The Path To Awakening

Everything you know about depression could be wrong. Johann Hari always wondered if there was more to people’s depression than what was being advertised/normalized. So, he started what turned into a 4,000 mile journey to find the answer. Like many, including celebrities, Hari felt confused when it came to handling his depression.  "When I was a teenager, until I went to my doctor, I had thought my depression was all in my head, meaning it was a sign of weakness, it was shameful,” he explained. “It’s not in our heads. If you’re depressed, if you’re anxious, you’re not crazy. You’re a human being with unmet needs.” Hari began to explore what really causes depression in his book Lost Connections. As a child, he was told that his depression was due to a lack of serotonin in his brain. After he was given anti-depressants, he felt better, but found that the sad thoughts began to leak back in until he went back for a higher dose. He later discovered that our moods may be product of up to nine different factors, seven of which are in our psychology and our environment. These include feeling lonely, feeling controlled at work, and not getting enough access to the natural world. He explained, “And while certainly chemical antidepressants have some value, and should remain on the table, we need to radically expand the menu of options for people who are depressed and anxious to actually deal with the deep, underlying reasons why we feel this way.”  

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Other recommended video to watch: https://www.crypto-city.com/index.php/video/play/142/the-myth-of-authority-video-from-the-book-the-most-dangerous-superstition/ The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larken Rose (narrated by Steven Thomas) Get a hard copy of Larken's book from http://www.larkenrose.com Help support Larken's projects https://www.patreon.com/user?u=347021 Donations can be sent... via PayPal to "larken@larkenrose.com" or in Bitcoin to 1QB6gsx9brBFebmUztSoPJ1pZD7dscB3dj 0:00:10 0) Dedication 0:00:29 1) Preparing the Reader PART I: THE MOST DANGEROUS SUPERSTITION 0:03:11 2) Starting with the Punch Line 0:11:03 3) Overview 0:13:26 4) Identifying the Enemy 0:23:47 5) Government Does Not Exist (No Such Thing) 0:30:13 6) Offshoots of the Superstition 0:40:10 7) Attempting to Rationalize the Irrational 0:41:00 8) The Myth of Consent 0:49:46 9) More Mythology (new voice over) 0:59:12 10) The Secret Ingredient 1:05:12 11) The Excuse of Necessity PART II: THE DISPROOFS OF AUTHORITY 1:06:34 12) Disproving the Myth (Letting Go of the Myth) 1:09:11 13) Why the Myth is Tempting 1:13:37 14) The Religion of “Government” 1:28:24 15) Adding Immoral Violence (“Authority” = Immoral Violence) 1:35:51 16) Who Gave Them the Right? 1:41:14 17) Altering Morality 1:50:17 18) The Unavoidability of Judging PART III: THE EFFECTS OF THE SUPERSTITION 1:58:08 19) Effects of the Myth PART III(A): THE EFFECTS OF THE MYTH ON THE MASTERS 2:08:20 20) The Devine Right of Politicians PART III(B): THE EFFECTS OF THE MYTH ON THE ENFORCERS 2:20:19 21) Following Orders 2:26:56 22) The Milgram Experiments 2:40:52 23) Teaching Blind Obedience 2:49:35 24) Making Monsters 3:05:19 25) Demonizing the Victim 3:21:21 26) What the Badge Means 3:24:17 27) Noble Motives, Evil Actions 3:45:53 28) Proudly Committing Evil PART III(C): THE EFFECTS OF THE MYTH ON THE TARGETS 3:49:30 29) Proud to be Robbed 3:54:20 30) Proud to be Controlled 4:00:59 31) The Good Funding the Evil 4:09:42 32) Digging Their Own Graves 4:19:20 33) The Effects on Actual Criminals PART III(D): THE EFFECTS OF THE MYTH ON THE SPECTATORS 4:21:49 34) The Sin of Non-Resistance 4:24:34 35) Imagining "Legal" Evil to Be Good 4:35:27 36) Obligation to Do Wrong 4:46:19 37) Double Standard on Violence 4:54:41 38) The Danger of Inaction PART III(E): THE EFFECTS OF THE MYTH ON THE ADVOCATES 4:57:15 39) "Legalized" Aggression 5:05:36 40) Excuses for Aggression 5:12:07 41) Charity Through Violence 5:15:33 42) Advocates of Brutality 5:22:42 43) Forced Benefits 5:25:01 44) Attacking to Defend (Violence for Protection) 5:27:34 45) Violence by Default (When in Doubt, Advocate Violence) 5:36:12 46) How the Myth Defeats Virtue 5:43:19 47) "Liberal" Cowardice 5:49:31 48) "Conservative" Cowardice 5:53:23 49) True Tolerance 6:00:29 50) Big or Small, Left or Right, It's Still Evil 6:12:43 51) No Objective Standard (???) 6:22:35 52) The Effect of the Myth on Freedom Advocates 6:34:32 53) The Rules of the Game 6:39:08 54) Legitimizing Oppression 6:43:19 55) The Libertarian Contradiction 6:52:33 56) Same as the Old Boss 6:55:53 57) A Mix of Wisdom and Insanity 7:01:32 58) The Contract Myth PART IV: LIFE WITHOUT THE SUPERSTITION 7:04:20 59) The Solution 7:11:33 60) Reality is Anarchy 7:19:00 61) Fear of Freedom 7:23:51 62) Seeing a Different World 7:31:35 63) A World Without Rulers 7:43:43 64) Thinking Differently, Talking Differently 7:49:30 65) Teaching Morality vs. Teaching Authority 7:57:03 66) No Master Plan 8:09:13 67) You Rule you, I Rule Me 8:14:02 68) A Different Society 8:19:39 69) A Different Kind of Rules 8:27:13 70) Organization Without "Authority" 8:30:36 71) Defense Without "Authority" 8:50:52 72) Deterrents and Incentives 8:59:28 73) Anarchy in Action 9:05:22 74) Anti-Authoritarian Parenting 9:13:45 75) Halfway There 9:23:28 76) The Road to Justice 9:31:42 77) Side Effects of the Myth 9:48:40 78) What Society Could Be (What Might Have Been) 10:02:13 79) Accepting Reality 10:08:34 80) The Punch Line Revisited 10:12:56 81) Steven Thomas’s Contact Information  

The speech in this video is an excerpt of the novel 'The Iron Web' by Larken Rose.

This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries.

Does the philosophy of materialism work to destroy our identities, experience, and environment? Join narrator Daphne Ellis on a radical romp through the evidence and decide for yourself. Escape! From the Cult of Materialism is a documentary style remix/mash-up of material from various sources, which are credited at the end. I feel like this film should have way more views. Used with permission from Fair Wind Films: http://www.fairwindfilms.com

If time is the most precious commodity then do you really think stacking your calendar up with meetings for the sake of (over)productivity is the best use of it?