SOUR GRAPES

Hello:

Today, March 26, 2015, I am officially giving up on my cherished dream of seeing my ideas about fear, as described in my book called, --- “The Human Mind”,  accepted for the simple truth that they represent.

I suppose I could avoid using the words “giving up” and replace them with reasonable sounding excuses but I have chosen not to do so.   Mainly because the ideas in that book are so important that I should have been willing to give up my life to bring about their acceptance sooner rather than later, --- which will eventually occur.

I do not necessarily mean that I should have taken some risk that would cause my death from outside sources, but rather, from the angst that would have occurred inside my own body and the physical damage that would have helped to bring about an earlier end to my life from inside sources of my own doing.  

In this regard then, just because I have acquired this extra knowledge about how the human mind functions, does not mean that I am suddenly immune to their potential negative affects.

I am also "giving up", --- as I start giving excuses, --- because of this simple expression:  “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.”   The fact that I have no letters after my name is also an important constraint against me in this situation.

Who am I to think that others would take my words as the "gospel" truth, instead of those words uttered by other men and women who have spent their entire lives trying to understand the manner in which the human mind functions?  

It is true that I went to a competent University but it is totally unrecognized.  I spent more than 40 years of my life reading books in my local libraries that were written by brilliant men and women about the subject and/or discipline of psychology.   

My ideas are simply a distillation of the ideas that they put forward in their books.   It is true that I had to disregard some of their ideas and hang on for dear life to others that they put forward.

In this regard then, I would like to mention some of those authors right here.   First would be Dr. A. G. Forgione who wrote the book called, --- Fear (Learning To Cope).   He came within an Ace of putting forward the ideas that I have incorporated into my book.

Also receiving favourable mention would be Dr. Peter Breggin,  Dr. Joseph Glenmullen,  Dr. Charles Cunningham of the McMaster Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and numerous others who I am not able to list to you at this moment.        

One of Winston Churchill’s more famous quotes is as follows:  “Some men stumble over the truth, --- pick themselves up and walk away as if nothing had happened.”  Another of his quotations goes something like this, --- [but not exactly]:   

“You can always count on the human race to do the right thing, --- after they have exhausted every other possibility.”   Unfortunately it looks like the world must still embrace other possibilities before my ideas about how the human mind functions are accepted for the simple truth that they represent.