Paper I submitted for my Atlantic University TP5005 course – August 30, 2019 In her 2014 article in The Atlantic, “Secrets of the Creative Brain,” psychiatrist and researcher Nancy C. Andreasen seeks to learn the relationship between creativity and a higher… Read More »Secrets of the Creative Brain, and Ride the Tiger Video
Paper I submitted for my Atlantic University TP5010 course – August 25, 2019 Following Henry Reed’s dream project, as outlined in his book, Dream Solutions! Dream Realizations, I began my 28-day dream quest on July 15th. I’ve always been interested… Read More »The Powerful Results of Reed’s Dream Project
In my inaugural broadcast, I discuss my own spiritual journey. It began in earnest with the birth of my first son in 1998 and has included stops in the Catholic Church, alchemy, tarot card readings, Edgar Cayce’s Atlantic University, a… Read More »Broadcast #1: My Spiritual Journey
Paper I Submitted for my Atlantic University TP5005 Course – August 24, 2019 Marcie Angell’s 2011 two-part book review of Irving Kirsch’s The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, Robert Whitaker’s Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs… Read More »Mental Health Industry’s Addiction to Drugs
Excerpt from the discussion Post I submitted for my Atlantic University TP5010 Course – August 15, 2019 The men presented Chapter 10-12 from Moss’s, the Secret History of Dreaming, are all larger than life public figures who have left a… Read More »Dreaming to Change the World
Paper I Submitted for my Atlantic University TP5005 Course – July 27, 2019 Spiritual emergencies and mysticism viewed through the narrow lens of Western medicine are challenging to distinguish from psychosis. As Russell Phillips, David Lukoff, and Mark Stone note… Read More »Spiritual Emergencies vs. Psychosis
Discussion Post I Submitted for my Atlantic University TP5005 Course – August 7, 2019 My father was a District Court Judge in Massachusetts while I was growing up, and one of his responsibilities was to conduct mental health commitments at… Read More »Schizophrenia and Physical Injury
Discussion Post I Submitted for my Atlantic University TP5005 Course – July 10, 2019 Webster defines pathological as “altered or caused by disease,” and “being such to a degree that is extreme, excessive, or markedly abnormal.” Pathological, therefore, always has… Read More »Failure to Communicate
Paper I Submitted for my Atlantic University TP5010 Course – July 28, 2019 Meditation is one of the oldest and most time-honored practices. As Eastern traditions merge with our Western culture, it is practiced more regularly as its benefits become… Read More »Mindful Meditation
