Holy crap. I had never applied this to thoughts, perceptions, fears, interactions before. I had just applied it to spacetime. I am kind of having a moment.
1 Like
You Should Check Out Tha Book ,
PROMETHEUS RISING (by) ROBERT ANTON WILSON ,
He Has Levels Upon Levels and Diagrams + Consciousness Gaymes To Cure Boredom ,
&
Perhaps Enlighten Tha Bored Brayne …
He ALSO Has A Book Called Quantum Theory , Which Is Cool ,
You Mite and Anyone Else Mite Lyke It …
That kind of thing oftenly happens with him.
If you keep reading. :))
1 Like
Jus Missing A Letter ,
Hmm ,
Cults At Home n Such n Such n Such … ,
Which Jus Means ,
No Different Then ANY Type Of Family That Exsists …
Hmm …
It’s similar, yes, but without the need for the exogenous chemical interventions. If you liked Wilson, you’d probably like Charles Tart’s Waking Up and Transpersonal Psychology from about the same era and much along the same lines.
To bring it all around to me me me, back when I was doing very poorly, my mother gave me a copy of the Tao Te Ching. She also gave me therapy, meds, books on philosophy, and as gentle but firm a hand as she could, but none of this made anywhere near the difference that the Tao did to me. When I was able to view the thoughts and emotions that were pummelling me as wind and water flowing through, here and powerful but on their way through, I was able to pull myself out of the garbage pit I was in. This worked well for me for a long time, but it’s slipped away over the past few years, and I am not doing so well now.
Sarad and I had an exchange recently where she said things that helped me remember what had worked for me in the past, and this on top of it really brings what I need to do into focus. As a spacetime theory I understand this concept deeply. Psychologically, it makes so much sense, too.
Thank you, this is really really helpful.
1 Like
Hmm ,
I Liked Tha Movie WAKING LIFE ,
&
A SCANNER DARKLY ,
Nevah Erd Ov Your Dood …
You’re just a gem of the forum. 
1 Like
Bomb right on the target. Families as cults.
Which is pretty much what Jules Henry, Greg Bateson, Don Jackson, Murray Bowen, R. D. Laing, Aaron Esteron and Theo Lidz all saw in the families of schizophrenic adolescents and adult children in the 1940s-1960s.
Bateson, G., Jackson, D., Haley, J.; et al: Perceval’s Narrative: A Patient’s Account of his Psychosis, Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1961.
Esterson, A.: The Leaves of Spring: Schizophrenia, Family and Sacrifice, London: Tavistock, 1972.
Henry, J.: Pathways to Madness, New York: Random House, 1965.
Jackson, D. (ed.): The Etiology of Schizophrenia: Genetics / Physiology / Psychology / Sociology, London: Basic Books, 1960.
Laing, R. D.; Esterson, A.: Sanity, Madness and the Family, London: Tavistock, 1964.
Lidz, T.: The Origin and Treatment of Schizophrenic Disorders, New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Lidz, T.; Fleck, S., Cornelison, A.: Schizophrenia and the Family, 2nd Ed.; New York: International Universities Press, 1985.
Cult Is Jus A Word ,
No Different Then Any Other Label For Those Uninterested and Such n Such …
Charles Tart’s, Stephen Levine’s and Daniel Golemen’s Explorations of Taoism in the '70s and '80s may just be the backbone of the the modern mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and somatosensory therapy movements that are ascendent now.
Tart, C. (ed.): Transpersonal Psychologies: Perspectives on the Mind from Seven Great Spiritual Traditions, San Francisco: Harper-Collins, 1975, 1992.
Tart, C.: Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential, New York: New Science Library, 1987.
Tart, C.: Living the Mindful Life: a handbook for living in the present moment, Boston: Shambala, 1994.
Levine, S.: A Gradual Awakening, New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1979, 1989.
Levine, S. & O.: Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, New York: Doubleday, 1982.
Goleman, D.: Emotional Intelligence, New York: Bantam, 1980.
Goleman, D.: The Meditative Mind: The Varieties of Meditative Experience, New York: Putnam & Sons, 1988.
1 Like
Bookmarked. Thank you.
BOOMSHAKALAKA (!!!)
1 Like