THE URGE TO UNITE IS IN OUR DNA / URGE TO SURRENDER IS SOUL BASED

Death is the ultimate return home and a time of great soul celebration for we are returning to our original oneness and a place of such deep profound love that it's beyond words or description ~ only poetry can offer clues: Allen L Roland, PhD

 

Death is the great unknown and can only be conquered by totally surrendering to the moment and the fact that we are universally loved.

 

 

 

Dr Eben Alexander poignantly describes the blissful state of after-death consciousness that he personally experienced during his own near-death experience in his book ~ Proof of Heaven ~ in essence, Eben correctly says it’s all about love;

 

 

Proof of Heaven,  p. 71 ~  “If I had to boil this entire message down to one sentence, it would run this way: “You are loved.”  

And if I had to boil it down further, to just one word, it would (of course) be simply: Love ~ Love is without doubt, the basis of everything." 

 

"Not some abstract, hard-to-fathom kind of love, but the day-to-day kind that everyone knows – the kind of love we feel when we look at our spouse and our children, or even our animals. 

In its purest and most powerful form, this love is not jealous or selfish, but unconditional." 

 

 

"This is the reality of realities, the incomprehensibly glorious truth of truths that lives and breathes at the core of everything that exists or that ever will exist, and no remotely accurate understanding of who and what we are can be achieved by anyone who does not know it, and embody it in all of their actions." 

 

 

"Not much of a scientific insight?  Well, I beg to differ.  I’m back from that place, and nothing could convince me that this is not only the single most important scientific truth as well.” 

See 3 minute video ~  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_IrT8wqwBs&feature=player_embedded

 

 

Every love relationship that has ensued since I painfully re-opened my heart in 1971 has led me through my fears to the heart grounded place where I am now ~ living in the blissful awareness that I am once again part of something far greater than myself and, as such, my heart has become a fragment of life's heart.

 

The great Egyptian poet Mahfouz expressed it beautifully ~ “When the heart achieves its desire, you shall transcend time and space” ~ for we are all, in essence, put on this planet a little time to bear the beams of a profound love that transcends time and space.

 

But I was in that unconditional space as a young child, living with my grandfather, for I was once again part of something far greater than myself, filled with overwhelming joy and could literally feel love leap from my heart into his.

 

We have strong evidence that separation from love can lead to illness, death or self-destructive actions. Separation from the Unified Field  quite often begins in our earliest childhood, in our most primary relationships with family members such as grandparents ~ as  my separation with my grandfather.

 

The late pioneering psychologist Arthur Janov vividly communicates this tragic yet commonplace scenario in his classic book, The Feeling Child ~

 

" Actions and interactions between parent and child are only important insofar as they reflect feeling. Loving a child should be as natural as breathing air. Children take both for granted but when love is missing there is a frantic and usually unconscious struggle. Imagine the depression, the panic, the unbearable pain that would occur if breathable air was suddenly not there. It's not that different  for an infant or a child when love is not there ~ love, as primarily  defined is necessary for life. "

 

My observation, from my own experience and my work with clients, is that the ego is born from this no-choice situation as a means of surviving the loss or threatened loss of love.

 

Like most of you, readers, I too have experienced such a no-choice dilemma as a child. My option was either to somehow re-experience the excruciating repressed emotions of my separation from love, or, to cut myself off from who I really was.  But it was still my choice ~ for I was not ready to face my own well of grief.

 

I can still remember standing in the hall of my stepfather's house at age six in Nahant, Massachusetts, suddenly realizing I would never again see my grandfather ~ the person who had been the main source of love in my life ~ I remember feeling complete panic and desperation, feeling utterly alone and full of hopeless despair.

 

I still vividly remember when my grandfather eventually came to visit and how I refused to go out on the back porch to see him ~ I could not bear to face the repressed emotions of the original traumatic event that would be triggered by him leaving again.

 

My heart had closed to block out those unbearable feelings ~ emotionally I had stopped growing,

 

It was as if I had been separated from love, when in fact I had separated myself from love by closing my heart to avoid feeling pain.

Soon after, I began frantically acting out to avoid these feelings ~ I stole, lied, set fires and almost stopped deep breathing ~ it hurt too much to breathe deeply.

 

No one seemed to recognized my desperate cries for help ~ I became someone else, developed an alter ego patterned to win love versus being myself and I eventually hated the false self I had become in order to survive ~ hiding behind subconscious bars of fear that being myself was not enough.

 

It would take me nearly 30 years to fully realize that emotionally I truly had another choice and that being myself was not only enough ~ it was honest, vulnerable and quite beautiful !

FALLING THROUUGH THE RABBIT HOLE OF LOVE

Falling or surrendering to love is literally falling through a rabbit hole to another state of consciousness ~ a state of light and soul consciousness deepest within ourselves where we initially attempt  to externalize and possess and eventually must painfully internalize in order to assume our place in a universal loving plan in action ~ but this inner transmutation is actually  ego transcendence.

The eight steps of ego transcendence are Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance and Connection, Surrender, Celebration and Service,

Falling in love was my first step toward experiencing the divine light and a state of  love, joy and soul consciousness deepest within ourselves and no one describes the feeling more vividly than the famous Persian poet, Rumi ~

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,

to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.

First to let go of life.

Finally, to take a step without feet.”

Rumi

But Rumi also apparently sensed that love was a force beyond time and space and its roots were in the unseen world of soul consciousness and, I would add, the Unified Field ~ a state of consciousness that exists not only beyond time and space but also deepest within ourselves and whose principal property is the propensity to unite.

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Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.

The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade,

But do not be disheartened,

The source they come from is eternal, growing,

Branching out, giving new life and new joy.

Why do you weep?

The source is within you

And this whole world is springing up from it.”

Rumi

Without a doubt, the most important initial step in my journey to experience and know this same truth was falling in love ~ for indeed I fell through a rabbit hole to a whole new dimension of feeling, seeing and knowing.

Of course, I was already married, in a state of deep denial and bargaining and initially externalized that love and when that idealized love was shattered by the reality of my marital situation ~ I could either run away from the resultant deep psychic pain or do what I actually did ~ accept, connect and surrender to the deep pain realizing that I would be haunted forever by the heights of that joyfulness until I faced and sink into the uncharted waters of the psychic well of grief I was then encountering. David Whyte expressed it perfectly in his poem The Well of Grief ~

“Those who will not slip beneath
the still surface on the well of grief

turning downward through its black water
to the place we cannot breathe

will never know the source from which we drink,
the secret water, cold and clear,

nor find in the darkness glimmering
the small round coins
thrown by those who wished for something else.”

Some part of me sensed that there was a sad and alone child within me who always wanted to feel that deeply and I could not go any further until I also embraced his deep pain as I had once fully embraced his incredible joy.

After I willingly emotionally crashed and faced my pain in 1971 ~  I can vividly remember standing on a corner waiting for my wife in San Mateo, California ~  fully aware that I had been stripped of all my worldly possessions and literally had nothing to hang on to ~ to define me ~ I was for all intent and purposes lost and alone without my ego possessions.

I had surrendered to all that child's delight and now it was time to surrender to his pain ~ trusting that beneath that well of grief was not only joy but also my true authentic self and my heart centered destiny.

Willingly surrendering to the well of grief was an act of faith and I would never have survived if it wasn't in the spirit of gratefulness and that I was still unconditionally loved by my family.

From that deep and egoless state of apparent death and aloneness ~ I fully surrendered and embraced my true raw self and very rapidly my dreams became my guide to this new world of light and soul consciousness, that existed beyond time and space, as well as a startling realization that I was beginning to see through different eyes .

I dreamed I was going to write a book entitled CONSCIOUS LOVE, THE ULTIMATE ENERGY ~ which three years later in 1975 became my Master’s Thesis and the last 38 years have been spent proving it in my heart centered work as a therapist which culminated in my PHD dissertation on the Unified Field in 1998 and then the publishing of it in the form of my latest book in 2000 ~ RADICAL THERAPY / Surrender to Love and Heal Yourself in Seven Sessions ( Not Seven Years ) as well as my YouTube sessions under Radical Therapy in 2015.

This book has been read by all my clients as well as the more than 125 combat vets with PTSD in the eighteen Healing The Wounded Heart workshops I have facilitated over the past seven years.

Surrendering to love is also why my clients begin healing themselves in only seven sessions and why there has been an average 55 to 60% improvement in all symptoms of PTSD in my Band of Brothers 8 week PTSD groups ~ particularly feelings of Inner Peace, joy, love and gratefulness.

Despite the obvious success of a heart centered approach to working with combat veterans with PTSD, along with the alarming rising rate of veterans suicide (at least 25 a day) ~ it’s politics as usual for the VA who still refuse to sanction a heart centered approach to Combat Vet care and remain in the structured box of drug and symptom oriented programs while its top General calls for alternative approaches. 

I am now quite conscious of the fact that I am seeing through the heart while doing my heart centered consulting work, from a place of celebration and service ~ while living in a Unified Field of love, light, joy and soul consciousness ~  the same field that Rumi so eloquently wrote of;

“Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing,

there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other

doesn’t make any sense.”

Rumi

Combat veterans of all ages, seniors and youth all want to be seen through the heart and they all respond when we share our truth and speak from our heart . As an example, here’s a short email note from a member of the Orange county Life after Life club, where I made a two hour presentation on my heart centered work two years ago.

Dear Allen,

Our souls saw each other yesterday.  I knew I knew you.  I needed to be there and I needed to be in the front row.  I am frequently invisible, but you saw me.  I had waves of heart energy during your presentation, and when you quoted William Blake ("We are put on Earth a little space to bear the beams of love") my heart gave a leap!  His words became clearer. 

I am returning to the light and BECOMING my true self, excavating, tunneling out from underneath the pain and artifice, the defensive armor in which to hide.

I am listening to Caroline Myss and Andrew Harvey, “Divine Rebels, Saints, Mystics, Holy Change Agents-and You”.  Your work enmeshes with theirs and sparked a deeper understanding.

I am beginning to see the strands of evolution in me, the healing from psychic despair that will ripple out from me to help heal the WEB of the ALL.  This is my preparation time, for what, I do not know, but I do know I am gathering strength and courage to say YES when it presents.

I too, have felt that this is my last go round on this plane.  I have no idea how or why I know this, but the KNOWING is very strong and I am becoming Brave enough to BELIEVE that I am worthy enough to know this.

Thank you for saying “YES”.  Thank you for the courage to present your truth.  You have unlocked the treasure chest and my soul is in joy.

In deep gratitude for your Divine Light,

Kate Hennessy

 

So falling through the rabbit hole of love led eventually not only to my true self and a state of love, light, joy and soul consciousness deepest within myself but also to a place of celebration and service as well as the deep realization that I am part of a loving plan in action ~ an evolutionary process with which we all participate as co-creators, if we will but listen, respond and bravely share our truth regardless of the risks.

Kate's letter reminds me of one of my favorite quotes by William James ~ which most certainly applies to me ~  "I am done with great things and big things and great institutions and big successes, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets or like the capillary oozing water, yet, which, if you give them time, will bend the hardest monuments of human pride."

 

Allen L Roland, PhD

https://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-urge-to-unite-is-in-our-dna-urge-to.html

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also featured columnist on Veterans Today and is a featured guest on many radio and Television programs.

 

MY LIVING WILL AND LIVING NARRATIVE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Allen L Roland with still much to do at 82 years old.

 

As I draw closer to 82 years old, I realize I'm living on borrowed time and since I've already published my Living Will ~ I think I'm ready to publish my living Narrative complete with my many triumphs and failures but still in the same spirit of good humor and gratitude. I wouldn't have missed this lifetime for anything ~ for I most definitely surrendered to love and found my part in a loving plan: Allen L Roland, PhD

 

“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.” – Paulo Coelho

 

MY LIVING WILL / ALLEN L ROLAND

1. If I should remain in a persistent vegetative state for more than 30 days, I would like someone to pay my rent.

2. If I do not respond to pinches, pinpricks, rubber mallets, electric shock or other medical stimuli, please don’t take it personally.

3. If my death is particularly dramatic and worthy of a movie ~  I would like to be played by Harrison Ford.

4. If my doctor pronounces me brain-dead, I would like to see the latest Adam Sandler movie.

5. If there is a family dispute over my medical condition, it must be settled with a boxing match.

6. I do not wish to be kept alive by any machine that has a 5,10 or 20 dollar change setting.

7. In lieu of flowers or donations, I would prefer a fireworks show.

8. Assume that, even in a coma, I can still hear discussions about my life, my loves and my struggles.

9. If I remain motionless for an extended period and utter only guttural, meaningless sounds, I would like it set to music and submitted for an Emmy.

10. At my memorial service, I would like my clergyman to begin his eulogy with the words “I suppose, in a way, we all misunderstood Allen.”

 

See VT column ~  http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/05/09/my-living-will-update/

 

Now it's time for my Living Narrative and my epitaph should be this appropriate credo from Jack London ~ a childhood hero, writer and inspiration for me.

"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.” Jack London

 

MY LIVING NARRATIVE / ALLEN L ROLAND

 

It was Teilhard de Chardin who wrote that "we are not human beings having a spiritual experience but instead spiritual beings having a human experience" and my living Narrative, since I'm still very much alive, is correctly written from a first person perspective.

William Blake wrote "We are put on space a little space to bear the beams of love" and Blake died singing songs to his wife ~ but in my lifetime narrative, it appears I not only bared the beams of love but demonstrated that it was not only deepest within each one of us but was a joyful state of soul consciousness that existed beyond time and space.

 

First of all, let me be clear that I wanted to be born regardless if I was wanted or not ~ I'm a twin and was blessed with an inseparable companion for those nine prenatal months ~ I was born two minutes ahead of my beloved twin and I was there for him spiritually 80 years later when he died two years ago. Bobby lives in my heart and is now my guardian angel. See my Eulogy in 2014 ~ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/18/in-memory-of-my-twin-brother-bobby/ 

 

There is also little doubt that I surrendered during the birth trauma which I relived many years later as a carrier based fighter pilot in 1960 ~ the longest split second I have ever experienced. See The Final Option ~ as well as  a link to my work and how I guide people through their deepest fears. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/05/11/the-final-option/

 

My early childhood years were intertwined with my twin brother and we were indeed the adventurous Hardy brothers which I reminded him of when he was suffering from Parkinson's disease at a rest home close to our original home in Nahant, Massachusetts in 2012. See Love Note to my Twin  ~ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/11/16/love-note-to-my-twin/

 

But there is one early childhood experience at four years old, while living with my beloved grandfather in Newtonville, Massachusetts with my mother and brothers, where I profoundly experienced that deepest within myself was a love and joy that indelibly connected me to everything around me as well as all of nature ~ it was my first conscious awareness of a  Unified Field of love and soul consciousness that exists beyond time and space.

 

One day while playing alone in my room I heard my favorite song on the radio ~ it was Gene Autrey's "I'm Back in the Saddle Again". My inner joy was too great to contain and I felt an incredible urge to share it ~ so I turned the radio up full volume, stood on my tiptoes, opened the window and leaned out into the gorgeous New England summer day.

 

Immediately, an overwhelming sense of delight seemed to lift me out of myself ~ an utterly amazing feeling of knowing and awareness rose from deep within me, a feeling of incredible joy and oneness with all things around me ~ and I totally surrendered to it.

 

For a few ecstatic moments, I sensed, knew, that I was not alone. This awesome joy lifted me out of myself and was somehow connected to all and everything ~ and I was part of it.

 

At four years old, I knew ~ for a few moments ~ that I was a beloved and essential part of a loving universe ~ I was in the Unified Field.

 

Two years later, when I was suddenly taken away from my grandfather, my heart closed and I checked out. Emotionally, I stopped growing and for the next 30 years that transcendent moment of soul consciousness remained buried beneath a well of grief, a mantle of psychic pain, aloneness and despair ~ it hurt too deeply to feel anything deeply. But in the midst of that initial pain, I had a vision of the Golden Gate bridge, water and houses ~ a moment in time precognitive vision that I would eventually walk into 40 years later.

So my whole lifetime narrative became an unconscious Quest to find that little boy and empower him to feel that deeply again and own and share his joyful truth.

 

In essence, my lifetime Quest to find myself has been a process of learning to surrender to what was already deepest within myself and then finding the courage to fully share what I truly felt and knew ~ and then empower countless others with this truth.

 

After High School and College, and my five years of active duty as a Naval aviator, my twin brother and I drifted apart and I began my quest in California to find love, myself and my authentic vocation. After three marriages, four children and much joy and heartache, I finally surrendered to my repressed pain, found that joyful little boy and walked into that precognitive dream I had at six years old of the Golden Gate Bridge ~ and realized I was living that vision and had proven my Unified Field ~ for my precognitive vision at six had gone backward in time and obviously existed beyond time and space.

 

More importantly, I surrendered to my original intention and purpose ~ which was to not only prove my Unified Field of love and soul consciousness but demonstrate it in my work which I have done for the past 40 years.

 

The basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy force of love and soul consciousness (the Unified Field) which lies not only beyond time and space but also our deepest fears and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite: Allen L Roland, PhD

 

Once I realized that the love I was looking for was deepest within myself I obtained my MA in Clinical Psychology from Sonoma State University and began my authentic vocation ~ demonstrating through my heart centered work that people could be empowered to heal themselves in seven sessions if they opened their hearts through gratefulness and forgiveness.

 

In 1998, I obtained my PhD in Spiritual Psychology from Greenwich University and my award winning dissertation on the Unified Field eventually became my book Radical Therapy, Surrender to Love and Heal Yourself in Seven Sessions (not Seven Years).  Radical meaning heart/soul centered Healing.

 

That book is now on Kindle along with my 12 truths ~ See Kindle and 12 Truths announcement on VT ~ http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/04/05/the-12-truths-of-rolands-unified-field-now-on-kindle/

 

All my clients have access to these self-healing steps in my updated Kindle Book RADICAL THERAPY, SURRENDER TO LOVE AND HEAL YOURSELF IN SEVEN  SESSIONS (not seven years). Here is the Kindle link http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Therapy-Surrender-Yourself-Sessions-ebook/dp/B00JGE5VQE

 

Most people are not aware that you do NOT need a Kindle to read an Amazon eBook. You can download a free program from Amazon called Kindle for PC, and read it on your computer. Link below:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/kcp-landing-page?ie=UTF8&ref_=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd

 

And here's a link to the YouTube Skype sessions of the self-healing process I teach and coach ~ Watch, in the first 20 minutes of session five, how Marina conquers her deepest fear by going through them as she demonstrates that beneath her pain and fear is boundless joy. See video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r12MoNnwPKg&feature=youtu.be

 

My book and work is a passionate call to heal your heart by surrendering to love. Initially by sharing gratitude with the many people in your life who have not been thanked for being a gift ~ and then all others as you open your heart and begin to not only see through different eyes but also slowly reconnect with your original joy, intention and purpose.

 

My life has been a life of service and my greatest joy and sense of belonging is the inner knowledge that I am a living part of a loving plan in action (God) and in sync with my destiny and I am blessed to have my beloved partner, companion and healer Keiko by my side in my golden years.

 

I dreamed about Keiko before I met her and distinctly remember telling my children that we would be living together within a year ~ and we hadn't even met at that time. (The soul contains the event that shall befall it and always provides what we need on our life's journey)

 

The proving ground of my transformational life's work has been my empowering work for the past 5 years with combat veterans with PTSD, who have been taught to kill but have been re-programed to love through gratefulness and forgiveness during this important soul retrieval work.

 

In reviewing my life, I have answered an important question I posed long ago when I started my practice ~Why are most people afraid of their deepest Joy?

 

The answer is because their psychic pain, quite often experienced at birth or early childhood, has over ridden their original joyful memories and they are afraid of or mistrust their deepest joy and are living their life and still making life decisions based on ego based fear.

 

In the third tenet of my PhD dissertation, The Unified Field, I describe the process by which psychic pain (the seeming separation from love) can over-ride joy and how most people are afraid of or mistrust their deepest joy ~ It would appear that the pain of not feeling loved for oneself and being seemingly separated from our original state of soul consciousness and the Unified Field is of such deep psychic proportions that, early in childhood, processes are triggered in the hypothalamus which result in a left brain imbalance and dominance as well as the denial, mistrust and forgetting of our connection to the Unified Field and the love and joy and a state of soul consciousness deepest within us. It is from this dark tunnel of pain, aloneness, despair and apparent death that the ego and ego consciousness is born - for survival and protection purposes only.

 

In my role as a heart centered consultant with over 40 years' experience of soul retrieval especially with veterans with PTSD, I retrieve buried souls and empower them through love and gratefulness to not only open their hearts but to also find their unique place in a universal loving plan from a place of celebration and service. They soon begin to realize that everything they have ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

Here are the eight stages of ego transcendence I demonstrate and teach. Remember that the ego is a projection of what we feel we have to be versus being our true authentic self ~ and it is always born out of deep pain and aloneness.

 

1. Denial    Everything is fine, there is nothing missing in my life ~ I'm in full control of everything

2. Anger    I can't stay in control and manipulate things any more ~ it's not working, it's making me angry.   

3. Bargaining   I'll hang on to something so I won't get out of control and have to deal with the unknown and all those scary feelings deep inside me that I have been continually avoiding.

 

4. Depression  Why am I feeling so sad, and it feels so deep. If only I could get out of this pit of despair.

 

5. Acceptance / Connection   I'm feeling deep sadness and it's the same feelings I felt as a child ~ I can't deny these feelings any longer.

 

6. Surrender  I'm letting go and trusting that there is joy beneath my sadness ~ what is this excitement I'm feeling beneath this well of grief and it has nothing to do with someone else.

 

7. Celebration  I'm truly feeling the joy of being myself and the growing awareness that there is something I'm supposed to be doing ~ I'm beginning to trust the unknown and see through different eyes.

 

8.  Service  I'm fully trusting myself, I'm listening and I'm responding to this inner call ~ I want to be in service from this inner place of authentic love, joy and delight.

 

Make no mistake about it, the keys to the magic kingdom of the soul are gratefulness and forgiveness ~ and eventually gratefulness and forgiveness ends with our self.

 

Dr Stanley Krippner describes this soul retrieval process in the foreword of my book ~ "No psychiatric manual lists "soul loss" as a condition in need of treatment but shamans tell me that "soul loss" is widespread in contemporary society. Allen Roland has had the insight to understand what the shamans have told me. He also has developed the skills to help his clients regain their souls"

Nowhere is "soul loss" more apparent than with veterans who have been taught to kill or witnessed or participated in unjustified mass human carnage.

Band of Brothers #18 was my last hurrah as a volunteer consultant with the Concord Vet Center but I left with an immense sense of satisfaction regarding this unique heart centered approach to self-healing. This empowering program has not only succeeded ~ with well over 100 active veteran graduates who have positively changed through gratefulness and self-forgiveness ~ but more importantly, their hearts have been opened and they have experienced another choice of behavior while their PTSD symptoms have greatly diminished.

It remains to be seen if the VA will integrate this self-healing approach into their clinical approach but it is obvious that no amount of psychiatric drugs can ease the painful psychic pain carried by many of our returning veterans with PTSD ~ as witnessed by the rising veteran suicide rate.

Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s No. 2 officer, who has long been an advocate for soldiers suffering from the invisible wounds of war (such as PTSD and TBI) ~ also advocates the need for other alternative approaches ~ ” I want to understand what drugs we should use to treat these symptoms, if we should use any drugs at all. I want to look into alternative pain management. We are finding there are other ways to handle pain that are more effective and allow a person to feel a lot better than throwing a bagful of drugs at them.”  See http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05/23/unsaid-issue-behind-veterans-rising-suicide-rate-is-shame-based-guilt/

As a former active duty Naval aviator and carrier pilot who served seven years in the Navy, the last two as a weekend warrior ~ I can honestly relate to veterans and consider it an honor to have touched many of their hearts in my work as a heart centered consultant.

They have all, including myself, faced their deepest fears and been in service to their country. Many have been to the dark side and long for another choice and I am proud to have facilitated that process in my ongoing heart centered consultations. That work was an integral part of my life's journey for I was in service to something far greater than myself and always from a place of my original joy and soul consciousness, the Unified Field .

 

Make no mistake about this, I have not won a popularity contest in surrendering to my destiny in my soul retrieval work particularly with the VA who still have not acknowledged the need for this alternative heart centered counseling with veterans and continue to rely on their symptom based clinical approach to veteran rehabilitation. Most of my children and family do not understand my quest ~ but regardless, I have taken pains to keep them up to date on my progress and perhaps been an inspiration for them to go within and believe in themselves.

Last year I wrote on my Birthday that I was Having fun at 81 but this year it's There's still much to do at 82 ~ There can be no greater feeling of satisfaction, as a heart centered advisor and consultant, than guiding and empowering someone through their deepest fears and pain to the euphoric joy beneath their pain as well as embracing and giving a voice to the innocent and fearless child within themselves.

Every step and relationship in my life has prepared me for this soul centered work particularly with combat veterans with PTSD. At age 82, I feel completely in sync with my destiny, I’m most definitely in service from a place of joy, gratefulness and celebration and I’m still making a difference. Being able to clearly see through my heart has more than prepared me for this important soul based work.

 

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the human eye.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

 

Allen L Roland, PhD

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/my-living-will-and-living-narrative.html

Heart centered spiritual consultant and advisor Allen L Roland can be contacted at  allen@allenroland.com Allen is also a lecturer and writer who shares a weekly political and social commentary on his web log and website allenroland.com. He is also featured columnist on Veterans Today and  guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net