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Mental Health Education in Schools

Mental health education lessons are coming to the national curriculum [UK] next year [2020]. Teachers should be empowered to acknowledge that mental health is a contested area, argues psychologist and lecturer Anne Cooke. Ask students

Posted on May 10, 2023
Emma Bragdon
anne cooke, health education, integrative mental health, mental health, mental health education, school lessons, UK school education

Adverse Effects of Ayahuasca

Adverse Effects of Ayahuasca: Results from the Global Ayahuasca Survey Adverse Effects: About the study This study begins with a very long introduction that tries to explain ayahuasca not as a substance, but as

Posted on April 27, 2023
Emma Bragdon
adverse effects, Ayahuasca, plant medicine, psychedelics

The Effects of Collective Trauma

The Effects of Collective Trauma Is our society sick? …[Gabor Mate, MD, writes in The Myth of Normal that normal mental health is a myth because our society is not healthy.] Has our society

Posted on March 29, 2023
Emma Bragdon
collective trauma, mental health, mental illness, trauma

Brain Scans Reveal Ayahuasca’s Impact

DMT Study gives most advanced picture yet of DMT compound’s effect on advanced functions such as imagination Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan of a brain shows regions of increased connectivity on DMT.

Posted on March 21, 2023
Emma Bragdon
Ayahuasca, brain imaging, brain scan, consciousness, DMT, psychedelics, psychedlic-assisted psychotherapy, psychotherapy, Robin Carhart-Harris

Quantum Entanglement and YOU

Quantum Entanglement and YOU Have you noticed that the recent Nobel for Physics was awarded for experiments that confirmed a phenomenon known as “Quantum Entanglement”? While the concept of quantum entanglement has been around for more

Posted on March 6, 2023
Emma Bragdon
changing humanity's future, Einstein, future initiative, Oneness, physics, quantum entanglement

NEWS: On Voice Hearing

There are communities in which hearing voices frequently is common and expected, and in which participants are not expected to have a need for care. This paper compares the ideas and practices of these communities.

Posted on March 2, 2023
Emma Bragdon
hearing voices, mediumship, mental health, mental illness, psychosis, voice hearing

Australia to Allow MDMA and Psilocybin for Some Mental Illnesses

MDMA and Psilocybin Experts say the decision will make Australia the first country in the world to officially recognise MDMA and psilocybin as medicines. From July, (2023) authorised psychiatrists will be able to prescribe

Posted on February 8, 2023
Emma Bragdon
au, australia, depression, mdma, psilocybin, psychiatrist, psychiatry, PTSD

What is Mind vis a vis Mental Health?

Mind Defined …At a meeting of 40 scientists across disciplines, including neuroscientists, physicists, sociologists, and anthropologists, the aim was to come to an understanding of the mind that would appeal to common ground and satisfy

Posted on January 25, 2023
Emma Bragdon
Dan Siegel, mental health, mental illness, mind, mindfulness, self

Group Meditation Decreases US National Stress

A seventeen-year landmark study finds that group meditation decreases US national stress World Journal of Social Science published a study showing that group practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi techniques by ?1% of a population

Posted on December 24, 2022
Emma Bragdon
create peace, group meditation, meditation, sidhi, sidhi meditation

Living With Ghosts: The Science

Ghosts: The Science Science is studying ghosts. A nine-time award-winning documentary, Living with Ghosts, is now available online. It follows a widow suffering prolonged grief who participates in a controversial research study where scientists facilitate

Posted on December 8, 2022
Emma Bragdon
after death communication, Amit Goswami, chronic grief, complicated bereavement, ghosts, spirits

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