by Paul Woodward: Social media has fueled a contagious desire for being heard and seen, creating a rush onto a public stage where presence takes on more importance than performance. ...
Speed kills…
Remembering my sanity
By Jen Peer Rich ~~ Remembering my sanity. ~~ For me, waking up to who I am on a deeper level of wholeness is not a spiritual experience. At least not how we in the western mind typically define spiritual. It is much more of a psychological experience where I am being taught in presence by nature, by inquiring into the deepest parts of my psyche. It is about remembering my sanity. I have a general sanity that is the core of who I am. This basic sanity is my birthright as a human animal. For most of my life I forgot sanity. I forgot myself as a natural being. I suffered tremendously from my own mind and beliefs about myself. And waking up was all about learning to reconnect with who I am beyond that suffering.
Reclaiming myself on the ground of myself
by Jen Peer Rich -- Until I let go of everything I trust and depend on externally, I am beholden others interpretations of what has value and what does not. But as I look deeper inside, when I am intimate within myself, I see a pathway to the locations and limitations of my conditioning and these pathways are what I am interested in getting into, so that I can explode again, so that I keep blowing my own mind. ...
Resisting-Illegitimate-Authority — By Bruce E. Levine
New book: Bruce Levine has been one of my very favorite authors in the world of critical psych for a long time. He's got a great new book available now. I highly recommend it. This article includes a link to a free PDF excerpt of the book. ....
Vulnerability, explored
By: Imogen Sita Webber --This exploration of life requires great vulnerability, earnestness, openness, radical honest and deep inquiry. It’s a truly destructive process, one that burns everything that you are not with such a fire that not even a whisper of the false is left. ...
Community
By Paul Woodward When I was a Buddhist monk and the Dalai Lama visited us in France, there was a meeting of most of the Western monks and nuns in our community. At that time, the majority were living in a monastery and neighboring nunnery near Toulouse, but others were visiting from elsewhere in Europe,... Continue Reading →
Leaflin: purveyor of magic
by Leaflin Lore Winecoff ~~ My name is Leaflin, and I am a purveyor of magic in the forms of paintings, yoga, healing, costumery and performance, poetic scribblings, and the way I dance through life. I wish to offer the you a strip-tease of the soul, in the hope that the terrain revealed is a treasure map for us both!
On trauma and madness in mental health services
BY Noël Hunter ~~ On trauma and madness in mental health services Each day the news appears to top itself with stories of the various ways in which we, as humans, suffer and cause suffering. There are endless tales of abuse, racism, violence, gaslighting from those in the highest of powers, oppression, and injustice that challenge the lengths to which our minds and bodies can cope. What happens when people seek out help for their suffering? How do people heal from the atrocities that life throws our way? ...
Rest in peace my dear friend and comrade in madness…Ian Scheffel (formerly Bill Scheffel)
We have no memory of being in the womb or emerging from the birth canal. Dreams are quickly forgotten if remembered at all. We experience emotions but may not always know why. The most fundamental dimensions of our experience cannot be found in any solid way, quantified, or even seen. How can we understand spiritual emergencies and other spiritually transformative events if, as R.D. Laing wrote, “We can see other people’s behavior but not their experience?” ...
News and the forgotten value of waiting
by PAUL WOODWARD People everywhere, but especially in America, have been conditioned to feel that there is no experience in life more intolerable than having to wait.
To wait is to be tortured by a cavity that urgently demands filling.
Waiting destabilizes the nervous system and seemingly the only way most people can prevent an imminent seizure or some other kind of systemic breakdown these days is by clutching the ubiquitous grounding device upon which everyone now depends: their smart phone — a grounding device that helps each user feel connected by disconnecting them from where they are.
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