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Joshua Richardson

@schizosemia.bsky.social

skitsau'si:mje / skit-so-SEM-EE-uh / writing on madness, mental illness, & culture • registered psychotherapist

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Joshua Richardson@schizosemia.bsky.social · 2d ago

“The great merit of this scientific biography is that it sets the reading in geology & biology that upended Tennyson's picture of the world within the homelessness of his own situation. He had been uprooted, emotionally & physically, and felt helpless.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Howarth · Types and Typology: Tennyson’s Scientific Imagination

In February​ 1840, Alfred Tennyson was in a bad way, argumentative and restless. Thomas Carlyle, whose own public...

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Joshua Richardson@schizosemia.bsky.social · 6d ago

This morning I'm thinking about the question: How can religious experience be rationally understood to provide learning about human cognition, psychological and emotional healing, creativity, and love?

Joshua Richardson@schizosemia.bsky.social · last wk.

“The voice was clean and sharp and commanding. It was always right, and I listened to it when it spoke and acted on its decisions … I set about obeying the orders of the voice … [it] told me exactly how to go about it, and I obeyed [.]” - From Touching The Void by Joe Simpson

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Joshua Richardson@schizosemia.bsky.social · last mo.

“They helped outsiders find their way into the sanctuary & violate every limb of her body by standing on top of her, crowing in victory, & dirtying & polluting her bosom. Some of them have had to sacrifice themselves, others escaped through the skin of their teeth, or offered other lives in lieu…”

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster INTO THIN AIR "Ranks among the great adventure books of all time." —THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Jon Krakauer AUTHOR OF INTO THE WILD AND EIGER DREAM