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A玉 is 35% done with Cannabis and Spirituality: An Explorer's Guide to an Ancient Plant Spirit Ally

— May 22, 2024 08:33AM Add a comment

A玉 is 3% done with Cannabis and Spirituality: An Explorer's Guide to an Ancient Plant Spirit Ally

Medicinal, recreational, and sacramental utilization of this plant are actually identical. To be healthy is to be happy is to be holy, all of which are connected with cannabis use.

— May 06, 2024 01:52PM Add a comment

A玉 is starting Cannabis and Spirituality: An Explorer's Guide to an Ancient Plant Spirit Ally

Increasing numbers of us are seeing through long-standing patterns of conditioning that have not served us or the Earth well.

— May 06, 2024 01:26PM Add a comment

A玉 is starting Cannabis and Spirituality: An Explorer's Guide to an Ancient Plant Spirit Ally

Increasing numbers of us are see through long-standing patterns of conditioning that have not served us or the Earth well.

— May 06, 2024 01:25PM Add a comment

A玉 is 41% done with Gnosticism: The History and Legacy of the Mysterious Ancient Religion

In fact, in order to be saved a human must instead attain knowledge of their true nature which is one that has no place in the material world. In other words, it is knowledge rather than faith that saves a gnostic.

— May 01, 2024 10:26PM Add a comment

A玉 is 36% done with Gnosticism: The History and Legacy of the Mysterious Ancient Religion

The gnostics seemed to have been profoundly impacted by the imperfection and suffering that characterized physical life and espoused doctrines that taught how to escape this physical world that is our prison rather than our home.

— May 01, 2024 10:14PM Add a comment

A玉 is 2% done with Gnosticism: The History and Legacy of the Mysterious Ancient Religion

“[Gnostics] were the hippies of their day,” said James Robinson, one of the greatest experts of the Nag Hammadi collection.

— Apr 26, 2024 10:11PM Add a comment

A玉 is 90% done with The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

At least thirty-six studies have shown that neurofeedback can be an effective…treatment for ADHD—one that’s about as effective as conventional drugs.

— Apr 25, 2024 09:14AM Add a comment

A玉 is 89% done with The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Alpha waves are accompanied by a sense of peace and calm. They are familiar to anyone who has learned mindfulness meditation. A patient once told me that neurofeedback worked for him “like meditation on steroids.”

— Apr 25, 2024 09:05AM Add a comment

A玉 is 87% done with The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

These brain-wave patterns could explain why so many traumatized people have trouble…fully engaging in their daily lives. Their brains are not organized to pay careful attention to what is going on in the present moment.

— Apr 25, 2024 08:40AM Add a comment

A玉 is 86% done with The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

…why these kids have poor executive functioning: Their rational brains lack proper control over their emotional brains, which also occurs when abuse and trauma have made the emotional centers hyperalert to danger and organized for fight or flight.

— Apr 25, 2024 08:33AM Add a comment

A玉 is 86% done with The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

— Apr 23, 2024 08:57AM Add a comment

A玉 is 25% done with A Visionary Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Methods for Working with the Deep Dream State

Sleep paralysis is a test to know whether we are ready and willing to move through fear and other aspects of ourselves that we don’t want to see or feel the need to control.

— Mar 21, 2024 10:36AM Add a comment

A玉 is 21% done with A Visionary Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Methods for Working with the Deep Dream State

In her book The Dream Game, Ann Faraday explains that the unconscious is unable to read our minds or to know what we are thinking. We must audibly say things or write things down for our unconscious to get the message.

— Mar 21, 2024 08:08AM Add a comment

A玉 is on page 114 of 388 of The Embodied Mind, revised edition: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Mit Press)

Craving is an extremely important juncture in this chain of causality. Up to this point, the links have rolled off automatically on the basis of past conditioning. At this point, however, the aware person can do something about the situation: she can interrupt the chain or she can let it go on to the next link (grasping). The handling of craving is what determines the possibilities for perpetuation or change.

— Mar 10, 2024 11:13AM Add a comment

The Embodied Mind, revised edition: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Mit Press)

A玉 is on page 112 of 416 of The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

Wang was familiar with old intellectuals like her: The long years had ground away all the hardness and fierceness in their personalities, until all that was left was a gentleness like that of water.

— Feb 15, 2024 10:00AM Add a comment