Please excuse the vulgarity of this cross posted article, but sometimes a curse word or two is appropriate.
At times Mrs. Cog accuses me of being unemotional and detached. And at times Mrs. Cog is absolutely correct. There are circumstances where I simply do not wish to invest my emotional capital into some thing or some thought that I see as a dead end or chasing my tail. For those inclined to make the investment, oftentimes it comes down to little more than renting space in our mind to others with no compensation or return of principal.
The following article by David Cain of Raptitude.com perfectly expresses my thoughts on the subject. Please take five minutes and check it out. Then pop over to David's website and check him out.
I have been reading Brandon Smith from Alt-Market.com for some time now. And while I don't always agree with his positions, such as his stated need to 'resist' what I claim ultimately springs from within ( a view that is reflected in the title of Brandon's latest piece where he gives reasons why we "fight") Brandon is an impassioned and at times eloquent writer and often touches upon the same themes I write about.
In other words, while Brandon often becomes immersed in tilting at the illusionary windmills of the Matrix, this article, which we have re-posted from the Alt-Market.com website, comes as close as I have ever seen to expressing many Cognitive Dissonance themes and views. So, with no further ado I bring you Brandon Smith.
Back in 2008 and 2009 I engaged in extensive conversations with Paul Levy concerning my growing awareness and the inner mental and emotional crisis I was going through at the time. Paul related to me his own experience several decades earlier when he was a very young man and underwent what he now terms a 'spiritual birth', but at the time was diagnosed as mental illness.
Thankfully, after several years and many rotations into and out of mental institutions, Paul found his way to several highly developed spiritual individuals who assisted him through the disturbance and over to the other side as a true visionary and spiritual presence.
While I have always had an innate distrust for mental hospitals and the approach Western medicine takes towards so-called mental illness, Paul's story inspired me to push through and continue my own path of healing. It was with this in mind that I read the following book excerpt (The Natural Medicine Guide to Schizophrenia) written by Stephanie Marohn(featuring Malidoma Patrice Somé).
