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An agent asked me for a resume. Bio-Resume for "What can I say to the agent man? I aint so interested in words that please. There are walking wounded Religion a vomit There is One they don’t know But now one thing is true We start out frothy and dreamy A Spiritual Awakening The Speaker Meeting – from the novel"Back From the Other Side" I struggled in AA three more horrible weeks, and then I stopped going to meetings. White-knuckling it, it was like driving with the brakes on. My wife also said I was more fun stoned. I soon slipped back into drugs, and a new round of family meetings was convened to bail me out with rent money and utility bills; with the family now putting me on notice: “this is it, no more.” I finally ‘got it.’ I went back to AA determined like an animal holding onto a piece of meat. Not “one day at a time,” but “five-minutes at a time.” Two meetings a day, three meetings a day, staying after meetings, coming early to meetings. I noticed that in general the guys who said things I could identify with – and with that identification learn something – all had heavy spiritual programs. One talked to me at length and would often say “this is where I get strength from,” and point to passages in the bible. Two years before, I had spent my wedding day morning lying on a beach in Malibu around 8 a.m., shooting up the greater part of the $500 worth of cocaine I had bought with cash wedding gifts. I would shoot one large dose after another of the high-quality cocaine into my vein, with my humming body lying on the beach blanket, my arm extended towards the surf. The trail from that beach blanket to now was strewn with two years of broken dreams and tortured promises, searing my conscience and frightening my memory. I was now sitting at the kitchen table in my empty apartment, maybe three weeks sober from my last slip. I was so edgy I could neither carry on a conversation for very long nor watch a TV program. I literally could not stand to be in a drugstore for any reason. The advertisements for the U-100 Insulin syringes on the walls were too much for my mental state to handle. I was defeated and could go no further. I didn’t want to go further. I couldn’t take it any more. I had finally hit bottom. I opened this book that I had spent all my life cynically despising for its hayseed adherents and flipped it open to the red print. I started reading again the words of this Hebrew Messiah whose words they print in that different color. That did it. I started to cry. I fell onto floor and proceeded to go deep into the headwaters of the grief. I suddenly saw myself: A terribly ugly, weak, evil creature. I saw there was not a single good thing in me. I was a lie and selfish and small and a failure and a coward. The worst part in seeing through this spiritual eye was that there wasn’t a single thing I could do to fundamentally change this creation that I had become. This is what I am. Those acidic juices that burn through the skin’s surface to erupt in sores were in me by the bucketful, replenishing themselves through a dynamic, living fountainhead that was a mechanism, and therefore would not and could not dry up. Any change-for-the-better would simply become a dollop of egoism dropped into this pool of acid. This is who I was.
After the talk, I shook his hand, expecting some voice from heaven to communicate with me personally somehow (This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased?), but the speaker appeared to be unaware of the spiritual breakthrough I had had. The madness in me, however, was going to take different forms and engage my mind and emotions in different struggles to keep my soul in its dark possession. Religion, for example, was right around the corner. If you want to find God, everyone figures church is the only game in town. But sometimes, I found, the game is rigged. |
Traumatized at age 5, was taken into the Spirit at age 6. I've been a Regents Scholarship winner and I've been on welfare (SSI). My psychoanalyst introduced me to the LSD guru Tim Leary in the 1960's, and I approached LSD as a tool rather than a party.In-patient in an unlocked ward for over a year in 1970. Experimental dosage (800 mg. daily) of Prolixin (Permitil) in order to "function" as I drove a cab in NYC. I soon stopped outpatient therapy as well as the meds. I never took anti-psychotic meds again, replacing them with a narcotics addiction from 1970 -1982. I became a heroin, cocaine and almost every kind-of-other-drug-addict. Addicted to gambling, I embezzled a Race Track by punching out thousands of dollars in betting tickets without having any money. AA, NA and GA experience(d); ran an Adult Bookstore and helped some Hell's Angels with some drugstore robberies. Involved myself in heterosexual orgies, homosexual bathhouses, and almost every other freak scene through the 70’s in Los Angeles.The lure of sexuality, however, becomes much darker as one uses it to run from ever-worsening interpersonal realities. Drugs and freaky sex brought out suicidal impulses; defining the Sullivanian edict regarding homosexuality (see my files) . I've heterosexually hung with nudists and trolled for swingers amongst the naked flesh; and have been sexually intimate with white and black women, men, and transexuals. I am heterosexual, although I’ve been celibate many years now, and will most likely remain so.In 1982, crying out in a delirium of tears one night, my faith was kindled, but soon almost drowned in Churchianity and Christian-eeze. I found religion and preached in prisons, lived in the Judean Desert of Israel for three years, returned to USA to drop religion for spiritual truth. I returned to online schooling and completed a Bachelor of Science Degree and halfway through a Masters before I realized I never wanted to work in an office again. Wrote a software program that's in 10 high-schools and wrote a novel detailing my journey out of schizophrenia using the most unique insight intertwined with the cutting edge of psychiatric thought regarding schizophrenia.
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Traumatized at age 5, was taken into the Spirit at age 6. I've been a Regents Scholarship winner and I've been on welfare (SSI). My psychoanalyst introduced me to the LSD guru Tim Leary in the 1960's, and I approached LSD as a tool rather than a party.In-patient in an unlocked ward for over a year in 1970. Experimental dosage (800 mg. daily) of Prolixin (Permitil) in order to "function" as I drove a cab in NYC. I soon stopped outpatient therapy as well as the meds. I never took anti-psychotic meds again, replacing them with a narcotics addiction from 1970 -1982. I became a heroin, cocaine and almost every kind-of-other-drug-addict. Addicted to gambling, I embezzled a Race Track by punching out thousands of dollars in betting tickets without having any money. AA, NA and GA experience(d); ran an Adult Bookstore and helped some Hell's Angels with some drugstore robberies. Involved myself in heterosexual orgies as well as homosexual bathhouses, I did the 'dead-n-dying dance' of the 70's LA freak scene.The lure of sexuality, however, becomes much darker as one uses it to run from one's interpersonal realities. Shooting cocaine while servicing anonymous men (before AIDS) in the back of Adult bookstores often brought out suicidal impulses; defining the Sullivanian edict regarding homosexuality. I've heterosexually hung with nudists and trolled for swingers amongst the naked flesh; been sexually intimate with white and black women, men, white and transexuals.
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