For my generation, now so slow to lumber off the stage, a rallying cry was “Question authority.”* It is still a sound principle, and I continue to advocate skepticism ; but our current culture of credulity intermingled with skepticism has turned “question authority” into “there is no authority” or an equivalent, “every man his own authority.” This troubling tangle was on my mind as I read this week Paul McHugh’s Try to Remember: Psychiatry’s Clash Over Meaning, Memory, and Mind (Dana Press,
|
Posted by
Hypnosis Training |
Categories:
Underground Hypnosis | Tagged:
Advocate,
Clash,
Credulity,
Dana,
Lumber,
Memory And Mind,
Paul Mchugh,
Psychiatry,
Rallying Cry,
Skepticism,
Sound Principle,
Tangle,
Try To Remember |
I admitted my skepticism to Duncan Tooley before he tried to hypnotize me. I have discussed various types of businesses in this column, but few that promise to change a client's life on such a fundamental level.
November 28, 2008 Martial Arts, Media, Opinion, Web Sites | Tags: ki, chi, skepticism, Science, pseudoscience, no-touch knockout, James Randi, Gene Lebell, fertilizer | So I noticed the December issue of Black Belt Magazine on the bookshelf last night. It’s the one that features Cung Lee on the cover. I assume you’ll eventually be able to see it here when BBM rotates their covers. Anyhow, way back in July I took BBM to task for not investigating both sides of the so-called ki-induced no-t
