These excerpts from Jerome Agel's 1970s book "The Radical Therapist" help demystify the metaphor of The Wizard of Oz --or "wizards of Is" as I like to say. Few if any authors have tried to demystify the game of how therapists are trained behind the closed doors of the industry. Enjoy!

For a few years now I've heard people say that depression is depressing your feelings, or that it is anger turned inward. I did not get this. But now I'm starting to get it...

So maybe I didn’t have a plan when I walked out the front door of my parents home, hung at the end of the driveway for a moment, then pivoted left and started walking. My fingers have already disappeared from me--wavered in their bony bases, detached--let themselves mix, atom by atom, with the air in the loose pockets of my stained blue jeans. Then my body breathed them away.

How I got the wrong bus and ended up bumping into space aliens (or maybe they were fireflies)

**warning - -this post might be really triggering for some people. read with care.**

star date may 19 2007