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This essay examines the systemic friction between "inner-directed" creative innovation and the institutional mechanisms of the "Disease Establishment." Drawing upon documented cases of inventors, authors, and innovators who faced professional marginalization, intellectual property exploitation, and psychiatric stigmatization, this paper argues that such struggles are not isolated biographical anomalies but predictable outcomes of a system designed to extract value while suppressing autonomous thought. The analysis demonstrates that psychiatric labels have historically functioned as instruments of social control, deployed to marginalize divergent thinkers, pacifists, and innovators whose work threatens established economic and political interests. The essay posits that the "Intelligence Community" and the "Military-Industrial Complex" operate as a unified "Disease Establishment," utilizing surveillance, disinformation, and economic coercion to maintain a status quo of dependency. Crucially, the analysis demonstrates that the Twelve-Step principles of recovery, traditionally applied to individual substance abuse, offer a robust functional framework for diagnosing and navigating these macro-societal pathologies.

The object of research is the social communication as a professional activity. The aim of which, in our opinion, have to be objectification and actualization the constants of sense-production in their ethno-regional and socio-cultural dimensions. Journalism as a contemporary social institution is to promote a model of democratic culture, to do everything possible to make diversity is a source of mutual enrichment, to promote the intercultural dialogue, the movement of social sense in contemporary multicultural global social space. It provides the intercultural dialogue as one of the main tasks of the media sphere requires the application of legal regulations and observation of human rights. The article deals with an attempt to delineate the sense as the base notion of social communication. It defines culture as a repository of social meanings according to the provisions of scientific theories, including social constructivism, ethogenetical psychology, interpretative paradigm and oth...

Few studies have examined the social process of drug abuse recovery. To determine how recovering addicts use reference agents, such as reference groups and/or reference others, to achieve and maintain sobriety within the context of the Narcotics Anonymous (NA) support group experience, this study examines how Newcomers learn the norms and values associated with NA, how Newcomers become integrated into the NA group and internalize acceptable recovery behaviors, and how Newcomers transition to becoming Oldtimers. In this study, participant observation and in-depth, semi-structured interviewing (N = 13) based upon convenience sampling were employed. This study elicited six stages of social referencing that Newcomers experience during the process of becoming recovering addicts. vii

Few studies have examined the social process of drug abuse recovery. To determine how recovering addicts use reference agents, such as reference groups and/or reference others, to achieve and maintain sobriety within the context of the Narcotics Anonymous (NA) support group experience, this study examines how Newcomers learn the norms and values associated with NA, how Newcomers become integrated into the NA group and internalize acceptable recovery behaviors, and how Newcomers transition to becoming Oldtimers. In this study, participant observation and in-depth, semi-structured interviewing (N = 13) based upon convenience sampling were employed. This study elicited six stages of social referencing that Newcomers experience during the process of becoming recovering addicts. vii

Fleming examines the connections between William James’ pragmatism and 12-step addiction recovery programs, such as those of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. In doing so, he not only discusses the influence that James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience had on the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous and their development of the first-ever 12-step program but rebuts a critique of the founders’ attempt to apply James’ ideas to their program. Finally, after finding that James’ ideas on mind and epistemology fit quite well with 12-step programs, Fleming presents several observations related to philosophy with an eye toward its history and its connections with the lived realities of human beings.

УДК 81 ББК 81.002 Е.Ф. Серебренникова ДИНАМИКА МЕЖПЕРСОНАЛЬНОЙ ДИАЛОГОВОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ В ИНТЕРНЕТ-ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ В СВЕТЕ ПОНЯТИЯ ПРОКСЕМИКИ В статье ставится вопрос о динамике межперсонального общения в диалоговых дискурсивных Интернет-формациях в условиях физической непредставленности и свободного участия лиц в коммуникации. Вопрос решается на основе понятия проксемики и выявления проксем как семиотических индикаторов позиции акторов интеракции. Аргументируется положение о том, что проксемика устанавливается посредством предъявления и взаимовлияния позиций в контексте мнения, способствующего созданию ассумптивного мира общения. Ключевые слова: Интернет; коммуникативное Интернет-пространство; субъектность; проксемика; интеракция; контекст мнения; ассумптивный мир The article focuses on the problem of dynamics of the interpersonal communication that suggests a physical absence of actors and a free participation in the communication. The problem is solved on the basis of proxemics as reflected in semiotic indicators of the actors. The combination of proxemic positions in the context of opinion favors a creation of assumptive world of communication.

Podríamos preguntarnos: ¿nos fortalecimos individual y colectivamente? Nuestra estructura, ¿es hoy más fuerte? ¿Podemos decir, con toda honestidad, si hemos fortalecido nuestros legados de Recuperación, Unidad y Servicio? Los Tres Legados de AA: Unidad, Servicio y Recuperación representan los principios fundadores de Alcohólicos Anónimos, pasados del Dr. Bob y Bill W. a las generaciones futuras de alcohólicos en recuperación.

Jómagam nagyon szeretem a reziliencia értelmezését, mint mintatörés képességének használatát. Számomra ez fejezi ki a tanuláshoz, a sikeres fejlesztéshez és önfejlesztéshez szükséges elengedhetetlen megközelítést. „Ráadásul” a szupervízor számára, aki mindig hat és része a folyamatnak, akinek minden tette (vagy nem tette) intervenció a tanuláson alapuló megdolgozott önismeret (reziliencia) az egyik alapvetése a sikeres, non-direktív munkának.

La presente guía fue diseñada con la finalidad de facilitar al lector la extracción de la esencia espiritual que guarda este preciado libro. La comprensión y entendimiento de los principios contenidos en él, es vital para el engrandecimiento de la vida espiritual del alcohólico anónimo y con ello el fortalecimiento de sus actividades de servicio y la salvaguarda de las tradiciones protectoras de A.A. como un todo. Esperamos sea de su utilidad y más esperamos puedan incluir en los temarios diarios de su grupo, un día para el estudio del libro "Alcohólicos Anónimos Llega a su Mayoría de Edad". Cada punto es un tema y viene seguido del número de página correspondiente, se sugiere buscar los párrafos relacionados al punto y comentarlos durante la junta de estudio del grupo. Además aparecen citas textuales enmarcadas que también se sugiere sean localizadas en el libro y comentarlas durante la misma junta. Para ello se recomienda que cada uno de los miembros del grupo adquiera el libro "A.A. Llega a su Mayoría de Edad".

Este trabajo se centra en el proceso de transformación individual que se desarrolla dentro de un grupo de Alcohólicos Anónimos (AA). Intenta analizar cómo se construye el individuo alcohólico en AA y, por tanto, de qué forma se entiende el alcoholismo en el programa terapéutico que sirve de marco al proceso de inversión del estigma del alcoholismo. Se presta además especial atención a la dimensión espiritual del programa de AA y al papel que ésta desempeña en dicho proceso, en el cual la vinculación con una visión moral de la realidad social será esencial. Por último, se proponen algunos desarrollos teóricos sobre cómo se opera dicho cambio a nivel simbólico mediante la constitución de un drama social y mecanismos de ritualización.

компенсации инструментальных коммуникативных дефицитов. Представленные результаты являются вкладом в понимание тенденций развития российского социокультурного пространства как целого, так и части мирового социокультурного пространства. Ключевые слова: современные межличностные взаимодействия; коммуникативная компетентность институционального типа; традиционная основа институциональной коммуникативной компетентности Благодарность: исследование проведено в рамках проекта РФФИ, грант № 20-011-00585 «Саморегуляция жизнедеятельности молодежи в изменяющейся социальной реальности».

The relevance of the problem is determined by contemporary social dynamics associated with a change in the forms of communication and methods of self-regulation. Informatization, virtualization, digitalization are the most common basis for changing social reality and the formation of a new communicative space. Its feature is the expansion of the reality of social interactions through the growing importance of its virtual forms. Objective changes in communicative reality require appropriate skills for their regulation. In the space of virtual reality, self-regulation plays the main role, and the communicative competence of the individual is its main mechanism. The competence of a person in the space of virtual reality is presented as the ability to maintain their sociality through the possession of moving knowledge, values, norms, skills, ways of behavior in a changing social reality. The methodology for the study of the issue was determined by the concepts of social space (P. Bourdieu), modern complex society (J. Urry, Z. Bauman, S. A. Kravchenko), the information society (M. Castells), social reality (A. Shuts). Based on them, the concept of communicative competence is developed in a virtual environment of interactions. The definition of the communicative space of virtual reality and the communicative competence of the personality in a changing reality is given. The changes occurring in communicative competence are substantiated under the influence of virtuality. The most significant characteristics of its structure are highlighted: the formation of another mechanism for the formation of communicative competence, the shift from the adoption of an institutional model to its design; mobility of norms and practices of interactive interaction, reflective self-regulation of individual interactions and subject validation of information reliability. Increased flexibility and mobility of communication; acceleration, installation on surface contacts and optionality, emotional autonomy, decreased empathy and "network jargon" as a form of rationalization of communicative interactions.

Показано, что бурное развитие телекоммуникационной индустрии делает более чем актуальным тезис о конвергенции естественнонаучного и гуманитарного знания. Это связано, в том числе, с тем, что интеллект и сознание человека имеют дуальную природу, в них одновременно присутствует и индивидуальное, и коллективное начало, причем последнее ответственно, в частности, за формирование коллективного бессознательного. Конвертация социума в человекомашинную систему усиливает коллективную составляющую интеллекта и сознания. Это, в том числе, позволяет ставить вопрос о более глубокой математизации тех разделов психологии, которые, так или иначе связаны с представлениями Юнга о коллективном бессознательном, а также о создании технических/информационных инструментов воздействия на коллективное бессознательное и социокультурный код. Основой для этого является истолкование ноосферы как глобальной коммуникационной среды-глобальной нейронной сети, в которой, в том числе, имеются надличностные уровни переработки информации. Обсуждается гипотеза о рациональном истолковании экстрасенсорики как спонтанно появляющейся возможности информационного взаимодействия индивида с надличностными уровнями переработки информации. Показано, что дальнейшие исследования в области инфокоммуникационных технологий обязательно должны проводится с учетом этических/гуманитарных аспектов. Ключевые слова: ноосфера, нейронная сеть, математизация психологии, коллективное бессознательное, интуиция, экстрасенсорика, нейронная сеть. Мақалада көрсетілгендей, телекоммуникация индустриясының қарқынды дамуы жаратылыстану мен гуманитарлық білімдердің конвергенциясы тезисін өзекті етеді. Бұл, атап айтқанда, адамның ақыл-ойы мен санасының дуалды сипатқа ие болуына байланысты, олар бір мезгілде индивидуалдылықты да, ұжымдық принципті де қамтиды, ал соңғысы, әсіресе, ұжымдық бейсаналықтың қалыптасуына жауапты. Қоғамның адам-машина жүйесіне айналуы интеллект пен сананың ұжымдық компонентін жақсартады. Сонымен қатар Юнгтің ұжымдық бейсаналық туралы ойларымен байланысты психологияның терең математикалануы туралы мәселені шешуге мүмкіндік береді, және де техникалық / ақпараттық құралдарды құруға жағдай жасалынады, ол өз кезегінде ұжымдық бейсаналық және әлеуметтік-мәдени кодқа әсер ету мүмкіндігін тұдырады.

This program, a joint collaboration between the LSI Center for the Study of Health, Religion, and Spirituality at Indiana State University, and independent filmmaker Carolyn Speranza, will use video to express both the range of experiences that are engendered by meditation practice, and the depth of change that even brief training can produce. Meditation is a universal practice that promotes spiritual and practical wisdom by disengaging the mind from conditioned patterns of reactivity and self-concerns. Dr. Kristeller will present an overview of a multi-domain model of meditation effects, illustrated by Ms. Speranza's film "Sight of Stillness" with highly experienced meditators. This video was produced during a series of meditation workshops conducted in Pittsburgh. Ms. Speranza has also worked with Dr. Kristeller to capture on video the personal experiences of individuals participating in an NIH-funded trial that evaluated the effects of a mindfulness meditation based treatment on binge eating disorder. That research has demonstrated how the MB-EAT (Mindfulness Based Eating Awareness Training) program, a 9week structured experience with mindful eating and other meditation practice, can substantially reduce compulsive eating in obese individuals, while improving depression and sense of self. Videotaped interviews with participants sharing their personal experiences, along with results from the study, will be presented to illustrate how focused meditative practice can produce life changes in relationship to eating and to the self. This paper is highly pertinent to the Dr. Kristeller's presentation and the film.

Belarus ON KNOWLEDGE-FIRST GROUP EPISTEMOLOGY The problems of definition of group knowledge and the existence of group beliefs are considered. It is shown that a promising direction of development of group epistemology is generalisation of T. Williamson's knowledge first epistemology to the case of groups. Examples of explanation of epistemic phenomena from the point of view of knowledge first group epistemology are given. In particular, the phenomenon of group (ir)rationality is considered from this point of view. It is claimed that the approach, which takes the concept of knowledge as primary and posits the existence of group beliefs and knowledge, is compatible with Wittgensteinian contextual realism.

The problems of definition of group knowledge and the existence of group beliefs are considered. It is shown that a promising direction of development of group epistemology is generalisation of T. Williamson’s knowledge first epistemology to the case of groups. Examples of explanation of epistemic phenomena from the point of view of knowledge first group epistemology are given. In particular, the phenomenon of group (ir)rationality is considered from this point of view. It is claimed that the approach, which takes the concept of knowledge as primary and posits the existence of group beliefs and knowledge, is compatible with Wittgensteinian contextual realism.

Resumen El objetivo es determinar la asociación entre los eventos estresantes, la espiritualidad, la participación en el programa y el consumo de alcohol en participantes del programa de 12 pasos de AA. Método descriptivo correlacional y predictivo. La población fueron integrantes de AA, México. Se realizó un muestreo aleatorio simple por conglomerados, la muestra estuvo conformada por 72 participantes de AA con un nivel de confianza del 95%. Se utilizó la Escala de Perspectiva Espiritual y la Escala de Clasificación de Reajuste Social. Los eventos estresantes se relacionan de manera negativa y significativa con el consumo de alcohol (rs = -.316, p = .007), esto indica que mayor índice de eventos estresantes menor es la cantidad de días sin consumo de alcohol, la participación en el programa se relaciona positiva y significativamente con el consumo de alcohol (rs = .776, p = .001), esto señala que mayor años de participación mayor es la cantidad de días sin consumo de alcohol, la es...