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#childhood
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Why human childhood lasts so long
It’s a question that bothers many evolutionary scientists: How come it takes so long to raise a human child? Aside from perhaps a whale or two, we have the longest childhood on the planet. Where did this decades-long sojourn come from, and why don’t other animals have to go…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Ascoltare il bambino che abbiamo nell'anima
Se ascolteremo il bambino che abbiamo nell'anima, i nostri occhi torneranno a brillare. Se non perderemo il contatto con questo bimbo, non smarriremo il rapporto con la vita."
Non perdere il cuore di fanciullo
L'uomo grande è colui che non perde il suo cuore di fanciullo. (Mencio)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Psychic determinism
Psychic determinism basically says your parents did it to you. Your upbringing, your childhood experience essentially laid out your personal tendencies and your character structure.
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Nothing lived up to the promise of childhood
What happened next had me staring incredulously! First one then another of the mallards or moorhens seemed to wake up and start, jerkily at first, to move about, until they were all doing something. Around they went, pecking and waddling, the swimming moorhens making that…
Learning to read the story of my own life
It was during this time of abstention from acid that I first saw the drug was having an ongoing effect. Had I not been living such a placid and outwardly uneventful life, I doubt that I would have noticed, but the personal, biographical material, which I believed those last…
Overcompensation had made me a fool
All my life I had flaunted being a public school dropout, but now I saw that there was part of me that had wanted to go to university and to have lived a successful academic life. It was as though I had to think all the things about my life I had never allowed myself to think…
A childhood illness as root trauma
The CD played out, so it must have been the best part of an hour—then abruptly several disparate pieces of information jigsawed themselves together. Suddenly I knew that I had been very seriously ill as a young child when I was living at Windle Hey. Perhaps it was bronchitis…
Acid doubles back to dig out trauma
Yet again I was amazed at the drug’s flexibility. All last summer I had been going deeper and deeper into boundary- and ego-loss states, and when finally I panicked at the depth to which surrender was being demanded, the acid had doubled back on itself to concentrate…
Gran's sugared almonds
Then she would fish bleakly in a bag of sugared almonds that she produced from somewhere on her person, making a big show of offering me one, since she knew I detested them. (Unlike the box of fancy Belgian chocolates she bought on the sly and would hide in ever-changing places…
Nothing had been lost
I was leaving Judges Walk by a different route from the way I had come, down a tiny cul-de-sac. If you go that way the first thing you pass is a tall old red-brick wall, over the top of which you can glimpse some trees. At its foot were clumps of nettles, limp and dusty with…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The ego as an onion with no kernel
You will feel like an onion: skin after skin, subterfuge after subterfuge, is pulled off to find no kernel at the center. Which is the whole point: to find out that the ego is indeed a fake—a wall of defense around a wall of defense … around nothing. You can’t even want to get…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Dissociation as a coping mechanism
According to Smith, and many other DID experts, the vast majority of cases begin with severe childhood abuse. Dissociation is essentially a coping mechanism for tolerating the intolerable. In a strange way it is entirely rational. If you have the thought ‘this can’t be…
The Growth Of Independence In The Young Child
Parents' own childhoods influence childrens development
In this way we come full circle. The emotional disturbances in parents which hinder the natural development of dependence and independence in their children spring almost always from a disturbance in this very function in the parents' own childhoods. Problem children grow up to…