Fishers of Men Across America

Hi, I live in Australia, and so because of the big distance between here and folk who are regular contributors to Reality Sandwich, I seldom get around to dropping by in cyberspace, to check out what's up. This time around, my droppin in on the reality of sandwich flavours in the USA, has got me joining more ends up than previous. Why, I guess an astrologer may hazard a guess at. But I am commenting here as an askance now, because I am curious to find out what common ground is real between my own work, (or energy expended), around drug use and the beliefs of drug users, and the work of Adam Elenbaas. I will have to read his book indubitably, however, I wonder would anybody else who read it, like to read what I have written, ( http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/an-exorcists-paradigm/16454047 ), in respect of the way we handle the stories of surviving abuse of the milk of the opium poppy.

The use of psychotropic drugs for healing, is a topic I have carefully avoided divulging much about, and I have written for the audience of folk who are exerienced at the survival of opiates, from the point of view of concealing and revealing and reconcealing astrological forecasting of the timing of getting clean. My work, rather our work, is not occurring within any context of social acceptance except among indigenous Australians, and so it is difficult to present it within the right frame of reference. It got written with an audience in mind which includes many addicts who have spent too long in Australian prisons also, but is nevertheless worked from the point of veiw of developing a stronger Aboriginal/indigenous Australian voice in academic and quasy-academic literature. When we disagree with all known academies, and dispute their processes, gaining a voice among other participants in academia can be slightly trickier than it might have been. (I disagree with the kinds of analytical theory held by anthropologists and linguists, and with the way psychologists approach the study of cause and effect, but I don't usually let on the basis of my disagreement, on principal of its substance.)  This makes it more difficult to establish a peer review process. Anybody who is curious enough to read the book in the url (the whole book is in its preview), can leave a comment there to contact me if you find anything I wrote to be disagreeable, and/or commendable. Part of my reasoning for asking this here, is in that our indigenous culture is a water based culture, unlike native american cultures which are fire oriented, and these things have a large effect upon howm humanity situates ideas (for example our own major equivalent of a burning man festival is in a rainforest), even to the extreme of how memory is triggered. I am the kind of weirdo who doesn't hallucinate using psychotropic medicine plants, but rather I tend to go straighter, and the world around me simply seems less relevant to what I already know is real. But visions of Jesus are within my repetoire. It is unusual to find other folk, (outside of our own communities here) with significant experiences of familial Christianity, and experiences of opiates, and also psychotropic drugs; and I can't help but wonder what opinions will be held of our world, by Americans, so I ask. Thanks if you are willing to let me know.

when end be nigh

We'll let out the sigh

But that was for real

And the best of all deals

The end that began with each feel

Into death being over and real