Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis, after years of bitter struggle, is by now securely established as part of the received mode of Western thought,…by Martin Peretz on the Commentary website July/August 1970.
One Reason Russia Is Struggling in Ukraine
The power of slow therapy, revealed in two pioneering memoirs
Psychedelics
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Neuroplasticity: it’s what our brains do. We alter our minds when we engage with the world and with the people in it. But, of course, when we think of “mind altering drugs” we refer to something else. That there might be a shortcut, a wormhole, a portal to some new and improved state of mind has long held our fascination. Yes, that includes alcohol, but while alcohol can affect mood and anxiety and augment sociability, there is something especially appealing about opening a window onto a whole new view of reality itself. Hence the new question born in the 1960’s: “are you experienced?’.
Psychedelics have been featured and feared, romanticized and reviled, lauded and suspected since the earliest epochs of human history. In many tribal ceremonies certain substances with “mind expanding” properties were invoked as communal invitations toward the transcendent. In battle, various plants, herbs, and potions were reputed to make warriors assassins, berserkers, or heroes. Continue reading Psychedelics
In Ukraine, a long history of Russian crimes against Jews
Click Here to Read: In Ukraine, a long history of Russian crimes against Jews by Benjamin Ivry on the Forward website on February 28, 2022.Religious
Jews in Khorostkiv, small town in Ternopil region of western Ukraine, in 1917 during times First World War. Hasids. Hasidic Jews of eastern Galicia (west Ukraine, then still Austro-Hungarian empire until 1918) Author Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
