Tag: mental health

  • Hocus Pocus

    A Magical formula used in conjuring, 1630s, earlier Hocas Pocas, common name of a magician or juggler (1620s); a sham-Latin invocation used by jugglers, perhaps based on a perversion of the sacramental blessing from the Mass, Hoc est corpus meum “This is my body.” The first to make this speculation on its origin apparently was…

  • Sam Kinison and His Legendary Scream at Dangerfield’s Comedy Club (1986) – YouTube

    “If you’ve seen him before, you’re gonna want to see him again. And if you haven’t seen him before, you’re gonna get a kick out of Bad Sam.” Rodney Dangerfie… — Read on m.youtube.com/watch —– I just had to. 👽 There is something drastically and ironically mentally healthy in his comedy that is lost in…

  • The truth and the reality of psychedelic mental health treatment

    link.medium.com/YSzEWeYQPvb —- I have added some more, read on !! At first glance, think Brave New World. Often in the context of psychedelics we hear calls to include indigenous and marginalized cultural considerations in the historical and traditional use of psychedelic substances. While I agree with this sentiment, I am not sure it fully grasps…

  • :: Graham Harman’s Response to a (Mild) Critic :: and comment

    I was asked to write a response to Sheldon Richmond’s (rather mild) critique of Architecture and Objects. That response has been published HERE. Response to a (Mild) Critic —— My comment: First, I don’t really need to defend Graham Harman’s OOO against the growing idea-writers that place him as a New Materialist. On one hand,…

  • Parmenides is not required

    youtu.be/u-ljiHqoMM0 Althea. Xx

  • Philosophy, Mental Health, and The Two Routes

    Kair, L. (2022). Philosophy, Mental Health and The Two Routes. This paper is a response to May-Lynne El-Debs paper “Introduction to Philosophy”. The link is in the next post. I invite you to engage with the discussion about how a subject of mental health comes to know itself in reality. https://www.academia.edu/91714405/Philosophy_Mental_Health_and_The_Two_Routes Or, engage right here…

  • Can brain anatomy and function account for psychiatric conditions? – A New Vision for Mental Health

    Can brain anatomy and function account for psychiatric conditions? – A New Vision for Mental Health — Read on www.newvisionformentalhealth.com/2022/09/26/can-brain-anatomy-and-function-account-for-psychiatric-conditions/ —-Here she is going a little deeper… So good ! 👽 x

  • Rp The role of mind in neuroscience

    After failing to find anatomical or functional correlates of a variety of psychiatric conditions, Dr. Sarah Durston (neuroscientist and Professor of … The role of mind in neuroscience —— If you are not as concerned about the philosophical side and want to hear just about the biological side of mental disorder and diagnosis from the…

  • Is the Excessive Want for Money is a Mental Disorder ?

    This morning I saw a tweet from none other than the shameful Texas Senator Ted Cruz in which, without facts or justification, he blamed President … Put The Blame Where It Belongs! —- This post reminds me of an idea I had about 10 years ago. It’s excessively hypothetical but I think very sensible and…

  • Rp and comment on Potentiality

    Aristotle associates potentiality with matter. Here I am not endorsing Aristotle’s four causes, nor his hylomorphism, but simply thinking about the … Potentiality ——- So it is: the actuality of potentiality. I might even go so far — or father — to say that the issue with subjectivity is that it always the potential of…