<< Boy! How lucky we are now to have psychiatrists to
tell us we're
psychotic. Before, in our ignorance, people called us
"saints",
"religious visionaries", even "prophets or
messiahs". I'm glad that is
cleared up. I had almost decided I am nuts. michael>>
On Jan 23, 6:01 pm, AltPsy... aol.com wrote:
> Hi, all. I'm excited that I got a book published. I
hope people won't mind
> if I give it a plug in this group. I feel that it's on
topic, as shown in
> this little note right at the beginning of the book,
which is titled *Legends
> of the Metasphere*:
>
> About the Author
>
> Joseph Kerrick spent several years in what he described
as "the magical
> universe". The physical coordinates were
Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley,
> California, home to a whole congeries of visionaries
and wizards, trippers and
> mystics, colorful street people and hardcore crazies.
The adventure culminated for
> Joseph in 1985 with an event that he experienced as an
apocalyptic
> transformation, and was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as
a psychotic episode.
>
> Whichever way you may interpret it, the result was that
he went back to his
> loved ones, raised his son, and integrated his strange
experiences into life
> as we know it on planet Earth. Like John Nash in *A
Beautiful Mind*, his
> recovery took decades ~ but the difference is that
along the way Joseph used the
> fruit of his psychotic adventures to create the stories
in this book, and
> many other fictional and factual artifacts as well.
They have attracted a small
> but enthusiastic readership in the alternative press
and on the World Wide
> Web over the past twenty years.
>
> END QUOTE. Here's a link for the book's webpage:
>
> _Legends of the Metasphere_ (http://www.trafford.c
om/06-1609) by Joseph
> Kerrick
>
> The third story in the book, *The Wedding of Star and
Shadow*, deals to some
> extent specifically with challenges of the psyche,
based partly on my own
> experience.
>
> Folks may also be interested in my website featuring
alternative approaches
> to mental health:
>
> _www.alt-psyche.com_(http://www.alt-psyche.com)
>
> Best wishes for healing,
> Joseph
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