Terence McKenna grew up in Paonia, Colorado.[1] He was introduced to geology through his u
Terence McKenna grew up in Paonia, Colorado.[1] He was introduced to geology through his uncle and developed a hobby of solitary fossil hunting in the arroyos near his home.[specify] From this he developed a deep artistic and scientific appreciation of nature.
At age 16, McKenna moved to, and attended high school in, Los Altos, California.[1] He was introduced to psychedelics through The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley[1] and Village Voice.[2] One of his early experiences with them came through morning glory seeds (containing LSA), which he claimed showed him "that there was something there worth pursuing."[1]
After graduating from high school, McKenna enrolled in U.C. Berkeley. He moved to San Francisco during the Summer Of Love before his classes began, and was introduced to cannabis by Barry Melton in 1965 [3] and tried LSD soon later.
As a freshman at UC Berkeley McKenna participated in the Tussman Experimental College, a short-lived two-year program on the Berkeley campus. He graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Ecology and Conservation.
One of McKenna's most widely-promulgated ideas is known as Novelty theory. It predicts the ebb and flow of novelty in the universe as an inherent quality of time. McKenna developed the theory in the mid-1970s after his experiences in the Amazon at La Chorrera led him to closely study the King Wen sequence of the I-Ching. Novelty theory involves ontology, extropy, and eschatology.
The theory proposes that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty. Novelty, in this context, can be thought of as newness, or extropy (a term coined by Max More meaning the opposite of entropy). According to McKenna, when novelty is graphed over time, a fractal waveform known as "timewave zero" or simply the "timewave" results. The graph shows at what time periods, but never at what locations, novelty increases or decreases.
Considered by some to represent a model of history's most important events, the universal algorithm has also been extrapolated to be a model for future events. McKenna admitted to the expectation of a "singularity of novelty", and that he and his colleagues projected many hundreds of years into the future to find when this singularity (runaway "newness" or extropy) could occur. The graph of extropy had many enormous fluctuations over the last 25,000 years, but amazingly, it hit an asymptote at exactly December 22, 2012.[16] In other words, entropy (or habituation) no longer exists after that date. It is impossible to define that state. The technological singularity concept parallels this, only at a date roughly three decades later. According to leading expert Ray Kurzweil), another concept called cultural singularity (essentially cultural dissolution, or language dissolution), parallels this as well. Terrence claimed to have no knowledge of the Mayan calendar, which ends one day before the Timewave graph does: December 21, 2012, this is likely to be true as Mckennas timewave theory was published in The Invisible Landscape 12 years before the book which brought the Mayan calendar into public consciousness; José Argüelles's The Mayan Factor
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Eckhart talks about the concept of enlightenment.
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The disorders listed in the APA's, American Psychiatric Association's, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders diagnosed according to behavior criteria. This effectively makes the DSM a moral code or a book of laws. If you violate these laws, you are labeled as mentally ill and forced into mental health treatment which can include drugs, electroshock therapy or involuntary commitment. As society's morals change, so does the definition of mental illness. A Homosexual, gay or lesbian sex, was considered mentally ill until 1973. What changed? Is this the truth of science or moral opinion based on religion?
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Dr. Leonard Laxalt suggests an interesting approach to curing depression.
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Tired of seeing drug commercials for antidepressants, sleeping aides, acid reflux? It could get worse, off label direct to consumer marketing is being proposed when it should be banned.
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How to legally be discharged from prolonged involuntary psychiatric commitment or simply, how to Beat the Baker Act.
How to get someone involuntarily committed in the state of Florida, U.S.A http://www.clerk.co.okeechobee.fl.us/Baker_act.htm
How to get released from involuntary psychiatric confinement
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Mental Health Patient's Bill of Rights http://www.apa.org/topics/rights/
New Hampshire Mental Health Patient's Bill of Rights
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UK, The Mental Health Bill,( see Section 4 )
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This is a website where I found several testimonials.
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"No state shall.....deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law; nor deny to any person within it's jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
In this video I talk about involuntary commitment (sectioning) to psychiatric institutions.
In Britain there are legal provisions for having adults incarcerated in mental health confinement for perceived mental illness. Apparently, having been commited once, the NHS can recommit you with little warning or ambiguous reasons. This has led to stigma and abuse of otherwise law abiding citizens of the crown as well as a culture of fear and helplessness when dealing with mental health professionals in Britain.
In the U.S. it is generally more difficult to section (commit) someone for perceived mental health sickness.
However in the 1970s Florida enacted legislation in the form of the Baker Act. The main purpose of which is to streamline the process of involuntary psychiatric commitment of adults. This has led to abuse of vulnerable people by their family and caregivers by means of unnecessary confinement.
What mental health patients and comsumers may not know is that an even older legal statute known as The Writ of Habeas Corpus exists to provide legal recourse for people involuntarily and or illegally confined.
A successful petition results in a court order to release the plaintiff from involuntary confinement.
Although best known for it's use against unlawful imprisonment. Every mental health institution is legally required to post the Mental Health Patient's Bill of Rights conspicuously.
I found the Patient's BoR when I was languishing in involuntary commitment to juvenile psychiatric group home.
After being caught for running away, I went on a hunger strike for days. As a result, I went off several powerful psychiatric medications cold turkey.
As my system cleared, the lights came back on in my head. The fog lifted and as I took in my surrounding my eye caught the Bill of Rights. After reading it over and over and over again, I realized I might be able to use Habeas Corpus to force a judge to court order my malignant social worker into removing me from psychiatric gulag and placing me in a less restrictive setting.
Together with the help of my Guardian Ad Litem I was able to personally speak to a judge and convinced him to release me against my social worker's 'recommendation'.
Habeas Corpus exist as a legal means to overcome prolong unwarranted or unnecessary deprivation of civil liberties. It is used in immigration cases, for criminal cases and for mental health commitments.
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Defective drug legislation is big right now. Pharma is rapidly becoming the next big tobac
Defective drug legislation is big right now. Pharma is rapidly becoming the next big tobacco but on a much grander scale.
Class action lawsuits with 10,000s of victims are lashing out against drug firms while even State governments level more lawsuits against them.
Law firms are suing pharmaceutical companies for unethical marketing practices, a failure to warn the public about potentially harmful and sometimes deadly side effects when they were known about prior to marketing, downplaying side effects while hyping up benefits, etc.
If you have been damaged by a medication you can potentially sue and in most cases lawyers will take your case for free.
Some drugs that are listed on law office websites as defective drugs include; Vioxx, Bextra, Celebrex, Crestor, Baycol, Viagra, Cialis, Risperdal, Seroguel, Zyprexa, Adderall, Ritalin, Neurotin, Paxil, Prozac, Ambien, Zoloft.
Some defective drugs have been associated with death, suicide, homicide, neurological damage, heart attacks, diabetes, excessive weight gain, sexual dysfunction, impertinency, vision loss and a host of other side effects.
Virtually every psychotropic (psychiatric) drug is listed on some defective drug website including antidepressants, antipsychotic, anti-anxiety medications (anxiolytics), etc.
Drug companies that are being sued include Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, Janssen, Abbott, Novartis, Wyeth, etc.
You can get a free legal consultations just by doing a search with the drug name and the world lawyer.
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http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientis
http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
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marion woodman, a disciple of carl jung's, speaks on the necessity
of honoring our own a
marion woodman, a disciple of carl jung's, speaks on the necessity
of honoring our own and others' rage
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