Science (Friday) To The Rescue!

by Pier Marton | Feb 18, 2012 | Care, Eco, Ego, Food, Health, Ideas, iOS, Podcasts(E), Sci/Nat, Time

NPR’s Science Friday
(Sci-Fi BE is a great app)

Be Here Now: Meditation For The Body And Brain
An interview w. “Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World” author Mark Williams,
an Oxford University clinical psychologist
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The Oxford Mindfulness Center
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The book’s blog

Combating Depression With Meditation, Diet
An interview with “Spontaneous Happiness” author Dr. Andrew Weil
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His website

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus