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Mental Health Education in Schools

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

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 what they think, encourage critical thinking and enquiry… Darn, I missed the boat. The government’s [UK] consultation on its new proposal for

Adverse Effects of Ayahuasca

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

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 a tool within a complex medical system. It also includes an exhaustive review of all the studies that have been

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Psychedelics adverse effects, Ayahuasca, plant medicine, psychedelics

The Effects of Collective Trauma

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

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 been sick for hundreds, if not thousands of years? [“Today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health collective trauma, mental health, mental illness, trauma

Brain Scans Reveal Ayahuasca’s Impact

Posted on March 21, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

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. Connectivity rises from yellow to orange to red. Photograph above: Christopher Timmermann, Imperial College London DMT’s Impact The brew

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, Psychedelics Ayahuasca, brain imaging, brain scan, consciousness, DMT, psychedelics, psychedlic-assisted psychotherapy, psychotherapy, Robin Carhart-Harris

Quantum Entanglement and YOU

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

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 than 80 years, scientists are only just able to definitively prove its existence as the foundation of our reality, and

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health changing humanity's future, Einstein, future initiative, Oneness, physics, quantum entanglement

NEWS: On Voice Hearing

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

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. Voice Hearing in Community We observe that these communities utilize cultural models to identify and to explain voice-like events—and that

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Psychosis hearing voices, mediumship, mental health, mental illness, psychosis, voice hearing

Australia to Allow MDMA and Psilocybin for Some Mental Illnesses

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

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 the drugs for post-traumatic stress disorder and severe depression. After decades of “demonisation”, psychiatrists will be able to prescribe MDMA

Posted in Alternatives to Psych Meds, MDMA au, australia, depression, mdma, psilocybin, psychiatrist, psychiatry, PTSD

What is Mind vis a vis Mental Health?

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

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 those wrestling with the question [of what it is] across these fields. After much discussion, they decided that a key

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health Dan Siegel, mental health, mental illness, mind, mindfulness, self

Group Meditation Decreases US National Stress

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

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 decreased multiple stress indicators in the U.S.. Scientists call for a group to create world peace. MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: SIZE

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Meditation create peace, group meditation, meditation, sidhi, sidhi meditation

Living With Ghosts: The Science

Posted on December 8, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

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 sensory “reconnections” between bereaved survivors and their departed loved ones. The process is known as Induced After-Death Communication (IADC), and it

Posted in Life After Death after death communication, Amit Goswami, chronic grief, complicated bereavement, ghosts, spirits

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