Holistic Junkie Publications

"The mind is given unto you, you are not given unto the mind!"  Someone deep once said. But I believe for most of us its the other way around. We've kind of let our mind go on producing, script writing and directing all kind of horrific genres playing and are free to be shocked about at any given time in between our ears.   There's the "Spiritual failure" program, a "Romantic Traumedy", the "family Dysfunction" program, the "Financial and bad credit breakdown" news at 1a.m. (for most insomniacs).  Most of these productions (brilliantly traumatising I might add) are a very creative seed of incidences that we have encountered and passively replay in our mind for shock value and kept in our psyche as defining moments in who we turned out to be and what we ought to expect out of our lives as we will know it. I was once in a short lived romantic encounter with someone I considered a catch. I felt lucky to have found that person ba...

"PUSH, PUSH,  PUSH  AGAINST IT!"   That's what we here from our peers and society at large. Pushing against something is what we are addicted to in this  nation of humans . We love pushing against things. We push against the perceived bad that we think is threatening our well being. And if there is well being, or goodness, we insist on make it last as long as we possibly can, which is the same as pushing against the goodness from ending. We push against the bad that we suppose is pending just behind the good, no wonder good moments elude us most often and the bad seem to be our usual companions.. Pushing against, that's really something we've grown accustomed to. In this human society we are so well taught to push against things. If you have feelings for a (wo)man and you're a (wo)man, you must push against it. for it is not "natural"..If you still love your ex, even if s/he broke your heart, you must not feel it, push against it, and never a...

"A man can choose to be anything. He can partake in, be a part of anything that he wants to. He can become a beast, he can become a god. He can do anything." This thought keeps reappearing in all the writings of man. It states that we become what we choose to become whether we realise it or not. This is so true because as I grow older, I notice just how broad my being is. BEING : the continuous movement of becoming!! As a high school pupil I only saw myself as a math and science student whose aim was to be a master of science and nothing more. And then in  first year varsity I noticed my perception   grew   from a science student to one whose aim was to be a respectable chemical engineering professional, then suddenly I noticed that not only do I love science, but I have a proclivity for some business,  philosophy and even writing who knew!! And then that grew to psychology, which grew to  philosophy and spirituality and all of this my high-school-year old...

“What are we exactly here for then?” those were the words that came out of my friend's mouth during our bus ride to work. “Like really, if God knows everything that I am thinking and going to think,  then what’s the point of this? Why do you think we are here?”... Silenced by the question for a moment, I suddenly felt an answer formulating inside me and the answer was, “Well, yeah sure, that which you call God knows all things, but the purpose of life is nothing more than for us to live out what God knows. Everything is already known, so we are here to live and experience the knowing of that which is known.” Silence came upon us for a moment to process the craziness that had just come out of my mouth. He then further asked, “So where do you think we go when we die, where does heaven and hell really fit in?” I then  laid out  my answer in this manner: “the purpose of life is to experience the diverse unity of all things. And that separation is an illusion that is placed b...

Two frogs named Will and Fern fell into a deep pit together. At first, they thought it would be easy to jump out. But after lots of failed attempts they cried for help and a crowd of animals gathered around the pit. Everyone agreed it was hopeless so they urged Will and Fern to accept their fate. The harder the trapped frogs jumped, the more the crowd yelled at them to give up. Finally, Will stopped trying. Fern refused to quit and with one mighty try she leaped out of the pit. The crowd was amazed. Someone asked her why she kept trying when everyone told her she had no chance. Fern was baffled. “What are you saying?” she asked. “I’m a bit deaf. I was sure you were all cheering me on. I couldn’t have done it without your encouragement.” I learned of this story from a woman who was in a transitional housing program recovering from a long period of drug abuse, homelessness and hopelessness. She wanted everyone to understand how important positivism and encouragement can be...