Just sharing-
1 May 2009 – This Friday!
State Capitol Rotunda, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
May Day for Ray: Protest Forced Electroshock of Ray Sandford
Join MindFreedom International in protesting the ongoing forced
outpatient electroshock of Ray Sandford of Minnesota wherever you
live: Vigil, write letters to the editor, speak out! If you can get
to Minneapolis/St. Paul you can join MindFreedom [...]
Archive for April, 2009
News from MindFreedom
Posted in CS/X movement, Mental Hell Treatment, mindfreedom news, tagged C/S X Movement, Consumer/ Survivor Movement, events, links to information on mental health and recovery, Mad News, mental health news, MindFreedom, news on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s getting close to time
Posted in Frogs, Tagore, tagged Frogs, tadpoles, Wildlife habitat on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For scouting for frog habitat that may be unable to support amphibians to maturity. My annual quest. More later. Rest assured that I will rescure as many tadpoles from annihilation as possible.
Stories From Mental Hell Treatment
Posted in Mental Hell Treatment, tagged human/ inhuman behavior, mental health, Mental Health treatment, spirit on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These are stories of people subjected to torture and humiliation in the name of “treatment” for mental health issues. They are found (with many others) on the website: http://psychrights.org/index.htm
CHOMP Hell
On October 15, 2007, I was kidnapped, put in solitary confinement, and I was physically abused for 3 days.
My husband had called the suicide prevention hotline and [...]
I have updated the Space page (see tab above)
Posted in pictures, space exploration, tagged pictures, space on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I added about 3 dozen pictures to the Space page today. Most are very big, Hi-Res pictures, so click on them to get the full size. Here are some thumbnails of some of the new additions.
Happy Weekend
Posted in Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Neal Cassidy, poetry, tagged Beatnik, poetry on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Great show last night. Good radio. I don’t have the recording yet so it will be in archives later this week. To Daniel, the absent groupie: Nyah! We did it without you (again). To Roxxie: Have fun! Wish we were there. Eat some hot food for us.
Today:
Beatnik Festival! Yee Haw!
(caution, not all beatniks, some just [...]
MLBM Announcement
Posted in CS/X movement, Mad Radio, Mental health recovery, tagged CS/X movement, Mad Liberation by Moonlight, Mad Radio, mental health on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Re: Looney Radio 4/17/09
Mental Health consumer-talk-radio
This Friday night, 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.-
April 17th, 2009
KBOO 90.7 FM or streamed on the web: kboo.fm
Call in at 503-231-8187 to be on the radio (or show up at the studio).
Please set your alarm if you aren’t up at that time- we need your voice.
There are people listening
(all over [...]
Ray Update from MindFreedom
Posted in CS/X movement, Links: Recovery, mindfreedom news, wellness and systems change, tagged C/S X Movement, Consumer/ Survivor Movement, CS/X movement, human/ inhuman behavior, links to information on mental health and recovery, mental health news, Mental health recovery, MindFreedom on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MindFreedom News – 15 April 2009
Nonviolent Revolution in Mental Health
http://www.mindfreedom.org/ray – please forward
Ray Sandford Declares “Guarded Victory” for MindFreedom Ray Campaign
Because of Public Pressure, Ray’s Psychiatrist May Quit Case
The bad news is that this morning, 15 April 2009, Ray Sandford of
Minnesota had another involuntary, outpatient electroshock, also
known as electroconvulsive therapy or [...]
T’ang Poetry- Chapter 5?
Posted in Chinese poetry, Du Fu, Li Bai, poetry, tagged pictures, poetry on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m losing track of how many of these I’ve done. I just know that these are not included in the previous posts.
Li Bai
HARD ROADS IN SHU
Oh, but it is high and very dangerous!
Such travelling is harder than scaling the blue sky.
…Until two rulers of this region
Pushed their way through in the misty ages,
Forty-eight thousand years [...]
Thought Relics- Tagore
Posted in Free E-Books, Spirituality, Tagore, tagged spirit, Tagore, The Great Love on April 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today’s offering is another book by Rabindranath Tagore, Thought Relics, which he also translated into English.
It is in the public domain and the full download is at the bottom of this post as a Word Document.
First, some excerpts:
SPIRITUAL life is the emancipation of consciousness. Through it we find immediate response of soul everywhere. Before we [...]
Rig Veda
Posted in Mystic Poetry, Spirituality, Vedas, tagged poetry, spirit, Spirituality on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The best place I’ve found on the web for Vedic scriptures with both English translations and Sanskrit originals, access to commentary, etc. is http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/index.htm
For a taste, offered here are the first 30 hymns of the Rig Veda, the oldest written scripture in the world.
Rig Veda Book 1
Hymn 1
1 I Laud Agni, the chosen Priest, God, minister [...]


