The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void – it is shining.
John Lennon, “Tomorrow Never Knows”
I stopped drinking on January 1, 2010. I did so under the guidance of Kaiser’s Chemical Dependency Recovery Program. Right off, I went to meetings—physiology of addiction classes, AA meetings, LifeRing meetings, harm reduction meetings, and appointments with counselors, therapists, doctors, and psychiatrists. But once my body started to detox after 30 days, I got depressed. Real depressed. Clinically depressed. I did cognitive behavioral therapy for another eight months until I felt comfortable enough to call myself sober. Continue reading →
October 1, 2018
Categories: atheism, Black Panther Party, Gregory Bateson, Karl Marx, Politics . Tags: "inner speech", "me" vs “all-that-is-not-me”, "self talk", 12-Step Programs, AA-Alcoholics Anonymous, agnosticism, alcoholism, Anthony Wilden, atheism, “higher power”, “The Cybernetics of ‘Self’: A Theory of Alcoholism”, Black Panther Party, Cartesian, Cartesian solipsism, Catholicism, Chemical Dependency Recovery Program CDRP, clinical depression, cognitive behavioral therapy CBT, dhyāna, God, Gregory Bateson, harm reduction, human consciousness, J.D. Moyer, John Lennon, Kaiser, Karl Marx, Lev Vygotsky, LifeRing, meditation, mind-body duality, mindfulness, neural circuitry, neurons, Philip K. Dick, prayer, René Descartes, Søren Kierkegaard, shikantaza, single unit of mind, Soto Zen, the other, zazen . Author: leftyhooligan . Comments: Leave a comment
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