Day: December 27, 2018

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30 STARTLING AND LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT AMERICA

Fernando Kaskais

by Isaac Davis, Staff Writer Waking Times Most people really have no idea how this country is legally constructed and how this affects our relationships with other nations in the world. So much of what we have been taught to believe about the so-called ‘democracy’ is utterly false, and in order to truly understand why things are the way they are, with so much debt, war and tyranny, you need to know these 30 facts. This list was compiled and edited by A. True Ott, PhD, and was originally posted at his site, here. In order to understand what is REALLY going on covertly, “behind … Continue reading 30 STARTLING AND LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT AMERICA

Ásia, Big Brother, Brain, Curiositys, Health, Manipulation, Politics, Psychology, RightsLeave a comment

Collective psychiatry

Fernando Kaskais

A mental patient is seen at a hospital for those suffering from mental illnesses in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, 6 October 2010. Photo by Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Chinese psychiatry remains committed to the political ideal of mental hygiene, long after its discrediting in the West by Emily Baum is an associate professor in history at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China (2018). Edited by Sam Haselby In English, the term ‘mental hygiene’ likely sounds a bit stale. Having gained a brief but widespread ascendancy in the first half of … Continue reading Collective psychiatry

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Slowing Down to Connect with Others

Fernando Kaskais

Photo by Grace Lin | http://bit.ly/2IOLZ3L Chan Master Sheng Yen explains how our hectic modern lives prevent us from helping ourselves and those around us. By Master Sheng-Yen Sheng Yen was a Chinese-born Chan Buddhist Master and founder of Taiwan’s Institute of Chung-Hwa Buddhist Studies andDharma Drum Mountain. The following passage is excerpted from a 1990 talk at Sha Tin Town Hall in Hong Kong. While there, Sheng Yen spoke on achieving the ideal state of a human being through practice, and how far from that most of us are. What are the states of body and mind of today’s people? First of … Continue reading Slowing Down to Connect with Others