Towards the Difficult & the Rare
“in the filth of Auschwitz … people unmasked themselves, both the swine and the saints. And today you need no longer hesitate to use the...
Aversion, Greed or Delusion?
What's your main schtick? Are you predominantly • Trying to avoid incompatible, unpleasant or toxic things, situations, people? OR •...
Here, Now AND Far Away
The story we tell ourselves about the world & ourselves is how we perceive & understand these. Though we each contribute some unique...
Our "Normal" Understanding
How & what we normally know & understand - our mindset, consciousness, or operating system - is hardwired for survival of our individual...
Two Levels of Consciousness
We seem to operate at 2 very different but complimentary levels of consciousness: 1) The common, default, symbolic egoic level...
Worldview - Maturity Level - Impacts
Developmental psychology and wisdom traditions understand our consciousness or worldview can, ideally, continue to evolve or mature to...
Self-talk - a Love / Hate Relationship
We tend to inhabit a thought-world - 'the story of me'. Incessant self-talk is, we assume, our 'self' telling us who we are...
Avoidance, Comfort, or Reality Check?
What is your worldview, your philosophy of life? How do you relate to this most fundamental of all concerns? Whether we realize it or...
Just This? Now??
"The key activity of modern Western psychotherapy is to enhance the experience of the observing self, discriminating it from the contents...
Deeper than Thought
While most of us live almost entirely in a word-based thought-world, we're limited to experience only the symbols (words & images) that...
