Neil S. 8/6/2011 10:48:53 PM While I have glimpsed at some of your video criticisms of Alice Miller and find some issue with them, the place you are coming from as a whole, writings, or videos or comments that you have made, comes from a place of consciousness and conscious emotional awareness. You preverbally, that is, beneath the radar of 95% of humanity\'s denial and obfuscation, appear to strive for honesty, truth and integrity of being which is profoundly rare, let alone rarely articulated from a place of conscious truth. Erna 7/31/2011 9:12:40 PM Hallo Daniel, i read your page for about half a year and look and listen to your videos on youtube. I find it higly interesting. Actually your videos on healing-process and the unhealthy binding to the family of origine are a great and very important help for me, because i finished kontact to some of my FOO not long ago. I need to be encouraged by these videos very much. Great, how you show the \"normal cruelness\" of the consequences of \"normal neurotic parenting\". Who WANTS to see the pain in the eyes of the child, will understand. To this subject only one critical point: maybe there are more people with \"very horrend\" childhood-traumata like sexual abuse, as it seems to be said in the video. Craig 7/27/2011 3:05:25 AM I beg to differ. Since mothers always take the blame for everything, they create an unreconcilable situation in the home, leading the children in their care to hallucinate to cope. Now, wasn\'t that easy? OK, how about schizophrenia goes away if left alone. It\'s treatment that locks it in. \"Cured\" isn\'t as lucrative to Big Pharma as \"treatable.\" And isn\'t it always medication AND therapy that\'s necessary? Of course, mothers are the cause of this,too. While attempting to show love by getting \"help\" for the kids, they invariably fall into this trap. If mothers would just stop loving their children, they would actually love them more. That was easy too, wasn\'t it? Now, here\'s the clincher. Mothers are 100% schizogenic to their kids, whether or not abandoned at birth. It passes down through the mothers\' DNA. Got it now? The old school thinking is always right, once you consider the context. Now that was really easy. Wendy Hestick 7/21/2011 1:06:11 PM What is DSM Wendal 7/20/2011 5:59:04 PM From your latest: \"We human beings are the problem. \" \"There are too many of us on the planet.\" yet you claim: \" I also love humanity\" What Tripe! carina 7/5/2011 2:46:32 PM one more thing, I like very much the post you have added about evidence for your ideas and knowledge, it is a bit (quite)different than the \"older\" ones, as I think. Well, to be continued... a hug from me Carina 7/5/2011 2:05:10 PM Hi Daniel. I have now read your web site again and still I find some things which I disagree with. Maybe not as a theoretical issue, but from a more practical and yes, humanistic point of wiev. There will be things to discuss when meeting next time, and yes, I still drink alcolhol and have a cigarette now and then. And yes, i am also wounded, but also healthy. And I agree with all of my heart that the earth would be such a better place if all of us loved each other and the others. So lets strive towards that... Daniel Mackler 7/2/2011 3:55:15 PM Greetings all! I just realized that I hadn\'t approved messages for this website in almost 8 months! TOTAL ERROR on my part -- the site is supposed to email me with pending posts, but didn\'t. So i just posted them all. THANK YOU for posting! I will answer all private questions with private emails, but it\'s better to email me directly if you want a question answered quickly: dmackler58@aol.com all the best, Daniel Jae Aisha Valente 6/30/2011 4:22:18 PM Hello there, i just wanted to say that i watched *Healing Homes*a few weeks ago with my boyfriend\'s mother and we both we were reallly moved to tears to watch this dvd,it really shows to show u that there is a lot work that has to be done in the states,i wish there was places like this in Mass,it would help a great deal and i wish u all the best and keep the great work!!!!! Nick 6/29/2011 9:56:53 AM Daniel, In light of your recent post I would like to add that the only times I truly question my journey, seek non-confrontational material and attack myself for reading what\'s on your website is when I am really trying hard to avoid some issues in my life rather than face them. I have to say that your website has helped guide me in a healthy direction. Deep down I connect with what you write and sincerely thank you for your honesty. I am more at peace with myself then ever before and I still have a long way to go. The best part is, I am really starting to enjoy the new whilst almost forgetting the old unconscious being I was. Although when I start seeking from without, rather than within, I am constantly reminded of that reality. A huge thanks for all that you are doing, Please keep it up, All the best, Nick LINDA BEAUDOIN 6/27/2011 10:45:53 AM Thank you for what you do. I am a survivor of incest and child abuse.I am an advocate for children rights currently seeking legislative legal reform on 5 laws to protect children. One law id to have children\'s entertainers licensed See http://www.thestar.com/news/article/996370--take-child-abuse-seriously-and-license-clowns-activist-urges I am an activist and a participant of the child abuse monument see www.childabusemonument.com I am the founder of 4 networks I hope you will log on to http://SurvivorsSpeakOut.com my advocacy social network I hope more people will take action and get involved Break the silence and be a voice for the children. Thank you for your great web site ! I can relate to what you talk about. My siblings have rejected me they refuse to have a connection with me and it appears that they do not want me to have any relations with their children What are they afraid of ? Truth is what it is all about. Sad the children pay such a high price for trauma survivors and child abuse. Ingrid Vaalund 6/24/2011 2:50:31 PM Thank you! I have\'nt read everything yet, but what I have read is with a huge sigh of relief of the \"I\'m not alone in thinking this\" kind. I have posted a link to \"Dissociation Mimics Enlightenment\" from my blog, and will be linking more of your articles soon, and quoting you liberally when I post an article on being symptom carriers for a sick society. Liam P 6/22/2011 7:22:01 PM Hi there, Just watched \'Take these broken wings\' and have only found it for sale from your site and not in the uk-I\'m based in Scotland. I\'d really like to see it\'s message advertised among the staff of the Lothlorien theraputic community where I am a resident as the paid staff here keep trying to force me to take my medication. As you were recently in Ireland-did you leave any copies there? Bea 6/20/2011 12:57:54 PM Dear Daniel, I read most of the parts you wrote about Alice Miller. You brought up some issues that I did also feel while reading her books (although I would not have been able to analyse it as clearly as this). It is really important to point out her limits, because this is a chance for development. But I do not totally agree with your arguments, especially one thing: You do write that children do not feel love towards their parents, they do need them. I would say that \"need\" is very important but especially if you are not corrupted by abuse one does feel directly towards a person and equally as an adult does feel something toward someone he/she is close to, it is the same for a child. There are feelings a human feels towards someone close and this can also be love. But as you know for yourself \"feelings\" are no static state which does not change and stays for days, but yes there is joy to be together and the feeling of being connected. And yes I do admit that it would be the very best do be \"enlighted\" before having children, but in many cases it is the children that give one the chance to be aware of the own abuse - yes I know you do describe this abuse, but to live together is a process and not being enlighted now does not mean not trying hard and getting there while causing less and less damage, because there are great therapys and wonderful therapists where one can act out the rage and fear or any other sort of unresolved feeling. Nevertheless: Thanks for your inspiring article!!!! Drew Arrington 6/16/2011 8:06:21 PM Hello Daniel. Came here to see what was what form someone posting on Friends of CWG forum site. I haven\'t read all of your stuff yet, but it basically agrees with my conclusions and what I have been working on. If you are interested, I have a video blog I started and you can find it on youtube by typing in deepthoughtvlog. I am posting all the time and am getting my thoughts squared for a book. Would love your comments and critiques. Elena 6/12/2011 5:31:19 PM There are many things that I do NOT know in this life, but I do know one; the countless adults/parents, who are totally clueless and unaware of the major impact they have on their own children. Their abilty to damage something that is considered to be one of life\'s most precious gifts. If every parent/adult could realize that -- our kids would be in a better place. To be made aware of what we created ... we misuse that same power in destroying them. Like the 5 year old who builds a tower with his blocks and then knocks it down. Deanna LaValle 6/8/2011 12:49:29 AM Hi Mr. Mackler. \'Tis a true joy to have found your works, as I do research into my mental illness and the various possibilities of treatment. A friend of mine would like to buy one of your movies, but is unwilling to pay by credit card via the internet. Would you be able to provide for me/her a phone number she might call in order to make her order? Thank you so much. God bless you. Deanna Jacinta 6/6/2011 8:43:54 PM Thanks for introducing me to Alice Miller! I have read \"Drama\" twice now and have several others. I love the \"Bullshit\" song too! That is so great! I am a basic level Social Worker and did case management for 10 years in public mental health along with being an avid reader and follower of Thomas Szasz, I can\'t agree with you more. Thanks for the hard work and I plan to order a copy of your book. David Lee 5/15/2011 8:59:05 PM Daniel, I have just finished viewing Healing Homes and Open Dialogue. My gut reaction is to agree with you, Robert Whittaker, and Tomas Szasz (that I exchanged letters in the era that required licking postage stamps.) I believe we have much in common. I also make films & dvds. In fact, just returned from a show of my work in NYC and have something of an international rep. After a stint of teaching filmmaking to under-grads and graduate students, some non-film work in early revolutionary Nicaragua convinced me to go to nursing school. Eventually going to Yale and hating it. But, my commitment has been to served the under-served in our inner cities and southern Africa. I was offered some really lucrative gigs in psych., but declined them for what damage I saw being done in the name of \"healing.\" However, emotional crisis and issues have been major elements in my practice. I really enjoyed your Bullshit on Youtube, but I only could get it in chunks. I tried your talk about infant trauma, but quit from the reception I was getting. (I may have to face up to the hardship of getting a new computer.) I will enjoy exchanging ideas with you by email, if you have the time and interest. I may have a few challenges that might be interesting to you. Your sound tracks tell me many things. One is that you have good taste and you listen to Mississippi John Hurt. ? joe kelly 5/9/2011 8:03:15 AM Dear Daniel I\'m interested in film making as a means to influencing the great British public about mental distress. I think there is an importanr PR job for service users.I\'ve seen you\'re movie \'Take these broken wings\' Can you advise me. Thanks Joe Elaine D. Sanders 5/7/2011 6:58:27 PM Wow! Thank you for this wonderful website! I understand and agree with everything you say here. Please check out my blog (www.hopehealing.wordpress.com)which is written with the sole purpose of empowering sensitive rare souls who need support for breaking free from their FOOs as part of their healing journeys to finding their true selves. I would love to hear your professional input and any advice. Alice Miller was also pivotal for me in my own healing and in becoming an enlightened witness for others. I am also working on a book at the moment. Sending you my warmest wishes on your highly enlightened journey and on the success of your books and movie projects! I look forward to hearing from you soon. With love and light, Elaine