May 2010

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For my work, I am spending much of the week in Timaru running a rehabilitation programme for offenders throught the Probation Service. The advantage is that I have time driving and free evenings to catch up on reading, writing, web pages, watching videos form the net. The down side is not being at home and not so much in touch with everything that is happening. I get home from Friday to Sunday.

Interesting Websites

The videos of Bruce Lipton are really interesting. Read the side column about his book, The Biolgoy of Belief. there are lots of other interesting Bruce Lipton videos on YouTube.

Here's an interesting page on the simialirities between the lives of Abraham Lincoln and John F Kennedy

Also on YouTube are videos about Stuart Hameroff. He has some very interesting ideas about how consciousness may come from quantum effects within the microtubules in the cells of living forms.

Glenda Eoyang from the Human Systems Dynamics Institute does a great complex systems based talk on racism

I finally put together a short 10 minute video summary of the weekend workshop we ran on in Dunedin in March. It was great learning new skills about putting a video together. You can view it from the Dunedin Theosophical Society website

Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman

This is a great book I have had lent to me. Psychology has been driven by deficit models for so many years. It is all aimed at fixing what is wrong. positive psychology looks more at what we do right and how we can build on that to overcome life's problems. I can't help but think that this is only a first step and he has not really grasped the potential yet, but it certainly shows more promise than the old, tired deficit driven models..

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Books Victor is reading

The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton.

I bought this as an audio book to listen to while driving to Timaru and back. It is a great book with solid scientific evidence for the way we are influenced by our environment and our own attitudes. He says research clearly shows that DNA is only a blue print for building proteins and when people talk about genes being turned off or on it is not actually correct. the switching is done later and is controlled by which chemicals are allowed into the cell to activate the particular proteins and what gets into the cell and what doesn't is controlled by by our environment and our attitutde to it. check out the video.

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