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Overcoming Evil; An Interview with Abraham Maslow, Founder of Humanistic Psychology PT: If
a rare, self-actualizing young psychologist came to you today and said,
"What's the most important thing I can do in this time of crisis?",
what advice would you give? Be
Your Own Therapist Emotionally healthy adults, with respect to anger, are comfortable with anger and hatred, their own and others. Read more: Thayer White The Roots Of Violence & The Body Never Lies Q:
In 'The Drama' you connect repressed feeling with loss of vitality. Was
that your experience here? An equally natural response is the despair of individuals about their damaged lives, a despair that some trauma therapies attempt to alleviate with the aid of "positive thinking". But it is precisely these strong "negative" emotions that enable us to recognize how we must have felt when we were ignored or treated cruelly by our parents. We absolutely need this recognition to eventually overcome the painful effects of the traumas… Read more: The Body Never Lies & Alice Miller The
Mass Poisoning Of Humanity The
mass poisoning of humanity: an exploration of human stupidity As human
beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves.
As part of modern living, we create a wide variety of chemical toxins
that go into the ecosystem through rivers and streams, the air, the soil
and so on. Not only that, we actually synthesize toxic chemicals and
then inject them directly into the food supply -- knowing full well that
they are poisonous and are major contributors to the epidemic rates of
chronic disease we are experiencing today. Medicinal
Plant Actions Cannot Be Reduced Other considerations may be at issue in an industry whose traditional consumer base has been among the most ecologically sensitive. While that is changing, it nevertheless remains ethically responsible to inform the public of the use of highly toxic and environmentally polluting compounds used in the preparation of certain herbal extracts. What primarily began as a need for standardized herbal extracts for use in clinical trials, does not necessarily translate into these same extracts as being the best for normal usage. We might want to be a little more cautious in our effort to modernize herbs through the exclusive adoption of standardized extracts. For thousands of years herbalists have been using and prescribing herbs both singly as well as in complex formulas usually in the form of tea. Considering that we know little not only of the complex chemical compounds of plants themselves, but even less of their synergistic relationship to each other and how that may effect therapeutic activity, there is really no intrinsic need to abandon the use of other traditional formulations. Pharmapact Read more: Dr. Anthony Rees Ethical And Spiritual Issues In Genetic Engineering The Chinese are now putting human genes into tomatoes and peppers to make them grow faster. You can now be a vegetarian and a cannibal at the same time! In Canada geneticists are putting human genes into fish to make them grow faster. And several companies are racing to place human genes into pigs in order to genetically match them to human individuals; that means that you can have your own organ donor pig, an animal whose organs will not be rejected by your body. Oct. 1998 Read more: Ron Epstein See also: Genetic Engineering And Its Dangers There is overwhelming evidence on this website that we have an Allopathic medical monopoly that has suppressed numerous non-Allopathic cancer therapies for over 100 years, along with the causes and cures for most other diseases, while covering up the ineffectiveness and danger of vaccination (you will be able to see that they can only get away with doing that by creating ignorance---why they hate the internet). This is medical Fascism or Tyranny. Read more: Whale If you look at anything physical, you find out that at the quantum level, it is non-physical. The body is made up of atoms and subatomic particles that are moving at lightning speed around huge empty spaces and the body gives off fluctuations of energy and information in a huge void, so essentially your body is proportionately as void as intergalactic space, made out of nothing, but the nothing is actually the source of information and energy. If you'd approach that level, then you would realize that the body is a print out and by changing the software, by influencing the programming, and by getting in touch with the program, you can create a new body anytime you want. Read more: Veronica M. Ha To cope with the onslaught of traumata and the barbaric hours, most doctors learn to react automatically to situations which, in turns, leads them to treat patients as if they were no more than components of a machine. It is this sense of alienation and lack of caring - and not, as Dr Jarvis postulated, Chopra's theories - that is driving patients away from allopathic medicine. The increased demand for attention-rich therapies indicates that a “sense of specialness, of being charmed, of being the exception, of being eternally protected” is a necessity and not the luxury Western medical traditionalists had presupposed. Read more: Antonella Gambotto-Burke Leon
Chaitov Complementary / Alternative Medicine tries, at its best, to deal with the person and not the illness and has an objective of enhancing the body’s self-regulating (homeostatic) mechanisms and systems, offering a potential for improvement and recovery, rather than imposing solutions. Another way of seeing the difference is to suggest that Complementary / Alternative Medicine is health oriented rather than disease focused. In this way Complementary / Alternative Medicine might supply nutritional support, introduce detoxification methods, deal with symptoms in a gentle manner, perhaps utilizing herbal or hydrotherapy, or bodywork methods – all of which have few if any side effects; employ stress reducing methods and systems which encourage immune function and reduce adaptive demands, and in a variety of ways attempt to empower the person who is ill by helping them to understand why they are ill, what can be done to encourage a return to health, or better functioning, or symptom control. At times this undoubtedly also calls for orthodox, allopathic methods of care, and it is the combination of the best of complementary and alternative medicine with the best of mainstream interventions which offers the greatest hope, I believe. We first need to see what has developed into the AIDS epidemic in the context of a universally compromised immune system. Everyone on the planet is now contaminated with dioxin, DDT, petrocarbons, pesticides, fungicides and heavy metals – among other things. We carry a huge toxic load from day 1 of our lives, and this severely compromises immune function and may be a factor in the exponential rise in allergic conditions in kids today – asthma and so on. Within that context of global immune suppression we should also see a picture of specific groups who have even more compromised immune functions. Controversially, a particular concern I have is over the assault on under-developed immune systems which we call immunization – in which cocktails of killed and partially killed, and sometimes live microorganisms, are pushed into the bodies of infants. This process may be playing a part in the further decline in immune defense capabilities and may have been partially causal in the decline in the immune system’s ability to maintain vigilance against other, newer hazards, in which because of gene modification, the mutation of microorganisms – monsters we had not dreamed of have entered the picture. I have dealt with the possible link between immunization and AIDS in my book Vaccination and Immunization – dangers, delusions and alternatives which C.W. Daniels had the courage to publish a few years back when other publishers were afraid to do so. In this I also show how contaminated polio vaccine in the late 1950s and early 1960s could have factored into the puzzle of the onset of AIDS. Read more: Rafael Ramos & Huw Christie Schizophrenia, A Nonexistent Disease The word "schizophrenia" has a scientific sound that seems to give it inherent credibility and a charisma that seems to dazzle people. In his book Molecules of the Mind - The Brave New Science of Molecular Psychology, University of Maryland journalism professor Jon Franklin calls schizophrenia and depression "the two classic forms of mental illness" (Dell Publishing Co., 1987, p. 119). According to the cover article in the July 6, 1992 Time magazine, schizophrenia is the "most devilish of mental illnesses" (p. 53). This Time magazine article says "fully a quarter of the nation's hospital beds are occupied by schizophrenia patients" (p. 55). Books and articles like these and the facts to which they refer (such as a quarter of hospital beds being occupied by so-called schizophrenics) delude most people into believing there really is a disease called schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is one of the great myths of our time. Read more: Lawrence Stevens & The Antipsychiatry Coalition Lees meer: Article in Dutch & De Antipsychiatrie Coalitie Dr. Thomas Szasz On Psychiatry Short Video Exposing Psychiatry as a Pseudo-Science An Interview With Thomas Szasz, Md The discovery that all mental diseases are brain diseases would mean the disappearance of psychiatry into neurology. But that would mean that a condition would be a "mental disease" only if it could be demonstrated, by objective tests, that a person has got it, or has not got it. You can prove — objectively, not by making a "clinical diagnosis" — that X has neurosyphilis or does not have it; but you cannot prove, objectively, that X has or does not have schizophrenia or "clinical depression" or post traumatic stress disorder. Like most nouns and verbs, the word "disease" will always be used both literally and metaphorically. As long as psychiatrists are unwilling to fix the literal meaning of mental illness to an objective standard, there will remain no way of distinguishing between literal and metaphorical "mental diseases". Psychiatrists have had some very famous diseases for which they have never apologized, the two most obvious ones being masturbation and homosexuality. Read more: Thomas Szasz Dr.
Bruce Levine Alex Jones welcomes to the show Bruce Levine, a clinical psychologist in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Levine is the author of Surviving America's Depression Epidemic and Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy. Levine provides a compelling alternative approach to treating depression that makes lasting change more likely than with symptom-based treatment through medication. Dr. Levine has been a regular contributor to AlterNet, Z Magazine, and The Huffington Post and his articles and interviews have been published in Adbusters, The Ecologist, High Times and numerous other magazines. He is an editorial advisor for the Icarus Project/Freedom Center Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs and on the editorial advisory board of the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. Dr. Bruce Levine See: Interview on Alex Jones Tv Show part 1/5 Stanley Keleman, Depression and Panic Depression is an identity. It is a way of being in the world. We're talking about depression as a way of using yourself that results in a pattern of behaviour that you, in one way or another, live with or struggle to live with. It becomes a lifestyle. That's the attitude of people who have the philosophy: "I'm a skeptic" or "I'm a cynic", who are really hiding a depressive attitude toward life. It is a holding back and taking smaller portions. Read more: Terrence McClure I know that modern germ theory has conditioned most of us to think of pathogens or disease agents as very tiny things - viruses, bacteria, spirochetes, "germs", etc. But the stress and damage pathogens can cause to living bodies bear no relation to their size. And, as with our 4-meter tapeworms, the disease organism may in some respects actually be larger than the victim. Much larger, in fact, if you will admit that the Church's murder of millions during her Inquisitions or the Nazi Party's Holocaust were serious impairments of their victims' normal states and vital functions. Similarly,
many modern assaults on the planet's ecology may be seen as issuing not
simply from the acts of evil individuals, but rather from the malignant
growth, agendas and activities of our great corporate bodies… The American social scientist John McKnight, who has been studying the effect of professional helpers on society for more than 40 years, is a modern Lin Chi. “Every time we call in an expert, we lose a piece of ourselves. As a result, the social workers have eroded the very soul of community,” he writes in The Careless Society. “The enemy is not poverty, sickness and disease, but a set of interests that need dependency, masked by service. Read more: Tijn Touber, November 2007 Ode. Lees meer: Article in Dutch My continuous search in yoga was partially instigated by one Sutra of Patanjali: "The posture is stable and pleasant." It intrigued me tremendously, since what I felt was everything except stable and pleasant. I had to search for a long time, but it was worth the while. Teresa Caldas About Vijnana Yoga; Practicing, Feeling, Understanding - From Inside For years now, many of us have attempted to deal creatively with the question: “What kind of yoga do you do?” Yoga is yoga, period. This is the reason that for many years we have been careful to avoid attaching a title or term other than yoga. Yet the need for a name and clear definition was genuine. I am a student of Dona Holleman and of Mr. Iyengar, but over the years my students and I have gone through a long and significant process wherein our practice has taken on a form clearly different from what is today termed ‘Iyengar Yoga’. There are three fundamental elements that I feel it necessary to point out so as to clearly define the path of our practice. Read more: Orit Sen-Gupta Aggression, as the Yoga masters see it, is a product of ignorance (avidyâ), which obscures our capacity for self-observation, or witnessing. With a few rare exceptions, we all are born ignorant of this inner observer, which seems to be the price of embodiment in a human form. Psychologically speaking, however, we are not born as blank slates. Rather, we come into the world with a package of mental dispositions similar to our unique DNA at the somatic level. Socialization and education merely modify this initial set. According to Yoga, we are the product of volitional activity in a previous life. ‘Yoga seeks to augment the observer in us, so that we can become disentangled from automatic internal and external behaviour. The problem with automatic behaviour is that it typically revolves around the axis of ignorance of our deeper (or higher) nature. This means that such behaviour is an expression of the ego (ahamkâra), which is a mistaken identity, an artificial construct by which we identify with the observed rather than the observer. Our focus is not on "I," "me," and "mine" but quite naturally on the welfare of all beings. Abraham Maslow spoke of these as "Being values," which he understood as by-products of what he called "self-actualization." In an interview published in the Philadelphia Inquirer (November 19, 2002), Wendy Doniger, a well-known professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, called the Gîtâ "a dishonest book," which justifies war. In his famous Essays on the Gita, sage-philosopher- yogin Aurobindo Ghose conversely argued that until we are capable of transforming adverse situations by more subtle means (what he calls "soul-force"), we must take appropriate physical actions, including war. Otherwise, our "neutrality" merely aids the dark, destructive forces in the world. Krishna was not a war-monger, as some critics have suggested. Neither was he an unrealistic pacifist. He would happily have chosen peace over war, but the karmic conditions of the world were not in favour of a peaceful resolution. From our present-day vantage point it would appear that humanity is always on the verge of war somewhere on this planet. The question we must ask ourselves is whether any of these wars are motivated by the same ideals that were at risk during Krishna's days or whether they are merely artifacts of ignorance, delusion, greed, and hatred on the sides of both parties. If the latter, we must not expect any good to result from them—all political persuasion notwithstanding. Violence in these cases will indeed only beget more violence and destruction. Original © 2003 Read more: Georg Feuerstein I think Osho´s words need to be taken not as a comprehensive philosophy, but rather as a seductive invitation to self-explore and understand the nature of mind, body, emotions, and the role of meditation in this search. My understanding is that Osho´s work was mainly deprogramming people against their self constructed ideas about love, spirituality, growth, relationships, etc. My research shows that Osho was no " Deepak Chopra". The man was a rebellious iconoclast who did and said what he thought was his truth. He demolished the catholic church, The Islam and any form of organized religion; he spoke against mother Theresa, Gandhi (precisely for being against technology, which Osho strongly advocated). Osho, was a man who saw no use for rituals, discipline and all the self-torture that is going on in the name of renunciation or spirituality. The development of self-awareness was his flag. He thought of the meeting of east and west, of materialism and spirituality. "Zorba the Buddha", he called his "new man". And certainly he did not live the life of an ascetic. But beyond all, he helped his disciples and friends to be independent and rebellious individuals. Read more: Anthony Thompson Intuition
Network The Emerging New Culture with Fritjof Capra, Ph.D. 'Intuition and Society'. Whatever we call a part is a pattern in an ongoing process. So it's something that is relatively stable. Like in a Rorschach test, or clouds maybe is a better example, you will look at clouds and you will see, well, there's a chicken up there, or there's an airplane. It's because a cloud formation is relatively stable. But five minutes later it's gone, it changes. Now, with particles the patterns change much faster, but whatever you call an object or a particle or an atom or a molecule, anything like this, are patterns in an ongoing process. MISHLOVE:
So if someone were to ask you, "What is the fundamental building
block of the universe?" like we used to have atoms, now we don't
have any thing. The old system shows us such a spectacular failure that the experts in various fields don't understand their fields of expertise any longer. Researchers, for instance investigating cancer, don't have a clue, in spite of spending millions of dollars, of the origins of cancer. The police are powerless in face of a rising wave of crime. The politicians or economists don't know how to manage the economic problems. The doctors and hospitals don't know how to manage the health problems and health costs. So everywhere it's the very people who are supposed to be the experts in their fields who don't have answers any longer, and they don't have answers because they have a narrow view. They don't see the whole problem. It's the respect for life, the awe of life, the honouring of life, that has to inform our politics, our science, our technology, and our society. Read more: Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove Professor Amstutz of the Mineralogical Institute at the University of Heidelberg recently said: 'Matter's latticed waves are spaced at intervals corresponding to the frets on a harp or guitar with analogous sequences of overtones arising from each fundamental. The science of musical harmony is in these terms practically identical with the science of symmetry in crystals.' Read more: Robert Lawlor Does Beauty Play A Role In Evolution? One aspect of facial beauty (also of body beauty overall) is symmetry. There is some evidence to suggest that symmetry of body indicates the level of health of the individual. Read more: Singapore Art Blogger As we used to know, beauty is so much more. The Real Truth About Beauty study on women, beauty and well-being is a landmark, a revolutionary step forward in reclaiming beauty and reexamining it with a 21st century point of view. It realizes that beauty is never going away and that it has enormous power. It knows that beauty should not be reduced to a political or cultural problem but understood as a basic human pleasure. The overwhelming majority of women (despite the popularity of Extreme Makeover™) do not wish to expose themselves to the surgeon’s scalpel. But neither do they wish to be excluded because they fail to find their beauty reflected in the images which bombard them, on average, in 2000 advertisements per week. “Beauty” is not only a word that women are very unlikely to choose to describe their looks; it is also one which many actually feel “uncomfortable” using to describe themselves. This level of “discomfort” illustrates the degree to which women have become distanced from today’s idea of female beauty.The study demonstrates that authentic beauty is a concept lodged in women’s hearts and minds and seldom articulated in popular culture or affirmed in the mass media. As such, it remains unrealized and unclaimed. This idea of beauty appears to have been replaced by a narrower definition that is largely located in limited ideals of physical appearance. It appears that the word “beauty” has – in many ways – become functionally defined as “physical attractiveness.” This definition of beauty is powerfully communicated through the mass media and has been assimilated through popular culture. It is this ideal that many women measure themselves against and aspire to attain. However, because this ideal is extremely difficult to achieve, women find it difficult to think of themselves as beautiful. This can contribute to unhappiness and low self-esteem and self-worth – especially among those women (often younger) who are more likely to take their cues from popular culture. Read more: Dr. Nancy Etcoff Women have been taught to pursue actively the fictional face and body, to deny aging or hide it or themselves away. It has been called the Unattainable Venus. And it seems that Hollywood, and Bollywood as well, hold our this unattainable venus as something we should all strive for. Read more: Dr. Susan McDaniel These and other contemporary studies confirm that beauty is central to human experience in spite of its neglect in the discourse of the last century. The genuine vitality of beauty is bound to intrigue the reflective mind and inspire further investigations of its nature. Read more: Ruth Lorand Interview with Simon Vinkenoog Er was de van huis uit meegekregen angst voor armoede, geldgebrek, uitzicht, toekomst - gekerkerd tussen de grootmachten van de koude oorlog, treurige generatie goed-fout-denkers. Uit provinciaal NL gevlucht; levend en spannend Parijs. Aanpassen, plooibaar, flexibel blijven. Slagen ondergaan, van leren. Niet in termen van opoffering denken, maar in dankbaarheid: dat je het allemaal mag meemaken. Lees meer: Simon Vinkenoog Bob Dylan, Not Like a Rolling Stone All that exists is spirit, before, now and forever more. The messianic thing has to do with this world, the flesh world, and you got to pass through this to get to that. The messianic thing has to do with the world of mankind, like it is. This world is scheduled to go for 7,000 years. Six thousand years of this, where man has his way, and 1,000 years when God has His way. Just like a week. Six days work, one day rest. The last thousand years is called the Messianic Age. Messiah will rule. He is, was, and will be about God, doing God's business. Drought, famine, war, murder, theft, earthquake, and all other evil things will be no more. No more disease. That's all of this world. What's gonna happen is this: you know when things change, people usually know, like in a revolution, people know before it happens who's coming in and who's going out. All the Somozas and Batistas will be on their way out, grabbing their stuff and whatever, but you can forget about them. They won't be going anywhere. It's the people who live under tyranny and oppression, the plain, simple people, that count, like the multitude of sheep. They'll see that God is coming. Somebody representing Him will be on the scene. Not some crackpot lawyer or politician with the mark of the beast, but somebody who makes them feel holy. People don't know how to feel holy. They don't know what it's about or what's right. They don't know what God wants of them. They'll want to know what to do and how to act. Just like you want to know how to please any ruler. They don't teach that stuff like they do math, medicine, and carpentry, but now there will be a tremendous calling for it. There will be a run on godliness, just like now there's a run on refrigerators, headphones, and fishing gear. It's going to be a matter of survival. People are going to be running to find out about God, and who are they going to run to? They're gonna run to the Jews, 'cause the Jews wrote the book, and you know what? The Jews ain't gonna know. They're too busy in the fur business and in the pawnshops and in sending their kids to some atheist school. They're too busy doing all that stuff to know. People who believe in the coming of the Messiah live their lives right now as if he was here. That's my idea of it, anyway. I know people are going to say to themselves, "What the fuck is this guy talking about?" But it's all there in black and white, the written and unwritten word. I don't have to defend this. The scriptures back me up. I didn't ask to know this stuff. It just came to me at different times from experiences throughout my life. Other than that, I'm just a rock 'n' roller, folk poet, gospel-blues-protestest guitar player. Did I say that right? Bob Dylan December 1985 Read more: Scott Cohen
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