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“A doctor, for instance, is bored with his job and his family and must always have a project to keep himself entertained—a second house that needs renovation, another house at the beach, a farm outside town, an overseas trip for ‘professional development’, a share in a racehorse, extensions to the family home. This is the pattern of restless overconsumers, who deploy their wealth as a means of avoiding confrontation with the essential meaningless of life that they fear may lie just below the surface. They keep themselves amused by changing the form of their assets.”
― Growth Fetish
― Growth Fetish
“Physicist Max Planck once said that scientific ideas are changed not by acceptance of rational evidence but by the passing of generations.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry
― The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model: Reconciling Art and Science in Psychiatry
“See John Haworth, Work, Leisure and Wellbeing, Routledge, London, 1997, pp. 24–5.”
― Growth Fetish
― Growth Fetish
“Carhart-Harris believes that people suffering from a whole range of disorders characterized by excessively rigid patterns of thought—including addiction, obsessions, and eating disorders as well as depression—stand to benefit from “the ability of psychedelics to disrupt stereotyped patterns of thought and behavior by disintegrating the patterns of [neural] activity upon which they rest.”
― How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
― How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
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