Saturday, September 11, 2021
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Revealing the Mind: The Promise of Psychedelics
Premiered Aug 16, 2019
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Nearly every culture throughout history has used chemicals that alter consciousness for spiritual exploration. In the 20th century these drugs caught the attention of scientists. Psychedelics, as they were named, proved effective at treating intractable illnesses like depression and addiction. And they became a tool for studying the mind, opening “the doors of perception,” as Aldous Huxley wrote. But those doors slammed shut when President Nixon declared psychedelics dangerous and medically useless. Join scientists and “psychonauts” who are now picking up where research left off 50 years ago, experimenting with LSD, psilocybin, DMT and other psychedelics to heal—and reveal—the mind. The Big Ideas Series is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation. PARTICIPANTS: Alison Gopnik, Eduardo Kohn, Stephen Ross, Anil Seth MODERATOR: Emily Senay MORE INFO ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND PARTICIPANTS: https://www.worldsciencefestival.com/... TOPICS 0:00 - Introduction 6:05 - Panelist introductions 7:27 - What are psychedelics? 11:00 - Phenomenological effects of psychedelics 14:31 - Brain development and plasticity 17:15 - Psychedelic usage in the Amazon 19:43 - Amazonian ayahuasca ceremony 20:51 - Dissolution of the ego 22:46 - Default mode network 25:17 - Psilocybin testing on religious professionals 27:59 - The shaman’s message from the rain-forest 31:04 - Rain-forest soundscape 33:03 - Mind altering experiences without drugs 37:03 - Philosophical questions about psychedelics 42:37 - Can psychedelics restore brain plasticity? 45:16 - Measuring randomness of brain activity 51:58 - Psychedelic drugs as medicine 58:38 - Psilocybin cancer study participants film and Q&A 1:04:43 - Treating psychiatric disorders with psychedelics 1:09:23 - Micro-dosing and “freelancing” psychedelics 1:13:50 - Medical complications and medication interactions 1:18:14 - The future of psychedelics in science PROGRAM CREDITS - Produced by Nils Kongshaug - Associate Produced by Emmalina Glinskis - Short films produced / edited by Vin Liota - Music provided by APM - Additional images and footage provided by: Getty Images, Shutterstock, Videoblocks - Recorded at NYU Skirball Center This program is part of the BIG IDEAS SERIES, made possible with support from the JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION. - SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel and "ring the bell" for all the latest videos from WSF
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Friday, September 10, 2021
Psychology Study links too much free time to lower sense of wellbeing
Psychology
Study links too much free time to lower sense of wellbeing
Research shows there is a ‘sweet spot’ and subjective wellbeing drops off after about five hours
The lesson of Goldilocks, that one can have too much of a good thing, even when it comes to the size of a chair, has applied in fields from astrobiology to economics. Now, it seems it may even govern our free time.
Researchers have found that while levels of subjective well being initially rise as free time increases, the trend does not necessarily hold for very high levels of leisure.
“The sweet spot is a moderate amount of free time,” said Dr Marissa Sharif, a co-author of the study from the University of Pennsylvania. “We found that having too much time was associated with lower subjective wellbeing due to a lacking sense of productivity and purpose.”
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Writing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Sharif and colleagues reported how they analysed results from two large-scale surveys, involving a combined total of more than 35,000 participants.
One was the American Time Use Survey, which was carried out between 2012 and 2013 and asked participants what they had done in the past 24 hours.
After crowdsourcing opinions on which activities would be equated with leisure time and then calculating this time for participants, the team found that while subjective wellbeing rose with the amount of free time up to about two hours, it began to drop once it exceeded five hours.
Meanwhile data from the National Study of the Changing Workforce, carried out between 1992 and 2008, revealed that beyond a certain point, having more free time was no longer linked to greater subjective wellbeing, but it did not dip – possibly because few of the participants reported having more than five hours of free time a day.
The team said the American Time Use Survey suggested the way people spent their leisure time mattered.
“Although an abundance of discretionary time spent on solo and nonproductive activities did produce a negative effect on subjective well being, discretionary time spent on activities that were social or productive did not,” they wrote.
The team then carried out two online experiments, with data from 2,565 American participants in one and 4,046 in the other, in an attempt to ensure the findings were not simply down to, for example, a scenario in which people living with depression might find themselves with large amounts of free time.
In both experiments, participants were asked to imagine a defined amount of free time a day and what they would do with it, with one experiment looking specifically at whether it was spent on meaningful and productive activities, or “wasted”.
The team found more free time was not necessarily better when considered against imagined feelings of wellbeing, stress or productivity. More specifically, imagined wellbeing plateaued as hypothetical productive free time rose from moderate to high amounts, but was 0.4 points lower on a seven-point scale compared with moderate amounts of non-productive free time.
The team said the size of the effects was small and the optimal amounts of free time inexact.
Nonetheless, they said the work suggested people who feel they have too little free time should not quit all of their obligations, but instead try to find a couple of leisure hours a day. Meanwhile those with empty days should try spending their time with purpose, be it connecting with others or doing something productive.
Andrew Oswald, a professor of economics and behavioural science at the University of Warwick who was not involved in the study, welcomed the research.
“This is a valuable study because it provides all sorts of statistical evidence for a very intuitive idea: human beings like having spare ‘discretionary’ time – for leisure, home chores, hobbies, etc – in their day but not too much of it,” he said. “It’s a Goldilocks result – on time.”
Jimmy Rogers - Sloppy drunk (full album)
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1 Sloppy Drunk
2 I Can't Sleep For Worrying
3 Mistreated Baby
4 Slick Chick
5 Pretty Baby
6 Left Me With A Broken Heart
7 I Lost The Good Woman
8 You're So Sweet
9 The Last Time
10 Shelby County
11 Tricky Woman
12 Sloppy Drunk II
13 Gold Tailed Bird
14 Walkin' By Myself
15 That's Alright
16 Ludella
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Friday, September 3, 2021
Time Management
Young people tell you what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do. -French
“Many argue; not many converse.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
“Sometimes the best way to “manage” a relationship is to end it. Too few get this.” ~ Fateh Singh
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. - Horace
Time is basic. Unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed ~ Peter Drucker #TimeManagement
“There are seven days in a week and someday isn’t one of them.”
Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. ~ Elaine St James
"You don't learn how strong you are until you are pushed beyond what you thought you could handle and you emerge on the other side with more bravery, grace, and determination than you realized you even had." ~Rachel Marie Martin
The property a man has in his own industry, is violated, whenever he is forbidden the free exercise of his faculties or talents, except insomuch as they would interfere with the rights of third parties. - Jean-Baptiste Say
To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
You may delay, but time will not. ~ Ben Franklin
Be humble. Be teachable. The universe is bigger than your view of the universe. There's always room for a new idea. Humility is necessary for growth.
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