DR. TORPOR'S BLOG
Shame is usually defined as feeling bad about WHO you are. Feeling bad about WHO you are is largely described as unhealthy. Shame usually has negative connotations. Actually, feeling bad about WHO you are can be very helpful.
It’s brave – you’re willing to be open to an unflattering view of oneself. Reducing self-delusion.
It’s honest – you want to know the truth even if it will be embarrassing and painful.
And we all would be better off if we improved WHO we are.
One sane reason to feel bad about WHO you are, is recognizing you belong to a species that has evolved to be self-destructive on a number of levels. Just one of those levels is planetery – endangering what you depend on to live. Just think of the mess you could make of a relationship!
You’re stuck with the brain (hardware) that is predisposed to behave in that manner. I’m horrified by the idea of looking into all implications of being a self-destructive creature. Imagine the possible effects it could have on any part of your life.
I think that fact 
is worth disliking yourself.
They figured out what to do with the burnt ones.
Dr. Torpor’s try-cyclic powers! The Beyond! Staying in contact with The Infinite!
In addition to these, Dr. Torpor uses the tarot cards to facilitate unconscious communication between Dr. Torpor and the querent. That communication is transmitted and received in both directions! The more unconscious communication that occurs between cartomancer and querent, the more accurate the reading.
Soon after I know I will take Noodles on a walk, Noodles somehow also knows. She gets excited, walks to where the leash is hanging, points at it with her nose, then sits and waits. I cannot figure out how she knows we will go on a walk because I don’t think I am doing anything that would tip her off. To me, I just know I’m going to do it and I haven’t started making any overt preparations yet.
I may be sending unconscious communication to Noodles and she is receiving it. Or she could be perceiving something in me of which I am unaware. I don’t understand how this works. But some things occur whether we understand or not.
Unconscious communication is similar to chess. On one level the concept is simple. But in terms of developing your skills, you can spend the rest of your life working on getting better.
Unconscious communication happens in every interaction between people. And there are multiple levels of it. It happens simultaneously in numerous ways. The words someone chooses to say certainly seem like conscious communication. But the choice of words, tone of voice, emotion, facial expressions, gestures, body language, unspoken implications of what is said, and all sorts of vague forms of energy that the person is sending accompany the words and add multiple messages and dimensions of meaning.
Since everyone is sending unconscious communication simultaneously to each other when they interact, it helps to be good at sending it and good at receiving it. Unfortunately, the very fact that these are unconscious processes makes it difficult to be aware of what you are doing in the first place so you can figure out what to change or improve upon in yourself.
To complicate matters further, in receiving someone else’s unconscious communication you might be able to successfully and correctly identify some of that. But certainly not all of it.
To improve your own unconscious communication (arguably an important component of emotional intelligence), you have to do whatever it takes to learn more about the contents of your unconscious. This is possible to varying degrees. But difficult. You usually need the help of other people and special techniques to be able to see what is in your unconscious. And it is my opinion that it is impossible to ever see all of it. If for no other reason than what is in your unconscious keeps accumulating and changing just as conscious personality does.
Knowing the contents of your own unconscious helps you to separate your unconscious communication from your interpretations of the unconscious communication you receive from others. Also, work on learning to be more aware of the subtle behavioral cues that you receive from others and send yourself. Improving your skills at unconscious communication is fun. And it will enrich your relationships and understanding of yourself.
Dirty Harry and Billy Jack were both released in 1971. They are mirror images of each other. Dirty Harry reflected a reactionary conservative backlash to the sexual revolution, the hippie movement, and liberalism. Billy Jack was a left-wing revolutionary vigilante that fought entrenched corruption and the status guo. Billy Jack was the left’s version of Dirty Harry.
The meaning a dream has may range from the trivial to the profound. But even dreams that seem negligible will often have something to say to you if you work with it – try to be receptive to what the dream is attempting to tell you.
If you are in a relationship and yet feel like you are alone, you don’t need to be in a relationship to do that! Who needs the relationship? Probably your partner more than you. If you feel alone in a relationship, consider throwing the mate overboard. Being alone is better done by yourself! The Coast Guard will come by in a while and pick up your ex.
Time slows down whatever it touches. If things didn’t take time, they would happen a lot faster.
It can be. The skill of the dream interpreter and the willingness of the querent to share information about the dream, without censoing their thoughts, are some of the essential conditions for accurately interpreting dreams.