Symbiophrenic Incursion

The Bird Cage of Spirit

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:59:29 GMT

This poem I wrote over the last several years, editing it slowly.

I hope you enjoy it and learn something from it!

It is about my experience of schizophrenia and what I feel like inside myself: like a beautiful bird who could be flying but whose spirit is trapped in a cage.

I don't feel like I'm trapped now, except in the society which I mention in the poem. But I'm an activist and a writer, so I have ways to the means with which to interact with that society, hopefully changing it for the better!!

Without further ado, here is the poem: more >

Insights toward Sanity

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:05:57 GMT

I wrote this last year for a writing course. It's a good piece. more >

To Inspire an Adequate Response...

Fri, 2 Dec 2005 19:49:32 GMT

This is a paper I wrote for my First Nations Literature class.

I haven't been around on NCN for a while and thought I should show my face and contribute something. Hello all!

I hope you appreciate the thoughts! more >

What does it mean in? Exploring the domain of materialism.

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:40:51 GMT

Hello there, you with eager free minds that some philosophers would tell you that you don't have. I've been busy busy with my second year of university, but I've written lots and would like to share. Here is my final essay for Phil 361 - philosophy of mind!

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On use of experience and reason

Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:22:48 GMT

Hey all. I've moved in and am attending classes, 2nd year university! Yay! English and Philosophy are fun! Here are some thoughts I wrote after thinking about a philosophy lecture. more >

Moving time.

Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:06:31 GMT

This is fare well and see you later.
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I like these!

Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:16:03 GMT

Enjoy!

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'Really, aren't I?' whispered a little (sum-poe try-ing.)

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:26:41 GMT

Sometimes in epistemology class last semester, I had a feeling that if one earnestly and sincerely bears witness thru-out time to the philsopher's arguments, poet's conveyances, artist's renditions, mystic's visions, shaman's discussions, psychologist's advice, scientist's questions, and in abstract, the being's expressions, and if that one who witnesses these does so intelligently, articulately, and charitably, then that one will invariably develop a strong assumption that 'reality itself' was housed in form of diversely avid communicators posing that one a proposition most deeply interesting and pertinent, to describe moderately.... more >

Find a way each of our ideas give the same peace

Tue, 24 Aug 2004 21:32:28 GMT

Can you imagine never giving up differences? more >

bioimperative

Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:32:04 GMT

(Herein is a final essay for an introductory ethics class I took this preceding spring semester; my choice for writing topic. I have edited to make the flow of ideas cleaner and clearer. ((It wasn't an A+ paper :)))
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"All over the earth, faces of all living things are alike. Mother earth has turned these faces out of the earth with tenderness. Oh Great Spirit behold them, all these faces with children in their hands." Standing Bear, Lakota

May we remember and revere the primacy of life,
and lovingly care for and make free the children in our hands
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