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10 Psychology Experiments Which Went Horribly Wrong! - Braintenance...The Dark Side...

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We have a propensity to overrate ourselves as a species a great deal of the time. I just found this wonderfully demonstrative article on StumbleUpon , (fooled you?) one of my new social media and content resource groups which is loaded with wonderful material, The original url for the page is: StumbleUpon Recommendations For Douglas E Castle . But please don't go there just yet. First read one of the articles which they selected for me, and an ideal one to share with my fellow cerebrotonics and psychonauts here on The Braintenance Blog : -------------- (1) cerebrotonic - Designating a personality type characterized as intellectual, introverted, and emotionally restrained. (2) psychonaut - An explorer of one's own mind. A psychonaut often embarks on inner voyages with the aid of psychoactive substances , meditation, sensory deprivation , binaural beats , and other means. Most commonly, one who experiments with psychedelic substances, such as psilocybin, LSD , MDMA (ecs...

Renew Your Mind: Re-Establish Clarity And Peace

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Your mind is largely what you you make it. Your thoughts are principally those things that you permit your mind to focus on and ruminate over, sometimes cycling or "kindling" them over and over to the extent of unhealthy distortion (psychologists like to call this extreme "if/then" enlargement of a possibility " catastrophizing "), obsession and the "crowding out" of your ability to cast your focus or place your thoughts elsewhere. More than 70% of the U.S. population (and this is likely an underestimate, gathered more anecdotally than methodically and subject to review) is taking prescription psychotropic drugs -- and this does not include those persons who self-medicate or share prescription medication with others. This statistic does not take into effect illegal drugs and non-prescription controlled substances . Nor does it take into account nicotine, alcohol, coffee or tea, all of which are psychoactive to some extent, and are addictive...