Extended Family

I will reserve most of my comments for another day, but right now I want to make sure I've got a link to one of the most important articles on the web (from my perspective and with regards to the purpose of my little blog here). Ted at Free Range Organic Human has put up the first part of an exploration into what he is, and why he is not what other people are.

This is a man with a strong personal sense of identity for which he cannot account. He senses somehow he is not among his own kind. I have felt this way my whole life. Like Neitzche I have concieved a powerful personal myth.

Yeah, me too. Is it just silly fantasy that when I was a young child, I began telling bedtime stories to my mother, and that one of the first and by far the most persistant story which I always claimed was fact was that I was not human, but rather an alien from the planet Moo? Is it merely social dysfunction if Neitzche, Ted, and I feel that we are not the same kinds of creatures as the people we've been surrounded by all our lives?

Certainly fantasy and social dysfunction are popular explanations for the phenomena, and they satisfy the need of the "normal" people to dismiss our perspectives from their worldviews. But they do not satisfy us. Ted's satisfaction is found in his own personal journey related in his blog, as my satisfaction in mine.

I'm going to indulge in a great deal of what the conventional psychological worldview would consider insane, delusional, and psychotic. I'll do so, because I can't be true to myself if I do not. Hmmm... no wonder I never got that psychology degree.