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Daily Alchemy: Can we make this controversy good?

61d ago

“Should Psychology Today's 'Think steel, not snowflakes' advice replace trauma-informed clinical care?”

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    How do you know who to trust?

    I've been actively studying trust for the better part of a decade, but, recently, as I have been digging through the published research, most of the thinking about who to trust becomes a conversation about what to trust....
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    Republic-of-Cascadia·...
    Below is a non-exhaustive set of peer-reviewed studies and meta-analyses that examine the relationship between political conservatism (or right-wing ideology) and sexual prejudice / homophobia (attitudes toward LGBTQ+ people, same-sex relationships, etc.)....
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    Hi! I am a writer, composer, and musician, serving as a pastor of a multi-ethnic church. My interests include spirituality, apologetics, psychology, and philosophy....
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    Much better streamlined version of "Beyond Inner Work: Relational Awareness and the Practice of Relateful"

    Had too many versions and was using the wrong AI for this type of thing.  Just switched to Claude, submitted a few versions and so happy with this shorter much easier to read version.  My ideas, long rambles and confusing order, now in streamlined, logically ordered document....
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    psychology
    mindfulness
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  • ↳onWho has the right to the land in Israel-Palestine?: The Storyby
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    Florence·...
    I think you’ve hit the nail on the head when you say “the biggest problem is that each sides narrative requires the others to be illegitimate”. Without even discussing land, cooperation or rights this one phrase sums up the impasse....
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    philosophy
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    Where is the line between accountability and mob rule?: Restoration advocates

    After the machine is done Nobody talks about what happens next. The crowd moves on. The platform moves on. The person does not move on. They are sitting in a room that used to contain a career, a reputation, a set of relationships that defined how they understood themselves in...
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    sociology
    social-justice
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    The Open Question May 20: What are you actually optimizing your life for?

    Hey y'all, This week: What are you actually optimizing your life for? (the frame of the question is already tough... I don't really want to instrumentalize life, nor "optimize" it, but i'd rather start conversing the get it perfect, which starts to say something of an answer for...
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    personal-reflection
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  • ↳onThe Open Question May 6: What keeps you sane?by
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    Your list also reminds me of Roger Walsh's "therapeutic lifestyle changes" (TLCs) things that have been proven to increase health but are often under"prescribed"; I'd love to see him add comedy and sex specifically, instead of just grouping it under "recreation" :)  for those...
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    mental-health
    public-health
  • ↳onThe Open Question May 6: What keeps you sane?by
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    in general it seems to me that sanity requires inner effort.

    I love this, and I think it's one of those bits of wisdom that seems obvious when said but is hard earned

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    mental-health
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    Why can't anyone agree on a healthy diet?: Intuitive health

    The unplanned almond I spent four years weighing chicken breasts on a kitchen scale. I logged meals to the tenth of a gram. I had not eaten with friends without pre-logging in eleven months. I turned down my grandmother’s birthday cake....
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    sociology
    nutrition
  • ↳onThe Open Question April 22: Who decides what's good for the planet?by
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    I wholeheartedly agree we need to become a more mature species; especially the kind of intelligence that can empathize, love, sacrifice, and has wisdom. I dont think cognitive intelligence alone can do the trick (which i think may be extremely relevant to AI)....
    ethics
    psychology
    philosophy
  • ↳onYour Map of Me Is Out of Dateby
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    Yeah all maps are "out of date" bc the map and the mapping is included in the territory being mapped (i would say this applies to abstractions as well, since we can't divorce the subject making/understanding/interacting with an abstraction from the abstraction)....
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    integral-theory
    epistemology
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    Your Map of Me Is Out of Date

    On the quiet failure of fixed people-maps -- and whose job it is to fix them ---- Ken Wilber, whose maps of human development have shaped a generation of facilitators, coaches, and practitioners, is emphatic about one thing: the map is not the territory....
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  • ↳onIntroduce yourself (and say hi to others)by
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    Hey, beautiful people! My name is Lee, and I'm from Seattle, WA... for now. I tend to move around here and there. I love deep conversations, and I'm passionate about helping people remember who they were before the world told them who to be....
    personal-development
    psychology
    philosophy
  • ↳onRelational Healthcare and the Re-Emergence of Wholeness-Based Medicine by Dr. Brian Plante, N.D.by
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    Relatefulness supports a person’s rediscovery of wholeness by centering awareness-in-connection

    This is a dope definition. Nice.

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    psychology
    spirituality
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    NEW VERSION: Beyond Inner Work: Relational Awareness and the Practice of Relateful

    Beyond Inner Work: Relational Awareness and the Practice of Relateful -Personal development trains inner awareness. Relatefulness trains relational awareness....
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  • ↳onThe Open Question April 8: How do you determine what something's worth?by
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    Lesakisses·...

    Something is worth nothing it depends on your state of mind and peace that is valuable.

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  • ↳onThe Open Question April 8: How do you determine what something's worth?by
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    It's very interesting, every time I try to write a response, I delete it. Here are a few riffs: here are some things I value: gratitude time with my family & kids meaningful work friendship my obligations, service, and commitments to others integrity, love play, fun,...
    personal-development
    psychology
    spirituality
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    The Open Question April 8: How do you determine what something's worth?

    Hey y'all! This week's open question: How do you determine what something's worth? SpaceX is targeting a valuation of $1.75 trillion. Bhutan measures success by happiness instead of GDP. Close friends of mine are weighing career ambitions against time with their kids......
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  • ↳onScriptural Relating: Towards an Interreligious Dialogue Methodology Inspired by Relatefulness and Scriptural ReasoningbyTTamara Sofia Falcone
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    To this end, an important aspect of Scriptural Relating is the practice of “bracketing.” I borrow this term from the phenomenological concept of epoché, which refers to the deliberate, temporary suspension of habitual assumptions in order to encounter what is actually present...
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    religious-studies
    phenomenology
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