Oh hey there voice in my head that calls my name from down the staircase, i thought you were dead!

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Dean Wareham signing 'Hearing Voices' in Culver City on Saturday 9th December
Dean Wareham will be at Arcana Books in Culver City signing copies of the new book of his lyrics Hearing Voices. He will be joined at the signing by Ed Templeton who provided the illustrations for the book. Illustration and...
#HearingVoices #EdTempleton #DeanWareham #Galaxie500 #News

https://www.fullofwishes.co.uk/2023/12/05/dean-wareham-signing-hearing-voices-in-culver-city-on-saturday-9th-december/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=ahfow&utm_campaign=website?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ifttt

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Hearing Voices - Dean Wareham's lyrics illustrated
A selection of Dean Wareham’s lyrics has just been published in a beautiful book with illustrations by artist Ed Templeton. Hearing Voices - Ginger Snaps (Dean Wareham / Ed Templeton) The collection has been published by Nazraelli Press and is...
#HearingVoices #Book #EdTempleton #DeanWareham #Galaxie500 #Luna #DeanAndBritta #News

https://www.fullofwishes.co.uk/2023/11/19/hearing-voices-dean-wareham-s-lyrics-illustrated-in-book-form/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=ahfow&utm_campaign=website?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ifttt

Anthropologists using the tool of #ethnography to gain understanding of treatment of severe #mental illness:

' a key ingredient in recovery is “giving people a chance to create meaning around their experience.” In contrast, ...most psychiatric treatment consists of heavily prescribed drugs that “dull the experience but are not helping people to do the deep mucking out of spiritual, emotional, and psychological work” that recovery requires.'

'..social and economic factors can often increase the risk of schizophrenia more than any known genetic influences. These factors range from living in an urban rather than a rural environment to being an immigrant, living in poverty, emotional and sexual abuse (especially in childhood), and parental death,..'

#schizophrenia #HearingVoices #biomedicine

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/schizophrenia-tangled-roots/

i'm listening to an interview with a chinese ufologist (don't even ask) and the interviewer is coming from a western perspective. so when the interviewee says that he initially thought that he was receiving communication from "ascended masters" or some other spirits, the interviewer was shocked. she was like.. "how did you know to even consider that?? i thought there was tight control over religion in china.."

does she assume that because there's "no religion" in china that there's no spirituality?

i'm not sure if the interviewee understood what she was asking. he was basically like "yes, i thought i was getting communication from spirits," whereas she wanted to know how he could even ~imagine~ such a thing since "there's no religion in china."

anyway, because i'm a schmuck, i posted a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_folk_religion and basically said like...just because it's a "communist country" and there's "no religion", there are still very widespread spiritual practices that are like thousands of years old. they got spirits, demons, and all kinds of heavens and hells. so yea.

anyway, if i'm way off-base here, someone please correct my understanding.

#CulturalAnthropology #ReligiousStudies #HearingVoices #SpiritualTraditions #ComparativeReligion