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I saw a rerun of Mash, the TV show, the other night. It really hit home.
A soldier in the Korean War “appears” to have an emotional breakdown after dropping bombs over and over on the North Koreans. He tells the doctors he’s Jesus Christ. He doesn’t answer to his given name. He tells the doctors and anyone he talks to he is Jesus and only offers love to everyone.
They call in a psychiatrist who diagnoses him as having a break with reality. The psychiatrist says the soldier needs to be sent home, and maybe over time they’ll be able to help, bring him back to sanity, but the soldier will never be “sane” enough to be sent back to war.
Initially, I agreed instantly with the diagnosis that this soldier was insane, and that the psychiatrist was prescribing the right treatment for this soldier. Then I thought about it.
WAS THIS SOLDIER INSANE OR ENLIGHTENED. HE COULDN’T HANDLE KILLING PEOPLE ANYMORE AND CHOSE TO BECOME A BEING, JESUS CHRIST, WHO SAW EVERYBODY AS BELOVED BY GOD. WAS THIS A BREAK WITH REALITY OR A RETURN TO THE ULTIMATE REALITY?
It seemed to me this former soldier chose to identify with being a being of pure love. Are humans inherently killers, able to always kill under justifiable/rationalized circumstances, or are human beings all insane.
As far as the psychiatrist was concerned the soldier wasn’t himself anymore, so he needed to be brought back to sanity for his own good, needed to be made capable of killing again. After all this psychiatrist’s job in the military was to return to combat any soldier that had a breakdown. So, the psychiatrist participated in the killing in his own way, as did the doctors in the MASH unit.
The psychiatrist and the doctors in the MASH unit did not see they were part of the problem, because weren’t they helping people, not killing people? Weren’t they helping people to go back to killing people, seeing this or not seeing this as normal, if not insane?
Going back to the soldier who said he was Jesus Christ, and who was offering everyone around him love and blessings, did he really stop being himself?
It would seem to me, if when he got back home, they supported him in remaining a being of love, and at the same time helped him see what caused his breakdown/transformation into a being of love, and allowed him to remain a being of love, then wouldn’t that be a very good thing? Wouldn’t accepting who he was and what he had done, before he became a Christ, allow him the ultimate SANITY and INTEGRATION and FORGIVENESS and ENLIGHTENMENT?
