by Ray Holland | Feb 13, 2025 | General
No one yelled, “FBI!” before her betrayal barged into your careful routines to take you prisoner, No knocking on the door, no warning, no accommodation, no time to get dressed or time for your disbelief to catch up to being swatted as the front door is left split in...
by Ray Holland | Feb 3, 2025 | General
January 2025 As the Mills River Fire substation burned, I was thinking about Terrance McKenna describing the dangers of DMT as death by astonishment. And thinking about Donald J. Trump becoming president again, and remembering how the boundary dissolving of...
by Ray Holland | Jan 17, 2025 | General
Terence McKenna described psychoactive plants as boundary-dissolving, allowing you (forcing you) to step out of the headset and step back, making it easier to see what has been driving you (the machinery of culture, multigenerational family rules and expectations,...
by Ray Holland | Jan 8, 2025 | General
The first stage of a Heart-drama involves warming up, with the goal to activate an “act hunger” as it is called in psychodrama. Since this is a self-directed exploration, feel free to reflect on whatever comes to mind and go beyond whatever I might suggest. In the...
by Ray Holland | Jan 8, 2025 | General
And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. ” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra – A Book For All And None I can’t go there. There is no point in going there. I will be overwhelmed. I will look ridiculous, weak and full of self-pity. I...
by Ray Holland | Jan 2, 2025 | General
Let me cut through the nonsense. What I will do for you. I am trained in various forms of couple’s therapy, and I will encourage the Prepare/Enrich online assessment to clarify needs and strengths, so we have clear objectives from the start. This modality always works...