You’re Conscious When You Breathe in Water An excerpt from Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea: “The instinct not to breathe underwater is so strong that it overcomes the agony of running out of air. No matter how desperate the drowning person is, he doesn’t inhale until he’s…
A community works to protect itself and its members. It does not need businesses, but they usually do have businesses. A society is much more loosely connected group of people who live socially together without a common goal. Societies are almost exclusively bound together by money. Business is what turns a community into a society.…
Brain/Mind as Broken ToolOK! What happens is the brain can’t get over the anxiety, so the brain becomes like a broken tool trying to fix something… by… focusing on it and the worst case scenario’s- how to prevent them and fix the problem. The problem is that it, the brain, is a broken tool. It…
Depression is a habit of thought. The process for dealing with depression is the same as the process for changing all habits of thought. Usually people embark on this difficult work because they want to change a habit of thought that causes a behavioral pattern that makes them unhappy or is destructive or dysfunctional. Habits…
ANTI-NUTRIENTS: Wheat has several harmful proteins that are anti-nutrients, i.e. resists digestion and or can attack the lining of the gut, which in turn causes Leaky Gut and inflammation. Wheat Germ Agglutinin (WGA) is a a very powerful and toxic lectin. Lectins have an affinity for sugar and can attack any cell membrane with a…
Here’s a checklist I developed that I really resonate with, and other people have told me they like it too It has 7 ways of looking at the common signs of depression See what you think; Check what you are thinkingIn depression, your thoughts are very negative and self critical They can seem so overwhelming…
If done responsibly (avoiding unwanted pregnancy), sex is no different than massage, acupuncture, or any other treatment of your body. Is it immoral to mutually massage each-other with your friend in the weekends? Of course not. It is completely moral to ask your friend who is a girl for a massage, but it would seem…
Anxiety is a coping strategy to ward off and distract yourself from the mental/ emotional and physical distress you have incurred, which needs to be addressed on the unconscious level. Severe anxiety is termed ‘attack’ because of the intensity. Technically, the person is attacking him/herself. Nothing outside the person is causing anxiety or attacking. There…
Before answering it, let us get to know death. And before that, life. So, what is life, afterlife, and death? Is life a magical, an illogical ‘out of the air’ crappy nonsense given us by a fair-skinned, white-bearded, senile old man sitting somewhere up there in an illusory biblical heaven – a mere six thousand…
Before you shop at Amazon Prime, read this.The dead giveaway that tells you when Amazon’s giving you a better price than other retailers.I’ll assume your question is about the sexual gratification some people associate with giving or receiving pain, i.e., sadism and masochism. Like most things, this sort of gratification falls on a spectrum, ranging…
