Post No. 2,713 - 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:

• “The Intelligence of the Heart with Julian Gresser”   https://youtu.be/lrzl42b3w5U?si=mU70wPgksgSchI9w   

• “Three Steps To Rejoining The World (Bio Psycho Social Treatment Model)”   https://youtu.be/eDvhdEBvCqE?si=BBDEyFFbNUH7LIqM   

• “Psychics and amateur sleuths toss unfounded theories into search for missing Ballarat woman Samantha Murphy”   https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/13/psychics-amateur-sleuths-and-the-issues-for-those-searching-for-missing-ballarat-woman-samantha-murphy   “A [social media] group set up by a friend ... amassed about 20,000 members before it was closed ... It had been intended to help coordinate searches by members of the public, but it quickly became littered with unfounded claims about Murphy’s disappearance   ...   Last week, on the page she administered, ... resorted to asking for “no more psychic medium posts””   This is the sort of utter amathia that harms everyone!!! Lay OFF!!!!   

• “Witchtube: Spiritism & Brazilian Folk Magic's Struggle Against Racism with @asterperpetua”   https://youtu.be/t9KnATcaGn8?si=f_fUtPYE9MiZ1xwI   This was brilliant!   I did some quick checking on the mentioned religion of Ubanda, and some possibly useful links are:   https://junctionjournalism.com/2021/08/04/umbanda-a-prominent-brazilian-religion-has-come-to-australia-thanks-to-the-growing-brazilian-population/   https://www.learnreligions.com/umbanda-religion-4777681   https://rpl.hds.harvard.edu/faq/african-derived-religions-brazil   https://youtu.be/qyrS7TQnoAo?si=ajgL7cECAnVk5IF5   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Umbanda&oldid=1206519603   and, best of all by far,   https://www.youtube.com/@asterperpetua/videos     

• “The scandal that shook psychology to its core”   https://youtu.be/QGWeVbYduOI?si=K4a-i7AyARoVn0hq  
  This was triggered by (alleged) problems with replication of a paper showing evidence of precognition, but some of the biases shown by reviewers in relation to that paper was staggering - they amounted to being along the lines of “we know they earth isn’t round because we can see it is flat, so anything suggesting otherwise is absurd”. A far better approach is written about in Dean I Radin’s “The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena” [Harper One (2010), first pub. Harper Collins (2009), ISBN 978 0062029096, Amazon]    Other links that may be of use or interest on that include   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daryl_Bem&oldid=1195120420#%22Feeling_the_Future%22_controversy     https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/feeling-future-precognition-experiments     https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/mar/15/precognition-studies-curse-failed-replications (which highlights that supposed attempts to REPLICATE actually USED DIFFERENT PROCEDURES!!!)    
  There is another aspect here that is known to us who actually understand and work in the area: the FACT that scepticism can and does block psychism  
  Going back to this video, it includes a good look at the issue of replicability of results - and the need to publish null results (which I support, based on my near half a century of experience in engineering), which is difficult because of positive result bias in publication decisions, and a rethinking of the whole concept of replicability / proof   See also   “Questioning Psychology's Findings: A Real Crisis”   https://youtu.be/FXIFtWH0GQM?si=lEG1d15kkL25oJqL  This raises some good points which require consideration (some similar to what we, in bacterial testing in the water industry, referred to as MPN - Most Probable Number)   and, more generally,   “China conducts first nationwide review of retractions and research misconduct”   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00397-x   “Universities must declare all their retractions and launch investigations into misconduct cases; a Nature analysis reveals that since 2021 there have been more than 17,000 retractions with Chinese co-authors”  
  

• “THIS is why we cry”   https://youtu.be/xMj3f8C-n9M?si=-MC1zXxj6dRlSDDn   Interesting - especially the mention of oxytocin. Includes good advice  

• this week’s “afterlife report” by the  Zammits (see here for zoom meeting opportunities):  
  https://www.victorzammit.com/February16th2024/  
  

• 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,     and     politics & democracy, and international affairs;
  
  
• “Toxic loyalty”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/02/toxic-loyalty.html  
  
  
• “From the Lemkin Institute on genocide prevention / investigation [Note: Content Warning - mention of and links to documents concerning genocide. Reader discretion is advised]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/02/from-lemkin-institute-on-genocide.html   “On events in Rafah”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/02/on-imminent-events-in-rafah.html   “Another electoral threat to electoral coward Putin is dead [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on oppression/bigotry/hate, violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/02/another-electoral-threat-to-electoral.html   “Accountability for the USA’s former dictator”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/02/accountability-for-usas-former-dictator.html   

• also from YouTube:

• “Self Care is a Scam”   https://youtu.be/UCWVihE4skI?si=FxnBm-lpA_GAEYxj   Yes, the title is deliberately a little bit click baity, but is used to make a point - followed up by reasonable suggestions 
  
  
• from YouTube and elsewhere on neurodivergence: 
• from I’m Autistic, Now What?:
  - “This Term for Autism is NOT OKAY”   https://youtu.be/_pwibenGtkQ?si=s24taDUZm5OASX7i   Usage of the term is not, IMO, limited to the group nominated in the title   
  
  
• from Orion Kelly - That Autistic Guy:
  - “Don’t be AUTISTIC at Work!”   https://youtube.com/shorts/spEj-OVKp2k?si=ENLQSkl19A5rBn-b   On the double standards / hypocrisy of employers   
  
  
• from other channels: 
  - “Autistic Burnout Recovery Is About Reducing Dissonance”   https://youtu.be/E2jv3iSInkU?si=cLlL2-bVtqaQL7TC  
  

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