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Psycho-Cybernetics: A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

December 22, 2024
I remember when my Grade Nine friend - David, a genius in physics - recommended this book to me, later, in 1976. We shared a two bedroom apartment together, along with his back-to-the-land girlfriend (later his wife) Diana, and David was doing grad work.

I was a nine-to-five office type, getting down to serious daily drudgery.

They were gone each weekend to Diana's cottage, so I would carry on with my own haphazard lifestyle then.

David saw I was disorganized. So much like him, but Diana was setting him straight. Now David wanted me to get my life together, with Maltz's book.

I tried, but never succeeded to clean up my act and my thinking.... Until I met my own wife. Turns out I had only needed a lady’s inspiration to think cybernetically!

Turns out I had been more concerned about my feelings about things, rather than things themselves, Maltz's key point. I now had energy to burn again.

That was in the next year, 1977. But 1976 proved an utter debacle...
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I had heard in the spring of vitamin therapy for my bipolar condition, as well as Maltz’s medicine. My roomy David was the son of a decorated biochemist, and was big on Linus Pauling, so no wonder! Didn't work, though - in the middle of the summer I crashed and burned.

(You know, the anti-psychiatry movement in North America was then gaining momentum, and my confinement that year was So much like a sojourn at a country club. Quickly and clinically given a cybernetic release, I gradually badly imploded.)

Of course, by November the only possible remedy was heavy artillery, and I was duly given lights-out meds. Where is all this ugliness leading, you may ask?

Well, of course (if you believe in White Magic) into a serendipitous solution:

My Forever Wife!

Cause, brutally KO'ed and down for the count, my Darkest Hour then proved to be just a Herald of Dawn.
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My dear wife then started to get me straight. With good loving and no-nonsense pep talks galore, in short order I converted to her native Catholicism.

Then, a Church wedding.

Suddenly my life was positive.

It was filled with sunlight.

Promotion rapidly followed promotion at work.

And now, having worked steadily for thirty years, I finally had a respectable pension...

And plenty for more books.

And, what of David and Diana?

After marriage, they settled in an community out west in Alberta -

And David became the Chairman of its university Physics department.

So we both made it in life, retiring in 2005 and around 2011 respectively...

For we had both successfully done our best thinking in a grimy box all that dreary younger time:

Psycho-Cybernetically!