A little information about Donald Carter
Donald Carter, a writer with
schizophrenia, has shared a variety of interesting ideas and insights through
his writing. His books explore profound subjects such as death, God,
immortality, and the meaning of life. Carter's writing is known for its clarity
and uncommon perspective, often blending elements of erotica, comedy, spiritual
insight, philosophy, and divine communication. His blog and audiobooks offer a
unique perspective, and his books are available for reading or listening on
platforms like Apple, Amazon, and Audible.
Controversy surrounding Donald
Carter's writing
Philosophers' reactions to Donald
Carter's books, which feature God speaking to a schizophrenic narrator, have
been mixed and reflect both intrigue and skepticism about the intersection of
mental illness and metaphysical experience. Carter's writing, rooted in his
lived experience of schizophrenia, challenges conventional boundaries between
psychosis and religious or mystical revelation, prompting philosophical
reflection on the nature of consciousness and the legitimacy of auditory
hallucinations as vehicles for meaning.
Philosophical Reflections
* Some philosophers have shown
interest in Carter's blending of schizophrenia with themes of divine
communication, analyzing whether such literary portrayals provide meaningful
insight or merely reinforce mystical tropes about mental illness.
* Philosophical debates often
return to classic issues in the philosophy of psychiatry, such as the limits of
explanation---whether voices and "messages from God" reported by
people with schizophrenia should be interpreted as pathological, symbolic, or
even spiritually significant.
* Discussions inspired by
Carter's work reference thinkers like R.D. Laing and Michel Foucault, who
argued that literature can "let madness speak" and that creative
accounts sometimes offer healing by avoiding strict definitions of illness.
Controversial Reactions
* Skeptics among philosophers
raise concerns about the risk of conflating delusional experiences with
spiritual truths, suggesting that Carter's narratives blur epistemological boundaries
and invite confusion between subjective experience and objective reality.
* Conversely, some see Carter's
vivid depiction of inner voices and spiritual insight as a challenge to overly
reductive psychiatric models, emphasizing the need to respect the lived
experience of those with schizophrenia when addressing questions of meaning and
transcendence.
Carter's books have sparked
ongoing philosophical discussion about the nature of mental illness, the
possible intersection with mystical experience, and how literature can reflect
or critique both psychiatric and spiritual paradigms.
Reviews of Donald Carter's
controversial writing:
Critics have praised Carter's
writing for its clarity, depth, and thought-provoking themes, but others
question the credibility of his work due to his schizophrenia diagnosis.
Shocking content:
Some readers might find carter's
writing shocking due to its:
Explicit content:
Books like "Lust Lust Lust
Montreal to Paris" may contain mature themes or explicit material.
Unorthodox views:
Carter's perspectives on God,
spirituality, and morality might challenge traditional beliefs or expectations.
Personal experiences:
His honest portrayal of living
with schizophrenia can be both insightful and uncomfortable for some
readers.
Ultimately, whether Donald
Carter's writing shocks people in a bad way depends on individual tastes and
preferences. If you're interested in exploring his work, it's essential to
approach his writing with an open mind and an understanding of his unique
perspective.
First Rant
You might not believe me, or
rationalize that mental illness is effecting my thinking, but I talk to Jesus
every day, and I've also talked directly with God. I realize from these
conversations that God's plan for our lives is ingenuously good in ways our
reasoning, sense of fairness, and highest aspirations are not wise or fair
enough to understand.
What God revealed to me is that
he has no intension of punishing us eternally for our errors and imperfect
beliefs. What I now believe are imperfect ideas were introduced into the Bible
born out of the deliberative thought of men from an ancient society and
culture. These imperfect teachings were introduced together with very good
ideas that have survived up until the present age. This imperfect ancient
manuscript is full of magical thinking that demands of us belief in order to
have eternal life with God.
Many of these ancient scripture
verses, claiming to represent God, speak cruelly of a dreadful future
destination of hell for most human beings alive and dead. The Bible says
indifferently that only a few people, out of the hundreds of billions of people
that pass through this world, will follow a narrow road to life, while the rest
of humanity, supposedly, will follow a wide road to destruction.
After listening to these serious
words for years I eventually decided I had to make a difficult decision. I
could no longer trust these ancient claims. I find the teachings to be too
cruel and compassionless. I have God's friendship, and I refuse to believe
these words were inspired by him. In fact, the more I examine the words the
more the teaching seems like a manipulative strategy of fearmongering meant to deceive
gullible minds into conformity of a belief. The fear produced from these words,
supposedly inspired by God, bullies, frightens, and terrorizes our imperfect
minds. Our struggle to try and understand the truth, in this uncertain place,
involves because of these doctrines, a struggle of understanding, often unfair,
that has us interacting unreasonably with these far-fetched ancient claims. The
arguments the ideas appear in ask from us our belief, or else, the thought
warns, we’ll face the consequences of Hell, and naturally the only path that
looks good to us then involves the bending of our minds into absolute
surrender to every word found in this ancient book.
Also found in the Bible are moral
teachings, that if followed, lead to an eternal afterlife with God. Yet in
modern times now there are different interpretations of what morality is by
rational minded people.
I no longer believe that all of
the Bible is God breathed but unlike atheists I do believe in parts of the
Bible God's voice speaks.
In my opinion, contrary to this
ancient dogma, God loves all people in this world unconditionally. I know he
will be fair with us regardless of the error in our beliefs, and regardless of
our moral understanding. Every confusing step we take down life's mysteries
road God will always love us and will always be fair with us.
When the human imagination sees
God as an arbitrary judge in the sky this perspective is in error. The ancient
doctrine that demands of us we think our way right in order to receive a get
out of jail free card I now believe also to be a cruel strategy used by ancient
thinkers to gain religious converts. The strategy, that uses God's name, is irrational
and manipulative. The expectation from organized religion is that we bend our
thoughts into distorted alignment to accept all Bible mythology as literal
history. They teach us unfairly that only right saving ideas, right saving
thoughts, right belief, will save us from a terrible fate God has in store
for unbelievers.
After years of indoctrination, I
find this ancient thought, while knowing God's friendship, and what he's about,
to be unsettling and cruel. There is enough fear in this life already to
contend with. There is no fairness in adding additional worries and distress on
the backs of ordinary people. This is an unfair attack on the human person
everywhere people exist. This ancient rational makes God into a ruthless
tyrant masquerading as a being of love and this isn't who God is at all.
Second Rant
The reaction to my blog and seven
self-published books from critics and the online community has been mostly
favorable. Unfortunately, however some reviewers and mental health experts have
suggested that despite my writing offering interesting, articulate, and clear
writing my books should still not be taken seriously.
These reviews seem to be
concerned with the claims I make that God is communicating with me. He really has
been offering me insight that I share in my books and blog. According to them
my mind and judgment, despite what might appear otherwise, is always
compromised by delusions and hallucinations. Not all psychiatrists agree but
these professionals seem to believe that even if my writing appears rational,
objective, or insightful, when examining the human condition, I still lack the necessary
saneness and reasoning to be taken seriously.
I disagree with this reasoning
and suspect it's a strategy used to discredit the legitimacy of the source of
the unique ideas shared with me which is God.
A preacher will stand on a pulpit
and speak with authority about Sampson's long hair referring to a story in
the Bible. He will tell his congregation how Sampsons long hair, in
Bible times, gave him miraculous strength. When Sampson's hair is
chopped off by his enemies, he'll explain, his missing hair caused him the
loss of his miraculous strength.
On a different Sunday the
same preacher will describe a talking horse from Bible times. On another
day he'll describe a boy named David who slaid the giant Goliath with a
slingshot. On a different Sunday he'll describe a man named Jonah being
swallowed alive by a whale. The next week the story will recount a
great flood, a man named Noah, a mighty ark being built, and God
calling every species of animal onboard.
The preacher and his congregation
are considered sane. People say that both him and they possess commonsense. The
preacher receives honor for his position for being a person with spiritual understanding. He,
and religious teachers like him, draw hundreds of millions of
people into their churches.
The listeners to these stories
have something in common, in my opinion, and that's naivety. They might be
considered sane but their willingness to listen to far fetched
stories and trust a preacher, who has just a few years of education,
to describe reality accurately to them, I believe shows clearly, they lack commonsense.
Standing in opposition to the
beliefs religious people have of a loving God is the atheist who
believes God doesn't exist.
Both groups claim to
be anchored to the truth in their reasoning. They profess to understand
what reality is, but I don't think they understand reality very well at
all. None of us on this world has insight into infinities size, where
the sky mysteriously leads, what the purpose of conscious awareness is
for. As human beings we stumble down a winding road
searching for answers. As we move through time, we should admit realistically
that we don't understand the larger picture. If people don't understand
life's terms well how then did the critics of my writing get so wise in
their understanding.
What atheists seem to believe
with certainty is that life on earth has no preplanned purpose. No intelligent
power, they argue scientifically, is responsible for the design of earth or the
conscious and nonconscious life on the planet. They believe no intelligent forethought
is involved in lifeforms appearing on earth so no power or being is seen as being
responsible for our minds curious journey of inquiry.
Strangely however here we are
wondering down a remarkable path making all kinds of anomalous discoveries
like the curious invention of the telescope lens. Making the
discovering it seems
remarkably like the telescope lens might have been designed long ago.
Might the idea of a telescope have existed long before human beings
happened to make its
discovery. Mysteriously waiting in nature, of course for no intelligent reason,
is one discovery after another for us conscious thinkers.
After discovering the telescope,
we begin gazing curiously out at distant galaxies while continuously
asking questions about the unknowns of existence. We, for no reason,
are the conscious entities on the planet strangely questioning life's
purpose. We wonder, unusually, if life can exist elsewhere.
We ask where hope might lead and consider strangely the possibility of an
after life. We long for fairness and desire the realization of
perfect love; we ask, for naive reasons, if any of our pursuits
involve intelligent planning.
I don't think the critics of my
books, that I mentioned above, have enough expertise to fairly dismiss the
wisdom God has revealed to me. I may experience delusions
and hallucinations but when
critics dismiss the value of my thought because I live with mental illness, I
find their thinking unfair and irrational.
Third rant
In North America there are
hundreds of thousands of well-paying middle-class jobs in mental health. When
there are so many decent jobs why doesn't the mental health
community use government resources and employ people
with schizophrenia.
People living with mental
illnesses like schizophrenia should have fundamental human rights that offer
our community the right to secure financial resources like everyone else in
society can obtain. Or perhaps the mental health community lives by an
unspoken rule that says: "Mentally Ill people should be kept
down."
I present this question,
and the possible answer, because I believe society
does want to keep us
down. Maybe our success is seen as a potential threat to the lucrative middle
class incomes people filling those jobs receive. Or perhaps
the reason we're never given any economic opportunities is simply
because people hate us.
Whatever the reason why we never
get economic opportunities people living with mental illness are forced
99% of the time to live far below the poverty line. In place of
us getting dignified salaries mental health employees receive lucrative well
paying
jobs.
I have severe anxiety, so I tried
hard to create a job for myself as writer. I had hope that people would
support me and open doors for me, but I have heard from no one. I'm
very suspicious why people living with mentally illness are never given any economic
opportunities. I obviously dislike being poor, who wouldn't, and I believe
mentally ill people deserve a share of the pie. Why are we
always forced in a gutter where we're forgotten and alone. Shouldn't
the allocation of public resources in a fair society defend
the economic interests of the mentally ill as well.
I know we lost the gene lottery
while most of society won big. Us people who struggle with mental illness
don't think it's our fault we're in this world disadvantaged by
mental illness like sane people often seem to think we should. We know the
reason we're unable to navigate life's road advantageously is not
because of anything wrong we've done. We don't deserve anyone's ridicule
or unfair treatment for the courageous journey we've been through.
If your sensing some resentment
in this blog post you're right. I'm tired of
the way mentally ill people are
treated. All my old friends have abandoned me and I
don't want their cruel friendship
back. They left not because of my behavior, I'm stable, but instead
followed everyone else in societies example of how to respond to mental
illness.
I'm bitter that even though six
of my seven books are good a lot of sane people are too snobbish to purchase
them. Even after attracting tens of thousands of people to my blog
and providing links to my books on Amazon, Audible, and Apple I rarely get
sales. Yeah, I'm a little bitter about that. I'll end my rant here and turn
peaceful. Peace all thankyou for visiting this blog and listening to me
rant.
Donald Carter's contributions
*Unique, personal
perspective:
As a writer diagnosed with
paranoid schizophrenia, Carter offers a unique, first-person vantage point on
living with the illness. He uses his personal struggles to inform his stories
and characters, which reviewers and marketing copy describe as "riveting"
and "insightful".
* Extensive body of work:
Carter has published
numerous works that feature protagonists or themes related to paranoid
schizophrenia, including The Imbecile Donald Hucksworth and The Schizophrenics
Journey of Hope. He has published several books on Amazon and Audible, demonstrating
a sustained commitment to exploring this subject.
* Promoting understanding:
His writing, which is part
fiction and part nonfiction, is framed as a message of hope that also seeks to
demystify severe mental illness. By offering a window into his experiences, he
provides readers with a more personal, less predictable look at the condition
than they might get from other sources.
Donald Carter has produced
a substantial body of work that explores schizophrenia from an intimate, lived
perspective. His unique insight is valuable for increasing understanding of the
illness. For those interested in exploring Donald Carter's bibliography,
Amazon's Donald Carter Author Page has his photo and provides a comprehensive
list of his books, including his latest updates and biographical
information.
www.amazon.ca (Canada)
www.amazon.com (USA)
Clear thoughts of God ( revealed
to Donald by his friend God)
When the songbird sings in the
morning light the dawn shadows still hang over the garden shrubs. The stars in
their magnificence still hover in their endless domains. The gurgling forest
streams, the chattering squirrel, the morning dew, the blue stratosphere, the
white cumulous clouds, the whispering wind, the days of yesterday, the unknowns
of the hour, the considerations of tomorrow. Tell them I lurk behind the mighty
oaks bough; I hide in the grassy way; my voice lurks in the leaves of the
willow; I am there with the midday sun; I am old like the dead poets; I have
seen sights like the wise; My ways are mysterious like life's
questions. Look around you with wise evaluating eyes. Do you see a cheap
poorly constructed inn. Are there not clues in the complexity of what you're
part of. Have faith that what you don't know is glimpsed in the sophistication
your part of.
I am a counsellor, but I am not easily understood. I do not give out diplomas like a college professor. I don't announce exist here on these terms and explain who you are, what your part of, and everything you should know. I have given you no security blanket nor guaranteed you a painless journey. What I promise instead is mine to reveal. The path leading into my house is followed by those who grow wise.
Books written by Donald Carter
1) The Devils of Truro (recommended)
2) The Imbecile Donald Hucksworth (recommended)
3) Lust Lust Lust Montreal to Paris (presently being edited. Audiobook version highly recommended)
4) The Schizophrenic and the Mass Shooting (Not recommended)
5) Demons in the Pleasant Valley Hills (recommended)
6) A Paranoid Schizophrenics Message of Hope for the World (recommended)
7) The Schizophrenics Journey of Hope (recommended)
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