SEEKER'S BALLAD, a folk song for seekers and visionaries

                                                                                   

                                                     SEEKER'S BALLAD (Youtube video)


                                                                                   

                                                       DANIEL MACKLER, Author at Mad in America


                                                                                       

                                                                              

                                         
                                                       WILDTRUTH---Healing from Childhood Trauma

My name is Daniel Mackler and I am a filmmaker, writer, and musician based in New York City.  I also worked for ten years as a psychotherapist in New York, though I ended my therapy practice in 2010.  My writings focus on the causes, consequences, and radical significance of childhood trauma.  I see childhood trauma as ranging from the extreme, which is common, to the mild, which is so much MORE common that few even notice it at all, much less call it by its proper name.  I view the norm in our culture as being highly traumatized and I view the average, and even above-average, childhood as being extremely traumatic – and the average parent as lacking both awareness of this and deep empathy for the child.

I see our world growing more pathological, confused, polluted, overpopulated, and disturbed by the day – and I feel that to stand by and say nothing while we destroy our planet is irresponsible and even criminal.  Yet I write with great hope – both for individual healing and for the collective healing of our world.  I seek to offer a new perspective – on relationships, on manifesting the best of ourselves, on the potential value of celibacy, on parenting, on the pathology of the family system, and on the future of our species.

                                                       DANIEL MACKLER (Youtube video)


                                                                         

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THE FISH ROT FROM THE TOP DOWN (in 120 words)

                                                    THE FISH ROT FROM THE TOP DOWN

                                                         by Thomas Hoskyns Leonard

                                                                 

           "So what's happening on Earth?" inquired the Crown Oligarch, Princess Natasha of Qinsatorix, thwacking her husband's posterior with a dragon's whip.  (21 words)

           "The Duke of Edinburgh broke his neck on a waterslide and had to be destroyed," moaned Prince Hamlet of Denmark, lashing out at a dorgi-corgi, "and the Russians are bombing Ankara."

                                                                                                                    (32 words)

           "Goodie gumdrops! I'll tell the Imperial Chamberlain to super-carrion the Saudis another billion gold pieces, That'll stir everything up."     (20 words)

            "Why don't you send the Brits a battle fleet of UFOs? It would be fun watching  them dominating their world again."       (21 words)

            "What a masterly way of trumping those dreadful Yanks! Aha! Here come the Sirens from Syracuse! Now for the Greek orgy and royal crotch kicking."  (24 words)

            "Not again! Aaaaaargh!!"                          (3 words).


                                                                 

                                                                       

THE MK ULTRA/ MODERN PSYCHIATRY CONTROVERSY

                                                               

MK ULTRA

ON THE DARK HISTORY OF EUGENICS AND MK ULTRA

DR. WILLIAM SARGANT, EVIL PIONEER OF MODERN PSYCHIATRY

IN DEFENCE OF ATHEISM by Ioana-Noemy Toma

Dear Mr. Hoskyns,

I discovered today your blog,

 http://thomashoskynsleonardblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/some-concerns-relating-to-scottish.html,

through David Healy's blog, http://davidhealy.org/study-329-big-risk/ .

Congratulations for your attentive and courageous work on psychiatric abuses. Much is still to be done.

I noticed also that you are member in a Christian community.

As an aware terrestrial citizen, I want to warn you that religions are imperfect traditions,

that can dangerously mislead their followers. It is prudent to analyze rationally their contribution to the

human culture, in order to keep what is valid and to correct what is erroneous. 

The atheist communities are not perfect, but they are nevertheless the keepers of important evidence

for the human history, since Democritus and Lucretius

(http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.html ) to Galilei, D'Holbach, Paine, Ravel

( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa-oAyKC0aI ),

Russell (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwTk8v78pdw ),

Mayr, Chomsky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f02gcRrdK2I ) and deGrasse Tyson (http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/listen/2011/05/25/an-american-atheist ).

Hopefully, these rational proofs will be understood by all the humanity, allowing the progress

of comprehension and peace.

Hoping that these links will be useful to you and looking forward to your answer,

I wish to you all the best.

Sincerely,

Ioana-Noemy Toma

Dear Iona-Noemy,

Many thanks for your message.

I base my spiritual beliefs on a reasonable interpretation of the synoptic Gospels. Matthew, Mark, and Luke, since I believe that both St. John and St.Paul have a tendency to either misrepresent or distort Christ's teachings. Indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that Jesus may have been a grass roots anarchist!

If Jesus's teachings about the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25 are to be believed then it is possible for atheists to be christian with a small c by performing good works and deeds and hence to achieve their 'Kingdom of Heaven' e.g,in their own lifetime, However..Christians with a large C who focus on faith rather than good deeds run the risk of being 'sent to Hell' e.g. at the Second Coming.

The important thing is to be decent to each other, and that's all that most reasonable religions are actually trying to say, albeit in highly convoluted ways.

I would agree that many churches effectively advocate evil by not condemning it, See for example my blog post

                                          THE CHRISTIAN LIE

          With all best wishes,

                                                    Tom Leonard

DEBORAH MAYO: BAYESIAN DETRACTOR EXTRA-ORDINAIRE

                                                                         

                                                           
                                                                 DEBORAH MAYO


                                                        ERROR STATISTICS PHILOSOPHY

                                                     
                    ON THE BIRNBAUM ARGUMENT FOR THE STRONG LIKELIHOOD PRINCIPLE

                                                                       

                   Deborah Mayo and Michael Evans have both refuted Allan Birnbaum's celebrated 1962 proof that the Likelihood Principle is implied by the Sufficiency and Conditionality Principles,

                                              See     LIKELIHOOD PRINCIPLE

              and          A PERSONAL HISTORY OF BAYESIAN STATISTICS


Somewhat related:  STATISTICS AS A FORCE FOR MIND CONTROL

                                 

URSULA LE GUIN. PROTECTOR OF ECOLOGY

                                                                  WIKI

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 "Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.... A capitalist economy, by definition, lives by growth; as Bookchin observes: “For capitalism to desist from its mindless expansion would be for it to commit social suicide.” We have essentially, chosen cancer as the model of our social system."-Ursula Le Guin.


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Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (US /ˈɜrsələ ˈkroʊbər ləˈɡwɪn/;^[1] born October 21, 1929) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics,natural environment, gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography.

She influenced such Booker Prize winners and other writers as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell – and notable futurism and fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks.^[2] She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, each more than once.^[2][3] In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.^[4] Le Guin has resided in Portland, Oregon since 1959.^[5]

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                                             SPEECH AT NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

                                                           THE DISPOSSESSED


                                                                               

                                                             

MRS, MOP'S SCHOOL FOR FURNITURE (in 100 words)

                                                                                               

                                             Mrs Mop's School for Furniture

                                              by Thomas Hoskyns Leonard


                                                                              

    "And who invented mitre joints and dovetails?"  asked Mrs, Mop.              (10 words)

    "The Venetians, of course," replied the upholstered armchair, somewhat snootily. (10 words)

    "Wrong," scowled Mrs, Mop, "Go and stand in the corner."             (10 words)

     "Sorry, Miss."                                                                                                    (2 words)

     "The ancient Egyptians," yelped the mahogany footstool, excitedly.                 (8 words)

     "Here's a liquorice-all-sort for you, Winston. And can anybody remember how many people were able to sleep in the Great Bed of Ware?"           (25 words)

       "Sixty-three," guessed the lamp standard.                                                           (6 words)

        "Don't be so silly, Rebecca, you've left yourself turned on for too long,"          (13 words)

        "Sixteen," replied the chamberpot, "and thirty rats."                                           (7 words)

         "It's the tawse for you," shrieked Mrs, Mop,                                                       (8 words)




                                                                               

                                                                       

CHIPPENDALE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR FURNITURE, EAST LOTHIAN

A SHORT HISTORY OF FURNITURE