Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Greetings to you all!
I have just "finished" a little book called "A Beginners guide to reality".
The book is the result of 35 years of me living with schizophrenia.
I have included a LOT of the advice I have found on the web over-the-years. Also my own poetry and thoughts about the eternal paradoxes of earthly existence.
The advice is about experiencing your full potential - I am not there just yet but the glimpses I have had are almost too good to be true!
Here is an excerpt from a book I found at the local library, called "The Troubled Mind" by Solomon Snyder:
Since the beginnings of recorded history, man has been fascinated with the insane, with their deranged feeling, thinking, and behaviour. Insane people with fanciful delusions have at times attracted large numbers of adherents, who looked upon their psychotic leaders as prophets or as saviours of some sort. The alluring properties of the "prophet's" message may be more than just a beckoning of a way to escape from the boredom of everyday life. I suspect that many followers are riveted by a peculiarly intoxicating quality of psychotic ecstasy conveyed by the "mad" leader.
The psychiatric disease that converts man into an other-worldly creature - at once wiser than the wisest of the sane and yet so deeply troubled that he suffers more than a terminal cancer patient - is surely schizophrenia. Because of his bizarre loss of contact with everyday reality, the schizophrenic can appeal to us as a messiah bearing the message of the infinite. For our conception of the universe is bounded by the straitjacket of conventional thinking processes. A schizophrenic's self-perception is so fragmented that he seems to function at a different plane of consciousness from the rest of humanity. Some psychiatrists who have dealt extensively with schizophrenics even wonder whether the schizophrenic's "psychotic" perception of the world might not conform more to ultimate reality than does our sane vision.
There are also plenty of tips for staying as healthy in mind, body & spirit as you can manage.
Ego trip
You'll never meet anyone as humble as me
I am also as modest as I can be
I really am the ideal human being
If you understood you would be agreeing
I have included many web links - dozens in fact - Here's a few examples -
I am not alone in regarding gratitude as one of the keys to happiness -
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/four_great_gratitude_strategies
Smile at the voice in your head -
http://drlesliepitner.com/2017/02/28/smile-voice-head/
gibberish therapy - YouTube
108 Benefits of Daily Meditation
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_start_a_kindness_revolution
If you would like a free copy of the book, just email me:
[email protected]
If you was wondering why the book is free - let's just say it has something 2 do with karma
Enjoy your day!
I have just "finished" a little book called "A Beginners guide to reality".
The book is the result of 35 years of me living with schizophrenia.
I have included a LOT of the advice I have found on the web over-the-years. Also my own poetry and thoughts about the eternal paradoxes of earthly existence.
The advice is about experiencing your full potential - I am not there just yet but the glimpses I have had are almost too good to be true!
Here is an excerpt from a book I found at the local library, called "The Troubled Mind" by Solomon Snyder:
Since the beginnings of recorded history, man has been fascinated with the insane, with their deranged feeling, thinking, and behaviour. Insane people with fanciful delusions have at times attracted large numbers of adherents, who looked upon their psychotic leaders as prophets or as saviours of some sort. The alluring properties of the "prophet's" message may be more than just a beckoning of a way to escape from the boredom of everyday life. I suspect that many followers are riveted by a peculiarly intoxicating quality of psychotic ecstasy conveyed by the "mad" leader.
The psychiatric disease that converts man into an other-worldly creature - at once wiser than the wisest of the sane and yet so deeply troubled that he suffers more than a terminal cancer patient - is surely schizophrenia. Because of his bizarre loss of contact with everyday reality, the schizophrenic can appeal to us as a messiah bearing the message of the infinite. For our conception of the universe is bounded by the straitjacket of conventional thinking processes. A schizophrenic's self-perception is so fragmented that he seems to function at a different plane of consciousness from the rest of humanity. Some psychiatrists who have dealt extensively with schizophrenics even wonder whether the schizophrenic's "psychotic" perception of the world might not conform more to ultimate reality than does our sane vision.
There are also plenty of tips for staying as healthy in mind, body & spirit as you can manage.
Ego trip
You'll never meet anyone as humble as me
I am also as modest as I can be
I really am the ideal human being
If you understood you would be agreeing
I have included many web links - dozens in fact - Here's a few examples -
I am not alone in regarding gratitude as one of the keys to happiness -
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/four_great_gratitude_strategies
Smile at the voice in your head -
http://drlesliepitner.com/2017/02/28/smile-voice-head/
gibberish therapy - YouTube
108 Benefits of Daily Meditation
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_start_a_kindness_revolution
If you would like a free copy of the book, just email me:
[email protected]
If you was wondering why the book is free - let's just say it has something 2 do with karma
Enjoy your day!
