Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy: Climate Crisis as Spiritual Path

  Joanna Macy (at 92) is an environmental activist, author, and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is the author of twelve books. See a recent documentary film here with an interview of
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Abstract: Spiritual Competencies Needed in Mental Health Practices

An abstract of a longer article by Drs Cassandra Vieten and David Lukoff first published July 2021 about the need for psychologists to develop skills in asking about religion and spirituality.   The Abstract Religion
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Proving Life After Death

Proving Life After Death and Spirit Communications Proving Life after Death is a formidable task.  Michael Tymn writes about his process proving it for himself.  This is an excerpt of one of his blogs. Until
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What is the Difference Between Spiritism and Spiritualism?

[2010 film Depicts the Spirit World]  Spiritualism and Spiritism: A Comparison Similarities Both Spiritism and Spiritualism originated in the 19th century.  Each believes that the spirit world of disembodied beings exists and spirits can interact
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The Power of Group Meditation

Group Meditation Believe it or not, there are studies that prove the existence of a ripple effect of peace in the surrounding environment when a group meditates together. According to the unified field superstring theory in physics, waves of
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Review: New John of God Film

  John of God: The Crimes of a Spiritual Healer is a series of 4 episodes, each 50 minutes,  released on Netflix in mid-July, 2021.  It documents the life story, the healing work that put
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The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC)

      The EPRC is a multinational alliance of researchers, clinicians, and patrons who share a vision of bringing scientific methods and clinical sensibilities to the rigorous, ethical, ontologically-agnostic study of emergent phenomena.  Daniel
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Human Rights in Mental Health: A Paradigm Shift At WHO

 Human Rights Model Promoted in New Guidance There is new guidance for mental health clinics published at the World Health Organization that represents a paradigm shift from a biomedical model to a human rights model. 
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Beyond the Mental Health Paradigm: The power threat meaning framework

Not only is it time to abandon psychiatric diagnosis, it is time to move beyond the medicalised perspective of ‘mental health’. A new framework for understanding how we all cope with distress – the power
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According to Scientists–How Psychedelics Hack the Brain

  The “pivotal mental state” is described in a mind-blowing new scientific paper that looks at how drugs can reroute people out of psychological dead ends.   By Mattha Busby Scientists have shed fresh light on