Browsing Archive: July, 2012
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Tuesday, July 31, 2012,
I just found out from yesterday's mail
that one of my long time business partners
(about 45 years)
has passed on.
He was in his early 90's,
and had only just recently been forced
to go into a retirement home
by his immediate family
(against my will,
and his,
I should say).
So, I have had limited contact,
during the past two years,
where we used to meet once a month
in Los Angeles,
and have lunch together every month,
for the past 35 years.
He died on,
YOU GUESSED IT,
Friday, July 13, 2012.
He died in his...
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Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Monday, July 30, 2012,
I have been manually incapacitated
for the past three or four weeks
due to a badly broken little finger
on right hand.
I have been barely able to play keyboard,
and that only with a considerable amount of pain.
I will spare you the horrid details
of just how such a terrible thing could happen,
other than to say
that it was done by me to me,
inadvertently.
So, as I have been waiting
for the swelling to go down
I have noticed just how crooked
the first joint now is.
I have wanted to pull it straight... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Monday, July 30, 2012,
OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY
by Stanley Milgram
This classic work of psychology
amply demonstrates
and documents
"the banality of evil".
It is because it reminds me
of so much which I am currently dealing with
in a number of personal matters,
that I thought I would share it with you.
People are told to shock a man,
who is a volunteer,
but not to go above a certain amount of voltage,
lest it kill or injure the person.
Then in the course of the experiment
they are told to do just that.
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Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Saturday, July 28, 2012,
I am feeling pretty tired tonight.
Have put on about 1,000 miles of driving
during past week and am feeling it.
Am booked to leave in one week for Aegean Sea region.
Several days in Venice to start,
then throughout Aegean region
and ending in Athens,
where will spend several more days before returning.
For ALL who should be aware! of such things,
Greece, Spain, and Italy will probably bring down
this entire house of cards,
very soon,
by the looks of things.
Plus war brewing bigtime in Syria/Iraq/Ir...
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Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Tuesday, July 24, 2012,
Now, for a couple of housekeeping details.
I woke up Sunday morning
completely unable to believe
what had just happened to me on Saturday.
What are the odds?
I am in as remote an area as I can get into
without heading into the adjoining mountains.
I have been going to this location very regularly for many years.
I have visited and fed numerous animals
in this area one winter after another,
when there are no tourists and very little food.
This is MY homeland,
where I live and work
and has been so fo... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Sunday, July 22, 2012,
The past several months have been as trying as any I can remember.
I am dealing with several dying close relatives and several very ill ones.
As one may imagine, this takes a lot of time and energy.
So, you probably will not be able to imagine
the response which I got to a very friendly query
from a certain party several months ago,
ironically,
right as my very dearly beloved (ex)sister-in-law,
in her early 50's,
suddenly fell over dead without obvious explanation,
with foul play immediately sus... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Tuesday, July 17, 2012,
WARNING!
WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY
WILL PROBABLY BE OFFENSIVE
TO ALL MOMLETTES
AND THEIR ENABLERS
AND THEIR PRISON GUARDS.
But, read on anyway.
I am doing some quick editing before going on the road this morning.
I wanted to continue from last night regarding "momlettes"
or is it "momlets"?
or both, dependent upon context?
While considering the matter
I was thinking about what an
UTTER BETRAYAL
it is for an adult to take a child of their own making
and then systematically destroy the child
from within
and... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Tuesday, July 17, 2012,
One of the most frightening sights
which I have ever seen
keeps managing to stick it's very ugly face
right in my path
directly in front of me
over and over again.
It is the daughter
who has completely and fully
FAILED TO INDIVIDUATE.
Now, here is the sad part.
I am supposed to be the criminal
for pointing it out
and trying to stop the madness
before it becomes TOO destructive
= much sooner and faster than you think,
expect,
or even begin to realize.
But, that is clearly not where any crime lies.
Ra... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Tuesday, July 17, 2012,
Amygdala - the name means almond-shaped.
It is a tiny piece of almond-shaped tissue which lies deep in the center of the brain.
This is the fight/flight center.
Information is encoded in this organ by etching instructions into the glandular tissue such that they are immediately available when needed.
Such things as what to do when falling down, or how to get out of the way of a speeding truck are etched inside this organ permanently, it is believed.
This is so your mind does not have to figure o...
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Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Monday, July 16, 2012,
I want to briefly note that I have not forgotten to deal with repression, resistance and projection.
Instead, as I was writing on "transference" it occurred to me that we have mentioned "emotions" without telling what they really are other than in a general way i.e. they are affects caused by neutrotransmitters and other closely related chemical compounds.
Because "emotions" are so central to any discussion on the topics of transference, repression, and projection I thought that I had better ta... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Sunday, July 15, 2012,
It is proverbially said that some are "ruled by their emotions".
Until recently the idea of "emotion" evoked mystery.
No one knows what it is or where it comes from.
It seems to have the most extreme, and powerful effects, imaginable over humans.
A man may have strong "feelings" of attachment to a woman,
and then turn around and murder her in cold blood
(crude or primal re-attempt at individuation from his mother?).
That is emotions.
One man may do the most heroic of feats while under the influence... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Saturday, July 14, 2012,
First, a couple of housekeeping details.
I am heading up to Northern California in a couple of days.
Am expecting to meet with associate passing through on his way home from Hong Kong.
Hope to get an update for what is the feel on the ground over there at this time, and especially in light of the European currency debacle, now followed by the LIBOR scandal, right on top of it.
As if things aren't "dicey" enough already.
Am looking forward to hearing a first hand assessment from a long term, very t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Friday, July 13, 2012,
I want to continue with the subject matter which I was just dealing with in the last post.
But, suddenly, last night, I realized that here we go again.
It is this horrible Friday the 13th thing.
Who knows that this is the day that Jacques de Molay was ruthlessly cut down and butchered?
And so ended the Knights Templar.
I'm afraid that this is a constant reminder to me of what the rest of you do to people like me.
You do know, for example, don't you that every single one of the apostles of Christ, e... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Wednesday, July 11, 2012,
I guess I should begin by telling you that I am somewhat lost at the moment.
Or should I say "loster" than usual?
This is the price of continuous dissociation caused by the lunacy which goes on around me on a nearly continuous basis.
I know that some of the subjects which I am expositing are very painful, both for me and many others.
I know when I read books on this subject I get very depressed
and have to stop reading for awhile before once again
continuing tackling these subject/s.
I have to lau... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Tuesday, July 10, 2012,
I just spent the past week setting up what I will refer to as a "mastering computer".
I told awhile ago about how mastering software had just become consumer oriented during the past several years.
It was just WAY too expensive and cumbersome, such that only a few mastering studios would operate in any given major city.
This is how it still is, because so few people even know about what it is that I am talking about here.
So, the problem was how much fire power you will want or need (MAXIMAL!!),... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Sunday, July 8, 2012,
So, what is happening inside the head of the child of the narcissist?
Continuous barrage of disparaging self-talk.
Never good enough.
Never smart enough.
Never beautiful enough or handsome enough.
ALWAYS! coming up short.
They simply feel that they can do no right, whatsoever.
Perfectionism, in it's basest forms continuously makes demands, all day and all night.
Of course, there is no way to fulfill these demands, as they are ALL ridiculously unrealistic.
But insist upon doing so the mind will, even t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Saturday, July 7, 2012,
If your whole life is a lie
and you have created numerous constructs
which have no analogue in any world
except in the twisted, bizarro world of the mind
of these would-be-warriors,
then I have to wonder
just how much of a friend of the truth
are you really likely to be?
It says in the writings of John the apostle that when they see the light, they do not approach it, like you see in all of the movies and books, etc.
No, instead, they turn and run in the other direction.
Why?
Because they do not want t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Friday, July 6, 2012,
In the groundbreaking book Mask of Sanity
Dr. Hervey Cleckley, M.D. (as in psychiatrist)
began to describe a psychological entity which he was seeing nearly constantly while working in a number of different psychiatric hospitals.
It was, as yet, not described as a distinct entity and was about as little understood as imaginable.
The chapters of the book contain a number of extremely interesting case histories, not dissimilar to how Freud writes his case histories and expects the student to care... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Thursday, July 5, 2012,
As I was thinking about the matter I became amused at the fact of how many "mommy's little girls" I have seen lately.
"Daddy's little man" has been a mainstay of every dysfunctional family since day one, I am sure.
But "mommy's little girl"?
It's not that it's new to me.
It is that it used to be extremely rare.
I grew up with extreme wealth.
In that rarefied world of the upper stratospheres of "Stepfordland" the girls are not thought of as human beings at all.
Rather, they are sacred gene pools.
I gu... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Thursday, July 5, 2012,
Normally I would start with dictionary or lexicon definitions and with etymology, etc., in order to begin a discussion of the meaning of a word, such as ENMESHMENT.
Here, instead, I am going to tell you how I use the word within the context in which I am using it now.
While I am not sure exactly where it starts, I often see what I think are the beginnings of "daddy's little girl" and "mommy's little man" (the concepts which epitomise the very destructive final results of this process) who are c... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Wednesday, July 4, 2012,
I spent what little blogging time I was able to get cleaning up the post from July 2.
We are now getting into some deep stuff.
I hope to go much deeper still.
This is an especially painful subject for me because I know all of the things which I am talking about from hyper-personal experience.
I am tremendously grieved by all which I see going on around me when it comes to this particular subject of narcissism run amok, such that you have entire narcissistic societies.
Before continuing much furthe... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Monday, July 2, 2012,
Many of us speak in terms of conditionality when we speak about love.
We can be heard speaking of conditional and/or unconditional love.
Likewise with affection, and social company, and social standing in your family unit, etc.
When we look around we notice that our relationships with our closest loved ones are almost definitely conditioned upon certain behavior, or fulfilling of certain expectations.
These "expectations" seem to be ever present and ever prevalent, as a simple fact of life.
Condi... Continue reading ...
Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Monday, July 2, 2012,
He cried also in mine ears
with a loud voice,
saying,
Cause them that have charge over the city
to draw near,
even every man
with his destroying weapon in his hand
And, behold,
six men came
from the way of the higher gate;
which lieth toward the north,
and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand
and ONE MAN AMONG THEM
was clothed with linen,
with A WRITER'S INHORN at his side
and they went in,
and stood beside the brasen altar
And The Gory of the God of Israel
was gone up from the cherub,
whereupon he was... Continue reading ...
