News from MindFreedom

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 [...]

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It’s getting close to time

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.

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Stories From Mental Hell Treatment

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 [...]

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I have updated the Space page (see tab above)

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.
              

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Happy Weekend

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 [...]

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MLBM Announcement

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 [...]

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Ray Update from MindFreedom

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 [...]

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T’ang Poetry- Chapter 5?

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 [...]

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Thought Relics- Tagore

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 [...]

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Rig Veda

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 [...]

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