Monday, December 28, 2015

--I've had some friends in L.A. that I contacted during the interim in Sacramento, while I was waiting to return to El Paso, who remembered I had a theory of psychotherapy that I based on the writings of J. L. Moreno, founded of psychodrama (a methodology which I haven't heard bantered about in years).  They thought a recent book entitled The Science of Magic might be useful to me to bolster the claims I think should be made about this theory I've come up with. 

Actually, my theory is founded on psychoanalytic theory dating back to Sigmund Freud!  It assumes that the way to approach the mind for altering (i.e., changing) thought patterns is through physical processes of the body, especially the sex drive.  I concur with Freud that the sex drive is a creative force to restructure aspects of the mind, if that was his position.

So, with the encouragement of these friends I've known for many years, I think I'll  re-consider and embellish my original convictions that I had some thirty years ago.

--The project of Globalization is going so full speed ahead that I think there's nothing I could add that would alter or re-direct its aims at this time, but I have ideas!

Returning to El Paso

I found Sacramento very expensive for me, an old man.  So once I received UC-Davis Medical Center okay, I thought hard about staying in Sacto, given how hard it is for an old person to live there.  No public transportation past 10:30 and nearly all the buses shut down at 8 P.M.  Housing is ridiculous--share an apartment with one or two others if you're poor or just living on social security.  Great medical, but that's about all you can say positive about city living, if you don't make money.

Then, when I came back to El Paso, I was fleeced by the landlord of a place I thought I could afford; and must move out by 12/17, even though I paid a month's rent!  I guess there's these shysters wherever you go.  I wish I could report him without blacklisting me with other landlords!  But I would never take the chance.  The Inn he manages is on Alameda Street. 

I hope I've got something in the downtown area that should materialize by then.  Otherwise, I'll try the shelters--Salvation Army first.  It would be nice to have the security of a Section 8, but when you've moved around as much as I have I would hardly qualify in my lifetime!  The waiting lists are so long.