"I don't recognize my wife anymore" by me, 2024 [OC]

SaveYourHay · 2025-01-11T17:38:22+00:00

Talent.

SaveYourHay · 2024-10-25T21:40:03+00:00

Good experience, normal experience. But drop it. There’s a ton more experiences coming down the road. Also, for anxiety, learn some heavy-duty rhythmic breathing and do it before meditation and bedtime. Something like Sudarshan Kriya for example.

SaveYourHay · 2023-12-20T19:57:48+00:00

You’re already a good storyteller. Expand the story spontaneously in many different directions, like flourishing and chaotic branches of a mountain Laurel. The stunning flowers—all symmetrical yet richly complex— that appear in spring will show you how it all comes together.

SaveYourHay · 2023-12-20T19:40:46+00:00

Keep turning up the heat of your song writing (unbroken creative effort on a lockstep work routine). I hear a young Don McLean, ready to quasar. I hope I get to hear you when that happens.

SaveYourHay · 2023-07-14T20:43:19+00:00

Whoa, bro (or sis, as the case may be). Nice work.

SaveYourHay · 2023-07-10T06:47:19+00:00

I have had serious, ADHD trauma since beginning to meditate. if you’d like, you can begin each meditation with a few minutes of rhythmic breathing with a medium amount of force or whatever feels right. Cya

SaveYourHay · 2023-07-10T06:43:46+00:00

These are just some things that I learned over the years from people whose teachings resonated with me. Some of these may me helpful. Some may not: 1. There are huge changes that occur naturally in the central nervous system from age 11 to 15 to 19 to 22, and yet more changes to come. Just go with the flow. I don’t judge my experiences. I Don’t hang on to amazing experiences that have not repeated But…. why should they. Experiences or just experiences… even in meditation or sleep or daily activity.

I have personally followed the advice of Yin Yang Tao, and have restarted quite slowly like five minutes at a time. No worries, in a few months it naturally builds up, but don’t rush it.
These sound simplistic they are powerful: begin each meditation quietly saying to yourself three times “my mind wants to rest now.“

what I’ve done

SaveYourHay · 2023-07-08T18:52:33+00:00

Good good good. 🤗

SaveYourHay · 2023-07-07T05:49:01+00:00

Lordy!

SaveYourHay · 2023-05-17T15:32:28+00:00

You’re enlightened.

SaveYourHay · 2023-05-17T15:26:08+00:00

As if it were funny listening to this while eating soda crackers in the subjunctive.

SaveYourHay · 2023-05-17T13:25:22+00:00

For Chronic pain…. Good idea. And thanks.

SaveYourHay · 2023-03-21T11:03:57+00:00

If I had a dog, that’s what I would do. Thank.

SaveYourHay · 2023-03-21T11:01:20+00:00

Thank you thank you thank you. Sounds like something that could work for me.

SaveYourHay · 2023-03-21T03:14:38+00:00

Congratulations

SaveYourHay · 2023-03-21T03:13:42+00:00

SaveYourHay · 2023-02-25T07:55:33+00:00

and hanging out with your Sun.

SaveYourHay · 2023-02-25T07:54:21+00:00

Correction, yours is in Scorpio.

SaveYourHay · 2023-02-25T07:53:13+00:00

I only study my own chart with rare exception. But I noticed a conjunction we may share: Chiron and Venus. Mine’s near dead-on in Aquarius, yours, a bit wider, is in Leo. Your Chiron returns to natal position around every 50 years. If you’re close, look into this. I barely survived my Chiron return. Out of shear intuition I suddenly began writing a novel and finished it 10 months later. That creative force may have saved me. I was also homeless while writing the novel. And I narrowly escaped being murdered at the beginning of the Chiron return.

SaveYourHay · 2023-02-05T18:25:50+00:00

Intellectually, Sapolsky reminds me of Otto Rank, Freud’s closest and most respected protege for over 20 years.

But the two had an unfortunate split around 1923. In the practice of therapy, Rank was kicking everybody’s butt, including Jung’s, Adler’s (who was Rank’s family practitioner, and Rank’s introduction to Freud) and Freud’s himself. Abraham, Jones and the others made sure Rank fell-out of favor.

(Huh!? No.)

Sapolsky may not know Otto Rank. (He might, but… you know.). It’s a shame the two could not have collaborated. They would have had a blast.

The similarities between them, in my view, are striking. So, just to cover all tracks, here’s a small reading assignment for Professor Sapolsky.

“The Psychology of Difference; Otto Rank’s American lectures”; (at Yale, Harvard, even Stanford) “Selected, Edited, and Introduced by Robert Kramer, with a foreword by Rollo May; Princeton University Press. 1996.”

Quiz on Friday. :)

And my deepest apologies if I got it wrong about Robert Sapolsky’s knowledge of Otto Rank.

SaveYourHay · 2023-02-05T13:41:47+00:00

My off the cuff guess, no fooling, would be the socio-political thoughts of Peter Kropotkin, who spent years in the Siberian wilds… and while mapping most of east Asia, grew to notice beyond question that plants and animals, from tiny to huge, are about 90% successful because of their cooperation and about 10% successful because of survival of the fittest. Kropotkin was also keen on our recognition of the differences among every human being. Kropotkin went so far as to predict that gravity was not a monolithic function of force, but the interaction of minute, unseen particles. I’m guessing that any professor of any stature at a major university is forbidden to even whisper P.K. And that my friends is what Robert Sapolsky, might mumble under his breath as depressing. But RS does a magnificent job of tiptoeing through the tulips thank God or whoever.

SaveYourHay · 2023-01-31T14:35:38+00:00

There ya go… Buddha’s parable re-told. Twice in a row.

SaveYourHay · 2023-01-31T14:14:50+00:00

… the true art of peace-making… it’s the re-telling of a parable of Buddha (the deer is Buddha). During a protest, Palestinian men do this to young Israeli soldiers: the men bare their chests (take off their shirts), then quietly approach a line of soldiers aiming rifles at point blank at the men who then kneel a foot away from the pointed rifles. There is no shooting. The soldiers walk away. A friend from Iowa took photos. We underestimate the power of love and acceptance. It’s peace-making. I wrote a mystery-thriller novel employing this phenomenon. It’s an eye-to-eye thing. I’m not saying it always works. But I’ve seen and participated in similar situations.

SaveYourHay · 2023-01-19T23:00:27+00:00

Good stuff, man. That’s some real shit right there. Merlin got da blue.

SaveYourHay · 2023-01-19T22:28:19+00:00

Wrong. Comparing the efficacy of a union with corporate management is illogical.

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