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#concern
Erik Davis - On Psychedelics
Psychiatrist rick strassman experiments with ayahuasca
The most active alkaloid in ayahuasca is DMT, the tryptamine whose study initiated the current wave of psychedelic research and also occasioned some of the more intriguing juxtapositions of religion and science in the recent literature. In the early 1990s, the American…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Vico's verum-factum principle
Much of the aesthetic and constructivist concerns here can be seen in the early writings of Vico whose 'verum-factum' principle - that what is true is what we ourselves have made or constructed
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
The circle of concern
We each have a wide range of concerns—our health, our children, problems at work, the national debt, nuclear war. We could separate those from things in which we have no particular mental or emotional involvement by creating a “Circle of Concern.”
The circle of influence
As we look at those things within our Circle of Concern, it becomes apparent that there are some things over which we have no real control and others that we can do something about. We could identify those concerns in the latter group by circumscribing them within a smaller…
Why The Moon Landing Could Not Have Been A Hoax — It Wasn’t Technologically Possible To Fake It « The Scholarly Kitchen
Conspiracy theorists
Why does any of this matter? My concern is with the ultimate fate of knowing, of seeing the difference of what you can know and what you wish for. . . . The urge to believe drives people to trade in part of their soul in exchange for the comfort of being a rebel.