giving self help books a bad name

So I picked up a few books which fall into the category ’self help’, lent to me over the last several months. You know, now that I think of it I haven’t read a book that I’ve gotten a lot out of that fits solely in the ’self help’ category. As I wrote this title I had in mind many of the books in which I have found a lot of useful perspective, but now that I think more about it, pretty much all of those would be categorized primarily under another label, such as metaphysics, psychology, spirituality.

So what’s the difference? It seems the difference is that with books that are most helpful and interesting, the information was presented either objectively, as in data presented and perspectives of said data explored, OR the information was clearly qualified with the author’s statement: here are some of my experiences.

What about examples of ’self help’ books (of the first type)? Well, not …

February 15th, 2009

fasting -fuzzying walls- detox

Time for a fast. I’ve done this up to a week previously -that is water fast (no juice, etc). Besides general cleansing of toxins and promoting cannibalizing any abnormal cells, my goal this time is primarily spiritual in that I seek to realign the goals of my ego with those of my higher self.

Fasting Meta Info

Today is day 3. On days 1 and 2 I had vegetable juice and veggie broth a couple times a day, in addition to water with a bit of lemon. The addition of veggie juice and broth can really take the edge off food withdrawal, but also slows the switch to ketosis (that is when the body switches from burning carbohydrates from food going through, to burning fat and undesirable materials).

I think I switched to general detox mode even though I was drinking broth and juice because I still got the yuck-taste on the roof of my mouth associated with general detoxification (you start …

January 7th, 2009

birthday after the tragedy -or- how woman hating has affected my life

I reject this little box that society has put me in because i don’t have a penis. i am a problem solver. I see patterns. Patterns are what are beautiful to me. I am a visual thinker. I can model something unsolvable by embedding it within a larger context by way of continua.. There is no stopping mind. Yet have I been granted intellectual freedom to just be the kind of thinker I am? Yes and no. THe NO is what I’m ranting about today.

I have sort of tripped through life, the lover of problem solving and living in mind, as it were , as others tell me is ‘objectively’. i never questioned the weird double standards for women as i encountered them, I played with them. I wanted others with whom to sort and solve and play about ideas. So when I met one group or individual attuned to these ways of being in the world I thought …

December 12th, 2007