Post No. 2,694 - Some interesting reading/viewing [Note: Content Warning - links to distressing reports on some topics. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/. 

Here are some llinks that might of interest or value:

• “Silence Of Love And Light Community On Palestine - Problematic Witchcraft Ep.3”   https://youtu.be/f0npsdhWMY8?si=2khsZzfLZ-XWZzgN   This is, I think, the best thing online that I have come across on this specific issue, and the broader problematic attitudes (by the way, much of my writing on this has been on my political blog, beginning with this, but articles on this blog include this and this, ... but the main work has been in my PWRs)  
  

• “A ‘trigger’ can provoke a powerful emotional reaction. But using trauma language too casually can diminish its gravity”   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/15/a-trigger-can-provoke-a-powerful-emotional-reaction-but-using-trauma-language-too-casually-can-diminish-its-gravity    

• “‘It only takes one to be real and it changes humanity for ever’: what if we’ve been lied to about UFOs?”   https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/14/what-happens-if-we-have-been-visited-by-aliens-lied-to-ufos-uaps-grusch-congress   Nice of the MSM to finally start catching up ...    

• “Ancient DNA reveals first known case of sex-development disorder”   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00101-z   Dates back 5,000 years   

• “Stop Being Nice So You Can Be Kind”   https://youtu.be/YfYuyScIMYE?si=Vy1WAyhxDVCAlOX5   A perspective that is worth considering  
  

• this is concerning (because of what it says about the quality of humanity of those entering medicine):   “[one brand of] AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses”   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00099-4   

• “5 Ways To Heal Your Relationship With Yourself”   https://youtu.be/BCeaiDtJhko?si=BS-t58GzIZlVytRy   Interesting and, I thought, potentially useful for some people 

• this week’s “afterlife report” by the  Zammits (see here for zoom meeting opportunities):  https://www.victorzammit.com/January19th2024/  
  

• my recent posts on my political blog:  
• From the news on:   society generally, and broader issues,   the climate crisis, environmental issues, and nuclear threats/issues,   human rights and humanitarian aid,   the war in West Asia,   politics in the USA,   and   politics & democracy, and international affairs;
  
  
• “Another activism email:   insect screens to address spread of insect-borne diseases as a result of climate change”;    “The demise of a political party”;  
  

• from Medium and similar:
  

• “Burning out is not a growth hack”   https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/burning-out-is-not-a-growth-hack-3a9a180a849e   “Don’t sacrifice yourself on the altar of the grind”   having made the same mistakes as this author, I also agree with the sentiments of this do-as-I-say-not-as-I-used-to-do article  
  
  
• “Walking away from marriage, children, and other stuff we're supposed to have”   https://youtu.be/aWGZadtZHwo?si=qs-MYnNmPbSMAdr7   Well worth watching and giving some genuine consideration to  
  

• from YouTube:

• “Wow! Human Cells Vibrate With Resonant Frequency and It's Technically Audible”   https://youtu.be/uEQNj6Xiewo?si=Pi-eqrxHYH4BC8Po   This is possibly decades away from any practical application, but is interesting nevertheless - could it also lend some support to notions of healing/harm through sound? That’s probably stretching it a bit ...   
  
  
• “Did I Photograph a Water Sprite in Kennall Vale?”   https://youtu.be/3VUc6iHjs_M?si=uAmDjdKsI9kLCAvD   The photos of Cornwall are magnificent, in any case  
  
  
• “The Issue With Traditional Branding In Media”   https://youtu.be/EWklwJs0uXE?si=WC9AChH_P4kcL9MI   This covers an important aspect of appropriation 
  
  
• on neurodivergence: 
• a timely YouTube short in view of some of my recent writings:   “What does the world have to learn from you?”   https://youtube.com/shorts/OzI0qgDV-ok?si=OP4_uGdesYUNjD8r    
  
  
• from  Autistic AF-ter 40:
  - “The SCIENCE behind Autistic & ADHD's POSITIVE TRAITS”   https://youtu.be/oc-vVgB8HSU?si=gd7CqYTh5gRgcIWr   

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