Stan Grof, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist with more than fifty years experience researching the healing and transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. His groundbreaking theories influenced the integration of Western science with his brilliant mapping of the transpersonal dimension. On October 5, 2007 Dr. Grof received the prestigious VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Vaclav Havel in Prague.

He is one of the founders and chief theoreticians of Transpersonal Psychology and received an Honorary Award for major contributions to and development of the field of Transpersonal Psychology from the Association for Transpersonal Psychology in 1993.

stanislavgrof.com/articles.htm

Anyways, out of nowhere I just started thinking about what I was doing and where it was going, which was nowhere.  And it let me explore my options at a much deeper and more realistic level.

Now keep in mind this was done at like 3-8am at a huge house party after a Grateful Dead concert, it wasn't some transcendental movement, but it was a moment of clarity.

And soon after I joined the military which I hated but it cleaned me up for college.

The problem of course is like the comments, their is this perceived notion of what it is, and those perception will invariable work their way into your mind.  So if you think it's the devil or that you are going to see things that are there you probably aren't going to cure your addition, may even make it worse.
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"Mr. Limbaugh has publicly acknowledged that his reference to Ms. Fluke as a 'slut' and a 'prostitute' were baseless and false," Allred wrote.

Allred said Nieman's office should "open an investigation into whether or not Mr. Rush Limbaugh is in violation of Section 836.04 of Florida statutes."

I'm not so sure this is about making money on drug testing as it is about making sure that only people who "deserve" the benefits are able to get it - and (snark/sarcasm alert) anyone who can afford to take drugs doesn't really need a government handout that would just make it easier for the drug use to continue, right?  And then there's the theory that  anyone who's taking drugs is probably unemployable which means long-term commitment to paying benefits - which cash-strapped states cannot afford to do; it will be a budgetary issue - which seems to be the latest reason for everything.

Earlier this week, the Arizona Senate approved a bill that would shield doctors from "wrongful birth" lawsuits.

These are lawsuits that could happen if doctors don't inform pregnant women of prenatal problems that might lead women to decide to have an abortion. So the bill would protect doctors who choose to withhold this medical information.

Doctors would not be liable for complications after birth for failing to fully reveal information about the health of a fetus.

LINK

What's truly insane, at the bottom of the article it mentions that 9 other states already have these laws on the books.

Here's an interesting link to the Atlanta Fed's website, where you can plug in the target unemployment rate and the number of months to achieve that rate, and see how many jobs need to be added to get there.  For example, enter 6% target unemployment, and 30 months to get there - and you'll see that that will require that we add 223,381 jobs every month for those 30 months.  To get to 5.5% in the same time frame,  we'd need to add almost 250,000 jobs per month, every month, to get to that level.

To get to a 7% rate by November would require that the economy add 354,000+ every month between now and the end of October.

It's taken far too long to get here, but we're finally moving in exactly the right direction, at an eminently healthy clip.

There were 227,000 new jobs created in March, and the already-excellent numbers from the previous two months being revised upwards

227,000 jobs in just the first 9 days of March?!?!

That IS excellent!

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT
March 8, 2012

In the week ending March 3, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 362,000

There were 227,000 new jobs created in March.

  362,000
- 227,000
= 135,000 net loss

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Department of "Huh?!": Steady Employment Report Blogging
March 09, 2012

2.0%/year real GDP growth is roughly consistent with average payroll gains of 90,000/month. 3.0%/year real GDP growth is roughly consistent with average payroll gains of 180,000/month. 4.0%/year real GDP growth is roughly consistent with average payroll gains of 270,000/month. Right now we have 2.0%/year real GDP growth projected for the first quarter, a lot of headwinds, and a Federal Reserve that has not extended itself via unconventional monetary policy. Why Felix Salmon is so optimistic that 2012 as a whole will see 3.5%/year real GDP growth eludes me.

Felix Salmon has reacted wildly optimistically about pretty much every bit of US data we've seen over the past year.

Felix is a clever writer, but he ain't no macroeconomist.