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With our minds we construct the world we live in: this is the core teaching. __The contribution of modern psychology and neuroscience has been to show how, before our minds can create the world, the world creates our minds.__ We then generate our world from the mind the world instilled in us before we had any choice in the matter. The world into which we were born, of course, was partly the product of other people’s minds, a causal daisy chain dating back forever.
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté, MD
Earlier, the maharaja of Travancore had introduced tapioca, locally called kappa and poola, a native crop of Brazil, as a form of insurance against hunger. The root vegetable grew quickly and was a rich source of carbohydrates. In the south, many who could not buy rice ate poola to survive. The Christians who migrated north to Malabar and popularised tapioca there were called “poola brothers.” The Cochin dewan ran ninety “Cochin restaurants,” serving food made from wheat and millet from north India, which fed over a thousand people a day.
Witnesses Remember the Bengal Famine 77 Years Later
caravanmagazine.in
The economic regime of warehoused care exploits not only the labor of those who provide care, it exploits the bodies of those who need care, transforming them from people into commodities.
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton;Artie Vierkant
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