Thursday, June 25, 2020
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Safe Psychedelic Trip
Remember that psychedelic substances are illegal in most jurisdictions.
If you have physical or mental health issues, speak to a sympathetic doctor before experimenting with psychedelics. People with a history of psychosis or bipolar disorder are usually not allowed to participate in psychedelic research trials because they face heightened risks.
Ensure you are in a physically safe, controlled environment. Always start with a low dose.
Don’t take psychedelic drugs on your own. Find an experienced guide or therapist whom you trust.
Use word of mouth at psychedelic societies and elsewhere to source psychedelic substances safely, and use online testing kits to ensure their quality. Alternatively, for greater safety, consider signing up to a research trial conducted at a university.
Remember the importance of set and setting. Work with a guide who will help you prepare for your psychedelic journey, sit with you during the experience, and conduct integration with you for several weeks or months afterwards.
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The main safety challenges confronting anyone who wishes to experiment with psychedelics stem from their illegality, meaning that there is no formal regulation of the training of psychedelic guides, nor is there a reliable way to source the drugs safely. Many researchers in the field, including Sessa, have been campaigning for drug-law reforms for decades. ‘The current situation is a total practical folly and extremely dangerous, utterly immoral and totally unpoliceable,’ he says. ‘It’s putting our heads in the sand and not addressing the fact that many people will take these drugs. It’s like the prohibition era in the States but on a much larger scale. The only way to control potentially dangerous drugs is through appropriate regulation. Imagine if scuba diving were outlawed – people would still do it, but now there were would be poor training, poor equipment and loads of people dying.’
Until the laws are changed, and outside of a research environment, the best route to a safe experience lies in finding a suitably trustworthy and experienced guide – someone who is vouched for by others. And it’s key that this guide will work with you before and after your psychedelic journey.
‘There’s lots of underground therapists in this country and elsewhere, these so-called healer/shaman/guru-type people who will quite happily take you down to Totnes and take four grand off you and take you into their yurt and give you a bag of mushrooms, but they won’t give you the other stuff; they won’t do the preparation and they won’t do the integration, so people are left hanging high and dry,’ says Sessa. ‘I always say to people who’ve found a so-called shaman or healer: “Ask this guy if he will see you for three weeks before and three weeks afterwards, and I bet he won’t.” That’s the bit that’s missing, not only from recreational use, but also from underground use.’
Until the laws change, signing up to a research trial is probably the least risky way to experience a psychedelic trip. These are being conducted at various research institutions around the world, principally: the University of Bristol, Imperial College London, Newcastle University and Manchester University in the UK; and at Johns Hopkins University in the US.
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Erowid is a US-based organisation that provides ‘reliable, nonjudgmental information about psychoactive plants, chemicals, and related issues’.
Bluelight is an ‘international, online, harm-reduction community committed to reducing the harms associated with drug use’.
The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a US-based ‘non-profit research and educational organisation that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana’.
DanceSafe is a public health organisation, founded in California, that provides ‘a nonjudgmental perspective to help support people who use drugs in making informed decisions about their health and safety’.
PsychonautWiki is a ‘community-driven online encyclopaedia that aims to document the field of psychonautics in a comprehensive, scientifically grounded manner’.
The Psychedelic Renaissance (2nd ed, 2017) by Ben Sessa is an excellent introductory textbook that describes the cultural history of psychedelics, and is the most up-to-date review of contemporary work in the field.
Consciousness Medicine: Indigenous Wisdom, Entheogens, and Expanded States of Consciousness for Healing and Growth (2019) by Françoise Bourzat with Kristina Hunter is a ‘comprehensive guide to the safe and ethical application of expanded states of consciousness for therapists, healing practitioners, and sincere explorers’.
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (2018) by Michael Pollan is a ‘brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs – and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences’.
Disclaimer
The recreational use of LSD, MDMA, DMT, psilocybin and similar substances is currently illegal in most jurisdictions around the world.
Information and support for those affected by substance abuse can be found at the BBC’s addiction page.
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17 JUNE, 2020
STORIES AND LITERATURE
IDEA
Selfish, grumpy and unkind? That’s my kind of woman
by Ellena Savage
MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION
IDEA
It’s time to hear what adolescents think of mindfulness in schools
by Elena Hailwood, William Wannyn & Suparna Choudhury
POETRY
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1959) (Full Album)
Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (1959) (Full Album)
Bass – Ray Brown
Drums – Alvin Stoller
Guitar – Herb Ellis
Piano – Oscar Peterson
Saxophone (Tenor) – Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins
This Session was recorded in Hollywood, October 16, 1957.
Produced By – Norman Granz
A1 Blues For Yolande 0:00
A2 It Never Entered My Mind 6:48
A3 La Rosita 12:39
B1 You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To 17:45
B2 Prisoner Of Love 22:05
B3 Tangerine 26:22
B4 Shine On Harvest Moon 31:46
https://youtu.be/pxAMrrWQEnc
Self - Regulation as Limited Resource
Strength Model of Self-Regulation as Limited Resource
R.F. Baumeister, K.D. Vohs, in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2016
4.2 Final Remarks
Folk wisdom has long invoked the notion of willpower as a key ingredient for successful self-control and self-discipline, suggesting that energy is consumed in such acts of volition. Psychological theory dispensed with energy models for decades. Skepticism and even hostility toward explaining self-regulation in energy terms are to be expected. Yet the alternative versions generally have large conceptual gaps that cannot be filled without subtly reintroducing the idea of depleted energy resources, or at least resources of some sort. The traditional folk notion of willpower as a limited supply of energy that fuels effort and virtue has proven surprisingly durable, and if updated with new findings, it still forms the basis for a promising scientific account of human volition.
Wisdom Sayings and Quotes
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. ...
Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own. ...
Justice is truth in action. ...
A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners. ...
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever.
The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others.
Tibetan (on wisdom)
When our imperfect judgments are aggregated in the right way, our collective intelligence is often excellent.
James Surowiecki
The goal of human nature, of any nature is blessedness. If we do not reach this goal, it is a sign that we are headed in the wrong direction.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.
unknown
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel
If you cannot do great things ,
Do small things in a great way.
The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.
Russian Proverb
The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
One should speak little with others and much with oneself.
Danish (on the conduct of life)
When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.
Chinese (on wisdom)
The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen.
Russian Proverb
The only thing we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Plan your life like you will live forever, and live your life like you will die the next day. - unknown
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. Cervantes
Desires are brought to live depending on one’s wisdom. Wisdom gives direction to desires.
Takuan Soho
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Lord John Russell
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.
Korean (on common sense)
Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich.
French (on thrift)
He that respects himself is safe from others.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who flees at the right time can fight again.
Marcus Trentius Varro
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Abraham Lincoln
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
Albert Einstein
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Albert Einstein
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Anthony Douglas Williams
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Aristotle
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Aristotle
The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realize how much nonsense you’ve waste time on.
Anonymous
Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom say another.
Charles Dickens
The older you get, the more quiet you become. Life humbles you so deeply as you age. You realize how much nonsense you’ve waste time on.
Anonymous
Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom say another.
Charles Dickens
Knowledge is knowing what to say. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.
Colette
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Confucius
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Debbie Ford
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Edmund Burke
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Edward Hersey Richards
It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things.
Elbert Hubbard
Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Fran Lebowitz
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Francis Bacon
The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Henry David Thoreau
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Holly Near
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Horace
Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.
Immanuel Kant
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Isaac Asimov
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Isaac Asimov
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Ivan Panin
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Jess C. Scott
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Jimi Hendrix
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Langston Hughes
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Leonardo da Vinci
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. M. H. McKee
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
Manly P. Hall
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Mark Twain
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.
Rumi
Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.
Socrates
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Sophocles
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
St. Augustine
Let your actions demonstrate your wisdom.
Truman Capote
Wisdom is more precious than jewels, nothing else is so worthy of desire.
unknown
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
William Shakespeare
A wise owl sat on an oak, the more he saw the less he spoke, the less he spoke the more he heard. Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?
Zen Proverb
Love and death together, the two methods according to Charles Darwin that life uses to evolve. Salvador Dali knew what he was doing.
"Devote the rest of your life to making progress...the chance for progress, to keep or lose, turns on the events of a single day." - Epictetus
Trump bragged about acing this exam in 2018
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel
Strategy for preventing Covid 19
Adding to Japan’s 3 C’s strategy of preventing #COVID19 spread with
3 W’s:
1. Wear a mask.
2. Watch your distance.
3. Wash your hands.
1:27 PM · Jun 20, 2020
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Mistakes become Lessons / data (Templeton)
“An investor who has all the answers doesn’t even understand all the questions.” John Templeton
. “The wise investor recognizes that success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.” John Templeton
“Forgive yourself for your errors. Don’t become discouraged, and certainly don’t try to recoup your losses by taking bigger risks. Instead, turn each mistake into a learning experience. Determine exactly what went wrong and how you can avoid the same mistake in the future.” John Templeton
“Defer pleasure until the job is done.” John Templeton
“Even if we can identify an unchanging handful of success principles, we cannot apply these rules to an unchanging universe of investments—or an unchanging economic and political environment. Everything is in a constant state of change…” John Templeton
“If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.” John Templeton
"If you don’t use your muscles, they get weak. If you don’t use your mind it begins to fail.” John Templeton
“I wouldn’t call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.”
“Learn from your mistakes.”
“Forgive yourself for your errors. Don’t become discouraged, and certainly don’t try to recoup your losses by taking bigger risks. Instead, turn each mistake into a learning experience. Determine exactly what went wrong and how you can avoid the same mistake in the future.” John Templeton
“The big difference between those who are successful and those who are not is that successful people learn from their mistakes and the mistakes of others.” John Templeton
“If you begin with a prayer, you can think more clearly and make fewer mistakes.” John Templeton
How boredom can motivate people to pursue their ambitions and change their lives
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