The Incarceration of John: The Charlatans

About This Blog

I wanted to create something beautiful for a passionate and soulful man who opened my eyes and my heart... because I wanted to celebrate our love with the world... a love so strong, a love denied, a bond that has survived the unspeakable; labelling, drugging and incarcerating. John reawakened my soul. I am gathering love for him. I no longer wish to be afraid of the trauma truth. I long to speak the poetry of my heart. This blog gives me and John's family and friends a voice in a legal system and a society that has taken our voice away and given exclusive rights and total control over John and his future to psychiatry. We live in an unenlightened world which translates "emotional distress" into "mental disorder". It's time to celebrate diversity and the normality of madness; visions and voices, fragility, sensitivity, passion, overwhelm, the language of the soul, the symbols of the soul and the mythic and metaphorical gifts from the soul. Each of our own unique and creative responses to trauma deserve to be honoured.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Charlatans - You Cross My Path

Excellent but sinister song, excellent lyrics, excellent video, excellent band... this video could be called 'The Trauma Survivor and the Sword of Truth' It really explores the victim/ perpetrator dynamic, abused/ abuser, systemic lens, resulting madness and eventual empowerment in facing the truth, shedding light on darkness. I used this soundtrack on 'The Myth of Schizophrenia' video I made.