Dr. Chu 5/7/2011 2:34:37 PM As a clinical psychologist and a survivor of child abuse, I appreciate Miller\'s work tremendously. Still, I too found her limitations in what you have mentioned in your writing. Thank you for sharing your thoguhts. p 4/27/2011 1:33:23 PM Very impressed of your efforts to cure schizophrenia without drugs. I am mildly surprised that a talent as young as yours has decided to move onward to other things! I trust you know best! I appreciate your past contributions, watching for more in the future wherever they may be. p 4/27/2011 1:28:17 PM Daniel, don\'t get me wrong, I\'m not trying to troll at all! I happen to disagree with maybe 50% of your content, well, what else is new? Maybe an opportunity for both to learn from each other. I\'m touched by your first paragraph of your \'about the writer\' page, I too am part of that large population of \'not so well cared for\' grown up kids. I wish you growth on your journey and perhaps some good conversations! If you have the patience or the time, have a look at tarpley.net, he\'s a historian who is popular everywhere except the USA, viz. listen to his \"From Guy Fawkes to 9/11...\" video at http://tarpley.net/speeches-and-lectures/?page_id=&id=#From-Guy-Fawkes-to-9-11 as it addresses scientific reductionism via Occam\'s razor. He also comments about Darwin, Galton, Malthus, all being either wrong, plagiarists, or paid lackies re the overpopulation debate. John Paul Gatto also touches on the real work we should be wary of by Darwin, The Descent of Man, but he\'s a New Yorker so you\'ve probably already heard of him. I think it\'s a cop-out to cite overpopulation as an excuse not to have kids (I didn\'t have the time to read your site, just guessing). p 4/27/2011 1:13:19 PM Did a fast read of your \"enlightenment/children\" essay. You don\'t really know what enlightenment is. Try visiting Toronto, there\'s a sifu who teaches enlightenment to students who can heal independent of distance and time. Sounds as nutty to me as it probably does to you. My best friend in high school is a student there, as hard nosed and skeptical as anyone you\'d meet (engineer, atheist, brilliant at his work) but he described to me how they obtain this enlightenment through very specific instruction. I\'d be happy to let your readers know how to find this little teaching institution but it\'s all done in Mandarin. I\'d imagine I\'ve just scratched the surface of \'enlightenment\' and I gather you can use that term any way you choose, but I think it\'s too loose to be useful or valid. p 4/27/2011 1:08:17 PM Adigo comments to your review of it were not convincing. You need a better map. For instance, I spoke to my uncle in 1985 when he was working with 4 NIH grants at the same time. He was 35 at the time. He said he\'d travel throughout the world and inspected a large number of alternative cures and treatments, ALL having nonsensical explanations or protocols; he said they worked but he could not explain how. Anyhow, he was in Time Magazine\'s \"America\'s Top Scientists\" cover story, I won\'t divulge who he is, since I don\'t know you well enough to pester him the way you argued in that amazon.com comment thread. ina 4/24/2011 9:25:36 PM Wow...finally i heard someone speaking some of my thoughts and words for the first time. I wish I could turn my life into something with more sense...i felt many callings in my life, but didn\'t have the strength to follow through with anything and didn\'t overcome the obstacles yet. I didn\'t manage to learn anything properly in my life so far. I didn\'t have time to learn much or think about what I want because of troubles others caused me or I had myself...now I have some freedom and support for the first time and nothing seems to work. Your website was one of these signs in bad times...it is good to see that I am not alone thinking common sense that does not fit with most people...even if they had a lot of painful experiences and are traumatised. Yet they don\'t want to face it, have all kinds of addictions and make others feel guilty and weird who try to sort out their traumas for themselves and the rest of the world. Everyone who managed to keep or find emotions will do that. I hope there will be more people like that too in the future. To me it seems being in the world means a lot of responsibility...tiering sometimes. Thank you for sharing your journey, you\'ve come so far. And inspire others. A Good Mother 4/19/2011 2:55:09 AM You should become a father before you start judging parents in such harsh ways...I used to talk like you before I became a mother. I was sexualy abused as a child but had a pretty ok family/parents. I simply cannot and do not feel towards my parents as you do towards yours and the way you judge other parents. I now give my kids as much of me as possible but I am sure not to your standard...which does not make me a bad parent. Colin Hughes 4/13/2011 11:02:03 AM If you ever took the trouble to examine the book Alcoholics Anonymous you nwould find that it has a Chapter entitled Spiritual Experience. At the bottom of the first page it says \"With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected INNER resource which they presently identify with THEIR OWN conception of a power greater than themselves\" It then goes on to say if you happen to be religious you can call it god. It really annoys me that people like yourself assume that all of the 12 Step fellowships are made up of \"God Botherers\" this is just not trueas you would find out if you took time to investigate. I am a recovered alcoholic of many, many years who doesn\'t believe in god of any sorts but through actually doing the steps I found my real self within me under many years of false beliefs, lies I was told etc and the steps are designed to facilitate this discovery!! Brenda Burningham 4/7/2011 2:07:02 AM Daniel : I do apologize I may have begun my first comment to you by using another name. This is another issue that has plagued my for many years. It was not meant as a slight. Brenda Burningham 4/7/2011 1:53:31 AM Nick : Just found your website, after being linked to your long and insightful critique of Alice Miller\'s thoughts as published in her books, translated to English for us. It\'s obvious that my own intellectual development (something that was very important to me) was hampered by my own unresolved childhood issues, for you voiced many of the responses and inconsistencies that I myself noted while reading her works, yet dismissed within myself by criticizing my own assessment as that of an amateur intellectual (because I did not have the credentials she had). So I have bookmarked your website and will explore it some more. Thank you! What the... 4/1/2011 6:31:29 PM Many parents go wrong with the approach...the childs needs outway everything else...this creates grown people that have a hightned sense of entitlement. We are all equal. the needs of the child do not outway the needs of the family. The needs of the family do not outway the needs of the community. James Richardson 3/27/2011 4:29:15 PM Excellent review on Stephen Mitchell\'s \"The Enlightened Mind\" book. Perceptive. Your comments on dissociation should be more widely expressed by others. And that much religious behaviors are nothing more than hypnosis. I find compartmentalization the main operator in educated religious folk I run across. It is amazing, as though there are several separate selves in there, which others have suggested is quite typical (Shah, Ornstein). That said, the topic has always been my favorite one , and I do like many of these sages\' suggestions in the book. I just read above in one of your guestbook comments \"The purpose of life is to depend on God and to glorify him.\" Uh, sure...that will improve the world for us all (not). God\'s Fan Club has not done a great overall job so far, IMO, no matter which god one picks. I am becoming more convinced each year that the materialists are correct. At any rate, you have a fine website. Len Lempa 3/4/2011 7:52:37 PM Hello. Just recently found this website. I am a social worker from Illinois and am currently working in a hospital setting. I am increasingly dissatisfied and frustrated with what passes for treatment here in the states. Just want to put out that some of us need to start coming together and creating programs modelled after the work that is happening in Finland and Sweden. We also have the models that Loren Mosher worked with at Soteria House back in the 1970s. Our system is so entrenched in the biomedical pharmaceutical institutional model that it is hard to imagine breaking out of it. If it can be done elsewhere though there is no reason change can\'t happen here. I am curious if there are places where people of a similar mindset may be able to meet up. Nick Arrizza M.D. 3/3/2011 5:45:50 PM You may find my work particularly resonant with much of what you speak of. If ever you wish to talk kindly let me know. Thanks Nick Arrizza M.D. http://telecoaching4u.com K.Sarvela 2/25/2011 5:54:02 PM Thanks for your wonderful youtube clips of childhood traumas and healing processes. I would have like to order your booklet (Childhood Trauma and Enlightment) but your system did not accept my finnish telephone number. It told me that it is unvalid :). I sure would have liked to get it. I am a hypnotherapist and I have done my healing process by journaling using the method of ego state. I created an inner theater and went through retrospective and teleologial process after a chaotic life situation. I wrote everyday about 4-6 hours for oone year. Your book would have been so interesting! Androulla 2/15/2011 8:51:46 PM Daniel I\'ve just had a weekend fest-a-thon on your YouTube videos, which were very timely, much needed & gratefully received. I\'ve been through much & agree with pretty much 99% of what you say. So, am just saying \'thank you very much\' for taking the time to reach out and help others, like me. Kind regards Androulla, London, UK Cathy 2/13/2011 6:13:57 AM Daniel! I stumbled across your work on Youtube and couldn\'t stop listening. The words you speak touch my heart. I am overwhelmed. As an educator for 25 years and a mother of two grown sons, I understand your thoughts about going back to childhood issues. I wonder if you have touched on forgiveness for your parents\' mistakes as a part of your self-therapy. Forgiveness is a powerful tool to allow a person to heal deep wounds and to then take personal responsibility for one\'s own growth and enlightenment. Thank you very much for sharing your insights with the world... David Rouge 2/12/2011 5:44:01 PM Great to see you today. Will read up shortly.. Just wanted to let you know I am organizing a presentation at Good Shepherd Church by James Gilligan, a shrink/scholar in residence at NYU who studies/writes about violence. Hope you can come if you are still in New York. David