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Gwyneth Paltrow, who won an Oscar in 1998 as best actress of the year, said this month (May 2021) she had gone “totally off the rails” during the pandemic drinking whisky to get through quarantine.
“I was drinking seven nights a week and making pasta and eating bread,” she told the press. Continue reading
These guidelines were written in 2000 following retreats in India. The guidelines were updated in 2012. They were originally published on one of my websites. A few minor edits were made this year. Continue reading
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Introduction
What is a Vaccine?
Advice from leading health organisations Continue reading
PART TWO OF TWO
Sub-headings:
Prison Labour in the USA
US Politics and the Far Right
The Manipulation of Democracy
Surveillance
Steps towards supporting asylum seekers and refugees
What can other Western countries learn from the German organisational approach?
Final Word
I first smoked weed (marijuana) in a cave on the Matala beach in Crete with some other hippies in the Summer of Love in 1967. I never looked back from those weeks on that Greek island. I smoked marijuana and hashish from time to time in Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Laos and the rest of south east Asia. Ancient India regarded marijuana as a sacred plant owing to its medicinal properties. Hippies also adopted the tradition of thanking God (Siva) after inhaling smoke from a joint. Boom Shankar (The Sound of Siva).. Continue reading