Invisible College #5 Photos: Jon Hanna
Perhaps the last photographs of Albert Hofmann. Taken the month he died in Switzerland.
You can see the rest of the edition here: https://www.invisiblecollege-publishing.com/pdfs/
Albert Hofmann was the inventor of LSD, Today marks his second experience with the substance (the first by accident, the second on purpose.)
Everything changes on that pivotal moment in 1943 is Basel Switzerland…
Jordan Peterson is recovering from a severe addiction to benzodiazepine tranquilizers and was recently near death in an induced coma, his daughter Mikhaila said.
He is being treated at a clinic in Russia after being repeatedly misdiagnosed at several hospitals in North America, she said.
The University of Toronto psychologist who became an intellectual hero to a global audience by aligning self-help theory with anti-progressive politics was first prescribed the medication a few years ago to treat anxiety after what Mikhaila described as an autoimmune reaction to food. His physical dependence on it became apparent to his family last April, when his wife Tammy was diagnosed with cancer.
The last year, which saw him retreat from public life after swiftly becoming one of the most famous authors in the world, has been an “absolute hell,” said Mikhaila, also a well known speaker on diet, who advocates eating only beef.
n November, he went to a rehabilitation centre in New York. He has previously discussed his long history of depression.
Jordan Peterson writes a column for the National Post, most recently in November.
His conditioned worsened through the winter, Mikhaila said. He was driven to thoughts of suicide by a movement disorder called akathisia, a well known side effect of various drugs for mental illnesses. It is a sense of restlessness and an inability to sit still.
“It became apparent that he was experiencing a paradoxical reaction to the medication, meaning the benzos did the opposite of what they’re supposed to do. These reactions are rare but are not unheard of,” Mikhaila said in the script for a video shared with the National Post.
She said the family sought alternative treatment in Russia because they found North American hospitals had misdiagnosed him, and were prescribing “more medications to cover the response he was experiencing from the benzodiazepines,” Mikhaila said. “He nearly died several times.” https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/mikhaila-peterson.jpg?w=590&quality=60&strip=all&zoom=2
She and her husband took him to Moscow last month, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia and put into an induced coma for eight days. She said his withdrawal was “horrific,” worse than anything she had ever heard about. She said Russian doctors are not influenced by pharmaceutical companies to treat the side-effects of one drug with more drugs, and that they “have the guts to medically detox someone from benzodiazepines.”
Jordan Peterson has only just come out of an intensive care unit, Mikhaila said. He has neurological damage, and a long way to go to full recovery. He is taking anti-seizure medication and cannot type or walk unaided, but is “on the mend” and his sense of humour has returned.
“He’s smiling again for the first time in months,” she said.
VIdeo & Article.
Bless You All,
Gwyllm
https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/28/willim-blake-poems-patti-smith/
New Show on Radio EarthRites: “The Rites Of Spring”
The Radio Updates are back… I have been putting new music up all along to keep it spicy, but now, here is a show for the Springtime.
Gwyllm.com/Radio-EarthRites
12:00 PST
Enjoy,
Gwyllm
“I have loved in life and I have been loved.
I have drunk the bowl of poison from the hands of love as nectar,
and have been raised above life’s joy and sorrow.
My heart, aflame in love, set afire every heart that came in touch with it.
My heart has been rent and joined again;
My heart has been broken and again made whole;
My heart has been wounded and healed again;
A thousand deaths my heart has died, and thanks be to love, it lives yet.
I went through hell and saw there love’s raging fire,
and I entered heaven illumined with the light of love.
I wept in love and made all weep with me;
I mourned in love and pierced the hearts of men;
And when my fiery glance fell on the rocks, the rocks burst forth as volcanoes.
The whole world sank in the flood caused by my one tear;
With my deep sigh the earth trembled, and when I cried aloud the name of my beloved,
I shook the throne of God in heaven.
I bowed my head low in humility, and on my knees I begged of love,
“Disclose to me, I pray thee, O love, thy secret.”
She took me gently by my arms and lifted me above the earth, and spoke softly in my ear,
“My dear one, thou thyself art love, art lover,
and thyself art the beloved whom thou hast adored.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Dance of the Soul
The Prospero’s was founded on the 4th way school model introduced to the West by George Gurdjieff, which if the tales are correct were derived from his time in schools of Sufism. He was called “A runaway Sufi”, more than a few times. Sufism regardless of the current gloss put on it in the US and the West is Islamic in nature, and cannot be separated from its source. There are of course those that propose that it is part of an older teaching complex, and that may be so, yet Sufism has been a part of Islamic thought from the beginning.
We should recognize this, and celebrate it. By plumbing the depths of the teachings of Sufism we can enrich the 4th way school tradition in the west that has drifted from its original pole-star. As the Sufis gave the gift of Romantic Love to the Troubadours, who took this message to the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine where it spread across Europe bringing Love again to marriage which had been a primarily financial arrangement from the time of early Christianity, so should the hidden gems of Sufism and Islamic thought bring its gift to the west again through the 4th Way Schools.
Gwyllm
