A Post for Mental Health Awareness Week
The link between insanity and genius
“…. people are hungry for and fascinated by the ideas that explain some of our most complex behaviours…” Marcus Weeks
Coming soon: your immortal brain
“….an exact replica of your brain will hold your memories, will act and think and feel the way you do, and will experience your consciousness — irrespective of whether it’s built out of biological cells, Tinkertoys, or zeros and ones.” David Eagleman
The energy of our ancestors….
“If there was a drug that would give you a dream of an ancestor with a message for you that would put you completely at peace for the rest of your life, would you take it?” Voula
Be careful what you wish for…..
“When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ” Oscar Wilde
We become who we come from…
And the sins of the fathers will be visited on their sons unto the seventh generation….
Remorse and regret….
“Regret is based on a GIANT assumption; that if something in the past had been different, then things would have been better.” Ian Lawton
What can our dreams tell us?
“Dreaming is so basic to human existence, it’s astonishing we don’t understand it better. It consumes years of our lives, and no other single activity exerts such a powerful pull on our imaginations. Yet central as dreaming is, we still have no idea why we dream.”
The forgetting pill: would you take it?
If there was a pill you could take to wipe out a traumatic memory forever, would you take it? If there was a pill you could take to remember something you’d completely forgotten but that was essential to your happiness, would you take it?
What have your ancestors passed on to you?
“Our genes have an innate knowledge of family networks.” Al Pesso