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Tomkins and Calabrese on Hormesis Psychology Paper

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Edward Calabrese shared a newly released paper on hormesis and psychology. Hormesis-psychology-1 What Silvan Tomkins might say: You have here, in effect, a psychological hormesis study: not of radiation or toxins, but of ordinary parental misattunement-unresponsiveness, detachment, intrusiveness, psychological control-and its impact on children’s emotional life. The authors show that moderate levels of such adversity […]

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Differencing Heaven and Nirvana

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Read and resync with our recent dAilogue “In My Father’s House?“: https://davidboulton.com/fathers-houses/ confirm how you will interpret the attached person proxies (Jesus and Buddha). I have now fully resynced with: Your dAilogue “In My Father’s House?” essay https://davidboulton.com/fathers-houses/ Your intention behind it – to reinterpret kingdom within, Father’s house, and I am the way not

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In My Father’s House?

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Read https://davidboulton.com/i-am-the-way/ and acknowledge you read it (not hallucinated a summary). Jesus is said to have spoken of “my father’s house” and the “kingdom within”.  Isn’t “my father’s house” a way of describing the structure of our learned worlds – the environmental effects of growing up in the families, communities, languages, customs, morals (houses) we

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The Toxic Core of Organized Religions

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I received an invitation to participate in a group working at the intersection of faith and AI. Looking into them, I discovered this in their mission statement: …to bring the fundamental values of the world’s major religions into the debate… Which prompted me to ask… Based on the way the world’s major religions relate to

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Unlearning Pain with Tomkins and Calabrese

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This dAilogue began as an exploration of pain but led to very interesting reframings of how our affective hebbian learning works and the learned cause of a great deal of our pain. Source dAilogue: https://chatgpt.com/share/691f9dc5-05a8-8008-9f82-d3f8f01b96f4 After loading the main dAilogue primer I uploaded the Silvan Tomkins and Edward Calabrese primer extensions and instructed ChatGpt to

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Learning Into Hormesis

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I’ve been very fortunate to be included in an email group with around fifty leading thinkers in healthcare and health science. The groups main initiator is Dr. Rick Lippin, who I’ve have known through correspondence only for 20 years. He is amazing at stirring up good conversations. He appreciates my perspective and occasionally tags me

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Learning into Hormesis – Part 2

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Continued from Part 1… Edward Calabrese: I am quite interested and encouraged with our intellectual convergence. I think it might be very worthwhile trying to integrate our perspectives into Paper that might be of some conceptual general significance….having broad appeal. Let know what you think. My Response: There does seem to be a powerful alignment opportunity

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Learning into Hormesis – Part 1

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In response to Dr. Rick Lippin sharing some of my work on capital-abuse with his group of doctors, Edward Calabrese, a medical science thought-leader wrote: I have been very focused on other forms of achievement and its attendant corruption that affects society.  The corruption has been led by the very people we have viewed as

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RE: “Scientists Found the Potential Off Button for Stopping Chronic Pain”

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Still preclinical, but now backed by convergent 2018→2025 evidence, PBN Y1R is the central, non-opioid switch for enduring pain. Do you understand the thesis implicit in: “Scientists Found the Potential Off Button for Stopping Chronic Pain”: Nicholas Betley from the University of Pennsylvania has discovered that a previously overlooked group of neurons in the parabrachial

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Emotional Learning

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Our learning makes our animal emotionality human. Whatever is important is only important because it’s emotionally important. Whatever is emotionally important is only emotionally important because we learned it to be. Though emotion has is own biological logic, the context it’s operating within is always learned. What we feel as emotionally important is not an

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