Re: Extro-Buddhism(Sorry Joe and more)

Dennis Roberts (droberts@netvectors.com)
Tue, 06 Oct 1998 14:35:45 -0400

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Joe Jenkins wrote:

> ---Dennis Roberts <droberts@netvectors.com> wrote:
>
> > [...] Some are as simple as, (I know that this may sound
> > silly. but I've actually used this technique to stop patients from
> going into
> > shock) looking cross-eyed and thinking without using words. I
> believe that this
> > works for anxiety reduction due to a quirk of neuroanatomy. It also
> doesn't
> > seem to work for everybody.
>
> Some caution may be applicable here, due to the following anecdotal
> evidence:
>
> This technique caused me to have a terrible reaction! The reaction
> was definitely related to a chemical that was apparently unmetabolized
> in residual amounts from usage this weekend. Luckily, I was able to
> exit the building where I work, somewhat unnoticed, and walk it off.
> The experience lasted about 20 minutes. I will not try this again :-(
>
> Joe Jenkins
> joe_jenkins@yahoo.com
>

Sorry Joe! Joe was the first negative experience that I've run into with that technique. I've written him directly with more info on that technique and its use both by me and the many patients I've used it on over the years. ( Oh, by the way Spike, I'm not an MD, but I have worked in many capacities in the health care field over the last thirty years, presently I earn a buck by doing MRI scans).
Sarah Marr's "Go wash your Alcor braclet" is the funniest thing that I've read on the Net in a long time. Must be a truely awkened mind behind that one.
There is a statue of a "Laughing Buddha" by the cash register of my favorite Asian restaurant. It never fails to remind me of the lack of such a representation among the icons of other major religions. They all preach joy, but a picture, or statue, in this case is worth far more that all their stacks of dogma and pious attitudes. If I manage to achieve any significant personal longevity, wether it be decades or eons, the time will be far more meaningful because of Zen.

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 we create distinctions, then deem that our puny boundaries
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Joe Jenkins wrote:

---Dennis Roberts <droberts@netvectors.com> wrote:

> [...] Some are as simple as, (I know that this may sound
> silly. but I've actually used this technique to stop patients from
going into
> shock) looking cross-eyed and thinking without using words. I
believe that this
> works for anxiety reduction due to a quirk of neuroanatomy. It also
doesn't
> seem to work for everybody.

Some caution may be applicable here, due to the following anecdotal
evidence:

This technique caused me to have a terrible reaction!  The reaction
was definitely related to a chemical that was apparently unmetabolized
in residual amounts from usage this weekend.  Luckily, I was able to
exit the building where I work, somewhat unnoticed, and walk it off.
The experience lasted about 20 minutes.  I will not try this again :-(

Joe Jenkins
joe_jenkins@yahoo.com
 

 Sorry Joe! Joe was the first negative experience that I've run into with that technique. I've written him directly with more info on that technique and its use both by me and the many patients I've used it on over the years. ( Oh, by the way Spike, I'm not an MD, but I have worked in many capacities in the health care field over the last thirty years, presently I earn a buck by doing MRI scans).
Sarah Marr's    "Go wash your Alcor braclet" is the funniest thing that I've read on the Net in a long time. Must be a truely awkened mind behind that one.
There is a statue of  a "Laughing Buddha" by the cash register of my favorite Asian restaurant. It never fails to remind me of the lack of such a representation among the icons of other major religions. They all preach joy, but a picture, or statue, in this case is worth far more that all their stacks of dogma and pious attitudes.
  If I manage to achieve any significant personal longevity, wether it be decades or eons, the time will be far more meaningful because of Zen.

--
Dennis Roberts http://netvectors.com/cnc/webguide.htm
 Boost your website with our start-up page!

"Do not be decieved by...some false secondary power, by which, in weakness,
 we create distinctions, then deem that our puny boundaries
 are things which we percieve, and not which we have made." --- Wordsworth
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