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LSD truly was an acid, dissolving almost everything with which it came into contact, beginning with the hierarchies of the mind (the superego, ego, and unconscious) and going on from there to society’s various structures of authority and then to lines of every imaginable kind: between patient and therapist, research and recreation, sickness and health, self and other, subject and object, the spiritual and the material. If all such lines are manifestations of the Apollonian strain in Western civilization, the impulse that erects distinctions, dualities, and hierarchies and defends them, then psychedelics represented the ungovernable Dionysian force that blithely washes all those lines away.
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
Children, especially as they grow older, need to expand beyond the family, so families that are well connected with other families and the community as a whole are much better settings for unschooling – or any brand of home-schooling – than families that are more isolated. Children learn best when they can observe and interact with many people, who vary in age, interests, opinions and personality.
Changing Our Minds
Naomi Fisher
The Power of Play: Four Conclusions The four conclusions discussed here—each of which is supported by numerous experiments—are well known to research psychologists who study learning and performance, but not so well known to educators. Taken as a whole, they show that learning, problem solving, and creativity are worsened by interventions that interfere with playfulness and improved by interventions that promote playfulness.
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