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January 25, 2020

My Garden Will Take Shape

My garden will be put together this year. I need a picnic table, the first one, but I have to buy like four them altogether. I need a digital camera to take pictures of this garden as it takes shape so I can put the pictures into the business plan. I want to make sure that my garden is functional, eventually because the zucchini is growing like crazy. The tomatoes are also growing more than I thought possible. This partly comes from the rain this year, which has resolved the drought. The garden is meant to be a medicinal herb garden, a cooking herb garden, and a witch’s protection herb garden, all of which could be sold on Amazon eventually, in particular when I set up the hydroponics section of this garden. Yes, this is a huge project.

January 25, 2020

What I Need In Terms of an Angel Investor

I want someone who can get hands-on, hit the ground running and tells me what to do about allowing Satanists to sell their wares on Shadow of the Phoenix Rising, the website. This website represents a collective effort from all the metaphysical bookshops in the United States to out last the death of an owner as in the case of Moonfyre bookshop. We need to create safeguards to keep the stores open as vibrant communities in the metaphysical bookshop industry anyway. This is not easy given that the bookshop needs to survive economic hard times. The Shadow of the Phoenix Rising website’s main interest is providing a way for people to work together on projects on the website itself. This idea alone could easily secure me large sums of money, but I’m not sure how much.

January 25, 2020

Never Go To Internists for Medication

Today I’m going to release the notion that you shouldn’t go to internists for mental health medication unless they have knowledge of psychiatry that’s floating around in their heads. I say this only because I have personal experience going down that slippery road. Internists do not know much about mental health. Now with that said, I have to say that I tried using my internists for prescribing hard-hitting medication with a major depressive disorder diagnosis, not a schizoaffective diagnosis. At least now I can share with people that I do have a diagnosis while back then I was an alcoholic who wasn’t quitting. I should have been at least manhandled by my doctor into quitting but see, my family was brainwashing the poor things. When people start believing weird things about me, that’s the brainwashing kicking in. I’ve been taught to help them, and given the tools to do so. The second I make real money is when I leave to move to Los Angeles, which scares my parents to death. We escape them, and not leave a forwarding address.

January 24, 2020

Who Is My Audience With My Writing?

Anybody who buys my books on how to survive bullying by going after the bully, anybody who reads science fiction is in my audience. I have a pen name after all that I can’t share on here because I have to keep it secret. I’m doing my best to keep my head above water financially. I will eventually start publishing things, because I have the wherewithall stability to write the series, A Perfect Copy. I need to be around other writers, since that is safer than being around other pagans, because I feel fragile. I have to stay away from intense people.

January 24, 2020

Good Stories Have Specific Elements

The elements that go into any story are made of up characters, setting, conflict, plot and theme. In creative writing school, we learned that conflict was the most important element in the craft of fiction. Plot is everything that happens in the story, setting is the location the story takes place in, whether inside someone’s head, a spaceship, or another planet. To have a coherent plot means that your story will work as necessary. The short story is a genre found inside American literature that is filled with many examples. I do know how to write a short story, and a novella but I’ve been afraid to write a short story for many years. I’m going to try to write a short story this year, and get it published.

Works Cited

http://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm/ellsa/ellsa_elements.html

January 24, 2020

What are the similarities or differences between Traditional Chinese Medicine and modern neo-pagan practices?

The Chinese elemental system is made up of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water, called ‘Wu’, and found in the book Basic Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine, (pg. 29), my first real introduction to Chinese medicine save a Qigong course I took many years ago taught by a former psychiatric nurse turned acupuncturist. From there, arose my interest in studying traditional Chinese medicine, to help mentally ill people, and those with 22q. Each element has characteristics. In neo-paganism, starting from the East, we have Air, Fire, South, Water, West, and Earth in the North. But if you cast a circle clockwise, and counter clockwise, the circle is Earth, Water, Fire, Air. In TCM though, water moistens, fire flares up, wood is growing straight, metal causes transformation and change, with an astringent effect while Earth gives birth to all things.

The Wood element corresponds to the liver, the fire element to heart, the earth element to the spleen, the metal element to the lungs, and water is linked to the kidneys. Like in neo-paganism, there is a graphic on pg. 33, which shows everything interrelated, while being superimposed on a pentacle, down to the circle. TCM does provide answers for us all.

Works Cited

Xinnong, Cheng, Bing Zhu, and Hongcai Wang, Basic Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine. International Acupuncture Textbooks, China Beijing International Acupuncture Training Center, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, People’s Military Medical Press. 2010.

January 23, 2020

What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?

Paranoid Personality Disorder is something I imagined I had in college, since I didn’t know whom to trust from being abused by my roommates. Paranoid people on this level suffer from unrelenting suspicion of others, because they really live by the X-Files mantra, “Trust No One.” It is more common in men rather than women but is influenced by both the biology of a sufferer and psychological criteria. They consistently believe that other people are out to get them even if there is proof to the contrary. They read too much meaning into casual remarks or glances. They become controlling and jealous to avoid being betrayed. They also have immense difficulty relaxing while they cannot see their role in problematic situations since they feel they are always right.

January 23, 2020

What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?

Schizoid personality disorder is not the same thing as schizophrenia, although it is a Cluster A personality disorder, which is in the eccentric personality disorder category. Some people with schizoid personality choose jobs that help them work by themselves. Schizoid people make their lives reclusive by not getting married as well as having a need to avoid people. Schizoids do not have close relationships with family. I’d have to say I’m not schizoid at all, because I like having relationships when I do not feel tired. Schizoids are aloof when they show little emotion, while not reacting to either criticism or praise. They have vivid inner lives, although they can get depressed. Medication is one way to treat schizoid personality disorder along with therapy.

January 23, 2020

The Mind Over Body List

Yes, we have a list of those talents, like me never given into passing out despite various triggers such as low blood sugar, abusive behavior, stress, anxiety, and panic attacks. You feel like the panic attack will make you pass out but it never does. Although I’m worried about stress causing me fainting in the future if I do not know how to manage it well or properly. Yes, you could say I’m paranoid about fainting in front of people, which is why it has only happened once on a trip to Chile in 2006. It is also very nice to have my blood pressure under control, with medication since that also caused me fear of fainting. Sleep deprivation could have made me pass out a thousand times over in high school. The epic self-control I exercised back then is an asset because I somehow didn’t snap despite the raging bipolar and schizophrenia symptoms that took over my life. I’m lucky I didn’t crack to a suicidal impulse once during that time despite social pressure to the contrary.

January 22, 2020