Meditation and mind.
While at a British university I experienced conflict leading to impotent rage. After a while I could not discern if I was imagining things or not. A referral from the campus doctor to see a consultant psychiatrist resulted in me receiving injections of Modicate which is a psychiatric drug for schizophrenia manufactured from modified snake venom. Returning to the city where I had been a dispatch rider and a homeless person, after a number of years I was baptised in an evangelical church. Later moving to a market town near to where my family lived I awoke from a dream of being tormented by a snake in a glass tank. My first thought and saving grace was that the snake symbolised the serpent and deception in the garden of Eden. Still feeling thwarted I started looking for metaphors or ideas to describe what I was feeling. I thought of myself of having been in a chemical mask for approximately thirty four years for reactions to my environment that were a natural response to stress and trigge...