Perspectives
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Radio Interview with Eleanor Longden on Jon Ronson On
There is an excellent radio interview with Voice hearer Eleanor Longden on Ron Jonsons show. Click on this link to hear it. Eleanor goes into great detail of her own experiences hearing voices. Her personal account gives a great insight to what it is like. Nicely put together with music and poetry as well. Please… Read more
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Should Suicide be reported in the media?
There has been a lot of discussion about this in the media lately. Should it be reported. Many families would like it to come out in the open. to be reported, so that people can learn more about it. So that families can see the warning signs and learn what they may be able to… Read more
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Spirit Possession, Theology and Identity- a Pacific Perspective.
Some of you may be interested in this book. I know I would like to read it. See the details and introduction here on http://www.atfpress.com/atf/images/toc_spirit_possession,_theology_and_identity.pdf It talks about Maori and Samoan view of spirits, the Spirits in the bible, Spirits through the lens of history and theology. There are sections by Henare Tate,Helen… Read more
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Cultural Perspectives on Hearing Voices June 26th 2010
The Hearing Voices Network are holding an afternoon on Culturual Perspectives on Hearing Voices. We have three great speakers. David Lui I have heard before at a conference. A very interesting speaker on the Pacific Island view of spirit and spirituality in general. He has a great piece in the book Penini Uliuli. You can read an excerpt… Read more
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Mobile Phone apps for hearing Voices?
There is an interesting article on Mobile phone and therapy by Michelle Trudeau here Here is a small excerpt on Hearing voices from it ” One of the most intractable mental illness afflicting one percent of the population is schizophrenia. It’s for these patients that University of Pennsylvania researcher Dimitri Perivoliotis is developing innovative mobile… Read more
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What the Bleep do we know? And Down the Rabbit hole.
These movies are so great. They really open up your mind to the possibilities of the Universe, consciousness, and what is reality. A documentary combining science – quantum physics with spiritual concepts and consciousness. I know they are oldies- have been put for some time. But they are still goodies, so decided they should be… Read more
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Out Of our Heads- NZ Herald 13th May 2010
There is a great article today in the New Zealand Herald today written by Chris Barton, an interview with Rufus May who is here , and running a workshop for us next week. Here is an edited excerpt – – To read the whole article- see it here “Former psychiatric patient-turned-psychologist Rufus May has been… Read more
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A First class recovery: from hopeless Graduate- Independent
This article was printed in the Northern Advocate this week. It is also viewable here at Independents website Here is an excerpt ” Eleanor Longden was a diagnosed schizophrenic and heard menacing voices in her head for 10 years. Now, she has fought back and has graduated with a brilliant honours degree in psychology. Eleanor Longden was… Read more
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