As I am rereading parts of Sigmund Freud ‘s “The Interpretation of Dreams” for the next book on Dream Interpretation,I realize how convoluted the Germanic mind is.And Freud is by no means the worst.If you want a more intense version, you can try Schopenhauer and Kant and Hegel! Then there are the French and their love of ideas and abstractions(“Je pense, donc je suis”). Yes ,the same ones who claimed they could cure schizophrenia by analyzing the delusions and thus chased me away from psychiatry on my first time around.! And the British with their obsessional style of accumulating facts and details and developing classifications and taxonomies.(It’s called Empiricism and it haunts us every day whether we realize it or not!)

Let’s not forget their ancient predecessors, the Greeks, who we were taught to idealize in Elementary school! Remember-the Golden Age of Athens.!They developed all sorts of philosophical systems from which to think about reality without actually seeing it for what it is.

I realized, in doing my reading, that I have been gravitating more and more towards a totally different approach which involves the more simple thinking of the Semites(Judaism and Islam-no, not Christianity which is actually a Europeanized Semitic tradition) combined with the subtlety of the Farther East traditions of Vedanta,Buddhism and Taoism that help us subtelize our awareness of consciousness. With this combo I manage to find both right guidance,knowing the difference between right and wrong,and inner peace which comes through distancing oneself from the mind rather than embracing it.This combo protects us from the obfuscations of the European intellect and the angst that it necessarily generates. Long Live the East-Middle and Far!