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Ketamine as Therapeutic Dynamite | Psychology Today

Ketamine as Therapeutic Dynamite | Psychology Today

Published by Jenni Sidey

I’ve been using ketamine as an adjunct to therapy with my clients for a number of years and am starting to discern patterns in what it does for people who choose to incorporate it into their work with me. I want to share some of the ways I’ve started to think about this work so you can decide if it might be right for you. Psychedelics are so outside mainstream, consensual reality, I think a number of metaphors might help point in the right direction to understanding what it can (and can’t) do. Pickaxe vs. Dynamite The image that comes first to mind is miners in a shaft. Talk therapy is like working slowly with pickaxes, pulling out small piece by small piece, making slow and sometimes imperceptible progress down the shaft of a person’s unconscious. Adding ketamine is like placing a stick of dynamite in the shaft and blowing loose a whole bunch of material, which we can then slowly examine and integrate into a person’s life. The analogy is a bit inaccurate in …

Failed asylum seeker left fake dynamite stick near MI5 HQ | UK | News

Failed asylum seeker left fake dynamite stick near MI5 HQ | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

MI5 building at Thames House on Millbank, London, UK (Image: UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) A failed asylum seeker has been found guilty of leaving a fake stick of dynamite outside MI5 headquarters a day after being told he would be kicked out of the UK. Brazilian national Julian Valente Pereira, 32, mocked up an explosive device with rolled-up A4 paper, brown masking tape, and string to mimic a fuse, and left it outside Thames House in central London. The incident happened on January 1, the day after Pereira’s final appeal for asylum had been dismissed by a judge. An explosives expert from counter-terrorism policing had to be drafted in after MI5 CCTV operators spotted Pereira dropping the device near the front doors of the building along with a green cigarette lighter, City of London Magistrates’ Court heard. Pereira, who admits he “hates the Home Office”, denied carrying out a bomb hoax – insisting he never intended for anyone to believe the device was real. But Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring found him guilty, concluding Pereira knew he was being watched – …

BOOM! That time Oregon blew up a whale with dynamite.

BOOM! That time Oregon blew up a whale with dynamite.

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It’s an epic burial at sea, something researchers call a whale fall. The body is a literal smorgasbord on which deep sea creatures and bacteria feast for years at a time before what’s left transforms into a reef festooned with anemones and sponges. A whale that dies stranded on land is something different, a stinking mass of rotting flesh and draining fluids. While scavenging birds might struggle to bust through the corpse’s leathery skin, insects go to town. Little by little, they break the body down as its nutrients ooze into the sand and nearby vegetation.  It takes about two years for everything but the whale’s skeleton to disappear. But with the unholy stench of a dead, 45-foot-long sperm whale turning stomachs across town after beaching on November 9, 1970, officials in Florence, Oregon couldn’t wait that long. They needed the eight ton carcass gone as soon as …

James Cameron Defends ‘A House of Dynamite’ Ending

James Cameron Defends ‘A House of Dynamite’ Ending

Published by Daniella Wilson

James Cameron made waves when he called Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer a “moral cop-out” for not depicting the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. So what does he think of the ending of Netflix‘s A House of Dynamite, which — spoilers follow — stops just shy of showing potential nuclear destruction in America? The riveting thriller’s ending divided viewers when it was released in October, with some feeling the film pulled a punch by wrapping on a cliffhanger, leaving the audience unsure if a rogue ICBM destroyed Chicago, and how the film’s president (Idris Elba) responded. A House of Dynamite was directed by Kathryn Bigelow — Cameron’s friend, former spouse and frequent collaborator — and the Avatar filmmaker tells The Hollywood Reporter that he had dinner with Bigelow just a few weeks ago and they discussed the ending. “I said to her, ‘I utterly defend that ending,’” he says. “It’s really the only possible ending. You don’t get to the end of [the classic short story] ‘The Lady or the Tiger?‘ and …

The Music Score Behind Netflix’s ‘A House of Dynamite’

The Music Score Behind Netflix’s ‘A House of Dynamite’

Published by skeptic

German composer Volker Bertelmann is no stranger to crafting scores that keep audiences, and even himself, up at night. “Yeah, I can’t sleep,” he jokes after being on the awards circuit with Edward Berger’s religious thriller Conclave last year while also working on the score for Berger’s next film, Ballad of a Small Player. Then he got the call that Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) wanted to meet to discuss her newest project, A House of Dynamite. “Straightaway, I recognized that she’s very precise and she gives you a lot of time,” Bertelmann says of his first meeting with Bigelow. “I received a script, and it was really good. It was right up my alley because there was a lot of tension, but it was also very intelligently made.” The veteran composer knew that the unique format of the film, plus its big ensemble of characters, would offer a distinctive challenge. “It wasn’t easy to score a film that has a lot of dialogue, that [takes place] mainly in offices with screens …