The Human Conservancy...field office

Just a few times in our life do we meet a person whose character and personality qualities stop us in our tracts. Their presence fills the room. Charismatic but substantive. Confident but humble. Authoritative but gracious. Exuding strength invested in a lifetime of headwaters but drunk deeply from the sources of humanity. The more we see and feel of this person, the more WE seem to be...When you meet this person, listen with the depth of your senses. Listen to all that is possible...you are going to be listening for the lesson.

Listen for the lesson in every person you meet, and that in itself is an enormous privilege and adventure...Doc

Lessons From The Sane Asylum...sensations

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"Consciousness itself is an instrument of adaptation. Sensations are not ends in themselves. They are merely occasions or signals to inform us it is proper to do certain things..."

From Inside The Sane Asylum...

Today’s news

From Inside The Sane Asylum

Some have been asking, from what reality am I posting? Never gave that much thought, but it is simple question to answer...from my illusions. I don't want anyone to feel cheated with any of my comments and post but they all come from my illusions of truth as I know them to be. So I could be wrong.

As far as my endeavors...well I am a Thought Placebo Researcher in The Sane Asylum. As I see it, placebos work at least twenty eight percent of the time, so why not try it with thoughts. There are some dangers, however, one could get dependent on thought placebos or even suffer from the ill effects of NoPlacebo. There really is such a thing, you know. I don't have many fears but there is one, I'm concerned the pharmaceutical company that makes Prozac will make me change my moniker..

The Sane Asylum is just another illusion, but a good one. There are citizens that actual live in The Sane Asylum. Homesteaders mostly.. Occasionally we will get a wanderer, like the Ole Goat Man that lives on the outskirts. There are no seekers in the Sane Asylum. The citizens have nothing against them, they just don't have enough time to bring them around. From time to time we will get a visa request which may be approved. That Gypsy Girl, Izzy IsNess and N D Shadow are Visa holders.

On a serious note, The Sane Asylum is a Preservation Site for those Of Sound Mind or we like to think so. Funny how we chase our sanity around by the tail. I hope you will occasionally visit  dregoprozac.blogspot.com. I try to feature posts that reflect the best moments in our human condition.  From time to time you will even get a visit from one of the homesteaders that may give you a little of their Folk Psychology.

Footnote, of sorts...Don't forget to make peace with yourself and get along with it all...Doc

Lessons From The Sane Asylum...

"Give me the hardest task"...I pleaded,
As I stood at my masters feet.

"It shall be so, my child", he said.
"Thy task is but...to wait."

Lemme Think About It...three score and ten

Threescore and ten is an average, not a promise, and all too easy to take for granted.
The years pass, not with the ticking of the clock, but with the silent hissing of sand through the center of an hourglass....

Now of my three score years and ten,
twenty will not come again.
And take from seventy years a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

The Art Of Living...

"It reminds me that moments can stop whole hours” 

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Therapy...beliefs

This young woman said to me recently that her whole young life she had thought that the expression was, “It’s a doggy-dog world,” and then someone told her, “No, it’s a dog-eat-dog world,” and she was horrified. She said, “No, I don’t want it to be a dog-eat-dog world! I want it to be a doggy-dog world!”

Stopped To Ponder...Something other

"People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind-wandering typically makes them unhappy… “Mind-wandering is an excellent predictor of people’s happiness,” Killingsworth says. “In fact, how often our minds leave the present and where they tend to go is a better predictor of our happiness than the activities in which we are engaged.”… Time-lag analyses conducted by the researchers suggested that their subjects’ mind-wandering was generally the cause, not the consequence, of their unhappiness."

Front Porch Psychology...Projection

By permitting us to ignore or disown our weakness and conflicts, projection gives us the feeling of security.  It is more comfortable to turn our mental backs on our own faults and condemn them in others. Projection constitutes psychological magic, employed by the mind to bring peace and harmony into life. Projection, by a sort of mental slight of hand, blinds us to the unpleasant real in ourselves by fixing our attention on its presence in others. It is individually and socially useful. One who avails themselves of projection frequently is apt to become pessimistic, cynical, and sarcastic.

The Art Of Living...

The Gordian Knot...the brain

Let go of who they are not.
You must think you live in Camelot.
You carry these feeling of who they are not,
Filled to the brim in your pepper pot.

Why is it you have this blind spot
And just can't let go of who they are not.

Once and for all, untie that gordian knot.
Just let go of this plot.
After all, you can't control who they are not,
Even if you were Sir Lancelot.

Just think of the things your not...Doc

Front Porch Psychology...mindfulness

 As Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

Lemme Think About It...

"Why do you give your two cents worth when it's only a penny for your thoughts?"

From The Far Side Of The Glass

We have an inborn tendency to establish types in our minds and to divide mankind according to them. [But] however advantageous and revealing such categories may be, no matter whether they spring from purely personal experience or from attempting a scientific establishment of types, at times it is a good and fruitful exercise to take a cross section of experience in another way and discover that each person bears traces of every type within himself and that diverse characters and temperaments can be found as alternating characteristics within a single individual. Hesse Notes

From The Study...a conversation of possibilities

There is no discrete self or ego living like a minotaur in the labyrinth of the brain. And the feeling that there is—the sense of being perched somewhere behind your eyes, looking out at a world that is separate from yourself—can be altered or entirely extinguished. Although such experiences of “self-transcendence” are generally thought about in religious terms, there is nothing, in principle, irrational about them. From both a scientific and a philosophical point of view, they represent a clearer understanding of the way things are. Sam Harris