Always the serious but yet the comedy too.....I don't know folks, I had to read this one over a few times. I love the title to this book. Seriously.... the name is "The Myth of Sanity-Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness", by Martha Stout P.H.D. (Martha, Martha, Martha, oh nevermind that's The Brady Bunch and her name was Marsha). Are you "flipping" kidding me???? (yes, I'm trying to lay off saying the "F" word so much) And so, I ask you this....."who the fuck are the stupid word police who deemed the word "fuck" a bad word????" Someone tell me....just because it is not a word that is ever mentioned in the Bible.....well do you think "dude" is mentioned in the Bible or the word "latte" or F-ing "Starbucks" for that matter (still trying to lay off that "f" word and those of you who know me well know this is a chore) is or at least a thousand other words I can think of. So it is a slang word then so be it because I use it as such and if that's the worst sin I commit then I think I can handle that little jist between me & God---worry about yourself!! Yes, I'm just waiting for the "word-Police" to come arrest me now! So here is a small blurb from "The Myth of Sanity". My book review consists of "some really great shit I tell ya" until the last statement, the whole "unalterable destiny" sentence is just a bit on the way too over-dramatic side but otherwise good points. I'm not a book reviewer professionally, nor do I plan to be. Just my opinion so please nobody sue me but check out this great read. Here's the blurb from the back of the book: "We Are All A Little Crazy" "In listening to my patients tell me thousands of stories about the past, as they try to find some peace in the present, I have learned this beyond the shadow of a doubt. Rather than behaving sanely, rather than being in touch with our present realities, we human beings-all of us, myself included--are too often simply run by losses and hardships long gone by, and by our stockpiled fears. Our collective history, our individual lives, our very minds, bear unmistakable testimony". "Instead of receding harmlessly into the past, the darkest, most frightening events from our childhood and adolescence gain power and authority as we grow older. The memory of such evens, causes us to depart from ourselves, psychologically speaking, or to separate one part of our awareness from others. What we conceive of as an unbroken thread of consciousness is, instead, quire often a train of discontinuous fragments. Our awareness is divided. And much more commonly than we know, even our personalities are fragmented-disorganized team efforts trying to cope with the past-rather than the sane, unified wholes we anticipate in ourselves and in other people" "Is this our unalterable destiny as human beings?" My response: Geez I fucking hope not!!!