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What is my Problem?

''Your problem Dimitri, is that you have no problems.''

Michael Hilary Hughes

MY LIFE WAS AS A SYMBOL

Astride the bull, I reach home.

I am serene.

The bull too can rest.

The dawn has come. In blissful repose,

Within my thatched dwelling I have abandoned 

     the whip and rope.

AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHIATRY

''Transpersonal psychiatry, therefore, is psychiatry that seeks to foster development,

correct developmental arrests, and heal traumas at all levels of development, including

transpersonal levels. 

 It extends the standard biopsychosocial model of psychiatry to a biopsychosocial-spiritual one in which the later stages of human development are concerned with development beyond, or transcendent of, the individual. The meanings of the terms transpersonal and spiritual must be sharply differentiated from the meaning of the term religious.

 Religious refers to the belief system of a specific group, whose members usually gather 

around specific contents and contexts that contain some transpersonal elements. 

 Spiritual refers to the realm of the human spirit, that part of humanity that is not limited to bodily experience.''

(Excerpt from the book ''TEXTBOOK OF TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY'', edited by Bruce W. Scotton M.D., Allan B. Chinen M.D., John R. Battista M.D.)

ABOUT A VOID...

... and why it is Friday!

After the party, we still belong to history.

And why after a 7 on the Richter scale, in Cali, I don't care what,

I still prove my specialness as a 5 on the Ox scale.

The Equanimity Game

''When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.''

(Marcus Aurelius, from THE LITTLE BOOK OF STOICISM by Jonas Salzgeber)

MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS

''A Romanesque crucifix was not regarded by its contemporaries as a work of sculpture;

nor Cimabue's 'Madonna' as a picture. Even Pheidias'  'Pallas Athene' was not primarily a statue.

So vital is the part played by the art museum in our approach to works of art to-day that

we find it difficult to realize that no museums exist, none has ever existed, in lands where the civilization of modern Europe is, or was, unknown; and that even amongst us,

they have existed barely two hundred years.''

(Andre Malraux, ''The Voices of Silence'', Bollingen Series XXIV)

''Creating health'' by Deepak Chopra

What shall we conclude from the title of this famous doctor's book? 

That, we create the disease, as well, as its cure?