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Cohan: Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street Asylum? It took a relatively obscure former British academic to propagate a theory of the financial crisis that would confirm what many people suspected all along: The “corporate psychopaths” at the helm of our financial institutions are to blame. Clive R. Boddy, most recently a professor at the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University, says psychopaths are the 1 percent of “people who, perhaps due to physical factors to do with abnormal brain connectivity and chemistry” lack a “conscience, have few emotions and display an inability to have any feelings, sympathy or empathy for other people.” As a result, Boddy argues in a recent issue of the Journal of Business Ethics, such people are “extraordinarily cold, much more calculating and ruthless towards others than most people are and therefore a menace to the companies they work for and to society.”

How do people with such obvious personality flaws make it to the top of seemingly successful corporations? Stable Environment. You are a conformist (that is, you are human) The philosopher Hannah Arendt famously argued that the atrocities of the Holocaust were not caused by psychopaths but by ordinary people placed under extraordinary pressure to conform. Since then we have learned that the pressure need not be extraordinary at all. In fact, it may not be experienced as pressure, but as relief. Human beings are herd animals. We survive only in highly coordinated groups. Individually, we are designed to pick up social cues, coordinate and align our behavior with those around us. Recent research has shown that social disapproval provokes the brain's danger circuits. In my class I sometimes do the following demonstration: I ask two student volunteers to step outside. "None of you refused to follow my instructions," I say. We are often not even aware when we are conforming.

To keep ourselves in the warm confines of conformity, we rely on two independent yet related types of social cues. Sherif's experiment in a nutshell Conformity creating a calamity. Iso-Tones - Miscellaneous. Here you can find tones that do not fit into any of the other three categories. This section includes sessions designed to help with sleep, alertness, mental performance, pain relief and much more.

To download tones right-click and choose "Save Link As", otherwise they will open in QuickTime within your browser by default. This is a problem with QuickTime overriding browser settings and not with the website or your browser. 14 Hz - The name is a perfect explanation, a 10-minute tone designed to bring your brain to 14 Hz, a state in which the brain is awake and alert. This type of tone was requested by several users after experiencing drowsiness after certain tones that end in lower frequency ranges.

Acne Treatment - This session uses frequencies for oxygenation of cells, improved circulation, healing and balance with the aim of promoting clear, healthy skin. 36 minutes long. Female Health - This 35-minute session is designed to support healthy menstruation and alleviate symptoms of PMS. The Bridge Between DMT and Aliens? | The Lone Critic. Mar 12 I have been having the most vivid, realistic dreams lately – some are good, some are frightening, but some seem out-of-place. By out-of-place, I don’t mean a wacky dream of random archetypes – but something with a deeper, almost innate emotion involved. Usually I can attribute some reason to a dream about an alien abduction or a dream about the end of the world.

I think there are many factors that contribute to the theme of a dream. This isn’t complete, but gives a rough structure of what builds a dream: 20% is day residue – events, thoughts, and interactions throughout ones’ day.20% is unfulfilled desires20% is subconscious fears, thoughts, etc20% is random neurotransmitter interactions20% is undetermined I now think that that a small % of dreams can be associated with DMT (dimethyltryptamine), a hallucinogenic chemical found in animals, plants, and even the human pineal gland. Are alien theme dreams correlated with DMT? Small quantities of DMT are released during REM sleep.