By Lida Prypchan Nothing gets more on your nerves than women who believe they’re irresistible and men who think they’re just the greatest. (A highly intelligent person) “Good afternoon ladies and gentleman, I am your new professor of Parapsychology. I have made a great study of people’s personal secrets and have reached …
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TRUE LOVE
By Lida Prypchan Wise is the man who is able to go back and begin again. The night they met – that pale, full-mooned night – they felt they had found that special something they had searched for all their lives. And, in truth it was so. Luisa’s eyes were big …
WILHELM REICH AND THE FUNCTION OF ORGASM
By Lida Prypchan One thing we can say about the life of Wilhelm Reich is that it was troubled. A photograph I have at hand reveals a man with a penetrating stare, protruding lips, deep wrinkles, and an expression of disillusion. Maybe it was because the era in which he lived lacked the …
HOW MUCH CAN YOU DO IN JUST 80 YEARS?
By Lida Prypchan Don Ernesto was turning eighty. With the philosophical bent of mind that was typical of him, he asked himself, just as he had forty years before, what conclusions he had drawn from life. Well, nothing extraordinary… he just wondered what he would do if he were born all over again. The …
THE PRINCE WHO DIED OF LOVE
By Lida Prypchan He whom passion has never touched can never comprehend it. (Dante) One should bid farewell to love when passion has died. Passion is the driving force behind attraction, nearness and mutual sharing, and without it those special looks cannot be shared. In general passionate relationships are rare, because so much …
ARE THERE ONLY HAPPY MOMENTS?
By Lida Prypchan An article about depression appeared in a fashion magazine at the end of which the author talked about “how to be happy again.” In order to regain one’s happiness, besides sticking to a good diet and avoiding the use of stimulants, he recommended “a short, brisk walk, or swimming fifty …
SEEKING A MEANING IN LIFE
By Lida Prypchan We have two images of the Middle Ages. Although these are opposing images, together they form one truth, a bold portrayal of the virtues and vices of what to us is an ancient era. It would be extremist, as well as an error, to vehemently accept only one of these images. The …
AMONG ALCOHOLICS AND PSYCHOPATHS
By Lida Prypchan “Since you do not know what tomorrow will bring, try to be happy today. Take a pitcher of wine, sit in the moonlight and drink it, reflecting that maybe tomorrow will be better.” (Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat) There are two dominant psychological types of alcoholic. There is the sensitive type, …
FRANCES – WOMAN OF PASSION
By Lida Prypchan: Frances is an excellent movie from every point of view. Directed by Graeme Clifford, it deals with the tragic life of Hollywood actress Frances Farmer, magnificently portrayed by Jessica Lange. The life of this actress, although depressing and disturbing, leaves a valuable message, for both family and society, as …
A WORLD OF AWARENESS AND MUSIC
By: Lida Prypchan Of all music, the only true music is Jazz. (Julio Cortázar) With profound admiration I dedicate this article to Taller Experimental (“Experimental Workshop”), the jazz group that inspired it. Schopenhauer said, “Music is not just something extra in the world – music is a world” and on this same subject Jorge Luis …