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To: epicure who wrote (255137)	7/6/2014 7:50:07 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542535

re...People often describe taking psilocybin as producing a dream-like state and our findings have, for the first time, provided a physical representation for the experience in the brain." Aldous Huxley..referred to these states as 'The Minds...far continents...' 'They exist...Out There...in the mental equivalent of..distant space..........'

To: epicure who wrote (255137)	7/6/2014 10:00:24 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 542535

I'm not, but my middle son is a game designer. You can check out his "Mushroom Eaters" over here: store.cave-evil.com

To: epicure who wrote (255137)	7/6/2014 11:39:56 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 542535

Boy that article on mushrooms was really good.

To: epicure who wrote (255137)	7/7/2014 2:40:23 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 542535

The Fallacy of ‘Balanced Literacy’ By ALEXANDER NAZARYANJULY 6, 2014 nyti.ms excerpt: THERE was the student who wanted to read Tolstoy, but abandoned “War and Peace” after a bewildering day with the Russian aristocracy. There were the students who had just come from Albania, to whom a Harry Potter novel was as inscrutable as Aramaic. There were the students who needed special attention, which I could barely offer. And then there were the ones who read quietly and would have welcomed a discussion about “The Chocolate War.” I couldn’t offer that, either. So went “independent reading” in my seventh-grade classroom in Flatbush, Brooklyn, during the 2005-06 school year, a mostly futile exercise mandated by administrators. On bad days, independent reading devolved into chaos. That was partly a result of my first-year incompetence, but even on good days, it proved a confounding amalgam of free period and frustrating abyss.[snip] excerpt: I take umbrage at the notion that muscular teaching is joyless. There was little joy in the seventh-grade classroom I ran under “balanced literacy,” and less purpose. My students craved instruction far more than freedom. Expecting children to independently discover the rules of written language is like expecting them to independently discover the rules of differential calculus.