Comments on: Amsterdamned

By: Kyriakos Sorokkou

Kyriakos Sorokkou — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 22:25:48 +0000

I found the reasons that landed the Celtic Shaman in prison a bit exaggerated (from the authorities’s side not the author’s). Why? Because I’m Cypriot. In Cyprus you are never going to land in prison for speaking inside a Moneylender Temple in a threatening manner, or for shoplifting, or hanging off the 7th wall of a building (not many 7th wall buildings here in the Isle of Saints). No, you are going to get fined a large amount of money and/or a week in a cell but nothing more, and of course not 90-1 days in prison, unless you steal someone else’s castrated goat, you end up with 5 years in prison. Didn’t happen in this century or the previous. (Penal Code chapter 154, article 265)

Summer of 2005; My last few days of freedom before enrolling for the army.
August 2005, same year, same season; the Celtic Shaman’s last days of freedom in Holland.
A prison guard from Surinam […] shouted at me to get back into Noord Block. It was just like being back at school! Can’t agree more!
Having not been in a physical prison before, apart from school many years previously. Another attack on the schooling system. I can’t agree more (again) because I experienced the school type of prison, and the army type of prison, not the actual one, but combining army and school I get the gist (a part of it).
So now I know that I have been in prison three times,
1)School 2)Work 3) Prison one more attack on the prison we all live, school, work, retirement, death, and of course for some the actual prison which is a combination of school, work, retirement home, and death, all blended in one infernal paste.

Wow! This review has no beginning or end, it’s chaotic, it’s mental; oh ; here I used a word people use when they want to describe something crazy, something insane, many times they use these terms for people. They put different types of labels on them because they have mental health problems, well, if they had “physical” health problems they are just ill ‘normal’ people, but unfortunately they suffer from bipolar disorder, manic depression, Borderline Personality Disorder, are not ‘normal’ people we have to lock them up, they’re dangerous. How about the politicians, the bankers, the lawyers and the authorities that govern us, are they normal people because they’re out of prison or mental institutions? Apparently not but they don’t have the labels so they’re fine.
God was trying to tell Dafydd something, Dafydd is telling us something, his story. Read it. Now! 4 stars

By: Martine Yates

Martine Yates — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:53:27 +0000

Amsterdamned pulls no punches. The emotions leap out from the pages as we follow the graphic journey of the Celtic shaman as he descends into his own personal Hades. All his pain, confusion and distorted view of the world is described with no holds barred, allowing the reader a glimpse of the inner workings of a disturbed mind. A good read.

By: GM Reynolds

GM Reynolds — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:05:38 +0000

This is a must-read for all who want to begin to understand – and even empathise with – those struggling with Bi-Polar Disorder. It chronicles – and imparts not only the horrors of, but also the utter loneliness of – a very public and severe mental meltdown, peppered occasionally with random acts of small human kindnesses. Prison brings with it – and David Williams documents in his unique style of writing – a degree of external calmness whilst still falling apart within; and the painful, painful struggle to survive, regain balance and grow. He implicitly asks that question so many of us are asking in this postmodern, mad world: what is insanity? Is it really anything other than a rational response to an irrational culture? My only sadness is that it isn’t yet a paperback that I can lend to friends (in which case it would have got 5 stars!)