"Dreamwork Makes the Team Work"

- Megan Gamman-Foss and Paul Hanley

God Crazy is Good Crazy -

And Crazy Good to Boot

Our Enemy Uses:

Production of Perplexities

Construction of conflict and confusion

Fabrication of fear, falsehoods & frustration

Development of Designed Drama & Disapproval

Manufacture of mistrust, malice, misunderstandings and misery ...

     Over 30 Years of Research is clear: The vast majority of people with "mental illnesses" and addictions use nicotine for the simple reason that nicotine controls key symptoms from a variety of "mental illnesses" as well as, or better than, pharmaceuticals. So please stop manipulatively coughing when you walk by a person smoking.

GOOGLE "mental illness" CAREFULLY.

One thing you'll find is that almost all "mental illnesses" which are not congenital are caused by crazy environments. What's more, "mental illnesses" are more spiritual than mental, no matter how they appear or are dressed up. It's only natural that our spirits often suffer when we face hardship.

Abuse is, more than anything else, a soul crime. And as Victor Frankl, psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor, observed, insanity is a rational response to an irrational environment.

If we're partners in crime,

We're partners in slime -

Why not be partners in time?

Instead of food for thought, here's some drink for spirit

What's the best little book you've read lately?

"My choice is the modern, grown-up version of Charlotte's Web,

"Darria Praywell's

"On Shifting Sands, Nothing Stands: Book 1, Magically Finding Purpose

"One of the lesser lessons you can get from Darria Praywell's On Shifting Sands, Nothing Stands, while enjoying a page-turning story, is that all emotions give us information, so all emotions can be positives. There's no such thing as an emotion that's just negative.

"Some emotions are uncomfortable, even agonizing. Uncomfortable emotions can be obstacles but can also be opportunities - signals that something in and/or around us could be changed for our betterment.

"For example, if we feel shame, we might fear judgement, and we might conclude that the judgement is correct: that we are no good, something's wrong with us, we're misfits. But why try to fit into a world that itself is wrong? One of the biggest needs of humanity is to cleanse itself of dirty shame, and cleanse itself of shame's flip side, the compensatory behavior narcissism and arrogance, which people use to "prove" they're okay.

"You simply aren't bad, wrong, a misfit. You're also not any better than anyone else, even the lowest of the low. We are all much more than special - each and every one of us is unique. Your past choices and actions don't define you; you define you.

"If you want to stop making poor choices and doing unhealthy things, one good place to start is bowing out of the blame and shame game. Instead of blaming and shaming yourself and others, own your actions, and the choices that lead to those actions. Still, don't own other people's stuff. Compassion and sympathy don't imply turning yourself into someone else's trash can.

"All emotions, and all obstacles, can be positive opportunities for growth. Thank you for teaching us that and so much more, Darria Praywell."

- Paul Hanley, author of Oversimplified Chinese History.

If you ain't been there

You ain't done that

and

If you ain't done that

You ain't been there

Be Honest - you’ll find

The Noble don’t mind

But quibble and whine

And they’ll leave you behind

The same happens when

Just one lie slips in

So be all thoughtful Truths

Or face sour sleuths

Walk the Talk

Manure is Cheap

We are not who we are - we are who we've become.

We can always become different - by choices and actions.

Choices are not just choices, though - we haven't become US by accident.

So, you are not an "addict," "criminal," "loser" or "bum." You are who you choose to be, within reasonable possibility. You're a wonderful human, like the rest of us.