A Review of “My Journey of Decay” by Victoria Libertore

To call Victoria Libertore a performer would be a gross misjudgment and error in classification. She is an emotional conductor moving not an audience, but witnesses, from one powerful vignette to another.

NeoNeuro, A New Order

If there is a fine line between genius and insanity, I suspect the location of the line is dependent on where you view it from. Recently I saw that fine line from the wrong side when I got the results of four weeks of neuropsych testing and was told informally that I had a thought [...]

Psychic or Psychotic?

I was reading a topic on psychforums.com called “Social anxiety or psychosis?” where a man shared he was hearing people’s thoughts on the subway when close to a lot of people. Many people responded they thought it was psychosis. I did not so in his defense, I posted the following.
Dear Distorted,
I took a Spiritual Depth [...]

Jesus Saves, the Movie

When I moved to Crown Heights Brooklyn the graffiti “tag” Jesus Saves was everywhere. I began to photograph it almost compulsively. I took 30 or 40 photos of the tag from all over Brooklyn and made dozens of prints, though I never seemed to sell them. I set up a CafePress store with 30 products [...]

Jailhousin’ or Nuthousin’

Jailhousing is the style of wearing your pants around your thighs like they are falling off and letting your style statement be made by your underwear. The term came form prisoners in jails who were denied belts with ill-fitting pants that fell off.
Nuthousing is the same practice of low-slung pants, but without underwear.
One is [...]

Am I stupid, insane or just gifted?

I spent so much of my life annoyed at the insanity and stupidity of other people’s actions and even more so at my own. I’m highly gifted with severe learning disabilities so I often refer to myself as an “incredibly smart person who does amazingly stupid things.”
I can understand Quantum physics and I have a [...]

Psychic or Psychotic? You Decide.

My recent research in to my psychic abilities showed some interesting connections between head injury and psychic abilities.
Peter Hurkos, considered by experts to have been the world’s foremost psychic, fell off a ladder and hit his head. Edgar Cayce fell on a nail which penetrated his skull. Later he injured his head and went into [...]

When You Are Ready To Face Your Demons, A Way Will Open

I left church in my usual state of ecstasy but as had become a pattern, I soon dropped into darkness. It seemed that lately every good experience was followed by severe depression. Each accomplishment seemed to be balanced by immediate failure. Usually of my own making.
Today was my third time in two [...]