T/F: ADHD isn’t a biological illness, but instead is a trauma response that can be overcome
Request: “An estimated 8.7 million adults in the U.S. have ADHD” —Forbes Health.
selfish / selfishness
The adjective and the noun calibrate differently.
The Supernatural Life (TSNL)
Priority request: Possibly a cult, they use words like "revival" and teach about revelations. I had a guy come up to me at work and start pushing it on me pretty hard, it was quite uncomfortable as he ignored social cues and kept pushing... Aura felt off afterwards.
Sam Harris
Request: Popular intellectual figure with podcasts discussing controversial topics through a centrist and common-sensical lens.
Social impact of Trump's reaction to the assassination attempt
Priority request.
"Songs of Clear Light" devotional chants
Priority request: Last night Boris Grebenshchikov sang a few songs at a Krishna Das performance, and Boris's music moved the audience to tears
“Disregard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen..."
"...and you need not search for truth; truth will find you” -- Nisargadatta Maharaj.
crying as a spiritual practice
Request: Letting yourself cry can feel wonderful. Let it all out!
Antifa
A terrorist group?
feeling constrained by having parents
Request: Is it nonintegrous to feel like one can't live truly freely because one's parents are alive, monitor one's life and place expectations on one?
"The world is the theatrical stage for the comedy of the absurd"
Hawkins, from Reality, Subjectivity & Modern Man, 2008. Post includes an article with a spiritual practice at 595.
Trump assassination attempt (10 calibrations)
"Former President Donald Trump was injured in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A shooter opened fire, injuring Trump's right ear. One spectator was killed and another two were injured" -- nbcnews.com.
Peaceful Gregorian Chants - Dan Gibson
Album is on YouTube and embedded, here.
performing a medical autopsy
Priority request: I will be performing autopsies as part of my medical training and am feeling a certain degree of apprehension about it.
Hermann Hesse
"His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality" -- wikipedia.