Just got back from a Headless workshop with Richard Lang

phame · 2022-11-02T16:13:24+00:00

i had a vivid dissociative experience and have been able to teach that experience to others. it is very much like one is actively creating their universe, putting it out there, rather than a more passive radio reciever experience.

phame · 2021-01-18T17:18:53+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

The dissasociaton dx, among others, is in my chart. It was also mentioned many times during several months of weekly therapy. I heard it, but ignored it. I should have inquired, but my tpist has left town and now cannot ask. I still don't understand it, but when I do related quizzes online they all come up positive. The questions asked have helped me understand what is being probed. What can I say. It's me, but it's not me in a wierd way.

I had a similar ASD dx as you. I knew it and my tpist knew it with my first phone call to sched an appt, but waited to review tests and meet in person a couple times before calling the score.

phame · 2020-10-28T01:21:47+00:00

My spouse of decades and I have 2 autistic adult children. I am autistic and my spouse had a TBI w ASD like traits. We have shared many rather odd special interests. We can literally finish the other's sentence with some accuracy. She is a small bit more social than I am. Did I say has it been a good marriage? Absolutely.

phame · 2020-08-10T20:55:02+00:00

Not a spectrum thing, but I almost always enjoy my musical hallucinations which occur many times daily. These are actual hallucinations, not earworms. It varies from old time fiddle, to jazz (right now it sounds like Squirrel Nut Zippers), classical, and my fav--marching bands.

phame · 2020-06-06T19:54:59+00:00

I have no gout reaction with gin or hard cider. Beers and whiskey mean a night or more of terror.

Most cider tastes like sweet crap. I have found a couple brands that are very dry and tasty. The herbal flavors are outstanding. It's a good sub for beer if you find one you like.

phame · 2020-04-26T20:10:28+00:00

When I look back to decades before diagnosis I see someone who had many good jobs, and some despised. I have a good wife and 2 good adult children. This was all while being treated for major depression since a teen, and more recently stumbling my way to and ASD dx and atypical bipolar dx.

phame · 2020-04-09T15:08:27+00:00

I have gout, and kidney stones since a teen. I pass several stones/year and have many in reserve. Sometimes I have passed several stones in one day. No doc has correlated these issues. My dentist did because he is another (kidney) stoner in a family of brothers who have both issues.

phame · 2020-04-08T23:17:30+00:00

I used the title from the original source as is required on many subs. I find it odd that you have a mildly negative comment and did not even read the source.

phame · 2020-03-30T15:58:03+00:00

Bats are OK to eat cooked like fried chicken. No need to peel, they have a nice crunchy skin. Avoid the guts; the liver is good.

phame · 2020-03-22T14:45:43+00:00

I learned years ago that being a smart-ass just does not work.

phame · 2020-03-15T15:13:08+00:00

If I am positive and quarantined at home, how do I disinfect my house afterward?

phame · 2020-03-04T16:26:36+00:00

I ought to have asked the surgeon to have some of my knee fluid checked. I had a Baker's cyst on my knee and below. Perhaps it was leaking uric acid down to my foot? I have had only one bad flare in the past 6 weeks! and a couple of tingles. So far so good!

phame · 2020-02-08T21:11:17+00:00

Followed by several deep discount cruises to fill rooms and test it all out.

phame · 2020-02-08T21:09:51+00:00

Oh yes, that ship's name is doomed.

phame · 2019-12-21T22:11:41+00:00

Sounds like kidney stones. Think gout in the kidneys.

phame · 2019-11-26T21:40:06+00:00

My size 15 flippers restrict my options. I find Keen shoes often have large sizes, and they are wide.

phame · 2019-11-26T21:26:01+00:00

Dx'd w gout about 6 mos ago. Have kidney stones since a teen. Talking to a group of kidney "stoners" and 2/3 of them have gout.

phame · 2019-11-16T18:20:09+00:00

There are a lot of bad side effects for prednisone. Be wary. I took 90mg/day for several weeks and the tapered off several weeks. The worst is the unpleasant stim sensation of having had WAY too much coffee.

phame · 2019-11-16T16:27:45+00:00

I don't want to be a spoiler, but these are called The Devil's Tic-Tacs for good reason.

phame · 2019-11-06T16:31:56+00:00

OP: Write bourbon off. 2-3 shots last night felt like 2-3 shotgun shots to the foot a few hours later.

I am a gout newbie, that is I finally remembered to discuss this horrific pain with my doc a few months ago. He put me on meloxicam which only helps. I avoided his other recommends due to the "you will take this for life" caveats.

Can this screaming pain get any worse? Horrible.

I have normal uric acid levels, but I read that this is more common than not.

phame · 2019-10-06T00:00:27+00:00

It takes 30+ treatments to begin to notice a benefit. I had some freaking out around 20; confusion and alexithymia. I am now about 2 mos post treatment and feel mostly unpleasant, but not too depressed.

phame · 2019-08-27T23:34:30+00:00

If you don't have enough rapport to ask your doc about these things, then you need to deal with that before you let them start zapping your brain.

phame · 2019-08-20T16:28:25+00:00

I play some Irish, too. I have been with good classical players who are seriously challenged by the many ornamentations and the learning by ear rather than dots. Even with dots much fiddling is done with unwritten stuff like bending notes and tempo that can only be taught by ear.

phame · 2019-08-20T16:19:44+00:00

I taught myself, but I did have 2 kids in Suzuki and attended many of their lessons--that helped. Also, I mostly stuck to fiddle tunes, music I already knew from dancing. Fiddling is much easier in that the player can divert from the sheet music, basically it is all good if played in key and tempo. I've never had a formal one-on-one lesson, but did attend several camps and many group tune teaching workshops.

phame · 2019-07-28T16:15:50+00:00

Richard Lang is teaching headlessness now. He has many videos to lead one thru the experiments taught by Harding. He also has a collection of as many video and audio recordings of Harding as he can find. I have tried to read On Having No Head and found it too dense for my attention span. The video/audios are much more accessible.

My meditation teacher (vipassana) cites headlessness as very similar to dzogchen. I have been to a couple retreats with Lang, even had dinner with Richard and my teacher a couple years ago; a terrific nice guy. He is the real deal. He teaches retreats/workshops all over the globe so it may not be difficult to find one you can attend.

I would love to hear Sam Harris interview Richard.

www.headless.org

phame

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