Persistent pain physio- helping phenomenological aggregates - aka people. NHS supporting, author of one unpublicated book #YellowBrickRoad
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Kfizz retweeted
I see the repression of the feminine principle as the biggest problem on the planet, and since the planet has become a global village, power alone just isn't going to work anymore. We will destroy ourselves.~Marion Woodman
Kfizz retweeted
2004 wasn’t the time Family Doctors were scrapped
2010 seems to be the moment the decline started
@Jeremy_Hunt you failed because you didn’t invest in GPs
Funding was cut 2014-2024 by 20% per patient, training more but no funding to retain
Then there was funding of ARRS 🤷🏻♂️
Kfizz retweeted
Very sad news that the wonderful Bonnie Greer, playwright and novelist has died aged 77. I interviewed her a couple of times and watched her on BBC QT. She was a smart, sassy, firebrand who will be missed from our public discourse RIP 🙏🏽
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An extraordinary @Nature paper has just landed from the lab of @Sergiu_P_Pasca at @Stanford - led by Konstantin Kaganovsky. They have found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells. This human-derived cortical graft integrates deeply with the host nervous system, supporting organised neural activity and behaviour.
This study is a milestone in synthetic biology and chimera research. It has the potential to generate multiple medical breakthroughs by providing an enhanced biological model of human brain tissue that allows behavioural as well as neural and genetic assays.
The Stanford team have been exceptionally thorough and proactive in addressing ethical concerns that comes from this frontier work. But their pioneering work nonetheless raises many open questions: are the xenocortical mice conscious? Do they have any human-like properties of consciousness or cognition?
@NitaFarahany and I will be addressing some of these questions in a forthcoming commentary - where we'll also offer an ethically-informed roadmap to guide this important research as it progresses. In this context, "pacing the frontier" really does make sense 😉
Read the Stanford @nature paper here, and buckle up. It's wild. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Kfizz retweeted
Dreams do not deceive, do not lie, do not distort or disguise-they seek to express something ego does not know & does not understand. Dreams are neither deliberate nor arbitrary fabrications; they are natural phenomena which are nothing other than what they pretend to be.~CG Jung
Kfizz retweeted
.@RNLI volunteers were shamefully abused by extremists yesterday and social full of extremists using hateful and libellous language about a volunteer life saving institution. Real patriots are proud of RNLI.
Kfizz retweeted
Pip is a benefit which helps people with disabilities live independently. For many it is essential to allow them to work - whether as employees or volunteers. Proposals to axe this will add to dependency not remove it. .@thecsp opposes such changes. @cspdisability
Kfizz retweeted
We need mire capacity year round to meet changing population needs and provide a buffer for emerging health threats (environmental, conflict & pandemic). NHS runs with no reserve capacity & understaffed eg a lower ratio of physios to population compared to similar nations.
The NHS needs a summer plan as well as a winter one ift.tt/F83HwsI
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The shadow self is not of itself evil; it just allows you to do evil without recognizing it as evil.~ Richard Rohr
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All people who claim to be spiritual try to get away from the fact of the body; they want to destroy it in order to be something imaginary, but they never will be that, because the body denies them; the body says otherwise.~CG Jung
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“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.”
— William S. Burroughs
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I originally coined the term spiritual bypassing in 1984, to describe a common tendency I discovered among Western spiritual seekers to use spiritual ideas and practices to avoid dealing with their emotional unfinished business. ~John Welwood, Toward a Psychology of Awakening
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Of course it is difficult to forgive betrayal, but refusal to do so ultimately binds 1 to the betrayer. To forgive is to recognize not only flawed humanity of the other but our own as well & in the end it is the only way to free the shackles of the past which bind us~James Hollis
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There are many people who are only partially conscious. They know what happens to them, but they do not know what they do or say. They cannot judge of the consequences of their actions. What then finally makes them conscious? They meet with something fatal...~CG Jung, CW 11
Kfizz retweeted
Bryce Dallas Howard has shared a video of the late Sam Neill singing “Blackbird” with Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern.
“Sam had an immense passion for life. Generous with his wine, his stories, his time. One of the most unassumingly attractive and magnetic people I've ever met.”
Kfizz retweeted
“Jung’s point is that whatever you would like to manifest in your life is exactly and precisely not what the big Self has in mind for you. That is why Jung says the Self is that which crosses my will, sometimes violently.
‘This is the name by which I designate all things which cross my wilful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans, and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.’ C.G. Jung Letters Volume 2, p. 525
We discover who we are underneath the wishes of the ego by finding the dark parts and owning them, usually through the school of hard knocks, not through the school of wishing and hoping and being more enlightened and richer:
‘One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.’ CW Vol. 13, par. 335
But something does mess with us all from an unseen place. Almost everyone intuits that there is a bigger picture and powerful forces in the universe.”
~Morgan Stebbins, D.Min, Jungian psychoanalyst (personal correspondence)
Coming later this week to Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts
🎨: “Red Strings of Fate,” Camilla d’Errico
