Download or read book The Ravings of a Madman written by Camino Elgarc and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you are about to read is dark and confronting. It represents a period, long gone, when my life collapsed, and I had no answers. Lack of purpose and immense grief pushed me into a marginal existence where life itself became irrelevant and at times I imagined death as offering the only release from pain. This is not uncommon; many people will have been through similar circumstances. Most survive and I am one of them. When I gave my draft to a good friend of mine for advice and comment she suggested that I write an introduction that showed that I had come through these events and that I had prospered. I have. At the time I saw no way through, I didn’t care to find a way through. Psychoanalysis and associated drugs, and support from friends, allowed a thinning of clouds over time. I do not believe my mind would have allowed me to rest without the release of medication and I do not believe medication would have been an option without professional help. When in a situation such as that depicted here, drugs offer a small clearance of light in a world of shadows. Yet, at the same time, I believe that trauma has a function. It slaps you in the face with a realignment of values that sometimes leads to growth. A growth partnered by change at a time when all your focus is on keeping things together; batting down the hatches to allow you to weather the storm. When the storm passes you find a new you. The first thing to suffer was business. Not only did I not care about it, but I held it partly responsible for some of the damage to my family. I was very fortunate to have some people who continued to grind away at their job, who offered support in the best way they knew how, by doing their job. It somehow survived though substantially diminished. I have never again really worked at it. The new me did not have the capacity for prolonged effort and I became a person of “projects”. Most were purely indulgent, others for gain. Enough have succeeded so that I do not have an empty box awaiting a tick. I have done OK

Download or read book The Ravings of a Madman written by Wil R P McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ravings of a Madman is a look into my broken mind. An anthology of short stories, poetry, prose, and freewriting that I have written to help me cope with my Schizophrenia and Manic Depression. I have suffered from both of these ailments for most of my adult life, and I have finally found an outlet in my writing. I write not only to help myself. I write in hopes that others may see my words and find solace and see that they are not alone.

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Download or read book Ravings of an Internet Madman written by F. V. Karch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in my favorite quiet coffee shop, a man showed up and told me he had chosen me to be his scribe for the answers to the questions of the Universe. Intrigued, I opened my note pad, turned on my recorder and spent the next four-and-a-half hours listening as the universe unfolded around me. When he finished talking, I was left stunned and bewildered with a new understanding of things which left me confused, enlightened and a little afraid. As the scribe for what had happened, I created this transcription of the conversation. It is a wonderful, confusing and amazing journey from the normalcy of reality into a glimpse of the universal events surrounding us and defining our lives in unimaginable ways. He used breadcrumbs found in history to rewrite it in ways that finally make sense. You experience a deep, deep love story that has made strong men weep. There was an examination of humanity from the nature of our physical selves to clues of our design and needs. It is a spiritual journey which tosses away faith for faith sake alone and replaces it with science and logic which reaffirms the reasons for the system. Finally he combined all that had gone on before in the entire conversation into cohesive presentation of the reason and nature of, well, everything! This journey has been different for every person who has previewed this book. I asked those who have read it for a way to describe it every person stumbled: "Science-fiction that isn't science-fiction" said one. "A deep, sad love story that isn't," said a second. Finally, a woman who is a Person of Talent said it best: "It is a song. There is a rhythm, a beat, a melody and each person reacts to it in ways individual to themselves." I then realized what this book is: This book is Zen. You cannot describe Zen. Zen must be experienced. The reason so many have such difficulty describing this book is because it speaks to each person differently. It Is Zen. Something Very Important: You cannot skim this book. You cannot jump to an interesting chapter title and read it without reading all the chapters before it. This conversation I was privileged to be a part of built to the conclusion based upon small blocks, characters and concepts introduced all along this journey. I will also warn you that there are words and ideas in here some may find offensive. This is the nature of free-range conversation. There are dissections of history and religions that may leave some upset. If you feel you cannot handle thoughts not given to you from an approved list of allowable thinking, you probably won't be able to handle this book. But if you are of the type that can consider each point without immediately passing judgment, this book may cause you to find strange and different views entering your thought processes. The only thing my previewers agreed on was: "You MUST publish this!" You also need to know there are two versions of this book; one for women, one for men. Both are almost exactly the same but there is a section in each which, when you read it, you'll see why the other gender need not know what is said. Read the version for your gender. It's not important enough to wonder about what the other version says. So I offer this book, this manuscript, this interview for your pleasure and your consideration. For those who can go through each doorway as they are presented, this can be a journey to Zen. It is a way to reach a point where you look around and you suddenly see the influences of the unseen upon everything around you. It becomes a way to discover a bit about the painted background that makes up our existences. For those of you who do not achieve the Zen state, my apologies. You'll probably toss this book on the pile of WTH books you've encountered from time to time. But for those who do reach the end and achieve Zen, if the end leaves you opened mouthed, I can only say: Wow! -- Right?

Download or read book Ravings of an Internet Madman written by F. V. Karch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in my favorite quiet coffee shop, a man showed up and told me he had chosen me to be his scribe for the answers to the questions of the Universe. Intrigued, I opened my note pad, turned on my recorder and spent the next four-and-a-half hours listening as the universe unfolded around me. When he finished talking, I was left stunned and bewildered with a new understanding of things which left me confused, enlightened and a little afraid. As the scribe for what had happened, I created this transcription of the conversation. It is a wonderful, confusing and amazing journey from the normalcy of reality into a glimpse of the universal events surrounding us and defining our lives in unimaginable ways. He used breadcrumbs found in history to rewrite it in ways that finally make sense. You experience a deep, deep love story that has made strong men weep. There was an examination of humanity from the nature of our physical selves to clues of our design and needs. It is a spiritual journey which tosses away faith for faith sake alone and replaces it with science and logic which reaffirms the reasons for the system. Finally he combined all that had gone on before in the entire conversation into cohesive presentation of the reason and nature of, well, everything! This journey has been different for every person who has previewed this book. I asked those who have read it for a way to describe it every person stumbled: "Science-fiction that isn't science-fiction" said one. "A deep, sad love story that isn't," said a second. Finally, a woman who is a Person of Talent said it best: "It is a song. There is a rhythm, a beat, a melody and each person reacts to it in ways individual to themselves." I then realized what this book is: This book is Zen. You cannot describe Zen. Zen must be experienced. The reason so many have such difficulty describing this book is because it speaks to each person differently. It Is Zen. Something Very Important: You cannot skim this book. You cannot jump to an interesting chapter title and read it without reading all the chapters before it. This conversation I was privileged to be a part of built to the conclusion based upon small blocks, characters and concepts introduced all along this journey. I will also warn you that there are words and ideas in here some may find offensive. This is the nature of free-range conversation. There are dissections of history and religions that may leave some upset. If you feel you cannot handle thoughts not given to you from an approved list of allowable thinking, you probably won't be able to handle this book. But if you are of the type that can consider each point without immediately passing judgment, this book may cause you to find strange and different views entering your thought processes. The only thing my previewers agreed on was: "You MUST publish this!" You also need to know there are two versions of this book; one for women, one for men. Both are almost exactly the same but there is a section in each which, when you read it, you'll see why the other gender need not know what is said. Read the version for your gender. It's not important enough to wonder about what the other version says. So I offer this book, this manuscript, this interview for your pleasure and your consideration. For those who can go through each doorway as they are presented, this can be a journey to Zen. It is a way to reach a point where you look around and you suddenly see the influences of the unseen upon everything around you. It becomes a way to discover a bit about the painted background that makes up our existences. For those of you who do not achieve the Zen state, my apologies. You'll probably toss this book on the pile of WTH books you've encountered from time to time. But for those who do reach the end and achieve Zen, if the end leaves you opened mouthed, I can only say: Wow! -- Right?

Download or read book Poetry Past And Present Or the Ravings of a Madman written by MAC Mcgovern and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry based on a celebration of life accumulated through living, loving, spiritual and educational experiences.

Download or read book Ravings of an Internet Madman written by F. V. Karch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day in my favorite quiet coffee shop, a man showed up and told me he had chosen me to be his scribe for the answers to the questions of the Universe. Intrigued, I opened my note pad, turned on my recorder and spent the next four-and-a-half hours listening as the universe unfolded around me. When he finished talking, I was left stunned and bewildered with a new understanding of things which left me confused, enlightened and a little afraid. As the scribe for what had happened, I created this transcription of the conversation. It is a wonderful, confusing and amazing journey from the normalcy of reality into a glimpse of the universal events surrounding us and defining our lives in unimaginable ways. He used breadcrumbs found in history to rewrite it in ways that finally make sense. You experience a deep, deep love story that has made strong men weep. There was an examination of humanity from the nature of our physical selves to clues of our design and needs. It is a spiritual journey which tosses away faith for faith sake alone and replaces it with science and logic which reaffirms the reasons for the system. Finally he combined all that had gone on before in the entire conversation into cohesive presentation of the reason and nature of, well, everything! This journey has been different for every person who has previewed this book. I asked those who have read it for a way to describe it every person stumbled: "Science-fiction that isn't science-fiction" said one. "A deep, sad love story that isn't," said a second. Finally, a woman who is a Person of Talent said it best: "It is a song. There is a rhythm, a beat, a melody and each person reacts to it in ways individual to themselves." I then realized what this book is: This book is Zen. You cannot describe Zen. Zen must be experienced. The reason so many have such difficulty describing this book is because it speaks to each person differently. It Is Zen. Something Very Important: You cannot skim this book. You cannot jump to an interesting chapter title and read it without reading all the chapters before it. This conversation I was privileged to be a part of built to the conclusion based upon small blocks, characters and concepts introduced all along this journey. I will also warn you that there are words and ideas in here some may find offensive. This is the nature of free-range conversation. There are dissections of history and religions that may leave some upset. If you feel you cannot handle thoughts not given to you from an approved list of allowable thinking, you probably won't be able to handle this book. But if you are of the type that can consider each point without immediately passing judgment, this book may cause you to find strange and different views entering your thought processes. The only thing my previewers agreed on was: "You MUST publish this!" You also need to know there are two versions of this book; one for women, one for men. Both are almost exactly the same but there is a section in each which, when you read it, you'll see why the other gender need not know what is said. Read the version for your gender. It's not important enough to wonder about what the other version says. So I offer this book, this manuscript, this interview for your pleasure and your consideration. For those who can go through each doorway as they are presented, this can be a journey to Zen. It is a way to reach a point where you look around and you suddenly see the influences of the unseen upon everything around you. It becomes a way to discover a bit about the painted background that makes up our existences. For those of you who do not achieve the Zen state, my apologies. You'll probably toss this book on the pile of WTH books you've encountered from time to time. But for those who do reach the end and achieve Zen, if the end leaves you opened mouthed, I can only say: Wow! -- Right?

Download or read book Raving at Usurers written by Dwight Codr and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Raving at Usurers, Dwight Codr explores the complex intersection of religion, economics, ethics, and literature in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Codr offers an alternative to the orthodox story of secular economic modernity's emergence in this key time and place, locating in early modern anti-usury literature an "ethic of uncertainty" that viewed economic transactions as ethical to the extent that their outcomes were uncertain. Codr’s development of an "anti-financial" reading practice reveals that the financial revolution might be said to have grown out of—rather than in spite of—early modern anti-usury and Protestant ethics. Beginning with the reconstruction of a major controversy provoked by the delivery of a sermon against usury in the financial heart of London, Codr goes on to show not only how the ethic at the core of the discourse surrounding usury in the eighteenth century was culturally mediated but also how that ethic may be used as a lens to better understand major works of eighteenth-century literature. Codr offers radically new perspectives on Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, examining how these novels reacted to emergent financial ways of knowing and meaning as well as how the texts formally bear out the possibility of a truly open and uncertain future. By reading the eighteenth century in terms of risk rather than certainty, Raving at Usurers offers a reassessment of what has been called the financial revolution in England and provides a revisionist account of the intimate connection between risk, ethics, and economics in the period.

Download or read book Lawyers Reports Annotated written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Heidegger and Jaspers on Nietzsche written by R.L. Howey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GENERAL PROBLEMS IN NIETZSCHE INTERPRETATION Every philosopher presents special problems of interpretation. With Nietzsche these problems are especially crucial. The very richness of Nietzsche's thought and expression becomes a trap for the incautious or imaginative mind. Perhaps the greatest temptation for the in terpreter of Nietzsche is to attempt to "systematize" his thought into a consistent whole. Any such attempt necessarily results in distortion, for there is a fluidity in Nietzsche's thought which does not lend itself to strict categorization. This is not to deny that there are certain organic patterns in his philosophy. These patterns emerge, however, as Jaspers correctly insists, only upon careful, critical comparison of pertinent passages drawn from the entire corpus of Nietzsche's works. No single passage can be taken as a definitive statement of Nietzsche's views of any particular subject. Frequently, by presenting two or three especially relevant quotations from the author being considered, the correctness of his interpretation. With Nietz a critic can support sche, however, such a procedure is inadequate, for in many cases other passages can be found which will support an alternative, if not oppo site, interpretation. Nor is this difficulty alleviated by vast compi lations of relevant passages, for then one could gain just as much, and quite likely more, from re-reading Nietzsche's works themselves.

Download or read book When Everything s on Fire written by Brian Zahnd and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to hold on to faith in an age of unbelief? Intellectual certainty has long been a cornerstone of the Christian faith. But in an age of secularism, skepticism, and cynicism, our worldviews have been shaken. Various solutions exist—some double down on certainty, while others deconstruct their faith until there is nothing left at all. But Brian Zahnd offers a third way: what is needed is not a demolition but instead a renovation of faith. Written with personal and pastoral experience, Zahnd extends an invitation to move beyond the crisis of faith toward the journey of reconstruction. As the world rapidly changes in ways that feel incompatible with Christianity, When Everything's on Fire provides much-needed hope. A stronger, more confident faith is possible when it is grounded in the beauty and truth of Christ. Zahnd permits us to risk the journey of deconstruction so that God can forge something more beautiful in its place.

Download or read book Paranoia A Study in Diagnosis written by A. Fried and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a curious parallel between the philosophy of science and psychiatric theory. The so-called demarcation question, which has exercised philosophers of science over the last decades, posed the problem of distinguishing science proper from non-science - in par ticular, from metaphysics, from pseudo-science, from the non rational or irrational, or from the untestable or the empirically meaningless. In psychiatric theory, the demarcation question appears as a problem of distinguishing the sane from the insane, the well from the mentally ill. The parallelism is interesting when the criteria for what fails to be scientific are seen to be congruent with the criteria which define those psychoses which are marked by cognitive failure. In this book Dr Yehuda Fried and Professor Joseph Agassi - a practicing psychiatrist and a philosopher of science, respectivel- focus on an extreme case of psychosis - paranoia - as an essentially intellectual disorder: that is, as one in which there is a systematic and chronic delusion which is sustained by logical means. They write: "Paranoia is an extreme case by the very fact that paranoia is by definition a quirk of the intellectual apparatus, a logical delusion. " (p. 2.

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Download or read book How Good an Historian Shall I Be written by Marnie Hughes-Warrington and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.G. Collingwood's name is familiar to historians and history educators around the world. Few, however, have charted the depths of his reflections on what it means to be educated in history. In this book Marnie Hughes-Warrington begins with the facet of Collingwood's work best known to teachers—re-enactment—and locates it in historically-informed discussions on empathy, imagination and history education. Revealed are dynamic concepts of the a priori imagination and education that tend towards reflection on the presuppositions that shape our own and others’ forms of life.