The mapping of the assemblage point is relatively recent. In the late 1980s, Dr. Whale was quickly healed of his debilitating chronic fatigue syndrome through having his assemblage point shifted at a workshop conducted by Harley “Swiftdeer” Reagan, a native American shaman and one-time apprentice to Don Juan’s friend Don Genaro. Swiftdeer then asked Dr. Whale to document the quantum physics of the assemblage point and to apply its principles to the shamanic technique.

In more scientific terms, British engineer Dr. Jon Whale describes the assemblage point as the vortex of our body’s vibrational energy that is located slightly off center in our body at the level of the heart chakra. It is not the heart chakra, though it is near the heart chakra. It is thought that energy enters the body through the assemblage point, whereas at the chakras, energy leaves the body.

I became an avid follower of the anthropologist Carlos Castaneda and the German high court judge Daniel Paul Schreber after stumbling upon the concept of the assemblage point while researching light and color therapy early in the new year, 2006.

I was reviewing some of the journal posts and not surprised at what parents and individuals are finding themselves up against within institutional care as well as psychiatric care. I myself was diagnosed with schizophrenia before I had even talked to a doctor. The diagnosis came just based on what they had been told by the people around me. I have been told that I will never be able to live off of certain pychotic drugs and to not have very many aspirations.

After starting mega-vitamin therapy in mid 2007 and finally abandoning psychotropics in April 2009, my brain functioning and thinking has become steadily clearer, making my susceptibility to emotional over-reacting with the concimitant distortions of judgement and reason, increasingly less disruptive and more and more easily reasoned away. If feelings and emotions are built on opinions and if those opinions are more easily brought in line with reason and logic, then unhelpful emotional reactions will fade away, and they are.

Chris is out of the psychiatric hospital after three months and 10 days. This time around it was a different experience than when he was last hospitalized in the same institution for three months in the summer of 2004.This time around I had warm fuzzies for the psychiatrist and staff. The atmosphere felt "homey". Chris and his fellow inmates appeared much more functional to me than was the case before. We were moving up the food chain.

Unlike most psychiatrists who will judge you insane just by looking at you, Dr. Gregory House is perhaps too willing to run tests on his patients. Overlooking the fact that he is the fictional MD star of the eponymously named hit television series, I don't want House anywhere near my son. Dr. House will run a battery of invasive tests, drill into your skull and perhaps harvest your spleen before he finally figures out what your real problem is. No thank you! There are better, less invasive ways of getting a snapshot of your underlying health problems.

When people first fall into the rabbit hole of schizophrenia, the logical question to ask is "what causes schizophrenia?" A psychiatrist's standard answer to this question is that "nobody knows" what causes it and then, rather inexplicably will hasten to add "but there are good treatments available to manage it". Technically, the psychiatrist is correct, at least as far as the cause goes, because no medical explanation has yet evolved to apply in a general sense to all of its victims.As a parent, I want to know what causes my child's schizophrenia.