Conscious living and healing

Whom should we consult when we feel unwell? A doctor? A psychiatrist? A psychologist? Or our inner physician? Perhaps we should allow nature do her job? Have a look at the post below:

http://psychology-and-psychiatry.blogspot.com/2007/05/dangers-of-medical-treatment.html

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have begun an introduction to the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau at the following:

http://philosophers-corner.blogspot.com/2007/05/jean-jacques-rousseau-1712-1778.html

Rousseau is essential reading for anyone serious about what may be involved in living consciously (not because he practised it but because he was privileged to gain a profound insight into it and managed to get some of it down on paper before realising that, like most of us, he couldn't live up to his own ideals).

Breastfeeding and consciousness

Becoming conscious begins a lot earlier than you might think. It begins with the decision to give birth naturally and then to nurture the baby naturally. Click on this:
http://conscious-families.blogspot.com/2007/05/less-than-one-in-three-babies.html

The pharmaceutical industry, medications and violence.

Click on this for news you may not read in the mass media (unless you look very carefully:

http://science-and-society.blogspot.com/2007/05/antidepressants-violence-and.html