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Eric Durchholz

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in Louisville, Kentucky, The United States

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Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Paranormal

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Born as Patrick John Coleman in Louisville , Kentucky, the boy was adopted by the Durchholz family in Hopkinsville, Kentucky and raised on a farm very close to where Edgar Cayce was born and raised.

As a child he spoke often of his playmates that his parents deemed imaginary but Durchholz claims were spirits that haunted the family farm. When the farm succumbed to the financial pressures of a drought coupled with the shenanigans of an entity named Oxopoy, Durchholz was told to never speak of the haunting again.

The entity continued to take an interest in the boy and followed the family to Indiana where they had relocated in a small town Mount Vernon near the site of two failed Utopian experiments. The village of New Harmony would feature pr Born as Patrick John Coleman in Louisville , Kentucky, the boy was adopted by the Durchholz family in Hopkinsville, Kentucky and raised on a farm very close to where Edgar Cayce was born and raised.

As a child he spoke often of his playmates that his parents deemed imaginary but Durchholz claims were spirits that haunted the family farm. When the farm succumbed to the financial pressures of a drought coupled with the shenanigans of an entity named Oxopoy, Durchholz was told to never speak of the haunting again.

The entity continued to take an interest in the boy and followed the family to Indiana where they had relocated in a small town Mount Vernon near the site of two failed Utopian experiments. The village of New Harmony would feature prominently in his first novel The Promise Of Eden, and he would attempt to tell the story of his birth and childhood through fiction.

After the publication of that novel, Durchholz claims he was besieged by entities eager to have him tell their tales and he fled with his boyfriend at the time to Cleveland, Tennessee. He quickly wrote and published iNVERSION to quiet some of the more powerful and antagonzing spirits. Oxopoy returned to his life and encouraged Durchholz to go to Savannah, Georgia, one of America's most haunted places. He lived for a time near Tybee Island and his writing from that time remains unpublished.

He returned to Tennessee in time to receive news that his birthmother wished to communicate with him. A phone call reunion with her gave him alarming information about his birth and his father that spurred him to move back to Nashville to work on HEARTLESS which was to be his final work before plans to commit suicide.

Unable to go through with it, he published the book without an ending. He was visited by Oxopoy yet again and encouraged to finish the book in order to be reunited with a version of himself from an alternate reality. That Patrick John Coleman had become a powerful psychic and the true nature of who Oxopoy was would be revealed very soon.

Back in Nashville, Durchholz began channeling a "personality" that he assumed to be a creation of his own mind. A character named "Beau Ratliffe" that he played for comedy in a series of web videos, which he would later use to explain how ghosts and alternate realities really work.

After losing everything in the 2010 flood, Durchholz returned to Mount Vernon and was stripped off all resources including his car, his eyesight and death was not far away. The consciousness of Patrick made frequent visits to Durchholz and together they hatched a plan for his escape that would ultimately deliver him to Chicago. And during an "experience" in the Spring of 2013, all was revealed. The truth behind who Oxopoy was, who Beau really was and how Durchholz was to be a vessel for the different versions of himself that had existed in the past and in the future. ...more

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Freaks, Frequencies, and Hand Signs: A Schizo Manifesto
One of the more hideous accusations thrown my way lately is that I am schizophrenic. It’s hideous because I am not even close to having schizophrenia, I am saddened by how little people know about this devastating affliction. And while I am angered by those who throw diagnoses around and label people without ever really knowing the hell that t Read more of this blog post »

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	The Promise Of Eden by Eric Durchholz (Goodreads Author), Barry Heard (Editor), Chris Galehouse (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Things Go: How I Became A Shaman by Eric Durchholz (Goodreads Author), Patrick Coleman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	INVERSION it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HEARTLESS it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freaks, Frequencies, and Hand Signs: A Schizo Manifesto it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flip Witch: A Practical Guide For Travelling Between Alternate Universes it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

tags: comprehension, dark-age, dissociated, dissociation, human-mind, science

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“Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.”
― Clive Barker

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“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”
― Pema Chodron

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“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War