Category Archives: Ideas

charlie cat – Robert Görl


for all those cats who stayed up all night for Nuit Blanche night time is the only time for alley cats like me…. and yes, that  is Annie Lennox on vocal. r-r-r-r-rraow! Charlie Cat http://www.myspace.com/robertgrl/music/songs/charlie-cat-40823158

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Build a fire – Lamb


Build a fire  – Lamb Where is my heart What took it away from me Right from the start Thought it was mine to keep Where are the days Where dreams came so easily Thought they would stay Thought they … Continue reading

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Schizophrenia – is one hundred years enough? Robin Murray


Sir Robin Murray is a Psychiatrist and one of the world’s leading researchers into what Psychiatry  has, for the last 100 years, called “schizophrenia”. He spoke last week at the World Hearing Voices Congress, held in Cardiff [that’s the capital city … Continue reading

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Beyond The Brain – Tania Lurhman


Article by Tania Marie Luhrman from The Wilson Quartery Summer 2012 Lurhmann surveys the shapeshifting landscape that is our understanding of “schizophrenia”: from the rise to hegemony and the current Icarus-like fall from the sun of  the bio-bio-bio science-fraud/ shadenfreude; through people-based movements like … Continue reading

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label your own ass – not mine


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ParaNorman


Norman is a normal kid – he sees and talks with people others don’t, including his grandmother who, long passed away, sits on the sofa knitting and bounces on his bed. The Townsfolk, the kids at school call him names “weird” … Continue reading

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What a day ! …..World Hearing Voices Day 2012, in Toronto


Huge thanks to everyone who helped us put on our first event celebrating World Hearing Voices Day here in Toronto. . Early bird stands in line to get caffeine My day started 3am, an hour earlier than my alarm’s, eager looking … Continue reading

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World Hearing Voices Day – 14 Sep 2012


Today is World Hearing Voices Day 14th September 2012 The International Community for Hearing Voices today celebrates a growing awareness that voice hearing is part of the diversity of human experience and that people can hear voices and be healthy. … Continue reading

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what’s that sound ?


“people don’t only hear voices but they often hear sounds and music as well voices sometimes say rude and inapropriate things they can also be very funny” http://soundcloud.com/nadagaz/whats-that-sound-hearing Come join us celebrating and encourage diversity within us and amongst us… … Continue reading

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I hear, I hear what you don’t hear [documentary] – Robin Timmers


Robin Timmers’ experience  with voice hearing. “I’m Robin Timmers and I hear voices – and I’m mentally healthy” A short [10 mins] documentary/ artistic interpretation of a common experience. Robin Timmers first hears voices after his mother passes away and he … Continue reading

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