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Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2017 16:07:02 GMT
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Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2017 9:17:53 GMT
"Sometimes when you are a working with some trouble or when you are needing an unusual solution, only a cephalopod can give the answer or solution. The octopus is a decentralized rhizomatic intelligence, it has polyamorous sensory perception; all of its tentacles have a separate 'brain' and intelligence. Two thirds of its neurons are found in its arms, and yet in some sense it is also a unity Sometimes the gifts that we need to overcome an obstacle or fulfill a dream come from cultivating multiple, heterogenous sources and strategies. Shapeshift into a cephalopod and let each of your tentacles explore different and yet connected solutions, diverse synergetic mutually empowering relationships and multiple ways of fulfilling the dream or calling that needs to be fulfilled" - Jason Hine www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2017/11/irresistible-rise-octopus-closest-creature-intelligent-alien
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Post by Admin on Nov 17, 2017 19:22:13 GMT
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2017 13:49:22 GMT
What if we took literally everything that all the various cultures have to tell us about human potential—about spiritual growth, psychological growth, social growth—and put it all on the table? What if we attempted to find the critically essential keys to human growth, based on the sum total of human knowledge now open to us? What if we attempted, based on extensive cross-cultural study, to use all of the world’s great traditions to create a composite map, a comprehensive map, an all-inclusive or integral map that included the best elements from all of them? Welcome to the Integral Approach. integrallife.com/what-is-integral-approach/
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Post by Admin on Dec 18, 2017 11:56:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 24, 2017 9:51:18 GMT
"Although out reach and crisis services are needed, without a 24/7 front end system sanctuary like Soteria, CooperRiis, Diabasis House, the Open Dialogue or the sanctuary - folks don't have a chance to avoid having their potentially transformative psychosis being aborted with medications and a Schizophrenic diagnosis being laid on them for the rest of their lives. Loren Mosher on alternative approaches to psychosis, was agreed that all the sanctuaries like Laing's Kingsley Hall, John Weir Perry's Diabasis House, Soteria, Burch House, Windhorse, the Agnews Project. And the med free, no restraints, no diagnosis, open door Ward sanctuary; plus the Euorpean and Scandanavian Open Dialogue places- well they ALL basically do the same thing. They provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for a person to go through a psychotic process and come out the other side-'Weller than well'- as Karl Menninger famously said. By being held in the healing crucible of a caring, open hearted setting, the psyche naturally sets it's own course and heals from the early wounds that made a dramatic psychosis renewal necessary in the first place. If instead, a person is labelled as having a diseased brain and medicated into emotional numbness and submission, then the energy and power and symbolic expression of the purposive psychosis simply falls back into the unconscious. Then whenever a loss or trauma happens, the person de-compensates into an ever more amorphous emotional and fragmented daze of so-called chronic psychosis where renewal and healing is far more difficult."
- Michael Cornwall _____________________________________________
The Life conclusion, in the words of who was arguable the greatest psychiatrist & psychologist this World has seen -
“I have now, after long practical experience, come to hold the view that the psychogenic causation of the disease is more probable than the toxic [physico-chemical] causation. There are a number of mild and ephemeral but manifestly schizophrenic illnesses - quite apart from the even more common latent psychoses - which begin purely psychogenically, run an equally psychological course (aside from certain presumably toxic nuances) and can be completely cured by a purely psychotherapeutic procedure. I have seen this even in severe cases”.
- Carl Jung
Jung & Schizophrenia
Eighty-odd years ago, Jung voiced his deep concern that the powerful, often vivid, chaotic and disturbing psychology of schizophrenia, which he had so painstakingly chartered and honoured throughout the many years he treated and healed schizophrenia sufferers, had not been given the respect and serious attention it deserved. He likewise lamented the appalling lack of knowledge of the psychology of schizophrenia among those of his own profession, a situation which has changed precious little today.
Sadly, however, Jung's vast body of invaluable work has fallen for the most on hostile ground and deaf ears, ironically in psychiatric circles, largely because Jung's respect for 'the reality of the psyche' and its religious, mythic and spiritual needs, dimensions and instincts poses a threat to the materialist bias that underscores drug-based, or biologic psychiatry, but also because his personally demanding and soul-centred approach to psychiatry is radically at odds with the detached 'illusion of expertise' on which biologic psychiatry's mask of authority, presumed sanity, and stagnant wasteland of 'brain chemistry' dogma are shakily grounded.
In place of dry textbook knowledge learned by rote, Jung gives precedence to living primary experience, hence his assertion that we understand nothing psychologically unless we've experienced it. In this sense, the people who know most about schizophrenia are the sufferers themselves, followed closely by those who have 'been there' and have pulled themselves out of a psychosis and so 'know the road'. Such folk, as invaluable 'wounded healers', can therefore often guide others groping along similar roads, or pull people out of the quagmires and tricky labyrinths of psychosis.
Equal Therapeutic Dialogue
In place of the practitioner's mask of fatherly authority, Jung puts the mutual vulnerability, openness, imaginal richness, honesty and trust of the therapeutic dialogue, in which patient and therapist confront one another on equal terms and through which both stand to learn and grow. In place of forced treatment, hasty consultations and toxic psychiatric drugs, Jung puts a trust in nature, unconscious wisdom and the healing which, residing in the 'patient patient', is catalysed and midwifed by the caring therapist. No wonder he poses a threat to those who esteem power, professional detachment, diplomas, diagnostic manuals and drug company profits over the empowerment, equality, freedom, healing and dignity of the patient.
Needless to say, there are other closely related and equally grave moral issues at stake here. For instance, imagine, if you will, that a reputable medical practitioner had come forward with evidence of a safe, natural cure for cancer, but that the medical establishment had ignored the evidence and, worse still, had kept the findings from cancer sufferers for fear of losing income and power through their monopoly over the provision of existing anti-cancer 'treatments', which do not heal. By the same token, Jung - and others who have followed in his wake - cured his schizophrenic patients with psychotherapy alone. The tragedy of the 'mental health crisis' is not only, then, that so many already fragile and wounded people have been damaged and driven to suicide; what is equally tragic is that all along, there have existed natural, re-empowering, healing alternatives to psychiatric drugs; alternatives which biologic psychiatry, the Government, Schizophrenia Fellowships and drug companies have in a morally disgraceful way ignored, or deliberately kept from sufferers and the public."
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Post by Admin on Nov 30, 2018 15:49:45 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 9, 2018 10:19:35 GMT
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Post by Admin on Dec 29, 2018 9:28:35 GMT
Aldous Huxley: building a more transcendent society by Jules Evans www.eventbrite.com/e/aldous-huxley-building-a-more-transcendent-society-tickets-53908192856Description "In this talk, author Jules Evans will explore the life and work of Aldous Huxley, one of the most important influences on the contemporary psychedelic renaissance. What is the relationship between science and spirituality? Is a ‘mysticism for the masses’ possible, or is mysticism only for the spiritually adept? Are some experiences (mystical and psychedelic) more ‘true’, ‘real’ and ‘higher’ than others? How does spirituality relate to politics? Huxley insisted that humans have a ‘deep-seated urge to self-transcendence’, which can take toxic forms – alcoholism, addiction, the intoxication of nationalism and war, the mindless hedonism of Brave New World. But self-transcendence can also take healthier forms, which help humans heal, connect, and evolve their human potential. He championed what he called ‘integral education’ – an education that would work with all the levels of the human situation, from the ecological to the mystical. This vision was hugely influential on alternative education institutions like Esalen, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and Schumacher College. His whole life, he wondered what was the proper relationship between mysticism and politics. Should the mystic withdraw from politics altogether? Could a form of spiritual training be vital to global campaigns like pacifism? Could psychedelics transform society? We will consider these questions via the talk and discussions. . Jules Evans is the author of Philosophy for Life and The Art of Losing Control. He is a research fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions, at Queen Mary, University of London, and blogs at www.philosophyforlife.orgNB This event should not be confused with another talk I'm doing at The Psychedelic Society, on this topic, on January 16! This talk will take place at the Mile End road campus of Queen Mary, University of London. It's two minutes from Mile End Road station. The talk will be in the Francis Bancroft building. (number 10 on the map at the link below). It will start at 7pm prompt. www.qmul.ac.uk/summer-school/media/summer-school/accommodation/Mile-End-campus-map.pdfNo refunds"
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2019 18:50:13 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2019 17:29:59 GMT
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Post by snowstorm on Feb 8, 2019 19:35:30 GMT
On a similar note, how a majority of young people diagnosed with a serious mental illness in this study wanted to discuss religion and spirituality without prompting, even if they didn't identify particularly as religious; www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180730120344.htm
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Post by snowstorm on Feb 8, 2019 19:44:05 GMT
As a contrast, 45% of UK scientists in a survey identify as atheists, and that response is much more common in elite University Depts; www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181219115525.htmInterestingly, the biologists in the survey were less likely to have attended religious services than the physicists.
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2019 14:20:38 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 8, 2019 14:21:50 GMT
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