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Our Fear of Psychic Phenomena

Posted on October 6, 2016 by admin 1 Comment

Spiritist Medical Congress I just returned from a fantastic conference: the 2nd International Spiritist Medical Congress, “The Dawn of a New Era in Medicine”, October 1-2, 2016, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. The roster of speakers was world class–almost all of them were MDs and PhDs with superb presentations. The event hall was modern,

Posted in Anomalous Experience, Hallucinations, Meditation, Mental Health, Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness, Psychiatry, Psychosis, Spirituality, Spiritually Transformative Experiences anomalous experience, hallucinations, health, past-life experience, psi, psychosis

The Epidemic of Drug Overdoses in the USA: Ibogaine Can Help If We Allow It

Posted on July 14, 2016 by admin

“From 2000 to 2014 nearly half a million persons in the United States have died from drug overdoses. In 2014, there were approximately one and a half times more drug overdose deaths in the United States than deaths from motor vehicle crashes. Opioids, primarily prescription pain relievers and heroin, are the main drugs associated with

Posted in Addiction, Health, Ibogaine, Mental Health addiction, ibogaine, mental health

Transgenerational Memory

Posted on March 16, 2016 by admin

People experiencing extreme states of consciousness, sometimes labeled psychosis, often wonder why they have content in their minds that doesn’t seem to belong to them. These might include fears, anxieties, grief and anger. An adage taken from Christian scripture notes that the sins of the fathers are passed down to the sons and on down the

Posted in Mental Health, Psychiatry DNA, transgenerational memory

Mysticism and Psychosis

Posted on January 1, 2016 by admin 4 Comments

The following article is about mysticism, spiritual experiences, spiritual emergence and extreme states of consciousness, aka psychotic process. It was originally published in Seeds of Unfolding, Vol. VI, No. 4, Fall 1989. It is one of a number of papers written by Dr. Tomás Agosin, a psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College

Posted in Mental Health, Mysticism, Psychiatry, Psychosis, Spiritual Emergency, Spiritually Transformative Experiences mystic, mysticism, psychosis, psychotic, spiritual emergence, spiritual emergency

India Uses Peer Support for Mental Health

Posted on December 18, 2015 by admin 2 Comments

Dr Vikram Patel is on Time magazine’s annual list of 100 most influential people in the world. He has been revolutionizing the way mental health issues are approached and treated, not just in India but across the world Dr Vikram Patel, a psychiatrist aged 51, is arguably the best known Indian mental health professional in the world today. Patel and his colleagues

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health, Peers, Psychiatry Integrative, Peers, psychiatry

Einstein on LOVE

Posted on October 16, 2015 by admin

In the late 1980s, Lieserl, the daughter of the famous genius, donated 1,400 letters, written by Einstein, to the Hebrew University, with orders not to publish their contents until two decades after his death. This is one of them, for Lieserl Einstein. More can be found about Lieserl here …”When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few

Posted in Energy Work

Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Failing?

Posted on August 11, 2015 by admin

Researchers have found that CBT is roughly half as effective in treating depression as it used to be. Everybody loves cognitive behavioral therapy It’s the no-nonsense, quick and relatively cheap approach to mental suffering – with none of that Freudian bollocks, and plenty of scientific backing. So it was unsettling to learn, from a paper in the

Posted in Depression, Health, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Psychotherapy CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mental health, psychotherapy

Gut, Mood & Mental Health

Posted on July 31, 2015 by admin

Beneficial bacteria may serve the same role as antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs. In one study, people who took a multi-strain probiotic for at least four weeks reported a lessening of rumination—recurring, persistent thoughts about something distressing that has or may happen, which tends to create anxiety. Ninety percent of the neurotransmitter serotonin, (which is thought

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Anti-Depressants, Anxiety, Depression, Diagnosis, Mental Health, Micronutrients, Nutrition, Psychiatry anti-anxiety, anti-depressants, micronutrients

Define Mental Health

Posted on July 6, 2015 by admin

(Excerpted from World Psychiatry, June, 2015) The concept that mental health is not merely the absence of mental illness [1, 2] was unanimously endorsed, while the equivalence between mental health and well-being/ functioning was not, and a definition leaving room for a variety of emotional states and for “imperfect functioning” was drafted. The proposed definition is

Posted in Diagnosis, Health, Mental Health mental health, mental illness, well-being

Trace Amounts

Posted on May 7, 2015 by admin

Co-Director: Eric Gladen This new film sheds light on the causes of autism and the ongoing debate do vaccines cause autism. Although it is not anti-vaccine; it does suggest we quickly replace the preservative thimerosal with a non-toxic substance as a preservative. The film is a fast paced tour meeting leading scientists, parents of autistic

Posted in Autism, Children, Drugs, Health, Mental Health, Mercury, Vaccines autism, children, wellness

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