Seconded - very much so ......You're welcome my friend, it had been too long since I'd visited this beautiful place.
Fine masterpiece indeed
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You're welcome my friend, it had been too long since I'd visited this beautiful place.
Fine masterpiece indeed
♥
Seconded - very much so ......
Rad picture!
Thanks you two...I hope you both are having a nice start to 2020!
May you both have a peaceful day/evening!
John - I like your connection you made with the whirling dervishes...I can definitely see how you could find such a similarity, thanks for the video.
Here's what I pulled off the web about it...
Replace antidepressants within 5 years?!
Wishful thinking imho!
Still you never know I guess...
Enjoy!
For many years, psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms, was considered too dangerous for consumption.
But recent studies on its effects have shown no long-term damage from its use, and the FDA has now classified it as a “breakthrough therapy” for depression.
In phase one of the largest ever controlled study on psilocybin, 89 healthy participants were given either 10mg, 25mg, or a placebo of the drug.
Over 25 dosing sessions, the participants would go through therapy sessions in groups of six for a period of 12 weeks.
Phase two of the study is currently underway while researchers attempt to discover whether 216 volunteer patients will see improvements in depression where conventional treatments have failed them.
Magic mushrooms are the opposite of antidepressants, notes leading psychedelic researcher Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris.
Where pharmaceutical antidepressants leave emotions “blunted,” psilocybin brings them out for the patient to deal with and move past in a healthy manner.
After the study of psychedelics was legalized in recent years, research has consistently pointed to the notion that psilocybin can help patients overcome depression.
According to the Centre for Psychedelic Research at London’s Imperial College, magic mushrooms could replace antidepressants altogether within 5 years due to a low rate of adverse effects compared with pharmaceuticals.
A study from PLoS One in 2013 reported no increase in mental health problems for lifetime psychedelic users (such as persisting hallucinations, panic attacks, or cognitive decline).
Make sure you understand the safety precautions needed before taking psychedelics.
Here’s a guide on getting started with professional psychedelic treatments.
Wishful thinking imho!
Still you never know I guess...
Enjoy!
Samuel Austin
January 13, 2020
Largest Study Ever Conducted on Magic Mushrooms
Finds Psilocybin Completely Safe and Breakthrough
Therapy for Depression
January 13, 2020
Largest Study Ever Conducted on Magic Mushrooms
Finds Psilocybin Completely Safe and Breakthrough
Therapy for Depression
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For many years, psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms, was considered too dangerous for consumption.
But recent studies on its effects have shown no long-term damage from its use, and the FDA has now classified it as a “breakthrough therapy” for depression.
In phase one of the largest ever controlled study on psilocybin, 89 healthy participants were given either 10mg, 25mg, or a placebo of the drug.
Over 25 dosing sessions, the participants would go through therapy sessions in groups of six for a period of 12 weeks.
“The results of the study are clinically reassuring and support further development of psilocybin as a treatment for patients with mental health problems that haven’t improved with conventional therapy,
such as treatment-resistant depression.”
– KCL’s Dr. James Rucker, the study’s lead investigator
such as treatment-resistant depression.”
– KCL’s Dr. James Rucker, the study’s lead investigator
Phase two of the study is currently underway while researchers attempt to discover whether 216 volunteer patients will see improvements in depression where conventional treatments have failed them.
“We are focused on getting psilocybin therapy safely to as many patients who would benefit from it as possible [and] are grateful to the many pioneering research institutions whose work over the years has helped to demonstrate the potential of psilocybin in medicine.”
– Dr. James Rucker
– Dr. James Rucker
Magic mushrooms are the opposite of antidepressants, notes leading psychedelic researcher Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris.
Where pharmaceutical antidepressants leave emotions “blunted,” psilocybin brings them out for the patient to deal with and move past in a healthy manner.
After the study of psychedelics was legalized in recent years, research has consistently pointed to the notion that psilocybin can help patients overcome depression.
According to the Centre for Psychedelic Research at London’s Imperial College, magic mushrooms could replace antidepressants altogether within 5 years due to a low rate of adverse effects compared with pharmaceuticals.
“The implications of that are actually frightening to me,
thinking of the power and influence of big pharma…
What are they going to do with that if there’s this big public demand for the ‘
mushroom therapy’, and not the Prozac?”
– Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris
thinking of the power and influence of big pharma…
What are they going to do with that if there’s this big public demand for the ‘
mushroom therapy’, and not the Prozac?”
– Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris
A study from PLoS One in 2013 reported no increase in mental health problems for lifetime psychedelic users (such as persisting hallucinations, panic attacks, or cognitive decline).
“We did not find use of psychedelics to be an independent risk factor for mental health problems…
Rather, in several cases psychedelic use was associated with lower rate of mental health problems.”
– Teri S. Krebs, Study Author
Rather, in several cases psychedelic use was associated with lower rate of mental health problems.”
– Teri S. Krebs, Study Author
Make sure you understand the safety precautions needed before taking psychedelics.
Here’s a guide on getting started with professional psychedelic treatments.
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You are most welcome@John K @Ren
Thank you both for the immense amount of likes!
Also @Wyote @Sandie33 @Impact Character @Arcadia @Kgal @Tin Man @java @Deleted member 16771 @ThomasJ79 @flower @Misty @jkxx @GRiMM
And anyone else who reads this thread whom I may have missed (I'm sure I did)!
I appreciate everyone and consider you all friends, thanks for that, your support, input, wisdom, and love.
As a thank you...I bless you all with this fine masterpiece...lol...
*remind me to tell you a funny story about this brand of fidgit spinner, lmao
It's interesting you say this. I think you're right! I often dance in my room in circles in similar movement. ...and I love LOVE your idea of captured sunLight being a blessing! Thank you.
Some really great data!
I wish the various types of psychedelic medicine were less stigmatized, I feel it would help so many...from depression/anxiety to fear of death, smoking cessation, OCD, PTSD, etc.
As you can see in the second image labeled here as "Box 1", anxiety levels are generally not an issue when properly administered and for the right reasons.
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I wish the various types of psychedelic medicine were less stigmatized, I feel it would help so many...from depression/anxiety to fear of death, smoking cessation, OCD, PTSD, etc.
As you can see in the second image labeled here as "Box 1", anxiety levels are generally not an issue when properly administered and for the right reasons.
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A very nice short essay.
Enjoy!
The search for meaning in life is a familiar challenge to many of us.
Some materialist scientists and philosophers consider it a futile search.
Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins, for example, claims that human beings are just “throwaway survival machines” whose only purpose is to survive and replicate genes.
Otherwise, the theory goes, there is very little point to our lives.
We may attempt to create other kinds of meaning, through religion or attempts at altruism for example, but all we’re really doing is following our genetic and neurological programming.
Even our consciousness, the feeling of having experience inside our own heads, may not really exist, or may exist only as a kind of shadow of our brain activity.
But I take the rather unfashionable view that there is meaning to life.
As I suggest in my book Spiritual Science, it is absurd to reduce human life and behaviour to purely genetic factors.
We are not just ghostly entities living inside machine-like bodies in an indifferent world.
Human life is not a meaningless space between birth and death, spent trying to enjoy ourselves and forget about our predicament.
I believe that human life and the world mean much more than that.
And this is not because I am religious – I am not.
Instead, my perspective is informed by my scientific research over the past ten years with people who have undergone what I call “suffering-induced transformational experiences”.
These experiences include being diagnosed with terminal cancer, or suffering bereavements, or becoming seriously disabled, or losing everything through addiction or having close encounters with death during combat.
What all these people had in common is after undergoing intense suffering, they felt they had “woken up”.
They stopped taking life, the world and other people for granted and gained a massive sense of appreciation for everything.
They spoke of a sense of the preciousness of life, their own bodies, the other people in their lives and the beauty and wonder of nature.
They felt a new sense of connection with other people, the natural world and the universe.
They became less materialistic and more altruistic.
Possessions and career advancement became trivial, while love, creativity and altruism became much more important.
They felt intensely alive.
One woman whose cancer was in remission said: “I’m just so, so fortunate to be alive on this planet. I just feel so privileged to be on this Earth and to have been given this awareness.”
A recovering alcoholic told me of feeling comforted and empowered, “knowing that you are a part of something far more wonderful, far more mysterious”.
A person who had nearly drowned described acquiring “a great sense of appreciation for the little things, not just the spectacular beauty of a flowering tree, but the beauty of even the most insignificant objects”.
A man who experienced a transformation due to bereavement addressed the topic of meaning specifically, describing how his “goals changed from wanting to have as much money as possible to wishing to be the best person possible”.
He added: “Before I would say I didn’t really have any sense of a meaning of life. However, [now] I feel the meaning of life is to learn, grow, and experience.”
Awakening
It’s important to point out that none of these people were (or became) religious.
They didn’t have the kind of “born-again” experience some Christians talk about, although many people did feel as if they had a new kind of identity, even to the point of feeling like they were, as one person put it, a different person living in the same body.
Also, the changes weren’t merely temporary, and in most cases, remained stable over many years.
Overall, the transformation can be described in terms of finding new meaning in life.
Fortunately, we don’t just have to go through intense suffering to experience these effects.
There are also certain temporary states of being when we can sense meaning.
I call these “awakening experiences”.
There are also certain temporary states of being when we can sense meaning. I call these “awakening experiences”.
Usually these experiences occur when our minds are fairly quiet and we feel at ease with ourselves.
When we’re walking in the countryside, swimming in the ocean, or after we’ve meditated or had sex.
At such times there is a sense of “rightness” about things.
We can look above us at the sky and sense something benevolent in it, a harmonious atmosphere.
We can feel a kind of radiance filling the landscape around us, emanating from the trees and fields.
We can sense it flowing between us and other people – as a radiant connection, a sense of warmth and love.
We feel glad to be alive and feel a wide-ranging sense of appreciation and gratitude.
In other words, we find the meaning of life when we “wake up” and experience life and the world more fully.
In these terms, the sense that life is meaningless is a distorted and limited view that comes when we are slightly “asleep”.
In our highest and clearest states of being, we perceive a meaning that we sense is always there and that somehow we previously missed.
When our awareness intensifies and our senses open up there’s a sense of returning home – to meaning.
So what is the meaning of life?
Put simply, the meaning of life is life itself.
Enjoy!
The meaning of life – a psychologist’s view
Summary: Study investigates suffering-induced transformational experiences to help reveal what the meaning of life could actually be.
Source: The Conversation
Summary: Study investigates suffering-induced transformational experiences to help reveal what the meaning of life could actually be.
Source: The Conversation
The search for meaning in life is a familiar challenge to many of us.
Some materialist scientists and philosophers consider it a futile search.
Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins, for example, claims that human beings are just “throwaway survival machines” whose only purpose is to survive and replicate genes.
Otherwise, the theory goes, there is very little point to our lives.
We may attempt to create other kinds of meaning, through religion or attempts at altruism for example, but all we’re really doing is following our genetic and neurological programming.
Even our consciousness, the feeling of having experience inside our own heads, may not really exist, or may exist only as a kind of shadow of our brain activity.
But I take the rather unfashionable view that there is meaning to life.
As I suggest in my book Spiritual Science, it is absurd to reduce human life and behaviour to purely genetic factors.
We are not just ghostly entities living inside machine-like bodies in an indifferent world.
Human life is not a meaningless space between birth and death, spent trying to enjoy ourselves and forget about our predicament.
I believe that human life and the world mean much more than that.
And this is not because I am religious – I am not.
Instead, my perspective is informed by my scientific research over the past ten years with people who have undergone what I call “suffering-induced transformational experiences”.
These experiences include being diagnosed with terminal cancer, or suffering bereavements, or becoming seriously disabled, or losing everything through addiction or having close encounters with death during combat.
What all these people had in common is after undergoing intense suffering, they felt they had “woken up”.
They stopped taking life, the world and other people for granted and gained a massive sense of appreciation for everything.
They spoke of a sense of the preciousness of life, their own bodies, the other people in their lives and the beauty and wonder of nature.
They felt a new sense of connection with other people, the natural world and the universe.
They became less materialistic and more altruistic.
Possessions and career advancement became trivial, while love, creativity and altruism became much more important.
They felt intensely alive.
One woman whose cancer was in remission said: “I’m just so, so fortunate to be alive on this planet. I just feel so privileged to be on this Earth and to have been given this awareness.”
A recovering alcoholic told me of feeling comforted and empowered, “knowing that you are a part of something far more wonderful, far more mysterious”.
A person who had nearly drowned described acquiring “a great sense of appreciation for the little things, not just the spectacular beauty of a flowering tree, but the beauty of even the most insignificant objects”.
A man who experienced a transformation due to bereavement addressed the topic of meaning specifically, describing how his “goals changed from wanting to have as much money as possible to wishing to be the best person possible”.
He added: “Before I would say I didn’t really have any sense of a meaning of life. However, [now] I feel the meaning of life is to learn, grow, and experience.”
Awakening
It’s important to point out that none of these people were (or became) religious.
They didn’t have the kind of “born-again” experience some Christians talk about, although many people did feel as if they had a new kind of identity, even to the point of feeling like they were, as one person put it, a different person living in the same body.
Also, the changes weren’t merely temporary, and in most cases, remained stable over many years.
Overall, the transformation can be described in terms of finding new meaning in life.
Fortunately, we don’t just have to go through intense suffering to experience these effects.
There are also certain temporary states of being when we can sense meaning.
I call these “awakening experiences”.
There are also certain temporary states of being when we can sense meaning. I call these “awakening experiences”.
Usually these experiences occur when our minds are fairly quiet and we feel at ease with ourselves.
When we’re walking in the countryside, swimming in the ocean, or after we’ve meditated or had sex.
At such times there is a sense of “rightness” about things.
We can look above us at the sky and sense something benevolent in it, a harmonious atmosphere.
We can feel a kind of radiance filling the landscape around us, emanating from the trees and fields.
We can sense it flowing between us and other people – as a radiant connection, a sense of warmth and love.
We feel glad to be alive and feel a wide-ranging sense of appreciation and gratitude.
In other words, we find the meaning of life when we “wake up” and experience life and the world more fully.
In these terms, the sense that life is meaningless is a distorted and limited view that comes when we are slightly “asleep”.
In our highest and clearest states of being, we perceive a meaning that we sense is always there and that somehow we previously missed.
When our awareness intensifies and our senses open up there’s a sense of returning home – to meaning.
So what is the meaning of life?
Put simply, the meaning of life is life itself.
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Tin Man
"a respectable amount of screaming"
@John K @Ren
Thank you both for the immense amount of likes!
Also @Wyote @Sandie33 @Impact Character @Arcadia @Kgal @Tin Man @java @Deleted member 16771 @ThomasJ79 @flower @Misty @jkxx @GRiMM
And anyone else who reads this thread whom I may have missed (I'm sure I did)!
I appreciate everyone and consider you all friends, thanks for that, your support, input, wisdom, and love.
As a thank you...I bless you all with this fine masterpiece...lol...
Nah that is entertainment elevated to art.
Sorry I'm not on this thread as much as I used to be.
Then again the only reason I was here was for your Hollywood contacts. And now I get the juicy goose from you first hand.
These are really fantastic!
Such amazing worlds hidden right under our noses all the time.
( @John K , I thought you would like this!)
Enjoy!
Such amazing worlds hidden right under our noses all the time.
( @John K , I thought you would like this!)
Enjoy!
The Nikon Small World 2019 Competition
Just Happened & Here Are The Top 20 Winners
View all photos -
https://www.boredpanda.com/nikon-small-world-best-microscope-photos-of-the-year-2019/
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Just Happened & Here Are The Top 20 Winners
View all photos -
https://www.boredpanda.com/nikon-small-world-best-microscope-photos-of-the-year-2019/
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Aren’t these just amazing - it’s the combination of artistic ability, technical skill and access to the right technology that makes these so spectacular. They remind me of those truly great pictures of astronomical objects taken by skilled astrophotographers. I bet some of these took a great deal of effort to produce.These are really fantastic!
Such amazing worlds hidden right under our noses all the time.
( @John K , I thought you would like this!)
Enjoy!
The Nikon Small World 2019 Competition
Just Happened & Here Are The Top 20 Winners
View all photos -
https://www.boredpanda.com/nikon-small-world-best-microscope-photos-of-the-year-2019/
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Totally, I can imagine that some were very difficult technically to shoot!
Glad you liked them.
I imagine giant versions of plankton-like creatures flying through our skies...invisible to us, but just a slight dimension out of our sight, lol.
Hmmmm....did he crawl through a wormhole under his sink, or is it all a hoax??
Pretty bizarre and intriguing.
Enjoy!
Pretty bizarre and intriguing.
Enjoy!
The Time Traveller
This is my story.
It all happened on the afternoon the 30th of August.
It was a beutiful day and I was on my way home from a job in Färjestaden.
When I got home, I found water on the kitchen floor.
Somehow there was a leak.
I got my tools and opened up the doors to the sink.
And started to work.
When I reached in to examine the pipes, they seemed to be further in than I remembered.
I had to crawl inside the cabinet, and as I did so, I discovered that it just continued.
So I kept on crawling further and further into the cabinet.
In the end of the tunnel I saw a light, and when I got there, I realized I was in the future.
I meet myself as 72 years old, the year was 2042.
I did a lot of tests on him to see if he was really me.
And the strange thing is that he knew everything about me.
Where I hid my secret stuff when I was in first grade, and what the score was in the soccer match against Växjö Norra in the summer of -88.
He knew it all.
We even had the same tattoo, although he's was a little faded.
He told me some of the stuff that will happen, but not so much.
And I promised not to tell anyone. I made a film with my mobile phone.
Unfortunately the quality is not the best.
But it´s what I have got.
Actually I don't care if people thinks I am a lier.
I know I'm not.
I met myself in the future, and I was fine.
That's all I know.
But if it happened to me it probably must have happened to someone else.
Read more about me and my story at www.ingentrormig.nu
/Håkan Nordkvist
This is my story.
It all happened on the afternoon the 30th of August.
It was a beutiful day and I was on my way home from a job in Färjestaden.
When I got home, I found water on the kitchen floor.
Somehow there was a leak.
I got my tools and opened up the doors to the sink.
And started to work.
When I reached in to examine the pipes, they seemed to be further in than I remembered.
I had to crawl inside the cabinet, and as I did so, I discovered that it just continued.
So I kept on crawling further and further into the cabinet.
In the end of the tunnel I saw a light, and when I got there, I realized I was in the future.
I meet myself as 72 years old, the year was 2042.
I did a lot of tests on him to see if he was really me.
And the strange thing is that he knew everything about me.
Where I hid my secret stuff when I was in first grade, and what the score was in the soccer match against Växjö Norra in the summer of -88.
He knew it all.
We even had the same tattoo, although he's was a little faded.
He told me some of the stuff that will happen, but not so much.
And I promised not to tell anyone. I made a film with my mobile phone.
Unfortunately the quality is not the best.
But it´s what I have got.
Actually I don't care if people thinks I am a lier.
I know I'm not.
I met myself in the future, and I was fine.
That's all I know.
But if it happened to me it probably must have happened to someone else.
Read more about me and my story at www.ingentrormig.nu
/Håkan Nordkvist
