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Sep. 25th, 2009 04:02 pmStill going through withdrawal from smoking. This is really bad. I quit in 1995 and stayed quit till 2001 before, then relapsed into smoking due to 9/11 and job drama. But when I quit in '95 it wasn't anywhere near as horrible as this. This time around it's been godawful. Mood swings like crazy. I go from wanting to stomp everything like Godzilla to days of bleary depressiveness. This is one of those days of bleary depressiveness.
For some reason, probably the quitting cigs again, I killed my Twitter account, my MyYearbook account, my Flixster account, and my Reality Sandwich account. Actually that felt very freeing. I never got anything out of Twitter. I know people who take to it like a fish to water but after I got my 3,712,564th piece of spam from some dating site, I realized that Twitter was nothing to me but a pain in the ass. MyYearbook and Flixster were similarly annoying, and nobody real was contacting me through them either. So why do I have those? I realized there was no good reason, so I exterminated them.
The Reality Sandwich site I had high hopes for but as it turns out Daniel Pinchbeck's site (and that is what it is) has turned out to be one big advertisement for gaining spiritual enlightenment through psychedelic drugs. The more I work with my clients, the less faith I have that psychedelic drugs can do anything at all for anyone's spirituality, except maybe fuck it up real bad.
There's a real big difference between an Amazonian shaman raised in a tradition using a plant extract to explore their spirituality, and empty-headed white people who have no spiritual belief or tradition to speak of tripping their asses off on whatever a "shamanism" website recommends and thinking they saw something significant. The difference is tradition, heritage, ancestry and serious spiritual practice, none of which I see on Reality Sandwich.
I think Pinchbeck is just shilling new age crap and encouraging people to take drugs at this point, and I can't honestly say I want to back that up or recommend it. "Breaking Open the Head" is still an interesting book, but Pinchbeck is way off track.
But anyway. It actually felt very liberating to drop these things. I don't know if it's nicotine withdrawal or what, but I felt a lot lighter and less cluttered.
For some reason, probably the quitting cigs again, I killed my Twitter account, my MyYearbook account, my Flixster account, and my Reality Sandwich account. Actually that felt very freeing. I never got anything out of Twitter. I know people who take to it like a fish to water but after I got my 3,712,564th piece of spam from some dating site, I realized that Twitter was nothing to me but a pain in the ass. MyYearbook and Flixster were similarly annoying, and nobody real was contacting me through them either. So why do I have those? I realized there was no good reason, so I exterminated them.
The Reality Sandwich site I had high hopes for but as it turns out Daniel Pinchbeck's site (and that is what it is) has turned out to be one big advertisement for gaining spiritual enlightenment through psychedelic drugs. The more I work with my clients, the less faith I have that psychedelic drugs can do anything at all for anyone's spirituality, except maybe fuck it up real bad.
There's a real big difference between an Amazonian shaman raised in a tradition using a plant extract to explore their spirituality, and empty-headed white people who have no spiritual belief or tradition to speak of tripping their asses off on whatever a "shamanism" website recommends and thinking they saw something significant. The difference is tradition, heritage, ancestry and serious spiritual practice, none of which I see on Reality Sandwich.
I think Pinchbeck is just shilling new age crap and encouraging people to take drugs at this point, and I can't honestly say I want to back that up or recommend it. "Breaking Open the Head" is still an interesting book, but Pinchbeck is way off track.
But anyway. It actually felt very liberating to drop these things. I don't know if it's nicotine withdrawal or what, but I felt a lot lighter and less cluttered.
