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Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mairead Corrigan Maguire said today, April 24, 2007:
"I was invited with my friend to attend a non-violent conference in Bilin, a village outside Ramallah [in the West Bank], and to give a talk there, which I did. At the end of the conference, we were invited to participate in a non-violent demonstration with some of the Palestinian members of parliament, Israeli peace activists, local villagers and international visitors.
"We walked along to try to walk up toward the separation wall, and it was a totally non-violent protest. And we were viciously attacked by the Israeli military. They threw gas canisters into the peace walkers, and they also fired rubber-covered steel bullets.
"As I tried to move back and help a French lady, I was shot in the leg with a rubber-covered steel bullet, and the young Israeli soldier who shot me was only 20 meters from me. I was stunned by it, and then later on, after having some treatment by the ambulance medics, I went back down to the front line with the peace activists, and we were again showered with gas. I was overcome and had a severe nosebleed and had to be taken by stretcher to the ambulance and treated.
"And I witnessed there ... an old Palestinian man with blood on his face. There were over 25 unarmed peace people who had been viciously attacked by the Israeli military. And it was a completely peaceful protest. It was absolutely unbelievable. I never in all my years of activism witnessed anything so vicious."
The shooting of Maguire took place on Friday, April 20; she is now back in Ireland and available for interviews. For more information, see
http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/2007/04/21/april-20-bilin-protest,
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82119,
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/23/1350224
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tho neither is a true Event, i spose there’s no way i can’t comment on both the virginia shooting in the u.s. and the cash 4 honours scandal in the u.k.
virginia, being just more of the same but bigger and more public, doesn’t really count as an ‘event,’ but rather as one more step in a much larger ongoing Change. cash 4 honours represents a later stage in the same ongoing Event; indeed it is one of its early culminations.
the virginia shootings
“You have to wilfully forget how you thought or felt as a kid - what your references consisted of, where you drew your borders - to accept an explanation as intellectually lazy and convenient as the copycat-made-him-do-it account. In fact, many schoolyard shooters very consciously saw their massacres as rebellions.”
yankeeland is deeply deeply sick - as i’ve been saying since the zippy pronoia tour to US in the mid-90s. u don’t have to have been raving this past decade to remember how you viewed the world as a Child (tho it certainly helps :) do you think children don’t ‘SEE’ the state of the world?! how adults behave? the hypocrisy?! the naked, even PROUD, greed?! the total corruption by money of everything?! (they actually see it better than we do - without blinkers!) how else could this tormented young man have actually viewed his actions as Jesus Christian?! he saw himself as Making a Stand! to him it was a Noble Gesture. in his head he was Refusing to be a part of the general “stench”.
http://www.alternet.org/stories/50758/?page=
a truly terrible thought comes to me. should these college and supermarket shoot-ups be viewed as americo/xtian suicide bombings?! certainly they’d be sharing a common enemy.
i hope u can see the much wider view i am taking when i say that the virginia shootings are a healthy sign that the yankee culture has NOT been ground down to non-caring dust as the grinders imagined & planned. in gurdjieffian terms [see below] such ‘childish’ rebellions are Second Force, the inevitable resistance raised by any First Force endeavour. and the endeavour in this case is the gangster take-over of american/western democracy - the Last Stand of Dinosaur Culture.
without gurdjieff’s Third Force, or Reconciling Force, which we UPpy types must embody as individuals and as an alternative ‘moral community’, the first 2 forces can only fight themselves to a bloodied standstill, as is happening now. i personally think that 3rd Force perceives the first 2 forces as different sides of the same thing!
which would make Cho Seung Hui the flip side of george bush - at opposite ends of the same insanity. see Cho in aggressive George swagger it’s the same dinosaur violence madness!
but let’s be clear. the Force which bush embodies is First Force. it was he who pulled that 2nd Force virginia trigger as surely as this butterfly triggered that tornado over new orleans.
cash for honours
the uk scandal represents a later stage in the same ongoing Event; indeed it is one of its early culminations. it is, indeed, an example of how fast humanity is moving into the new era - OUTSIDE Yankeeland - and the health of it is much more obvious too. the fact is that tony blair was no more corrupt than all his predecessors, in fact he is less guilty than most of them. he just happened to be operating in the doorway when the New Morality came sweeping down the street.
for the New, Post Dinosaur, Morality perceives the problem accurately and is working/playing to heal the whole culture from Top to Bottom while the Old Culture, knowing only violent oppression, increasingly applies “anger management” and “anti-depressant” tactics to the symptoms. which, following a psycho-logic the New Morality recognises only too well, only digs the problem deeper. to burst out one day in purest hyped-up terrorist rage.
or put it like this: IT’S THE PROBLEM THAT’S THE PROBLEM.
ITEM: The Chicago Tribune reports that Cho Seung Hui, the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 fellow students in a shooting rampage, was taking antidepressant drugs.
List of school shooters known to be taking antidepressant drugs at the time of the shootings 1998-2001 (with others, their medical records were sealed or autopsy reports never made public record).
May 21, 1998: Springfield, Oregon: 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his own parents and then proceeded to school where he opened fire on students in the cafeteria, killing two and wounding 22. He had been on an antidepressants.
April 16, 1999: Notus, Idaho: 15-year-old Shawn Cooper fired two shotgun rounds in his school narrowly missing students. He was taking a mix of antidepressants.
April 20, 1999: Columbine, Colorado: 18-year-old Eric Harris had been taking an antidepressant when he and his partner Dylan Klebold killed twelve classmates and a teacher before taking his own life. The coroner confirmed that the antidepressant was in his system through toxicology reports. Dylan Klebold’s autopsy was never made public.
May 20, 1999: Conyers, Georgia: 15-year-old T.J. Solomon was being treated with a mix of antidepressants when he opened fire on and wounded 6 of his classmates.
March 7, 2000: Williamsport, Pennsylvania: 14-year-old Elizabeth Bush was on an antidepressant Prozac when she blasted away at fellow students in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, wounding one.
March 22, 2001: El Cajon, California: 18-year-old Jason Hoffman was on two antidepressants when he opened fire at his California high school wounding five. Hoffman had also undergone an “anger management” program.
April 10, 2001: Wahluke, Washington: 16-year-old Cory Baadsgaard took a rifle to his high school, and held 23 classmates and a teacher hostage. Cory had been on a high dose of an antidepressant.
Related News Links:
“A Deadly Coincidence: School Shootings and Drugged Students " http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_7662.shtml
“The school shooter in Minnesota was another case of a young person on antidepressants getting violent"
http://www.newstarget.com/z006153.html
The Washington Times—"Dubious drug therapy"
http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20050328-103929-3760r.htm
Health Sentinel—"Prozac – Ingredient in a Deadly Rampage?"
http://www.healthsentinel.com/org_news.php
The Washington Times—"School Shooter Took Mood-altering Drugs"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050324-114419-5312r.htm
The New York Daily News—"Minn. massacre teen taking Prozac"
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/293247p-250999c.html
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Although Iraqi civilian deaths have fallen in Baghdad since the February 14 start of the US-led offensive, according to an Associated Press tally, civilian deaths are up outside the capital.
Also, security sweeps have taken a heavy toll on US forces: deaths among American soldiers climbed 21% in Baghdad compared with the previous 2 months.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041507A.shtml
>> so we’re on our way! somewhere!
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Who was George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff? Writer? Choreographer? Psychiatrist? Musician? Doctor? Master Cook?
>> explorer, scientist, hippy, musician, zippy...
if you’re not thinking “shaman” by now u haven’t been paying attention:)
He defies categorisation: though it is clear that he re-united segments of ‘acroamatic’ knowledge gleaned during a 20 year search in Asia; and brought to the West a methodology for the possible evolution of consciousness, within a cosmology of awe-inspiring scale.
>> and indeed seemingly fantastic at the time - see UP!247.
His call was radical. Awake! Awake from your unsuspected hypnotic sleep, to consciousness and conscience.
>> BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!
More than a hundred years ago Gurdjieff was a poor boy in the obscure town of Kars, on the Russo-Turkish frontier: today his name is becoming a modish verbal token, which (like Darwin, Marx, Freud, Einstein) is absurdly conceived to be self-explicatory. But those who would now narrowly appropriate him as ‘the inspirer of the ecology movement’ or ‘the initiator of contemporary eupsychian therapies’
>> or the first zippy
- though doubtless they glimpse aspects - comprehend neither his scale nor the trajectory of the spiritual traditions.
For a truer perspective on Gurdjieff we must turn to his circle of devoted followers, who paid for their insights by effort. These were men and women magnetised not by a system of self-supportive notional abstractions but by a human being of Rabelaisian stature; by the fine energies at his disposition; by his compassion; and by his ability to transmit a pratique. Their journals and autobiographies constitute a rich and singular literature: Gurdjieff is assigned his inescapable historicity, yet somehow struggles free, emerging with the cohesion and the presence of a myth.
The Travels
No definitive biography exists or is remotely in prospect. He was born in Alexandropol c.1866, and first appears on a well-lit stage in 1912 in Moscow. To encounter him was always a test: the first meeting - certainly for those who became his students - was the axis on which a whole life turned.
The composer Thomas de Hartmann (1886–1956) and his wife Olga were Gurdjieff’s intimate disciples and companions for twe12lve years, and it is thanks to him that Gurdjieff’s music has reached us. In Our Life with Mr. Gurdjieff they share with us the journey they shared with him: from Petrograd, seized by crisis in 1917, across the Caucasus mountains to Tiflis, finally reaching Paris in 1922. Though simplicity sometimes approaching naïveté, characterises their writing, the impression of Gurdjieff is only the more striking. We find him moving impartially, almost invisibly, through scenes of confusion and fratricidal turmoil; welcoming each difficulty and danger as a new opportunity for practical teaching.
In October 1922 Gurdjieff took the Prieuré at Fontainebleau-Avon, a chateau in 200 acres of grounds, where he rapidly created conditions for self-study, unprecedented in Europe. Gurdjieff had a special rapport with his pupils’ children, caring for their education in the word’s real sense. Sometimes he challenged them; sometimes he led them with great delicacy towards a vital insight; always his teaching had an element of surprise and the hallmark of practicality. From eleven to fifteen Fritz Peters (1913–1980) lived at the Prieuré, and in Boyhood with Gurdjieff, his fresh and at times uproariously funny memoir, he relives that special experience.
In spring 1924, Gurdjieff visited the USA with prepared pupils, to give public demonstrations of his sacred dances; and their influence upon key intellectuals was far-reaching. The dances also spoke categorically to the young Englishman Stanley Nott (1887–1978) who had a different, simpler background: who had travelled the world working hard at many trades, and whose feelings had been enervated by his sufferings in the trenches. ‘Here,’ wrote Nott, ‘is what I went to the ends of the earth to find.’ His allegiance to Gurdjieff proved life-long and undivided; he spent many summers at the Prieuré, and in Teachings of Gurdjieff he conveys both his inner and outer experience with Boswellian vigour. He incorporates in full the penetrating (though not definitive) commentary on Gurdjieff’s book Beelzebub by his friend A.R. Orage.
1925 - 1935 Gurdjieff devoted to his writing, achieved in the distracting conditions of the Café de Paix in Paris. Here, in spring 1932, he was encountered by the American authoress Kathryn Hulme, later to attain fame with her novel The Nun’s Story; she hungered to become his personal pupil, but nearly 4 years passed before her persistence was rewarded. Her autobiography Undiscovered Country richly evokes her experience in a special group of 4 women (all sophisticated, avant-garde, single - and lesbian) which met daily in Gurdjieff’s flat. Gurdjieff’s humanity and capacity to work with diverse types is strongly conveyed, as is the group’s emotional commitment to each other and their teacher.
Urged to flee Paris before the Germans entered in 1940, Gurdjieff chose to remain in his modest flat at 6 Rue des Colonels-Rénard. Though well into his ‘70s he was unsparing of his energies: giving individual counselling; teaching a new series of dances or Movements; and somehow maintaining in those sparse times the patriarchal hospitality of his audacious feasts. French interest in Gurdjieff - formerly slight - now burgeoned, drawing many intellectuals to him, among them René Zuber the film director. His slim volume Who Are You Monsieur Gurdjieff? is a calm and fastidious meditation: confronted with the enigma of Gurdjieff and deeply concerned to situate him in relation to Christianity, Zuber is repeatedly brought back to question himself.
15 months before Gurdjieff’s death, J.G. Bennett (1897–1974) who had briefly met him in the 1920s, established a more serious - though necessarily intermittent - contact. Elizabeth Mayall (1918–1991) later to become Bennett’s wife, was free to live in Paris from January 1949, and thus shared more fully in the unique world there. Here at Gurdjieff’s last suppers, his mysterious ritual the ‘Toast of the Idiots’ served as the vehicle of a final and intensely individual teaching. Idiots in Paris, the Bennetts’ raw unedited diaries, captures with almost painful honesty and immediacy the last hundred days of Gurdjieff’s life, and his pupils’ poignant struggle for understanding. Gurdjieff died at Neuilly on 29 October 1949.
The Teaching
What precisely was Gurdjieff’s Teaching? Although the question seems to promise clarification, it is spoilt by its very rigour: time deadens authorised versions like hemlock, and Gurdjieff never issued one. ‘I teach,’ he said gnomically, ‘that when it rains, the pavements get wet.’ The vivifying power of his ideas entails the moment, the circumstance, the type and state of the pupil. His one constant demand is Know Thyself, to which he adduces a metaphysic, a metapsychology and a metachemistry which absolutely defy précis; a human typology, a phenomenology of consciousness, and a quasi-mathematical scale linking macrocosm and microcosm. This complex apparatus is illuminated by one master-idea: that Man is called to strive for self-perfection, in service to our sacred living Universe.
Can we catch echoes of Pythagoras or Plato, Christ or Milarepa? It is easy to lose oneself and one’s search in a labyrinth of comparisons, and in the phylogeny of ideas, but Gurdjieff himself was not content with words; his Movements and sacred dances were at once a glyph of universal laws and a field for individual search. When, approaching 60, he turned to writing, his productions were heuristic rather than expository, and their form totally unexpected: first a cosmological epic of a special kind, then an autobiography of a special kind.
All And Everything: Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson is Gurdjieff’s masterpiece, and no other book brings us closer to him. Readers who can rise to the double challenge of its profundity and its quite deliberate stylistic difficulty; who can summon again and again the necessary fine attention, will find encoded here all Gurdjieff’s psychological and cosmological ideas, and a fundamental critique.
On a long journey by spaceship, Beelzebub good-humouredly conveys his understanding of ‘All and Everything’ to his grandson Hassein. Through his impartial compassionate eyes we see life on earth as from a great distance, with microscopic clarity. Down millennia and across continents, we see Man deeply asleep, blindly and aimlessly struggling and suffering, torn by war and passion, fouling everything he touches; and yet, through a strange flaw in his nature, clinging ingeniously to the very instruments which wound, the patterns which betray.
A stark picture? Undeniably. And in other hands than Gurdjieff’s it might have been cruelly nihilistic; but Gurdjieff is calling us to life! It is his genius to float an objective hope, like an Ark on these dark waters. He bequeaths us the great figure of Beelzebub, whose presence indicates man as he might be: aware with gratitude of the divine spark within him, and striving by conscious labours towards the fulfilment of his true place in the cosmic scheme.
In his next book Meetings with Remarkable Men Gurdjieff evokes the first and least known period of his own life; his boyhood in Kars under the benign influence of his father and his first tutor Dean Borsh; then his early manhood dedicated, in many guises, to an unremitting search for a real and universal Knowledge. His language is spare and vivid, unrolling the lands of Transcaucasia and Central Asia before us, even while he hints at a parallel geography of Man’s psyche, and the route he followed to penetrate it.
We journey to the interior in company with the friends of Gurdjieff’s youth - princes, engineers, doctors, priests - men remarkable not from their surface arrangements but by their resourcefulness, self-restraint and compassion. We see them as though face to face; their words are lodged in us as though spoken directly in a moment of intimate quietness.
So Gurdjieff, having swept the ground clear with the awesome critique of Beelzebub, offers us now his material for a new creation - nothing other than our hard daily life, but thrust into question and placed at the service of an aim, which, by its intelligence and elevation, is truly Human.
1915 - 1918, Gurdjieff liberally gave to his Russian groups an astonishing body of exact data, which had cost 20 years to search out. Prominent among his pupils at this time was Piotr Demianovich Ouspensky, journalist, mathematician and intellectual; already famous for his book Tertium Organum. The very epoch, with its mass destruction and savage contradictions, sharpened Ouspensky’s lifelong hunger for values and knowledge of a different order. In Search of the Miraculous was published posthumously; it consists, for three parts out of four, of Gurdjieff’s own words, preserved from those days and brilliantly arranged. Endorsed by Gurdjieff himself, this work undoubtedly offers the most accessible account of his psychological and cosmological ideas, while carrying us as near as any book alone can, to the special conditions of a group. The overwhelming sense of shock, excitement and revelation which fired Ouspensky in 1915, will be transmitted through these sentences and diagrams to people of every generation, who (whatever the external conditions with which they must blend) are secretly in search.
Jeanne de Salzmann became Gurdjieff’s pupil in Tiflis in 1919, and through 30 years participated in each succeeding dispensation of his Work, even carrying responsibility for his groups during the last ten years of his life. In Views from the Real World she has collated more than forty important talks given by Gurdjieff between 1917 and 1930. We owe their very preservation to the educated memories of his followers, who were forbidden to take verbatim notes. If these are not Gurdjieff’s words in every syllable, it is clearly his authentic voice, issuing his unmistakable challenge.
Approaches to Gurdjieff
No-one - whether he responds to Gurdjieff or reacts against him - can measure the voltage of his intellect without receiving a certain shock. His is one of those few effectual voices, which, ‘passing through a great diversity of echoes, keeps its own resonance and its power of action’.
After four years as one of Gurdjieff’s close pupils, P.D. Ouspensky expounded his ideas in England and America for a quarter of a century. In The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution, he distils from Gurdjieff’s integrated Teaching its psychological essence, presenting it without flavour or aroma in only 92 pages. This formulation, based on Ouspensky’s lecture notes, is so lucid and balanced that it bids to remain forever unmatched as an introduction and an aide-memoire.
The feeling of a pupil’s actual experience - palpably missing from Ouspensky’s summary of theory - is supplied in Venture with Ideas by Kenneth Walker. This warm human memoir lightly sketches Gurdjieff’s psychological and cosmological teaching, within the biographical context of the author’s 24 years study with Ouspensky in England. Walker’s scientific background (he was three times Hunterian Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons) adds interest to his reception of esoteric ideas.
Men are tragically divided, but all who wish may share the primordial existential questions: who am I, and what is the significance and aim of human life? The great edifice of Gurdjieff’s Teaching rests on the unshakable foundation of this innocent interrogation. The theme is calmly developed in Towards Awakening by Jean Vaysse a pioneer of open-heart surgery and transplantation, and a close pupil of Gurdjieff in Paris. His final chapter outlines for the first time, Gurdjieffian exercises linking attention with bodily sensation.
The mountain, rooted in the earth, its summit reaching towards heaven, is an ancient symbol of man’s aspirations and strivings. René Daumal who studied under Gurdjieff in Paris during the war, wrote his subtle and humorous allegory Mount Analogue in the language of a poet and mountaineer, to remind us of the strange inner ascent to which we are called. Although he died young, his own work sustains its impact on modern French literature.
Coming years must inevitably heighten scholarly interest in Gurdjieff. Because his Teaching is experiential; because there is danger of confusing levels; because an academic with a fundamental misapprehension or even bias, can embroider it so prettily - the prospect is not wholly welcome. And yet some auguries are good; Michel Waldberg in Gurdjieff: An Approach to his Ideas draws intelligently on all major texts, contriving a work of popular synthesis and commentary which sets a real standard.
And Now?
Gurdjieff preferred Today over Yesterday; he did not invite us either to anatomise him or to idolise him, but to search for ourselves. Returning again and again to Beelzebub, we seem to catch the author’s rich human voice projected toward his ‘Grandsons’ - pupils of the New Age; rising generations who could not meet him, but who bear the seeds of his ideas into the unknown future. And yet no pilgrimage of reading is sufficient: no book, not even a sacred book, can furnish that unfathomable moment when, in the actual presence of his teacher, the pupil’s understanding is amplified and deepened.
Then where to look today? All a man’s flair, discrimination and downright commonsense are solicited here, for there are many siren voices and self-advertisements. And yet it was not for nothing that Gurdjieff prepared pupils; not for nothing that he gave indications for the future. And after his death, it was not for nothing that the cherished Movements have been progressed through decades; and a responsible nucleus painfully formed, to maintain the current that had been created.
Where then? For those whose approach to Gurdjieff is practical, this is the question which must prevail. There is first an outer contact to be found: then an inner contact to be renewed and deepened.
[Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson by G. I. Gurdjieff (1950)
Meetings with Remarkable Men by G. I. Gurdjieff (1963)
In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky (1949)
Views from the Real World Talks of G. I. Gurdjieff (1973)
The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution by P.D. Ouspensky (1978)
Venture with Ideas by Kenneth Walker (1951)
Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse (1980)
Mount Analogue by René Daumal (1974)
Gurdjieff: An Approach to His Ideas by Michel Waldberg (1981)]
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Some things interest the media, others don't.
>> YOU MUST HAVE NOTICED!
Since the fall of the USSR, the US has sought another menace to designate as the ultimate evil, a world threat which the Americans desperately need to take on. The 9/11 attacks gave them that enemy. And when the White House speaks, the media listens obediently.
Over the last number of years the "Islamic threat" has become one of the favourite issues for media coverage. It's all over the news - Muslims leaders pronouncing threats against the countries participating in occupying Muslim land.
While America is the Western country which has most succumbed to the fear of Islamism, things aren't much better in Europe. Its media is highly americanised and thus eager to reiterate U.S. governmental positions towards the non-Western world. Islamic terrorism is subsequently a theme close to the hearts of European journalists as well.
Thus, you might think they’d be beside themselves with joy when the European Police Office (Europol) released its first report on terrorism in the EU. THEY WERE NOT. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, not a single European paper or news-channel has paid any attention to it whatsoever. (kudos to the EUobserver for having the decency to report on it). The report turns out to be a grave disappointment for the anti-Islamic campaign.
R U READY FOR THE FACTS?
498 "terrorist attacks" occurred in 11 EU countries last year.
ETA, the Basque separatist group, topped the poll with 136 of them, and was responsible for the only deadly attack, killing two in Madrid. The remaining 497 cost no human lives.
Islamists carried out precisely ONE of the 498 terrorist attacks in the European Union in 2006.
U CAN’T BELIEVE IT?!!!! The entire report is available on Europol's website. But here’s something you CAN believe: had Islamic fundamentalists been behind a higher number of attacks, it would have been front page news everywhere.
The Europol report, nevertheless, devotes several PAGES to Islamist terrorism. Besides the one attack (which was in Germany and failed and resulted in no victims), it seems that Denmark and the U.K. reported UNCOMMITTED PLOTS by Islamists to carry out a few attacks in each country. Incidentally, all 3 countries are accessory to the illegal occupation of Iraq.
Since these plans were exposed before they were set to work, they were naturally not included among the 498. Either way, even if these plots would have happened, the report proves there is no major threat at all.
NOW THINK ABOUT THIS: the numbers of people arrested on SUSPICION of terrorism are disproportionate. About half were Muslims, who are actually causing very little terrorism in Europe, but are much more likely to be arrested on suspicion of it. And the constant media coverage of Muslims being arrested creates the false image of a serious threat, which clearly advances the imperialist world-view which Washington wants us to adopt.
Kristoffer Larsson, Sweden.
http://www.counterpunch.org/larsson04212007.html
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TIME MAGAZINE ASKS:
Thursday, Apr. 19, 2007
Are psychedelics good for you? It's such a hippie relic of a question that it's almost embarrassing to ask.
>> only for you, mate, cos you’ve had the puritan brainwash all your life.
But a quiet psychedelic renaissance is beginning at the highest levels of American science, including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Harvard, which is conducting what is thought to be its first research into therapeutic uses of psychedelics (in this case, Ecstasy) since the university fired Timothy Leary in 1963.
>> and notice what a terrible mess has been made since then. the Alcohol Era praps?
But should we be prying open the doors of perception again? Wasn't the whole thing a disaster the first time?
>> not at all, disaster has struck SINCE then!
The answer to both questions is yes. The study of psychedelics in the '50s and '60s eventually devolved into the drug free-for-all of the '70s. But the new research is careful and promising. Last year two top journals, the Archives of General Psychiatry and the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, published papers showing clear benefits from the use of psychedelics to treat mental illness.
>> all those wasted years all those wasted souls!!
Both were small studies, just 27 subjects total. But the Archives paper -- whose lead author, Dr. Carlos Zarate Jr., is chief of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research Unit at NIMH - found "robust and rapid antidepressant effects" that remained for a week after depressed subjects were given ketamine (colloquial name: Special K or usually just k).
In the other study, a team led by Dr. Francisco Moreno of the University of Arizona gave psilocybin (the merrymaking chemical in psychedelic mushrooms) to obsessive-compulsive-disorder patients, most of whom later showed "acute reductions in core OCD symptoms."
Now researchers at Harvard are studying how Ecstasy might help alleviate anxiety disorders, and the Beckley Foundation, a British trust, has received approval to begin what will be the first human studies with LSD since the 1970s.
Psychedelics chemically alter the way your brain takes in information and may cause you to lose control of typical thought patterns. The theory motivating the recent research is that if your thoughts are depressed or obsessive, the drugs may reveal a path through them. For Leary and his circle -- which influenced millions of Americans to experiment with drugs -- psychedelics’ seemingly boundless possibilities led to terrible recklessness. There's a jaw-dropping passage in last year's authoritative Leary biography by Robert Greenfield
>> u mean that notorious hatchet job?!!!
in which Leary and two friends ingest an astonishing 31 psilocybin pills in Leary's kitchen while his 13-year-old daughter has a pajama party upstairs. Stupefied, one of the friends climbs into the girl's bed and has to be pulled from the room.
A half-century later, scientists hope to unstitch psychedelic research from their forebears' excesses.
>> why can’t u just admit u got it terribly terribly wrong, with truly terrible results, instead of slandering the much braver souls who stuck with the truth?
Even as the Clinical Psychiatry paper trumpets psilocybin's potential for "powerful insights," it also urges caution. The paper suggests psilocybin only for severe OCD patients who have failed standard therapies and, as a last resort, may face brain surgery. Similarly, subjects can't take part in the Ecstasy trials unless their illness has continued after ordinary treatment.
>> these re the same assholes who banned it in the first place!
Antidrug warriors may argue that the research will lend the drugs an aura of respectability, prompting a new round of recreational use. That's possible, but today we have no priestly Leary figure spewing vertiginous pro-drug proclamations. Instead we have a Leary for a less naive age: Richard Doblin. Also a Harvard guy -- his Ph.D. is in public policy -- Doblin founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in 1986 to help scientists get funding and approval to study the drugs.
Doblin has painstakingly worked with intensely sceptical federal authorities to win necessary permissions. MAPS helped launch all four of the current Ecstasy studies, a process that took two decades. It's the antithesis of Leary's approach.
All drugs have benefits and risks, but in psychedelics we have been tempted to see only one or the other. Not anymore.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1612717,00.html
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal prosecutors said Friday they would retry marijuana grower Ed Rosenthal on cultivation charges, even after a federal judge urged them to drop the case and chastised the government for lodging charges solely to punish the self-proclaimed "guru of ganja."
U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer demanded to know who in the Department of Justice decided to continue pursuing Rosenthal, who had his original conviction overturned last year.
Rosenthal can't be sentenced to prison even if he is convicted because the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the one-day prison sentence ordered by Breyer in 2003.
The judge said the government's position to go forward left him no choice but to hold a trial, which he scheduled for May 14.
"This isn't a criminal case, this is a political case," said Rosenthal, who appeared in court dressed in a blue wizard's robe with a golden marijuana leaf emblazoned over the breast. "I may as well get my money's worth and have a trial."
Rosenthal, 62, has written numerous books with titles such as "The Big Book of Buds" and "Ask Ed: Marijuana Law. Don't Get Busted." He also wrote an "Ask Ed" column for High Times magazine.
Rosenthal was convicted of three felonies in 2003 for growing hundreds of plants for a city of Oakland medical marijuana program. Breyer sentenced him to one day in prison on grounds that Rosenthal reasonably believed he was immune from prosecution because he was acting on behalf of Oakland city officials.
The appeals court ruled against the government and said that the one-day prison sentence was fair, which means Rosenthal doesn't face any more prison time even if he is convicted again.
When federal prosecutors indicted Rosenthal again on three growing charges in October over the same marijuana operation, they also added four counts of money laundering and five counts of filing false tax returns.
But Breyer tossed out those additional charges last month, saying they were solely to punish Rosenthal for winning his appeal to overturn his initial conviction and complaining that the government treated him unfairly. Prosecutors said Friday they wouldn't appeal the judge's decision to toss out those charges.
On Friday, Rosenthal's attorneys filed court papers asking Breyer to order the government to pay their fees for fighting the money laundering and tax charges. Federal law allows defendants to seek attorneys fees if they've been wrongly charged by vindictive prosecutors.
"The governments position was vexatious, frivolous and in bad faith because it was motivated by the government's desire to prosecute not convict Mr. Rosenthal in retaliation for his constitutional right to openly express his ideas and freely voice his beliefs without oppression," the filing stated.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/11849078/detail.html?taf=fran
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The Montana legislature and Governor Brian Schweitzer have enacted the nation's first flat-out statutory rejection of the Real ID Act, which seeks to create a backdoor national identity card system by federalising state driver's licenses. Montana's action is the latest and strongest step in an ongoing rebellion in states across the nation.
"In January, the state of Maine held a 'Boston Tea Party' when they became the first to declare their opposition to Real ID by passing a resolution," said Tim Sparapani, an ACLU Legislative Counsel. "Today Montana has taken that rebellion to an entirely new level by issuing what amounts to a 'Declaration of Independence' from the act."
The Montana law declares that the state "will not participate in the implementation" of Real ID, bans the state's Motor Vehicle Division from implementing it, and directs the agency to report to the governor any attempts by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to "secure the implementation" of the act.
"Governor Schweitzer and Montana have taken a bold and admirable step by rejecting this misguided law," said Scott Crichton, Executive Director of the ACLU of Montana. "In the face of supposed threats that our citizens' right to travel would be curbed, we stand firm and declare loudly that this legislation is not good for the people of our state and we refuse to participate in it. I am very proud of our state and the legislators who reached across the partisan divide to pass this bill without one dissenting voice."
The Montana legislation is a decisive escalation of a growing state rebellion against Real ID:
* Maine and Idaho have both passed resolutions rejecting participation in Real ID, and Arkansas recently passed two similar anti-Real ID measures.
* Binding legislation similar to Montana's is awaiting the governor's signature in Washington.
* 13 more states have passed anti-Real ID legislation through at least one legislative chamber, and bills have been introduced in 12 additional states.
* In Congress, several bills to fix Real ID have been introduced, including strong proposals by Senators Akaka and Sununu and Congressman Tom Allen.
"Montana's decisive stand adds further momentum to the Great Real ID Rebellion of 2007," said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Project. "The whole scheme is premised on creating uniform national identity papers; when a state like Montana tells the federal government to take a hike, it brings down the whole house of cards. If there was ever any question that Congress would be forced to revisit this misguided law, there is no more."
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/29401prs20070417.html
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Thanks too for the UP! - am letting everyone know about the bees! Love,
Kathy, Malta.
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Who would have known that Albert Einstein would be an expert on bees and their role in the ecosystem. This quote seems to have been made up out of thin air and papers and online news services have been copying it without checking their sources. Einstein's biographer is not aware of any such quotation, so it appears to be a myth that Einstein would have said or written this. One would think that wild bees and other flying insects would fill in the niche left by the (cultivated) hive/honey bees.
Rasta Robert, Holland.
>> but they’d be getting offed by the GM anti-viral too, right? i know you’re not dumb enuff to think it’s got anything to do with mobile fones as the press have been saying over here.
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Thank you for all those great articles, every one comes down to the horrible truth.
George Bush is Insane, yes, yes, yes.
Bill, California.
>> only half of them, bill! the other half come up to the wonderful truth!
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Hi Fraser,
Maybe the whole 2012 thing was a sneaky bit of self-fulfilling prophecy making. If enough of us "break open our heads" (hehe, trepanning with a brick!) with 'tropics at the same time maybe it'll be Capra's third law time.... ah, one can live in hope can't one.
Ho hum, hope you're well, loved the ballooning earth theory.
scott :))
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"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." Albert Einstein.
“And no more profits.” Fraser Clark.
the UP! has been covering the Bumblebee/GM Ecodisaster while the overground media appeared to be ignoring it. right?
now, suddenly, just when the news is breaking out into the public arena, comes this story about a mobile-fone connection.
very timely u might think. just when such BIG NEWS can’t be held back any longer, it’s being presented to the public as a MOBILE FONE CONSPIRACY NONSENSE WHO’DA THOUGHT IT SHOCK HORROR STORY?! do u detect something odd here? well check this from a typical newspaper report yesterday:
“A limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a "hint" to a possible cause.
Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced the possibility is real."
we all know by now about “scientists” by now, how most of them (despite billions of $£ PR on their behalf) are for sale to the biggest corporation. and here we have a “Dr”, who “headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry,” saying he’s “convinced” that phones MIGHT be causing it. and why exactly was this “limited” (and presumably rushed!) study carried out by “Landau University” (no more details given)? i mean who would THINK of sticking a mobile phone beside a bee hive in a “limited study” unless SOMEBODY was already very worried about the plight of the Bumble Bee?
my guess is that some corporate/government collective, forced finally to admit another colossal eco-fukkup, does so by dressing it up in some whipped together conspiracy concoction that will INFORM the public about another potential eco-horror while pointing them away from the real Cause.
all right, here’s a challenge to u overground media who so often pick up stories you’ve seen in the UP! do some easy research on WHO PAID FOR THIS ‘LIMITED (and presumably rushed) STUDY’?
as reported in UP!246, the University of Jena’s Professor Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, who first discovered a POSSIBLE GM connection in his studies between 2001 to 2004, was asked why further research into such a pivotal finding had not been carried forward and replied: “Those who have the money are not interested in this sort of research."
SO WHO PAID ANOTHER PROFESSOR TO RUSH OUT AND ESTABLISH A POSSIBLE PHONE CONNECTION?!
“Listen, prof, just stick a loudspeaker beside the fukkin hive, or a diesel generator, something to scare em all off, you’ll think of something it’ ain't rocket science.” :(
JUST IN!!!! In Finland and Lapland there’s a thriving honey production. I spoke today to one of the biggest bee keepers with over 2000 colonies (http://english.lappi-hunaja.fi/). Since they take their colonies to the Tundra and to other places when the blooms are seasonal, they have rigs to weigh the hives so they know when to collect them and they use mobiles for this - sensitively - and they have no problems. The people I spoke to know of no GM in their country. This is merely confirmatory evidence in my mind that the mobile story suddenly produced is a sham.
This is no longer a question of covering up who's to blame - it's a question of survival.
jackie mackay, west london.
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