Posts tagged with 'personal'
Recent psychedelic research: lessons from current personal experience - suggestions
29th March 2019
Sapere aude! Dare to use your own intelligence! This is the battle cry of the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant I have recently described my experiences taking a couple of (legal) psilocybin trips in the Netherlands - see "Lessons from current personal experience - introduction" and "Lessons from current personal experience - …
Recent psychedelic research: lessons from current personal experience - description
28th March 2019
God-speed ... To heart-opened light-burst ... Love-drenched ... Out-breath, walls melt To the tender darkness ... Mithril to wings. Willie Grieve (a friend sending good wishes for the journey). Surrendering ... to liquid night ... Welcoming dissolution A path of music ... To love's lessons ... In a sky of …
Recent psychedelic research: lessons from current personal experience - introduction
24th March 2019
Gosh, 'nerves' have come in a bit sooner than I would have expected. Lying in bed this morning, early, I felt that hard-to-describe collection of sensations ... quite a full, slightly aching feeling in my chest, and in my belly also a background sense of fullness ... and unease, caution …
Recent psychedelic research: re-mining personal experience
9th January 2019
"Qualitative research has a rich tradition in the study of human social behaviour and cultures. Its general aim is to develop concepts which help us to understand social phenomena ... Qualitative approaches have particular potential in psychiatry research, singularly and in combination with quantitative methods." Stephen Agius "The brains of …
Kidney donation: walking back into the sunlight
1st February 2017
I have written a series of blog posts about the "journey" of kidney transplantation, starting with "Kidney donation: why it's well worth considering" & "Kidney donation: what are the risks?" to the more recent "Kidney donation: the operation & first few postoperative days" & "Kidney donation: more on postoperative management". …
Kidney donation: more on postoperative management
31st January 2017
I have written a series of blog posts about my recent experience of donating a kidney ... the last was "Kidney donation: the operation & first few postoperative days". My hope is that these posts will be useful for other would-be kidney donors & their families ... and some of …
Kidney donation: the operation & first few postoperative days
30th January 2017
I've already written a series of blog posts leading up to my recent kidney surgery - starting with "Kidney donation: why it's well worth considering" to the most recent "Kidney donation: preoperative preparation ... aspects of self-compassion". Writing this now, I'm happily & successfully over the waterfall of the operation …
Kidney donation: preoperative preparation & facing challenges generally - aspects of self-compassion
29th January 2017
I've woken early. Lying here I feel an unfamiliar hollow pressure in my gut. What is this? Fear? Anxiety? Tension? "Tense apprehension" seems to fit. I'm lying here in the early hours of the morning, a hollow tense apprehension in my belly. And it isn't surprising. Pretty normal in fact …
Kidney donation: preoperative preparation & facing challenges generally - goals and journey
28th January 2017
I'm due to donate a kidney soon, and I have been writing about what's involved - see "Kidney donation: why it's well worth considering", "Kidney donation: what are the risks?" and "Kidney donation: preoperative preparation & facing challenges generally - values are central". Primarily these posts are for other donors, …
Kidney donation: preoperative preparation & facing challenges generally - values are central
27th January 2017
I'm soon due to have an operation on my left kidney. I'm donating it anonymously to someone else who needs it pretty desperately. I have already written about this process - see "Kidney donation: why it's well worth considering" and "Kidney donation: what are the risks?". Primarily these kidney-focused blog …