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can you help with a talk I’m developing about ‘psychosis or spiritual emergency’?

I’ve been invited to present a short talk at the Theosophical Society in Brisbane this year, and I’m going to be talking on the subject of ‘psychosis or spiritual emergency’. I have some experience of this, and I think it’s important to raise awareness that what presents as psychosis may not always be pathological.

If you have any stories or resources you would like to share so I can make the talk as comprehensive as possible, please get in touch. You can comment below, send me a direct message through any of these channels or use this contact form.

In particular, it’s going to be important that I present some information about how to identify the differences between psychosis and spiritual emergency, and also some information about how to regulate our experience if we think we’re escalating into either of these states.

So yeah, if you’re familiar with or interested in this subject I would love to hear from you. Especially if you feel strongly about anything that should or shouldn’t be included in a talk like this ~ it’s a sensitive subject, so I want to be as judicious as possible.

a question about inflation, wages and the cost of living

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I have a question about inflation, wages and the cost of living. If this is your area, please comment below or drop some links to research and resources I can look at for this essay I’m developing about employment culture.

It’s pretty simple really, once I put it on paper, but I need some help understanding whether I’m on the right track here.

So, if wages were to keep up with inflation, wouldn’t the cost of living just continue to sky-rocket?

Increased remuneration for those who make the things we need for living means those things would be more expensive to cover the cost of increased wages.

Does this mean we’re in a proper actual bind? Because I mean, a lot of us need just a little bit more to make ends meet, but that little bit more for each adds up to a lot over-all. How do we increase wages to meet the real costs of living without increasing the cost of living by doing so?

Are we in this bind because we’re actually running out of resources and therefore the cost of things needs to be increasingly high, or because those resources are being shored up by those who already have the power to with-hold and create a false sense of scarcity?

Are the 1% profiting from this scheme we call an economy, or is there just a major systemic problem in the coding of our economic ideology?

So, many, questions. But the main one is this:

If wages were to keep up with inflation, wouldn’t the cost of living just continue to sky-rocket?