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This document is page 42 of a manuscript or memoir (Chapter 3: 'Transmogrifications of Energies') bearing a House Oversight stamp. The narrator reflects on a period where intense physical running (12 miles a day) and meditation led to a loss of sexual interest and emotional detachment. The text references interactions with a psychoanalyst who warned against this detachment, cites Harvard neurologist Norman Geschwind, and mentions advice from the narrator's guru, Baba Muktanada.
People (5)
| Name | Role | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Narrator | Author |
The person writing the memoir; discusses running, psychoanalysis, and meditation reducing their sexual interest.
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| Unnamed Psychoanalyst | Training Psychoanalyst |
Suggested the narrator was running away from 'critical, females issues' and becoming 'out of reach'.
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| Norman Geschwind | Harvard Professor of Neurology |
Referenced by the narrator regarding 'high energy sexual disinterest' and temporal lobe epilepsy.
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| Pope Gregory VII | Historical Figure |
Referenced regarding 11th Century celibacy reforms.
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| Baba Muktanada | Hindi Guru |
Told the narrator to reduce daily meditation time.
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Organizations (2)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Harvard University | ||
| Catholic Church |
Relationships (2)
Narrator refers to 'my training psychoanalyst'.
Narrator refers to him as 'my Hindi guru'.
Key Quotes (3)
"After several of months of running, 12 miles most days, I felt an energetically calm, self-containment and a growing loss of interest in things sexual."Source
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"My increasingly impoverished fantasy life led my training psychoanalyst to suggest that I was running away from the critical, females issues of my psychoanalysis."Source
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"Baba Muktanada, my Hindi guru, told me to reduce my daily sitting time of meditation."Source
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CHAPTER 3:
TRANSMOGRIFICATIONS OF ENERGIES
After several of months of running, 12 miles most days, I felt an energetically calm, self-containment and a growing loss of interest in things sexual. My increasingly impoverished fantasy life led my training psychoanalyst to suggest that I was running away from the critical, females issues of my psychoanalysis. He said I was becoming more out of reach as I became more socially pleasant. This was decades before Prozac, Paxil and other serotonin reuptake inhibitors were inducing similar hyposexual, withdrawn states of cordiality in millions of Americans. Recall that Norman Geschwind, the Harvard Professor of Neurology, reported similar conditions of high energy sexual disinterest and abstract metaphysical preoccupation in patients with right temporal lobe epilepsy. For reasons other than the loss of church property rights and the spread of syphilis to the clergy, it felt like I was being readied for Pope Gregory VII’s Eleventh Century celibacy reforms for abbots and clerics of the Catholic Church.
It was true that my feelings of dependence on my analyst for understanding and approval were being reduced as I ran into less emotional involvement. I was becoming a more rationally objective observer of others and myself. It wasn’t the first time that my over-ardent practice led to this warning. Baba Muktanada, my Hindi guru, told me to reduce my daily sitting time of meditation. He said my spacey
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