Richard Saville-Smith PhD
@dranamorphosis.bsky.social
Mad studies in conversation with psychiatry & religious studies. Also #Celt #indyref2 #psychedelics. https://independent.academia.edu/RichardSavilleSmith
Isle of Skye
Book: Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis & Religious Studies (Bloomsbury)
Isle of Skye
Book: Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis & Religious Studies (Bloomsbury)
Traffic hazard on Skye
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Traffic hazard on Skye
The weird juxtapositions of social media are what I like. Here, Matisse Les trois soeurs, (1917), immediately above three Palestinian brothers (2025). Doesn't 'mean' anything but...
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The weird juxtapositions of social media are what I like. Here, Matisse Les trois soeurs, (1917), immediately above three Palestinian brothers (2025). Doesn't 'mean' anything but...
I've always been dissatisfied with "WEIRD" (Henrich et al 2010), the acronym is too forced and it doesn't identify the actual problems very well. So, me and AI have been spitballing. What do you think about this: HYPERS - it slightly shifts the focus to the researcher not the subject, but that's ok?
November 19, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I've always been dissatisfied with "WEIRD" (Henrich et al 2010), the acronym is too forced and it doesn't identify the actual problems very well. So, me and AI have been spitballing. What do you think about this: HYPERS - it slightly shifts the focus to the researcher not the subject, but that's ok?
Yet another sunny day on Skye, the forecast says it's going to be sunny 'till March...
November 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Yet another sunny day on Skye, the forecast says it's going to be sunny 'till March...
From earlier today (Samhain runs for 24 hours)
November 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
From earlier today (Samhain runs for 24 hours)
On this hill (just behind our house on Skye) Celts marked Samhain 2,000 years ago. If you still call it Halloween you need to update your references. Halloween is the discredited psyops which attempted to erase Celtic culture by dumping a Christian festival on top of a more ancient epistemology.
October 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
On this hill (just behind our house on Skye) Celts marked Samhain 2,000 years ago. If you still call it Halloween you need to update your references. Halloween is the discredited psyops which attempted to erase Celtic culture by dumping a Christian festival on top of a more ancient epistemology.
I can't believe the remaining subversives at the Pentagon have renamed the USS Gerald R Ford (currently sent by Trump to create distraction in Venezuela). The new name is the USS Jeffrey E Epstein. Bravo.
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I can't believe the remaining subversives at the Pentagon have renamed the USS Gerald R Ford (currently sent by Trump to create distraction in Venezuela). The new name is the USS Jeffrey E Epstein. Bravo.
It would help if 'we' stopped calling the Trump carbuncle a BALLROOM. Trump couldn't do a foxtrot, a waltz or any other ballroom dance on those cankles. Call it what it is - a disco - made for corrupt kleptocratic sycophants to line-dance the YMCA.
October 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
It would help if 'we' stopped calling the Trump carbuncle a BALLROOM. Trump couldn't do a foxtrot, a waltz or any other ballroom dance on those cankles. Call it what it is - a disco - made for corrupt kleptocratic sycophants to line-dance the YMCA.
When the military come for Trump, he won't come quietly, he'll be screaming for his mammy
October 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
When the military come for Trump, he won't come quietly, he'll be screaming for his mammy
Jumping in... seems to me that predictive processing is part of both the left and right brain's means of 'doing business' - just that McGill doesn't particularly engage with that literature? From p40 The Master and his Emissary 👇
October 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Jumping in... seems to me that predictive processing is part of both the left and right brain's means of 'doing business' - just that McGill doesn't particularly engage with that literature? From p40 The Master and his Emissary 👇
Why did only a few thousand come out in London to show solidarity with American people against their liar in chief. I don't know but in the meantime tell me which is the odd one out👇?
September 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Why did only a few thousand come out in London to show solidarity with American people against their liar in chief. I don't know but in the meantime tell me which is the odd one out👇?
What do they all have in common and who is the odd one out? Welcome to the UK Mr President where we're not fooled by your stream of bullshit. #epsteinfiles #tarifffail #autocrat #fascistfail #globaldestabiliser
September 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What do they all have in common and who is the odd one out? Welcome to the UK Mr President where we're not fooled by your stream of bullshit. #epsteinfiles #tarifffail #autocrat #fascistfail #globaldestabiliser
I feel SORRY for Donald J Trump arriving in the UK tomorrow.
Just when Trump thought (randomly) murdering Venezuelans and Kirk being murdered were the diversions from Epstein he needed and the f**king Brits have an emergency debate on... Epstein and Mandelson... (with privilege)
Just when Trump thought (randomly) murdering Venezuelans and Kirk being murdered were the diversions from Epstein he needed and the f**king Brits have an emergency debate on... Epstein and Mandelson... (with privilege)
September 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I feel SORRY for Donald J Trump arriving in the UK tomorrow.
Just when Trump thought (randomly) murdering Venezuelans and Kirk being murdered were the diversions from Epstein he needed and the f**king Brits have an emergency debate on... Epstein and Mandelson... (with privilege)
Just when Trump thought (randomly) murdering Venezuelans and Kirk being murdered were the diversions from Epstein he needed and the f**king Brits have an emergency debate on... Epstein and Mandelson... (with privilege)
like this:
September 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
like this:
Double down Leavitt should leave it alone. It's embarrassing. The smell of desperation does not cover up the smoking gun of the Epstein papers.
September 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Double down Leavitt should leave it alone. It's embarrassing. The smell of desperation does not cover up the smoking gun of the Epstein papers.
In saying US forces didn't fight to win, total coward 'Bone Spur' Trump insults not only all the US combatants in the table👇but also their families, friends AND American history.
September 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
In saying US forces didn't fight to win, total coward 'Bone Spur' Trump insults not only all the US combatants in the table👇but also their families, friends AND American history.
As compensation for not stopping the war, will Trump give Putin a Kennedy award for his contribution to distracting attention from Epstein?
August 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
As compensation for not stopping the war, will Trump give Putin a Kennedy award for his contribution to distracting attention from Epstein?
My goodness I can just imagine Republicans clutching their pearls at this outrage.
August 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
My goodness I can just imagine Republicans clutching their pearls at this outrage.
Donald J Trump has come to Scotland to avoid questions about Epstein. I'm so proud of the Scottish response setting up miles of fencing and five thousand police officer to keep him under control. Well done #policescotland
(p.s. if it's a private visit why did he bring the press corps with him?)
(p.s. if it's a private visit why did he bring the press corps with him?)
July 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Donald J Trump has come to Scotland to avoid questions about Epstein. I'm so proud of the Scottish response setting up miles of fencing and five thousand police officer to keep him under control. Well done #policescotland
(p.s. if it's a private visit why did he bring the press corps with him?)
(p.s. if it's a private visit why did he bring the press corps with him?)
On his visit to Scotland, I'm glad British Royalty are doing the right thing and standing in solidarity with the American President.
July 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
On his visit to Scotland, I'm glad British Royalty are doing the right thing and standing in solidarity with the American President.
Preparing the way for his future career
July 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Preparing the way for his future career
The UK decision to build a new nuclear power plant revives concerns about military/terrorist drone attacks turning such facilities into dirty bombs.
I lobbed a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office about steps they'd taken to consider such a possibility.
They've done NOTHING.
I lobbed a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office about steps they'd taken to consider such a possibility.
They've done NOTHING.
July 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The UK decision to build a new nuclear power plant revives concerns about military/terrorist drone attacks turning such facilities into dirty bombs.
I lobbed a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office about steps they'd taken to consider such a possibility.
They've done NOTHING.
I lobbed a Freedom of Information request to the Home Office about steps they'd taken to consider such a possibility.
They've done NOTHING.