Enlightenment has as much to do with Buddhism as water with soft drinks.
TOO MUCH fake niceness “nescius/ignorant) SUGAR& DOGMA FLAVOURS, to be the real life essential thing.
The main purpose of any religion pretending to be the go between improving the “goodness” of humans, is reinforcing the power structures of a clergy.
From my experience with enlightenment as highly world inclusive delightful sensual EXPERIENCE , I doubt that celibacy is of any good beside as tool of control inside the system. Admiring country’s where people can hardly get any education beside as monks/nuns is an avoidance of the own historical social developments .
Monastery’s as form of feudal birth control, is not truly a though full way of considering the pleasure energy needed to build neuronal bridges.
Belonging to a golden card country member club of the right mantra path, is just some escapism more, and retrograding into master worship, a form of spiritual immaturity, mostly readjusted into omnipotence participation games towards “non believers”.
Religions are anti spiritual, Buddhism too. The idea to obtain a good human through “discipline”,”self control (who controls whom in that game?), or other practices dividing life in moralin bites is a disdain of the true human potential to feel natural compassion and unity with all being.
The “Buddhist” ego game is not the “SELF”. Its just another society pleasing image more far from unique&universal experience of being.
Enlightenment is always a revolution, not a trained pet.
The Buddhist delusion Saturday, Jul 10 2010
spirituality 10:30 am
Antiphonsgarden's Weblog 
D’accord, encore (can I say, ‘en grand accord’ grammatically?)… Line for line, I have made almost all the same points in arguing with people on this subject… but with the benefit of having lived in Asia for some years in the past. . . Have never thought of the monastic life as a means of contraception, though. Brilliant.
The tradition of one woman marrying brothers tends to the same point.The heritage remains at home and the descendants gets restrained.Same goes for the monastery’s in “our” middle age.
The reincarnation politic is also allowing the in heritage to remain in the hand of the clergy.
The willingness to consider Buddhism as the “better” religion is so full of cultural, misunderstandings and historical avoidances.
The DL is a political “invention” of the great khan, and Buddhist country’s have been full of wars and power struggles over the century.It is interesting to observe what “unhumble desires” this ” humble desire less” projection includes and what function it full fills.
Religion history can help tremendously to figure out certain meme instead of assuming their “heaven giftness”, like lets say : Mary s “virginity” as a bad translation from the Greek : maid or quiet recent dogma of The “Immaculate Conception” defined by Pope Pius IX(the dogma papal infaillability falls in this era too ! ) in his constitution Ineffabilis Deus, on December 8, 1854(1858 Lourdes!) serving his political purpose against the European revolutionary movements.Only a bit of the multiple mostly unconsidered aspects I could extend on all this “pious” human “creations” far away from the “inner spirit”.
=== The willingness to consider Buddhism as the “better” religion is so full of cultural, misunderstandings and historical avoidances. ===
Yes. There was a particularly horrible — sickly-sweet — American film about the life of the Buddha, starring Keanu Reave (Reeve? Reaves?) about ten years ago. I couldn’t stand more than half an hour of watching it. I seem to remember flowers bursting from the ground wherever this beautiful but blank-faced actor’s feet touched it.
… But, @antiphonsgarden, since nearly all the world’s religions are built on the same human impulse, the spiritual drive, … since they are constructed from essentially the same psychic material … that Buddhism is, for Westerners attracted to it, (i) a way of _revitalising_ religion, dressing the same impulses in stimulating and new ‘exotic’ theories and dogma, etc.,…. and (ii) breaking the deathly grip of the hierarchies controlling religion in their own societies?
Intelligent people I know who are drawn to Buddhism are disproportionately lapsed Catholics. One such person is a friend who is a doctor, who has been fretting about her beloved father’s extreme distress over the recent revelations about the abuse of children in the Catholic church. He has been a devout Catholic all his life, and feels cheated. . . . So the bad behaviour of the people who get control of any religion can leave those who depend on them to mediate with we call ‘the divine’, can be left with nothing. For a person who needs mediators of some kind, isn’t it better to have an imperfectly understood Buddhism for comfort than nothing at all?
Sorry, I was hurrying, and left out words. . .
This should read …
=== … since they are constructed from essentially the same psychic material … DON’T YOU THINK that Buddhism is, for Westerners attracted to it, (i) a way of _revitalising_ religion, … ===
This should have said,
=== … So the bad behaviour of the people who get control of any religion can leave those who depend on them to mediate with we call ‘the divine’, with nothing. ===
No “thing” at all!indeed,is not nothing!
Can you see that I talk from my own spiritual experience side.I don’t neglect Enlightenment(a big fat word for a delightful blissful human NATURAL experience!)I know myself, I fight against the clergy from that side of view, not from an atheist(the pious back coin believers)nihilism.The “comforting” side of clergy IS the neurotic bonbon wrapping glitter paper, not the real sweet, and has to be view for the immature humiliation it is to move over towards a truly more NATURALLY caring&loving society.Reality awareness is bearable to humans and it is the dualism considering that the human has to “evolute towards purity” who IS the destructive madness.
Means the religions are those pretend self declared fire fighters “experts” who set fire,with guilt and self hate/improvement concepts,to be needed.The disdain of the Eros in religion who has to be “sublimated” is the best way to get hysterical fanatics and controlling the diminished split human.The abuse of children is not restrain to any religion, but generalised to each hierarchical hypocritical dogma demanding trustful subordination.The abuse of children in Buddhist structures is as obvious as in Christian one. It is BECAUSE I enjoy my spiritual potential that I fight the empowerment of some over it in the minds as much as I consider my duty as therapist to question the neurotic society, and no only “cure the wounds”, it can NOT be separated. The spirit is FREE or it is not the spirit.
Religion is the antitheses of spirituality.
It is the mistrust into the human potential AS SUCH to be “good”.
You said,
=== No “thing” at all!indeed,is not nothing!
Can you see that I talk from my own spiritual experience side. ===
… and …
=== Religion is the antitheses of spirituality.
It is the mistrust into the human potential AS SUCH to be “good”. ===
My replies are also based on my own experience and explorations … and I wouldn’t disagree with any of your other remarks. _Mais_! … What I’ve said about people needing religion for solace, … to fill a void, and so on … that’s from observation of what the majority of people seem to need.
I don’t say any of that from a superior stance, since it makes no sense to judge what other people need to make it through the night. Some of what helps me survive would be downright laughable to lots of others …
Like you, I don’t have much trust in the professional mediators whose business is religion. It’s like the idea that dyed hair takes years off a person’s appearance. This is only true of those whose locks turn grey prematurely. For the rest … well, it can look about as convincing as lipstick on a corpse — yes?
One of my “duty’s” as old brainwasher, is to aim resisting to be trapped into the neurosit manipulations I get proposed.That is the game.I trust in the human potential THAT MUCH, that I don’t believe anybody needs artificial paradises to survive.I am very water proved on that,a bit like a fortress resisting who provides the protection to the uncared element who s voice got reduced to silence,so that the field could surrender to the louder “worldly demands”.I am the witness, trusting the inner voice.
=== a bit like a fortress resisting who provides the protection to the uncared element who s voice got reduced to silence,so that the field could surrender to the louder “worldly demands”.I am the witness, trusting the inner voice. ===
Ah! This I can understand. That’s good and important work.
I confess that it’s a little difficult for me to relate to the idea of people needing protection from religious dogma, manipulations, and so on … since, in my family, the battle against all that was fought by my parents’ generation. . . . I am also one of many who have been struck by the fanaticism — or certainly, aggressive closed-mindedness and intolerance — of some leaders of today’s militant atheists.
The “dawkin sect” is a very English phenomena.
I consider atheists as the pious backside of the BELIEVER coin, as both sides talk about something they DON’T KNOW!
I suggest spiritual EXPERIENCES(including all kind of life “experience”from satoris up to agnostism, or a mix of whatever!)as the opposite of BOTH doctrinal dogmas(the religious and the atheist one!).
I agree.
This appears to be such an obvious thing, this error appears to be so very juvenile, that one would not expect anyone other than children (intellectually, at any rate) to talk thus.
Yet one is astonished, time and again, seeing otherwise brillian people falling in this so very obvious trap.
When I say I agree, I mean I agree with the absurdity of Dawkin’s position: not about what you percieve as the English-ness (or in this case, American-ness) of that error.
All kinds of people, of all kinds of intelligence and education, in all parts of the world, often reason thus: I don’t know about this, but so-and-so does, and I believe! Or, I don’t know about this, so it doesn’t exist! The absolute illogic of both positions is so obvious — and yet so ubiquitous!
Perhaps … about the Dawkins sect. I just don’t know enough about the state of the debate in other countries. I’d have thought you’d have your equivalent in France — ?
=== I suggest spiritual EXPERIENCES(including all kind of life “experience”from satoris up to agnostism, or a mix of whatever)as the opposite of BOTH doctrinal dogmas(the religious and the atheist one!) ===
Yes, if they are the real thing, I suspect that they defy systematisation or neat packaging of any kind. .. But the word ‘spiritual’ has almost been ruined its appropriation by New Age hustlers and salesmen — who specialise in precisely the packaging and hyperbole that expose the falseness of what they purvey.
… One big problem with the rejection of religion, though, is that it has been responsible for creating most of our greatest art — across virtually all cultures (you might ask, for instance, is Confucianism really a religion?) … But in the West, what have we had, for a long time, that can hold the smallest candle to the music of Bach or Scarlatti, Purcell, Faure … or the architecture of the Gothic cathedrals? … And in literature, haven’t novels lost dramatic tension since religiously-ordained morality and other forms of restraint related to the Church lost their teeth?
Science — or pseudo-scientific thinking — has taken the place of religion in most people’s heads, but that hasn’t done much good for the arts. Have you been to any concerts lately where modern classical music is performed? Eg., Berio?
Spirituality and art are immanent to humans and pre-religious. Religions have been a mind corset to science&art over the century’s and we might only have a glimpse of the liberty of expression we might have missed WITHOUT the religious determinism “how art&science have to be!”,how many artist and scientist of great talent have been sidelined or destroyed in their creative potential by(all)dogmas.The difference between spirituality and religion, is the same as the difference between the Tao(not Tao”ism”) and Confucianism.The first is about the awareness of the life energy, the second is fake harmony through hierarchical subordination .
As one Sufi once said: “the haven is safe for the boats, but boats who never leave the haven miss the sea”.Its high time to mature towards the freedom of self responsibility in spiritual and political matters.The paternalistic care concepts have failed.Times of transition are welcomed to those who suffocates on the old paradigm, and frightening to those who install their mind comfort in.But change is inevitable
I agree with nearly everything you say there, but with reservations …
Religion seems to be more effective than spirituality at mobilising people and inspiring collective effort. In the 12th century, in your country, a Robert de Mont-Saint-Michel wrote: ‘[W]e saw believers harnessed to carts laden with stones, wood, grain, everything needed for building the cathedral. As if by magic the towers rose into the air. This was happening … all over France and Normandy …’.
Then — and I was reading this, by pure coincidence, two weeks ago … an Abbe Aimon of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dive described ‘powerful lords and princes of this world, blown up with riches and honours, and women of noble birth bending their proud heads and yoking themselves like draught beasts to take wine, grain, oil, lime, stones and wood to people building a church …’ …
I somehow got through most of my life without knowing about that irreproachably democratic ‘sweat equity’ in the building of the Gothic wonders.
Another argument in religion’s favour is that it never really left us — that, for instance, socialism, communism … and all the other egalitarian philosophies are simply a re-casting of Christian ideals in secular form.
Like you, I am a great admirer of both Taoism and Sufism (lovely quotation about boats and havens, thank you) … I simply enjoy playing devil’s advocate, usually in arguments with myself.
I might be a dechanting factor on that one, having cathar family too.
Many of these cathedrals are full of “stone” mockery sculpures about those who have been killed as enemy by the main clergy/authority.
I admit, it needs lots of insider skills to recognize those historical patterns, but they are openly there, even on the main door often, humiliating those who s fortune had been used to build up these monuments of a certain believe system propaganda.The building craftsmen had their own agenda, also visible.
Ancestors blood on both sides in the The red Seine at the St.Bartholomew night.
All that for what?
Even Constantine the origin of the institutionalised trouble, burned his wife in oil.
Passing through a green allee of trees bending towards each other, is good enough for my “soul elevation”.
I am the diabolo grenadine/menthe of argumentation!:-)
=== cathar family too. ===
That’s a subject to which I’d like to return … Not much time for blgging/commenting until Sunday, so I’ll say just this, for the moment …
=== The building craftsmen had their own agenda, also visible. ===
I don’t doubt that. Perfectionists usually hear about it because of those stonemasons’ habit of — if I’m remembering correctly — leaving out a small stone in the corner of each cathedral as an acknowledgment of human imperfection. Also to make sure that they were not seen as competitors by the being in whose honour they had toiled. . . Rather sweet. : )
=== Ancestors blood on both sides in the The red Seine at the St.Bartholomew night.
All that for what? ===
Well, even today, if the ‘what’ in your sentence were ‘science’ … if its current supremacy as the _only_ respectable way of approaching the problems of our age were ever seriously threatened … imagine the hullabaloo that would ensue. Imagine the bloodbaths.
=== Passing through a green allee of trees bending towards each other, is good enough for my “soul elevation”. ===
D’accord. . . But I don’t feel any inclination to found a school, philosophy, sect, etc., … based on that sentiment, and neither, I feel sure, do you. … I see spirituality as personal and individual.
Others — billions of them — think otherwise. Yesterday, I was sent by by someone ordinarily highly intelligent, a link to a site describing a white-haired, bearded figure as something like ‘a leading 21st-century prophet’. Then the introduction went on to say, … (I’ve removed the identifying information):
=== … Two years after [_________]’s prolonged convalescence in the hospital, catastrophe occurred: the spiritual community he founded nearly 40 years earlier began to disintegrate. Factions developed. A new prior took over. Some members, including ordained priests, left the community. [________] himself resigned as abbot, was allegedly laicized and is no longer publicly associated with the Spiritual [____] Institute, which now has only a handful of members (although he still considers himself a member of the order he founded in 1960, the [______] of Apostolic Hermits). Long-time members, such as co-founder Mother T________ and Fr. D______, also left, founding a new “circle of friends,” the [______] Foundation, to maintain the original Carmelite spirit and ideals. . ===
…
… I read that and thought, phew! the same old story over and over and over again, for centuries … pathetically predictable …
=== I am the diabolo grenadine/menthe of argumentation!:-) ===
!!! … and I am a mere tisane.
Guess what, I was with my folks yesterday in a cathedral with Faure organ music.Refreshing at a hot summer day.
It takes courage to go the “path less walked by” and get lost and find oneself and so on.
Organisations and doctrines pretend to give security of mind through subordination to the group rules.That is the all attraction of whatever congregation.The actual wars in the scientific field are mostly based on prestige and profit issues.The good old scientific tradition is not about “truth dogma” but about proposed HYPOTHESES, encouraging the discourse.
All who propose to “better” the human, neglect to see what distorted the human.A far more important way to “solve” few little problems.
Chere tisane,
How do you say “tilleul” in English, please?
=== The good old scientific tradition is not about “truth dogma” but about proposed HYPOTHESES, encouraging the discourse.===
Well, this is what I often find myself saying about the diagnoses of eg., Freudians and Jungians — that they are only based on the theories of one man or the other, and might in certain cases, if not overall, be mistaken.
=== All who propose to “better” the human, neglect to see what distorted the human.A far more important way to “solve” few little problems. ===
D’accord. But you might have to go a very long way back, non?. . . Isn’t the expulsion from the Garden of Eden the founding myth of Christianity, and one of the first things we were all taught — even if our parents rebelled against religion?
The idea of a long-lost Golden Age when everyone behaved well, was always willing to share their last baguette and ripe camembert with anyone hungry, etc. … is one that many religions and mythologies have in common. In all of them, humanity has, since then, been cast out into an Age of Suffering and Woe — full of selfish people who would rather crack teeth gnawing on their hoards of bread and cheese turn hard and inedible than share a bite with anyone else. . . So if it’s the same story everywhere, do you really think there’s much point in investigating first causes?
I am surprised that you, of all people, do not know the traditional way to get an answer to that question. Here it is: you march boldly up to your allee and looking up at them sing ‘Unter der Linden’ in your sweetest voice. You wait a minute or two, … a branch trembles, and a disembodied voice says, ‘Lime blossom.’
Other way round, dear acacciatura,
Neurology is on “my side” and even more now.
Compassion/collaboration is STILL the natural choice people make as majority when it comes to solution finding( it IS a self”ish” act to care well for other too!).
Even biology talks about cooperation of the sperms instead of “the fittest wins”.
Something is changing in the perception of reality, NOW!, not…”quands les poules auront des dents!”.
The Smith theorem is “old cheese”, some still suckle, like on an old comforting ripped off teddy bear.
Each see humanity as he/she unconsciously see s him/herself.Each is free to doubt the world supossing how much the world might have to be doubtful about him/herself.Who am I to disillusion such a self/all concept.
I probably search for the signs corresponding to my inner being, like we all do.
Hypothese: self awareness helps to trust into the human potential.
An extraordinarily interesting post. I shall have to think about it for a while … But what is the Smith theorem?
=== ( it IS a self”ish” act to care well for other too!). ===
You are right. Science does seem to support this idea .. . There isn’t necessarily proof of this in all cultures, however.
Poor Smith, the neoliberals have taken from all what he said only the “greed” as primordial human base of action.(neglecting his ethical aspects correlated).That much to legitimation of the own abusive actions.In my eyes, Greed is about oral deprivation, and cant never been “filled”. It can only be FULLFILLED with curing love who like the breastfeeding has to be a mutual interactive communication.But such people have been so deprived of the essential, that they think in therm of accaparation . As frustrated orality is like a hole without base who cant be “filled” one way with more and more and more, and that “no milk is ever good enough”(the “lower rank” goes at that phase for morphin derivates, who “taste like milk” to the brain)the more these people “have” the more they feel starvation (underneath the shine!).All this talks of EXTREME INNER POVERTY, not of inner interconnected bounty .Sucking out the resources will never ease up this pain, but might destroy “mother earth”.
Cultures or Civilizations?
Our “culture” is about pattern recognition in our environnment (humans included).
Civilization is a arbitrary divisive temporary situation.
I favourite culture as the more eternal value.
=== In my eyes, Greed is about oral deprivation, and cant never been “filled”. ===
Wise eyes.
It takes extended reflection to know what the right sort of ‘filling’ is, doesn’t it. . . . The internet interrupts the reflection, steals time from it, so weakens the ability to discriminate between the right and wrong stuff for a particular individual. Can be even worse than ‘fast food’ — because it’s nearly all free.
Even on blogs, “food” has to be smelled, tasted, bitten , chewed, eventually spit out, slowly swallowed,digested or not up to the end ,and transformed as nutrition of the own, and compost material to the world .
=== Even on blogs, “food” has to be smelled, tasted, bitten , chewed, eventually spit out ===
… so, just imagine the digestive ailments that Twitter is giving people.
I tried Twitter under another pseudonym for two weeks, without bothering to tell anyone I know that I was there. So I had … have (though I haven’t checked the account for at least a month) … a stunning total of O followers!
I couldn’t stand the tedium of racing all day to maintain and boost my fan-count without the faintest idea of who most of the other people on there are in real life — and having no particular interest in finding out. . . As the ‘celebrities’ are just there to fan their egos, I’m even less interested in them.
The more this engines pretends to connect one with the “millions” out there, the more it looks like aunty’s provincial village.
Only a bit more “noisy”, sometimes!
… Yes, noisier … and I wonder if it isn’t all about looking at yourself in Aunty’s provincial mirror. The most maddening feature of Twitter is the idiots who keep up a steady stream of tweets that say, ‘Here I am being interviewed on TV’ …
‘Here’s my latest article in magazine X’ … ‘Latest set of pictures of me and my family on the beach on flickr’ … Nauseating. … Frightfully regressive, don’t you think? ‘Mummy, mummy, come look at me! … now, Mummy, look at me again!’ …. aaaargh … Transforms a tool whose point is connection into the greatest engine ever invented for the inculcation and support of narcissim.
Considering the resource abuse of each of these electrical ego pets, the amazing tristesse who truly “shows off”, the overwhelming banality of the once “silent majority” has his depressing aspects.It requires a lot of love overcoming the disgust to love humans as co- humans acting out the insecure bragging middle frame mindset.
The Sufi talk about the “right amount” of attention. Not too less, not too much.
Narcissism is NOT self love, but the obsessive attempt to fit to an image, to the disadvantage of the REAL self.Celebrity cult is projecting distraction from our REAL needs of mutual recognition.Have you noticed how Henri the VIII is now a jolly youngster and miss Marple gets sidelined by a bunch of “so witty young poseurs ” in the scripts of the “hip” media.As if these generation would not be allowed to mature up to “more”…later!.No future? Already as baby, the golden child with own web page.Its an egg,its an egg, said the chicken.How to prevent these kids from the “unnatural selection” ,from this : “be successful”, instead of the simple “wish you to be whatever you are”.
The open eye who looks deeper heals.
Not shaming the wish to be seen, not feeding his superficial limitation.
=== the overwhelming banality of the once “silent majority” has his depressing aspects. ===
I agree … and yet the people using the new media in this way who are _already_ very rich and famous, or simply prominent piddling fish in some pond or other, are even more annoying. Gluttons for admiration, yes? … Whereas it’s easier to forgive people who have never had a taste of any part of the limelight for going mad with the ‘ego pets’.
Now here’s something for your theme in this thread — from the front page of yesterday’s NYT. The fanatical Dawkinsites and their sympathisers are quite literally turning atheism into a clone of the old religions:
=== … Florence’s history of science museum, recently renovated and renamed to honor Galileo: Modern-day supporters of the famous heretic are exhibiting newly recovered bits of his body — three fingers and a gnarly molar sliced from his corpse nearly a century after he died — as if they were the relics of an actual saint.
“He’s a secular saint, and relics are an important symbol of his fight for freedom of thought,” said Paolo Galluzzi, the director of the Galileo Museum, which put the tooth, thumb and index finger on view last month, uniting them with another of the scientist’s digits already in its collection.
“He’s a hero and martyr to science,” he added. ===
Told you, both side of the same bigot pious “believer coin”.
Your article is very funny.
Will they as next through relics at each other?
(guess a crusty business to those making them!)
All these people are so frighten of the universe in them and others.The more they insist to be “right” the more they are “wrong”.What a misery!
Les “precieux” ridicules!
=== old you, both side of the same bigot pious “believer coin”. ===
Yes you did indeed … and I’d also noticed the frightening similarity.
Most amazing of all, in that article, is the Vatican’s failure — to this day — to acknowledge that Galileo was right.
… Overall … to think of all the good Christians _and_ secularists who have laughed uproariously at the idea of a temple created to house a tooth of the Buddha!
Relict’s are the bigots best friends.
You mean, the equivalent, for a religious fundamentalist, of scientific proof?
Each his gri-gri!
Some stick to their “Logic evidences”like these “modern” stickers one can not detach from goods(I recommend a drop of oil on the last and a mind shake to the first).
I saw recently a British documentary about “human sperm” where a young ” today we teach you everything about the mystery’s of science” miss teacher (why not a man after all for that subject concerning them first?), was repeating with assurance beside the usual banalytys to that topic, the myth of the “best who makes it”(false:it is about cooperation )and was pointing(Oh, holy punitive bigotry!) at a syphilitic skull full of black spots to scare the audience( ever heard of antibiotics?).That much to “education, education, education” who simply shows that one gets out the “science” reflecting his mindset and society moral/profit/privileges .
Finding some “truth” might be probably a hard task in institutions determinate to pretend to “own them”.
… trying to post again, after several unsuccessful attempts at replying … what’s going on at WordPress … ? ……….:
=== one gets out the “science” reflecting his mindset and society moral/profit/privileges . ===
Exactly! And this is one of the most shocking examples:
=== Psychiatrists had decided they would provide the public with the types of chemical personality they saw fit. What would follow in the years to come would be the medicalization of any behavior psychiatry deemed “inappropriate”. As David Kaiser had noted, psychiatrists cannot measure levels of neurotransmitters in the brain in the way doctors can measure sugar levels in a diabetic patient. The question must be asked then, how can you balance or adjust something which cannot be measured? More importantly, does an actual chemical imbalance exist? Parents are told routinely that children given an ADD diagnosis have a chemical imbalance and that amphetaminelike drugs will balance the child’s brain chemistry.
[…] while some “claim hyperactivity in children is a ‘biochemical imbalance’ …researchers cannot identify which chemicals…or find abnormal levels” in children. === http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/Biochemical-Imbalance.htm
… I never cease to be astounded by the numbers of highly-educated people who accept this chemical model for depression as meekly as if their aptitude for critical thinking has abandoned them entirely. Never considering the possibility that there is ‘bad’ as well as ‘good’ science, or that today’s fashionable hypothesis can be discredited by new research tomorrow, … they rush to get prescriptions and swallow the pills. You can turn blue in the face, trying to warn them about the side-effects of medicines that work by means that even doctors and scientists cannot explain. They don’t listen.
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=== one gets out the “science” reflecting his mindset and society moral/profit/privileges . ===
Exactly! And this is one of the most shocking examples:
=== Psychiatrists had decided they would provide the public with the types of chemical personality they saw fit. What would follow in the years to come would be the medicalization of any behavior psychiatry deemed “inappropriate”. As David Kaiser had noted, psychiatrists cannot measure levels of neurotransmitters in the brain in the way doctors can measure sugar levels in a diabetic patient. The question must be asked then, how can you balance or adjust something which cannot be measured? More importantly, does an actual chemical imbalance exist? Parents are told routinely that children given an ADD diagnosis have a chemical imbalance and that amphetaminelike drugs will balance the child’s brain chemistry.
[…] while some “claim hyperactivity in children is a ‘biochemical imbalance’ …researchers cannot identify which chemicals…or find abnormal levels” in children. === http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/Biochemical-Imbalance.htm
… I never cease to be astounded by the numbers of highly-educated people who accept this chemical model for depression as meekly as if their aptitude for critical thinking has abandoned them entirely. Never considering the possibility that there is ‘bad’ as well as ‘good’ science, or that today’s fashionable hypothesis can be discredited by new research tomorrow, … they rush to get prescriptions and swallow the pills.
You can turn blue in the face, trying to warn them about the side-effects of medicines that work by means that even doctors and scientists cannot explain. They don’t listen.
I just found out your post my comments under spam, one wonders why?
The pharma industry wants to sell the same old molecules (in reality despite the flashy outlook, research is very neglect compared to marketing) to as many “consumers” as possible and that for pretends to be the “serious” cure all life situations and phases.
They create a “need” a bit like plastic surgery or the armament/oil industry.
Sedating emotions to a superficial mood flatness is preventing humans to react to the worse done to humanity with a reflex of revolt.
“brave new world Soma” to all!
your post IN my comments(sorry, the phrase is misunderstandable without thin tinny “IN” !)
Sorry to have been so slow replying … Living gets in the way of blogging, sometimes … ; ) …
Returning to your blog sfter nearly a week, I can’t help thinking that the best cure for nearly every affliction of the spirit must be sitting in a garden like yours, seeing and sensing what you describe so alluringly in your other posts. . . If only everyone could have a chance to recover from too much rushing around as I was, yesterday, by listening to the wind and the thumping of small, fidgety animal paws on the roof, … watching sea-fog move through trees as I worked.
But then most people I know seem to prefer hyper-activity and would be bored by your routines and mine.
Hyper activity seems a “mal du temps” of people PRETENDING to do something when in reality they avoid doing something sense full.
Headless chicken appear alive too for few!
More work of worth done in a patch of compost than in a skyscraper full yuppies, mostly!
To posting: take your time to land back soft on your own blog. As much as I rejoice to read you back, as much I think, time has time.
=== time has time. ===
What a generous and welcome thought. Thank you, dear @antiphonsgarden.
This week, which I’d hoped would be relatively uneventful, is also too packed with coming-and-going.
I love the Dutch way of referring to chickens in that unfortunate state:
Kip zonder kop