operative one in which both analyst and patient work actively toward the same goal, the patient will be able to develop his own recourses in a much higher degree. He will lose the paralyzing feeling that he is more or less helpless and that the analyst must carry the sole responsibility, and will learn to respond with initiative and resourcefulness. Broadly speaking, psychoanalytic treatment has developed from a situation in which both patient and analyst are relatively passive to one in which the analyst is more active, and finally to one in which both participants take an active role. Where the latter spirit prevails, more can be accomplished in a shorter time. However, there is no doubt in my mind that severe neuroses belong in the hands of experts: anyone who suffers from severe disturbances should consult an expert before embarking upon self-analysis. #RandolphHarris 6 of 19

However, in considering the possibility of self-analysis, it is a mistake to think primarily in terms of sever neuroses. Beyond doubt they are far outnumbered by the milder neuroses and the various neurotic troubles caused primarily by the difficulties if a particular situation. Persons suffering from these milder disturbances should consult an expert before embarking upon self-analysis. However, in considering the possibility of self-analysis it is a mistake to think primarily in terms of severe neuroses. Beyond doubt they are far outnumbered by the milder neuroses and the various neurotic troubles caused primarily by the difficulties of a particular situation. Persons suffering from these milder disturbances rarely come to the attention of analysts, but their difficulties should not be taken lightly. Their troubles not only cause suffering and handicaps but also result in a waste of valuable energies, for the person is prevented from developing to the best of his human capacities. With regard to these difficulties experienced, I believe there is hope. If any experience with analytical treatment, in several instances, persons had little. To be sure, they did not go far enough in their endeavours at self-examination. #RandolphHarris 7 of 19

However, there seems no good reason not to believe that with a more widespread general knowledge of the nature of neurotic troubles and the ways of tackling them attempts of this kind can be carried further—always provided the severity of the neurosis is not prohibitive. The structure of personality is so much less rigid in milder neurotic entanglements than in severe ones that even attempts that are not carried very far may help considerably. In sever neurosis it is often necessary to do a great deal of analytical work before any liberating effect is achieved. In milder disturbances, even a single uncovering of an unconscious conflict may be the turning point toward a freer development. However, even if we grant that a considerable number of people can profitably analyze themselves, will they ever complete the work? Will there not always be problems left that are not solved or not even touched upon? There is n such thing as a complete analysis, and this answer is not given in a spirit of resignation. Certainly, the greater the degree of transparency and the more freedom we can attain, the better for us. However, the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even lacks any strong appeal. Life is struggle and striving, development and growth—and analysis is one of the means that can help in this process. Certainly, its positive accomplishments are important, but also the striving itself is of intrinsic value. As Goethe has said in Faust: Who’er aspires unweariedly, is not beyond redeeming. #RandolphHarris 8 of 19

It is difficult to know to what extent a man born in 1900 can convey his experience to people born after 1914, or after 1929, or after 1945. I selected these dates, of course, intentionally. Anyone who was, like myself, at least fourteen years of age when the First World War broke out, still experience part of the solid, secure World of the nineteenth century. To be sure, if he was born as the son of a middle-class family with all necessities and quite a few luxuries provided, he experienced a much more comfortable aspect of this prewar period than if he had been born into a poor family. Yet even for the majority of the population, and especially for the working class, the end of the last and the beginning of the present century were a tremendous improvement over the conditions of existence even fifty year earlier, and they were filled with hope for a better future. It is difficult for the generations born after 1914 to appreciate to what extent his war shattered the foundations of Western civilization. This war broke out against the will of everybody, yet with the connivance of most participants or, rather, of special interest groups in each country which exercised sufficient pressure to make war possible. #RandolphHarris 9 of 19

By and large, Europeans, after almost one hundred years without major and catastrophic wars, and almost fifty years after the German-French war, were prone to think that “it cannot happen.” The powerful Socialist International seemed to be resolved to prevent war. The antiwar and pacifist movement was a potent force. However, even the governments, whether that of the Czar, of the Kaiser, or of France and England, seemed to be resolved to avoid war. Yet it did happen. Reason and decency seemed suddenly to have left Europe. The same socialist leaders who only months before had pledged themselves to international solidarity, now hurled at each other the vilest nationalistic epithets. The nations that had known and admired each other, suddenly broke out in a mad paroxysm of hate. The British became cowardly mercenaries to the Germans; the Germans became vile Huns to their enemies; the music of Bach and Mozart became tainted; French words in the German language were ostracized. Not only that, but the moral rule against the killing of civilians was broken. Both sides bombed helpless cities and killed woman and children; it was mainly the lack of development in aviation that restricted the scope and intensity of these raids. However, the fate of the soldiers was equally in contrast to all demands of humanity. #RandolphHarris 10 of 19

Millions on both sides were forced to attack the enemy trenches and were killed in the process, although it should have been clear that such tactics had become futile. However, perhaps worst of all, the slaughter was based on a life. The Germans were persuaded that they were fighting for freedom, and so were their Western enemies. When the chops were down, especially when, after 1916, a possibility for peace arose, both sides refused to settle because both insisted on gaining the territories for which the war was really being fought—regardless of the cost. At one-point millions of men recognized the great deception. They rebelled against those who forced them to continue the slaughter, in Russia and Germany successfully, in France sporadically, by means of mutinies which were severely punished by the generals. What had happened? The belief in continuing progress and peace had been shattered, moral principles which had seemed secure were violated. The unthinkable had happened. Yet hope had not disappeared. After the first step in brutalization, hope arose again in the minds of men. It is important to understand this because nothing is more characteristic of Western history than the principles of hope which had governed it for two thousand years. They chatted about the “revival” of the German naval power, protested against the plunder of our colonies, and recommended taking them back. #RandolphHarris 11 of 19

In the same way, our American pacifists will ignore the bloody rape upon the nation, no matter how bloody, even if it is carried out by the evilest military forces, if the only way to avert this fate is by resistance and force. To further highlight this illustration, although Denver’s suburbs do not share its sanctuary city policies, the influx of migrants into the Mile High City has spilled outward. Now, its neighbours are facing an unprecedented wave of activity from a notorious Venezuelan prison gang. Officials from Aurora, about nine miles east of Denver reported that the Tren de Aragua gang has gained a strong foothold in their city, commandeering apartment complexes and drumming up violent crime and sex trafficking. “We currently have entire complexes under gang control—complexes where staff have been beaten up, they’ve been threatened, their families have been threatened [and] complexes where there are no staff left on the property,” Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky said. “These complexes are being run by this Tren de Aragua gang. They start brokering apartments themselves when someone leaves out of fear or whatever. They go in and take pictures of the apartment themselves. Then, I’ve been told, within hours, a Venezuelan family moves in. Part of the city are absolutely under this gang control. The local media is downplaying this. I believe politics is being played with people’s lives. Nothing is being done to help the American citizens that are trapped under this gang’s control.” #RandolphHarris 12 of 19

Calls for emergency services have been on the rise. “The number of emails coming in to me for help from residents and business owners, the volume is much higher. The allegations being made [about again activity] are types of crime that I’ve not heard of on a regular basis in our city,” report Danielle Jurinsky. California is home to more than 11 million illegal immigrants. That is nearly 25 percent of its population. Many people want them gone because they believe that rents would decrease, so would traffic, more jobs would become available, and crime rates would go down. If the current course of things continues, the cities will become rickety. The collapse is inevitable. There is no bond of common blood but only that of one ruling hand. Should the ruling hand show signs of weakness in such a State the result will not be to cause a kind of hibernation of the State but rather to awaken the individualist instincts which are slumbering in the ethnological groups. These instincts do not make themselves felt as long as these groups are dominated by a strong central will-to-govern. The danger which exists in these slumbering separatist instincts can be rendered more or less innocuous only through centuries of common education, common traditions, and common interest. The younger the States are, the more their existence will depend on the ability and strength of the central government. If their foundation was due only to the work of a strong personality or a leader who is a man of genius, in many cases they will break up as soon as the founder disappears; because, though great, he stood alone. #RandolphHarris 13 of 19

However, even after centuries of a common education and experiences these separatist instincts I have spleen of are not always completely overcome. They may be only dormant and may suddenly awaken when the central government shows weakness and the force of a common education as well as the prestige of a common tradition prove unable to withstand the vital energies of separatist nationalities forging ahead toward the shaping of their own individual existence. The failure to see the truth of all this constitutes a tragic crime. Yet, the spirit of the Lord can, and often does, reach even those who have lost their way. Jesus Christ wants every person to come to Him and find comfort in His loving arms. “Remember, the worth of souls is great in the sight of God,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 18.10. So much of my life cannot be told, and so much that I can tell is hardly worth saying. There is so much that I have learned not to say because to other people it has seemed bizarre. They became afraid and tried to hide their feat behind a firm manner and confident telling me what to do. If they had spoken their fear, we could have talked about it and my fear too. In hiding it, they gave me something else to be packed away with the things that are not to be mentioned. I try in many ways to say something about what goes on in me, but no matter which way I say it, it is wrong. #RandolphHarris 14 of 19

I wish that someone would ask a question, express a wish to know. Then I might be able to begin to let out of me what is held so tight inside. Kurt Goldstein described a condition among brain damaged patients that he called the “catastrophic reaction.” Treating German soldiers during World War I who suffered gunshot and shrapnel wounds in the brain, he noted that such patients, after some time for recovery, were able to function reasonably well if their World was kept tidy and unchanging, and if their time was ordered in rigidly scheduled ways. For example, they needed to know where their clothes were located and when to expect meals. If some sudden alteration was introduced in the way their time and space was arranged, they would not welcome it as a respite from boredom; rather, it was experienced more as a disaster, a catastrophe with which they could not cope. They would become furious, panicky, and might even faint. This reaction to the unexpected is but an exaggeration of similar reaction that occurs in average people. We are all socialized so that we acquire a set of assumptions about the World that enables us to live in our customary lives. If something new, different, and unexpected enters our World, we may react with panic or with violence. It is as if the unexpected reality that has just been experienced calls upon inadequate capacities to respond. #RandolphHarris 15 of 19

Accordingly, we may try to deny that anything new has appeared, saying, “Why it is nothing but something old, in new clothes”; or we may try to destroy that which is new or different. Many young men who were among the first to appear with long hair in America experienced varying degrees of violence from people who felt that men were supposed to have short hair. If a man experiences tender, or even sexual, feelings for another man, he may undergo panic, even though he does not express the feeling. For healthy personalities, the experience of the unexpected serves as an occasion for new learning and growth. To be surprised, or to encounter something that challenges one’s assumptions about oneself and the World functions for healthy personalities as a motive for reality testing, as well as an opportunity for the enlargement of one’s awareness of the World. The most important factor here is the parent’s scripts. Does Jeder fit in, or is he the wrong gender, or badly timed? Does his father’s script call for a scholar, and he turns out to be, instead, a football play? Or vice versa? Does his mother’s script go along with his father’s, or is it opposite in this respect? There are also traditions that he will hear about from fairy tales and real life. #RandolphHarris 16 of 19

The youngest of three sons is supposed to act stupid until the showdown comes, and then he wins over his brothers. If he happens to be the seventh son of a seventh son, he is almost compelled to be a prophet. More particularly, the parents’ scripts may call for them to be glorified or punished by one of their children, who must therefore turn out to be either a colossal success or a colossal failure. Often the first-born son is chosen for honour. If the mother’s script calls for her to be a spouseless invalid in her declining years, then one of the children must be raised from birth to stay and care for her, while the others must be taught to wander off and fill the role of ingrates. If the forty-year-old bachelor son or spinster daughter decides to break the script by moving out of the house, or worse, by getting married, the mother will respond understandably and pitiably, by having severe attacks of illness. The scripty nature of such setups is demonstrated by the frequent switch whereby mother “unexpectedly” wills the bulk of her money to the ingrates, cutting off the devoted one with a pittance. The aspirant who seeks to live spiritually in the World should marry for something more than physical enjoyment and comfort, more even than intellectual and social companionship. He must find a woman whose inner being is polarized to the same ideals as his own, who will walk by his side through every vicissitude as a fellow-pilgrim and a wholehearted seeker. #RandolphHarris 17 of 19

The Sacramento Fire Department protects the lives and property of the people of Sacramento from fires, natural and human-caused disasters, and hazardous materials incidents; they save lives by providing emergency medical services; thwart fires through prevention and education programs; provide defense against terrorist attacks; and provide a work environment that values cultural diversity and is free of harassment and discrimination. “When I first came out of fire school, I was a firefighter. I worked in an engine company, then a truck company, both very busy. When I made captain, I did snorkel. When the spot came in the rescue unit opened up, the chief of the fire department called me at home and asked me if I wanted to go there. I said, ‘Well, yeah.’ He said, ‘Be there tomorrow.’ Our rescue unit would go on second alarms citywide, every major fire and every heavy rescue in automobile accidents and industrial accidents. When we got there, the chiefs relied on us. We had the big stuff, they heavy tools. Looking back on it, we were always in a dangerous position. You were on the roof, the weakest spot. The truck companies would say, ‘We’re not going to open it, it doesn’t look too good.’ We ere like, ‘We can do it.’ And we’d be up there on the roof, and we’d get it open. Inside, when there were people in there, we’d be in there crawling around. #RandolphHarris 18 of 19

“The tools that we carried, over and above what a truck company would have, made us specialist. We would have a net for people who wanted to jump out. The city had a high-rise team, and we were involved with the planning of that. We had rappelling gear. The guys were in shape and a little more daring. To stay in shape I played racquetball, did a lot of bicycling. And after I got married, we bought an old house, and after work I would work another eight or nine hours on the house. I put in a cathedral ceiling, and people say, ‘How the (expletive) did you do it?’ I got the strength from doing that type of work.” The Sacramento Fire Department improves the quality of life in the City of Sacramento by providing fire protection, emergency response services, fire prevention, and activities with the public educational department. Their goal is to protect all citizens, their property and the environment. Promoting safety, preventing fires and saving lives is a priority. You can help the Sacramento Fire Department save lives in a courteous, professional manner by donating to them. In order to keep our community safe, remember to raise your children to love America, to be patriotic, to love God and Jesus Christ, to buy American made cars and other goods and services; to respect law and order and treat others with kindness and dignity. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. God of Might, God of Right, Thee we give all glory; Thine all praise in these days as in ages hoary, when we hear, year by year freedom’s wondrous story. Now as erst, when Thou first made’st the proclamation, warning loud every proud, every tyrant nation, we, Thy fame still proclaim, bend in adoration. #RandolphHarris 19 of 19

The Winchester Mystery House

Paranormal investigators have recorded disembodies voices and witnessed strange shadows following them through The Winchester Mystery House. The enormous 19^th century mansion once was nine stories tall, and had 600 rooms, but the 1906 earthquake demolished the nine-story observation tower, and took much of the 4^th floor with it. However, 160 rooms, of which 110 are available for tour, still exist in this meandering catacomb.

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We are too affluent. We have too much money and other things. We have so many things. Even many poorer people have many things, and “things” become our life, and our vocabulary has been invaded with, “I got this,” and “Let me do my thing.” Yet the Lord has said, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you,” reports Matthew 6.33. Too often, though, we want the “things” first. We have a great generation of youth, and many of them are not patriotic and has ceased to pray. Their WiFi is down. Also, numerous young people in their early married days cease to pray with regularity; the WiFi buffering speeds are lagging. However, it is most fitting, my brethren and sisters, that we always sing the glorious hymn in our minds, “We thank thee, O God, for a Prophet.” God has spoken as the divinely appointed mouthpiece of the Lord here on Earth, and we must remember to have a spirit of thanksgiving. Many times, people only think about God when they need something, but God is constantly bestowing His grace upon us, even without us earning it. Therefore, let of be in constant thanksgiving. Think about it this way, if you are always buying your children the latest toys and they do not thank you, and then they break them and keep begging for new toys, eventually you will get tired and ignore them. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

Therefore, we must draw closer to God, by thanking Him and in our actions and words, and He will draw closer to us. “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded,” reports James 4.8. This is an invitation to develop a personal relationship with God by following His example and learning about Him through the scriptures. Some ways to draw closer to God include: Acknowledging God daily, asking God to reveal Himself, reading the Christian Bible and the Book of Mormon, praying, and serving and loving others. “And whoever they shall speak when moved upon by the Holy Ghost shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation,” reports Doctrine and Covenants 68.3. Goes does speak to us now. He manifests Himself through prophets whom He raised up for this day—for 2024—for present-day people—to help them to successfully combat the seductions of a decadent and blinded World. If you are willing to accept it, every one of you may have the full benefit of His Heavenly guidance. You can know God’s will pertaining to your own self, given now—not two thousand and twenty-four years ago, but here and now. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

When we have merely made a new acquaintance, we often imagine we have made a new friend. He only to whom we can speak our private thoughts is our friend, and no one else. He who files to our aid when all others flee away is our friend, and no one else. Above all, he whose sympathy is so perfect that he understands and forgives our failings is indeed worthy to be our honoured friend. Where minds are great and hearts are large, two persons can remain cordial friends even though their outlooks differ. There is a silence between two persons which is full of nervous tensions, but there is another which is full of healing peace. This is rare, uncommon, but it is found through real harmony, full trust, surrendered ego. It is not necessary to give up personal friendships to follow the Quest. They are quite permissible in their place and have their instructive value. Those who pursue such an ideal as ours have always to live inwardly, and sometimes outwardly, apart from the mob—that is, to live in a loneliness which makes true friendship double its worth. Sometimes a quick friendship means that he is reviving an old spiritual relationship out of the hidden past, out of the numerous incarnations which have been lost in time. Therefore, understanding and recognition come quickly, explanations and introductions are not waited for and are not necessary in the real soul-realm. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

There is the common friendship in which the emotional attitude may one day pass from affection to animosity, and there is this rare friendship which, because it is based on something deeper, diviner, and more enduring than mere emotion, witnesses only the ripening of affection into real love. We each possess our own Heavenly latitude and must seek out our true compatriots on that line. The course of life’s friendships is sometimes like a turning wheel. We think we grasp the hand of a friend but one day the wheel turns, and he is gone. In the end, we cannot escape from our solitariness. Only those who hold the same spiritual conception of life can be true affinities in friendship. If an individual wished to break away from any continued acquaintance completely, there are times in personal relationships when eagerness for friendship, on one side, would mean cruelty on the other side. If possible, in such an instance, one should try to continue seeing the other but make the association on a different level. The other person may have awakened to the Quest of truth, and any unfortunate experience between them would be no reason for deserting her but only for learning how to handle persons of the opposite gender who are led across his orbit for spiritual help. Friendship is a loving relationship between two people. Friends respect each other, care about each other, and overlook and forgive each other’s faults. Our Heavenly Father wants us to be friends to all His children, but use great discernment. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

Some scripts can be traced back in a clinical interview to the great-grandparents, and if the family has a recorded history, as is often the case with kinds and their courtiers, it may go back thousands of years in time. No doubt scripts began when the first manlike creatures appeared on Earth, and there is no reason to suspect that their scenes and acts and outcomes were different then than they are now. Certainly the life courses of the kings of Egypt, which are the oldest reliable biographies we have, are typical scripts. The story of Amenhotep IV, 3500 years in the past, who changed his name to Ikhnaton is a good example. By this change he brought on both greatness and the fury of those who followed him. If information about remote ancestors, or the great-grandparents, can be obtained, so much better for the script analysis, but in ordinary practice, in most cases, it starts with the grandparents. It is common knowledge, even proverbial, how much grandparents, alive or dead, influence the lives of their grandchildren. For a good script, “To make a lady, start with the grandmother,” and for a bad one, “From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.” Many children at an early age not only want to imitate their forebears, but would like actually to be their own grandparents. This desire may not only have a strong influence on their life scripts, but it may cause considerable confusion in their relationships with their parents. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

American mothers, it is said, favour their fathers over their husbands, and encourage their sons to take after grandfather instead of Dad. The most productive single question to ask regarding ancestral influences is “What kind of lives did your grandparents lead?” There are four types of reports commonly given in answer to this. Ancestral Pride. A winner or “prince” will state in a matter-of-fact way, “My ancestors were kinds of Ireland,” or “My great-great-grandfather was the Chief Rabbi of Lublin.” It is apparent that the speaker has “permission” to follow in the footsteps of these ancestors and become an outstanding personality. If the statement is made pompously or solemnly, however, the speaker is probably a loser of “frog,” and is using his ancestry to justify his existence because he himself does not have “permission” to excel. If the response is: “(My mother was always telling me that my ancestors were Irish kings, ha, ha,” or “(My mother was always telling me that) my great-great-grandfather was the Chief Rabbi, ha ha,” it is usually given from a not-O.K. position; the speaker is allowed to imitate his illustrious ancestors, but only in their losing characteristics. These replies may mean: “I’m as drunk as an Irish king should be, so that makes me like an Irish king, ha ha!” or “I’m poor as a Chief Rabbi should be, so that makes me like a Chief Rabbi, ha ha!” #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

In such cases, the early programing was: “You’re descended from a Chief Rabbi, and they were very poor.” This is equivalent to a directive: “Be like your famous ancestor…” with the clear implication from mother “…so drink a lot, your father does,” or “…so don’t make money, your father doesn’t.” In all these cases the ancestor is a family euhemerus, a heroic model from the past who can be imitated but never surpassed, and these are different ways that people deal with euthemeri. Idealization. This may be romantic or paradoxical. Thus, a winner may say: “My grandmother was a wonderful housekeeper,” or “My grandfather lived to be ninety-eight and had all his teeth and no gray hair.” There is a clear indication that the speaker would like to follow in the romantic grandparent’s footsteps and is basing her or his script on that. A loser will express paradoxical idealization: “My grandmother was a tough, down-to-earth woman, but she became senile in her old age.” There is a clear implication that she may have been senile, but she was the smartest woman in the state hospital; and furthermore, that that is also the speaker’s script: to be the smartest woman in the state hospital. Unfortunately, this setup is so frequent that the competition in state hospitals to be the smartest woman on the ward can become quite strenuous, turbulent, and discouraging. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

Rivalry. “My grandfather dominated my grandmother,” or “My grandfather was a weakling who let everyone push him around.” These are often the “neurotic” responses interpreted by psychanalysts as expressing the child’s desire to be more powerful than his parents. “Grandfather is one person who can talk back to my mother—I’d like to be him,” or “If I were my father’s father, I wouldn’t be a coward, “I’d show him.” Karl Abraham’s case report shows the scripty nature of such attitudes, where the boy indulges in daydreams of being the prince of an imaginary kingdom whose king is like his father. Then along comes the king’s father, who is far more powerful than the king. Once, when the boy was punished by his mother, he said, “Now I’ll marry granny.” Thus, his secret 9but not unconscious) planning at that time was based on a fairy tale in which he becomes more powerful than his parents by becoming his grandfather. Personal Experiences. These concern actual transactions between children and their grandparents, which are strong influences in molding the child’s script. A grandmother can send a little boy forth to be a hero, or on the other hand, a grandfather can seduce a young lady and turn her into a Little Red Riding Hood. In general, grandparents, as mythology and clinical experience show, are regarded with awe or terror, just as parents can be regarded with admiration or fear. The more primitive feelings of awe and terror are influential in forming the child’s picture of the world during the early stages of script-building. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

Anything that ends a searching, striving attitude toward the World triggers off an alteration in all modes of experiencing, even when the objective state of the World has not changed. Once this disengagement happens, there is no reason for the person to repress hitherto distracting modes of being conscious; so the person will smell, taste, touch, and hear more than usual; recall will be more concrete and eidetic; and imagination will be more playful. However, these “expanded” states of consciousness are largely false, unreal perceptions, sought after specifically as an escape from a dimly perceived, threatening, or boring reality. The revelatory power of prayer perhaps stems from a similar cause; a person may pray for divine guidance when personal struggles have come to naught. If the person authentically “surrenders” and begins to pray, this disengagement from the struggle may bring to light solutions that always were there, although the person could not see them. Meditative disciplines later and enlarge a person’s perceptual and other experiential modes by way of disengagement. One cannot truly “get into” the various Hatha Yoga postures until one disengages from one’s customary modes of experiencing and striving. Hypnosis appears to work in similar fashion. When one is being persuaded by the hypnotist’s suggestions, one is being seduced into suspending usual ways of being conscious of the World. If one yields, one’s consciousness is indeed altered. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

The outsiders are people who saw too much for their time and place. They were not wholly in the clutch of the norms, goals, and standards of their place, and so their consciousness of the World within which they were living was radically “altered,” different from that of the typical person. Thus, sometimes outsiders have a vision that wrecks them because they do not understand why their vision is different and how to protect themselves. Hitherto, this is regarded as the madness of schizophrenia. It is an authentic but different way of experiencing the World that happens when a person gives up an identity that is no longer viable. The act of surrender triggers off such alterations of consciousness as hallucinations, visions, and the like. Of course, any deviations from ordinary consciousness give rise to action that appears strange to the average person. This is why “altered consciousness” can be troublesome unless a person learns how to use the richer experience as a guidance to more effective action. Rousseau’s Confessions, though only remotely akin to analysis, may serve as an example of self being related to the whole structure. Here is a man who apparently wants to give an honest picture of himself, and does so to a moderate extent. However, throughout the book he retains blind spots concerning his vanity and his inability to love—to mention only two outstanding factors—which are so blatant that they impress us today as grotesque. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

He is frank about what he expects and accepts from others, but he interprets the resulting dependency as “love.” He recognizes his vulnerability but relates it to his “feeling heart.” He recognizes his animosities, but they always turn out to be warranted. He sees his failures, but always others are responsible for them. To be sure, Rousseau’s confessions are not a self-analysis. Yet on rereading the book in recent years I have often been reminded of friends and patients whose analytical endeavours were not too different. The book, indeed, deserves a careful and critical study. An endeavour at self-analysis, even though more sophisticated, may easily meet with a similar fate. A person equipped with greater psychological knowledge might merely be more subtle in his attempts to justify and embellish his actions and motivations. There is one point, however, on which Rousseau is straight: his peculiarities involving pleasures of the flesh. This frankness must certainly be appreciated. However, his frankness in intimate matters helps to keep him from seeing how little he faces his other problems. In this regard, too, the lesson we can still learn from Rousseau is worth mentioning. Since pleasures of the flesh is an important domain in our life it is important to be as relentlessly honest toward it as toward everything else. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

However, the one-sided emphasis that Dr. Freud has given factors involving pleasures of the flesh may tempt many people to single them out above others, as Rousseau did. To be straight in questions involving pleasures of the flesh is necessary; but to be straight only with them is not enough. Another one-sided emphasis is a persistent tendency to regard a particular present difficulty as a static repetition of a particular present difficulty as a static repetition of a particular infantile experience. When a person wants to understand himself, it is important, beyond any doubt, that he understand the forces that were instrumental in his development, and it is one of Dr. Freud’s foremost discoveries to have recognized the influence that early experiences exert upon the formation of personality. However, it is always the sum of all our early experiences that has contributed to mold the present structure. And it is therefore futile to uncover isolated connections between a certain present disturbance and a certain early influence. Present peculiarities can be understood only as an expression of the whole interplay of forces operating in the present personality. For example, the peculiar development that took place in Clare’s relationship with her mother and had a definite bearing upon her dependency on men. #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

 However, if Clare had seen that she subordinated herself to Peter as she had to the mother, that she hero-worshiped Peter as she had and to help her in distress as she had expected the mother to help her, that she resented Peter’s rejecting her as she had resented the mother’s discrimination against her. In recognizing these connections, she might have gained a certain distance to her actual problem, simply by recognizing the operation of a compulsive pattern. However, she clung to Peter not because he represented a mother-image but because, through her repressed arrogance and ambition, she had lost her self-regard, almost lost her identity; thus she was fearful, inhibited, defenseless, and isolated, and on these grounds was compelled to seek shelter and restoration of herself in ways that were doomed to failure and merely entangled her more deeply in the network of her inhibitions and fears. Only by realizing these dynamics could she eventually free herself from the aftermaths of an unfortunate childhood. Still another one-sided emphasis is a tendency to harp always on the “bad” sides, or what are regarded as such. Confessing and condemning can then take place of understanding. This is done partly in a spirit of hostile self-recrimination but also with a secret belief that confession alone is enough to harvest a reward. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

These blind spots and one-sided emphases may be found, of course, in any endeavour at self-analysis, whether the limitations discussed above are present. To some extent they may result from mistaken preconceptions about psychoanalysis. If the person achieves a more rounded understanding of psychic process, in this case they can be corrected. However, they may also represent merely a means of evading the essential problems. If these resistances are strong enough—if they amount to what I have described, in this case, they are ultimately caused by resistance to progress and may constitute a definite obstruction to the success of the analysis. With free interchange between parents and children, there is no telling what may happen. The child who goes to school might well choose to go to bed earlier (after a few mistakes) because then he does better and feels better the next day. Anyway, things seem to resolve themselves somehow when I go about it this way. When my son was eight, he suddenly refused to take baths. It was warm in Hawaii, and he perspired a lot. Evening after evening I tussled with him, and then suddenly it made no sense to me to wear myself out that way. So I stopped. And he went to school day after day without a bath. I wondered a little about what his teachers might think, but that was between them and him. I did not expect what happened. After three or four day he came home crying “The kids say I stink!” No more problem. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

Quite often the best thing to do is nothing. When I was a child, I once stood against the lamp post that was nearest to our house, where I knew that my mother could hear me (besides, it was after dark and I was afraid to be too far away) and I cried and cried and cried, as long as I could for a very long time. I was doing it to punish her, and demanding that she come to me. She did not come. I went from rage to grief to rage to self-pity while I cried, because she did not come. She was defeating me. (There were other times when she let me win.) Finally, I gave up because I could not cry any more, and besides, I knew that I was being phoney, that I was crying to punish my mother. I had noticed, too, that when I looked at the streetlights through my tears, they did fantastically lovely things, like a kaleidoscope, and when I partly closed my eyes, the lights went into crosses. I played with that until I was ready to go home. I do not extract any rule from that.  I do not remember the antecedents to my crying. However, I was thinking that my mother did the right thing in these circumstances because what I got out of it was good. I do not know whether she was being “wise.” She was not extraordinarily strong and sometimes she let things ride because they were too much for her. Often that was exceptionally good for me. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

The Egyptians and the Hebrews had a tradition of centralized yet small states with a powerful royal figure, they conceived of a supreme being, the ruler of Heaven and Earth. The Hebrews fought against idols, they prohibited making any kind of image of God; Maimonides, their greatest philosopher, a thousand years later declared that even to mention a positive attribute of God was not permissible. Yet the thought concept of God as the form under which the inexpressible was expressed, was retained in Judaism and in Christianity, and thus became the dominant concept of religious experience in the Western World. Many in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries protested this thought concept, together with their protest kings and emperors. In the enlightenment philosophy and in the new humanism, the experience underlying religious tradition was expressed in nontheistic terms—in the concern for man, rather than in a concern for God. Yet the concern was the same. It was a concern for means, for creating the social conditions for the spiritual development of man. The socialism of Marx, Fourier, Kropotkin, Owen, Jaures, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gorki was the most important genuine religious movement of the last hundred years. The breakdown of the humanistic tradition, beginning with the World War of 1914, almost destroyed this nontheistic “religious” movement. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

Nietzsche said that God was dead; what happened after 1914 was that man was dead. Only in small circles and among a few individuals did the humanist spiritual tradition continue; its greatest representatives in our times are men like Jesus Christ. The fetishism of words is as dangerous in the realm of political ideology as it is in that of religious ideology. Words must be seen together with the deeds and with the total personality of him who utters them. Words have meaning only in the total context of deed and character; unless there is unity among these factors words serve to deceive—others and oneself; instead of revealing, they have the function of hiding. All this was driven home to many by the historical period in which we lived. Most of the socialist leaders who had spoken the language of internationalism and peace before August 2, 1914, participated in the war hysteria a day later. The same leaders four years later prevented any effective socialization after the German revolution, by using the slogan “Socialism is marching.” The socialist Mussolini became the leader of fascism; yet until the day of his betrayal, his words were not different from those of other socialists. Mr. Hitler called his system, the aim of which was to serve German heavy industry and expansionism toward East and West, “national socialism”; Mr. Stalin called his system “socialism,” a system which served the rapid build-up of an industrialized Russia with complete disregard for all those human values which characterized Marxist socialism. Yet his friends as well as his enemies took the words for realities. We do the same by calling President Biden and other dictators “representatives of the free World.” #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

The Sacramento Fire Department is part of the community that they strive to make a great and safe place to live and raise a family. The Sacramento Fire Department is committed to the safety of Sacramento County. They do more than fight fires. Emergency and medical calls now make up more than half of their emergency responses. “We were having a lot of tension in one neighborhood, and hostility was being directed at the firefighters. So I said to our company, ‘Next time we get a fire down there, let’s show the people how good we are in saving their belongings. That’ll show them that we are really their friends.’ A few nights later, a seven o’clock on a hot summer evening, we get an alarm, and the upper floors of a three-story building are going. The ground floor is one of those storefront churches. So we get hold of the minister of the church, and we ask him where all his valuables are. We tell him that we are going in and save everything. So we get the Bible out, get all the artifacts and religious things that we can find. Anything we can’t move is gather together, and we throw salvage covers over it. Now the truck is starting to open up with a ladder pipe into the upper floors, and it’s only a matter of time before that water starts coming down. At the same time, the smoke starts baking down, and pretty soon we’re on our knees trying to scoop up the last valuable things. There is this huge box, and I can’t figure out what it is. We try to move it, but we can’t make it budge. It’s about eight feet long. Finally we throw a salvage cover over it, tuck it in at every point, so no water damage will be inflicted on this thing. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

“We come staggering out of the place, and guys are leaning over the fence, throwing up from the belt of smoke that we had. They finally get the fire knocked down, and we go back inside to see what this thing was. We lift the salvage cover, and it’s a baptismal, an eight-foot tub of water. Can you imagine that? We had covered it to prevent water damage. There’s another night where we got in and the smoke was banking down. Again, it was the upper floors of a building that were involved in fire, and the chief told us to spread our salvage covers on the second floor. So we got the covers and started into the building. We got to the second floor, and there was a guy, his wife and three kids sitting at a table, eating. There wasn’t too much smoke in the place, so we told them, ‘You’ve got to get out of here, the building’s on fire.’ The guy starts to argue with me, and I say, ‘Now you get out of here, or I’m going to call the police and have them move you out.’ So the guy reluctantly leaves with his wife and kids, and we get everything together and throw the salvage covers. We go outside to get more, and all of the sudden, I look. We’re in the building next door. What happened was that the smoke had banked down and concealed the doorways. I thought we were going in the right doorway, but we were going in the doorway of the building next door. So real quickly we grabbed more covers, went into the fire building, and got things covered up. I didn’t understand why that guy thought I was crazy.” #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

The Sacramento Fire Department focuses on reliability, service, professionalism, pride, integrity, and loyalty. The goal of the Sacramento Fire Department is to provide public education, fire prevention initiatives, preparedness, and overall community risk reduction. Should these efforts fail, they are ready, prepared and trained to respond to a wide variety of service calls. They do this with suppression resources, advanced life support transport services, a technical rescue team, a hazardous materials team, aircraft rescue and firefighting response and other services. You can help protect your community and save lives by donating to the Sacramento Fire Department. Parents, to stabilize America and retain American values, please raise your children to love America, to be patriotic, to love God and Jesus Christ, to buy American made cars and other goods and services, to respect law and order, to get their education and read books, and treat others with care, dignity, and respect. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Lo! the spring joy doth bring; winter’s frosts are ended. Gladness reigns, life remains, with sweet pleasure blended. God doth bear what His care and His love defended. Let Thy will guide us still, let Thy love be o’er us, let Thy light in our night, show Thy paths before us. Ours Thy love, from above, and Thy light that leads us. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

The Winchester Mystery House

When you visit the beautiful and mysterious Winchester Mansion, be sure to keep your eyes out for the ghost. Caretakers say that the ghost sometimes look like pale fiures or silhouettes that float down from the turrets or hover in the hallways. Over the years, dozens of people report seeing apparitions and strange phenomena at The Winchester Mystery House. Some report that they have heard wailing from inside the mansion’s walls. People are told to be careful about going to The Winchester Mystery House alone after dark because it is said to be home to some vengeful apparitions who often appear.

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Please come and enjoy a delicious meal in Sarah’s Café, stroll along the paths of the beautiful Victorian gardens, and wonder through the miles of hallways in the World’s most mysterious mansion. For further information about tours, including group tours, weddings, school events, birthday party packages, facility rentals, and special events please visit the website: https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/

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