Day: October 7, 2017

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Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause

Fernando Kaskais

One of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s original watercolors for The Little Prince “Freedom is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one’s weight toward this response rather than that one.” BY MARIA POPOVA “Everything can be taken from a man,” the great Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl wrote in his timeless treatise on the human search for meaning, “but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” A generation later, James Baldwin examined how we imprison ourselves and … Continue reading Existential Psychologist Rollo May on Freedom and the Significance of the Pause

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HOW BILLIONAIRES BECOME BILLIONAIRES

Fernando Kaskais

Posted  by Soren Dreier Author: James Petras America has the greatest inequalities, highest mortality rate, most regressive taxes, and largest public subsidies for bankers and billionaires of any developed capitalist country. In this essay we will discuss the socio-economic roots of inequalities and the relation between the concentration of wealth and the downward mobility of the working and salaried classes. How the Billionaires become Billionaires One of the most likely sources of billionaire wealth is through tax evasion in all of its guises and forms. Contrary to the propaganda pushed by the business press, between 67% and 72% percent of corporations had … Continue reading HOW BILLIONAIRES BECOME BILLIONAIRES

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Here’s Why You Fall Asleep When You’re Bored

Fernando Kaskais

The process that triggers sleep during periods of boredom also offers a pathway for developing less addictive, more therapeutic sleep aids.  BY JOHN DYER Students maybe should be forgiven for falling asleep during boring classes, according to new research. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications that could lead to new treatments for insomnia, scientists in Japan and China found that a tiny area at the forefront of the brain called the nucleus accumbens can induce sleep when the brain lacks stimulation. “The more excited you are, the more dopamine your brain produces,” study co-author Michael Lazarus, a sleep expert at the University of … Continue reading Here’s Why You Fall Asleep When You’re Bored

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Why I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Gun I Bought (But Never Brought Home)

Fernando Kaskais

lllustrations by Dave van Patten The psychological effects of being an almost-gun owner by Stephanie Georgopulos I walked home late the other night, the mellow buzz I’d built up wiped clean by anxiety. (Weed + listening to podcasts about serial killers has that effect on me, I guess.) As I approached my building, I took comfort in seeing that I’d left my bedroom light on. And discomfort in seeing my screen-less window wide open; wide enough for an intruder’s body to slip right through. My body decided before my brain did: It was gonna be an Apartment Sweep Night. So I walked … Continue reading Why I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Gun I Bought (But Never Brought Home)

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THE CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-REALITY THEORY OF TERROR, MASS SHOOTINGS AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE

Fernando Kaskais

by Dylan Charles, Editor Waking Times  By now, every possible angle of the Las Vegas shooting has been expounded upon by anyone with a website or a YouTube channel. Without a doubt, something doesn’t add up, but, we’ve gone through this before, many times now, and it never adds up. And it won’t ever add up, because the self-proclaimed authorities will never acknowledge contrary points of view. They’ll never publicly admit that the official story doesn’t jibe with the totality of facts and thoughtful observations openly available to anyone with an internet connection and a halfway open mind. And so we never come … Continue reading THE CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-REALITY THEORY OF TERROR, MASS SHOOTINGS AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE