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Sorry for the slow response speed...
Shivers today when I saw the Dobermann in a Pink Floyd video about Syd Barrett. We have two Dobermanns.
btw. I like the live 8 version of Wish you were here better.

Syd never recovered I guess.
Neither did Sylvia Plath for example.
Too much drugs in one case and not enough resilience in the other?

Thanks for pointing out Roger Waters and the wall, Ron.
Will write more as soon as time starts to flow slower again ;-)

I'm honored to have written such a great sentence :-)

Al, I'm still planning to reply directly to your last post...stay tuned.

Two points I want to drop here, to keep this thread a little alive...
First, did you already know this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvCjyWp3rEk
where those men meet Christian the lion again after one year and the lion "hugs" them?
In this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-452820/Christian-lion-lived-London-living-room.html
you find a story about telepathy between a lion and men.
Of course we have no way to verify it, but I like the story.
Similar to the stories of telepathy & aborigines.
Related also: today I met a specific person the third time within a week by coincidence. That's really also beyond statistical probability,
I went out with the dogs each time at different times, and each time this person just drove by in car or bicycle.
How probable is it that this repeats 3 times in such a short time frame?
Does it not seem like I and this person are drawn together like different ends of a magnet?
The chance to meet someone by chance is higher when both people are on the mind of each other, that's my theory...

Next point: did you ever hear of EMDR = Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, you can look it up in wikipedia.
This seems to be a very interesting mind hack for processing traumatic experiences.
I think this is what I could observe recently when my older dog had a little surgery.
When she woke up from the anesthesia, she was constantly moving her had from left to right,
that means she turned her head left then right, and back again, for a long time, 30 minutes or more...
She did not really respond to talking or touching.
I think it is possible that she was executing EMDR, to cope with what had just happened.

Warning: when trying this at home, beware that hidden traumatic experiences may surface (and I'm not joking now!)

is your metaphor of double-edged swords double edged? ;-)

guys, I'm still planning to post more here, it just takes a little longer than I thought - will manage to post in less than 12 years though, I hope :-)

Seems like I'm on some stress-test bench at the moment, could turn better in the next weeks / around mid of june...hope you'll still be interested then.

hi guys,

it took still a little longer than I thought - maybe I'm only trying to follow the footsteps of Kate.
Ok, I admit it: the illuminates have stopped me from posting, I was starting to find out too much ;-)

Joke aside... one of the reasons for not posting so long was that my notebook's hard disk crashed, and on the new notebook I have not yet bookmarked this forum.
Coincidentally my notebook "died" just in a phase were the stress in my job was really extreme (and this wave of stress has not died out completely yet).
In this process I seem to have lost my habit of bookmark clicking. The stress was positive overall - I learned new things...
Within the next few months I'll have to move houses, so might be away again for a while...

To the topic: I had a quick look on your last reply, Al, where you for example wrote "we can always change our path" - I thought it makes a lot of sense what you write.
I believe the same, all our choices are relevant, all our thoughts!
By thinking we can program ourselves, by repeated acting we can save new behavior to the "hard disk" in our brain.
The brain can alter it's wiring until high age.
Don't live in the past...look for better experiences today, every good thought and every good moment has its effect and eventually the demon will fall.

The demon?
In programming terminology a demon is just a background process, like the "printer demon", just waiting in the background for print jobs.
Well this is a useful demon, but in our brain there can be some background processes, deeply engraved and well active, that were injected into our pour souls
by unemotional behavior of our parents who behaved unemotional because their own demons ruled them.
In psychotherapy there is the concept of schemata:

"New information that falls within an individual's schema is easily remembered and incorporated into their worldview. However, when new information is perceived that does not fit a schema, many things can happen. The most common reaction is to simply ignore or quickly forget the new information. This can happen on a deep level-frequently an individual does not become conscious of or even perceive the new information. However, when the new information cannot be ignored, existing schemata must be changed."

The schemata are very strong - you can't trigger a schema change by exchanging a few words with somebody.
What happens very often, beside simply ignoring / forgetting is that people interpret the new information in a way that fits their schema, even if they have to construct something out of it that, to outsiders, appears right away bizarre.

But still...schemata *can* change, it just may take a little longer than you thought ;-)

dear Julien,
always nice to receive a message from another universe. How are things going in Vineland?

Building and programming might by synonyms in this case.
If your psyche is software, and partly self modifying hardware, then building this software means "writing the software" = programming.
If you modify your schemata you reprogram yourself.
You configure your whole worldview with it, you configure what you perceive and how.