- Physical Discipline

Mortgage-Free, In A Tiny Home

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:11:35 -0700

The Jungle Prescription (Film Trailer)

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:05:27 -0700

The jungle Prescription - Film Trailer from The Ayahuasca Project on Vimeo.

The Real Dirt On Farmer John

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:16:28 -0600

The Perennial Plate: Brothers

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:39:54 -0600

The Perennial Plate Episode 61: Brothers from Daniel Klein on Vimeo.

The Silver Miners of Potosi, Bolivia

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:40:38 -0600

Bruce Lee - His Own Words

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Sat, 07 May 2011 20:31:13 -0600

Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:57:40 -0600

Life of Mammals - Persistence Hunting

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:52:37 -0600

U.N. Diplomat Denied Private Meeting With Bradley Manning

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:27:39 -0600

Related Post - Pentagon Lies - Bradley Manning's Friend David House Speaks About Bradley's Deterioration While In Confinement

Source: The Washington Post - April 11, 2011

A United Nations diplomat charged with investigating claims of torture said Monday that he is “deeply disappointed and frustrated” that U.S. defense officials have refused his request for an unmonitored visit with Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accused of passing classified material to WikiLeaks.

Juan E. Mendez, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture, said his request for a private interview with Manning was denied by the Defense Department on Friday. Instead, he has been told that any visit must be supervised.

Mendez has been seeking to determine whether Manning’s confinement at a military brig at Quantico amounts to torture, following complaints about his treatment and an incident in which the private was forced to strip in his cell at night and sleep without clothing.

“My request . . . is not onerous: for my part, a monitored conversation would not comply with the practices that my mandate applies in every country and detention center visited,” Mendez said in a statement Monday, noting that at least 18 countries have allowed unmonitored interviews.

Manning, 23, has been held at Quantico since July 29 and is awaiting a possible court-martial on charges that he endangered national security by allegedly leaking classified military and diplomatic information.

For most of this time, military officials have kept Manning under “prevention of injury” watch, asserting that he poses a risk to himself. That means he spends 23 hours a day alone in his cell, with one hour allowed for exercise, and has no contact with other prisoners. He is allowed visitors for a few hours on the weekends. He must give up his prison uniform at night, though jail officials have now issued him a smock to wear.

U.S. officials have denied that Manning is being mistreated and have said that the circumstances of his confinement comply with U.S. law and Defense Department regulations.

Last month, however, P.J. Crowley, then the spokesman for the State Department, said the conditions of Manning’s confinement were “counterproductive and stupid” — a comment that angered the White House and prompted Crowley’s resignation.

On Sunday, the New York Review of Books published a letter signed by more than 250 lawyers, professors and authors, including Harvard University constitutional law professor Laurence H. Tribe, that called the conditions of Manning’s confinement “illegal and immoral.” The British government has also raised concerns about the issue.

In an interview, Mendez said that “at first glance,” Manning’s case seems to be “of interest to my mandate,” which is to investigate cases of cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment and report them to the U.N. Human Rights Council.

To do his job, he said, he needs to be able to speak to Manning without witnesses, including guards patrolling nearby. Otherwise, he said, “I cannot be sure Manning is being absolutely candid and honest with me if he knows that he’s being monitored.”

He said he is willing to see Manning nonetheless, if Manning wishes to see him.

The Defense Department has also denied requests for unmonitored visits with Manning by a representative of Amnesty International and by Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), according to the soldier’s attorney.

Heroes of Fukushima - 50 Remain At Daiichi

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:00:21 -0600

Source: New Zealand Herald - March 16, 2011

Following yesterday's explosion at Fukushima Daiichi's unit 2 reactor, a decision was made by a manager on site to evacuate staff working in the area.

But around 50 employees - dubbed the Fukushima 50 - have remained at the site working tirelessly around the clock to avoid possible meltdowns at three reactors at the quake-hit nuclear power plant.

They are attempting to cool down fuel rods at three reactors by injecting seawater into them.

Despite wearing protective clothing, experts say there will be negative effects to their health as a result of the radiation levels.

David Richardson, a professor of epidemiology at the university of North Carolina who has studied the long-term health risks for nuclear plant workers, told the BBC those at Fukushima would receive in an hour the same amount of radiation a US nuclear worker is exposed over an entire career.

"These workers in a few hours are getting fairly high doses I would say by contemporary standards for worker protection and that's likely to pose some risks down the line.

"To my knowledge there's not a good way after exposure of trying to protect somebody from the risks of a subsequent later cancer."

Lee Tin-lap, a toxicologist at a Hong Kong university, told Reuters the current radiation levels would not be immediately dangerous - but there could be long-term effects.

"You are still breathing this into your lungs, and there is passive absorption in the skin, eyes and mouth and we really do not know what long-term impact that would have," he said.

Following the fire at unit 4 yesterday, radiation levels peaked to
levels dangerous for human health.

At 10.22am (2.22pm NZT) a radioactivity monitoring post near the unit 3 reactor showed 400 millisieverts per hour, 400 times the amount an average person is exposed to in a year, the Japan Times reported.

The radiation level was 100 millisieverts per hour near the unit 4 reactor and 30 millisieverts per hour between the unit 2 and 3 reactors.

An official at the Institute of Applied Energy told the Japan Times radiation exposure of 7,000 to 10,000 millisieverts per hour is considered a lethal dose.

"There is no doubt it is an amount that would have (a harmful) effect on the human body."

Without protective gear, exposure to 100 millisieverts per hour can render a man infertile, one Japanese expert told NHK News.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said yesterday the levels would "no doubt" have a harmful effect on the human body.

Close Encounters of the Buddhist Kind

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 11:38:26 -0700

Source: Foreign Policy - January 20, 2011

Picture this: millions of followers gathering around a central shrine that looks like a giant UFO in elaborately choreographed Nuremberg-style rallies; missionary outposts in 31 countries from Germany to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; an evangelist vision that seeks to promote a "world morality restoration project"; and a V-Star program that encourages hundreds of thousands of children to improve "positive moral behavior." Although the Bangkok-based Dhammakaya movement dons saffron robes, not brown shirts, its flamboyant ceremonies have become increasingly bold displays of power for this cult-like Buddhist group that was founded in the 1970s, ironically, as a reform movement opposed to the excesses of organized religion in Thailand.

Yet, despite the pageantry, the inner workings of this fast-growing movement are little known to Thailand's general public, and certainly to the rest of the world, though its teachings loom large among the legions of devotees.....

This obscurity is because -- despite its 24-hour satellite TV station -- Dhammakaya has diligently worked to avoid the limelight. Until now. Over the past year, photographer Luke Duggleby and reporter Ron Gluckman have been granted unrivaled access to the facilities and ceremonies of Dhammakaya, and they provide an exclusive look at this mesmerizing movement.

The Mothership: The gold-topped Cetiya temple is the center of the Dhammakaya's expanding global meditation movement and the focal point of ceremonies. The dome is actually composed of 300,000 identical titanium- and gold-coated bronze statues of Buddha -- another 700,000 are nestled inside a temple that even devotees will admit looks like a UFO. Some call it "The Mothership." Estimates have placed the value of the temple complex at around $1 billion. - Foreign Policy

Buddhism on Life in the Universe

The Budhha's explanation of the universe was what the present scientists found out to be. He divided the process of "creation" (for lack of better word) into four stages...formation, existence, degeneration, and destruction. Upon destruction, all the material elements returned to their original base elements, and after a long long time, they began to group together and the process of formation would start again. So you can understand, that the whole process is a cycle, and has no beginning or ending. These forces of "creation, formation, existence, and destruction" are universal throughout the entire cosmic space which has no ending. Time is a non factor, it has no meaning in this cosmic display of life cycle. Space is also a non entity; it is just void.

At any point in time there is this incessent cycle of creation, existence, degeneration and destruction of stars, planets, and even galaxies! Space has no ending, which can be better decribed as void. The Buddha called our galaxy, Cakkavala. Cakka meaning wheel or spiral. Our galaxy is spiral in shape. The whole universe, the Buddha called it Loka Dhatu, meaning, world of elements. In this endless void, there exists countless galaxies. The size and distance of these galaxies are beyond our human imagination and understanding! Our earth world is just an insignificant speck of dust in this whole unimaginable universe of cosmic existence! As a law of probability alone, if such an insignificant speck of dust can support life, what about the others in this gigantic display of cosmic drama! The answer to both your questions is that Buddhists KNOW that there exists extraterrestrials; but very very very far away.

In many of the Buddha's discourses there were always the mention of beings from 10,000 world systems gathered to listen to him. The Buddha also revealed that in our world alone there were 31 planes of existence (life forms). Humans and animals are 2 planes that we can see. The others, such as ghosts and higher plane beings, we cannot see with our limited vision. Wherever there are life forms in any of the worlds (planets) in other galaxies or universes, these 31 planes of life forms take hold. All are subject to this universal cycle of formation, existence, degeration, and ultimate destruction; and the cycle repeats itself ad infinitum. - Justin Choo

Magical Egypt

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:03:02 -0700

To Build a Village - Open Source Ecology

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 09:22:33 -0600

One Person's Garden Weed is Another's Salad

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:55:19 -0600

Source: LA Times

On an overcast Saturday morning, Christopher Nyerges — the head of Eagle Rock's School of Self-Reliance — gingerly skirts a feral clump of bright green weeds.

"Always watch where you're stepping 'cause you might be stepping on our lunch," he says to the 17 students following him. Resembling troops in an outdoorsy New Age army, the group wanders through Pasadena's Hahamongna Watershed Park, scouring the dirt hills, shallow valleys and parched riverbeds of the land for edible plants as part of a wild food outing that Nyerges regularly teaches.

Nyerges knows what most urbanites don't: that food is in the eye of the beholder. He scans the foliage around him with sharp, knowing eyes, recognizing the shape and veins of a leaf; the texture of bark on a tree; the color of a berry; the gentle slope of a stem crowned with flowers. It's all salad to him.

Those pesky "weeds" that you routinely pull in your backyard might be lambsquarters, greens rich in vitamins A and C that can be eaten just like spinach and are good raw or sautéed. Or maybe they're amaranth, which is also called pigweed. (In Jamaica it is steamed and served with butter and cheese.)

The list of possibilities is lengthy and nutritious. That is, if your palate and stomach enjoy life on the wild side. These plants take getting used to, and if you're not careful you could end up with a belly ache, or worse.

"Wild foods are full potency in terms of vitamins and minerals," says Nyerges, who is the editor of Wilderness Way magazine and has penned a wild food cookbook along with nine other self-reliance titles. "I've had people get sick eating some of them, but not because they're poisonous. We generally eat weak food, and when you eat something that's real, your body might react." (Try telling that to your general practitioner.)

Clad in faded green army pants, a long-sleeved green button-up shirt and a black cowboy hat banded with a patterned kerchief Nyerges, 55, is motion incarnate. As the group walks along a path covered with a blanket of decaying leaves he spots chickweed, which is mild and tender and makes a great salad green. Dropping suddenly to his knees he plucks a leaf and holds it up for all to see.

"At Whole Foods this costs $15 a pound dried," he says of the chickweed. "Then there's a lookalike that has a white milky sap." He peers about him for a moment, grabs another leaf that looks identical to the chickweed and crushes it between his fingers, revealing a sticky white substance.

"So that's not edible?" a woman asks. Her long gray hair is pulled back in a ponytail and she wears Teva sandals. Nyerges looks at her with a long, serious face.

"It's edible, but you'll vomit," he says. Everybody chuckles, and Nyerges smiles.

Still, the point he's making with the joke is deadly serious: You should only eat what you know. If you don't know it, don't touch it.

Down a grassy hill and past an elegant row of acacia trees, the mud from a recent rainfall cracks in large thirsty gaps and Nyerges stops short. "Look at this," he says, pointing at a grouping of flowered plants with wide flat leaves and tiny pepper-shaped growths.

A woman plucks one of the growths and nibbles on it. "It tastes like a radish," she says thoughtfully.

"It tastes like a radish because it is a radish," Nyerges says. "A wild radish."

Nyerges' eyes narrow, and he swiftly rips a plant from the ground beside a radish plant. It has intricate patterned leaves resembling parsley, only not as thickly bunched.

"Here's one you should all be aware of," he says. "That's poison hemlock. It's enough to kill you."

Unnerved, the group peers suspiciously at the contents of their salad bags. Maybe wild food wasn't as fun as they thought. But, then again, a number of people in attendance, including two men who say they are part of a 9/11 truth group, are not there for fun.

Nyerges, who has been teaching for more than 30 years, says that it isn't uncommon for hard-core survivalists to take his class, as well as people with end-of-the-world-related fears. "There have been individuals who have been seriously upset about things over the years. During Y2K they were petrified; now I get a lot of that with the 2012 baloney," he says, referring to what some believe is the Mayan calendar's end date.

"I tell people that society is not going to change, only the individual can change and that's the source of calm that comes from true self-reliance," he continues. "I'm convinced I will never go hungry, I'll never be homeless, I'll never be broke.

"More and more I'm dealing with average people who are worried about the nutritional content of their food and what to do if there is a supermarket strike or an earthquake," Nyerges adds.

Soon the group passes through a field of slender mustard plants. They wave knee-high in the breeze, their dainty yellow flowers shining in the just-emerging sunlight. "Taste the flowers," Nyerges urges. They are full of heat and spice. "You can eat the leaves too," he adds as a man holding a book by Nyerges titled "Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants" scribbles furiously in its margins.

As the walk plunges deeper into the park, the landscape changes, not in the way it looks, but in the way you look at it. Familiar greenery remains on all sides — however, it is impossible to see it in the same way. It is now filled with hidden secrets to be revealed with each passing step.

Those thick reddish-brown stalks covered in shiny seeds are curly dock. The seeds can be crushed into a powder and mixed with equal parts wheat flour to make hearty pancakes. Those round white flowers are buckwheat flowers — when they mature the plant's brown seeds can be mixed with flour to make biscuits. Nyerges dives into a huge swell of buckwheat and emerges with a fat hunk of white sage.

"You can put a leaf of that in your water bottle for general relaxation," says Jim Robertson, a friend of Nyerges who gives his own wilderness walks.

In fact, you can do something with just about everything if you're not the squeamish type (or if you just want to freak out your friends). Even the shell of white secretion that bugs called psyllids hide beneath on eucalyptus leaves can be plucked off and eaten. Tiny and crisp, they taste sugary and have a slightly waxy finish. "You can use a whole bunch of these as sweetener," Robertson says.

The group takes in this information skeptically.

But a few brave souls — including Bill Hooper and Caitlyn Hayes — lean in for a closer look. Hooper and Hayes, a young couple, both slender and with a strong interest in raw and vegan food, attended the class to learn more about natural foods and medicines. Plus, they really enjoy wandering around the city scavenging for treats together.

"I was walking around Santa Monica near the DMV and I was like, 'Is there any food around here?'" Hooper says. "And I saw something red and tasted it and it was kind of sweet." It turned out to be a natal plum.

"They're everywhere!" Hooper exclaims.

Also everywhere on this trek: mountain lilac buds that lather into soap when mixed with water. And willow bark, the original aspirin. The inside of the bark is slick green, moist and bitter. It can be chewed on to soothe toothaches and headaches. Other finds include horehound, great for a sore throat, and the tubular yellow flowers of the tobacco plant, which can be sucked on for a cheap nicotine rush. (Just don't eat the leaves — they are poisonous.)

By the time the nearly three-hour trek comes to a conclusion at a picnic table by the parking lot, notebooks are full and heads are spinning. Nyerges produces bowls made from the tops of dried gourds and begins washing and chopping the wild salad that has been foraged.

The Disease of Pornography

nospam@example.com (Harvest Dream) — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:02:12 -0600

Sexuality is a spiritual expression of intimacy between physically bound souls seeking union. When the transition from spiritual expression to meat factory vulgarity occurs it signals the end of compassion and understanding between the two time/space divided sexes, which without exaggerating the matter spells doom for the family unit and its power to raise healthy, mature and responsible children.

The spiritual infection of sexual debasement cannot be countered with some return to the closed door policies of restricted and repressed societies, it's not sexuality or human organs of any type that are the problem, its our perception of them and the emphasis we place on them and their role in our lives that makes the difference. Having been a child during the excessive 80's I can remember well the role of the seductress that pornography played within my group of friends, the easy accessibility spoke volumes about society as a whole and where it was heading. When groups of young children, both parents at work of course, could indulge in adult perversions of various sorts, something was definitely amiss, for it was these experiences that were shaping the young minds of a generation, leaving residual and long lasting effects that would cascade through all levels of society.

Sexual deviance is nothing new, its as old as the hills, though the ubiquity of it, the sheer availability of it, and the utter disappearance of the stable family home to protect from its predation, is perhaps unique in human history. As sexuality between loving couples is a manifestation of a deeper longing for union, so is the sexually debased a reflection of a type of spiritual power, one that feeds on the loss of the self in the mirror of seduction and selfishness. My youth is filled with forays into the all too available world of directed sexual predation, a predation promoted by an increasingly powerful film industry, one that is normalized by ever more explicit but tasteless depictions of human beings engaged in what could only be described as sexual acts with deep undertones of violence, submission and outright personal humiliation.

Throughout the ages warnings have been issued about sex and its misuse, taken so seriously by some that sex was placed under cloak and veil for fear of its untold power. The key foothold of evil on earth it was said was built upon the cornerstone of human sexual debasement and the loss of self into the void of self absorbed erotic pleasures. The reactions of outright repression however by certain religious and cultural institutions has only created a vacuum of weakness to the power of this force, since it is only through self discipline and self reflection that the power of sexuality and its doorways into narcissism can be guarded against and properly channeled. There is no mistaking it at this point, the genie of sexual perversion has been unleashed, the sheer weight of its center of gravity is such that very few would even consider it to be a soul drain, even mistaking it for liberation from the bonds of repression, and liberation of the 'female energy' and its free expression. This however couldn't be farther from the truth.

The loss of sexual energy even at the physical level impairs the connection to higher dimensions of perception, there is a sort of quantum biological physics at play within which the sexual energy is a vital force that congeals the human being with its higher mind. The consistent loss of vitality, and the endless thought structures associated with sexual perversion act like a barrier to the deeper well of self knowledge. In the throes of self desecration at the hand of the seductress self confidence is necessarily lost, as deep down we recognize, though perhaps not consciously, that we are weak and undisciplined. This saps the human will body which the soul uses to channel its highest aspirations.

As one who has lived at the head of this pornographic storm due to the time and society in which I live I can assert that our only hope of correcting the imbalance this force of sexual predation has caused is to exert a great effort toward self discipline, to override our cultural programming which has so insidiously infected the spiritual body of humanity, and now threatens to push us further into the dogma of materialism of which perversion is a core tenet.

For reference on the power of building ones sexual and spiritual power one might want to check out Mantak Chia's Healing Love through the Tao: Cultivating Female Sexual Energy

Source: Alternet

"Porn is an easy outlet, a one-way outlet. What a rush! What a release! The Internet puts an endless stream of images at my fingertips. I've conveniently conned myself thinking it's okay, but deep down I know it's wrong. It makes me feel dirty and has hurt my relationship with my wife. I beat myself up afterward, hate myself, and swear that was the last time. But before I know it, I'm back at it again. I'm scared where it's leading. Can you help me?"—Scott, 44 years old.

Scott, a successful lawyer with a wife and two children, showed up at my office for his first session confused and angry about his relationship with pornography. He could see the damage his Internet porn habit was having on his marriage, health, and career, but he couldn't stay away from it. His story is typical of men and women—of all ages, backgrounds, incomes, and lifestyles—who are seeking counseling for serious problems related to pornography.

When I began counseling in the mid-1970s, cases like Scott's were rare and almost inconceivable. Hardcore pornography was difficult to obtain. But in recent decades, new electronic technologies, such as cable television, computers, and iPhones, have transformed it into a product that's available to anyone—anytime, anywhere, and often cheap or free. It's become a substantial part of our economy, boasting annual revenues in excess of $13 billion in the United States and $100 billion worldwide.

The revolution in accessibility has led to record consumption. According to statistics on the Internet Filter Review site, 40 million Americans visit Internet porn sites at least once a month. Some porn users visit sites for only a few minutes at a time. Others, like Scott, visit porn sites daily, spending more than 15 hours per week. One-third of all downloads each month and one-quarter of all online searches each day are for porn. And, according to a 2008 Nielsen Online survey, a record-breaking 25 percent of employees in the United States are accessing porn at work, despite the risks involved.

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One day, my concerns about pornography reached a tipping point. I grabbed the box of pornographic novels I'd kept in my office closet, marched outdoors, and tossed it into a trash bin. No regrets! From then on, I felt that personally and therapeutically it was best to avoid pornography. I made a commitment to obtain and clinically recommend only sexually explicit materials that educate and inspire while honoring respectful, responsible, and caring conditions for sexual interaction.

I may have thought I was done with porn, but it wasn't done with me! In the late 1990s, people began calling my office seeking help for problems they felt had been caused by porn use. One after another, the requests came in, often several per week. Some pleas for help came from porn users themselves, worried about their own dependencies and the possible repercussions—for example, losing interest in their partner, experiencing a compulsive need for sex, and getting into risky and hurtful sexual practices. But many calls came from the intimate partners of porn users, and these callers, primarily women, were in obvious emotional distress. Engagements had been broken, weddings and plans to have children had been called off, and otherwise successful, long-term marriages were teetering on the brink of divorce.

The number of inquiries took me by surprise, so I began to ask my colleagues if they were having similar experiences. Many were, and we began to talk about how porn had changed from a side issue, which arose only occasionally in sessions with clients, to the primary reason many people were now seeking therapy.

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Always ready, willing, and reliably sexy, the porn mistress catered to the user's needs. It never got old or tired, required no emotional or sensual attention for "herself," never said no or rejected her "lover," and was always willing to explore any and all sexual acts, or even invent new ones. I was shocked one day when one man disclosed that, even though he loved his wife and experienced satisfying sex with her, when he masturbated to porn, it was "the best sex ever."

The reactions of intimate partners to what was happening was almost identical to that of clients I'd counseled whose partners had been having affairs. Women came to me shocked and traumatized when they'd learned about their partners' relationships with porn. I remember one in particular who clutched her chest as she sobbed, "His betrayal feels like a knife has been thrust in my heart." It didn't matter that her husband's "mistress" was on celluloid and pixels on a screen; he'd still betrayed her by channeling his sexual attention and energy away from her, onto someone else, and then lying about it! She felt angry, hurt, alone, powerless, and unable to compete with the perfect, airbrushed young bodies of the women featured in the videos she'd found her husband masturbating to. Her trust in and respect for him were gone, and she told me she felt as sexually abandoned, insulted, and betrayed as if he'd been with another woman. As with an affair, female partners often spoke of their partner's porn use as absolutely incompatible with their ability to stay in the relationship.

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Even with my newfound awareness about how porn could assert itself as an easy sexual outlet, I remained na•ve about one vitally important issue. I assumed that once couples could address negative repercussions and get the "real" sexual relationship back on track, the person who had the porn interest would no longer "need" or "desire" it, and could easily give it up. I couldn't have been more wrong! Some clients were able to "ditch-the-mistress," but many weren't. It became apparent that I'd underestimated the power of the new pornography. Something more insidious was going on.

A Drug

Soon after the turn of the new millennium, a new client helped me see what else was at play that made quitting porn so difficult, even for people who wanted to do so. Sam, a shy young man whom I'd been seeing for a few weeks, told me, "Doing porn feels like an incredible rush of life blowing through my veins, and the good part is, I can always go back for more." His description of his porn experience sounded eerily similar to the language used by the patients with drug and alcohol problems I'd worked with through the years. Over time, more of my clients experiencing the impact of porn in their lives began using words and phrases usually associated with hardcore drug addiction. They often referred to using porn as a "high" and a "rush." They started needing a stronger product in higher doses to get the same effect, and when they decided to quit, they frequently complained of continual cravings, preoccupations, and sensations of "withdrawal." "I tried going Ôcold turkey' with porn," one man told me, "but the urges were stronger than when I quit cigarettes and cocaine."