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Alan Watts on the perils and pitfalls for Westerners of attempting to follow Eastern spiritual paths
In this talk, Alan Watts explains the cultural presuppositions underpinning Taoism, Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, and consequently some of the problems and contradictions often linked to their adoption by Westerners. Essentially, his argument is that these systems are designed to … Continue reading
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Tagged Advaita Vedanta, Alan Watts, buddhism, experience, Jung, Taoism, Westerners
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The social construction of psychiatric disorders
An excellent paper on the social construction of psychiatric “disorders”. The drug companies are targeted, perhaps legitimately though it must be said that the same process is also at work for conditions which do not have any putative pharmaceutical treatment. … Continue reading
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Tagged compulsion, disorders, drugs, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry, shopping, social construction
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Life’s stages
I publish here my prose translation of Hermann Hesse’s poem Stufen (prompted by the poor quality of other translations I found on the internet). I am more and more convinced that he must have been an enlightened master! Stages As … Continue reading
The bondage of self
Just a share. Seems to me what the guy is talking about goes way beyond substance abuse. We use relationships to distract ourselves from our inner conflicts. And yet, once the effect wears off, they inevitably do the exact opposite. … Continue reading
A poem on love and projection in relationships
Translation into English of the poem by Julos Beaucarne, “Femmes et Hommes de la Texture”. Continue reading
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Tagged "julos beaucarne", english, love, projection, relationships, texture
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Osho on relationships (again)
This Osho quote was a new one for me. I can so absolutely identify with this, it is kinda scary 😉 (found on wildtantra.com) “…Any relationship between man and woman is playing with fire and particularly if you start also … Continue reading
Myths of forgiveness
In this article I will summarize a recent piece appearing on netzwerkb.org, a german language network for victims of sexualized violence. I understand from the comments that Barbara Rogers, author of the unmissable resource “Screams from Childhood“, intends to publish … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, anger, better place, compassion, cycle, erotic, forgiveness, hatred, healing, justice, liberation, patriarchy, perpetrator, psychology, revenge, sexual, shame, social control, victim, violence
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Some words on marriage, by Shelley
We are already two centuries later. Hard to believe. Not even the intercourse of the sexes is exempt from the despotism of positive institution. Law pretends even to govern the indisciplinable wanderings of passion, to put fetters on the clearest … Continue reading
Osho on love and relationships
When a man loves a woman, then he naturally also loves many other people; and when a woman loves a man, then she also loves many other people, because love cannot be limited to a single person. If there is … Continue reading
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Bien plus grave
10 Feb 2007 I found this poem, by Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, on another tantric blog in Spanish, I translated it into French which better preserves the rhythm than English – there may be a few mistakes but hopefully not … Continue reading
Becoming Human 