Neil Durso

Teachers prevent war. Their subjects go viral

In a year, you impose >16,000 hours of WHO you are on other young who’s.

Dark Night of the Soul (1.8) – Silence

Stumbling into nothing but paradoxes entwined in incessant ruminations cycling ceaselessly through my mind.

Teacher’s Spree

He didn’t have his laptop or pencil today but he had a piece of candy… It might be harder than a trip to the moon.

Beware: Why popular therapy programs fall short

Popular therapy programs fail in the end; they start, but cannot finish. The truth is too dark for toxically positive self-improvement or healing recovery. Why be wary of popular self-help books and recovery/therapy programs? Because they are popular! That means they appeal to mass markets, and what mass markets want is, fast and easy. LikeContinue reading “Beware: Why popular therapy programs fall short”

“Ego” according to a non-affiliated psychospiritual source

Though I can’t explain entirely why, I’ve become fond of this non-affiliated psychospiritual writing duo. Here is their perspective on “ego.” I’ve become a bit obsessed with the differentiation between soul and ego, and myself describe the ego as our “sensor of separateness, uniqueness, individuality.” I’m pretty convinced that life’s purpose ( esp. therapy’s) isContinue reading ““Ego” according to a non-affiliated psychospiritual source”

Virginia hippie

Brian is 40. That’s not his actual name. But just in case. There were not more than 3 or 4 seats out of about 40 at the bar at Buffalo Wild Wings at some average strip mall outside Glen Allen, Virginia. He has long hair but erudite glasses. He could be a hippie or aContinue reading “Virginia hippie”