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the Timaeus taught that morality was not simply a matter of education; behaviour might also be determined by organic constituents, by excesses or deficiencies in the spinal marrow which affected the sensations of pleasure and pain; madness might thus have a physiological cause, to be treated by medical means.
Roy Porter • The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (The Norton History of Science)
Still more fortuitous, this psychologist, whose name was Bill Richards, probably has more experience guiding psychedelic journeys in the 1960s and 1970s than anyone alive, with the possible exception of Stan Grof (with whom he had once worked). In fact, Bill Richards administered the very last legal dose of psilocybin to an American, at the
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
I went back to [Hannah] Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem and reread sections of it. I was looking for a clue as to what she meant by “the banality of evil,” which she defines as a “kind of thoughtlessness.” I guess I think of evil as in some way connected with self-deception. —Morris
David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
Christopher Bollas -psychoanalyst
Dr. Halifax is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, activist, and author of several books on Engaged Buddhism.
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
uit Mensen zijn ingewikkeld - Floortje Scheepers
p.18-19 Stel dat we psychische ontregeling op een heel andere manier moeten begrijpen dan we tot nu toe geprobeerd hebben, dat de denkkaderss die we hanteren tekortschieten. Het zou verklaren waarom de logica in de psychiatrie ontbreekt. (…) Waarom de wachtlijsten niet afnemen en het aantal kinderen
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Michael Murphy, a Stanford graduate who co-founded the Esalen Institute on the Big Sur coast in 1962.