Mud Ghecko

- thoughts from the Library  I first heard about the Centre for Policy Alternatives in 1999 through a friend of mine from accountancy class. She said CPA monitored elections and was a kind of research organisation that kept an eye on policy formulation. I was intrigued by the name:Policy Alternatives..? Suited me because I don't believe in the mainstream. I wanted to find out who they were and what they were about. I began work in Admin, and then overheard these other fascinating words - Democracy, governance, human rights, pluralism. What do those words mean? Why was CPA called a “watchdog”? I told Dr Sara that I would like to shift from Accounts to the Library/Documentation,  hoping I would have more time to read about what we do! CPA is unique . Here, we challenge conventional ideas, we think out of the box, we ask why, and why not. We don’t accept the status quo merely because it is widely accepted or always happened to be like that, we ask for reason and for justi...

What is this Holotropic Breathwork? People lying in rows on the ground breathing fast while some strange loud music goes on and they start to go into a trance of some kind. That's what it looks like to the casual observer. To be frank it looks like new age nonsense or a psychedelic episode or people being possessed by the devil. And these people start to twitch and cry and writhe and scream and of course they must be making this up or they must be on something. Or this must be some marketing gimmick like those exorcisms that you find two a dozen on Facebook… Must we spend time and membership fees on this kind of nonsense when we can very well breathe oxygen in our own home on our couch? What is the big fuss? And yet here I am six years into Holotropic breathing, trying to tell you that this changed my life the way absolutely nothing ever has. No amount of regular meditations, counselling therapy, DBT, EFT, NLP, hypnotherapy, you name it — absolutely nothing BEGINS TO COMPARE. What ...