delanceyplace archive | eclectic excerpts delivered to your email every day from editor Richard Vague Today's encore selection -- from "Busting Big Myths in Popular Psychology" by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio, and Barry L. Beyerstein. "People often opine that releasing anger is healthier than bottling it up. "Popular media also assure us that anger is a monster we must tame by 'letting off steam', 'blowing our top', and 'getting things off our chest.' "Yet more than 40 years of research reveals that expressing anger actually amplifies aggression. "Psychologist Jill Littrell of Georgia State University concludes from a published review of the literature that expressing anger is helpful only when accompanied by constructive problem solving or communication designed to reduce frustration or address the immediate source of the anger. "Why is this myth so popular?
German Library Burns Books That Aren’t Politically Correct By Joshua Krause Most people like to believe that the West is some grand refuge of freedom and liberal democracy, and that any of the terrible things we’ve done, are all in the past. This belief especially applies to issues like censorship. The public tends to think that restricting free speech is something that prudish or narrow-minded conservatives did during the McCarthy era, or perhaps they’re reminded of the book burnings of Nazi Germany. Kurt Nimmo of Infowars.com recently reported on a translated German article, which suggests that a German library is culling insensitive books. So not only were Kästner’s works burned by the Nazis, they were burned again because of words that were written in a time period that wasn’t as sensitive as ours. But don’t think that this sort of thing won’t happen in America. I think we are facing a new era of censorship, in the name of political correctness. So America’s future won’t be teaming with book pyres for as far as the eye can see.
All the Known Audio of C.S. Lewis Speaking Although Lewis died only 50 years ago, and was famous enough to appear on the cover of Time Magazine (September 8, 1947), not a single video clip of him has survived (if such were ever taken). Some of the audio, however, remains. If you’ve never heard C.S. Lewis himself speak and are interested, here are some free samples online, along with a place to order the rest that are known. The first two are from the BBC: Beyond Personality: The New Men (14:05 mins) March 21, 1944 Length: 14:05 (This talk later became a part of Mere Christianity.)An Introduction to The Great Divorce Date: May 9, 1948 Length of clip: 1:58 You can also access the audio of the first lecture above via YouTube: On this site you can hear a few samples from his lectures on The Four Loves: Introduction (0:29)“Agape Love” (0:20)“Is Creation Necessary?” You can also order The C.S. The Four Loves — In this rare recording of C. You can hear some of his thoughts on Williams below: Copyright © 2014 by the author listed above.
Finally Home — Would you complain because a beautiful sunset... Harald Kautz-Vella – Black Goo, Part 1, 2, and 3. | A Sweet Dose of Reality Some interesting stuff..stick with it…~TS Part 1. There are 2 forms of Black Goo, one made by the earth, and another that was landed here by intention, in a meteor swarm, 80,000 years ago. Both are sentient and are designed to create life from the materials on the planet. The intelligence that seeded the off world goo, is creating life that is bypassing the natural order, and bringing lifeforms to a higher level of order than they should naturally be. In this first of 3 parts, German researcher and discusses smart dust, and the Black Goo. These interviews are released for free, as a public service, by the Bases Project. Harald is co-author with Cara St Louis of Dangerous Imagination, Silent Assimilation. Part 2. Harald Kautz-Vella continues this detailed interview on the alien Black Goo, concentrating on Morgellons, and the existence of “M State” matter. A short clip of something that is claimed to be derived from the alien black goo is shown. Part 3. Smart Dust and Bio Robots. Like this:
How To Make Your Mind Happy: 5 Secrets To Mindfulness Sometimes it seems like your brain just sits around creating lousy feelings and worries. You want this, you’re frustrated about that, you’re annoyed about some other thing and the list never stops. And it makes it impossible to be happy. What would be nice is to have a perspective that helps your brain deal with all of these negative emotions. And there may be one — and you’ve probably heard the name a lot lately: Mindfulness. And research shows it works. Three big names in the field have collaborated to produce an app that can teach you how to be more mindful. Dan Harris is the anchor of Good Morning America and author of 10% Happier, where he recounts his journey from mindfulness skeptic to believer. Now here’s the part where I give you an actual definition of mindfulness, right? You and I are gonna walk through the first few steps on how to be more mindful so you don’t just sound like Merriam-Webster, but you really understand what the deal is and how to do it. From The Upward Spiral:
Recreating Balance: How to easily convert any music to 432hz and why A frequency is the number of movements up and down per second, called hertz. Energy is the ability to move, it is what fuels the movement up and down. 432hz tuning simply means that the note A in the middle of the musical scale will vibrate at 432hz, then all other notes along the scale are tuned accordingly. All octaves of the A note will be doubles or halves of that 432hz frequency (27, 54, 108, 216, 432, 864, etc) Here are various cosmic measurements, where we find the exact same numbers : Saturn polar diameter : 108,000 km Saturn orbital period : 10,800 day Venus orbital distance : 108 million km Earth orbital velocity : 108,000 km/hour Sun’s diameter is approximately 108 times the Earth diameter Earth distance from the Sun : 108 solar diameters Moon distance from the Earth : 108 lunar diameters Moon diameter : 2160 miles Earth meridian circumference : 21,600 nautical miles 25920 years of the galactic cyle/procession of the equinox : 432 x 60, 60 being at the basis of how we measure time Voila !
A Message to the People-Pleasers: You are not Helping Anyone. What would you say takes up the vast majority of our time—mental space and energy? Work? Parenting? Bill-paying? Maybe it’s anxiety, personal relationships or money stress? It’s likely none of those things. It’s probably something much, much more tedious, boring and insidious. The ultimate time-and-energy-suck is something that sounds pretty, but is more toxic than second-hand smoke. It’s “being a nice person” (a.k.a. How do I know this? I used to spend most of my time trying to be “nice.” Any version of trying to be responsible for someone else’s feelings (basically, anything we don’t feel right about doing but we justify anyway because we “don’t want to hurt their feelings”), trying to make someone else happy (which sounds nice, but really it’s just an attempt to control someone’s mood-state), or hustling in such a way that we hope “people like us,”—this is all stuff I believed that, for most of my life, made me “a good person.” Sound familiar? How do I know they think I’m a good person? 1.
The Realist Report: How the "Holocaust" was faked The alleged "Holocaust" of "6 million Jews" at the hands of Adolf Hitler and National Socialist Germany during WWII is the biggest lie ever foisted upon humanity. The very idea that the Germans organized and executed a complex conspiracy involving "homicidal gas chambers" and other barbaric, sadistic forms of mass murder designed to exterminate European Jewry during WWII is laughable on its face when you stop and objectively think about it. National Socialist Germany and her allies were fighting a multi-front war against some of the most powerful nations in the world at the time, including the United States, the British Empire, and the Soviet Union. The idea that they would divert their precious and extremely scarce resources and manpower towards implementing a systematic campaign of mass murder specifically designed to annihilate European Jewry is absurd. There was no German conspiracy to systematically genocide and destroy European Jewry during WWII. Or this one:
These 20 Books Are Game Changers, Read Them Before You Turn 30 Books offer wisdom that we ourselves might need years to figure out. Between 20 and 30, we all would undergo lots of struggles and have lots of doubts. Below are 20 books that can make your way much clearer, promising and easier. Quitter: Closing the Gap Between Your Day Job & Your Dream Job – Jon Acuff Through wit and experience, Jon Acuff takes us through a journey from dispising your current job to getting your dream job. Acuff shows us the way by making sure we don’t quit too soon or too late. This is a fun and very helpful read for those who want to make the jump and make their dreams a reality. The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg Through the use scientific studies, author Charles Duhigg shares his labor of love by breaking down how habits are created and how we fail to stop them in life and in business. This is an excellent read for anyone looking to break bad habits and start new ones that lead to success. Total Money Makeover – Dave Ramsey The $100 Startup – Chris Guillebeau The Bible
Steps toward Global Mind Control 1909. Five years after his release from a primitive "insane asylum," Clifford Beers, formed the U.S. National Committee for Mental Hygiene" and called for a network of mental hygiene societies throughout the world."1 1910. The Eugenics Record Office in Cold Spring Harbor in New York was funded by the Carnegie Institute, and would receive funding from the Rockefeller Foundation three years later. "The Rockefeller Foundation also will fund Nazi Dr. Ernst Rudin's eugenics research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Brain Research Institute in Berlin. "The responsibility for charting the necessary changes in human behavior rests clearly on the sciences working in that field. 1946.
These images show the naturalness of breastfeeding worldwide ANYWHERE, ANYTIME — this is the “right” time for a woman to breastfeed her child or children. Many societies and cultures these days have taken offense to displays of breastfeeding, as something that is unnecessary to do in public. Meanwhile, breastfeeding remains an ancient, beautiful, natural, and yes, necessary and life-giving act for humankind, and it takes place every minute of every day all around the world. 1. 2. maternal care by Vit-Art on 500px 3. 4. Mater by Lawrence del Mundo on 500px 5. 6. Water Baby by Eva Creel on 500px 7. desperation by Nataly Dauer on 500px 8. Nurslers. by Ivette Ivens on 500px 9. 10. Madonna by thanasaki on 500px See 10 more images on page 2 >>
Transhumanist Values 1. What is Transhumanism?Transhumanism is a loosely defined movement that has developed gradually over the past two decades.[1] It promotes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and evaluating the opportunities for enhancing the human condition and the human organism opened up by the advancement of technology. The limitations of the human mode of being are so pervasive and familiar that we often fail to notice them, and to question them requires manifesting an almost childlike naiveté. Existential risk – one where an adverse outcome would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life or permanently and drastically curtail its potential. Several recent discussions have argued that the combined probability of the existential risks is very substantial.