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Here’s a basic viewpoint I hold most of the time: people are generally good and want to do what is best.
Here’s another basic viewpoint I carry around in my brain-bag:  Although people are generally good, they are also generally mentally deranged.  I don’t mean that they are bat-shit crazy all the time or about everything, just that [...]

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I spent two weeks once balancing an invisible boulder on my right index finger. Someone in the lobby of a theater had mimed throwing a boulder at me, because that’s what happens in theater lobbies–didn’t you know? I’d mimed suspending it in the air with the power of my breath. Huff and [...]

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In Phillip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which is the basis of the classic sci-fi noir film Blade Runner, the figure of Mercer looms large. He is the focal point of the universal religion of humanity in the novel, the savior and God. He is a figure that the [...]

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Come to realize something about pain: sometimes it is unavoidable to cause pain to yourself or to others. At those instances, it’s better to get it out of the way, to inflict the wound now and let the healing begin rather than trying to avoid or hide from it. It’s the avoidance and [...]

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Just read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? a few weeks ago. It’s a very different story, on the whole, than Blade Runner, the very excellent movie adaptation of the novel. Sure, there’s still a bounty hunter out to “retire” androids on the run, but there’s so much more going on. [...]

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I”m standing in a botanica deep in Brooklyn half a decade ago.  I’m out of my ken and more naive than I’d like to think I am now.
I’ve just asked to get a reading.
The black man behind the counter, dissuades me.
“What do you want to get a reading for?”
I explain, with a little less than [...]

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“Get your ass up.”
I’m tempted to drift back to sleep.  I feel spent, wind blown out and gone away.  It’s five a.m. and I’ve got to get up.  A busy day ahead.  I’m laying there, eyes open, staring at the ceiling, exhorting myself under my breath.
“Get the fuck up.  Come on.”
And there it is.
A tug [...]

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Chapter Four of Jeff Warren’s illuminating Head Trip, he pays a visit to Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a clinical psychiatrist and contemporary of the late, Milton Erickson, in order to experience a hypnotic trance. Part of what brings Warren to Spiegel’s office is the search for a desire to find and understand a reliable standard [...]

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First time I saw a gray, “for real,” I was in the middle of a deep meditation, at a moment in my life when I also found myself to be, willingly, though perhaps less than consciously, a gypsy’s mark.
The second (and third and fourth…) time I saw a gray happened like this.
Riding to the Japanese [...]

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