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Alan Jones’ Blogs

One of the things I wanted to do this year was to make sure that I kept up to date with my on-line writing…. heck if I want to develop as a blogger I need to blog.

Anyone who has caught some of my posts will have noticed that they are often eclectic, generally rambling and often opinionated! I would also hope some are mildly entertaining too…

In the past my blogging attempts have been somewhat scattered and so I chose to create different blogs for different audiences. At the start of 2012 I decided to pull the various strands together in the following blogs. Hopefully this help help those of you who stumble across this blog to find something from my interests which match yours.

This blog  (AlanBJones.com)will largely be about the news, views and events that I want to make some kind of personal comment about.

The following blogs will serve a very specific purpose:-

The Rational Mystic (TheRationalMystic.com) will feature posts that are in he most part sceptical but also maintain a link to the subjective nature of personal experience.

The Real Twilight Zone (TheRealTwilightZone.com) will host the radio show of the same name which is presented through Penwith Radio. TRTZ is the podcast which is the voice of Rational Mysticism

Alan Jones Magic and Mentalism Blog (AlanJonesMagic.net) features comments, thoughts and reviews from the world of magic and conjuring – one of my main professional interests.

Alan Jones Transforming Minds (MindAlignment.com) this is the focus of my NLP and Transpersonal Psychology work.

Alan Jones Education (AlanJonesEducation.com) features posts about my work in Teaching, Learning and Behaviour Management

References to NLP and related topics can be found on my Inspire NLP blog (InspireNLP.co.uk)

Finding Your Business Edge (FindingYourBusinessEdge.com) is the blog that is linked to my business coaching programme on Penwith Radio.

Alan Jones Radio (AlanJonesRadio,com) and Al Jones Music (AlJonesMusic.com) will feature show notes and show from the radio and some of my excursions into songwriting and music respectively.

And that, for the moment, is that. It is my ambition that by the end of February 2012 all of these blogs will be up and running with regular content updates.

For the moment the key blogs will be The Real Twilight Zone, The Rational Mystic, my educational, transforming minds, magic and radio blogs as these link to my work directly.

Of course this blog will continue to feature thoughts, reflections, comments and ideas.

I hope you will be able to visit some of my other blogs and, if they are of interest subscribe to them, and if appropriate, the newsletters listed on them.

Until next time

 

Alan

websites of interest:

www.aljones.net

www.alanjonesmagic.com

www,inspireNLP.com

www.magic4learning.com

www.penwithradio.co.uk

 

 

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An epidemic waiting to happen…

So BBC News today announced that we’re seeing an increase in incidences of measles in young children…

“The Health Promotion Agency reported 334 cases compared with 33 in the similar period last year.”

The recent news article goes on to say that…

“The outbreak is thought to be linked to an epidemic in France, where 7,000 cases have been reported since January – more than in the whole of 2010″

It is more than likely that this increase is due to the farcical reporting of the ‘so called’ dangers of MMR vaccinations. (see The Rational Mystic – Celebrities and their opinions)

The worrying thing here is that popularisers of drug company conspiracies; pseudo-scientific alternative modalities forget that there is a ‘death count’ attached to their ideologies. (see What’s the Harm). Of course science and medicine does not always get it right and true there are deaths related to the workings of conventional medicine BUT the key difference is that medicine and medical practices are both evidence and science based in their approaches. Many complementary modalities are not only based upon magical thinking but supported by spurious evidential claims.

I am in FULL support of complementary modalities supporting modern medicine as they can and do provide some of the missing emotional and spiritual support, but to promote them to the exclusion of science based medicine is foolhardy.

The increase in cases of measles reported in the UK could be the tip of the iceberg in terms of the return of some of those diseases which had almost been eradicated by vaccine programmes. Let’s make decisions based upon carefully considered debate rather than spurious and sometimes fraudulent claims of the ‘new health’ gurus.!

 Alan

 
SCIENCE-BASED MEDICINE 

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