Imagine this:
You lost your left arm from the elbow down two years ago, and you often feel as if that missing section of limb is actually still here, especially when “it” hurts — and that sometimes “it” really hurts, no matter how much you try to tell yourself that it’s just phantom limb pain.
So you don’t have a left hand, but you nonetheless frequently feel the fingers of that hand curling in with painfully gripping intensity. No matter how much you tell yourself that your left arm is gone from the elbow down, something in you is convinced otherwise, something that is impervious not only to even the most compelling arguments, but also to further amputations of the stump. In short, one hell of a situation… » Read more: Phantom Limbic Pain: Emotional Healing & Breakthrough
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Paranoia not only has insinuated its way deep into our culture, but has also managed to do so without being significantly recognized for what it is. We are in the midst of a paranoia epidemic, however pharmaceutically muted it might be. 
(This interview, conducted by Crystal Arnold in Ashland, originally appeared in The Sentient Times in November 2009)
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In this video interview Robert & Diane address questions about the nature of fear.
The future is far from what it once was. Its once rosy, reassuringly distant horizons have become something far less pleasant, something too close for comfort, something right in our collective face. Tomorrow is closing in on us with accelerating intensity; and time itself seems more and more compressed, leaving us in one hell of a squeezeplay.
The future is far from what it once was. Its once rosy, reassuringly distant horizons have become something far less pleasant, something too close for comfort, something right in our collective face. Tomorrow is closing in on us with accelerating intensity; and time itself seems more and more compressed, leaving us in one hell of a squeezeplay.