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Allegory of the Cave - Legion
Beautifully done analogy of Plato's, "Allegory of the Cave" depicted in the modern world in the FX show - Legion. No spoilers for the greater arc of the show.
Beautifully done analogy of Plato's, "Allegory of the Cave" depicted in the modern world in the FX show - Legion. No spoilers for the greater arc of the show.
Thought-Control Tactics Narcissists Use to Confuse and Dominate You
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Psych Central
14 Thought-Control Tactics Narcissists Use to Confuse and Dominate You
Narcissists lives are about winning, generally at others expense. Many narcissists pursue a win-at-all-costs,
Pivotal mental states
We highlight how certain natural inducers of stress such as social isolation, starvation, atypical breathing, sleep deprivation, extreme body temperature and pain can be intentionally manipulated for the purposes of personal and/or spiritual development, presumably by promoting endogenous psychedelic-like signaling and we review several cross-cultural, historical and modern examples of such manipulation.
This paper has proposed that certain traumatic, spiritual, psychedelic and psychosis-relevant experiences can be viewed as examples of what we call PiMSs: transient, intense hyper-plastic states of mind and brain that have the potential to mediate rapid, major and potentially enduring psychological change.
Before the relatively recent advent of secular psychology, religious traditions provided useful resources to prepare and guide individuals through PiMSs, for example, for purposes of self-transformation and growth. Note, in this regard, religions have excellent narrative and infrastructural resources for dealing with ‘psychological rebirth’ .
In modern secular environments, we presently lack the same quality of integrated support, shared values and unified vision. Thinking towards the future, consideration could be given to the value of creating humanistic contexts supportive of positive self-transformation.
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We highlight how certain natural inducers of stress such as social isolation, starvation, atypical breathing, sleep deprivation, extreme body temperature and pain can be intentionally manipulated for the purposes of personal and/or spiritual development, presumably by promoting endogenous psychedelic-like signaling and we review several cross-cultural, historical and modern examples of such manipulation.
This paper has proposed that certain traumatic, spiritual, psychedelic and psychosis-relevant experiences can be viewed as examples of what we call PiMSs: transient, intense hyper-plastic states of mind and brain that have the potential to mediate rapid, major and potentially enduring psychological change.
Before the relatively recent advent of secular psychology, religious traditions provided useful resources to prepare and guide individuals through PiMSs, for example, for purposes of self-transformation and growth. Note, in this regard, religions have excellent narrative and infrastructural resources for dealing with ‘psychological rebirth’ .
In modern secular environments, we presently lack the same quality of integrated support, shared values and unified vision. Thinking towards the future, consideration could be given to the value of creating humanistic contexts supportive of positive self-transformation.
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SAGE Journals
Pivotal mental states
This paper introduces a new construct, the ‘pivotal mental state’, which is defined as a hyper-plastic state aiding rapid and deep learning that can mediate psy...
How to Be Curious for Yourself
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satori
How to Be Curious for Yourself
Curiosity is the key to mindfulness and optimal experience
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Transformation
Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
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Wiley Online Library
Sleep duration is associated with white matter microstructure and cognitive performance in healthy adults
Human Brain Mapping is a functional neuroanatomy and neuroimaging journal where all disciplines of neurology collide to advance the field.
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Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
A basic finding of cognitive psychology is that people have no conscious experience of most of what happens in the human mind. Many functions associated with perception, memory, and information processing are conducted prior to and independently of any conscious direction.
What appears spontaneously in consciousness is the result of thinking, not the process of thinking.
Weaknesses and biases inherent in human thinking processes can be demonstrated through carefully designed experiments. They can be alleviated by conscious application of tools and techniques that should be in the analytical tradecraft toolkit of all intelligence analysts.
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Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
A basic finding of cognitive psychology is that people have no conscious experience of most of what happens in the human mind. Many functions associated with perception, memory, and information processing are conducted prior to and independently of any conscious direction.
What appears spontaneously in consciousness is the result of thinking, not the process of thinking.
Weaknesses and biases inherent in human thinking processes can be demonstrated through carefully designed experiments. They can be alleviated by conscious application of tools and techniques that should be in the analytical tradecraft toolkit of all intelligence analysts.
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Chapter 1 — Central Intelligence Agency
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis - Chapter 1 - Thinking About Thinking
“You have to watch this interview where Mike Tyson talks about medieval history”
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Quid Plura?
“And this world’s a fickle measure…”
They told me, “You have to watch this interview where Mike Tyson talks about medieval history,” and so I did, and there he was at the New York Public Library in 2013 being interviewed b…
Gut microbiome linked to poor sleep via metabolite production
A new study out of Japan’s University of Tsukuba is shining yet more light on this relationship, describing how depleted diversity of microbes in the gut can led to disrupted sleep in mice.
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A new study out of Japan’s University of Tsukuba is shining yet more light on this relationship, describing how depleted diversity of microbes in the gut can led to disrupted sleep in mice.
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New Atlas
Gut microbiome linked to poor sleep via metabolite production
Among the many negative health outcomes that may be driven by changes to our gut microbiome is poor sleep, with recent research uncovering links between it and alterations to the community of bacteria living in our bellies. A new study out of Japan’s University…
Researchers Discover How SARS-CoV-2 Reaches the Brain of COVID-19 Patients
“We also found SARS-CoV-2 in areas of the brain which control vital functions, such as breathing. It cannot be ruled out that, in patients with severe COVID-19, presence of the virus in these areas of the brain will have an exacerbating impact on respiratory function, adding to breathing problems due to SARS-CoV-2 infection of the lungs. Similar problems might arise in relation to cardiovascular function.”
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“We also found SARS-CoV-2 in areas of the brain which control vital functions, such as breathing. It cannot be ruled out that, in patients with severe COVID-19, presence of the virus in these areas of the brain will have an exacerbating impact on respiratory function, adding to breathing problems due to SARS-CoV-2 infection of the lungs. Similar problems might arise in relation to cardiovascular function.”
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SciTechDaily
Researchers Discover How SARS-CoV-2 Reaches the Brain of COVID-19 Patients
Using post-mortem tissue samples, a team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have studied the mechanisms by which the novel coronavirus can reach the brains of patients with COVID-19, and how the immune system responds to the virus once…