Vegetable Chart | Nutrient chart | Vitamins and minerals in common vegetables. Choosing your cognitive fate. Several people have suggested we pass on a link to the new Sam Harris essay called "Drugs and the Meaning of Life," which was recently re-posted on HuffPo. I've been reluctant to, largely because the essay is literally one zillion words long and I wanted a chance to digest it first, but I'm on vacation now and finally got a chance to read it.
The essay goes on basically in a style like this: Many people wonder about the difference between meditation (and other contemplative practices) and psychedelics. Are these drugs a form of cheating, or are they the one, indispensable vehicle for authentic awakening? They are neither. Many people don’t realize that all psychoactive drugs modulate the existing neurochemistry of the brain—either by mimicking specific neurotransmitters or by causing the neurotransmitters themselves to be more active. There is nothing that one can experience on a drug that is not, at some level, an expression of the brain’s potential. Help Center. Ten Years Ago Portugal Legalized All Drugs -- What Happened Next? : Information Clearing House: ICH. Libby, Montana: New Danger Found In Asbestos-Plagued Town. LIBBY, Mont. — For a decade, the people of Libby have longed for the day when they will be rid of the asbestos that turned their town into the deadliest Superfund site in America.
Now they are being forced to live through the agony all over again, thanks to two giant piles of bark and wood chips on the edge of town. An Associated Press investigation found that the federal government has known for at least three years that the wood piles were contaminated with an unknown level of asbestos, even as Libby residents hauled truckload after truckload of the material away from the site and placed it in yards, in city parks, outside schools and at the local cemetery. The Environmental Protection Agency did not stop the removal of the material until the AP began investigating in early March. "We thought we were coming to an end and now we have this issue all over again," said Lerah Parker, who spread dozens of truckloads of the material around her property. Libby City Councilman D.C. Progeria Studies Shed Light On Rare Premature Aging Disorder.
3 Ways to Find Your Ground and Make your Home More Sacred. Making your house into a home takes more than a knitted afhgan lying alongside the couch. What makes a domestic structure into a nest is not just about coziness, but alignment. The ancient Chinese tradition of Feng shui has perfected this art, but the roots for finding your center and aligning it with the landscape are common to many prehistoric societies, including the ancestors of Europeans. By aligning our home with the elements, we make it sacred. And it feels really good, no matter your worldview, because it awakens the bodily intelligence. So says Paul Devereux, archaeologist, consciousness researcher and author of many, many books, including his just published Sacred Geography. Devereux’s body of work encompasses consciousness, culture and archaeology: pretty much my favorite intersection.
Last weekend I attended a weekend seminar by Devereux at the Rhine Institute in North Carolina. But before I get into his practical tips, let’s get grounded. The Embodied Cosmology That’s reality. Burzynski the Movie.