Welcome from Mitchell Ginsberg (Jinavamsa).
..... comments invited: see email, below .....

For a more general introduction, go to my Home Page.
On mindfulness, see mindfulness practice or insight (vipassana) meditation.
(There is more on Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapies, below.)
For more on The Far Shore, including some selections and reviews, go to The Far Shore directory.
And, similarly, for more on The Inner Palace, go to The Inner Palace directory.

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If I may touch here on an issue that is of some concern for mental health practitioners and others with a focus on the world health situation, please let me highlight here some issues in particular areas of concern in the present-day world, including such emotionally touching areas (not to speak of other aspects of the difficulties and torments involved) as the phenonenon of the H.I. virus (HIV), with the related core disease of AIDS; known in French, as in some documents of the World Health Organization and elsewhere, as le SIDA. Approximating (based on recent statistics), there are some 750,000 individuals with this condition in North America, 14 million in Sub-Sahara Africa, and 52 million individuals in India and South-East Asia alone (according to epidemiological studies, always at least 12-18 months behind current events), for example. This is now a rather prominent concern of global proportions. This is perhaps all the more stunning insofar as this condition was only first identified in a human population approximately 25 years ago. For one presentation of some of the issues that this may present, consider one of the works from the UCSF AIDS Health Project Monograph Series, AIDS and the Impact of Cognitive Impairment. For more, see further links offered below.



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Links to other sites on the Web

National Institute on Alcohol and Drug Information
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
A.A.M.F.T.
World Health Organization
UCSF HIV Newsline
AIDS Caregiver Resources

More to be added.... visit when inspired.

email: jinavamsa@yahoo.com
C 2009