Louise Hay.
Healing within
by EAnn Hinds
Louse L Hay: “My philosophy about life is
really very simple — what we give out, we get
back. And what we believe about ourselves
becom es true for us, that we are each 100%
responsible for everything in our lives.
"1 work with a lot of people with AIDS, and
to m e it’s the same as working with som e­
body with cancer. Cancer is a disease o f re­
sentment that eats away at the body until it
becom es a disease.
“ I find that people with AIDS have a lot of
resentment, a lot of self-hatred, and usually a
lot o f sexual guilt. It isn’t as though you say ‘I
want to have AIDS.’ But because of the beliefs
we have about ourselves, it contributes to the
disease.
“ Everybody on this planet that I'm aware of
is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one
degree or another. The more of it we have, the
less our life works; and the less of it we have,
the better our life works.
“ Until we can take responsibility [for our
own health j it is very hard to have any power
in our healing. When we can take responsibil­
ity for our beliefs then we can step beyond
this being a crisis and it becom es a process
of love healing the planet"
The above quotes from Louise L. Hay, can
give insight into the nature of the teachings of
the woman whose methods are fast becom ­
ing the most popular adjunct to self-health
care am ong people with AIDS and ARC in
this country.
LIFE LINK, a non-profit support and service
group dedicated solely to people living with
AIDS, ARC and any other life threatening
condition, will present Louise L. Hay, in a
lecture and workshop series in Portland on
Novem ber 13,15 and 16. For more details
see page 15.
of the romantic style of the movie, develop
realistically and their growth is pretty clear to
the audience.
The only complaint I heard concerning
Desert Hearts was that Cay was unrealistically
macho. How many women do you know who
just peel off their clothing and sneak into
people's beds without any fair warning? Could
you possibly introduce me to them?
A w om an’s role that has had much publi­
city this summer is that of Ripley, played by
Sigourney Weaver, roasting beastie after
beastie in Aliens. The character, fortunately,
has other talents aside from turning out
enough Fried Alien Surprise to feed the entire
m ovie-going public. She is smart, beautiful,
and deeply maternal. She also finds time to
wink at the NCO in charge of the marine unit.
Unlike its prequel, this film gave us reasons to
believe that Ripley could display feelings other
than extreme terror and fear.
What bothers me about Weaver’s role in
Aliens is that it had to have so much publicity.
It’s not news to me that there are women who
are clever, brave, and concerned. The fact
that it seem s to be news to a good portion of
the m ovie-going public is almost as scary as
the movie is.
The Disturbing Film of the Year Award goes
to Mona Lisa. Granted, the film is about a
man, and a man’s perception, and a man’s
way o f dealing with his environment which is
occasionally his estranged family but more
often the world of prostitution and pornogra­
phy. But, did they have to produce a film in
which 98% of the women are prostitutes and
in which none of them are terribly bright?
Even the heroine, who seems pretty tough
and is possibly a real live lesbian, relies on
men and being used by men for her em ploy­
ment and for finding her lover. The only
character I could really relate to and
sympathize with was the rabbit, Arthur.
It has been an interesting summer. I’m
curious to see where the filmmaking industry
takes us from here.
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It seem s that this was the summer for gutsy
wom en to appear in many different types of
films. We anxiously awaited the return of
Desert Hearts to watch Cay fall for Vivian
again. We couldn't wait for Aliens to be re­
leased so that we could see Sigourney Weaver
in her underwear a couple more times. We
were curious about the relationship in the
film Mona Lisa. Many of us were disappointed
with what the movie industry thought were
real women.
The film that most of us are happiest with is
Desert Hearts, based on Jane Rule’s novel
Desert of the Heart. Directed by Donna
Deitch, the film deals directly with the de­
velopment of a lesbian relationship and the
self-discovery that com es with it. The
characters, although larger than life because
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