#DigitalDrugs: "What I argue for is trying to avoid using #intoxicants in high volume too often. So, it’s not that I imagine that we’re never going to use intoxicants. We wouldn’t be human. And it’s a deep part of our culture, and it can be neutral or even beneficial. But we have to really be careful about #overconsuming intoxicants or consuming them too often. And I do think given this world of abundance, that we have to now intentionally seek out things that are hard. Because our lives have become so easy, so convenient, so sedentary, the default is a state of consumption that’s ultimately not good for our bodies or our minds."

#addiction #meditation

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/magazine/anna-lembke-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.W1A.RFcW.X8JPIAyebjW9&smid=nytcore-ios-share

The appeal of being drunk is entirely lost on me. Why would I voluntarily shut down my brain so can lurch around the world like a bus with two flat tires?

#drunks #drinking #alcohol #intoxicants #culturalbullshit

Beer-drinking Badness

#JasonBrooks #Lifeguard #BoadyKervin

S11E07 "Dream Girl"

#BaywatchHawaii #RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #Beach #Ocean #Safety #Art #Beer #Intoxicants

Disharmony

#JasonBrooks #Lifeguard #BoadyKervin

S11E07 "Dream Girl"

#BaywatchHawaii #RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch #Beach #Ocean #Safety #Art #Beer #Intoxicants

Buddhist Views on Intoxicants

In Zen, we try to understand the spirit of the five precepts rather than just the words. The precepts are guides toward the cessation of suffering, not strict or prescriptive admonitions. They are there to open our eyes, to help us see clearly what creates unwholesome karma.

Tags: #alcohol, #buddhism, #intoxicants

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December 11, 2024 at 10:36AM

🌱 Pacific communities seek to protect kava as it gains global popularity

https://globalvoices.org/2024/05/29/pacific-communities-seek-to-protect-kava-as-it-rises-in-global-popularity/

#kava #drugs #intoxicants #indigenous

Time for an #introduction. I'm a historian (#histodons) working on the history of #tea, #coffee and other #intoxicants in #17thcentury and #18thcentury Hamburg/Germany. I'm interested in #earlymodern #bodies, #medicine, #materialculture and #consumption, and #practices of #sendingstuff.

Previously on the #IntoxicatingSpaces team (www.intoxicatingspaces.org), I now work on the #PrizePapers Project (www.prizepapers.de) at Oldenburg University.

Further loves: #baroquemusic, #earlymusic, #viola.

#introduction

Hi, I'm a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. I specialize in using cross-cultural methods to address questions about the human past. My research interests include #CulturalEvolution, #Archaeology, #Prehistory, #Hunter-gatherers, #Mobility, #Intoxicants, and #SocialComplexity.