http://www.process.org/discept conversation and contention, for your attention Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:16:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two items of note: The search functionality for the site has been fixed. Post and user ratings have been removed from the site; this became a rope for the tug and pull of popularity contests for the lazy. Comments will continue to remain open for the less lazy people seeking to engage ... http://www.process.org/discept/2010/03/10/administrivia-march-2010/ I spend a chunk of each year directing a traveling food adventure show for The Food Network, Discovery Asia and Food TV UK. The really fantastic thing about the job is not only the travel, but also that I work with local people for a solid week in each location. ... http://www.process.org/discept/2010/02/14/gumbo/ "Q.  Okay.  Just to make sure I have covered the bases and the record is clear, there is no known, reliable method for distinguishing between true and false memories by talking to a patient? A.  True, except for one little qualifier.  Obviously, physically impossible memories.  Setting that aside, no. ... http://www.process.org/discept/2010/02/08/dr-colin-a-ross-psychiatry-the-supernatural-and-malpractice-most-foul/ The diagnosis is in: I have a malignant negativity, a "negative world view", that prevents me from accepting the unique universal healing properties of Transcendental Meditation™ [TM]. My problem has been recognised by some of the top minds at Maharishi University (TM's university in Fairfield, Iowa) who have expressed ... http://www.process.org/discept/2010/01/30/lies-levitation-and-defamations-most-foul/ "The Council finds that recollections obtained during hypnosis can involve confabulations and pseudomemories and not only fail to be more accurate, but actually appear to be less reliable than nonhypnotic recall." -American Medical Association, Council on Scientific Affairs, Scientific Status of Refreshing Recollections by the Use of Hypnosis, 1985. ... http://www.process.org/discept/2009/11/15/remembering-lies-interview-with-psychiatric-abuse-victim-jeannette-bartha/ On a recent trip to mainland China I spent most of my time in a city called Hangzhou. The population of this beautiful city is somewhere around 3 million souls. A lot of Chinese people rely on the bicycle for transport as well as scooters. Chinese cities are very congested ... http://www.process.org/discept/2009/10/18/electric/ Here again we return to infinity (if it can be said possible to return to something which one can't leave). If you hadn't heard of it before: there are different types of infinity - different sizes of infinity. This area of mathematics has fascinated and fixated mathematicians for literally millennia, ... http://www.process.org/discept/2009/10/16/last-train-to-transcendental/ There is a way to look at existence which involves the concept of light cones; at the very least it governs technically the ability we have to communicate, to exchange information, with one another. This is an optimization of how people can exchange voice, image and/or data, because we don't ... http://www.process.org/discept/2009/10/11/imagining-the-world-without-you/ On the weekend of August 15-16, Douglas Mesner attended a conference for alleged victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse and Mind-Control in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. This is the second part of his 2-part report: As a "victorious survivor of incest, RA [Ritual Abuse], and Govt. MC [Mind Control]", the aged and ... http://www.process.org/discept/2009/08/31/report-from-the-s-m-a-r-t-ritual-abusemind-control-conference-2009-part-2/ On the weekend of August 15-16, journalist Douglas Mesner (process.org) attended a conference for alleged victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse and Mind-Control in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. This is the first of his 2-part report: The crude sales booth at the far end of the conference room marketing a more advanced ... http://www.process.org/discept/2009/08/25/report-from-the-s-m-a-r-t-ritual-abusemind-control-conference-2009/