Metal therapist reacts: SOAD, Korn, Slipknot

Licensed therapist Taylor Palmby,; Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Therapist reacts to System of a Down's "Aerials" and "B.Y.O.B"

(HeartSupport - Talk About Your Mental Health) March 4th, 2024: Imagine a therapist who uses metal lyrics to discuss the importance of shifting our perspective and releasing control. Most people think the path to a better life involves controlling every possible aspect of our life.

What are these singers singing about?

But the truth is there is so much we will never be able to control. So the best path to a free life is by shifting our perspective to a larger "aerial" overview. This SOAD song calls us to release control and trust that in the big picture everything makes sense.

We are all connected yet many of us live in a state of blissful ignorance until we suddenly realize something isn't right.

Maybe it's politically, maybe it's in our personal life. But once we realize that something isn't right, we have the opportunity to courageously confront that thing to try to enact change.

Taylor reacts to Slipknot's "People=Shit" on Feb. 13, 2024: People often adopt this belief as a way to protect themselves from the pain of loss or disappointment. This belief also prevents us from the power of connection. The song calls us to FIGHT against this belief and take responsibility for creating a better life for ourselves and those around us. #slipknot #coreytaylor #therapist. The sweetest Slipknot song, Vermillion Part 2

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Stronger than DMT: Bufo toad venom (VICE)

VICE, Oct. 28, 2023; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

What is the true nature of reality? The brain needs an attitude adjustment with plant medicine.

The toad venom that's stronger than DMT: Bufo | High Society

(VICE) Tulum, Mexico, is experiencing an explosion of people taking Bufo alvarius. Also called “speed-toading,” taking it involves smoking the milked poison of the Sonoran Desert toad in a glass pipe.

What kind of "toad" is Leo Moracchioli on?

It (5-MeO-DMT) is considered to be the most powerful hallucinogen in the world. Now, growing numbers of psychedelic American tourists are traveling to Tulum, where Bufo ceremonies are legal, in search of a life-changing experience.

However, there are reports of profoundly negative experiences, lasting psychosis and allegations of sexual assault during ceremonies.

Suddenly, it all made sense...then it slipped away

VICE’s Matt Shea visits Tulum to see and directly experience Bufo tourism firsthand, to discover whether taking the world’s most powerful hallucinogen is worth the risk.

Watch more from this series: 3-MMC: The Party Drug Taking Europe by Storm • Roid Renaissance: The UK’s Steroid Epidemic • The Rise and Rise of Psychedelics • The Truth About Ecstasy

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Bridging Science and Faith

Finding God after Atheism and the failure of the American dream: The first female president of American College of Psychoanalysts and groundbreaking PMS researcher -- Sally K. Severino, MD -- shares her journey of faith and redemption in becoming fire, a new book.

RHINEBECK, New York -- "It is practically unheard of for a Freudian to embrace faith, since Freud himself was a notorious atheist," says prominent Freudian psychoanalyst Dr. Sally Severino.

"In my case, it took a very bad year to open my heart to God. My mother died, my second marriage fell apart, and my sons left home, all in the space of a few months, but that's what it took to bring me to my knees." Dr. Severino means this literally: when the material trappings of her affluent life failed to comfort her, the doctor began to pray.

"I'm a stubborn person," she says, "and the idea that I needed a spiritual transformation wasn't even on my radar screen. I was a scientist, first and foremost, and had been an atheist for years. But when crisis hits, the answers science offers aren't enough. And material success becomes meaningless."

Her success was hard earned, but Dr. Severino's childhood of hardscrabble poverty in Depression-era Kansas, and the strong role models of her mother and maternal grandmother, taught her the value of hard work and can-do motivation. "I achieved great success in what was traditionally a male-centric profession," she says. "I had a position of wealth and influence as a New York psychoanalyst. I was the first woman President of the American College of Psychoanalysts, and received a lot of media attention for my groundbreaking research on PMS.

Einstein and Tagore -- maybe they're not so different after all.

But all my power and prosperity felt empty. It took God to fill that emptiness." In fact, Dr. Severino's spiritual journey could be seen as an epilogue to a classic American rags-to-riches story, and an answer to the conundrum of our era: When the American Dream goes south -- when material abundance isn't enough to ease spiritual poverty or the pain of loss -- what's left?

What can we do? "I had all the perks of the American Dream -- big house, expensive car, designer clothes. It didn't help. But when my life broke apart, I broke open. I realized something was missing -- and the something was...." More>>

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