Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
Ritualization is a potent stabilizing agent, a simple salve for a stressful time if only we are mindful of how we use its powers.
The Hidden Powers of Everyday Ritual
ritual and
the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?... The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes... "
Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)
Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)
Jeremy Bentham on the suffering of non-human animals
nature research
The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
frontiersin.org
Brain is cells, not neurons
5 reasons talking to yourself is good for you
bigthink.com
Extended Mind and conferencing
self-talk research
The idea that all our choices are determined by past events may seem dispiriting – but it can be emotionally liberating
Francis Merson • Recognise free will is an illusion and reap the emotional benefits | Psyche Ideas
the explicit feeling of selfless minds may be tacitly accompanied by the implicit feeling of unlimited body, as two sides of the same coin. To put it provocatively: the only and unique occasion when one truly loses one’s self is when one’s body becomes a corpse (i.e. death).
Mindfulness and
neurorights, can be defined as the ethical, legal, social, or natural principles of freedom or entitlement related to a person’s cerebral and mental domain; that is, the fundamental normative rules for the protection and preservation of the human brain and mind” [1]. Although the lists and terminologies sometimes diverge, four neurorights have been... See more