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On turning light into laser...

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The actual metaphor should be, on turning flame - wobbly, hot, all over the place - into a welding arc.  Pure poetry! Not!! Except an arc uses electricity, not deconstructing, catabolic oxidation.  Oxidation - yes! On turning oxy-acetylene into a welding flame   fail! A friend posted an article to me.  I felt as if I was reading a post from The 3lack 3ox rewritten by Barbara Cartland.  A romantic fantasy. So, GG MBACP. An integrative therapist working in private practice. My apologies for what my hotter than the arc light laser, deceptively incandescent, words may bring you. Because I can't, won't play nice. The one thing we don't need more of when talking about erotic transfer, or therapy at all is, soupy nonsense.  Not sorry, said it.  A romance. So, flaccid fantasy then? Yes indeed. But portrayed as a possibility, as a true account. Well sure. I've seen people believe things that genuinely have not happened and watched that belief become a contagion...

Factor X revisited.

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"Absence of the normal, presence of the abnormal" -  are my senses telling me that something  is not happening which would normally be occurring, is there anything that is happening which wouldn't normally happen in this given moment? The point of finding the 3lack 3ox is to understand why the plane flew into the mountain. The plane may have developed a fault, and the pilot was fully aware of the peril. He tried so, so hard...but the mountain was too high and the plane too low. Everyone was fighting and struggling, praying together, to keep the plane flying. Or, perhaps the pilot chose to commit suicide, and to murder the 144 passengers and six crew (two pilots and four cabin crew members)? What could make a person do that?  To enable this awful and terrifying deed he had to provide enough compelling explanations to hide Factor X or else he wouldn't have been allowed onto the plane. And these compelling explanations , so loud in his head have now brought him to the pl...