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This practical resource offers a much-needed introduction to the
why, what, and how of supporting college students through
mindfulness and stress-releasing strategies. Higher education
professionals are in a unique position to support, coach, and teach
strategies with students to manage anxiety and emotional distress
and improve well-being. Drawing on experience from the disciplines
of Mental Health, Counseling, and Student Affairs, the authors
provide evidence-based practices and tangible techniques supported
by the latest brain-based research and neuroscience. Full of tools
that college students can use daily to assist with their
relaxation, meditation, focus, and stress management, this book
helps higher education professionals who are not trained mental
health practitioners to effectively and confidently incorporate
activities to support the whole student.
This practical resource offers a much-needed introduction to the
why, what, and how of supporting college students through
mindfulness and stress-releasing strategies. Higher education
professionals are in a unique position to support, coach, and teach
strategies with students to manage anxiety and emotional distress
and improve well-being. Drawing on experience from the disciplines
of Mental Health, Counseling, and Student Affairs, the authors
provide evidence-based practices and tangible techniques supported
by the latest brain-based research and neuroscience. Full of tools
that college students can use daily to assist with their
relaxation, meditation, focus, and stress management, this book
helps higher education professionals who are not trained mental
health practitioners to effectively and confidently incorporate
activities to support the whole student.
PSYCHEDELICS / LITERATURE "Moksha is more than a book about
psychedelics--although it may well be the most intelligent,
well-rounded one of its kind. It is also another chance to spend
hours in Huxley's fascinating company as he talks about art,
literature, religion, psychology, and ecology." --Los Angeles Times
"A remarkably stimulating, worthwhile volume." --Publisher's Weekly
"The final chapter, climaxing in Laura Huxley's description of her
husband's death, is one of the most transfixing pieces of reportage
I've ever read." --Soho Weekly News In May 1953, while in the
company of his wife and a physician friend, Aldous Huxley took
four-tenths of a gram of mescaline. The mystical and transcendent
experience that followed set him off on an exploration that was to
produce a revolutionary body of work about the inner reaches of the
human mind. Huxley was decades ahead of his time in his
anticipation of the dangers modern culture was creating through
explosive population increase, headlong technological advance, and
militant nationalism, and he saw psychedelics as the greatest means
at our disposal to "remind adults that the real world is very
different from the misshapen universe they have created for
themselves by means of their culture-conditioned prejudices." Much
of Huxley's writings following his 1953 mescaline experiment can be
seen as his attempt to reveal the power of these substances to
awaken a sense of the sacred in people living in a technological
society hostile to mystical revelations. Moksha, a Sanskrit word
meaning "liberation," is a collection of the prophetic and
visionary writings of Aldous Huxley. It includes selections from
his acclaimed novels Brave New World andIsland, both of which
envision societies centered around the use of psychedelics as
stabilizing forces, as well as pieces from The Doors of Perception
and Heaven and Hell, his famous works on consciousness-expansion.
Also included are magazine articles, interviews, letters, and
scientific papers that vividly demonstrate the evolution of his
ideas and offer an engrossing record of the journey. MICHAEL
HOROWITZ and CYNTHIA PALMER are the directors of the Fitz Hugh
Ludlow Memorial Library in San Francisco, the only library in the
world devoted exclusively to the literature of mind-altering drugs.
Michael Horowitz was Timothy Leary's archivist and is coauthor of
The High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs. Palmer and
Horowitz live in northern California.
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