humanity
Mental health is a fundamental right; the future of humanity depends on it.
Soberversary
Hi, I’m Jen and I’m an alcoholic. Today is my one year anniversary of sobriety, on July 4th of all days. It was barely a blip on the calendar, almost passed without even being noticed. That is how I wanted it. I wanted the day to arrive like any other day because I don’t really talk much about my sobriety. I acknowledge it, I will answer questions if asked, but I don’t bring up because it’s embarrassing.
By Jennifer Black Young5 years ago in Psyche
SOUL LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER
Hello Child, With regard to your first question, if you can grasp and know the totality of your Being-all of the layers, and most importantly, the Divine within, then you know who you are. The Divine is living through you-all your motivations, thoughts, and actions are the Divine vibrations playing out in your unique being-separate but connected to all. You get to decide what to do, think, and feel. Remember that your will and your intention are the most powerful forces in the universe. What corrupts the Self is the blindness to all these layers of Being. If you have faith in the core of who you are beyond all that you "know," then you have what you need to trust.
By Justina Schacht5 years ago in Psyche
Interactions with Non-living Objects and Virtual Realities in a Seriously Complex World
Let’s dig down the word ‘interaction’ a bit. ‘To act’ means doing something. ‘To react’ means doing something in response to an act which has already been taken place. ‘Interaction’ means exchanging of action and reactions repeatedly between or among the doers who are involved.
By Moshiur Rahman5 years ago in Psyche
A Dead Man's Laugh
"It was a somber time; when he died. He was a good friend to everyone he knew. He had no enemies. His laugh, oh, his laugh was beautiful. It brought merriment to all those who heard it; and with just a week before Christmas, it’s his laugh that will be the most missed part of the holiday.
By Thor Grey (G. Steven Moore)5 years ago in Psyche
WHEN SHE WAS BAD, SHE WAS HORRID
MY NEW FAMILY In February of 1960, at the age of two, this brown-eyed, little girl with curly brown hair, was adopted into a new family. The family included a mom, dad, big brother age five and a twelve-year-old springer spaniel. My new home in the Midwest was a cape cod style, three-bedroom house surrounded by a white picket fence. The perfect American family, right? In a perfect world, it would seem so, but this was not the case in my world.
By Dawn Parish5 years ago in Psyche
Lesson
Life as I had known it had been destroyed. Nature had delivered twin knock-out punches to the island state in quick succession. A devastating earthquake had flattened out every structure, most of them wooden single stories. A couple of hours later, when the survivors were out in the open thanking their gods for sparing their lives, an earthquake induced tsunami, probably the biggest known to man, had struck going right through the island from one side to the other sweeping everything in its path into the ocean. Pacifasia, formerly a heart-shaped island of about 28400 square kilometers with a population of 1.1 million inhabitants was destroyed more effectively by nature than any WMD attack ever could. Symbols of civilization were completely wiped out. Nothing remained but an uneven barrenness –remnant of a once flourishing nation. If you happened to have survived and looked, chances were you would not see any signs of life – human or anything else. Dead fish lay everywhere. The stench would have overpowered you if you had a half-way decent sense of smell. Fortunately, I could not smell anything because I had a nasty cold. It was two days since the apocalyptic event and there had been no apparent rescue attempts from the nearest continent 1700 kilometers to the northwest. I wondered if the whole world had been destroyed.
By Venkat Mani5 years ago in Psyche
Free will
If you start exploring the question of existence of free will, you are caught between an undeniable experience of it and an inability to make sense of the concept intellectually. To make anyone's inquiry into free will concept more fun philosophers use numerous definitions which opens the doors for confusion, talking past each other or dismissal of the free will concept entirely.
By The One Eyed King5 years ago in Psyche
I Met a Woman
I met a woman today. I work in retail, my job isn’t fulfilling, I'm depressed, I'm tired, my bones hurt, my soul is suffering, my passion is gone and I want to die. I feel these things every single day, and I hear poor solutions to my problem. “Just find another job,” “work harder.” This advice doesn't do anything but pile weight on my heart. It's hard to even call it advice. I call it privileged suggestion.
By Oriaxel Knight5 years ago in Psyche
Dear Amy
Dear Amy, Its been four years, and I still keep wondering about your final breaths. Were they deep? Were they shallow? Did you hurt? I'm too scared to ask anyone what exactly happened, even after so much time has passed. I feel like it's more than I'm entitled to know, since I wasn't in your life when you needed it most, but I gathered from the sentiments I saw that it was quite a shock for everyone in your immediate circle. Do you regret it, or was it a relief? Either way, I really do hope that your spirit is sent to us again somehow. We really needs a lot more "Amys" in the world, if you ask me.
By Sydney Chapman5 years ago in Psyche
