The clock ticks. The light shines. A door slams. The wind whines. The hours pass. The day goes… It’s bedtime now; Take off your clothes.
Let darkness come And sleep descend. Dream of flowers, Rain, and wind, Of ages gone, Of times to come, What never was… What won’t become.
Lie in still and silent form; Let outward darkness be. Become the flowers of your mind Within the black infinity. Create the sun, the moon, the sky! And inward color be. Flowers growing, there to find, In the darkness see.
So-called PTSD is not a disorder in the sense that it’s a medical disease. It is a normal human reaction to an abnormally stressful environment. Taking a psychiatric drug only makes it worse. Mental function is severely impaired, which impedes recovery.
A VARIATION ON A THEME BY MOSES by Michael Langston
In the end, Man destroyed himself and the earth.
2 And the earth was empty, and without life; and stillness was upon the face of the dust. And the spirit of Death moved upon the face of all the world.
3 And Man said, Let there be life: but there was no life. And the evening and the morning were the last day.
4 And it happened that when Man had at last subdued the earth, and had brought down his dominion unto every living creature, there came a time when each perished; even unto the last of them:
5 Great whales, and every creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly; grass, and herb yielding seed, and tree yielding fruit; fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven; the beast of the earth, and cattle; and every thing that creepeth upon the earth:
6 Till the last had passed, and all were gone, that only men and the rocks of the ground should be left.
7 And Man watched and comprehended not.
8 And Man said, Let us make earth in our image, after our likeness: and let us have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
9 So Man created earth in his own image, in the image of Man created he it; towns and cities created he them, and all things that hath not life: and every nonliving thing that moveth upon the earth.
10 But every living thing was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth.
11 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, and every man:
12 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the whole land, died. And nothing remained alive: all they that were on the earth.
Going to a psychiatrist or taking your child to a psychiatrist is, without doubt, one of the most dangerous things a person can do in our modern world. It’s a serious mistake and lapse in judgment, and it could very well be the worst mistake of your life.
EXISTENCE by Michael Langston
The wind blows… and everyone knows
the air is there.
Instead of informing patients and parents that antidepressants increase the risk of suicide, psychiatrists withhold that information and falsely claim that they save people’s lives. Nothing could be further from the truth. Antidepressants cause suicides.
PASSING OUTDOORS ON A SUMMER NIGHT by Michael Langston
Passing outdoors on a summer night, Past the unnatural world of man’s creation, Entering the company of nature’s various forms Has with it, always, a sense of placid contentment. Quietly sitting, I hear the lessons of silence; Around and before me, the teachings of darkness: Away from striving, merely being; Away from thinking, only knowing A sense of perfect enlightenment… Not to be found elsewhere but in nature.
