Category Archives: Healing

Thank You – Alanis Morisette


Thank you India Thank you terror Thank you disillusionment Thank you frailty Thank you consequence Thank you thank you silence how ’bout them transparent dangling carrots How bout getting off all these antibiotics How bout stopping eating when I’m full … Continue reading

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escaping the asylum mentality – Rufus May


In an article in Occupied Times Rufus May announces his plans to leave the NHS [National Health Service] in  UK where he attempted, for  eighteen years working as a clinical psychologist to bring change to services from the inside – … Continue reading

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what we observe…


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the laughing heart – Charles Bukowski


your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. . . . . The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank … Continue reading

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knowledge and power and lifecrap – Michel Foucault


Michel Foucault rocked the world with his ideas and his efforts to reveal and question the relationships between claims to knowledge, claims to power and authority over others. No claim to authority, no matter how banal, comes without a corresponding … Continue reading

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Nelson Mandela


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The strange powers of placebo effect – TheProfessorFunk


“Placebo effect” is often dismissed as just a fake pill, yet most fancy expensive drug trials often struggle to show that medicines are better than placebo – even when half the unfavourable data is kept out of sight. In North … Continue reading

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life is not a problem to be solved – Søren Kierkegaard


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psych meds and drugs – some straight talk


So much talk about mental health  is really just talk about about drugs. on meds                         v       off meds  meds as magical cure  v     … Continue reading

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The cosmic perspective – Neil deGrasse Tyson


Do you sometimes start your day whining  at the universe for giving you crap? Well, maybe on those days, you woke with an… “unjustifiably large ego”. . . . . Right: Toronto at night from the International Space Station – … Continue reading

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